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Val Schaefer
@valschaefer.bsky.social
Happily retired journalist/comms/media person.
X refugee to 🦋

💜 🐕‍🦺 🎶 📻 📰 #auspol

Biripi Country/Midcoast
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🚨 NEW: One of the largest COVID-19 vaccine studies ever (28 MILLION people in France) just dropped.

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#science #vaccines #covid #protective #evidencebased
December 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
#science #evidence 🏆🙌🏻🥇
Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize

When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
Australian scientist who alerted world that Covid is airborne wins top science prize
Prof Lidia Morawska says recognition of her research comes at a fraught time – an ‘age of anti-science’
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 AM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, 1984.
August 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Reposted by Val Schaefer
June 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They said it would never happen again, but right now communities in Northern NSW are reliving the response failures of 2017, 2021, 2022…

FBEU members with in-water and on-water rescue qualifications are being left to sit on their hands while SES members struggle to turn out with adequate crewing 👇🏻
May 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Miranda from Radio Ngarralinyi has been working behind the scenes, speaking with radio newsrooms, appearing on ABC News, and talking to The Guardian yesterday.Her message is clear:

“A National disaster should have been declared on Tuesday.”

#taree #midcost #floods #midnorthcoast #disaster #nsw
May 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This 🤡 show talking about itself again today when it’s #NationalParty “heartland” on the #nsw #midnorthcoast is experiencing its worst #flood #disaster in history & people are losing their homes, vehicles, livestock, businesses and lives.

Bugger off into obscurity.

#auspol #Taree #PortMacquarie
May 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Our #Taree #ManningValley #Wingham community is crying out for help and more resources. I hope our National and State emergency leaders are listening as lives are at stake. #KristyMcBainMP #JihadDib

#Taree #floods #MidNorthCoast #midcoast
May 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Hey National Party members …don’t spin me your BS that you “care &are passionate about regional Australia”. Y’day when Taree’s biggest flooding disaster was unfolding &you lot were holding pressers on leaving the coalition and nothing on what our MNC communities were enduring.

Pfft…

#taree #flood
May 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Good to see #EdHusic exposing the ruthlessness of the perfumed warlord, #RichardMarles on #insiders this morning 🔥🔥🔥

#auspol #ALP #factions
May 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
PREDICTION: #MarkDreyfus will announce his *retirement* as early as next week.

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#auspol #ALP #cabinet
May 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
No, this is not from the Betoota Advocate 🤣🤣🤣

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has announced she will be switching to join the Liberal party room in the upcoming parliament.
May 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The Covid-aware community warned at the time (over on the dark site) that letting Covid rip would kill off the Coalition’s boomer base and, sadly, it looks like it has.

In just 3 years (2022-2025) over 160,000 older voters died. 😢🦠😷

@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social

#covid #auspol #AusVotes
In just 3 years (2022–2025), voter demographics tilted: over 160,000 older voters died, while 630,000 young voters joined.

The generational pivot is here. #auspol #BinNight

Reference Data:

• Pop : ABS Australia
• Deaths : Australian Institute of Health & Welfare (AIHW),
• New voters: (AEC)
May 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Reposted by Val Schaefer
TRUMPISM REJECTED IN AUSTRALIA

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been re-elected as his Labor Party surged to victory and is projected to form a majority government. In a historic first, opposition leader Peter Dutton—often likened to Donald Trump—lost his own seat of Dickson.
May 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Reposted by Val Schaefer
@zalisteggall.bsky.social notes that the mainstream media (like Speers) routinely refers to “the Climate200-backed teals”.

But never mentions the Gina Rinehart-backed Coalition. 💥💯 #insiders #SundayShot #auspol
May 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I think I’m going to watch this everyday for the next 3 years 🤣🤣🤣

#AusVotes #auspol
Oh, Australia… 🇨🇦 ♥️ 🇦🇺

A resounding rejection of hate and division. 💥
May 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
🎯🎯🎯
The Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, wins his second three-year term.

Like Pierre Poilievre, Peter Dutton, the opposition leader who's nicknamed "DOGE-y Dutton," managed to lose his own seat.

Seems the world is telling the Temu Trumps to get bent.

More of this, please!

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May 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
HISTORICAL RESULT: “Rudd, Hawke, Whitlam, Chifley….
#Albanese has beaten them all”-Casey Briggs, #abcnews 💥

#AusVotes2025 #AusVotes #auspol
May 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
And the light bulb finally goes on…..he wasn’t “stress-tested” enough by the media before the campaign💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡

#AusVotes2025 #AusVotes #auspol #media #insiders #davidcrowe
David Crowe admits that the media were too gentle on Dutton despite Dutton's complaints that the 'hate media' were too hard.

#insiders #auspol #ausvotes #AusVotes25
May 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Reposted by Val Schaefer
The US has successfully tilted another country's election.

Read more: chaser.com.au/national/don...
May 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
International news wires now reporting results on #AusVotes2025 🗳️

#AusVotes #auspol #Duton #ALPWins
May 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
#TonyAbbott the Midas touch again for #Bennelong, Scott Yung endorsement 🤣🤣🤣

#AusVotes2025 #BinNight #auspol #AusVotes
May 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Oakes has blasted the abc on social media, insisting their chief political correspondent, Laura Tingle, should be playing a more central role in the channel's elect coverage.

“The ABC has shoved Laura Tingle so far from the centre of its election panel that she is almost out of sight in the wings.”
May 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM