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I kept the faith and I kept voting, not for the iron fist but for the helping hand

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@football360au That is a masterpiece of misleading graphics!!

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@anon_opin There's presumably a handbook with all the stuff you need to know? There is in Australia. Disagreed with some of the official answers there too, but it's just a performing seal task

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@lesstenny Yes, then the polls picked up a change in the public mood not long after this. Several got it pretty much spot on. Early in 2025 this was where public opinion was, then people started to pay more attention to the issues, and opinion shifted.

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@Gatty54 @JohnGrimaud_AU I wonder how much he'll be able to play on for City. He's been a great player there as well, and hugely respected by the club and fans. But he's had two seasons where he's barely played, and I do wonder whether we'll see much more of him.

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@joeylynchy Story of his season. Barely played for City. Carrying him and several others in a salary capped squad definitely didn't help last season.

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@Scruffymurphy2 Even less trust Trump. Down about 20%. Just above Xi, Putin, Kim and old mate JD.

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@Peter_Fitz Yes, he didn't come over well. And that does matter in politics. Burnham has that charisma. And he's northern, working class and comes over as authentic. For the country of my birth and my family, I want him to succeed. He needs to be bold.

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@Peter_Fitz @KathyLette Entirely unwarranted IMO. He wasn't perfect and he wasn't exciting, but he was beginning to make progress on the utter mess bequeathed to him.

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@simonhill1894 @StuartRandall It's also worth noting that several A League clubs are doing great things with youth development. Look at the clubs where many of our best Roos came through. It's patchy, partial and gets limited government support, but we are getting better.

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@Peter_Fitz I don't want prices to soar. I want to be able to afford my mortgage and pay it off. The point of buying a house is to have a home which isn't dependent on the whims of a landlord. Anything beyond that is frosting.

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@Peter_Fitz I don't know what my house is worth. But considerably more than I owe. If it's worth $100k less in a year's time it's fine as long as similar houses decline the same. It's a home not an investment vehicle. The only people it really affects are those ending up underwater.

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@AlanKohler I own one house. I don't care what it's worth as long as relative to other houses, it's about the same. It's not an investment vehicle, it's where we live.

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@Gatty54 I've never rated him. And not just because he plays for Victory.

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@ImamsCouncil Thank you. Australian Muslims are amongst my friends and colleagues. They play for my football team. As a non-Muslim, I stand with you in this.

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@anon_opin And sampling theory, so they understand survey data and don't say stupid things like "how can 1000 people be representative of the whole country".

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@PatMcCaffrie She clearly lost her cool. So that's bollox.

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@sspencer_63 All the decent coffee in Melbourne will have to go. That's Italian. No rock music either, that's based on the blues, which appears to originate somewhere near Mali.

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@RonniSalt @PressClubAust Every word Ronni, every word. Genuinely scared that our third estate is giving fascism a free pass in this country. They should be our most important bulwark against authoritarianism.

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So, let's recap, shall we?

This week the @PressClubAust managed to:

* cancel at the last minute, the questions and subsequent presence of renowned journalist Margo Kingston, who’d travelled over 2 days to Canberra to ask her question of Pauline Hanson – and yes, they were questions initially requested and organised by the Press Club itself 9 days ago.

* cancel the press gallery membership of long-term journalist, Greg Jericho, allegedly because he works for the @TheAusInstitute. Although Greg has been employed by the Aust Institute for 4 years, his membership cancellation only came yesterday after he publicly called out the Canberra press gallery - which is of course a highly fortuitous coincidence and not at all connected to his criticism.

* somehow allowed a person or persons unknown to enter the Press Club premises and put up a 3 metre wide electronic banner, without anybody in the Press Club noticing them doing it. How several people enter a private club carrying something that large, then proceed to wire it up on an open stage and nobody at the premises noticed in any way, is yet another display of the NPC’s staggering incompetence.

* release an unnecessarily detailed, high-school level statement about said banner incident, a statement that reeks of defensiveness and hysteria, while also prejudicially naming an alleged culprit and arguably sinking to the bottom of the barrel in terms of the journalistic standards it supposedly represents. Read it below and remind yourself that people who work with words for a living wrote that.

* allowed the speaker, Pauline Hanson, to defame one of their own - a journalist from the Guardian who dared to ask a hard-hitting question - by calling her "trash". This was only weeks after calling the same journalist a "nasty bitch". Mirroring, Trump’s “Quiet piggy” incident, the journalist's alleged colleagues all sat mute, as did the moderator, Tom Connell from Sky News during the abuse. No rebuke, no blow-back, no support for their fellow journalist, standing alone under Hanson's hissing vitriol. Just pusillanimous silence.

The National Press Club outdid their already dubious reputation this week, spraying themselves in a spectacular shower of self-inflicted shit – wall to wall, dripping effluent.

Australians currently suffer some of the most timid, captured political journalism in the western world, and if the actions of the #NPC this week are the metric, then we can all see why.

What a national and international embarrassment of an organisation meant to serve as a vital democratic institution and a cultural conscience – and one that has offered us neither.

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@Gatty54 'There are no good Muslims' would be a pretty good example Lucy...