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Respected Twitter Elder. Writer & editor. I tweet about digital media, parenting and feminism

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If all the men angry at Grace Tame could be half as mad at the levels of violence against women in this country, we might see some progress
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Imagine being accused of a serious crime, avoiding a criminal investigation, sueing the media, being given a million dollars anonymously, losing your senior position for breaching ministerial standards, keeping your $200k job and still claiming to be a victim
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Does anyone know why a State of Emergency hasn’t been declared in Northern NSW? And why residents CROWDFUNDED HELICOPTERS for rescue & food delivery?
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Lorikeets in the snow, Mount Victoria 😍 This pic from @abcsydney / Gary P Hayes photography
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What if we tried an all-female government. Just for a year while men sort themselves out.
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You can’t just shut down the entire rail network of Australia’s largest city and not explain how or why that happened with full transparency
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I’ve got an idea for an app. It’s one where you can report rape, record details and receive instant support and advice.
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Interesting that a man seeking mental health help is seen as brave, while a young woman with mental health issues is labelled as 'troubled' (and therefore unreliable)
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I regret to tell half of Twitter that Laura Tingle physically cannot present every show on the ABC
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Remember when a young man died in a ‘one punch’ attack in Sydney, our politicians rushed to change the laws? They could do the same for violence & sexual harassment towards women, but they don’t want to.
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Not smiling? Men should be relieved we’re not setting things on fire
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Accidentally sent home 163 permission notes, accidentally ordered a bus, accidentally admitted 160 healthy, wealthy 16 year olds to a health facility and accidentally administered a vaccine …
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I wonder if poor public high schools with high Indigenous student numbers were offered vaccines?
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Shocked at how Alan Joyce is letting the Qantas brand be completely destroyed through terrible customer experience. All due to poor worker conditions.
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What is the venn diagram between people accusing Sam Kerr of 'reverse racism' and people who say Adam Goodes was only booed because of his style of play
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Imagine in any other workplace that a boss was given a dossier containing allegations of sexual assault against a senior employee, in the wake of other alleged sexual assualts at their workplace, and declined to read it. They would be sacked by the board.
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We need to get over the idea that high income earners got there by working harder than other people. You don't think nurses, childcare workers, tradespeople etc don't work hard?
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Sure sex is great, but have you ever watched mediocre Australian journalists being absolutely put in their place by a devastatingly intelligent & erudite Italian lawyer?
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If your baby cries at an event or restaurant it is polite to simply leave the venue and settle baby before returning. Why is there so much insane discourse around this? Yes it means you might miss things. That is part of having a small child unfortunately. I’ve had two 🤷🏼‍♀️
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As a friend said, one guy dies from a punch in Kings Cross and Sydney nightlife gets shut down permanently. Women are killed by their partners or exes every week and we just get thoughts and prayers from politicians
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The thing is with the lottery fish kid, he did a bad thing when he was younger and his boss at the time took the right approach - spoke to the family, worked out a way the kids could pay back the cost of repairs with some extra free shifts. They didn’t involve the cops 1/2
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LinkedIn: Here is my job Instagram: Here is my holiday Facebook: Here is my family Twitter: Here is my mental health condition
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Parents of kids with disabilities don’t want Morrison’s misplaced pity and we don’t care about Jenny and the girls. We just want our kids to get the best help possible to help them live their best lives, and to be able to participate fully in society
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THREAD: 1. The new narrative being pushed by Australian conservatives is that women are whingers with no solutions and the Govt is an innocent authority who just doesn't know what to do. This is patently false and I wonder if @vanOnselenP and co actually spoke to any activists.
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A lot of Dan Andrews' appeal is that he is an excellent communicator. Conveys empathy, togtherness. Scott Morrison is hectoring, monotone and borderline hostile.
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Hope me and my partner’s texts don’t get recalled by ICAC. It would be so humiliating
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Oh my god fans are leaving packs of smokes, meat pies and tinnies outside the MCG for Warnie (pic from @smh )
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Dear students: Every time you make a claim in an essay, it needs a citation. Every time. Signed, your tired marker.
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I tell this story every year before International Women's Day but one year I worked at Fairfax and we were invited to bake our own cupcakes for #IWD I felt so empowered!
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Please know that, before you engage with any people from Sydney today - we are all on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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SPOILER ALERT HE HAS A STAY AT HOME WIFE
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Sad indictment on our country that something this racist was allowed to be published. I can’t imagine someone complaining about ‘coloured people on media in the TV’ in the US or UK for example without riots. @StevePriceMedia is a disgrace
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You don't have to agree with Clementine Ford that marriage is a bad idea; but if you insult her looks, claim no man wants her, call her names etc, well, you're only proving her point that women should stay away from you. Learn how to debate ideas, gronks.
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Imagine paying $44 billion to be roasted in public by your ex wife every single day. You don’t get that on Instagram.
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I’ve lived in Australia most of my life and don’t recall a time when Australia Day meant buying and wearing lots of flag merchandise. It’s just not our culture. And it only became a consistent national holiday in 1994.
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One of the best things about women’s sport is the crowd atmosphere, because people who don’t like women’s sport aren’t there.
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I realise Scott Morrison is busy building cubby houses and cooking curry today, but does he have any words for NSW or the NT? Or a vaccination message for the nation?
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A raw and enlightening post from Jelena Dokic on Instagram today. People are worth much more than their weight ❤️
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People do realise that Visit Victoria would already have a marketing and promotion budget, right? Money isn’t being ripped off ambos and public schools. State tourism boards usually advertise heavily on TV, in cinemas and online
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2/2 … or try to ruin the kid’s life forever. It was dealt with. And then Sky News tries to go treat the boy like he’s been charged with serious crimes and never seen justice. We need to give lost kids a way to get back on track.
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How many households with working parents + kids have this set-up: Man of the house has own office with closed door, woman is working in shared space where she is interrupted umpteen times a day by children?
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Imagine being so obsessed with made-up culture wars you think that Grandfriends Day is part of a woke trans agenda and not just a nice way to include kids in school events who don’t have grandparents to invite
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Feeling for that poor desperate new mother who couldn’t keep her baby but saw a big house with a yard full of toys and a clothesline with children’s clothes and thought perhaps it would be a safe place to leave them. I hope she gets some help.
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Giving Pfizer and not AZ to Scott Morrison was a terrible PR move
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This revolting reporting over the Brittany Higgins case has caused some people to believe that she went to Labor before she went to the Police. WRONG! The police were notified within days, in 2019. Labor and the media were notified in 2021. That’s 2 years later.
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I’ve been told my tweet on school uniforms is going to appear in the Daily Mail. (I declined an interview). Waiting for the headline: ‘Angry Sydney mum BLASTS public school over cost of school uniform while FLAUNTING her curves in the latest cult dress from KMART’
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The entries in the lockdown portrait competition from @abcsydney are so good
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I do not mind if you bring your young children to restaurants, but if you want it amuse them with videos on an iPad that’s cool - but for the love of God bring headphones. I DO NOT want to listen to nursery rhymes over dinner
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If #cancelculture was actually a thing, how does Sam Newman still have a job?
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We need to challenge our ideas of what a ‘good man’ is. Being sports captain of a wealthy private school does not make you a good man. Being an employed white man does not make you a good man. Your actions decide if you’re good or not.
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I am so sick of tailgaters. I was doing 80kmh yesterday in an 80 zone with an fwit in a performance Mitsubishi 1 metre behind me. Was terrifying. If you want to be a formula 1 driver go do that and stop terrorising suburban roads.
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Tradies on their red P plates driving jacked up utes are an absolute MENACE on the roads
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Still laughing at the suggestion that the Wallabies are more popular than the Matildas.
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Hang it in the Louvre
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Mark McGowan on Cleo's rescue: "I was speaking to the analysts saying that there would be movies made about this... We were talking about who would play her. I have some ideas as to who might play who" Seems incredibly tone-deaf when there is a little girl who has suffered trauma
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Whomever is doing the social media for the US Embassy - 5 stars
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In honor of Tina Turner we decided to master the Nutbush, Australia’s unofficial national dance.
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Just spent $642 on uniforms for two kids at a public school
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Greg Sheriden's piece on fertility vs migration is offensive on a number of levels, but I am also so sick of the idea that women are selfish for not wanting babies young. Most single women I know can't even find a decent guy to date, let alone procreate with.
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Uhlmann cautioning of the dangers of a divided Australia when he called all of Twitter sewer rats just a couple of weeks ago. Makes you think.
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(Trying not to make his name trend!) Australia is meant to be the land of the fair go. That’s a value someone like Stefanovic subscribes to. But when it comes to brown kids, some people do the right thing (the employer) and some can’t help but twist the knife.
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If people think it’s normal to get blackout drunk on a Wednesday night when your’re 56 and the parent of two small children, I’m not sure what to tell you
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All of Joe Hildebrand’s columns follow the same tired formula. Find a progressive cause or person be doesn’t like. Show a little bit of sympathy for their case before ultimately concluding that upholding the status quo of the priveleged is the only possible solution
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Americans - I need you to explain why you pronounce Craig as Creg
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Help I am having a stroke
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Bit weird to post about your boss’s new boyfriend on LinkedIn
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Katie Hopkins has no career in the UK after her alt-right, extremely racist comments were even banned from the Daily Mail. Yet Australian TV networks continue to give her a voice. Why?
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We’ve had so many discussions about DV and yet men in positions of power don’t understand that violence agnst women is not associated with mental illness, and perpetrators are frequently charming to everyone but their partner. John Collier is a disgrace
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The case of the removalist men (and their mother) is so sad. That’s why I hate the constant finger pointing and blame games. It’s a pandemic. Some of the most vulnerable are people with language difficulties and those in insecure work. Most people are trying their best.
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I’ve spent $90,000 at Coles and now have enough Cookware Credits to get one (1) free saucepan
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I’m begging parents to chill the f*ck out when it comes to their child’s life at school and not try to micromanage every moment from afar. You are driving teachers out of the profession with constant demands and complaints.
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Out handing out leaflets for #Yes23 today. Most people are friendly and polite - interesting the only aggro & hostility we copped was from middle aged men. Why are they so angry?
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@brobson_politic I’m sure that your daughters love having dad mansplain that rape, DV and sexual harassment of women and girls is not actually that huge an issue and they should just chill 🥰
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I would be more likely to vote for @ChrisMinnsMP if he has the balls to stand up to the gaming lobby. Otherwise I’ll probably go independent / Greens. Read the room, Chris!
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THIS is the skirt causing people to lose their minds? I suggest they get out a bit.
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@clhubes You can also tell by the makeup
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@ask_aubry Is sitting around in sweatpants eating cheese kinky?
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Who had Russell Brand down as a seriously dodgy dude with women? Oh wait, everyone.
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The worst thing about going to Italy is meeting American tourists who complain about the pizza not being as good as back home. I am sorry your taste buds are too coated in trans fats to appreciate proper food
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@ajbwells Ahh, Rich Cohen, who famously wrote this about Jessica Simpson when she looked like ➡️
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Does anyone ever make the same accusation of say, Ed Sheeran?
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"Swift’s audience is overwhelmingly white women and girls. She exists in an apolitical world that refuses to engage with the social and political issues around her. If she does, the focus is squarely on the men who wronged her." | Santilla Chingaipe
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It’s disgusting that Linda Reynolds and News Corp keep trying to attack Brittany Higgins despite knowing the rape trial was abandoned for mental health reasons. What are they actually trying to achieve? It’s not rehabilitating Reynold’s image, whoever is advising her is misguided
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Comments full of men - exclusively a trying to justify dangerous & agressive driving. Speeding is the most common cause of accidents and automotive fatalities in Australia. I’m sure you all think you much more skilful drivers than you actually are.
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I am so sick of tailgaters. I was doing 80kmh yesterday in an 80 zone with an fwit in a performance Mitsubishi 1 metre behind me. Was terrifying. If you want to be a formula 1 driver go do that and stop terrorising suburban roads.
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My team & CEO have rearranged meetings on Monday so I can attend the #March4Justice 💪🏻
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Labor stans now attacking the 22yr old activist who organised the march against violence against women and suggesting she is a Liberal stooge, while they furiously type on their ipads and didn't attend a single rally or do anything to help, actually. The absolute worst.
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VIC Twitter NSW Twitter 🤝 Dunking on Tim Smith
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If you are going to have a loud crying phone convo on the train about your boyfriend pls provide enough detail for the rest of the carriage to take sides
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As someone who has two children studying high school English in NSW, Mark Latham is just blatantly lying with his claims that it has been overrun with gender ideology. Has not come up a single time by year 11. Why do newspapers repeat his lies?
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Darling Harbour demolished!
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Care to unblock me Mike Carlton so we can discuss which of my tweets are lies? I am happy to remove anything inaccurate. Also. I do find this message quite threatening
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Had coffee with 5 people over 40 and I was the only one vaccinated / even thinking about getting vaccinated in the near future. We have a big problem.
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A Christmas miracle
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Justice Lee’s comments about consent and the nature of recollection after trauma are EXTREMELY welcome 🙏
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Make you think
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I shouldn’t need to say this, but please do not send old clothes and furniture on a big truck to Lismore. Lots of charities who will turn your cash donation into meals, cleaning supplies, toiletries and other necessities needed right now.
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Jay Rayner's gloriously brutal review of Parisian restaurant Le Cinq may be the best thing you read today
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Why would conservatives be against a tasteful memorial to innocent lives lost? What a weird thing to try to do culture wars over
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Another Bettina Arndt classic, blaming women for their sexual harrassment by ... wearing clothes
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$1.3 million at auction today Sydney
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