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Can Scott Morrison pull off another ‘miracle’ win?
In the final week of the campaign, Scott Morrison is relentlessly on message. He is focused on housing and older voters, following a playbook almost identical to the one he used in 2019.
May 21 – 27, 2022
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War
“The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean, of Ukraine.”
The former United States president says what others have been saying for two decades. John Howard and Tony Blair are now the only people on Earth pretending it was a legitimate war.
Law
“Victory!”
The refugee advocate celebrates a win against Peter Dutton after appealing the defamation case against him. Dutton’s not a rape apologist, he’s just a minister in the Morrison government.
“This deal cannot move forward until he does.”
The entrepreneur demands that Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey release proof that bots comprise 5 per cent or less of the platform’s accounts. It’s the sort of thing you might ask before you made a $63.5 billion takeover bid, but we’re sure he knows what he’s doing.
Football
“Where’s Luca? Please tell me he hasn’t gone off to the hospital.”
The prime minister accidentally crash tackles eight-year-old Luca Fauvette on a soccer pitch. His policy is clear: boys play against boys or oversized man babies.
Courts
“It was for writing. It was not to, as you would have it, murder my husband.”
The American romance novelist gives evidence while being tried for the murder of her husband. A lot of people regret old blog posts, but her 2011 piece, “How to Murder Your Husband”, really has aged well.
Bombs
“It was frothing, the shell was bubbling. It was strange and frightening.”
The British scavenger hunter described driving home with what she thought was an antique canister in the back seat. In fact, it was a live bomb from World War I.
