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Can ride a bike. Used to ride it all the way to the ABC's MadAsHell writers' yurt. 5 More Weeks Of This?! - http://patmccaffrie.substack.com

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Were those 4 words "wow...we're both awful"?

04.03.2026 04:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When the world feels chaotic remember, The Guardian will always be there to go full Guardian

02.03.2026 21:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Iran War won't feel real until The Age/SMH print: "what will the Middle East conflict do to Melbourne and Sydney property prices?"

02.03.2026 21:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

US foreign policy genius: "So like, what if we took that mass shooting problem we have...but made it everyone's problem too?"

01.03.2026 03:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Personally, I'm just happy Melania Trump is chairing the UN Security Council in a couple of days to sort this whole "Iran" thing out...

28.02.2026 08:31 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Turns out that the punishment for assaulting a journalist who works for The Oz is being forced to write for them.

23.02.2026 22:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Who's going to tell the AFR that defending the "ultra-elite" in the Epstein files might not be a good hill to die on?

21.02.2026 01:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sweet Jesus Tony Abbott on 7:30 calling Pauling Hanson "responsible" on immigration

13.02.2026 08:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And "Dim Sums" is apparently the name of Taylor's economic manifesto.

13.02.2026 07:37 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Though he retains the backing of the Sizzling Mongolian Beef faction

13.02.2026 07:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If he says "bad migration brought sweet and sour pork" he'll lose the last retirement village voting for him.

13.02.2026 07:22 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Pauline Hanson: "Look, One Nation will work with anyone"

Barnaby Joyce & Malcolm Roberts: "Yeah...literally anyone"

13.02.2026 04:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jane Hume just went "my partner is Greek and my brother in law is Chinese" so I can't be racist.

Amazing scenes.

13.02.2026 03:08 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

If Angus Taylor could stop with the dead-eyed stare down the barrel of the camera and into my soul that would be great.

13.02.2026 02:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why does Angus Taylor speak like the Hunchback of Notre Dame?

13.02.2026 02:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There's every chance Angus Taylor is realising what a shit sandwich he's inherited and is trying to work out how to back out of it...

13.02.2026 00:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Turnbull: "A lot of people say Angus Taylor is the best qualified idiot I've ever met"

...well at least he said Angus was well qualified.

13.02.2026 00:27 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

So Angus Taylor has somehow managed to cock up his first job as opposition leader of "holding a press conference"...

13.02.2026 00:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sussan Ley: "I love the western plains of NSW, the Murray and Murrumbidgee rivers and the rural communities that it has been my enormous privilege to represent"

...which is why you took 27 taxpayer-funded trips to the Gold Coast and bought property there right?

12.02.2026 23:58 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Possibly. Though I'd have thought given his Rhodes Scholarship his brain was coal-powered: expensive, ageing, and unreliable.

12.02.2026 23:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Got it in one

12.02.2026 23:06 — 👍 33    🔁 6    💬 7    📌 1
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Narrator: Angus Taylor did not, in fact, have the economic brain

12.02.2026 23:01 — 👍 42    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0

I really feel like a journalist is about to tell me "why I shouldn't underestimate Angus Taylor"...

12.02.2026 22:58 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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If "the most high profile" resignations you've got are Paterson and Duniam, I think you have a profile problem...

12.02.2026 05:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hello ladies. Meet James Paterson. A "Liberal powerbroker"...

12.02.2026 02:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Or, as the case will be when the Liberal Party elect Angus Taylor, "change, then die"

12.02.2026 01:45 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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If Angus Taylor is the smartest policy brain in shadow cabinet then the Liberals don't need a new leader, they need a new shadow cabinet.

12.02.2026 01:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Angus Taylor's video has the biggest "please clap" energy I've ever seen...

11.02.2026 23:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"He's got to go now" combined with this photo might be the worst application for Liberal Party leader since...the last time Angus Taylor applied

11.02.2026 07:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If this was NSW police showing "remarkable restraint" then I think maybe NSW police has hired a bunch of violent psychopaths...

10.02.2026 02:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0