Michael O'Rourke
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Michael O'Rourke
@MichaelACT123
Free markets. Free speech. Ex-Federal official. Poetaster. Doowop aficionado. INTP. Photo: Canberra. In link: my book on C19th NSW.





Tony Armstrong told ABC viewers the First Fleet committed genocide by intentionally introducing smallpox to Aboriginal people. The foremost historian on the subject disagrees. So does the virus itself. A thread on what happens when ideology replaces evidence 🧵

The Reform voters are on their way







The first thing the mob kills is its own humanity. Long before they sink their collective claws into the target of their flapping ire, they lay waste to their own decency. We see this in the digital hounding of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Behold the ugly gloating over a man’s downfall. Witness the peddling of false accusations. The shame, right now, belongs less to Andrew than to those who have made a bloodsport from his troubles. ✍️ Brendan O’Neill Article | spectator.com/article/the-hu…


Angus Taylor and Jane Hume standing up as the new Liberal leader and deputy Seems they've added a few extra Australian flags in the Liberal partyroom (now six in total)














