The Australian Defence Force is raising eyebrows this morning, with reports it's planning to install "Gender-Neutral" toilets at its bases around the country.
#9News
For a few reasons, I stopped tuning
@DanielAndrewsMP
pressers a while ago, but listened today. He didn't give the (frankly, moronic) "EVERYONE CAN GO TO THE PUB!" message some are seemingly demanding, but he was clear, compassionate & spoke with candour. We're lucky to have him
Intriguing that Scott Morrison chose to wear a Diamonds shirt to the vaccination photo call today. People more cynical than me might suggest he's trying to project a "woman-friendly" persona. Not sure why given the last week? But like I said ... cynical.
Wonder how many of the "human rights activists" at the shrine today have been alongside those at Invasion Day, refugee rights or industrial action marches in recent years? I reckon I could take a guess.
#melbourneprotest
Please excuse a personal reflection.ย Sitting at my desk, listening to my devices explode with notifications about the Victorian Government's move to sponsor the Australian Diamonds - filling a $15m hole left by Hancock Prospecting - I'm a little emotional ... 1/2
So, the entire NSW outbreak is going to be blamed on Victoria, but the Ruby Princess that Covid patients WALKED OFF on Circular Quay.... Yeah, nah, that's all good, eh?
#COVID19Vic
#covidnsw
Urgent fucking shark summit? How about an urgent violent men summit to addres the fact a woman has been killed by a man EVERY 66 HOURS since October 3?
... This is why programs like Emily's List matter. This is why quotas matter. This is why women having a seat at the God-damn table matters. It boils down to women having a voice and them using it for the good of other women and what they care about. It really is that simple. 2/2
Play like a girl. Just adore this shot of
@JamieLeePrice5
&
@ash_braz
from the weekend. Captures so much of what is magnificent about netball; power, poise and timing. ๐ธ
@collingwoodsn
Only in Test cricket does a game come down to one athlete executing a skill they never practice against another athlete executing a skill they never practice.
#Ashes
The border was open.
People legally travelled.
The rules changed.
People did everything in their power to get home to meet new rules.
Stop being a-holes.
Understanding, it's a thing.
Try it some day.
"If these allegations are proven, Alastair Clarkson and Chris Fagan will not coach again."
The Footy Classified panel discusses the Hawthorn report allegations.
#9FootyClassified
| Watch on
@Channel9
Fascinating, isn't it, that Daisy Pearce -- and ONLY Daisy Pearce -- is the only person in the entire AFL ecosystem deemed conflicted by having multiple roles.
Guess it's just lucky everyone else with 2, 3 & 4 roles, inter-layered with personal relationships, can be trusted hey?
As an AFL WAG, world champion netballer Kim Ravaillion was this week treated as an after-thought in stories about how her move to Qld would impact Adam Treloar's career but a woman who "traps" Jesse Hogan into breaking quarantine is ALL-POWERFUL? Brain-exploding double standards.
Early in my career, an editor taught me about varying sentence length in my writing and it's a lesson that's served me well. Although I still too frequently write too-long sentences. Oops.
Can we please take a moment to appreciate just how *good* Madi Browne has been in commentary this season? No cliches, no veiled barracking, just first-class analysis.
#SSNGrandFinal
#FEVvVIX
STOP saying we don't have enough vaccine. There's rivers & rivers of AZ; a safe & efficient vaccine that is protecting MILLIONS globally. If you want to refuse it, refuse it, but don't whinge because the *brand* you (for some reason) want isn't available. It's not the same thing.
This image of the
@SuperNetball
grand final from
@Bleekster
has so many storylines. The retirees, the MVP, the elated midcourt, the heartbroken superstar in the background who couldn't have done more. Just wow.
Netball: Producing quality human since forever. Netball's greatest strength is that it's a sport built by women, for women. Men are welcome, but this game ain't like any other on the planet because women are allowed to flourish sans an inbuilt glass ceiling.
#SSNGrandFinal
Can we please not get sucked into this "vaccine hesitant" crap? It's just a rebrand of the anti-vaxx movement. You either believe the science (and have taken vaccines your entire life) or you're an anti-vaxxer. There's no grey area.
If you hate Bolt and Devine, hate Bolt and Devine. But dancing on the career graves of hardworking News Corp journos from publications, big and small, is just classless. I hope the day you lose your job, you don't have to read such vicious, baseless judgement.
#OurStoriesMatter
If every media outlet dissecting
#taylaharris
controversy this AM would JUST COVER
@aflwomens
in a meaningful way, we'd be closer to equality. I know, I'm overly ambitious.
If only men inhabit the earth, yes, this is the first time Australia has won the T20 World Cup.
If women are, in fact, real, living creatures with accomplishments worth acknowledging; it's the 6th time.
The Australian women have won it a lazy five times.
FIVE.
A reminder Julie Corletto played the second half (30 mins) of 2015 Netball World Cup final -- in one of the most demanding stop/start positions in netball, GD, against the best shooter in the world at the time -- with a broken foot ... in her last game in green & gold. ๐
If you can't imagine what Victorians (especially Melburnians) are going through - and you can't - just be kind on social media. Don't be smart arse, don't make a joke, don't reel off platitudes to a mate on text, then post a pic at the pub next. Be a bit thoughtful.
#COVID19Vic
The
@AussieDiamonds
winning Commonwealth gold in Birmingham, in front of a parochial Pommy crowd, on the same day the Roses lost the bronze medal match, is like bumping into your ex when you're on your way to an fancy event and look gorgeous. Uniquely satisfying. ๐
#B2022Netball
God bless you Daisy Pearce to be the person at 10.49pm Saturday to *mention* 12 TIME WORLD CHAMPION Australian Diamonds (who beat England in Netball World Cup final Monday). Remember that sport that doesn't enjoy male gaze & is
#1
female participation sport in Oz?
#netballchaos
Depressing to listen to a podcast out of NZ which *rightfully* points out that inside Australia you wouldn't have known world's
#1
netball side
@AussieDiamonds
had won a international series last week. Fun fact: NETBALL is
#1
female team sport for women & girls in this country.
Take a moment to think of Vixen shooter Ruby Barkmeyer. Played ZERO home & away minutes in season 2022. Inserted as a place holder in the LAST quarter of a preliminary final with her team down. Talk about trusting your pathway.
#VIXvGIA
Beth Cobden last night winning MVP in the
@NetballSL
final, after winning league MVP ... after THREE ACLs, is the kind of "startling overseas sporting news" that would make many news bulletin in Australia ... if she was a man. Cobden also played in Australia, just by the by.
@VivienneWriter
Not knowing the scale is hard, admittedly. But there is definitely a leopard. The picture shows a big space, but the animal isn't a dot/tiny.
A reminder, Gretel Bueta had a baby in Jan 2021. She has her son (and husband I believe) on tour with her. All women are warriors, but those who reach the top of their sport after giving birth are on another plane.
#QuadSeries
#NetballQuadSeries2022
#GoDiamonds
Ryan Gosling getting an Oscar nomination for playing Ken in Barbie, while director Greta Gerwig AND lead Margot Robbie miss out ... is everything you need to know about the patriarchy. If you can't see it, I can't help you.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg tells
@Raf_Epstein
sole traders with NO employees DO qualify for $1500 JobKeeper - with no partner income test.
#coronavirusaustralia
To the woman in front of me at Aldi complaining about this "panic buying madness" ... You have 14 packets of mince and 7 dozen eggs. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM, KAREN.
When your childhood hero drops in + makes you cry. ๐ญ
Australian netball ๐
@SharelleMcMahon
met the girls + the emotions got the better of our co-captain.
Thanks for visiting + for your inspiring words, Sharelle!
I have a good friend who lives in Qld and she can't understand why I don't want to move there. This picture from Mooloolaba, showing a gargantuan carpet python eating a POSSUM is reason enough. JFC. Pic: Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers FB
"Under the deal, which will run until June 2027, the Diamonds will adopt Victorian branding for games & players & coaches will front tourism campaigns."
Netball Australia lands $15m deal with Visit Victoria after Hancock Prospecting pulls sponsorship
I don't often struggle for words. But today I do. That netball's governing body
@NetballAust
would choose 2020 - of all years - to introduce a rule it KNOWS is roundly despised by fans - is unfathomable to me. You know fans? The ones who pay. Them. I am sitting here with tears.
A reminder the Commonwealth Games gold medallists Liz Watson, Gretel Bueta, Ash Brazill, Steph Wood, Sunday Aryang, Ash Brazill and Cara Koenen aren't even IN this team. And Jo Weston is on the bench.
#AusvEng
Kate Moloney is the reliable friend who always says yes when you ask a favour, who'll move around her plans to babysit your kids, who remembers which gin you like and brings it over when you've had a bad week. Everyone needs a Kate. Seamless injection here.
#ConstellationCup
It's the spelling for me ... ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐ฅด
Impressive work by Australia Post given both names are wrong, there's no street address and the postcode is wrong.
So much (rightly) is being made of Eddie Betts hanging around after the game in Alice Springs, signing autographs etc... But I can't help thinking EVERY
@SuperNetball
player from EVERY club, does this EVERY week.
Every Victorian sports fan needs to watch this. These girls are doing it to for you. NB Simone McKinnis is NOT a crier. For her to show the kind of emotion she does in this package tells you everything you need to know.
#doingitforVIC
"Male athletes benefit from over a century of accumulated social, political & financial capital. To suggest women's sports are getting a disproportionate 'leg up' is to ignore the extraordinary advantages afforded to male athletes."
And just like that, she's back.
@AussieDiamonds
&
@FirebirdsQld
contracted player Gretel Bueta (nee Tippett) has re-joined club training after the birth of her son. It's almost like having a baby doesn't have to end your career if your industry values & caters to women!?
#netball
Caller on
@abcmelbourne
"Just because we own a second house, doesn't mean we're flush with cash." Ahh ... Reckon ya got access to a little more than someone who doesn't own one, eh? The first-world problems some struggle with make me weep some days.
Between Noeline Taurua doing a live cross from her car on the school run w Jenny-May Clarkson on
@Breakfaston1
to
@AussieDiamonds
&
@FirebirdsQld
player Gretel Bueta doing a presser with her new bub on her 1st day back, it's been a good "amazing sportswomen doing their thang" day
42yo former Diamond Mo'onia Gerrard, her 23yo niece Kelea Iongi, Firebird Hulita Veve, the icon that is Cat Tuivaiti, VNL star Uneeq Palavi ... How can you not love the Tonga Tala.
A reminder of a great thing Cate Blanchett once said about women & personal style. "Itโs about women who feel free to wear what they want when they want and how they want to wear it. We all like looking sexy, but it doesnโt mean we want to f*ck you."
Remember the first time you saw netballers in green and gold on telly and felt proud and seen as a girl who loved the sport? There's a few boys around Australia having that moment right now ...
As you watch the best resourced netball team in the world demolish one of the least, this piece about the "illusion of fairness" is worth a read.
#B2022Netball