What happened to COVID-19 vaccine sceptical groups after life went back to normal?
An investigation by
@arielbogle
and I reveals how one group raised tens of millions of dollars to buy farms up Australia's east coast & how their grand plans soon soured.
The Daily Mail Australia has asked me to comment on whether my tweets "reflect poorly on Crikey".
Here's my response. Do you think they'll publish it?
(The investigation: )
you gotta wonder at what point young Australians really start to crack: an obscene housing market, a tax system geared towards the old and the rich, higher levels of education debt, lethargic climate action, and, increasingly, less support for the vulnerable.
Richmond’s supervised injecting room has wiped almost $60,000 off the value of houses within walking distance but has not hit prices in the wider suburb, a study shows.
surprised I have to post this in Australia but maybe people shouldn’t be shouldered with a constantly growing HECS debt that they can’t pay off even while working because they didn’t automatically make the most economically rational decision at 18 👍
5 years today since the Christchurch shooting, the biggest mass shooting by an Australian.
Whether it happened overseas or because we're unwilling to interrogate how our culture created someone capable of this, Australia rarely acknowledges the massacre. But it is our shame.
Last year, the Daily Mail published a conspiratorial article about electric vehicles that was eerily similar to tweets from a white nationalist account.
Here's my investigation into the Australian reporter behind a racist, anti-semitic Twitter persona.
i'm sorry, i must have misheard you, i could have sworn you said "elon musk was being a dick about disability of an employee who was just voted Iceland's person of the year last year and then fired him, triggering a clause in the worker's contract that gives an ENORMOUS payout"
The Queensland Government made an AI-powered "Virtual Veteran" chatbot for ANZAC Day who pretends to be a 19 year old WW1 vet called Charlie
And, predictably, people are jailbreaking through its guardrails to make it say things that are not in character.
incredible scenes on r/Sydney:
OP shares texts showing landlord evicting tenant for having friends staying over at their place.
top reply is suggesting that OP report the landlord to ATO so she loses capital gains tax-free status & pays tax on the granny flat
SMH/Age executive editor Tory Maguire has posted a message in their Slack on behalf of the papers' leadership saying that staff who signed a letter about Australia's Israel-Palestine media coverage will be "unable to participate in any reporting or production related to the war"
We lost Rambo yesterday. When we first got him, the vet told us he’d be lucky to live to 1. But, like his namesake, he refused to give up and made it to 8. He was loving, weird and a fighter. I’m going to miss him a lot.
Videos show an anti-LGBTQIA+ protest going through Newtown tonight during Sydney’s World Pride. It was a large group of mostly men chanting/praying.
It appears the protest was organised out of an online group Christian Lives Matter.
just heard about scott morrison's application for a PwC job being rejected. he should have to do at least another 19 applications this week if he wants to get paid
random but apparently Pink is incredibly popular amongst Australian moms to the point where every Pink tour has a few months blocked out for an Australian leg where she plays like 5 nights of sold out shows in every city
“In a debate where both sides accuse the other of extremism, it’s the media’s duty to be an honest broker, treat both sides with respect, and not be scared into silence.”
#MediaWatch
Elon Musk said dealing with child exploitation on Twitter was his 'priority
#1
'
But Australia's eSafety Commissioner said that he fired all the local staff here dealing with it, making it harder to respond to.
In a breaking news environment like
#BondiJunction
, be wary of claims or speculation from unreliable sources. There's already posts going around speculating on a motive based on nothing — probs hold off until we know more
it's funny how every time you read a spirited defence of working from work instead of WFH, it's always from a senior, well remunerated staff member, typically one with perks like their own office or parking spots
imagine being such a piece of shit that a judge finds that a unproven claim of domestic violence during an affair couldn’t hurt your reputation any further
incredible post from Jordan Peterson this morning. a case study into what happens if you give unfiltered interenet access to an egomaniac who suffered severe brain damage from benzo withdrawals
pretty disappointing to see Karl Stefanovic say on air that's he's not going to get any more COVID-19 boosters because he's already had COVID-19 a few times and bring up potential side effects.
ABC news director Justin Stevens just sent out an email about the letter:
“You should not sign any petition that may bring into question your impartiality or that of the ABC’s coverage. Signing this petition may bring into question your ability to cover the story impartially.”
SMH/Age executive editor Tory Maguire has posted a message in their Slack on behalf of the papers' leadership saying that staff who signed a letter about Australia's Israel-Palestine media coverage will be "unable to participate in any reporting or production related to the war"
Ben Roberts-Smith backer Kerry Stokes’ news publications after the verdict:
7NEWS: headline that doesn’t mention the findings
The West: no mention on front page
NEW: The "outback nurse" who appeared on Sky News, Nine, 2GB to talk about the Alice Springs crime crisis despite living in Darwin has pled guilty to making a false declaration and for using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence.
hi
@davo_wu
you didn't seek comment from me for balance as per the Press Council principles.
Please include: "Even OceanGate's sub couldn't sink to the depths of Sky News. I thought you would defend free speech but looks like you've gone woke."
the worst account on the internet is the guy on Instagram who non-ironically makes horny videos about making food. Single-handedly turned me into a puritan. Have you no shame sir
NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke confirms that that Bondi Junction perpetrator was not "Benjamin Cohen", a name that's been widely circulated on social media.
Be careful of unverified claims as people try to push their own agendas
#BondiJunction
I’ve seen enough. I’m calling on the Australia Father’s Day Council to revoke Ben Roberts-Smith’s 2013 Father of the Year award, lest it sully the award’s good name
elon musk deciding to make twitter blue subscribers indistinguishable from actual verified users again, six months after trying to make them distinguishable because fake verification tanked the company's advertising revenue
While misinfo appeared on other platforms, Twitter seemed to be the engine room of many
#BondiJunction
false claims and rumours. Twitter Blue users were among the loudest voices driving those narratives, which both boosted their claims and allowed them to earn money from them.
this gives away the game, hey? if they're worried about trans women having a "biological advantage" in sport, what's their advantage in a beauty pageant?
Miss 4 was absolutely distraught when Sam Kerr's injury was announced just before the game. She told me through tears "Father, my 4 way-multi is sunk before the match even started".
I expect better from a role model for a future degenerate gambler. Shame on the Matildas
After 21 years co-hosting Australia’s number one breakfast show, David Koch has announced he is stepping down.
@kochie_online
#kochie
#sunriseon7
📌 MORE:
giving a reporter unfettered access to you for a whole year
so they can cover how brilliant and innovative and brave you are as you lead a media company into the 21st century
only to get canned 3 days after they publish a long read about how much you suck is
very
funny
Services Australia is using an Israeli company's password cracking software and accessing metadata (retained for serious crime and national security reasons, remember?) to investigate welfare recipients suspected of being in undisclosed relationships
banger from
@topbloke148
This investigation by
@topbloke148
on
@iTnews_au
is really something: how Centrelink uses telco metadata and Cellebrite to determine relationship status.
@willsommer
some of us have been ringing the alarm bells about the US losing its place as a dick sucking superpower for a while but y’all weren’t ready to hear that
there's something deeply rotten in Australia. Time and time again, we punish the people who dare to rock the boat and speak out. Even if there is eventually justice against wrongdoers, it often comes at a great cost to the people who saw it through
Last month,
@crikey_news
reported on a Daily Mail reporter who secretly ran a racist, antisemitic Twitter account.
Turns out he still works there. He was even promoted to editor after a staff member complained to HR about his racist tweets in 2017.
7NEWS can exclusively reveal the biggest change to the dole in years, with older jobseekers to receive higher welfare payments than their younger counterparts.
#7NEWS
saw the most Sydney scene ever last week: house auction, everyone under 40 immediately priced out by a man and a woman, both sucking on vapes, in a bidding war against each other
my dream bf:
- tall
- fit
- tattoos
- 300-500k salary
- disciplined
- traveller
- ambitious but doesn’t mind taking people under his wing
- famous, well connected
- good with his hands
- likes a drink
- found to be, on the balance of probabilities, a war cri—
saw that Mumford & Sons is headlining Splendour and went to check whether the guy who left the band after people ratioed him for tweeting support for Andy Ngo had rejoined. He hasn't, but he is all about this stuff now
NEW: Australia's far-right — including neo-Nazis — have enthusiastically returned to Twitter under Elon Musk.
In many cases, Twitter is directly profiting from their return as they buy Twitter Blue to boost their profile to hijack political debate.
disturbing to see any neo-Nazis, also worth pointing out that they're few and only appearing here when they can do a stunt behind the protection of police.
“Vaccinated Aussie dies” she actually died from something she wasn’t vaccinated for. More irresponsible clickbaiting from a deeply unserious news organisation.
sorry to tweet about it again but celebs automatically given Twitter blue only to tweet in disgust is the funniest outcome considering the whole appeal of selling blue ticks was to monetize weirdos wanting to seem like they're someone
If solving the rental crisis just requires a cap on rents that the Greens claim wouldn’t reduce supply, why don’t we do the same for petrol, milk, bread, everything really?
i was going to tweet about albo visiting terf island to pick up some tips but thought maybe i was being a bit mean
anyway here's him doing the "adult female" transphobe dogwhistle with piers
Spectator Australia is a home for conservative figures like Tony Abbott and Alan Jones to write about current affairs.
My investigation shows it has also published far-right white supremacists who are using it to mainstream and normalise extreme beliefs.
It’s funny that a lot of the national security reporting of the Discord leak story has been focused on the Discord platform and, like, not the problem of recruiting 21 year old edge lords as employees handling classified materials
re: raising welfare for 55yrs + policy -- shades of abbott's waiting period for the dole for young australians, an unpopular policy which never passed iirc
scoop: After Queensland Police referred 'Gender Queer: A Memoir' to the Classification Board after a complaint from right-wing activist Bernard Gaynor,
the Board has rejected calls to ban it by giving the LGBTQIA+ book an unrestricted classifiaction.
NEW: A federal politician is charging taxpayers thousands of dollars a week for a secretive right-wing firm with close ties to the No campaign to write social media posts, emails and run campaigns for him
i like when people are like "well the left hates me and the right hates me, so i guess i'm doing something right" idk maybe everyone hates you because you're a dipshit