Unleaded petrol now $1.53 in Sydney. What a remarkable achievement by @AlboMP & Co to keep Australia moving during the ME crisis. Australia now has over 50 days fuel supply in reserve and with The Strait to reopen fuel supplies will increase. Thanks @AlboMP

Whenever anyone mentions One Nation, this is what the replies look like. And it’s funny ya know, cause the blokes down the road building a house are migrants. Same in the street over. Migrants. It ain’t migrants who are dividing and ruining this country. It’s Australians. 👇🏼

So, let's recap, shall we? This week the @PressClubAust managed to: * cancel at the last minute, the questions and subsequent presence of renowned journalist Margo Kingston, who’d travelled over 2 days to Canberra to ask her question of Pauline Hanson – and yes, they were questions initially requested and organised by the Press Club itself 9 days ago. * cancel the press gallery membership of long-term journalist, Greg Jericho, allegedly because he works for the @TheAusInstitute. Although Greg has been employed by the Aust Institute for 4 years, his membership cancellation only came yesterday after he publicly called out the Canberra press gallery - which is of course a highly fortuitous coincidence and not at all connected to his criticism. * somehow allowed a person or persons unknown to enter the Press Club premises and put up a 3 metre wide electronic banner, without anybody in the Press Club noticing them doing it. How several people enter a private club carrying something that large, then proceed to wire it up on an open stage and nobody at the premises noticed in any way, is yet another display of the NPC’s staggering incompetence. * release an unnecessarily detailed, high-school level statement about said banner incident, a statement that reeks of defensiveness and hysteria, while also prejudicially naming an alleged culprit and arguably sinking to the bottom of the barrel in terms of the journalistic standards it supposedly represents. Read it below and remind yourself that people who work with words for a living wrote that. * allowed the speaker, Pauline Hanson, to defame one of their own - a journalist from the Guardian who dared to ask a hard-hitting question - by calling her "trash". This was only weeks after calling the same journalist a "nasty bitch". Mirroring, Trump’s “Quiet piggy” incident, the journalist's alleged colleagues all sat mute, as did the moderator, Tom Connell from Sky News during the abuse. No rebuke, no blow-back, no support for their fellow journalist, standing alone under Hanson's hissing vitriol. Just pusillanimous silence. The National Press Club outdid their already dubious reputation this week, spraying themselves in a spectacular shower of self-inflicted shit – wall to wall, dripping effluent. Australians currently suffer some of the most timid, captured political journalism in the western world, and if the actions of the #NPC this week are the metric, then we can all see why. What a national and international embarrassment of an organisation meant to serve as a vital democratic institution and a cultural conscience – and one that has offered us neither. .

@PressClubAust I believe Pauline Hanson’s speech breached the NSW hate speech laws. She vilified and incited violence against the Australian Trans Community. You are a disgraceful institution to enable this violence to occur without a single trans person being in the room to defend ourselves.

Is this newsdotcom fairytale writer ok? What the actual is this tripe? I've read some crap in the last 24 hours but this just about takes the cake. What unadulterated bullshit #onenotion #oneneuron #NPC #auspol

Question for @PressClubAust #npc and President @janeenorman . Will your Committee be sending a letter to Hanson thanking her for her NPC attendance, but reminding her of the need for respect to all journalists in their workplace. Treatment of @msmarto was unhinged & inappropriate

Willcox strikes again. 👏👏

In summary: - you blocked Margot from asking a real question to Hanson - Masola instead asks if Australia is being 'Flooded with Muslims' - sponsored by weapons and fossil fuel companies - cancelled Hedges and invited Herzog to speak You're the lamest group of complicit shills

@PressClubAust as a former journalist of 47 years I am appalled by your handling of Hanson yesterday. You allowed her to speak for too long then limited the amount of questions. Your failure not to condemn her for her attack on the journalist from the Guardian was disgraceful.

Trump came to power partly by a spineless, toe licking media that sane-washed his every utterance and treated him like a normal person - now look at him Australia - we're in deep trouble This is Australia's legacy media today, right down to the ABC Sane washing a maniac .

clippity plop @FinancialReview

Pauline Hanson's Press Club address an absolute train wreck. Could barely read her own speech. Divisive, contradictive & incoherent at times. Deliberately ran 20mins over time to try & avoid questions. Typical, low-IQ dog-whistle politics as usual but supporters won't care.

Todays National Press Club Address should be required viewing for all Australians. If they enjoy torture. It highlighted the agenda of hate that drives Pauline Hanson to anybody who doesn't fit her world view. It also highlighted the sorry state of journalism in Australia.

Pauline Hanson has today laid out her plan to cut your wages, make it easier to sack you and force you to pay more to see a GP.

This is gutless journalist (Sky News) who moderated Hanson rant at @PressClubAust today. He’s #NPC president. Connell departed from convention, permitting Hanson’s racist, bigoted, semi-literate rant to drag on 40 minutes, reducing Q&A time. Then failed to stand up for @msmarto

GET THE FACTS: New ASIC numbers show there are more than 26.7k new business registrations on average every month under Labor, much higher than under our predecessors, and insolvencies are almost half what they were in the Howard Government.

"abandoned" is a funny way of saying "we killed their parents"

Posted at 1:56pm, got an email from Jane Norman at 3:03pm cancelling my membership of the press gallery

Today, the Press Gallery had a chance to show the Australian people that they were professional, uncompromised & capable of asking the necessary hard questions. With one or two hinorable exceptions, they showed they weren't. They continue to fail us. #HansonPressClub

Hanson goes hard-Trump again, demanding a ban on abortion, & then attacking SBS’ Anna Henderson for asking about her intention to cut SBS. Says she’s “going to be without a job” She’s got MAGA written all over her. Surely everyone can see that now.