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Political Editor, . samantha.maiden@news.com.au

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1Jan 18, '23Australia. What a country.13.5×890k2.6k21584
2Mar 29, '20Hard truth of COVID-19: the rich are spreading it: Aspen, Noosa, cruise ship passengers, folks 'quarrantining" at their beach bolthole despite evidence to remain at home. It's the 5.0×011k2.6k64
3Mar 7, '22An observation on Peter Dutton saying he "won't cop" criticism of the army re floods. The army does good things. My own son joined cadets and enjoyed it. But this BS that people ar4.5×011k2k23
4Feb 24, '21Just an insight into the juvenile conduct of @PeterDutton_MP office - despite polite request for comment over 24 hours - they have refused to respond, laughed in my face when I ask4.1×08.8k1.9k29
5Sep 10, '21Should NSW abandon daily press conferences at some point? Sure. Do you abandon ship at moment of greatest crisis, when there are more cases than ever before ? No. There’s a reason 3.8×08.6k1.6k21
6Jan 26, '22Excited to receive an email from a NSW accountant called Rohan this morning calling me a stupid bitch over Grace Tame. Bloke is such a genius he’s done it on a work address. Smart 3.6×011k68924
7Aug 3, '21You have to earn a lot of money to think Australians would say no to $300 to get vaccinated.3.0×08.1k69712
8Dec 29, '21PM now trying to explain federation (why things aren’t my responsibility) and it’s just annoying me now. State and federal governments have made a dogs breakfast of this. Just for 3.0×07.2k98215
9Dec 21, '22One of my very favourite things is watching men argue against targets in Liberal Party on the fucking hilarious basis that the existing crew got there on merit. Liberal women hold 2.9×189k2.5k2168
10Apr 3, '21Comforted that whoever has started madly trying to hack into my Twitter account since we broke the Brittany Higgins story is still at it and I’m still getting the two factor authen2.7×07.7k6026
11Sep 10, '21Hiding while your citizens die. It’s not leadership. But sure looks like cowardice2.4×05k1.3k14
12Feb 1, '22PM says he isn’t going to “pretend I go out and buy a loaf of milk or litre of petrol. “I’ll leave that to you mate,” he tells reporter. He can’t say how much either costs2.4×05.1k67225
13Jan 25, '21God, it’s a bit of a wank that the Australia Day honours are choc a bloc with politicians getting a gong for doing their day job.2.4×06.4k6158
14Sep 8, '21Pfizer Australia: Emails with Greg Hunt’s office revealed via @newscomauHQ2.4×03.9k1.4k84
15Mar 14, '22The logo for the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s (PM&C) “Women’s Network” has been taken down, after it was mocked on social media for its phallic appearance2.2×04.5k67476
16Sep 5, '21Three kids in ICU and we are being asked for @GladysB work life balance tips. WTAF. I’m out. Day off. Got it for a walk.2.1×05.4k76821
17Sep 7, '21Victorian Premier @DanielAndrewsMP in huge spray over "unfair" and "under the table" decision to give more vaccines to NSW. Says @GregHuntMP should explain what's happened2.1×05k8005
18May 23, '19Australia is on track to soon spend more on franking credit refunds to retirees who don’t pay tax than it spends on public schools. No, this debate isn’t over.2.1×03.5k1.5k14
19Aug 14, '21I am not sure I agree as a journalist with refusing to announce daily cases anymore. I understand the shift to report hospitalisations but transparency is important. They can’t try2.1×04.9k73812
20Jan 24, '22Weird line of attack where the government is suggesting it’s somehow @AlboMP fault that @ScottMorrisonMP got his WeChat account owned by the Chinese. Or that it’s “not fair!” ALP s2.1×04.9k80425
21Sep 14, '21Former PM @TurnbullMalcolm on RN right now “this is an affront. I will be staggered if PM allows this to stand. You can’t make anonymous donations to political parties that’s again2.1×04.3k1.1k16
22May 11, '22PM slams “loose unit” Labor on $1 an hour pay rise as it’s revealed his own salary has soared from $140,000 to $550,000 in a decade. Politicians pay has jumped 30 per cent in same 2.0×03.9k1.2k30
23Dec 17, '19Ten years ago, an ambitious young Liberal MP led the charge attacking Victoria’s former police chief Christine Nixon for choosing to eat dinner at a gastropub as the horror of Blac2.0×03.3k1.5k25
24May 23, '22Can someone explain to me - genuine question - how Liberals are saying they got whacked because didn’t attack @DanielAndrewsMP enough ? @JoshFrydenberg went harder than anyone incl2.0×04.8k35715
25Mar 1, '21May 3, 20192.0×02.9k1.2k83
26Aug 29, '21Have I missed @GladysB getting asked about promising on Friday teenagers booked for vaccine would be honoured and then parents getting cancelled the next day? WTF Sydney is bizarre1.9×04.6k77514
27Jan 26, '22Rohan’s receptionist says he is “a nice guy he wouldn’t do that.” I read out Rohan email. Yes that’s him. “must have been hacked”. She puts me through. “Yes you are a stupid bitch”1.9×05.3k52621
28Mar 28, '21This woman’s energy is so fierce this photograph is art1.9×05k54913
29Feb 16, '21PM has just told the House of Representatives that his office didn’t know of the alleged sexual assault until Feb 12, when I contacted them. That’s interesting because the COS who 1.9×04.2k81613
30Jan 3, '20Photographer @seandaveyaus says @ScottMorrisonMP office arrived at Cobargo shed withhout any water or snacks and when Captain of Cobargo RFS said he hadn’t eaten all day let him ‘g1.9×02.9k1.4k42
31Sep 5, '21Just heard @peterstefanovic suggest hospitalisation rate as doubled in NSW. Nope just @GladysB quoting entirely bogus 5.5 per cent hospitalisation rate and her office failing to cl1.9×03.5k1.1k29
32May 2, '22Turns out ⁦@ScottMorrisonMP⁩ didn’t always hate shared equity schemes 🥰⁦@newscomauHQ⁩1.8×03.5k94884
33Jan 18, '22Ok I am very confused by the PM comments on the little girl in NSW. Does he not understand they have found a body ? “I hope she’s alright I really do” sound like he hasn’t been bri1.8×04.2k45215
34May 26, '21Scott Morrison has accused Labor of being “whingers and complainers” for questioning the vaccine rollout and says voters stop him in street to tell him how well Australia has done 1.8×03.2k35110
35Jan 23, '22Exclusive: Leaked WhatsApp correspondence between a retailer and a major importer of rapid antigen tests reveals one importer confessed in early January that he was “sorry” but cap1.8×03.3k1.1k34
36Sep 9, '21NEW: Gladys Berejiklian’s freedom plan to open the economy was NEVER factored into the modelling that predicted a grisly Covid-19 case peak of 2,000 a day. Researcher confirms it’s1.8×03.1k1.1k45
37Sep 3, '21The question @ScottMorrisonMP and @GladysB refuse to answer: what is the modelling telling them about how high daily cases will go in September. Don't the nurses and doctors being 1.8×03.6k96020
38Sep 10, '21Just as deaths, hospitalisations and infections peak? How dystopian1.8×03.8k81312
39Feb 14, '22Jenny and Scott Morrison 60 Minutes interview. Am I alone in regarding it as incredibly unchivalrous that the Prime Minister is happy to let his wife take the blame for Hawaii?1.8×03.8k30214
40Apr 13, '21Whoah. Christine Holgate wants her phone records tabled for day PM demanded she stand aside and suggested Parliament could seek records of board members including former Liberal Pa1.7×04.3k72910
41Feb 6, '22Am I going to tweet the burning house all week? As required ?You betcha, you bet, bet you I am. Buckle up.1.7×04.9k33813
42May 12, '19PM says an Australia where you accepted regardless of your sexuality. He campaigned against same sex marriage and still hasn’t legislated against gay kids getting expelled from pri1.6×03.2k9522
43Feb 25, '22Remember those AWU raids and @SenatorCash whiteboard? Four years later and - millions $ ? - the investigation into the AWU is getting dropped.1.6×02.8k1k34
44Aug 14, '21“We will get through this. But September and October will be very difficult.” - @GladysB Well, there you have it. It’s August.1.6×03.9k52013
45Aug 17, '21Former soldiers have been begging for the safety of these people for weeks, years actually. So, it could have been different. But now it wont. So let’s not pretend that our wishing1.6×03.4k83612
46Sep 19, '21No, it’s not.1.6×03.7k69915
47Apr 2, '21Look, the @tracygrimshaw interview was good. This is next level good1.6×03.7k59579
48Feb 15, '22Here’s a little secret. I asked Karl Stefanovic about ukulele caper and he reckons PM raised it himself it “I’ve been working on my ukulele!,” he offered. Unsolicited. Guys, he wan1.5×03.5k49723
49Sep 11, '21Is this the REAL reason @GladysB cancelled Covid briefings as infections, hospitalisations, deaths peak? And a slow clap please for the sycophants applauding this decision via @dai1.5×03.2k84830
50Aug 15, '21Child has tested Covid positive at my son’s high school in Canberra. We have no symptoms and no known contact with affected child but will be naturally complying with the health in1.5×04.3k2236
51Sep 10, '21Breaking: Maskless Tony Abbott cops $500 fine after being photographed in Manly by pissed off lady beachgoer | — Australia’s leading news site1.5×03.6k4469
52Jan 18, '22OK this is very weird he’s being asked if he takes any responsibilities for RAT test shortages and plans to do anything he completely changes subject and talks about different issu1.5×03.6k47911
53Jun 14, '20People sometimes say, “why are you still on Facebook?” Why you ask? Why? THIS is why I’m still on Facebook. absolute batshit crazy stuff like this. What a PLOT TWIST1.5×03.6k45434
54Sep 14, '21Malcolm Turnbull has lashed Liberal frontbencher Christian Porter’s decision to use a blind trust to pay for his defamation case claiming this was “like saying “my legal fees were 1.5×03.3k80116
55Sep 11, '21Tony Abbott has complained that it should not be part of the Australian character to “dob people in” after he copped a $500 fine for not wearing a mask at Manly1.5×02.5k3187
56Sep 14, '21Labor comes out swinging over secret trust paying Porter’s legal fees “If Mr Porter genuinely doesn’t know who his donors are, he shouldn’t accept their money. Did the money come f1.5×03k87820
57Sep 10, '21NSW Premier @GladysB “I will turn up when I need to.”1.4×03.1k6467
58Aug 3, '21Haha. Someone has gone back and found where Scott Morrison said when he introduced no jab, no pay - he said it was to boost child immunisation rates - when he told presser that was1.4×03.4k63619
59Oct 20, '20Melbourne crushes world virus record. Victorians have endured the world's longest lockdown. In doing so, have they also won a historic victory over a COVID-19 second wave rarely se1.4×02.9k62419
60Jun 23, '21Exclusive: Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is renting out his four-bedroom house with a pool in Tamworth for $625 a week, but failed to declare the rental income to Parliament 1.4×02.5k7989
61Sep 6, '21In a Father’s Day social media posts on Sunday, the Prime Minister did not refer to his trip to Sydney to spend time with his family. In the caption on an Instagram post he said: “1.4×02.5k59421
62Mar 29, '21PM is now 30 minutes late for his own presser Cameraman: “if you were on a date you would leave by now”1.4×03.8k3093
63Oct 12, '20Honest to God. This ‘debate’ about poor Gladys had a bad boyfriend that misled sweet, innocent Gladys is demeaning to all involved. What he said on the tapes was bad enough thank y1.4×03.1k57610
64Oct 20, '18The whole comedy of the Liberals trying to look into banning gay teachers from schools or gay teenagers from private schools or whatever and then Double Bay saying SCREW YOU WE ARE1.3×03k6824
65Mar 3, '21The circumstances are similar but contain big differences. Bill Shorten was subject of a 10 month police inquiry & voluntarily agreed to a police interview, which he did not ha1.3×03k70121
66Jan 23, '22When Scott Morrison raged at rapid antigen test suppliers to “tell the truth” and stop claiming the government was stealing stock at least one furious retailer realised vital evide1.3×02.4k73526
67Jan 2, '22Question: wasn’t there a system in the UK to track positive RAT if no PCR? What is the system in Australia ? Or is there …none. Seems an oversight ?1.3×02.9k4149
68Mar 25, '20PM having a crack at individual reporters in these press conferences is getting a bit snippy and weird1.3×02.9k3258
69Aug 17, '22Oh this is CLASSIC. @ScottMorrisonMP has called the MEN he took the portfolio from but not @karenandrewsmp this is SIGNATURE .1.3×03.4k42211
70Aug 25, '21This respiratory specialist Dr Lucy Morgan explaining exactly when to call an ambulance when caring for someone with COVID - look out for breathlessness and getting dizzy - is supe1.3×03.2k47515
71Mar 1, '21This is a very Illuminating exchange which reminds me a little of the “I don’t hold a hose, mate” moment.”1.3×03k57413
72Feb 13, '22Backlash online over Jenny Morrison’s attack on Grace Tame’s “manners” ⁦@newscomauHQ⁩1.2×02.5k3579
73Feb 28, '20Watching PM reax as someone roasts him person let alone a woman is glorious you so rarely see it this video is hilarious1.2×02.7k48249
74Jan 4, '22Anyway I’m going to the beach and I’ll try not to tweet again this week. But it’s terrible to feel so let down by governments - and the opposition tbh - and feel like the only peop1.2×03k2992
75Jun 1, '21Breaking: Jo Dyer, a friend of Christian Porter’s Adelaide accuser has issued a defamation concerns notice over comments he made about her outside the court @instanterudite1.2×02.6k62424
76Jan 5, '22Scott Morrison cornered by question over who does get ‘free’ covid tests without a concession card. Spoiler alert: him.1.2×02.7k51217
77Aug 16, '21Reminder to Canberra peeps - if you have a cleaner and you can afford to PAY them not to turn up. I’ve been distressed talking to friends who are cleaners - the Covid payments don’1.2×03.3k3403
78Jan 3, '22Doesn’t it just mean the police who are independent of government - one would hope so anyway - arrested someone for an alleged crime. What on earth does it have with the Morrison G1.2×03k3885
79Oct 30, '21One tragedy of Covid is how it’s destroyed University life. I really hope by the time my children hopefully go to university this is remedied so they actually attend campus and go 1.2×03k2419
80Apr 27, '21Man, I am so sick of reading same tired stories on declining Australian school results. The Libs have been in government since 2013! They’ve been beating the drum on this since @Al1.2×02.5k50311
81May 13, '22New poll: Independent ⁦@zdaniel⁩ is going to win the blue ribbon seat of Goldstein from ⁦@TimWilsonMP⁩. If she does it will be the first time since 1901 the area has not been held 1.2×02.6k3686
82Apr 11, '21Call me a traditionalist but I also think the PM putting statements out on Facebook is problematic. This is a significant statement it needs to be there on the PM’s website for the1.1×02.5k5009
83Aug 14, '21Anyway none of this is easy. But they are making this up as they go along. I am rather sceptical of listening to NSW Premier predicting what will happen in future at various settin1.1×02.9k4075
84Feb 10, '22PM now accusing Labor of being a bunch of crims and Labor leader @AlboMP of supporting preselection of Ian Macdonald who then "went on to prison." And asking if @Tony_Burke writes 1.1×02.4k29414
85Mar 28, '21BREAKING Adelaide radio host Jeremy Cordeaux - who labelled Brittany Higgins ‘silly girl who got drunk’ is SACKED more to.l come ⁦@newscomauHQ⁩1.1×02.5k3474
86Aug 3, '21Not a fan of these lengthy monologues by PM before he gets to the point. Get to the point. Release the data so journalists can ask informed questions/ write accurate stories. Other1.1×02.6k2706
87Mar 8, '21Former Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop confirms a group of male Liberal MPs who called themselves the - wait for it - “big swinging dicks” tried to stymie her career via @lei1.1×02.6k43112
88Dec 12, '20I’ve read some patronising, sexist crap in my life but this article, which calls the incoming First Lady “kiddo” and tells her to stop using Dr honorific because she’s got a PhD no1.1×02.7k2336
89Sep 10, '21It is right and proper for these press conferences to eventually come to their natural conclusion. But Ms Berejiklian’s decision, on a day when the state recorded more than 1500 ca1.0×02.4k42410
90Jan 19, '22This IVF thing is awful - BUT does anyone understand that some cancer surgery is described as elective that also needs to be addressed1.0×02.9k2264
91Aug 3, '22Niche tweet. Transcripts of @AlboMP press conferences and interviews come out super fast - faster than previously and I LIKE IT A LOT. Not sure what computer robot/human being with1.0×03k1647
92Nov 14, '21Great cover @BrittHiggins_ @TamePunk1.0×03k2294
93Apr 2, '21Googlebox 👀👀👀1.0×02.4k38946
94Jan 26, '22Final update. Rohan has apologised. Here’s hoping Rohan, a grown man and a married father of daughters he tells me, he stops sending women he doesn’t know 9 am emails calling them 1.0×02.9k2341
95Jun 21, '21If Barnaby Joyce is now acting PM this is going to be one hell of a question time1.0×02.6k2425
96Jan 9, '22Pleased to report 10 yo daughter vaccinated today. Hooray. No cancellation. Winning!1.0×03k332
97Jul 11, '21Can you bloody imagine being in the PMO tonight 🤪this story is the laugh we all needed. The letter! Dutifully leaked! It’s too much.1.0×02.4k38416
98Jan 3, '22I ❤️ Australians0.9×02.7k2158
99May 26, '21“I don’t care whether you’re happy or not. You need to return to the question.” - Speaker Tony Smith to PM 👀👀👀0.9×02.5k2327
100Feb 25, '22Unexpected item in the bagging area. Grateful I got past airport security - they understandably wanted to take a closer look. But more grateful we got to tell @BrittHiggins_ story.0.8×02.6k890

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