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Sometimes you
read something and a metaphoric light goes on in your head, and you think ‘Yep,
that’s on the money’. This happened to me a few days ago when I read a series
of tweets (a ‘thread’ in Twitter argot) sent into the ether by television chef Adam
Liaw. Normally I’d never read something other than a recipe from a chef, thinking
that is all they are good at, but that is just prejudice. This series of tweets
explained much to me.

They were:

Former Vice Chancellor
of Notre Dame University, Celia Hammond, has been selected to run in Julie
Bishop’s seat of Curtin. On the surface, she should have been a reasonably good
candidate, being a clearly successful academic lawyer, who rose to be the chief
executive of a university of sorts. However, she has said some bizarre things
such as she is passionate about the commitment to the harmony of faith and

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Very few Murdoch ‘journalists’
are real journalists; many are just Liberal Party fundament osculators. One of
the few who is a real journalist is Malcolm Farr, but he has not done himself
any favours this week in publishing an article in which he stated that “the
public debate on the existence of climate change is over and we are owed an
apology”1. To be blunt, this is equine ordure. The debate was over