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Harrison | Coffee | Cycling | Photography | #COYS | Opinions are my own.

Sydney, Australia
Joined October 2010
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Sam Neill, lovely guy RIP 🥲 I’ll have a coffee at The Cosmopolitan’ for you. … The Pacific : In The Wake of Captain Cook. Brilliant Documentary. Sam is excellent in this, well worth watching.
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Fiddling around at the edges by reducing fuel excise for three months. Permanent security of energy is what’s needed. Get a grip on Australia’s resources @AlboMP @ausgov
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Now is the time for @ausgov @AlboMP to take control of the oil and energy resources from out of the ground to refining and sale. In 25 years Australia would be Norway and not worried if petrol will run out in 30 days. #oil #gas
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All media get out of Bondi and leave people to grieve in peace. #bondi #guncontrol
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Congrats @elonmusk on your possible earnings at @Tesla over the next ten years up to $2B a week by my calculations. Difficult spending or finding things to do with the money. 2B people in the world can’t access clean running water. That would be a good and great problem to solve.
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November 2014 @LFC last lost four consecutive games and it’s August/September 1953, over 73 years, since they lost five in a row.
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To add housing supply of affordable housing for first time @AlboMP is to put money into builds specifically for that cohort excluding all others. Property to be lived in for 10 years, no renting. Anyone selling prior has to sell at purchase price direct to the Govt. #housing
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Admit it @SawyerMerritt you could become a member of the mile high club way before @Starlink but you just didn’t did you? Fly @united
Review of @Starlink on United Airlines: "It is an absolute game changer. I had download speeds in excess of 250 Mbps, and upload speeds of nearly 30 Mbps. With Starlink, I can do anything in the air that I could do on the ground."
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You are way behind me @elonmusk I cancelled six months ago.
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Does @POTUS understand you should never criticise someone in their own house? I wonder how he’d feel if I went into one of his hotels stood at a lectern and told the assembled guests how shit the hotel is? It’s just rude and ill mannered. #un
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Insta: @talia_appleton selected by @AusCycling for @uci World Champs with 14 days notice but only if she can pay to get to Kigali. She needs $8K. If you can spare even $2 please help Talia. asf.org.au/campaigns/talia-a… #couchpeloton #lavuelta25 @tntsports @SBSSportau
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“Starving” Palestinians in Gaza are storming soup kitchens. You’d think if they are “Starving” they’d be storming food stalls at the markets to get food too, wouldn’t you? I guess free is free and maybe not “starving”. Hungry yes! #gaza #GazaStarving #bbc #abc #nbc #aljazeea
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Aid is being sold at markets in Gaza. Potatoes $25 per kilo, Formula $70 a tin. Clearly there are some Palestinians that are not starving and do not care about their fellow humans. #Gaza #GazaStarving #abc #bbc #nbc #aljazeera.
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Why is it that people who aren’t comfortable in the spotlight give marquee cover interviews to magazines? #johdimeares #stellar #news news.com.au/entertainment/ce…
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Potential sale of Santos to Abu Dhabi interests is a watershed for Australia. Decades of Govt. mismanagement of Australian commodity and minerals. Treasurer @JEChalmers must look how Norway, Saudi Arabia etc have managed assets becoming wealthy while Australia is in debt laden.
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Australians (and other non Americans) How do you feel about travelling to or through the USA right now?
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This is why it’s time to change the voting to, one person one vote.
🧨Jacinta Price looking down the barrel of nearly $370,000 a year — off just 324 votes. Noice! ON THE BACK OF ONLY 324 personal votes - Yep, so far, only 324 people actually specifically voted for Price. We just checked the official AEC results for the Northern Territory Senate race, and… yeah, it’s wild. If #AngusTaylor becomes leader of the smouldering Liberal ruins and #JacintaPrice ends up as Deputy Leader, Party Jumper Price will be on $368,517 a year. Now, that alone might not sound outrageous — until you realise: 💥 Only 324 people actually voted for her by name.* That’s not a typo. Three hundred and twenty-four. That’s a 90% collapse from her 2022 personal vote, where 3,309 people marked her name directly. (And no, we’re not talking about party-line votes — we mean actual humans who picked her, not just ticked CLP above the line.) So to recap: 👎 90% drop in personal votes 💰 Potential promotion 📈 $370k salary 👀 All from just 324 individual votes And if she expenses like #SussanLey? Add another $1.5 million in taxpayer-funded “extras.”** That’s nearly $2 million a year for someone barely anyone personally backed. *AEC official figures at 2:00 PM, 12 May 2025 AEST **Based on #SussanLey’s 12-month expenses to March 2025 Champagne anyone? If our numbers are right — and they come straight from the AEC and official expenses data — then yeah, it’s a hell of a return on 324 votes.
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Makeup of the next Australian Government front bench has been announced: 43% Male 57% Female No announcement as to whether it is 100% the best, which is probably of more interest to Australians than anything. #LabourParty #auspol #Australia #Goverment #Cabinet
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If you’re fed up with hearing about the woes and the don’t you know who I am’s of multi millionaires Harry & Meghan aka The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, please feel free to yawn here. #PrinceHarry #MeghanMarkle
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Sunk without trace, quicker than the Titanic. #Election2025 #Coalition #Liberals
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