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OPINION: There are lockdowns and then there are lockdowns. In Australia, as you will have painfully observed, every state and territory has developed its own distinct style and approach (one country, as they say, many systems) with travellers courageous enough to holiday here this year, increasingly confounded by them. Plenty of us over the past year have experienced, or will surely eventually do so, the frisson of the sudden, crazed scramble to the airport to beat the deadline of a lockdown or have suffered the raw disappointment and inconvenience of having to cancel or postpone a holiday or business trip.
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Yet another added: Russell? or Dan Andrews??
Was that Dan? A number of viewers compared Russell and Dan
Viewers simply couldn t get past the comparison to the groom and the politician.
Another fan wrote: That one guy looks like Dan Andrews.
Yet another added: Is it just me? Or is Dan Andrews on MAFS.
Russell, 37, is a diesel mechanic who is currently based in South Australia.
Separated at birth? Viewers simply couldn t get past the comparison to the groom and the politician. Another fan wrote: That one guy looks like Dan Andrews
Larrikin: According to his Nine bio, he is described as a quintessential Aussie larrikin , with him happy when he s downing a beer and eating a steak
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Kerry OâBrien has rejected the Australia Day honour he was due to receive on Tuesday in protest at the âdeeply insensitive and divisive decisionâ to give the countryâs highest award to former tennis great Margaret Court.
âI believe the decision to award Australiaâs highest honour to Margaret Court may serve to erode the hard-fought gains made over decades in reducing the impact of discrimination against members of the LGBTQ+ community,â the veteran journalist and former ABC current affairs host wrote in a letter to the office of the Governor-General, David Hurley.
Kerry OâBrien said giving Margaret Court an Australia Day medal âeroded the hard fought gains made over decadesâ to stop discrimination against the LGBTQI community.