My Latest Twitter Updates

@markatextor The Contract With America? #
Telstra Apologises: http://t.co/A8Iuw9UP #
@joshgnosis Hehe… do you happen to know what happened to accounts that were exposed? Did they contact them separately? #
@joshgnosis But ordered when? #
@joshgnosis That email just now is the only contact I've had. Everything's working okay. #
Whilst we're waiting… The 2nd Gillard Govt: Cabinet, Ministry & Parliamentary Secretaries – from Sep 12, 2011 http://t.co/hVEvkNox #
Melb Wonkdrinks? … RT @APAC_ch648: Do you have an event that you think would be suitable for broadcast on A-PAC? Tweet us or send an email #
@fanny_fair Well, now that Parlt has finished for a while, we need something of comparable quality. #
@ResidentOZ No announcement yet. #
Menzies' near-death experience: http://t.co/BhiomYz0 – an account of the Dec 9, 1961 election by J.R. Nethercote in the Canberra Times. #
Sky News says Cabinet is being expanded by 2 not 1. Mark Butler also going into Cabinet. #reshuffle #
What are Joel Fitzgibbon and Harry Jenkins thinking about, I wonder. #reshuffle #
@murpharoo Thanks and ditto. Yours forced some last minute changes in mine! #
Gillard's press conference begins… she pays tribute to Sen Nick Sherry… #reshuffle #
Gillard: Nick showed determination and fortification, even in the most difficult of circumstances… #reshuffle #
Julie Collins into ministry. #reshuffle #
Sid Sidebottom to parliamentary secretary. #reshuffle That's Tasmania done… #
Gillard: Our focus is jobs today and jobs tomorrow… #reshuffle #AndBillShortensJob #
This has a touch of the Oakeshotts to it…. #reshuffle #
Greg Combet – Minister for Industry and Innovation. #reshuffle #
Combet keeps climate change responsibility. #reshuffle #
Chris Evans – Tertiary education, industry and research. #reshuffle #
Mark Arbib – Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Small Business. #reshuffle #
@MrSportAus I got that slightly wrong – not industry… #
Kim Carr – Minister for Manufacturing and Defence Materiel. #reshuffle #
As Malcolm Tucker would put it, Kim Carr has been fucked long and hard like Ron Jeremy, only without the warmth… #reshuffle #
Bill Shorten – Employment and WorkPlace Relations. #reshuffle #
Bill Shorten – also Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. #reshuffle #
Gillard on education: It made my life… #reshuffle #
Brendan O'Connor to assist Garrett on 2012 school agenda and be Minister for Human Services. #reshuffle #
The mates are being given the job of watching the recalcitrants. #reshuffle #
Tanya Plibersek – into Cabinet as Health Minister. Mark Butler – into Cabinet as Minister for Mental Health. #reshuffle #
Mark Butler – also Ageing and Social Inclusion. #reshuffle #
Jenny Macklin holds disability scheme responsibility. #reshuffle #
Robert McClelland – Minister for Emergency Management and also housing and homelessness. #reshuffle #
Nicola Roxon – Attorney General. "Nicola's first love was the law." #reshuffle #
Gillard: Cabinet increases to 22. #reshuffle #
Mark Arbib also becomes Manager of Govt Business in the Senate. #reshuffle #
Mike Kelly returns to Defence PArliamentary Sec. #reshuffle #
RT @theburgerman: Jason Clare becomes Minister for Home Affairs and Justice. #auspol #reshuffle #
Journalist says they haven't been given the list – who exactly is in and out of Cabinet? #reshuffle #
@LeslieCannold It was idle speculation, as we can now confirm! #
Grattan asks why Arbib has retained Sport. Gillard says it's because we're moving into an Olympics year… #reshuffle #
Tingle asks why Manufacturing isn't at the Cabinet table with Carr. Gillard says it will be represented there by Combet. #reshuffle #
Coorey asks whether O'Connor and Garrett are sharing or what… Gillard says she's "pumped up the team". #reshuffle #
Robert has taken on the challenge of housing…. #shriek #reshuffle #
How many demotees threatened to quit, Gillard is asked, and why didn't you move Ludwig out of Agriculture. #reshuffle #
Gillard says it's been a difficult year in Agriculture – Joseph Ludwig has managed his way through those difficulties with stakeholders… #
RT @Simon_Cullen: Bill Shorten has called a press conference for 2pm. #reshuffle #
Is the reshuffle about shoring up your leadership? "Tony's negative about everything – of course he'd be negative about the reshuffle." #
RT @mishaschubert: Gillard: I read a few things in the media that bear no resemblance to any discussions with ministers. #reshuffle #
RT @latikambourke: Here's a link to a list of those in Prime Minister Julia Gillard's newly announced Cabinet: http://t.co/LX7AKGgl #
Q: You've promoted people who helped you into your position… Gillard: You mean Tanya? Q: Perhaps there's more than 2. #reshuffle #
Another question on O'Connor's role in Gonski review and relationship with Garrett… #reshuffle #
RT @KateEllisMP: As of today – more women in the Cabinet than ever before in Australia's history. #reshuffle #
@mishaschubert @murpharoo At least they didn't forget to have an Education Minister like that other time… #
@Kimbo_Ramplin http://t.co/LX7AKGgl #
RT @alexanderwhite: Mark Arbib most failed minister of all http://t.co/TITgh9Tk #reshuffle #auspol #
Bill Shorten thanks the PM for making him Minister for WorkPlace Relations… says he has a moderate viewpoint and believes in balance. #
Shorten: Tony Abbott is the faceless man of industrial relations. He has faceless policies. #reshuffle #
@GrogsGamut @cjjosh @Kimbo_Ramplin No, Arbib will be Manager of Govt Business in the Senate, not leader. #
The forf largest… #
Julia Gillard press release on changes to the ministry: http://t.co/tEvuA9gD – ministry will be sworn in on Wednesday. #
Barrie Cassidy: Shuffling for Gillard's clean Cabinet future. http://t.co/SlkbhAcm (via @ABCthedrum) #
Tanya Plibersek, new Minister for Health, press conference: says she's thrilled… #reshuffle #
Nicola Roxon, new Attorney-General, giving press conference with anti-tobacco advocates. #reshuffle #
Today's Essential Report poll: LNP 55 (+1), ALP 45. Primaries: ALP 34, LNP 47 (table says 48), Greens 10, Othr 9 http://t.co/HYXlJHWm #
That cackling you can hear is Conroy and Shorten talking about Kim Carr. Long, complex, Victorian Labor history there. #reshuffle #
"You have a particularly craven view of politics, Mr Farnsworth" – http://t.co/vKkC2GuF #
@chrisabruns Well, don't be so cryptic! Enlighten me – that's why we're here. #
Tony Abbott press conference… "it does nothing to strengthen our economy, stop the boats, or ease the pressure on our cost of living" #
Abbott: It's not a reshuffle about meeting the challenges of our country, it's a reshuffle about meeting the challenge of Kevin Rudd. #
Q: Is this the team you'll be taking to the election? A: It's a strong team and I expect to take it to the election. #
Q: "Assuming you doesn't retire, can you confirm that Bronwyn Bishop will be a minister in your govt?" Abbott: Yes. #
Questions now to Abbott on gay marriage conscience vote… says the ultimate obligation is to maintain commitments to electorate. #
Abbott: "We are not in the business of saying one thing and doing another… we are not in that conscienceless business." #
@Mahaut1329 Thanks – again! #
Well, a two hour telephonic exchange with @boeufblogginon – more proof that there is occasionally something quite magical about Twitter. #
Give @boeufblogginon 's blog a once-over for an eclectic range of well-written posts: http://t.co/f9SmiQWw #
@aptronym Much of it slanderous and scandalous… #
@boeufblogginon A bit less of the old, if you don't mind… #
@Drag0nista Surely they wouldn't talk about Senator Rhiannon like that, would they? #
MT @liamfoxpng: Courts orders Sir Michael [Somare] restored as PM [of Papua New Guinea] #
@MsMonneypenny Well, what I do in private stays private… #
@MsMonneypenny Quite a lot… what exactly are you referring to? #
@MsMonneypenny Sounds like that would end up as a challenge in the High Court. Their ruling is binding. #
@MsMonneypenny That's rubbish! Who's telling you this nonsense? Gender terms are generic – I think the GG's Letters Patent cover it too. #
@MsMonneypenny No, the court adjudicates on disputes over powers. Eg. tobacco companies might argue govt doesn't have power under S51… #
@MsMonneypenny …and then the Court decides whether the power has been used appropriately. Judicial independence, separation of powers, etc #
@MsMonneypenny Well, it's still nonsense. This is the kind of question that conspiracy theorists ask. Are you really serious? #
@MsMonneypenny That's simply nonsense. This "issue" is only raised by cranks. The anti-fluoridationists are into it as well. Nut-jobs. #
@MsMonneypenny If it's the tobacco trademark issue, then it's simply a case of the High Court adjudicating on the relevant section of Const. #
@MsMonneypenny No, you're still missing the point. The Section 51 power on Marriage is all that matters. It allocates power to the Parlt. #
@MsMonneypenny Are you going to make me one of your avatars? #
@MsMonneypenny Gillard in a mask? #
@MsMonneypenny Like the one on yours – perhaps mask not the right word. #
@KJBar Kevin Rudd on his way to PNG? #
Did we all wish the Defence Minister a happy 56th birthday today? #
@MsMonneypenny You don't really have to… #
@boeufblogginon Look what I pulled out of the cupboard – Melbourne Town Hall 1976 http://t.co/0WacgJGK #
Looking for something else and found this – pretty sure it's Anthony McClellan circa 1976/7 #LateAgenda http://t.co/9P72mgxU #
Excruciating… #