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Exclusive: Robo-debt call centres take over Covid hotline
The hotline at the centre of the government’s new Covid-19 strategy is staffed by casual workers with almost no training, employed by the company behind robo-debt.
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“It was wet so the whole car was going sideways … and I didn’t care if I died.”
The shock jock says he was so angry he almost crashed his car after storming out of the radio studio because he didn’t think his show should cover the Scott Morrison text messages. One thing you can say about “horrible, horrible” men: they stick together.
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“The college, through the freedoms afforded to it by law, has outlined our common beliefs and practices.”
The principal pastor at Brisbane’s Citipointe Christian College explains a legally binding enrolment contract sent out to students that has since been withdrawn after a backlash. Those common beliefs are that trans people don’t exist and “homosexual acts” are an offence to God.
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“I can just think it.”
The commentator says he stands by his view of Grace Tame but possibly didn’t need to publish it in The Australian. Strange how he makes humility sound like The Secret.
Groceries
“My eldest son likes almond milk. I don’t know how you get milk from almonds.”
The Employment minister explains why Scott Morrison doesn’t understand the cost of living: there are just too many types of milk. Robert himself is still working out the human cost of robo-debt.
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“The things we’re doing before don’t work the same way under the Omicron virus.”
The prime minister tells Perth radio that the Western Australian premier, Mark McGowan, was right to delay opening the state’s border. Unfortunately for Morrison, popularity and its variants are not contagious.
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“You’re just making this up, aren’t you? You’re lying.”
The lawyer for Ben Roberts-Smith rejects evidence from a serving SAS member that his client killed one prisoner and ordered a junior soldier to kill another. The trial continues.