The
@BenSimmons25
that I once had the pleasure of meeting, gave my 14yo son his jersey and stayed behind after the game for twenty minutes chatting with him. Son will never forget it. Simmons is not only a great player but a bloody great bloke. Alan Jones should retire!
@TonyAbbottMHR
You smartarse. Fancy making a political moment for yourself out of this. You were the opposite of Bob Hawke as PM and let’s hope Saturday night sees the end of you.
Tasmania has two perfectly functional
@AFL
stadia, better than many. This is just bullshit. Please screenshot this tweet... the stadium proposed will cost no less than 2 Billion dollars!
Wow. Whatever the result, no one could deny Rebecca White's speech tonight made Jeremy look like a nervous school boy, out of his depth, nice but not too bright, who has no clue what to do next. Well done Bec.
#politas
Wow. Tasmania and the
@JackJumpers
are the true winners. Heart, kindness, guts, love, passion, grit, hard work. All of the values we hold dear as a state displayed on the floor all season and all night. We are so proud of you. Thank you for all you have done.
#tasmanian
#pride
Andrew Bogut has in the past - on this platform - slut shamed, made racist comment, made sexist comments. Why would we care about his views on important public health matters?
The streets of Hobart are buzzing today, people stopping me to ask if I know where the can get tickets?? Extraordinary support for this
@JackJumpers
crew. Basketball on the rise.
@NBL
If a member of a party became convinced that the leadership group were actively protecting a group of pedophiles operating in the community… she chooses to resign from the Party. Those party leaders can the expel her from the Parliament?
#politas
Don’t mind losing but what a graceless pack of …. Show ponies are always like that though. Very poor behaviour from Buford and a few players at the end. Buford shouldn’t have even been there after kicking a screen in. Very poor form.
@JackJumpers
hold your heads high.
So pleased to see Louise Eliot (can't tag her as she has blocked me) staying true to her values of "safe spaces for women" by voting against this, against the advice from planners... gees Louise, what have you got against homeless women?
#politas
Six months ago I said basketball will be the most played and watched sport in
#Tasmania
witching five years. Forget that, it’s over baby… it’s over.
@NBL
#believe
@JackJumpers
@polley_helen
@shanebazzi
@polley_helen
... I politely ask that you educate yourself - you tweet is a serious embarrassment to all of us in the Labor Party. It is Hanson lite. It is tin-eared and a classic dog whistle. Remove it.
If you are a Tasmanian you understand we have this annoying black ant that stings and won’t go away. They hurt and they won’t give up. They are Jack Jumpers and we know. But you don’t.
@JackJumpers
Two of the three top ATAR scores in southern Tasmania went to public schools students but good old
@abchobart
goes straight to the private school students of course.
Had the very good fortune of sitting next to Tas legend and Aus captain
@tdpaine36
tonight at the
@JackJumpers
- all night, every minute or two, kids showed up to ask for a photo with him. He didn’t blink, smiled and stood up and showed them all love. A true, selfless champion.
Down Magnay, Fabs and
@JackMctrey1
plus two or three others playing with flu - against a team full of seriously quality players. This is an extraordinary, history making performance from the
@JackJumpers
#pride
#tasmanian
#onthemarch
so much to be grateful for! Thanks Jackies!
Here’s a thought… if the
@AFL
dud Tasmania again, the state government should take the $150M commitment and invest it in community basketball facilities. Basketball will the most played and watched sport in Tasmania by 2025. We need more courts!!!
#hoops
Just a couple of proud Tasmanians. I think Coach Roth has taught us a lot about who we are and what we value.
#Tasmanian
- an honour we normally wouldn’t bestow upon someone until they had lived here at least 30 years!
Roth is a Tasmanian.
Whatever the result, I hope this parliament makes the protection of children and the response to the CoI the highest order priority. Because, football, basketball, fish, trees and stuff - but is there anything more important than giving children the best start in life?
#politas
Can you believe the
@JackJumpers
made the grand final in their first season?? An extraordinary, wonderful, life affirming celebration of sport and being
#Tasmanian
. Whatever happens tonight we know three things for sure… 1. They have been all class, spirit, joy and fight. 1/2
How many cafes and restaurants closed today? How many casual, low paid staff are now out of work? The borders had to open at some point, but with two years to plan for it, one might have hoped that “people” rather than “ideology” governed our approach.
#politas
#clusterfark
Watching my first ever
@JackJumpers
home game from the couch. It is an unbelievable show on the screen. But far and away the best venue, crowd and atmosphere in Australia. Wow! Who knew Tasmania would fall in love with basketball?
@NBL
Pleased to have come together with five former Premiers from both sides of the House to support
#Yes23au
, sorry I couldn’t be in Hobart for the get together.
#politas
#YES
#auspol
@kevinbonham
On very good authority - from a former Facebook friend of Jessica Whelan - the screenshots are NOT doctored and that she was a prolific racist poster on FB, that is why he de-friended her! Referral to Fed Police is just a delaying tactic by
@ScottMorrisonMP
#politas
It is worth noting that Optus Oval in Perth was budgeted to cost $800M and ended up being $1.6B (pre inflation spike) and recently the WA gov provided $56M to cover operating losses of the first three years of operation. Floating stadium for $750M?? Don't reckon!
#politas
One of the most awful tweets of the campaign so far… Two humans, with mutual respect, can’t express care for each other in a tough environment??? What have we become? Where’s the decency? A new low from this already appalling (tax payer funded?) account.
#politas
My congratulations to
@CassyOConnorMP
on a job well done. Apart from being a formidable leader of her party, she was also an excellent Minister for a period of time. Honest, never deviated from her clear values, with earned respect from all those around her.
#politas
It’s 2023! Have we closed Ashley Youth Detention Centre yet??? If not, why not??? Cruelty to children is surely even more unacceptable this year than it was last year?
#politas
If I just heard the Premier correctly, he spent $1.6M on lawyers to ensure the commissioners couldn’t mention the actions of senior public servants? And the commission describe the impact on that work here….
#politas
Hey you Australian sports media... I know it’s AFL finals and we just won the Ashes BUT Australia is currently dominating a REAL global sport...
#BOOMERS
- do you reckon you might cover it now?
@Patty_Mills
@thats_Z_Truth
Here’s a thing about
@Patty_Mills
... we had traveled all the way from Tasmania recently to see him play. He gave us a wave and the first thing the security guy said standing next to us: we love Patty in this city, most generous, lovely guy. You Aussies should be proud of him.
Following the recent apology day this is a VERY long Twitter exchange that we wanted to share, with the aim of building capacity for the future, so that we are better able to protect kids in state care better.
#politas
I’ve had the pleasure of sitting next to five Australian PMs at dinner in my lifetime.... and the one I would choose to sit next to again and again and again was
#BobHawke
- always made the person sitting next to him was the MOST important person. Vale Hawkie. 1/2
What did I tell ya Tasmania? Three of the top ten jersey sales in the league and the ONLY sold out stadiums in the country. Basketball will be the most played and watched sport in Tasmania within five years. Sorry, It’s over.
#GameOver
@NBL
#HoopsRising
I am 100% certain if I had gone to the late and great Governor Underwood to advise him to appoint me into various portfolios secretly, he would have strongly asked me to re-consider my advice or not accepted it. Why did the GG not do this to
#scomo
??
#auspol
#politas
I always say basketball is a game of joy and misery in equal parts. But this year the mighty
@JackJumpers
have tilted that scale so ridiculously far in favour of joy, we will keep smiling until we do it all again next season.
#joy
In 2009 our Government paid $5M for new lights at Bellerive under the threat from
@CricketAus
to not give us fixtures if we didn’t. How’s that for our tender??? If they choose to give a second test match to another city now they will prove what frauds they are.
#politas
The hate you give…
A little bit of gaslighting mixed in with a little bit of hate, is what
@LouiseElliotM
calls “freedom”. But when another human expresses their “freedom” she don’t like it one bit. If she gets more than 1500 primaries I will be shocked.
#politas
I congratulate Premier Rockliff on his announcement today. If Will Hodgman hadn’t reneged on a deal he made with
@NickMcKim
and me in 2010 this would have happened long ago. It will improve our democracy and that is a good thing.
#politas
If I told you in November 2021 that the
@JackJumpers
would be 3 pt down at half time in the first game of the
@NBL
grand final series Game 1 …. You would have laughed and laughed and laughed.
#whoslaughingnow
Says it all. Coach’s daughter’s letter to
@JackJumpers
players (thanks for sharing
@brentcostelloe
) this is a magic moment, in a magic season, a season that no other team in history has achieved and probably never will again.
#OnTheMarch
A lot of deserved praise of Milton Doyle but just rewatched the last quarter and
@JackMctrey1
worthy of equal praise. He hit three really BOG shots in the last six minutes that broke
@SydneyKings
I had some terrible days in Parliament, no one could deny... but this is next level, on steroids, full blown cluster-fuck (less polite than the leader of the Greens) And now a motion to adjourn. Cluster indeed.
#politas
Are you f***ing kidding? The bloke broke his spine! You really are tragic little man Steve Price. No wonder the field of sensible people standing for parliament is narrowing - because idiots like this don't even cut you slack when you break your spine!!!
STEVE PRICE: Daniel Andrews’ disappearing act over the past 60 days smacks of the arrogance displayed throughout the Covid debacle. Victorians deserve to know where he is.
I’ve been to many, many basketball games at the DEC/MyState over the last 30 years. I have NEVER heard it that loud and lit as I did on Saturday. This semi-final
@JackJumpers
is going to explode. Get the W in Melbourne lads, win it on the home floor.
#OnTheMarch
@NBL
Peter Gutwein crossed the floor on child protection and old growth logging - would he have been kicked out of the Parliament by
#JeremyTrumps
new laws? Just wondering.
#politas
And I am certain it is no coincidence that all the troglodytes like Alan Jones come out of the woodwork when Crown and race are involved. What an embarrassment to Australia that little mini-Trump is.
Quick question to the basketball brains trust…. Has there ever been a more accomplished basketball player to set foot on Tasmania/Lutruwita?
@swish41
??
#nba
This is why you play games out all
@the
way to the end. This NBA rubbish of bouncing the ball for the last ten seconds is un-Australian. How many points did Perth squander this way this season?
The very very least the victim/survivor witnesses of the COI deserved this week, after 28 days of waiting and many many months/years before that, was a competent and capable Government with a prepared plan to put into action. What did they get?
#shitshow
.
#politas
Nice moment. Huddo and I just spotted
@theJackMcVeigh
coming out as we were going through security at airport. About five or six people started chanting MVP MVP spontaneously. The smiling assassin.
On these numbers
@MarkMcGowanMP
is going to look like the wisest leader and possibly, globally, maintain the only jurisdiction on the planet that is truly living free. Imagine what GMO-free AND Covid-free would have done for Tasmania’s brand globally.
#politas
To be clear from the outset, I’m not making my personal views about the salmon industry known in this tweet. But, the salmon industry have already lost this debate. History is repeating itself. It is over already. 1/3
#politas
Proud to be part of Gerard Henderson’s “contemporary intolerant left”.... as Keating said: you know you are doing the right thing in politics when you have the right enemies.
#politas
Never have I agreed so whole heartedly with a statement by our Premier “I have of late formed the view that Jeff will do or say anything that is in his or Hawthorn’s interests. However, I will continue to do what I think is in the state’s interest,’’ he said
#politas
Does anyone else find it weird to have one of the greatest basketballers of all time
@swish41
on the cover of the Hobart Magazine? It’s almost as if hoops has taken over!
@NBL
#OnTheRise
They punch horses don’t they? What is going on in this country? Sydney is not and has never been Australia and recent weeks prove it beyond doubt.
#morons
Sport. It seems frivolous to some but when a team like the
@JackJumpers
and players like
@JackMctrey1
come along they can help us understand what we value, what we believe in, what we hold dear. This team and that player (and all the others!) so that.
#tasmanian