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Day 31 🥔🤓🍻🚫👵📺

“People obviously are over the ads and just want day out of the way and get on with their lives. I get all of that. But you know, we live in the greatest in the world. It’s worth for and and and that’s what the is about”

“I think is the first essential ingredient, I’m sure of that, responsible drinking as well, but NOT WATCHING THE ABC would be a good start.
For the young ones, at home, FORGET THE ABC. And if you do that, you can probably start with a good night.” —

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Day 33 🗳️🟢🥷💰🏭

“A -aligned running last-minute targeting young voters received more than $600,000 from the industry during last year’s election, disclosures show.

On Monday evening, the released a “Can you afford the Greens?” video advertisement pushing claims, based on its own commissioned research, that the Greens’ housing policies would lead to increased .

Emails to supporters from the executive director, former Queensland Liberal vice-president , seeking to push anti-Greens advertisements show the is specifically aimed at helping elect party and in the seats of and .”

This is why I use the term .

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Day 33 cont ☢️☢️☢️☢️

“If () ☢️ were to form government, safety could come to the fore again because it would need to overturn the on , implemented in 1999 by (ex PM, Liberal) in a deal with .

Despite the dangers being dismissed by Labor☢️ (AUKUS) and the Coalition ☢️, Caldicott remains concerned about being improperly stored in and contaminating water supplies – or even a -like meltdown.

“It’s not being discussed at all, which is amazing to me”, Caldicott says. “People are very ignorant.”” — MD

Q Where is the hottest Nuclear waste in Australia right now? (hint 1950s Nuclear tests exploding above ground)

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Day 33 cont 🥔🤓☢️☢️☢️☢️

“Support for ’s ongoing ban on nuclear energy has risen sharply since (Liberal) ☢️ made the issue a central plank of , according to the country’s largest independent survey on and .

The survey also found fewer people thought any benefits of ☢️ outweighed the compared with the previous year.

Even among intending to vote , support for ☢️ power was not overwhelming, with only 53% in favour of the party’s intention to lift the if elected.”

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Day 33 cont 🥔🤓🗡️🥷

A Lady Macbeth comes to mind.

“Hume says it’s too early to discuss replacing Shadow finance minister was asked on () Breakfast a little earlier about whether she sees shadow treasurer as a future of the party.

Hume says it’s “too early” to have those conversations.

You do not read the until you have the . We will be working for every vote up until 6 on election day.

(my emphasis, "Out, damned spot!”)

Asked whether she wants to keep her finance portfolio, Hume says: “I hope so … but that is entirely up to the leader.” She adds:

are my favourite meal. If I was on and they asked me what my would be? A sausage in bread with onion and .”

A Freudian slip ()?

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Day 33 cont 🗳️💰💰💰🎭🎨🖼️🧑‍🎨👨‍🎨👨🏼‍🎤👩‍🎤

“A government would divert more than 10% of annual government funding for to a single cultural project and unspecified broadcasting programs if elected at Saturday’s federal election.

In the Coalition’s , released on Thursday, the “safe, sustainable and connected communities” section contained a pledge to “” $33.2m of Creative Australia’s annual of $312m “to and supporting ”.

The quarter is a planned new centre celebrating Jewish , , and in in .”

Entitlement. Since the LNP has no policy, the funding could be more than the stated 10%.

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