Simone
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Sydney. Reading/Writing. Politics. Tennis.
National Press Club of Australia Julie Inman Grant’s address. We are having a go. Not because it is easy but because it matters. #NPCAust
June 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
National Press Club of Australia Julie Inman Grant’s address. We are having a go. Not because it is easy but because it matters. #NPCAust
National Press Club of Australia Julie Inman Grant’s address. Shifting responsibility from parents and carers back to social media companies to put guard rails in place to protect children. #NPCAust
June 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
National Press Club of Australia Julie Inman Grant’s address. Shifting responsibility from parents and carers back to social media companies to put guard rails in place to protect children. #NPCAust
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Posting Obama with his Nobel Peace Prize for no particular reason
June 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Posting Obama with his Nobel Peace Prize for no particular reason
National Press Club Australia. EU Ambassador Visentin How can the EU make a tangible contribution to Indo pacific defence given Ukraine? Visentin denies that it will impact their engagement in this region.
June 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
National Press Club Australia. EU Ambassador Visentin How can the EU make a tangible contribution to Indo pacific defence given Ukraine? Visentin denies that it will impact their engagement in this region.
National Press Club Australia. EU Ambassador Visentin The geo political situation has brought us back to negotiate the FTA after it had been suspended. There are still sticky issues.
June 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
National Press Club Australia. EU Ambassador Visentin The geo political situation has brought us back to negotiate the FTA after it had been suspended. There are still sticky issues.
National Press Club Australia. EU Ambassador Visentin - Strategic Partnership is not a mutual assistance agreement/alliance- its cooperation on defence issues including industrial. And the FTA is separate. EU doesn’t have an army but it has 27 members with 27 Armies.
June 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
National Press Club Australia. EU Ambassador Visentin - Strategic Partnership is not a mutual assistance agreement/alliance- its cooperation on defence issues including industrial. And the FTA is separate. EU doesn’t have an army but it has 27 members with 27 Armies.
National Press Club Australia. EU Ambassador Visentin - how can democratic countries ‘team up’ to defend global democracies? We have the power, GDP etc. to overcome the threat to world order represented by USA, Russia and China.
June 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
National Press Club Australia. EU Ambassador Visentin - how can democratic countries ‘team up’ to defend global democracies? We have the power, GDP etc. to overcome the threat to world order represented by USA, Russia and China.
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i understand i am preaching to the choir by posting it on this website but this article is wild
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
Column | ChatGPT couldn’t answer my questions about tennis, so it made things up
I wrote a column about a tennis phenom. When asked about it, ChatGPT committed one unforced error after another.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
i understand i am preaching to the choir by posting it on this website but this article is wild
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
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MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe
TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day
MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship
TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day
MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship
June 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe
TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day
MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship
TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day
MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship
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AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”
June 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”
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Musk and Trump are a great example of why men are too emotional to lead.
June 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Musk and Trump are a great example of why men are too emotional to lead.
NPC Micaela Cronin Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner we've only been collecting national data about sexual violence since 1993. People hold onto myths and prejudices.
June 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
NPC Micaela Cronin Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner we've only been collecting national data about sexual violence since 1993. People hold onto myths and prejudices.
National plan to end violence against against women and children estimates that it costs $26B annually.
June 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
National plan to end violence against against women and children estimates that it costs $26B annually.
Victims need a safe informed and supportive place to disclose/report. "Justice system navigator" role. 85% disengagement rate of people who do report to police. Disempowered, disrespected and retraumatised by three police who are supposed to investigate.
June 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Victims need a safe informed and supportive place to disclose/report. "Justice system navigator" role. 85% disengagement rate of people who do report to police. Disempowered, disrespected and retraumatised by three police who are supposed to investigate.
Justice Mordy Bromberg at NPC 64 recommendations from the report - Under engagement with the justice system is the main problem. Ill treatment and retraumafication of victims is a significant problem.
June 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Justice Mordy Bromberg at NPC 64 recommendations from the report - Under engagement with the justice system is the main problem. Ill treatment and retraumafication of victims is a significant problem.
National Press club ALRC report victims need to be assisted to access the justice system. Perpetrators need to be brought to justice to send a message to all that they cannot commit such crimes with impunity.
June 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
National Press club ALRC report victims need to be assisted to access the justice system. Perpetrators need to be brought to justice to send a message to all that they cannot commit such crimes with impunity.
National Press Club of Australia address today by Justice Mordy Bromberg 2% of victims who go to police have charges brought against their perpetrator.
June 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
National Press Club of Australia address today by Justice Mordy Bromberg 2% of victims who go to police have charges brought against their perpetrator.
Sydney Writers Festival over for another year. Six events over 3 days and 3 sites.
May 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Sydney Writers Festival over for another year. Six events over 3 days and 3 sites.
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At risk of being rude, have others noticed the extreme irony of the National Party (self declared ‘friend of farmers’) breaking up the coalition because they oppose Net Zero while Australia languishes under extreme floods in NSW and extreme drought everywhere else? No? Just me, then?
May 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
At risk of being rude, have others noticed the extreme irony of the National Party (self declared ‘friend of farmers’) breaking up the coalition because they oppose Net Zero while Australia languishes under extreme floods in NSW and extreme drought everywhere else? No? Just me, then?
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Wrote about this being a strong possibility and yup - the Nationals have had a massive dummy spit and broken up the Coalition. Marching both parties even closer to obscurity. Absolutely amazing.
May 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Wrote about this being a strong possibility and yup - the Nationals have had a massive dummy spit and broken up the Coalition. Marching both parties even closer to obscurity. Absolutely amazing.
What a joke! “Rohan Dennis given two-year suspended sentence after car crash that killed wife Melissa Hoskins” systemic misogyny #shematters
May 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
What a joke! “Rohan Dennis given two-year suspended sentence after car crash that killed wife Melissa Hoskins” systemic misogyny #shematters
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“There’s just no correlation between what News Corp says and what voters do”
Laura Tingle's observation is not so much "a parting shot", as a statement of fact.
The tragedy is that so many of her colleagues still suck up to #MurdochGutterMedia. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
Laura Tingle's observation is not so much "a parting shot", as a statement of fact.
The tragedy is that so many of her colleagues still suck up to #MurdochGutterMedia. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
Laura Tingle exits press gallery after 40 years with parting shot on News Corp’s election ‘irrelevance’
The political editor for 7.30 signs off saying ‘there’s no correlation between what News Corp says and what voters do’. Plus: much ado for the Mail
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:05 AM
“There’s just no correlation between what News Corp says and what voters do”
Laura Tingle's observation is not so much "a parting shot", as a statement of fact.
The tragedy is that so many of her colleagues still suck up to #MurdochGutterMedia. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
Laura Tingle's observation is not so much "a parting shot", as a statement of fact.
The tragedy is that so many of her colleagues still suck up to #MurdochGutterMedia. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
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Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, slams Trump for posting an AI image of himself as the Pope:
“This is deeply offensive to Catholics, especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis…He owes an apology”
“This is deeply offensive to Catholics, especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis…He owes an apology”
May 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, slams Trump for posting an AI image of himself as the Pope:
“This is deeply offensive to Catholics, especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis…He owes an apology”
“This is deeply offensive to Catholics, especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis…He owes an apology”
Common pesticide caused mass death of little corellas, NSW environment watchdog confirms. Absolutely tragic. From @australia.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Common pesticide caused mass death of little corellas, NSW environment watchdog confirms. Absolutely tragic. From @australia.theguardian.com