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I don't care if you're lying to me just tell me that isn't real.
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Jan 5, 2022 11:00
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quote:REPORTER: How many rapid antigen tests have you personally paid for? I just put some money Sportsbet he's going to lose.
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Jan 5, 2022 12:06
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Comstar posted:It's going to come out later than the massive multi millionaire anti-vaccer got his medical certificate signed by his drug doctor. people looked at the rules for exemptions and they're vague enough that if you had covid within the last 6 months you can probably manage to qualify so that's what it probably is
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Jan 5, 2022 12:14
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Comstar posted:I just put some money Sportsbet he's going to lose. Atta boy. I believe in Albomania. Small target chess master.
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Jan 5, 2022 13:51
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Anidav posted:Atta boy.
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Jan 5, 2022 14:00
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News.com.au is reporting (I read it on reddit)quote:On December 22, the Prime Minister has previously claimed he personally sourced a rapid antigen test himself in Terrigal. Murdoch is acknowledging that Scummo is doomed.
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Jan 5, 2022 14:16
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A friend who now lives overseas was asking why this specifically feels like such a massive gently caress up for Morrison and I kind of found it hard to articulate. I guess because maybe it's the first thing that's affecting people simultaneously across most states? And also because he was dumb enough to openly say no, you can't have free tests and also we shouldn't generally make things free, whereas maybe if he'd kept mum and the premiers were still doing daily pressers they would have copped the questions and subsequent flack instead, regardless of whose problem/fault it actually is?
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Jan 5, 2022 14:18
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I feel like part of it is with a bunch of his previous bad decisions/actions the states basically shoved him out of the way and did their own thing, which made him irrelevant rather than harmful. That's not happening this time, so far.
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Jan 5, 2022 14:34
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freebooter posted:A friend who now lives overseas was asking why this specifically feels like such a massive gently caress up for Morrison and I kind of found it hard to articulate. I guess because maybe it's the first thing that's affecting people simultaneously across most states? And also because he was dumb enough to openly say no, you can't have free tests and also we shouldn't generally make things free, whereas maybe if he'd kept mum and the premiers were still doing daily pressers they would have copped the questions and subsequent flack instead, regardless of whose problem/fault it actually is? I think there's two reasons. First, most everything about our response to COVID has been free, masks excepted (and they really should not have been excepted, but let's put that aside), so people are now being told that they have to pay out of pocket for vital services that only recently cost them nothing. Second, RATs are now extremely difficult to obtain, and putting a price on them makes them subject to hoarding and profiteering. With PCR test queries now wrapping around the block, if they're not already shut down to give their related pathology facilities time to process the backlog, RATs are now necessary for the average person to know if they are even permitted to go out. Morrison telling people that these tests will continue to be a product on the market instead of supplied by the government does nothing to address these problems of scarcity that people simply (and in some cases literally) cannot afford to deal with.
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Jan 5, 2022 21:27
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Seemlar posted:I feel like part of it is with a bunch of his previous bad decisions/actions the states basically shoved him out of the way and did their own thing, which made him irrelevant rather than harmful. That's not happening this time, so far. they don't have the ability to solve the supply issues in the same way as the feds could have here. when morrison hosed up vaccines the states also couldn't really do anything either.
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Jan 5, 2022 21:59
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Comstar posted:News.com.au is reporting (I read it on reddit) That is just such an own goal from Morrison. Nobody would be surprised if he said "a staffer picked on up", he's the PM, he has a security detail, logistics would get in the way of him lining up at a chemist. But he goes with the whole everyman schtick about how he's a regular schmo, and if called out on it will no doubt double down.
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for whatever reason news.com.au generally seems more insulated from news corp's hard right editorial line than the rest of the murdoch press here, them being critical of morrison isn't really any sign that morrison's fallen out of favour or anything yet if the australian on the other hand was sticking the knife in, or even just the tabloids, that's different
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https://www.smh.com.au/national/visa-bungle-delays-novak-djokovic-s-entry-into-australia-20220105-p59m75.htmlquote:World No.1 Novak Djokovic has been told his visa has been rejected and asked to leave Australia later on Thursday. 
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This failure came at a critical time as well - thousands of people have been stuck in PCR waiting lines when they would normally be visiting or on the way to visit family. People who managed to travel are at risk of a sniffle derailing their entire holiday period. This is rightly being pinned on scummo because unlike most state leaders he has been consistently playing the "its all good, it'll work out in the end" game and guess what? It didn't work out, it's not all good, it's hosed. And he STILL isn't doing anything about it. The worst thing is that you know he's sitting there thinking "gosh stupid omicron if only it had come 6 months later I'd be free and clear"
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Sierra Madre posted:…if they're not already shut down to give their related pathology facilities time to process the backlog… Clinical Labs really needed to close those sites, their turnaround time was pushing five days.
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abigserve posted:This failure came at a critical time as well - thousands of people have been stuck in PCR waiting lines when they would normally be visiting or on the way to visit family. 
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freebooter posted:A friend who now lives overseas was asking why this specifically feels like such a massive gently caress up for Morrison and I kind of found it hard to articulate. I guess because maybe it's the first thing that's affecting people simultaneously across most states? And also because he was dumb enough to openly say no, you can't have free tests and also we shouldn't generally make things free, whereas maybe if he'd kept mum and the premiers were still doing daily pressers they would have copped the questions and subsequent flack instead, regardless of whose problem/fault it actually is? It's also one of the first times that they've gone all in on abandoning the "we're all in this together" type messaging with a policy that is clearly "gently caress poor people".
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seeing the headline "Serbia will fight for Novak" makes me kind of nervous lol
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lih posted:people looked at the rules for exemptions and they're vague enough that if you had covid within the last 6 months you can probably manage to qualify so that's what it probably is reports are now that this is indeed what it was, but Tennis Australia had repeatedly been told previously that those exemption rules weren't acceptable so ???
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Mode 7 posted:
To reach enough people having been infected that we have herd immunity we're looking at having 20-30,000 new cases a day lol.
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Senor Tron posted:To reach enough people having been infected that we have herd immunity we're looking at having 20-30,000 new cases a day lol. Given the comment about slowing the spread I wonder if he’ll be announcing tightening restrictions today and is trying to get some “done by the end of January I promise” messaging out ahead of it.
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abigserve posted:The worst thing is that you know he's sitting there thinking "gosh stupid omicron if only it had come 6 months later I'd be free and clear" This is actually the best thing
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Mode 7 posted:Given the comment about slowing the spread I wonder if he’ll be announcing tightening restrictions today and is trying to get some “done by the end of January I promise” messaging out ahead of it. It's a combination that wouldn't make any sense. If we tighten restrictions to slow the spread then it's gonna take longer to peak.
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Still utterly baffled by that comment from Morrison. "We're now at a stage of the pandemic where you can't just make everything free, because when someone tells you they want to make something free, someone's always going to pay for it and it will be you," he said. Like I'm trying to turn my brain into a fat wet poo poo so I can understand how he got there without considering super obvious rebuttals.
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Eediot Jedi posted:Still utterly baffled by that comment from Morrison.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm_Avc6aacw Anything going on today?
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luring antivaxxers to the arseend of the world then immediately deporting them is still a pretty good trick
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loving hilarious. Hope the anti-vaxxer idiot cries all the way home. Hooray (for once) for the humourless pedantic jerks in Immigration.
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Is this just Scotty from marketing picking a token issue he can be tough on so it looks like he’s actually doing something?
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gay picnic defence posted:Is this just Scotty from marketing picking a token issue he can be tough on so it looks like he’s actually doing something? bingo
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Animal Friend posted:seeing the headline "Serbia will fight for Novak" makes me kind of nervous lol rip the arch duke of australia
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Solemn Sloth posted:rip the arch duke of australia Noooo warnie!
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Eediot Jedi posted:Still utterly baffled by that comment from Morrison. "It's not free, you're paying for it through tax" is a stock standard right-wing talking point for literally any government service and he didn't take 5 seconds to stop and think about how well it would go down when people are, in fact, already literally paying (and getting gouged) for it anyway
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CrazyTolradi posted:Were you holding your favourite albo body pillow when you posted this? Due to small target Albomania you can only get Albo as a head cushion.
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snoremac posted:He's dumb. Yeah but I'm dumb too so this should be easy freebooter posted:"It's not free, you're paying for it through tax" is a stock standard right-wing talking point for literally any government service and he didn't take 5 seconds to stop and think about how well it would go down when people are, in fact, already literally paying (and getting gouged) for it anyway Yeah but I mean, bowel cancer screening kits are free, am I supposed to get mad about them too? (yes)
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Synthbuttrange posted:luring antivaxxers to the arseend of the world then immediately deporting them is still a pretty good trick On a similar note: Has the Big Brother/I'm a Celebrity/whatever show that Katie Hopkins and Caitlyn Jenner came out for aired yet?
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