Mark Dando

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[Mark Dando @MarkDando4]

Canberra Liberals muscular Christian women trade threats

[Region Canberra @RegionCanberra]

Canberra Liberals MLA Chiaka Barry has stepped forward, stating she's the one who exchanged words with Leanne Castley. But she and the Opposition Leader say events were misinterpreted https://t.co/pgIWRa8hZl

[Mark Dando @MarkDando4]

@roodave As a former heavy smoker (decades ago) I'm slightly uncomfortable with my deep intolerance of smokers & their smoke, but the thing is it's genuinely unpleasant (particularly when navigating hospital entrances). Admittedly a bit self-righteous, particularly in healthcare settings

[Ben Moles 🇦🇺 @bwmoles]

Excellent article, and must read, whether you're an AUKUS supporter or not- the facts speak for themselves. #auspol

[Mark Dando @MarkDando4]

I call it passing legislation

[Financial Review @FinancialReview]

Plans by the government to ram its capital gains tax and negative gearing budget measures and NDIS legislation through parliament face a last-minute hiccup. https://t.co/vJMhiH5CIN

[Aldith Circe Cowley @boronialinquest]

left: capital city designed so a specific kind of people can live in a bunch of bungalows on the most valued land (segregation)

right: capital city designed so a specific kind of people can live in a bunch of bungalows on the most valued land (innocent heritage)

[Mark Dando @MarkDando4]

A must read if you've had a falling out with your sibling

[Region Canberra @RegionCanberra]

Oliver Jacques stopped talking to his sister after an argument. Three months later, she was dead. Family estrangement is more common than we admit, but before writing someone off completely, it may be worth asking one difficult question ... https://t.co/RvbgY2trBY

[Region Canberra @RegionCanberra]

The parents of four-year-old Osal Mayur Pokhrel, who died after he was hit by a car earlier this year, have spoken about their "perfect" son who wanted to become a police officer when he grew up. An 80-year-old woman has now been charged over his death https://t.co/O6K3fu0msU

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

AstraZeneca's decision to withdraw this drug from the PBS will affect 1000's of women in Australia living with endo & breast cancer.

They say it's a "commercial decision" but are leaving the higher dose used for prostate cancer as is.

I asked questions at Estimates yesterday on behalf of Canberrans who had contacted me, worried about what their treatment looks like in the future.

I urge AZ to front up and explain what's happening - women with breast cancer deserve transparency here.
https://t.co/Ik0FCb8EBp

[Kate Emerson 🇵🇸 🔻 @KateEmersonBri]

The removal of Astrazenica for breast cancer and endometriosis is the beginning of Trump's war to end the PBS in Australia. This is ugly greed and nothing more:
https://t.co/AweLOrdFaa

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: The US House just voted 215 to 208 to end the Iran war.

The same day, Iran bombed Kuwait’s main airport and the US bombed Iran.

Both are true. The gap between them is the whole story.

The vote is historic, and misunderstood. It is the first time either chamber of Congress has passed a measure against this war since it began more than three months ago, and 4 Republicans crossed the aisle to do it. But it stops nothing. It is a concurrent resolution: it never reaches Trump’s desk, it still has to pass the Senate, its legal force is disputed, and Trump will contest it. It does not end the war. It measures how toxic the war has become.

So why did 4 Republicans break? The rebuke was aimed at Trump’s handling of the conflict and, in the reporting’s own words, the economic fallout, a war that has rattled the global economy with no end in sight. That is oil propped up by a draining reserve, fertilizer the world’s biggest importer now pays nearly double for, and the strait still shut since February. Congress just voted on the price of crude and bread. It only called it a war.

But the same afternoon, the war got bigger. Iranian drones and missiles hammered Kuwait’s main airport, killed 1 and wounded more than 60, and forced it shut. The US answered with a strike on an Iranian military site on Qeshm Island, inside the Strait of Hormuz. Israel kept hitting Lebanon, the sticking point Tehran says any deal must cover. The mediators were already cut off. Oil ticked up about 2%, Brent back near $97, while the strait stayed shut.

This is the new phase: a divergence. Abroad, the war is widening, Gulf states hit, Iran hitting back, talks frozen. At home, the will to keep paying for it is cracking for the first time. The binding constraint is sliding off the battlefield and onto the floor of Congress. Increasingly, the limit is not Iran. It is the bill.

The vote will not stop the war. But it is the first time the cost of one shut strait reached the floor of the House. The war is not ending. The willingness to keep paying for it is.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump just lashed out at Kaitlan Collins in a disgusting way “corrupt reporter standing right there, never smiles, a young beautiful woman never smiles, I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes.”

Wildly inappropriate. Collins is doing a great job.

[Lord Wes from Canberra @wapple15]

As winter envelopes Canberra it gets plenty #Gnarly for any creature with wings wanting to use the frozen birdbath in the mornings.🧊 🧊 🧊 #DailyPictureTheme

[Michael Shoebridge @MichaelS_SAA]

"Admiral Hammond also disputed the cost to attend his (lobbyist) speaking engagement, pointing out that the overall price to attend the 3-day AUKUS conference was $4950, which included the dinner he addressed." Oh well, that's okay then.

[Region Canberra @RegionCanberra]

The $1.5 billion Northside Hospital is the government's infrastructure priority. That means light rail to Woden has been shunted down the track to the next decade https://t.co/hoVIA3a367

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

It’s a national embarrassment that a former Labor minister is crowdfunding for an independent inquiry into AUKUS, one which the government keeps denying us.

You wonder why people are giving up on the major parties: first they commit us to an extraordinarily expensive deal with unreliable allies and even less reliable deliverables, now they change terms of the deal without real transparency, and tell us we're getting a good deal when we’re paying the same for less. Australians aren't buying it.
https://t.co/hsdlc7r5ql

[Australian Representative Palestine @AusRepPal]

فرضت 🇦🇺 عقوبات إضافية تتعلق بحقوق الإنسان على ثلاثة أفراد إسرائيليين وأربع منظمات رداً على تصاعد عنف المستوطنين ضد الفلسطينيين في الضفة الغربية.

[Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham]

Ex-leader Leanne Castley has quit the Canberra Liberals and is now an independent, meaning Liberals and Greens no longer have a combined majority. #actpol https://t.co/hPkf2gJLov

[Please re-follow @AJGardinerEsq! @ajgardineresq]

🎵 And we lived beneath the waves
In our lemon submarine 🎶
#auspol

[Antony (Tony) Walker @tonywalker1]

Pleased to have donated to this overdue review of a budget destroying defence commitment, leaving aside implications for the country's diminished sovereignty. https://t.co/t0ZBFT3OrL

[Mark Dando @MarkDando4]

@canberratimes can't make its mind up whose side it's on