Bill Leadbetter

Historian and writer. Involved in Labor politics, Anglican chuch. Married to Margo, Dad to Maia.

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@MikeCarlton01 ...nor any actual Christianity...

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@JaneCaro @tanya_plibersek I will always retain great respect and affection for Tanya. She was a terrific suppporter in my own 2016 campaign for Hasluck and I will always be grateful for her time , her advice and her encoouragement. This piece reminds us that politicians can also be decent human beings.

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@KaitlynSchiess @philvischer Except in Australia that would be premil dispo.

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@MikeCarlton01 I sent to the same school, a little later on, and did quite well at Divinity. I am now in fact a graduate of the University of Divinity. And I can assure you that the reason that no-one has furnished you with that text is because there isn't one.

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@vanOnselenP In Sydney at that time? He must have had a very good nose.

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@AmyRemeikis At least you have a national platform. Use it for those in your situation who don't.

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@MikeCarlton01 The Roman Republic to be exact, the fall of which was brought about by unscrupulous politicians supported by literal armies of their supporters.

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@chaser Looks less like a real estate agent and more like Charles Firth. Or does Mr Firth have a day job?

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@Bowenchris Perhaps he is working under the theory that, if two negatives make a positive, then two lies make a truth.

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@MikeCarlton01 I have been a ministerial staffer. I am confident that this reply would not have been posted without instructions either from the CoS or someone reporting directly to the CoS. A reply of this kind should not be unvetted.

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@QuirkyMLA That's the minibar, Margaret.

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@james_ka_smith Order placed!

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@ColinBrown001 @MikeCarlton01 The taxpayer, as usual.

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@james_ka_smith I particularly like qu. 14.

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@JEChalmers Too smug to give a toss.

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@Rana_Strange @laurapanic @sallyrugg @LiberalAus @stoker_aj Bram was a Gladstonian liberal and Irish Home Ruler who had a strong commitment to science based medicine. Amanda seems more to take after his most famous character who prospered by feasting on the blood of the vulnerable.

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@hearyanow These are the people who made unequivocal commitments not to close the Midland railways workshops in 1993 and to build the Ellenbrook railway line in 2008.

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@dyrenfurth Why is its that my parents - both public sector workers - could do both in the 60's and the 70's? And have no fear of sending me to University? This long Liberal ascendancy has impoverished working people and denied to them the kinds of choices that Tim Wilson fetishizes.

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@holland_tom How about one on the neo-Flavians?

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@bairdjulia Hopkins: Pied Beauty