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‘Fundamental reality’ that Australian borders should be patrolled | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Paul Murray says while politics have changed in recent years, it is a ‘fundamental reality’ for Australians that borders should be patrolled. \n\nMr Murray says that Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s National Press Club speech on Monday showed how and why he is ‘going to fight’ for border security in the upcoming federal election.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ScottMorrisonMP Who is this Mr Murray? Do you mean Paul Liberal Shill Murray? Would make sense, then. ScottMorrisonMP He’s not fighting for anything. He’s trying to confect the idea that there is a fight because Labor are completely on board with patrolling borders, just to with treating sick people like animals left to die as PeterDutton_MP likes to do and use our tax $$ to fight doctors for. ScottMorrisonMP mr murray please your bromance with scomo is embarrassing. you have admitted on air he is a personal friend and now it seems like you are hos media campaigner and cheer leader.
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Labor commits to establishing a permanent Australian Health Reform Commission - 2600 | Sky News AustraliaShadow Health Minister CatherineKingMP will unveil AustralianLabor's plan for a permanent Australian Health Reform Commission during her speech today at PressClubAust. 2600SkyNews CatherineKingMP AustralianLabor PressClubAust Sounds like a permanent revolution... CatherineKingMP AustralianLabor PressClubAust Another clown enters the circus ring. What happens if ringmaster Shorten does not get the votes ? CatherineKingMP AustralianLabor PressClubAust Leave it alone you've done enough damage already
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More people died at sea during Labor govt 'than any Australian disaster' | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Paul Murray claims that the 1200 people died at sea when Labor was in government, is more than any bushfires, floods or terrorist incidents that Australians have been connected to in recent years. \n\nMr Murray says this is a directly result of public belief that the issue of asylum seekers arriving by boat was ‘fixed’, when in fact the ‘doors were reopened’. \n\nThe upcoming federal election is about hiring a government who understands that people who fail the test of being refugees do not have the chance to come through ‘the side door’, Mr Murray says. \n\n\n\n\n Who the Fuck is Paul Murray? WTF would Murray know. Lost his mind. Mouth ranting. How exactly are the 'Doors reopened' when the bill is limited to only those currently on Nauru and Manus chickenlittle
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Australian Workers Union claims raids were 'politically motivated' | Sky News AustraliaThe court case looking into Australian Federal Police raids on the offices of the Australian Workers Union (AWU) has begun in the federal court in Melbourne. \n\nSmall Business Minister Michaelia Cash fought to not appear before court over her involvement in the raids, but was eventually subpoenaed to give evidence. \n\nThe AWU claims the raids were conducted illegally and Minister Cash was driven by political gain.\n\n\n\n Hope helmet head gets the full book thrown at her... It’s interesting to see which photos of Michaelia are chosen by particular news site to be associated with this story. Here is the only one I’ve seen with her smiling. AWU trying anything to avoid facing up to the truth.
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Equine flu which halted UK horse racing hit 10,000 in Australian outbreak | Sky News AustraliaThe strain of equine flu which has halted UK horse racing is the same one which shut down racing in Australia for three months in 2007, affecting more than 10,000 horses.\n\nIt is a strain endemic to North and South America known as Florida Clade 1, Sky sources have established.\n\nThe British Horseracing Authority's (BHA) chief regulatory officer, Brant Dunshea, told Sky News: 'We have seen in non-thoroughbred horses that have presented with the illness prior to this event that it has involved that particular strain.'\n\nDiscussing the outbreak in Australia, Sky News correspondent Enda Brady said horses there were 'not vaccinated at the time, and the virus was completely alien to that continent'.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Oh bugger! It did NOT shut down racing in Australia.
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Scott Morrison can't be trusted to hold banks to account: Labor | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Shadow Minister for Financial Services Clare O’Neil has accused Prime Minister Scott Morrison of ‘walking back’ from his commitment to enact the reforms suggested by the banking royal commission.\n\nLabor is urging the government to adopt all 76 recommendations contained in Commissioner Kenneth Hayne’s report, which was handed down this week.\n\nThe Coalition has publicly baulked at some of the suggestions contained within the report, including reforms to the mortgage broker sector.\n\nMs O’Neil has told Sky News the Coalition’s 'sneaky' response shows the public 'cannot trust' Scott Morrison when it comes the big banks.\n\n\n\n I am ok with that, i do not trust the banking royal commission or it's commissioner. So we are even. Left_of_Labor That didn't take long!
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Morrison delivers security-laced plan for the future | Sky News AustraliaFULL SPEECH: Prime Minister Scott Morrison has outlined the government's plan to keep Australians ‘safe and secure in the future’ during his National Press Club address.\n\nIn his speech on Monday afternoon, Mr Morrison offered a broad plan, addressing military funding, terrorism, domestic violence, offshore processing, natural disasters and climate change, among others. \n\nHe tied security in with the Coalition's ecomimic-focued model, saying the two are ‘interdependent’ and Australia ‘can’t have one without the other.’\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n brucehawker2010 oh so nothing about Labor's terrible record on it when last in Government? You know 1200 deaths, 50000 asylum seekers in detention! brucehawker2010 Speaking of wedge politics, how come the LNP hasn't privatised Medicare yet? I thought it would have happened by now given how vocal your lot were about it before the last election. brucehawker2010 Its not confusing, its actually pretty clear. ALP = illegal migration disaster.
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Theresa May says she is 'not proposing' to scrap Brexit backstop | Sky News AustraliaTheresa May has risked a fresh backlash from eurosceptic MPs in her own party, after saying she is 'not proposing' to scrap the controversial Brexit backstop.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to Northern Ireland, the prime minister confirmed she would be seeking changes to the insurance policy, which is designed to prevent a hard border reforming on the island of Ireland if a trade deal cannot be struck in time.\n\nMrs May restated her 'unshakeable' commitment to avoiding a hard border post-Brexit, pledging: 'The UK government will not let that happen. I will not let that happen.'\n\nThe PM acknowledged the importance of a seamless border, saying it had helped 'deliver peace and prosperity'.\n\n\n\n\n\n Euroseptic MPs - effluent ones...
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Thorburn, Henry departure to cause 'ructions' within NAB | Sky News AustraliaYour Money reporter Leo Shanahan says he's surprised both Andrew Thorburn and Ken Henry have stepped down from their leadership roles at NAB.\n\nCEO Andrew Thorburn and Chairman Ken Henry announced their resignations on Thursday in the wake of a scathing assessment by the banking royal commission.\n\nThe bank's corporate governance was criticised by Commissioner Kenneth Hayne, who said the company didn’t appear to be taking responsibility for what had gone wrong and had continued to blame serious errors on administrative failures.\n\nThe bank has confirmed ex-ANZ Australia boss and current NAB board member Philip Chronican will take over as interim boss.\n\nMr Shanahan says NAB will undergo a period of instability after its decision to jettison both its CEO and Chairman. KaraleeKat 🤣🤣🤣you lot are really panicking now aren't you KaraleeKat A severe witch hunt, as opposed to a mild witch hunt. For someone arrogant enough to go on TV perhaps you should undertake a public speaking course. KaraleeKat Woof Woof
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Barnaby Joyce calls for water diversion scheme | Sky News AustraliaNationals MP Barnaby Joyce has called for the introduction of a water diversion scheme, similar to the 90-year old Bradfield Scheme, to aid drought-affected and flood-prone areas.\n\nMr Joyce says the scheme, which would move water from where there is too much, to where there is too little, would help to prevent major droughts. \n\nThe Member for New England says it is time to take the next step in water management for rural Australia. JohnBarilaroMP Feasibility studies are a waste of money. Talk to Peter andrews OAM, charles massey. They know what to do. And you can still pay them and save a heap of money too. JohnBarilaroMP How much money can it take to workout this has been done before and dams dams dams was the answer with catchment of QLD water that flows east from the divide? Bet the southerners mourn QLD’s choice of electric rail instead of artesian basin[inland dammed water] filling scheme now JohnBarilaroMP Don’t need a study, just build some dams.
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