Melbourne-born, Asia-passionate. Travel addict, sports nut and lover of random facts. This is a personal account and all views are mine and mine alone.
Joined May 2010
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28 Apr 2024
2023 was a painful period of rebuilding and uncertainty. Hats off to all the @GeelongCats fans for sticking tough through difficult times #AFL #GeelongStrong
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28 Oct 2023
“[A] concept that’s important to our region, using a language of our region.”
Does Australia’s first Indonesian/Malay-speaking foreign minister have a word for the 2023 ACICIS #BahasaSesh Challenge? You bet she does.
Thanks @SenatorWong
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25 Jun 2023
Great to talk to @abcnews about 🇦🇺🇮🇩learning abroad and to see the English version of this out today! Thanks @natasyajour @erwin_renaldi abc.net.au/news/2023-06-25/a… @RobbieGaspar23 @acicisCD @Prof_David_Hill @IEAAustralia @NewColomboPlan @ANUIndonesia @ANU_CHL @ANUmedia @dfat
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27 Apr 2023
A Texan has become an unlikely star of Australian rules football, considered one of the world’s roughest sports. 60 Minutes’ @jon_wertheim reports, Sunday. 60Minutes.com
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6 Apr 2023
As a country, we've spent so long telling Aboriginal Australians how it's going to be.
Telling them what's best for them.
And it hasn't worked.
The Voice is an offer to change that.
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5 Apr 2023
This is a heartbreaking lack of leadership. Inexcusable to call it a "divisive Canberra Voice" - the Uluru Statement from the Heart (that put forward the Voice to Parliament) is the result of years of consultation by First Nations people with Firsts Nations people right across the country.
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27 Feb 2023
#whylearnIndo
One of the world's biggest democracies and economies, right on our doorstep. Australia must do far more to understand Indonesia. It starts in our schools.
27 Feb 2023
Indonesian language on the front page of the @canberratimes this morning courtesy of @KeremDoruk17:
tinyurl.com/mtjxxw9r
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9 Dec 2022
Very good choice.
9 Dec 2022
News: Kerri Hartland has been appointed as the new Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service. She is the first woman to take the position.
12 Nov 2022
Aussie women dominating on the sports field. First the Diamonds against NZ, then the Matildas yesterday 4-0 over no.2 team Sweden. Last night our tennis team beat GB to make the final of the Billie Jean King Cup #GoAussies
5 Nov 2022
If Musk is such a visionary did he envision how quickly he'd break his own investment?
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31 Oct 2022
Support For Beloved CBD To Bring More People To City’s Heart - premier.vic.gov.au/support-b… #springst
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26 Oct 2022
A message from the Socceroos.
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27 Oct 2022
RT @theprojecttv: Fifteen-year-old Cassius Turvey was killed in an alleged attack two weeks ago. But why hasn't there been a public outcry?…
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15 Oct 2022
Superstar
13 Oct 2022
50 AFLW games for Daisy Pearce this weekend and says she won't be defined by a premiership.
✍️ Lauren Wood
STORY: bit.ly/3rOYW5p
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7 Oct 2022
Jon interviewed Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General, about why her state banned gender-affirming care for minors - ignoring the guidelines of major medical organizations and taking the decision out of parents’ hands. Watch the full interview on @AppleTVPlus
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1 Oct 2022
In the year that Federer, Williams and Selwood retire, Lauren Jackson says nah, at 41 I'll go again. Scores 30 points to clinch the World Cup Bronze. GOAT
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1 Oct 2022
GOAT gonna GOAT 🐐
Lauren Jackson signed off her international career in style with a VINTAGE performance and a bronze medal in front of her home fans 🇦🇺🥉
#FIBAWWC x @TCL_Global
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