“If you want to
know what caused those conditions, I’ll give you an answer – it’s called
climate change,” the Queensland premier told reporters. “It is only the LNP who
could watch Queensland burn and then blame the trees.” [Queensland Premier Anna Palaszczuk
quoted in The
Guardian, 7 December 2018]
“Last year, more
Australians bought their seventh home than those who bought their first” [Journalist Timothy Swanston quoting an incorrect statment by Queensland Minister for Housing and Public Works Mick de
Brenni, ABC
News, 8 December 2018]
“Most
people just consider Assange a spoilt-brat egomaniac with murky motives, a
limelight habit and some profoundly questionable political affiliations.”
[Journalist
Elizabeth Farrelly writing in The
Sydney Morning Herald, 8 December 2018]
“Both Brandis and
Turnbull were regularly labelled, and probably were what passes for, ‘moderates’
in the neoliberal alt-right nativist populist Trumpist tribal world, or
whatever white patriarchy is called these days.” [Academic and blogger Ingrid Matthews writing in oecomuse,
27 November 2018]
“Scott Morrison reminds me of a belligerent & angry Sunday School
teacher. Protected by his Christian reputation but in reality just a nasty,
angry, vengeful man” [Elizabeth Marr on Twitter,
9 December 2018]
