Pretty fair account

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There are people in our community that voted for this PHON Nutter that think this guy is the Bees Knees!

Rest of us think he is totally insane! I'm a bit baffled that the scientists even understood what he meant & was asking for!🤔 What a silly simple question!

How embarrassing to bring in a witness and just disrespect their time & intelligence with this absolutely nonsense form of gibberish questioning! This is just a snippet of the revolving nonsense!

He shows again that he should not be in our #auspol Senate! Just not a rational functioning person!

Once @latingle.bsky.social finished her stint as President of #NPC, and Murdoch’s Sky News took over, the NPC has apparently become a closed right wing entity.

Their web sight has changed and it’s more difficult to access these days. A closed shop. #auspol.

National Press Club of Australia
President: Tom Connell and Sky News Presenter

Enough said!!

Good not to overdo it. 🤗

Paul Bongiorno: “Turnbull thinks before next Republic referendum there should be plebiscite that offers choice between direct election & parliamentary appointment. Once resolved, the constitutional amendment to be put in a referendum would incorporate mode of election chosen in the plebiscite.”

Paul Bongiorno: “1999 referendum, Liberal treasurer Peter Costello was of opinion that only Liberal PM…. John Howard was handed that chance on a plate by his Labor predecessor, Keating. Instead of seizing it, Howard took it as an opportunity to stymie a Republic Referendum project indefinitely.”

Paul Bongiorno: “Blocking supply has rightly become a political taboo, but not for everyone. Pauline Hanson and her 3 colleagues in the Senate sought to move an amendment to the government’s Appropriation Bills during this sitting fortnight, blocking supply……”

Paul Bongiorno: “After I’d introduced myself, the sacked prime minister (Gough Whitlam) agreed to an interview and began by declaring: “There has been a coup d’état. You know, in Italian: a colpo di Stato.” He went on to speak of an illegitimate seizure of power.”

Paul Bongiorno: “This leaves a dangerous precedent unchecked. Are governments not to be formed by the leader with majority support in the lower house if the unelected occupant of Government House, acting like a tyrant, doesn’t like that leader?”

“At no stage did Kerr warn Whitlam he was seriously considering terminating his commission. According to John Menadue, secretary Dept PM&C at the time, Kerr told Whitlam the opinion of then shadow attorney-general Bob Ellicott, that he should sack the prime minister, was “bullshit”.”