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Simon Chapman AO
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Emeritus Prof. Public Health Former Australian Skeptic/Year. Author, blogger. Bovine excrement detective. EV driver, doting 5x grandpa, Sydney Swans tragic. https://simonchapman6.com/about/

Simon Fenton Chapman, AO is an Australian academic and tobacco control activist.

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8 of my books including new 50yr career memoir open access here simonchapman6.com/books/ 262,300 accessed by 17 Jan '26. #TobaccoControl #GunControl #Windfarms #Advocacy #PublicHealth #Scepticism #PublicHealthHeresies & much more.

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If you are like me & into Fully Certified Necrotic Rock, you won't want to miss "The Everly Brothers" playing Sydney this year . Phil died in 2015, Don in 2021. Too much excitement

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A content warning for very, very significant police violence on this video: Israeli President Herzog is visiting Australia, and police in New South Wales are violently bashing prone protesters.

The media is framing it in completely neutral terms.

Watch the video, then look at the headlines.

Powerful piece from Jewish David Leser, on why he takesno comfort from Herzog's visit, www.smh.com.au/national/i-m...
I’m Jewish. I live in Bondi. But I take no comfort from Herzog’s visit
Not all Jews welcome the arrival of Israel’s president in Australia. I am one who believes he will divide us at a time we need cohesion. It is the type of position that has cost me friends.
www.smh.com.au

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Latest from NSW Health on illegal cig/vape shop closures & seizures

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The Obamas v the Trumps. Let us count the ways. Exhibit 1 for the Obamas

India & EU sign massive free trade deal in a huge 'up yours' to Trump's protectionism. This was inevitable. When China does likewise, Trump will look like the economic illiterate he is. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...
Historic trade deal rejects Trump’s chaotic protectionism – Asian Media Report
The mother of all trade deals to America’s new defence strategy, the dismissal of a PLA princeling, Prabowo’s Peace Board support, ASEAN’s rejection of Myanmar junta’s poll victory and the deadly seri...
johnmenadue.com

NSW Health has now closed 66 illegal tobacconists, seized stock for 3 months since law reforms kicked in Oct '25. Four recent ones in the Newtown/Enmore area where it's wall-to-wall. Many more to come. Xmas holidays & Bondi police duty diversion slowed things www.health.nsw.gov.au/tobacco/Page...
Tobacco and smoking - Tobacco closure orders register
View the NSW register of premises issued closure orders under the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2008 for illicit tobacco, illegal vaping, or unlicensed sales.
www.health.nsw.gov.au

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Australian Border Force now intercepting industrial levels of illicit tobacco & vapes. This www.abf.gov.au/newsroom-sub...
www.abf.gov.au
"That is a truly fascist idea, the idea of outsourcing thinking....power is in our ability to think with each other"

Klein on the "AI for climate" crap and how to weave a better story:

www.themaybe.org/reframing-im...

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The world has now had it confirmed that Washington Post has lost its mantle as a "great newspaper". With this decision, it marks itself as a political lickspittle to the darkest forces determined to put self-interest ahead of global health

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The Australian Electoral Commission is unimpressed with the rabid Australian Taxpayers Alliance's & a few others' failure to meet their reporting obligations. Big stick being taken out, by the look of things www.aec.gov.au/media/2026/0...

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This looks fine —

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Narrator: "And they're BOTH in the Epstein Files"

Brilliant.

Excellent resource!
This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

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Our latest piece in Commercially Determined breaks down 10 common tropes used by industry to sway policy. www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/narrative-.... Curious which you hear most in your policy space.
What Corporations Say to Get Their Policy Way
Industries' Narrative Playbook to Fight Regulations
www.commerciallydetermined.com