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David Penberthy is a columnist with The Advertiser and Sunday Mail, and also co-hosts the FIVEaa Breakfast show. He’s a former editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Mail and news.com.au.

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Q&A and social media give an insight into how GetUp and the unions manufacture a crisis. Picture: Supplied/istock

How GetUp, unions create a crisis

Reverse what the audience cheers on Q&A to find out what mainstream Australia really thinks. The same is true of social media.

David Penberthy

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Nicolle flint and graffiti at her office.

How GetUp tried to break me

Liberal MP Nicolle Flint reveals her fear amid a GetUp campaign “to destroy me mentally”.

David Penberthy

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Shadow Treasurer, The Hon. Joe Hockey MP with John Altomonte, Greg Hatton, Greg Sutton, Nick Karagiannis joined with the Liberal candidate for Reid, Craig Laundy, local car dealers and representatives of the Motor Trader's Association at Sutton's Holden Homebush to talk about the Government's removal of the FBT concession on vehicles.

Risk of ‘big city MPs’

Former Howard minister Nick Minchin says Sydney-centric governments put Australia at risk.

David Penberthy

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(L-R) South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill, Opposition Leader Steven Marshall and SA-BEST leader Nick Xenophon are seen at the South Australian Political leaders debate at the Adelaide Festival Palais, Monday, March 5, 2018. (AAP Image/Morgan Sette) NO ARCHIVING

Welcome to the freak show

Thanks to Nick Xenophon, the South Australian election looms as one of the great political circuses of the modern era. Buckle up.

David Penberthy

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