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maybe selling an $8 megaphone to anyone in the public square and offering them direct monetary incentive for impressions during hyper-sensitive geopolitical events isn’t all that beneficial to society or the health of the public conversation
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So, so important. We have a #MSM largely incapable of interrogating the outright, calculated lies of a self-interested political class holding this nation back in every way. Support @zalisteggall & @zdaniel . We need the strongest possible Truth in Media (Stop the Lies) legislation and we need it right now. #integrity
Last year, I tabled my Stop the Lies Bill to legislate against misleading & deceptive political & referendum advertising.
The Government failed to support it for the referendum.
Will they act now?
#auspol
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
- Malcolm X
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I was a descendant of convicts. On both sides. Within 10 years one was a blacksmith and other married to a cop. In that time tens of thousands of indigenous Australians were slaughtered. How can anybody find the two experiences analogous?
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Instead of us being constantly disappointed by celebrities we should probably just start with the assumption that most of them are total assholes.
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Thinking of these Hunter S. Thompson words again, which he wrote one week after 9/11, which basically called the 21st Century
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The Voice Referendum: Dont know? then how about you find out. Theres enough information out there and we live in the internet age with information at our fingertips. Dont know, say no is just advocating ignorance.
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If @pafc don't offer Travis Boak one more year we riot
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Government policy is failing Indigenous people. Money is spent on the wrong responses. The gap is not closing. The incarceration rates are a national disgrace. We can and must do better. YES takes us a step in the right direction to fixing these issues. No takes us nowhere.
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An absolute essential measure that saves lives #pilltesting #drugpolicy
Drug safety advocates are demanding NSW Premier @ChrisMinnsMP to implement pill testing ahead of what could be a deadly summer of music festivals | #nswpol @NSWLabor @UnitingChurchAu @Unharmdotorg
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The average full-time worker is earning around $3700 extra per year since the @AlboMP @AustralianLabor Government came to office - getting wages moving again is a key part of our plan to ease cost-of-living pressures #auspol #ausecon news.com.au/finance/work/new…
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Despite a 3.6% rise in wages over the last year, inflation has run at 6% meaning wages in real terms have declined during the same period.
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Murdoch media made Americans look like morons, made Brits kick themselves between the legs and now is going to make Australia look like one of the most racist in the world. Can’t we please do something about the RW capture of Aus media? It’s killing us.
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What’s funny is this has nothing do with free speech and everything to do with the fact Elon is probably one of the most blocked people on Twitter
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sorry u didn’t get taylor swift tickets come to the teenage dads show instead
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If Lance Armstrong actually believed people are pretending to be trans to cheat at sports, he would have tried it already
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In LA there’s a church where they lay razor wire across the stoop to keep the homeless people away. Just like Jesus says.
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Compare this news moment to the days leading up to the Arab Spring.
In 2010, you could quickly find eye witness accounts of people in Tunisia, Egypt, and Bahrain. Today, it’s just nonsense blue check marks, and near-impossible to find real accounts tweeting from Russia/Ukraine.