Phenomenal list of things you would think were already happening
Helen Davidson
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Helen Davidson
@heldavidson
Foreign correspondent for @Guardian in Taiwan. Via @guardianaus covering immigration and the Pacific and 3 wild years as NT corro [email protected]
- 2019 social anxiety: what if I’m not funny 2020 social anxiety: what if I’m an asymptomatic superspreader and I accidentally touch a table
- Every now and again you get a little reminder there is still some justice and humour left in the world and today that reminder is high winds closing the Uluru climb on its last day.
- I know it’s the least of what he said but my catholic education would like to point out that while Abbott called Pell “Australia’s greatest catholic”, there literally is an Australian saint: Mary McKillop (who was at one point excommunicated for…*reporting clergy child abuse*)
- Q: do you think all people should get at least the minimum wage? Morrison: “IT DEPENDS”
- australians are all like 'yeah i could survive in the bush for a week with just a steak knife and my akubra' and then you tell us we might have to stay inside for two weeks and suddenly we need an average 922 sheets of three-ply per day
- "We don’t have a lot of opportunities to say we are Taiwan, so at this time we want to stand up and say ‘we are from Taiwan'."
- Minister Karen Andrews has the power to intervene at any time and allow the family to stay in Australia.
- If you're in a press pack with the PM and a staffer calls 'last question' and your question is a dumb one about beer, then you should shut up imho
- It just started bucketing down in mullimbimby, 15km from the Mt Nardi fire, and people are cheering in the streets #NSWfires
- After five+ years on the immigration/asylum round I don’t think I will ever find the words to describe how it feels seeing the Govt cry over the injustice of strict border control.
- Hong Kong watchdog clears police over protest response in report labelled a “whitewash”
- If thousands of people are going to a protest, and you know their concerns, and you don’t want them to protest, why not, instead of taking it to court... respond to the concerns?
