Virginia Muzik
@writenoise.bsky.social
Writes memoir and features, published in The Guardian, Big Issue, Grieve anthology, SMH | music obsessive | sometime singer | spiritual seeker | dog mama | bird marveler. Strives for altruism and sufficiency. On unceded Gadigal land.
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I started singing in a rock band in my 50s – and learned it could boost my brain health | Virginia Muzik
A concussion inspired me to challenge the invisibility of middle age, find my voice and discover how music might ward off dementia
www.theguardian.com
My 1st piece for The Guardian! On joining a rock band in my 50s and discovering how music boosts brain health. Thanks for the opportunity, @australia.theguardian.com (not me in the pic - I wish! 😉)
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“I honestly thought I’d be inundated,” the PM said at a press conference today, staring at his phone’s empty notifications screen. “Not even a scam text pretending to be Australia Post”.
theshovel.com.au/2025/10/14/a...
theshovel.com.au/2025/10/14/a...
Albo Yet to Receive Single Phone Call After Number Leaked Online — The Shovel
“Not even a scam text pretending to be Australia Post”.
theshovel.com.au
October 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
“I honestly thought I’d be inundated,” the PM said at a press conference today, staring at his phone’s empty notifications screen. “Not even a scam text pretending to be Australia Post”.
theshovel.com.au/2025/10/14/a...
theshovel.com.au/2025/10/14/a...
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The absolutely horrific reports of inhumane and degrading treatment that the courageous people abducted from the Sumud Flotilla have been subjected to should jolt the Prime Minister Albanese and Minister Wong into action.
October 4, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The absolutely horrific reports of inhumane and degrading treatment that the courageous people abducted from the Sumud Flotilla have been subjected to should jolt the Prime Minister Albanese and Minister Wong into action.
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Do you have a friendly pooch and live in Sydney?
Delta Therapy Dogs are sniffing for new Sydney volunteer teams to visit aged care and other facilities to bring joy to someone's day.
I did it for 10 years, and if our current dogs were suitable, I still would be! 🐾🐾
www.deltasociety.com.au/volunteer
Delta Therapy Dogs are sniffing for new Sydney volunteer teams to visit aged care and other facilities to bring joy to someone's day.
I did it for 10 years, and if our current dogs were suitable, I still would be! 🐾🐾
www.deltasociety.com.au/volunteer
July 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Do you have a friendly pooch and live in Sydney?
Delta Therapy Dogs are sniffing for new Sydney volunteer teams to visit aged care and other facilities to bring joy to someone's day.
I did it for 10 years, and if our current dogs were suitable, I still would be! 🐾🐾
www.deltasociety.com.au/volunteer
Delta Therapy Dogs are sniffing for new Sydney volunteer teams to visit aged care and other facilities to bring joy to someone's day.
I did it for 10 years, and if our current dogs were suitable, I still would be! 🐾🐾
www.deltasociety.com.au/volunteer
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Blah blah blah.
Yes - the PM's office is writing some nice lines for him,
but he's still #NoActionAlbo. #StopIsrael #GazaGenocide #insiders #SundayShot #auspol
Yes - the PM's office is writing some nice lines for him,
but he's still #NoActionAlbo. #StopIsrael #GazaGenocide #insiders #SundayShot #auspol
July 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Blah blah blah.
Yes - the PM's office is writing some nice lines for him,
but he's still #NoActionAlbo. #StopIsrael #GazaGenocide #insiders #SundayShot #auspol
Yes - the PM's office is writing some nice lines for him,
but he's still #NoActionAlbo. #StopIsrael #GazaGenocide #insiders #SundayShot #auspol
Two years today since Sinéad O’Connor left us. I wrote a Substack piece about her influence on me, and discovering how much we have in common.
I often wonder what she’d make of this ever-collapsing world.
open.substack.com/pub/writenoi...
I often wonder what she’d make of this ever-collapsing world.
open.substack.com/pub/writenoi...
Feel So Different
... but then I learned how much I share with Sinéad O'Connor.
open.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Two years today since Sinéad O’Connor left us. I wrote a Substack piece about her influence on me, and discovering how much we have in common.
I often wonder what she’d make of this ever-collapsing world.
open.substack.com/pub/writenoi...
I often wonder what she’d make of this ever-collapsing world.
open.substack.com/pub/writenoi...
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We can all relate, dear George. Hang tough, my friends.
July 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We can all relate, dear George. Hang tough, my friends.
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World War 3!? Whose idea was that? | First Dog on the Moon
World War 3!? Whose idea was that? | First Dog on the Moon
The world is up in arms and maybe even ending! What is going on. I’m frightened!
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June 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
World War 3!? Whose idea was that? | First Dog on the Moon
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Love and mercy is what we need tonight .
June 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Love and mercy is what we need tonight .
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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
June 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
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Confirmed: The Madleen has been illegally seized in international waters with its crew now hostage.
June 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Confirmed: The Madleen has been illegally seized in international waters with its crew now hostage.
Update on #madleen: Israeli army has boarded the vessel. #alleyesondeck via freegazaaustralia
June 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Update on #madleen: Israeli army has boarded the vessel. #alleyesondeck via freegazaaustralia
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Scott Morrison is the classic ‘participation award’ kid…so woke
June 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Scott Morrison is the classic ‘participation award’ kid…so woke
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From Thiago Ávila. Apologies again for the three minute limit. You can find the full video at: www.instagram.com/reel/DKqDIXi...
June 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
From Thiago Ávila. Apologies again for the three minute limit. You can find the full video at: www.instagram.com/reel/DKqDIXi...
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Francesca Albanese—
"I just spoke again with the Flotilla, incl its Comm Room in Catania
"All looks calm and safe now. Speedboats watching; but the flotilla continues its sailing.
"It will be a long night. And as they say and we say, "we are together"."
"I just spoke again with the Flotilla, incl its Comm Room in Catania
"All looks calm and safe now. Speedboats watching; but the flotilla continues its sailing.
"It will be a long night. And as they say and we say, "we are together"."
Francesca Albanese—
"BREAKING!!! - 11:18PM UK time; I am with the flotilla online. They have just been reached by the Israel speedboats - 5 vessels circling the flotilla. The captain is instructing the team to stay calm and seated, with their passports and life jackets on."
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"BREAKING!!! - 11:18PM UK time; I am with the flotilla online. They have just been reached by the Israel speedboats - 5 vessels circling the flotilla. The captain is instructing the team to stay calm and seated, with their passports and life jackets on."
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June 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Francesca Albanese—
"I just spoke again with the Flotilla, incl its Comm Room in Catania
"All looks calm and safe now. Speedboats watching; but the flotilla continues its sailing.
"It will be a long night. And as they say and we say, "we are together"."
"I just spoke again with the Flotilla, incl its Comm Room in Catania
"All looks calm and safe now. Speedboats watching; but the flotilla continues its sailing.
"It will be a long night. And as they say and we say, "we are together"."
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Never forget how many of those advising the ALP are patting themselves on the back for ensuring the govt did nothing in this.
“Not an issue/we made sure it hurt the Greens”
Those doing so are truly putrid. At best excusing murder, at worst cheering for it.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
“Not an issue/we made sure it hurt the Greens”
Those doing so are truly putrid. At best excusing murder, at worst cheering for it.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Israel is keeping up its blockade of aid as kids starve to death
As the total ban on any humanitarian aid entering Gaza stretches into its third month, doctors warn babies are starving in hospitals.
www.abc.net.au
May 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Never forget how many of those advising the ALP are patting themselves on the back for ensuring the govt did nothing in this.
“Not an issue/we made sure it hurt the Greens”
Those doing so are truly putrid. At best excusing murder, at worst cheering for it.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
“Not an issue/we made sure it hurt the Greens”
Those doing so are truly putrid. At best excusing murder, at worst cheering for it.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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how about we just kill capitalism before it takes our climate with it?
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
how about we just kill capitalism before it takes our climate with it?
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Here's me. 'On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy'
On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy - The Shot
The consequence of not good enough, as evidenced in the United States right now, is that you inevitably get much, much worse.
theshot.net.au
April 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Here's me. 'On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy'
News reports say filmmaker, Hamdan Ballal, co-director of "No Other Land", which won the Oscar for Best Documentary, was attacked by settlers on the West Bank, then arrested by Israeli Defence Forces. He has since disappeared. Revoke the Australia/Israel Coproduction Treaty. chng.it/yfntCS2c6T
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Revoke the Australia/Israel Coproduction Treaty and demand freedom for Hamdan Ballal
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March 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
News reports say filmmaker, Hamdan Ballal, co-director of "No Other Land", which won the Oscar for Best Documentary, was attacked by settlers on the West Bank, then arrested by Israeli Defence Forces. He has since disappeared. Revoke the Australia/Israel Coproduction Treaty. chng.it/yfntCS2c6T
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Beaches covered in horrid toxic lumps? No its not english backpackers it's the salmon industry! ahaah www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Destroying the environment and sending species extinct is one thing, but now I can’t take my dogs to the beach!? | First Dog on the Moon
The toxic Tasmanian salmon industry has gone too far this time
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March 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Beaches covered in horrid toxic lumps? No its not english backpackers it's the salmon industry! ahaah www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...