Tag: tweets

Aust. Deputy PM Julia Gillard is holding a press conference on today's unemployment figures which show unemployment unchanged at 5.8% # Gillard: economic evidence is in.. shows that economic stimulus has worked in sustaining jobs and building infrastructure for the future. # Gillard: economic stimulus will continue in schools, road programs, broadband network and similar.… Continue reading Twitter Updates

The dead, the lazy and the loud mouths… RT @Ed_Dale: If Only 100 People Were in Twitter – http://ff.im/-6bkLS # Another intriguing entanglement at The Australian: http://is.gd/233Jv – "Resignation sent from journo's computer" # Utegate as told by LOLcats – http://bit.ly/KAgCp – RT @cameronreilly via @angesbiz and @mr_billiam # Turnbull commentary 1: The wheels fell… Continue reading Twitter Updates

Northern Territory government teeters as another minister quits – http://is.gd/21vfQ # RT @annabelcrabb: About to head off to Turnbull press conference on the whole Grech situation. Can it get any stranger? # RT @BernardKeane: More staggering Grech stuff: giving the PM political advice to his face. Bizarre. # RT @BernardKeane: That's of course assuming that… Continue reading Twitter Updates

Watergate does not get old for Woodward – http://is.gd/20gPA – he still listens to Watergate surveillance tapes! # …and there's a good Clinton joke at the end… http://is.gd/20gPA # My tap doesn't drip… RT @Chris_pinkapple: What’s the Difference Between Sex and the Garden Tap? http://bit.ly/e78Hu # I stole Mr @Chris_pinkapple's mouse… I think mine is… Continue reading Twitter Updates

Sam Neill rejects New Zealand knighthood – http://is.gd/1Ytss – Hadn't realised PM Key has brought back imperial honours – archaic nonsense. # Infiltrating the party womb – http://is.gd/1YukM – labored humour… # Watching donated pennie makes sense for Labor – http://is.gd/1YuLs – Michelle Grattan on political donations and buying access. # Sense of history lost… Continue reading Twitter Updates

Bob Hawke has been presented with life membership of the ALP and is now speaking at the party's National Conference… # Hawke: I'm a bit emotional and you're testing the floodgates… # Hawke: I have lived through the period of most rapid and profound change in recorded history… # Hawke: the world 62 years on… Continue reading Twitter Updates

Labor History – http://bit.ly/ZlRVE – new site launched by the ALP. Under development but already has some rare video items. # Big show of little consequence for Rudd's political future – http://bit.ly/TtOmL – Michelle Grattan on the irrelevance of the ALP Nat.Conf. # Passion bypass as men in suits rule – http://bit.ly/uNFQN – Annabel Crabb… Continue reading Twitter Updates

RT @annabelcrabb: Sorry about lack of tweets from ALP conf …They were pumping some sort of sedative gas through the place and I succumbed. # RT @annabelcrabb: Will try to do better tomorrow. Taking sturdy mask, a rope and something to keep me awake… # RT @annabelcrabb: …Like the fear of a second Rudd term.… Continue reading Twitter Updates

Theo Theophanous, the Victorian Labor MP against whom rape charges were dismissed on Friday, has announced he will retire from Parliament. # Theophanous has bowed to the inevitable because there were moves to deny him pre-selection whatever the outcome of the court proceedings. # Theophanous will remain in Parliament as a backbencher until the state… Continue reading Twitter Updates

And That's Not the Way It Is – http://bit.ly/24xR09 – Frank Rich looks at Walter Cronkite and the failures of his media successors. # @PeterBlackQUT I tuned in towards the end – you were loud and clear. I had trouble signing up to the UStream chat and then you logged off. in reply to PeterBlackQUT… Continue reading Twitter Updates