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Eden-Monaro: how dare #Cobargo residents think for themselves?

12 July 2020

12:30 PM

12 July 2020

12:30 PM

It’s been a week since the Eden-Monaro by-election.

The outcome has been overshadowed by the mounting coronavirus crisis, but one truly hateful, horrible part of the wash-up deserves national exposure — the Twitter bile directed at the residents of the hamlet of Cobargo for “not voting the right way”.

When bushfires tore through Cobargo last summer, clearly it was Scott Morrison’s fault.  

When homes, farms and neighbourhoods all went up in flames, there was clearly one person to blame.

Take one look at social media and you’ll see relentless moaning about the “embarrassment” of our “CrimeMinister”.

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