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.David_Speers on the medivac bill: The Speaker of the House has just told the chamber that the amended bill from the Senate may be unconstitutional. MORE: qt

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BenFordham billshortenmp Maybe the upmarket pubs he visits, but go to a normal pub and there's not as many rednecks as Ben would hope for.

BenFordham billshortenmp I think you’ll find Bill has had a major win in the homes of Australia

BenFordham billshortenmp BenFordham give it a rest, BTW LiberalAus called me today to debt collect your membership fees auspol Tellthetruth

BenFordham billshortenmp Kerryn Phelps, Julia Banks and Cathy McGowan have labelled the current medical attention on Nauru and Manus Island as incompetent.

BenFordham billshortenmp Aside from the old adage that “if it isn’t broken don’t fix it”, it is disgusting that Kerryn Phelps, Julia Banks and Cathy McGowan are siding with the destructive Greens and the ALP Left in their fraud to prioritise the ever diminishing child-free illegal immigrant population.

BenFordham billshortenmp The democracy hating queue jumpers we are importing on mass don’t drink alcohol or go to the pub

BenFordham billshortenmp owner just need them to lose 25 seats at the next election

BenFordham billshortenmp I don’t drink, so I don’t know about pubs, but I heard a whisper that the wine bars don’t seem to mind it. Kerryn Phelps took a ‘blue ribbon’ seat must say something about what people think.

BenFordham billshortenmp 'I reckon ..' Snap judgement from the Oracle from 2GB. Devastating insight!

BenFordham billshortenmp Well there are always a lot of drunks in pubs. They are not the most coherent bunch.

LyleShelton BenFordham billshortenmp I agree with BenFordham

BenFordham billshortenmp And at the ballot box.

BenFordham billshortenmp Not in our pubs, sunshine.

LyleShelton BenFordham billshortenmp Simply cant trust Shorten & Labor. Dodge & weaves all the time. Cant see any future Labor Govt with key phrase 'Stuff Up' written all over it.

BenFordham billshortenmp And the pubs and bi-ways of Australia will be where people begin to count the true cost of Shorten’s decisions - imagine 3 months to go to election and what damage that can potentially do.

BenFordham billshortenmp You should stick to things you know about even though your knowledge is very very limited

BenFordham billshortenmp When people's living standards are declining, they aren't going to vote on borders. auspol

BenFordham billshortenmp BenFordham needs to give people in pubs a little more credit.

BenFordham billshortenmp BenFordham mate I always thought you seemed like a reasonable bloke...oh well. This is a victory for humanity. Even the peeps of Manly, read: TonyAbbottMHR electorate were all smiles in the local last night. Back to commentating footy and staying out of politics I reckon.

BenFordham billshortenmp Well not everyone who votes goes to a pub mid week . Most Australians are decent people who can’t stand Dutton or Morrison

BenFordham billshortenmp I didn't know you were so cruel BenFordham , I learn something new everyday.

BenFordham billshortenmp Do you put some kind of LSD in the water at skynewsaust? The delusion in basically every commentator that you feature would be sad and frightening if it wasn't so hilarious. auspol

BenFordham billshortenmp So what’s Twitter saying Bennie boy or do just worry about the “pubtest”

BenFordham billshortenmp Ben, the bigger issues are real jobs, more affordable living and stop wage stagnation. Basically ordinary wage earners, the majority, are hurting. Your a supposed reporter, get out and have a look at what ordinary Aussies need and want. Like tge gov, you may learn something.

BenFordham billshortenmp Idiots there cheering in the pubs, times of changed social media around to call your fake news out, GO TWITTER

BenFordham billshortenmp Only if you drink in the same pubs as the Shits from the Murdochracy Media.

BenFordham billshortenmp I drink in pubs. And only a minority of my fellow drinkers would disagree with the Bill. But more importantly, most have stopped listening and have already decided to vote this government out.

BenFordham billshortenmp Ben Fordham...fortunately no one no longer cares what you think...

BenFordham billshortenmp We'll see at election

BenFordham billshortenmp Shorten may have won a battle, but he hasn't won the war. Along with his dismissal of Seniors and his selective tax proposal.He has showed he is prepared to deal away Australias sovereignty for a handful of votes and repeat the tragedy of former Labor governments.

AnthonyCole68 BenFordham billshortenmp I think you would be very wrong BenFordham - our table was upbeat & pleased that politics were left outside & people’s health & welfare was put first. Surprisingly I thought that you would of been of the generation that applauded this decision today. Sadly I was wrong

jchimselfbigpo2 BenFordham billshortenmp If Sky news was relevant, this could be an important story. Guess what, you're not. As for the pub culture, you should check out Twitter mate, we Tweet when we have a drink too. We still think Morrison and co are corrupt scumbags in the pub as well as at work and home.

BenFordham billshortenmp Benfordham . Trying to fit it with all the other Nutjobs at 2gb & sky news keep up the great work Ben

BenFordham billshortenmp The fruit loop on sky news & 2gb are going crazy I love it . 2019 is going to be a great year

BenFordham billshortenmp Obviously not the same pubs as the voters go to... as stated before the vote by the liberals. Why have the vote as with the changes it is what the libs claim they are doing. The only difference is they have to justify the blocking of medical emergencies returning to aust

jchimselfbigpo2 BenFordham billshortenmp People in pubs 😂 No one can afford to drink in pubs anymore. The punters buy at Dan Murphy and go home. Pub test😂 You people😂

jchimselfbigpo2 BenFordham billshortenmp Last time I heard a coherent point in a pub was ......

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BenFordham billshortenmp What Pubs do you speak of Ben

BenFordham billshortenmp Rubbish. 2GB has no credibility. Comments should be ignored.

BenFordham billshortenmp What does lower north shore Fordham know about the pubs of Australia? He can tell you about the cocktail bars of Kirribilli

BenFordham billshortenmp I think you must be going to the wrong pubs

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BenFordham billshortenmp Yeah. Nah.

BenFordham billshortenmp You think people in pubs like men womenand children who are guilty of no crime to be detained indefinitely and denied medical treatment for resultant illness...? Really? Sad!

BenFordham billshortenmp Pig’s arse. Enough people have had enough of cruelty for the sake of cruelty. medivacbill

BenFordham billshortenmp I think you might be right.

BenFordham billshortenmp Only in the pubs Ben goes to

BenFordham billshortenmp I bet the people affected by drought, fires and flood are very pleased.. how much time was debated on them today..

SamDavi99667843 BenFordham billshortenmp Shorten hung himself today . Add his tax rip off and its bye bye Lying Bill

BenFordham billshortenmp How would he know what people say in pubs?

BenFordham billshortenmp Yes, you are probably right, we already know Barnaby_Joyce voted against it. But it passed the doctor's test. Which test gives you most confidence ?

BenFordham billshortenmp I doubt it. Glad we don’t drink in the same pubs.

BenFordham billshortenmp Then those pub goers are jerks.

BenFordham billshortenmp Why? Because the laws at out borders are the same?

BenFordham billshortenmp Fortunately Sky After Dark only appeals to a small minority of selfish, bitter & ignorant Australians. It's amazing that Sky wouldn't want to appeal to a wider audience, especially as it has extraordinarily talented & genuinely authoritative journalists like David_Speers auspol

SamDavi99667843 BenFordham billshortenmp Between this and his tax grab Shorten just kissed goodbye to the Lodge . Hi arrogance has cost him big time

BenFordham billshortenmp Nah!

BenFordham billshortenmp Leaders are meant to lead, not cave to the lowest common denominator. BravoBillShorten

BenFordham billshortenmp 🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂 ah NO!

BenFordham billshortenmp We can all wake up in the morning and not be ASHAMED TO CALL OURSELVES AUSSIES the people our fathers and grandfathers fought for to keep us free from TYRANTS like Morrison and Dutton. To feel good about ourselves that we at least helped the least fortunate..

BenFordham billshortenmp Ben, you nailed it

BenFordham billshortenmp Despicable comments from BenFordham Ben, I think that in May, you'll realise you are very wrong.

wallrad BenFordham billshortenmp Seems Ben is assuming pub drinkers are all fools & they'll believe the nonsense being peddled by a badly defeated Liberals. Read the legist Ben then comment.

BenFordham billshortenmp The ven diagram for peoole who drink at a pub and racist, heartless pieces of human crap don't directly overlap, but fear mongering racists and reporters of Skye news do. I cannot wait for this Murdoch bootlicking government to be kicked out of power. Can't come soon enough

BenFordham billshortenmp You must be drinking at a bogan backwater tavern. DM me yr postcode and I'll send you numerous suggestions where decent people drink.

BenFordham billshortenmp is every Fordham as stupid as his brother?

BenFordham billshortenmp Great for the coalition, great campaign fodder

BenFordham billshortenmp The 'pub test' is a hypothetical pass mark in what are now mythical places.

BenFordham billshortenmp This is a ‘Money Bill ‘ has to face Senate again,if it fails, Bill can rock up to GG on the basis that there is no confidence in the Govt on Money ...very tricky management required here

BenFordham billshortenmp Sky news is a joke

BenFordham billshortenmp Who goes to pubs in this day and age?

BenFordham billshortenmp the pubs in wentworth might think otherwise and the way pubs are closing thanks to the lock out laws maybe his analogy should be pointed toward Casinos?

BenFordham billshortenmp Which pubs?

BenFordham billshortenmp We are not all drunks and pubs aren't full of our best minds, why always refer to them like some political test? Will this legislation pass the crackhouse test? Will this lose the vote on the floor of the injecting rooms?

BenFordham billshortenmp Not so *hiccup* three cheers for Bill hicuphooray

BenFordham billshortenmp if Morrison has a spine he needs to call a election now - lets see if he is man enough like Shorten

DECMarkWalker BenFordham billshortenmp ScoMo & . are relying on their assumption that the majority of Australians are ignorant rednecks, lacking empathy. Big mistake. .ScottMorrisonMP is done in May. kickthismobout

BenFordham billshortenmp What a shit government

BenFordham billshortenmp If that is the case you outlined ,get him to call a election,that fuck them

BenFordham billshortenmp I'm in a pub in Willoughby, Sydney NSW at the mo. Nobody and I mean nobody has any interest whatsoever in what has happened today. Zero interest. It doesn't register. So much for Fordham's claim. He's such a drivelling fool.

BenFordham billshortenmp Disagree, let’s vote 🗳

BenFordham billshortenmp Not sure the type of pubs that you drink in Ben but I'd like to think most Australians would be ok with people needing urgent medical attention actually receiving it. Don't fall for the FearandScaremongering from LiberalAus Ben

BenFordham billshortenmp As if you'd know. Spent too long looking through your vitriolic glasses and feeding at the table of envy broadcasting.

BenFordham billshortenmp When Fordham was on C9 thought he was reasonably normal, but alas, he’s a 2GBNews 3AW693 right wing fuckwit, no different to Jones, Bolt, Price, Hadley, Mitchell etc etc

BenFordham billshortenmp Which pubs the 2gb ones with three people in them?

BenFordham billshortenmp Not any of the pubs I’ve been near. Australians do expect people imprisoned by Australia to receive proper medical care when needed.

BenFordham billshortenmp Ok Fordham if you're right lobby Morrison to call an election tomorrow? You media mob are so out of touch with reality and the people in the community. auspol backthebill medivacbill

BenFordham billshortenmp I’ll have a G&T with Bill 👍🏼

BenFordham billshortenmp Get with it you Neanderthals.

BenFordham billshortenmp Nope. Australians are feeling a little better about themselves at the moment. Doing the right thing and giving someone help. That's a good thing. It's Australian.

BenFordham billshortenmp No one in the pubs anymore under this government they can’t afford a drink

BenFordham billshortenmp Where are you drinking?

BenFordham billshortenmp Libs can win the election just on this issue,the government needs to get of its bum & spread the word Labor will open our boarders thousands will drown unscrupulous operators will take desperate people’s money to come to our shores at any price Australia will never be the same

BenFordham billshortenmp Credlin, PMLive ... Good old LNP trying to turn this into a BlameLabor issue. Like cpyne ssaid ..

BenFordham billshortenmp People in the pubs too pi$$ed to worry about the sick on Manus - let alone watch parliament. Shorten has proven why he should be Prime Minister. Bye Bye Morrison auspol medivacbill

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BenFordham billshortenmp Ben Fordam when was the last time you dared to go to a pub? Most Australians want the concentration camps closed and the asylum seekers brought here.

billshortenmp Traitorous & Feckless AustralianLabor Greens drkerrynphelps

BenFordham billshortenmp Always Credlin provides the truthful full truth.

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BenFordham billshortenmp notmypub

AnthonyCole68 BenFordham billshortenmp I can feel the outrage in the homes of the 43 people who watch this ordure.

BenFordham billshortenmp What do you know about pub talk you two bob snob.

BenFordham billshortenmp When’s the last time you’ve been in a real working class pub Ben ?

BenFordham billshortenmp Not where I drink old mate.

BenFordham billshortenmp Not in my pub.... but it’s not a red neck pub ..so there’s that

BenFordham billshortenmp SKY, dirtbags on Parade. newscorpse

BenFordham billshortenmp What pub you drink at Ben ?

BenFordham billshortenmp the convo at our place is that it's a victory . the Govt tried to manipulate and lost

BenFordham billshortenmp GFYS

BenFordham billshortenmp Oh come on, Ben clearly has never stepped in a pub before.

BenFordham billshortenmp How does giving people medical help affect border security?

BenFordham billshortenmp 2 GB snot bag !!

BenFordham billshortenmp The dismantling of Australia has begun, all to plan! The Right delivered economic globalisation, now the Left will deliver a borderless and nationless world in order to provide the global corpratocracy the cheap labour force it wants! Our leaders are not working for us people!

BenFordham billshortenmp Yeah, nah.

BenFordham billshortenmp All those years I watched you on Today I didn’t see you as cruel 😔

BenFordham billshortenmp In addition trying to keep lying and misleading people by claiming any change to off shore processing will re-start people smugglers and the boats is not true. The TURN BACK THE BOATS POLICY stopped people smugglers Refugees were arriving and being put off shore before turn backs

BenFordham billshortenmp What wonderful news !!

AnthonyCole68 BenFordham billshortenmp Fordham.. One of life's complete prats

BenFordham billshortenmp Notmypub

BenFordham billshortenmp Launch the boats

BenFordham billshortenmp This bill passed because people DO NOT ACCEPT holding refugees for over five years as ethical or acceptable. If ScoMo and Dutto took reasonable steps to fix the processing failure this bill would not have even got up. Lying, misleading and taking people for fools never worked.

BenFordham billshortenmp It's a good thing drunks don't run our government then or DO THEY? auspol

BenFordham billshortenmp Boats boats boats thanks Bill

BenFordham billshortenmp This will backfire on Labor

BenFordham billshortenmp Nah, not likely Ben. We just want an election

BenFordham billshortenmp Maybe the RWNJ pubs you drink in BenFordham, the pubs I drink in still think that if people need medical treatment they shouldn't have to go to court to receive it? 12 have died, are you happy about that?

BenFordham billshortenmp If we had had a non-binding postal survey, we may also have seen the same outcome.

BenFordham billshortenmp Not being fluent in moron, I have no idea what this little man is attempting to articulate...

BenFordham billshortenmp Bill might win floor but boarders will stay same the only difference is manus naru. And if boats start coming in from now and may we know let in liberals nationals because there in charge

BenFordham billshortenmp Not my pub

BenFordham billshortenmp Yep, it’s after 6pm alright

BenFordham billshortenmp I couldn’t agree more Labor once again out touch with what the community wants on border security. Oh how they are showing their true colours!

BenFordham billshortenmp Or my pub and I’m in a marginal seat

BenFordham billshortenmp The people smugglers will be cheering for Bill.

BenFordham billshortenmp 😂😂😂😂 does 2GB hire every dill in the country MediVacBill

BenFordham billshortenmp Ludicrous why did the government fight the vote tooth and nail if it’s the result it wanted

BenFordham billshortenmp Awesome then let’s send them to that bitches house in Wentworth. See wants them she can have them

BenFordham billshortenmp Yeah like those shit pubs that broadcast Sky News and have wall to wall horse racing and pokies.

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BenFordham billshortenmp Lol....maybe the echo chamber 'pubs' that you loiter in. The vast majority of the country were in favour of this....as proven by the many polls over the last 6 months

BenFordham billshortenmp This isn’t the type of bloke I meet in the pubs of Australia. The government has lost control of the House. How does that play out in households?

BenFordham billshortenmp Only shit pubs.

BenFordham billshortenmp Everyones at the pub sitting on Twitter typing about how good it is

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BenFordham billshortenmp ' think billshortenmp has had a victory on the floor of parliament, but I reckon he's had a defeat in the pubs of Australia'? Hear! Hear! He's just so out of touch with ordinary Australians.

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