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Quote from Saturday Paper: “You’re not going to win over Donald Trump by giving him a new set of golf clubs”, [Joe] Hockey tells The Saturday Paper. “President Trump doesn’t like sycophants. It’s a fine line between being respectful and being a sycophant for some people dealing with President Trump. He will respect you if you are smart enough to offer him initiatives that win him support domestically.”

This statement in itself is a piece of breathtaking sycophancy. I recommend Albo bring the gold encrusted golf club set to the meeting

Hey everyone in the media
Stop mindlessly repeating that James Paterson is a ‘rising star.’
He’s an opposition senator, and therefore, irrelevant.
Love, me

Substitute “Taylor Swift” with “Tony Abbott” and “Life of a Showgirl” with “Australia: A History”

Watercolour and pencil drawing of one of the little concrete model Tudor houses in Fitzroy Gardens, Narrm

Fancy sign explaining that Melbourne has a model Tudor village given to us by the citizens of somewhere called Lambeth 🤷‍♀️

Model Tudor Village (detail). Sending tins of dripping we got out of our grill drip trays to England in WWII was beautiful payback for the English, but we were only a young Commonwealth, inexperienced in the ways of Imperial trolling & they sent us the MTV in retribution & now we’re stuck with it.

The initial withdrawal of the event is bad enough but then there is the doubling down and actively lying about it.

To the surprise of no-one, the National Press Club wasn't expecting anyone to actually investigate.

I think he’s on very solid ground pointing out how cheated we feel when we find out something is AI. But it’s like the ‘bad cosmetic surgery’ trope - if we don’t know how the image was made in the first place we don’t apply that lens.
I’m just going to keep doing my stupid little drawings

Launch of Tony Abbott's Australia: A History Join the Menzies Research Centre as we launch Tony Abbott's new book

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Who wants to go to this with me

Magnificent and cannot be improved upon. A Great Cat indeed

Tooooonnnnny Abbbboooooooottttttt
Has Simon Haight seen this photo @tonymartin.bsky.social

Great Cats Annual, 2020 (Basil edition)

Looking for a great cat to eulogise for another issue

‘The Liberal Party’ is the mic drop to end all mic drops, the reductio ad absurdum of every inquiry into the worst political questions of our time. I’d like to see all journalists at press conferences only ask ‘why is the Liberal Party’. It’s what we need to know

What is that stonking majority Labor has FOR

Happy tabling!

I’d go easy on the attributing a rational plan

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Andrew Hastie quits Sussan Ley’s frontbench The West Australian had staked out his own nationalist policy agenda on everything from migration to manufacturing.

#spill the hastie pudding has boiled over, oh no 🍿

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I knew there was a reason I was scrolling so determinedly! A very good piece of news.

Or some such

Congratulations on your WIN Rick. Hard to think of a more deserving winner than your extraordinary book.

Two tuxedo cats waiting on a yellow beanbag

My little babies, they’re so aimless

It must be painful to have to come to terms with this type of barefaced gaslighting. I’m sorry.

Hastie flags demotion or resignation should Liberals not abandon net zero Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie indicates he will quit or be dumped from the shadow cabinet if the Coalition does not abandon the target of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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Well cmon Andrew Hastie we’re all waiting, this was ages ago, I realise it’s a 24 hr news cycle and we all forget, sure, but this was a bigarse promise you made