My Latest Twitter Updates

Malaysia… #Gillard #
Gillard announces agreement with Malaysia on asylum seeker swap… #
Gillard announces regional processing centre for asylum seekers is under discussion with Papua New Guinea… #
RT @haydencooper: Gillard: For every asylum seeker Australia sends to Malaysia – we'll take 5 of theirs. #
Gillard announces increase of 4000 to humanitarian intake…. #
Gillard says the patience of the Australian public has been tested… #
Gillard says she's been angry at disturbances at detention centres… #
Gillard talks of the imagery of hard-headedness and hard-heartedness… #
Chris Bowen: Bilateral agreement with Malaysia is significant… will break the asylum smugglers… #
Bowen: Agreement will Malaysia will cost $290m over the forward estimates. #
Is this just a merry-go-round, Gillard is asked. Asylum seekers come here, we fly them to Malaysia and bring back 5 of theirs… #
Gillard stresses that asylum seekers in Malaysia have been processed and are legitimate refugees. #
Gillard: The aim of this is to break the people smugglers' product. #
Gillard says this is an innovative policy designed to break the people smugglers. #
Gillard: Would you risk your money for a spot on a smuggler's boat only to end up at the back of the queue in Malaysia? #
Bowen says Malaysia has about 90,000 on the books as asylum seekers… #
RT @haydencooper: It seems the Malaysia deal is a one-off. 800 arrivals sent to Malaysia. 4000 from Malaysia to Australia (over 4 years). #
@Jsus1 Apparently it's been in Malaysia all this time… #
Saturday afternoon… no coverage of Gillard press conference on News24, scratchy telephone link on Sky… #
Bowen talks of "discussions" about "other agreements across the region"… #
Bowen says the decision on which asylum seekers to take from Malaysia will be handled through the UNHCR. #
@parsect Very hard to hear most of it – not sure what I missed. #
Even I know it's Seve Ballesteros, not Steve… #SkyNews #
@johnalchin The Malaysia queue… #
RT @SBSNews: Gillard announces new asylum seeker deal with Malaysia http://bit.ly/kHBqIl #
They're under pressure at SBS News: http://twitpic.com/4uf9zq #
@adullard Let he who is without sin… #
@sa9321 You've got be quick with us conno-sewers… #
@adullard Of course, that doesn't mean we shouldn't do screen grabs at every opportunity… #
Gillard talks of people going to the back of the queue…now here's Abbott talking about the front door versus the back door. Peas in a pod. #
RT @RevolutionaryOz: Labor are a Direct Threat To Australias Nationa Security,Treasonous Traiters and an Illegitament Govt full fo Fanatics #
Never did like those illegitament governments… #
Clearly not enough ballast… RT @BBCBreaking: Golf's Seve Ballasteros is dead #
RT @jonkudelka: Ah, The Queue. Surely we've all missed The Queue and The Jumping Of It. #
RT @Wyld: @revolutionaryoz I'd much rather Untreasonous Traitors myself. #
.@Wyld If we ever get that Education Revolution, @RevolutionaryOz will be the first one up against the wall. #
Tony Abbott: Stopping the boats is the only real solution… This is Gillard's 3rd election policy that's been dumped… #
Abbott: This isn't the year of delivery, this is the year of backflips… #
Abbott: Gillard said she couldn't pick up the phone to ring Nauru because they're not signatories to Refugee Convention. Neither is Malaysia #
Abbott: Gillard is too proud to go back to policies that work. #
Abbott: This is a Prime Minister completely lacking in conviction and consistency. #
@Kimbo_Ramplin It's dirty work but… #
@Kimbo_Ramplin Torture tail? What's that even supposed to be? #
@Kimbo_Ramplin @deniswright Just checked to make sure the IQ recorded Spooks tonight. Blurb says "the team are…" #
The 2 best stories in the papers today on the hidden world of lobbying: http://auspol.info/iVx3Yv http://auspol.info/k73ZVT @daniellecronin #
Federal Budget will give free digital set-top boxes to pensioners: http://auspol.info/lviI4A #
@Prronto That's a good question – article doesn't say whether boxes will be provided. Could be claimed back on presentation of receipt. #
@Prronto You'd think that some/many eligible recipients would already have a box. #
@Prronto Now you're just being silly… #
@Prronto Can you estimate the proportion of households that have digital TVs, rather than set-top boxes? #
@Prronto Makes sense. I just retired my set-top box. Can't quite muster the energy to put it on eBay… #
@lyndalcurtis I better not show that to my mother – it's just another benefit she didn't qualify for! #
@Prronto RT @lyndalcurtis: http://bit.ly/lwYPQQ Not completely new.. #
@samanthamaiden But is it essentially an extension of the current scheme? #
@samanthamaiden @lyndalcurtis Now, have I got this right… if I give them my old set-top box, they'll give me 5 new ones from Malaysia? #
Gatwick Private Hotel, one of Melbourne's premier establishments… http://auspol.info/mMcFZ2 #
@angrygoat I don't think Arq was my suggestion – isn't it Mac only? Do you get good upload speed? That's main issue for me. PC clients slow #
@angrygoat If only they would let us use a standard FTP program… #
On Birds, Twitter and Teaching: http://auspol.info/iy0UxM and the sequel: http://auspol.info/irfzkZ – has me twitching just a bit. #
@angrygoat I get up to 1gb upload on cable connection, averaging 600-800 – you need that when you're uploading 20mb files all the time. #