John Hanscombe

Journalist. Writer of The Echidna. Drone enthusiast. Motorcyclist. Dad to one highly intelligent but brattish border collie.

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@elonmusk Deluded
Oligarch
Grossly
Embarrassing

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Has anyone checked on Rowan Dean this morning?

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Stupid, angry old man. Still can’t get his head around the fact he LOST!

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Plot and Trump have parted ways

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@NickBryantNY And eat roadkill

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@Tim_Walz I watched this speech from country Australia and I’m still buzzing from it. Wish you’d make your way here and give our political leaders a pep talk.

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@strangerous10 After watching the inspiring Tim Walz, I can’t escape the feeling Australian politics is a dismal swamp.

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@FionaKatauskas Can dirigibles grind?

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@cookerwatch Same here. It’s torrential.

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“There’s something wrong with you.” Albanese to Dutton in Question Time. 🤣

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@TrumpDailyPosts @realDonaldTrump Weird

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Interesting. After unsuccessfully suing his own party after it punted him from the senate ticket, this bloke is now putting the boot into what was his own government.

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“A Sydney businessman was given up to $110million by the government during the Covid pandemic to import gowns and face masks, most of which were useless, before he splashed millions on oceanfront properties.

Jack Reuben, 43, runs a relatively unknown online company called Australian Business Mobile (ABM), also known as BDirect, which ships electronics and homewares to consumers and sports 1.5 stars out of five on Product Review.

ABM then paid a company called Neumer Holdings - which is owned by two Australian brothers but based in Cyprus - almost $60million for the masks. Neumer Holdings then bought the masks from a supplier in China for $33million.

Neumer Holdings made $12.7million profit from the masks, while Mr Reuben's company charged the government $11million more than it paid for the masks, according to the Australian Financial Review.

ABM then inked another deal with the health department in June 2020, worth $42million, for the delivery of four million isolation gowns. Similar deals were struck with a Cyprian company, which ultimately meant ABM pocketed about $7.5million.”

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The depth of this rort is staggering. The money on the masks is bad enough but 4 million isolation gowns.

As if 4 million people were going to need to put an isolation gown on. It would have been impossible hospitals to hand out that many, let alone need to.

And why exactly did the Health Department not buy these products directly rather than use a middle man to rort the system even more. I thought Health was a State Government issue anyway so why was the Federal Health Department buying these items. If ever there was a reason why we need to reform our Federation in terms which level of government is responsible for what this is it.

It also begs the question what sort of quality assurance is in place across the entire bureaucracy when it comes to procurement.

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@TrumpDailyPosts @KylieJaneKremer Remind me, how many Americans died on your watch?

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@MikeCarlton01 @QuentinDempster Steady on. NM is a blue state. A stinky bar in Maggie’s Nipple, Wyoming would be more accurate.

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Looks like this sewer is broken. A fatberg in the pipe, perhaps.

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Amid all the shouting…

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@NickBryantNY Excellent book. Essential if depressing read.

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Fuck me. Weekend at Biden’s.

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Good grief! Old bores arguing about golf handicaps.

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This is sickening. Biden looks totally addled, like a bloke who can’t remember where he parked the Buick. Trump just lies. Our politics has its faults but America is an abject disaster if this is the best they could do.