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skua Jun 6, 2025

@CurbsideShip116
Oh fuck off.

How to debase the awards utterly.

"Oh look, they're an OA. Wonder how many suicides they share responsibility for?"

I hope #KathrynCampbell is getting one too.

And #Tudge, #PeterDutton, every corrupt businessperson, and the CEO of #Woodside.

#ReturnYourAward
#Australia

Joanna Mendelssohn Feb 18, 2023

https://johnmenadue.com/aston-truths/
At last, a sensible comment on the Aston by-election, triggered by the resignation of one of the worst ever MP’s in living memory, #Tudge. Any not-Tudge candidate, endorsed by a not-Morrison Liberal Party, is likely to win
#auspol #Aston

Aston truths - Pearls and Irritations

If there is a serious possibility that the Labor Party could win Aston it would be a defeat of unprecedented character

Pearls and Irritations

Wolfie Rankin Feb 13, 2023

And now it's gone, just like that.
#Tudge #Auspol #Card #LNP

HeresPlanB Feb 12, 2023

@craighill https://craighill.net/2023/02/10/alan-tudge-sees-himself-as-the-victim-after-robodebt/ #tudge #alantudge #robodebtRC #auspol

Alan Tudge sees himself as the victim after Robodebt

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Roger Ap Gwillian Feb 10, 2023

The Australian "newspaper" has said that it was Twitter wot brought down Alan #Tudge. When really, it was the Scooby Gang. #RoboDebt

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Dave J Feb 10, 2023

And I’m angry at our political monoculture, with its show trials to appease the masses and its utter lack of consequence or accountability for ministers’—past or present—actions in office. It’s a tiger without teeth, maintained by bipartisan silence and nods and winks; censure means nothing to the shameless.

This is why I don’t post about #auspol much anymore: it just makes me too angry.

[4/4] #Tudge #robodebt

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Dave J Feb 10, 2023

I’m angry that the only consequence #Tudge will see, most likely, is to be parachuted into a sinecure that takes no account of his prior actions.

I’m angry that he’ll receive a secure, supported lifestyle in retirement that’s not subject to looming #Robodebt overreach.

[3/4] #auspol

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Dave J Feb 10, 2023

I’m angry that #Tudge’s children—through no fault of their own—were threatened, but more so that he downplays both the many suicides his programme precipitated and the harrowing loss and suffering that victims’ friends and family continue to endure as somehow less tragic.

I’m angry that the only guilt he appears to feel is in being caught. (And that his children may come, in his stead, to feel guilt for the rest of *their* lives.)

[2/4] #auspol #robodebt

Dave J Feb 10, 2023

Y’know, I really wanted to write a pithy toot about #Tudge’s departure from parliament, but I’m too angry.

I’m angry that he recklessly oversaw a programme that stole $750 million from Australia’s most vulnerable.

I’m angry that he flounced offstage after exposure by the Royal Commission, and then used his own children to deflect criticism.

[1/4] #auspol #robodebt