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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

When did Andrew Bolt write one (1) story that expressed a love of Melbourne? Of its history, traditions, great characters? Bolt was a virus in its veins. His job was to make it feverish, ill-tempered, tearing at itself. What he served was the Murdoch business model.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

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i love melbourne. i love the way, when a big thing happens in sport, the whole place lifts. I love that it has a heart and a head and, as a writer, you can speak to both. and i love that it doesn't do what the herald sun tells it

Rory Flanagan

@Rory_Flanagan

2 years

Fuck I love you Melbourne 🇦🇺 Up the Socceroos

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

9 months

Patrick Dodson’s older sister saw their mother chained to a tree back in the old mission days. Has he ever spoken of “maintaining the rage”? Compare his civility with Howard’s, his stature as a leader & statesman. One man is so much greater.

Robyn

@robynbryant33

9 months

What on earth does John Howard mean with “maintain the rage”? Is it rage against giving First Nations people a voice? Good God.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

Can anyone explain how Scott Morrison has a 66% approval rating?

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

3 years

If American democracy fails, it will fail soon enough here. One of the primary agents of chaos in the US has been Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News. The same forces are in Australia

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

2 years

my father lived to be nearly 100. he survived a war crime (the Burma Railway) and, while still a prisoner of war, was between Nagasaki and Hiroshima when the atomic bombs went off. not long before he died i asked him in the end what really matters. Kindness, he said

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

2 years

No disrespect to you @hughriminton but a lot of people’s frustration with journalism is that they could see Morrison had nothing to offer but journalists are only saying it now - after the election

Hugh Riminton

@hughriminton

2 years

The key to understanding Morrison's devastating election loss was hiding in plain sight, good piece from the ABC’s ⁦ @BWorthington_ ⁩

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

Craig Foster's stand on behalf of Hakeem al-Arabi is big in ways we might not yet have imagined. When was the last time an Australian public figure made you feel this proud?

SBS News

@SBSNews

5 years

Australian refugee Hakeem al-Araibi could be heard pleading for help as he arrived in shackles at a Thai court today.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

9 months

Big mistake, Jacinta. Schoolyard level insult. Patrick Dodson said a few weeks ago this campaign would be won by our poets and artists. Paul Kelly, Jimmy Barnes, Johnny Farnham….feel the momentum is starting to swing…

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@JNampijinpa

9 months

Paul Kelly’s first ever song that lacks soul and creativity. Wonder how much was he paid to sing the PM Albanese’s talking points?

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

The tweet of Tim Smith's I remember called Daniel Andrews "Lurch" (i.e. mocked his physical appearance) & ended with, "Who'd want to got for a drink with him?" , & I thought, "I've met you before. Year 8. The class bully.".

ABC News

@abcnews

4 years

He's called Daniel Andrews a liar and a loser – and Tim Smith has no plans of backing down

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

Catherine Andrews has the right to block anyone she wishes. She's not in the stocks. Actually, I would advise her to do it. Desiderata: "Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit".

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

2 months

Look at her face. The joy, the spirit of giving. Zomi Frankcom was the best of us.

Quds News Network

@QudsNen

2 months

The last footage captured by two of aid workers affiliated with The World Central Kitchen, diligently preparing meals for displaced Palestinians in Gaza. Tragically, these two volunteers were among those killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their convoy in Deir al-Balah…

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

10 months

One day they’ll make a movie about the Diamonds and how they stood by their Indigenous teammate

David Marler

@Qldaah

10 months

There were multiple meltdowns across Sky News last year when Gina Rinehart's sponsorship was not taken up by Australia's netball team. Paul Murray ranted about wokeness, dark days, going broke & general doom for all the kids. The Diamonds have just won the World Cup.🤾‍♀️

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

3 years

look at the people who claim to be our leaders (Morrison, Barnaby Joyce), look at Neale Daniher...if respect is the hard currency in life, ND is a very wealthy man

Melbourne Demons

@melbournefc

3 years

A standing ovation for the great Neale Daniher. ❤️

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

The daily lie of the Herald Sun is that it represents Victoria and Victorians. It represents an ageing billionaire who traded his Australian passport for an American one to make more money. This is an important story: how Liverpool got rid of Murdoch

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

3 years

The Battle of Melbourne was fought between Melbourne & the Murdoch forces. Melbourne won! What a great city you are!

The Australian

@australian

3 years

THE AUSTRALIAN'S AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR: The Victorian people who endured an extended Covid lockdown and the nation’s contact tracing teams are this newspaper’s Australians of the Year.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

3 years

Michael Long transforms AFL & impacts OZ society for the better. He gets bottom gong. Peta Credlin creates chaos in gov't, is pulled down not by her opponents but her own side & now pontificates on an area where she demonstrably failed. She gets top gong. Good luck, Australia!

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

Alexander Downer of whom Paul Keating asked the timeless question: was a more conceited piece of fairy floss ever put on a stick?

Alexander Downer

@AlexanderDowner

5 years

@FatherBob You’re a priest or is that a false name? The latter I assume.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 months

Each day we read volumes of stories in the mainstream which insist we take the likes of Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison seriously, & that John Howard & Rupert Murdoch are great men. They don’t come near Pat Dodson

david rowe

@roweafr

6 months

Pat Dodson..senator @FinancialReview

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

9 years

What makes you feel more Australian - this flag or Sir Prince Phillip? http://t.co/4kr7B0uXPP

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

11 months

i wish to endorse kerry o'brien's use of the word "contempt"...

Never vote LNP... NEVER.

@LNPvoterfail

11 months

#auspol #VoteYesAustralia #VoteYes

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

When did Andrew Bolt ever write anything that showed he loved Australia? When did he write with affection & respect about a great Australian painting, book, sportsperson, historical figure, a great Australian place or personality. Imposter.

Ben Eltham

@beneltham

6 years

And if you want to know where the racism starts? It starts with people like Andrew Bolt, a highly paid columnist found by the federal court to be a racial villifier

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

8 years

. @Luke__Beveridge giving his medal to @BobMurphy02 was the final piece in one of the most beautiful jigsaw puzzles I have ever seen #AFLGF

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

7 months

If you’re feeling downhearted about the Voice, listen to this message to the YES people from elder Pat Anderson. It’s bloody magnificent.

ulurustatement

@ulurustatement

7 months

To the five and a half million Australians who opened their hearts to walk with us, we say thank you. We see you, we hear you and we read your messages of support which keep us on an unwavering path towards justice and peace. It's not over. We’re not going to live in silence.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

Last year, Bill Shorten contacted me to talk about Tasmanian football, a subject upon which, imho, many simplistic views are expressed. Within 24 hours, he had a good overview of the subject AND had spoken to people at the grassroots. Scomo's more an AFLX kind of guy.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

8 months

Grandmothers for YES. Launceston, Tasmania, tonight 5pm

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

3 years

The meaning of sport….

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

3 years

Imagine if a report found the Morrison government guilty of systemic racism. Know what would happen? Nothing.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

8 months

Notwithstanding that he is seriously ill, Patrick Dodson will address the National Press Club tomorrow (Wednesday) at 12:30 EST . Who has walked further to make our nation whole? Tune in & hear some Australian history

Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

8 months

Grandmothers for YES. Launceston, Tasmania, tonight 5pm

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

In 2018, while grass roots footy was withering, the AFL’s 12-person executive team takes home more than $10.73 million in wages, including $3.56m in bonuses. Would love to know who got what bonuses during the period Tassie footy was being run into the ground.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

8 months

Totally with @rohan_connolly . Dan Andrews showed politicians can stand up to the Murdoch media. For that I salute him. How many In the western world have done it as well as he did?

Rohan Connolly

@rohan_connolly

8 months

People will have their own opinions on policy, but I respected Dan Andrews as Premier simply for refusing to kowtow to the demands of media outfits & individuals who had an obsessive bordering on pathological need to "get him". They couldn't. They didn't.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

2 years

Yet another AFL initiative that was never asked for by the fans but imposed by a witless bureaucracy that wants to Americanise our great Australian game

peter ryan

@petryan

2 years

I've been coming to the footy my whole life. The MCG does not need to play ACDC 'you shook me all night long' after a goal in A PRELIMINARY FINAL It's a first world problem but I'm in the outer & it is horrendous in every way possible. #aflcatslons

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

2 months

Why has no media organisation pursued this question? It’s the elephant in the Lehrmann room

Kathy Crawford

@crakeka1

2 months

Would someone please explain how 23 year old #Lehrmann with apparently no relevant qualifications got to be a senior advisor in the LNP Federal Govt? And why no expense has been spared by whom to support and protect him?

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

9 months

We - the YES people- have a vision. They - the NOs - don’t. Sing it loud and sing it proud.

ulurustatement

@ulurustatement

9 months

OUR NEW AD IS LIVE! You’re the Voice that will make history. On 14 October, we know we all can stand together with the power to be powerful. #HistoryIsCalling , so #VoteYes . Are you in? John Farnham is. #UluruStatement #StayTrue2Uluru #YoureTheVoice #VoteYes

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

So proud of North Hobart. Foundation club of the game (1871). Forced by the AFL to change their name, lost 75% of their paying members, slid into debt, facing extinction. Two years ago, North people reclaimed their club. Just declared a profit. Go North! #lifebloodofthegame

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

Proud of my brother

Richard Flanagan: 'Our politics is a dreadful black comedy' – press club speech in full

Indigenous Australia, Anzac Day, the descent of democracy – in a National Press Club address Flanagan examines a divided Australia which he says can be free only if it faces up to its past

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

Just got rung by my mate Ali Faraj, big-hearted Australian Muslim. Works for GWS Giants. Born footy coach (heard him give a pre-match address in Arabic). Offered himself as a volunteer hostage during the Lindt café crisis. Loves this country. I'm standing with my mate.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

8 months

In 20,30,50 years time when they ask who were the Australians who mattered in our time, this bloke’s name will be near the top of the list…..

Patrick Dodson

@SenatorDodson

9 months

To the Australian people, young and old. I have lived through many of these extraordinary moments in this country. The Voice is now our moment. Vote Yes. #VoteYes23 #VoteYesAustralia

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

Cyril Rioli had creative intensity, supreme skills, courage, power. When he first appeared, he was like a psychedelic blur in the packs. He routinely saw possibilities that were only apparent to the rest of us after he had done the deed. One of my all-time favourite players!

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

I don’t know whether all of Dan Andrews’ decisions are right. I do know he has gravitas. Tim Smith is a helium balloon . News Corp is the grave of gravitas.

Katherine of Tarragon

@TarragonKath

4 years

Two Andrew Bolt headlines, just over 2 months apart.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

8 months

Launceston, Tasmania

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

8 months

Tony Abbott, the man who gave us Sir Prince Phillip, is one of the last people to listen to on what it means to be Australian

Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

9 years

What makes you feel more Australian - this flag or Sir Prince Phillip? http://t.co/4kr7B0uXPP

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

Others might make the case more elegantly but there is something to be said for Swannie's plain and direct speech

Dane Swan

@swandane

6 years

Fuck knows why the afl wanna change the rules. Fair game going on at the G at the minute. And shit sides will still be shit no matter what the rules are.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

In a @westernbulldogs team which has a place in the mythology of the game, Liam Picken was one of the great characters, the silent man who made the MCG reverberate and shake to the sound of his name on grand final day 2016.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

I know Muslims and Australians of Asian and other origins who really love this country. The only honest thing Andrew Bolt ever wrote was about how he took out a Dutch passport as a young man because he didn’t relate to Australia. He didn’t then and he doesn’t know. Fraud.

Ben Eltham

@beneltham

6 years

And if you want to know where the racism starts? It starts with people like Andrew Bolt, a highly paid columnist found by the federal court to be a racial villifier

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

7 months

"What distinguishes Tony Abbott as a politician is he can, with perfect sincerity, say one thing and then, a few months or a year afterwards, with equal sincerity, say or do the opposite. In this way he approaches the classical definition of a fool". Footyology 16.10.2023

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

Andrew Bolt is a virus in the Australian body politic that makes us sick. When has he ever written a column celebrating Australian culture or Australian football? He trades in fear & resentment, splitting us apart. Meanwhile the rich get richer & the rest struggle ever more.

Cheryl Critchley

@CherylCritchley

5 years

The Final Quarter underlines the toxicity of attention-seeking columnists whose stock in trade is dog whistling and enabling the worst in people. #AdamGoodes

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

Please read this and pass it on. What has happened to this woman is an outrage.

Kylie 💉💉

@qwadja

4 years

I’m in a pretty dark place at the moment....so I wrote an open letter to my mate Angus Taylor.... @Barnaby_Joyce even got a mention...

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

Brave & selfless....

Natarjsha Kramer

@NatarjshaKramer

4 years

These South Australian nurses are on their way to Victoria. They’ve volunteered to help our neighbouring state fight the concerning COVID-19 crisis. @9NewsAdel

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

On this day, January 26, I want to thank all the Aboriginal and islander people I've met along the way who have made me feel more wholly part of this amazing land. The spiritual depth I've encountered has been truly humbling.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

2 years

This is leadership, ladies and gentlemen. I can only add to the applause

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@1116sen

2 years

EXTENDED CHAT | Daisy Pearce voices her support for the AFLW's decision to not hold a minute's silence for the Queen during Indigenous Round. @WhateleySEN | #AFL

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

The AFL, who appear intent on meddling with our 150-yr-old game, are the same people who would have us believe AFLX is a serious sport. Beware!

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@1116sen

6 years

The AFL are intent on introducing starting positions, but we think they should listen to the fans. | | #AFL

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

3 years

To the bloke who tweeted "If Gary Rohan were to portray a soldier in a war film, he would be the bloke in the bottom of the trench pissing his pants crying with his hands over his ears" I ask - which role would you have in yr war film? Let me guess, the hero.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

I’ve met cement mixers with more self awareness than Peta Credlin possesses.

Sky News Australia

@SkyNewsAust

4 years

Sky News host Peta Credlin says the only explanation for @DanielAndrewsMP ’s positive Newspoll numbers is “Stockholm syndrome”.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

Bolt, the ultimate fraud, applied for a Dutch passport as a young man because he didn't connect to Australia, then got to the centre of this culture by expressing his fears & resentments & stoking the same in others. Shame on all the News Corp execs and editors who enabled him!

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

3 months

Australia where the bloody hell are you?

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

3 months

Sweden, Canada, and the European Union have now all resumed funding for UNRWA, refusing to pursue Israel’s vendetta against Palestinian refugees at the expense of starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza, but not Biden.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

The Bulldogs' Dale Morris is like those things in life you don't get, or don't see, then one day you do and are in awe. Anyone in doubt shld watch his 3rd quarter in the 2016 grand final, played with 2 cracked vertebrae in his back. A mighty, masterful footballer.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

7 months

company which claims to speak for ordinary Australians pays no tax in Australia

David Marler

@Qldaah

7 months

News Corp (News Australia Holdings) had an increase in declared profits from $140 million in 2020-21 to $180 million in 2021-22 but has paid no tax again this year. #auspol

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

Great sport is a pure language of its own. Sport that finds itself an arm of the entertainment industry (as the AFL is doing & tennis has done) has too much talk going on before it, after it, in between it. Most of it is utterly banal & devalues the spectacle.

BLUEY TICK

@phillio1802

5 years

John McEnroe: "I'm the most awkward post-match interviewer at the #AusOpen " Tony Jones: "Hold my beer"

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

There is a corner of the MCG that is forever Shane Biggs.....

Western Bulldogs

@westernbulldogs

6 years

Never forget 🙏 #RealStrength

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

Did a function for the Dees in 2018. The sound of joy when Nathan Jones was re-united with Liam Jurrah, Aaron Davey and Ossie Wonnaeamirri was like a clap of thunder. Never forget the Dees, with Jones as captain, stood with Adam Goodes. .

Melbourne Demons

@melbournefc

4 years

A special touch from Jonesy. 🖤💛❤️

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

One day Patrick Dodson will have a stature in Australian history that dwarfs some of the Prime Ministers of his time.

Pat Dodson says mass murders like Christchurch don’t just happen – just ask Indigenous Australians

Labor senator addresses censure motion against Fraser Anning, saying Indigenous people know the impacts of murderous prejudice

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

3/3 That's what we're going with and if anyone rings you & tells you you’re politically correct you tell them to ring me and I’ll tell ‘em to get fucked.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

To the people of New Zealand, for what it’s worth, I’m a Tasmanian who holds you in the highest regard as a small but mighty nation. Your Prime Minister said to the terrorists, “You are not one of us”. So proud of her and you as a people.

Po Atarau

Po atarauE moea iho neiE haere anaKoe ki pamamaoHaere raKa hoki mai anoKi i te tauE tangi atu neiNow is the hourFor me to say goodbyeSoon you'll be sailingFa...

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

Not least among Mason Cox's many fine attributes is the fact that he can't stand Donald Trump

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

3 months

Great question worthy of a front page headline in the national press…

Stephen Mayne

@MayneReport

3 months

How can 3 families - Rinehart, Forrest and Palmer - be worth almost $150b together when these riches have come from a state-owned iron ore resource and the state in question, WA, still has a circa $30b debt because it only charges a royalty of 7.5%?

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

11 months

This is so-o-o true. In time - 5 or 10 years - the Uluru Statement from the Heart will be seen as dignified & respectful. The NO case will be seen as manipulative mayhem.

Tony Windsor

@TonyHWindsor

11 months

Those who think Victoria pulling out of the Commonwealth Games will cause Australia “reputational damage” internationally should consider what would occur if a No vote gets up on the Voice.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

7 months

the continuing silence of the american, british and australian governments in relation to what is happening in gaza is deeply disturbing

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

Without the ABC, we're a dumber nation. Its attackers - the Murdoch press, representing a man who gave away his Oz citizenship, and the IPA, which won't reveal its financial backers. Self interest plus political ideologues versus the public interest. Stand up, Australia!

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

Disappointed to find more Australians don't know about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman (at 29) ever elected to the American Congress. She, as much as Trump, is a phenomenon of our time only she's leading the fightback.

Scott Dworkin

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5 years

. @AOC just got Cohen to admit Trump was involved with some kind of insurance fraud, tax fraud regarding his golf courses and public funding, and got Cohen to agree that Congress should review Trump’s tax returns and financial records. This is why the GOP’s truly terrified of her.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

3 years

Love these blokes

Sikh Volunteers Australia

@AustraliaSikh

3 years

Freshly cooked meals are ready for Home Delivery to support people effected with circuit breaker Lockdown.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

I've been following VFL/AFL since 1966. Eddie Betts is one of my all-time favourite players.

7AFL

@7AFL

5 years

We are not worthy 🙌 (via @AFL )

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 months

This kills the likes of Bolt and Credlin. Their fiction is that they have broad popular support for their views. Pat Cummins actually does.

First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria

@firstpeoplesvic

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Australian test cricket captain Pat Cummins has called for a more appropriate date for Australia Day 🖤💛❤️ Thanks for being a good ally Cummo

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@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

John Cain once told me all political careers end in failure. I dare to disagree. Some people, like your good self, endure even after death as models of civic virtue.

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@Martin_Flanagan

1 year

Says the man who sidelined Patrick Dodson in the 1990s to derail the reconciliation movement…

The Australian

@australian

1 year

Exclusive: The former Prime Minister made it clear he believes the Opposition Leader has not betrayed the country or the Liberal Party:

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

2 years

Hip Hip Hooray!

PRGuy

@PRGuy17

2 years

SKY CLEAR: Qantas has dumped Sky News from its lounges and will instead feature ABC News bulletins. The move follows years of decline into hysterical propaganda by Sky. Meanwhile, ABC News Breakfast has dumped its 'Front Pages' segment which showcased Murdoch tabloids. #auspol

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@Martin_Flanagan

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Dear Sam, In Sudan in 1980, I got really sick. At a water pump surrounded by a mob of people in the desert, a young man in a jellaba saw I was struggling & took the soap from my hands & washed my hair. It was the most Christian experience of my life and he was a Muslim.

Herald Sun

@theheraldsun

6 years

"There are 600,000 Muslims in Australia, they share no common interest with what we’re on about." Sam Newman lashes Muslim community, "divisive" AFL in podcast rant:

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

2 years

The daily lie of the Herald Sun is that it represents the people of Victoria. It represents an oligarch who traded his Australian passport to make more money, who has damaged democracy in three countries, who provides Tucker Carlson with a platform from which he supports Putin

Luke Hilakari

@lhilakari

2 years

It’s all about balance, that’s what I like about the Herald Sun.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

2 years

Perhaps the Nobel Prize for Literature should go this year to the bookshop owner in Kyiv who stays open while the city remains under threat of murderous assault from Putin’s forces

Yaroslava Antipina

@strategywoman

2 years

4:20 pm in #Kyiv On my way home. And yes, I found open bookshop. I almost cried. Have you ever wanted to cry by visiting bookshop? I started to enjoy simple things. I’m happy. Have you even been happy after visiting bookshop?

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

Footy is to vacuous opinions what a sheep’s arse is to flies. But this has to be some sort of record.

Footy on Nine

@FootyonNine

4 years

"When you're 17th on the ladder and a first time captain...I wonder whether it's necessary." @craighutchy asks whether Max Gawn's radical new haircut is an appropriate look for the captain of a struggling side. #9FootyClassified | Watch @channel9

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

8 months

"Blackfella/Whitefella/It doesn't matter what your colour/As long as you're a real fella....Are you the one who's going to stand up and be counted?" The Warumpi Band (1985) Vote YES Vote

Windsor Beaver

@WindsorBeaver

8 months

Today there will be nothing but Indigenous voices. Give if you can

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

2 years

Billy Picken was the daredevil kid who played the game as it should be played...everyone loved him...I was at Victoria Park when he played his first game after a spell in Sydney...when Billy ran on to the ground even the concrete roared

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

Thinking today of the Dees supporters I got to know in 2008-09 when I was embedded with the club, the ones who are totally not the cliched Melbourne fan, who were there every week during the bad times. You were as good as it gets and this is yr time!

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

I dedicated A Wink from the Universe to Pat & Jenny Hodgson, the mother & daughter I used to watch training with in '93 when I wrote my 1st book on the Dogs. Pat, fervent Bulldog to the last, has passed on at age 90. Another ghost at Whitten Oval. Honour her tonight Dogs!

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

1 year

I challenge Greg Sheridan of the Australian and (too often) the ABC to interview Christie Foster and incorporate her testimony about George Pell into his narrative

Peter Fox 🦊🦘

@Peter_Fox59

1 year

Spoke to @ChrissieFoster7 the other day & looking forward our trip to Melbourne for the launch of her book. #StillStanding

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

3 years

This entry in the #ArchibaldPrize by @TonySowersby of a local postie deserved a better fate. The Archibald inclines too much towards celebrity.

Tony Sowersby

@TonySowersby

3 years

My rejected #ArchibaldPrize entry 'Sabine Desrondaux-Woman of Letters'. The prize rules state it should be a portrait of a woman of letters etc so I did one of my friend who is a #postie . It is a tribute, to the workers who provide essential services especially in #lockdown

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

Andrew Bolt is the alienated youth who gets to the centre of the culture by expressing his fears and resentment and acting as a medium for the fears & resentment of others. That he pretends to speak for “us” is an Orwellian inversion of logic.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

At a time when the world is echoing with cries for racial justice, Tony Abbott gets an award for his services to the Indigenous community without the Indigenous community being consulted. How very colonial!

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

2 months

Do yourselves a favour….watch this

JON DEE (JonDee.com)

@JonDeeOz

2 months

This impression of Trump is really spot on 👇

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

Michael Gordon: one of the most sensitive men I've met, a journalist of integrity and clear intelligence. My first sports editor, opened doors for me. Believed in the best that journalism could be and do. Like many others, I loved him.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

7 years

My last sports column for The Age (it also relates to my last Reflection)

The power of the game, and its people, make me forget about everything else in the world

Martin Flanagan presents an ode to football in his last column for The Age.

www.theage.com.au

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

7 years

My last Saturday Reflection for The Age

'I learnt the meaning of the word brother from Tim'

Tim was the one who encouraged me to write. He kept a copy of everything I wrote.

www.theage.com.au

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

A young woman who speaks to the planet (Greta Thunberg) is rubbished by an old bloke who used to be on the Footy Show (Sam Newman) and we treat it as news, making it trend on twitter. Please read my speech on this very subject at

Martin Flanagan: 'Staying Sane, keeping your balance, in the Post-truth era', Leadership + Comple...

6 September 2019, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 1. I am a Tasmanian who has lived for the past 35 years in Victoria. What has become apparent to me over that time is this major difference between...

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Tokyo🌹Rose

@FlatEarthGang

5 years

An update of males rounding on #GretaThunberg include the crème de la crème of Australian public life. Sam Newman Alan Jones Andrew Bolt Chris Kenny Mark Latham Lyle Shelton Karl Stefanovic George Christensen & Graham Lloyd. Outstanding effort guys. #auspol #thedrum #HowDareYou

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

10 months

Bolt is a fraud. He has no feel for Australian culture. He is totally a creature of Murdoch corporate culture. Go the Diamonds! Australian heroes.

David Marler

@Qldaah

10 months

Andrew Bolt had a long rant about the Diamonds back in October predicting the end, accusing them of witch-hunting, the usual race stuff and paid homage to Gina for making it all clear.

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

5 years

My niece, Nellie Flanagan (front & centre), the first Flanagan to play for North Hobart since my dad Archie in 1936. So proud! (The team's wearing Rosie the Riveter head scarves in support of Women's Health Tasmania).

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

This, I fear, is the territory politics is now entering in Australia and the US

Rabih Alameddine

@rabihalameddine

4 years

As crimes pile up, they become invisible. --Bertolt Brecht

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

It really is time that Australians took up the fight to defend the ABC. The hypocrisy of those attacking it - the Murdoch press, the IPA - is that they pretend to speak for the Australian people when Australians overwhelmingly support the ABC.

Federal Politics

@Politics_SMHAGE

6 years

BREAKING: ABC boss Michelle Guthrie dramatically hits back at the Liberal Party, vowing the ABC will not be a "punching bag" for political and vested interests, and labelling the attacks as cynical, misplaced and ignorant #auspol @michaelkoziol

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

The one role I think Bronwyn Bishop was suited for was Mrs Slocombe in the 1970s English Comedy Are You Being Served

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

6 years

When I was growing up in Burnie, 5 boys in the local schoolboy competition went on to play VFL/AFL. Burnie has now followed Devonport in withdrawing from the Statewide league. The AFL says it has a "plan" for Tasmanian football. What, exactly, is the plan?

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Martin Flanagan

@Martin_Flanagan

4 years

What a life portrait!

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