Former ABC broadcast journalist. Pioneered Australian *national* radio talkback. Podcaster @transitzonepod JOURNALISM FUTURES/INTERVIEWING/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY.
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16 Nov 2024
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Memories. Ugh.
7 Nov 2025
Some context for those who haven't seen it
youtube.com/watch?v=uOKf-kPP…
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28 Oct 2025
The marked shift in public opinion against #Israel & their brutal civilian slaughters & scorched earth destructions in #Gaza has happened despite torrents of #propaganda, an overall homogeneous, timorous framing by #journalism. We have eyes to see, ears to hear, a moral compass.
27 Oct 2025
So we're all clear
Jillian Segal's position exists as a result of pressure from the US govt & the Israeli govt
It is designed to combat dwindling support for Israel
It has nothing to do with countering racism (see her silence on Nazi rallies, et al)
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22 Oct 2025
Yes, by “common agreement” the @AlboMP sit-down with #Trump was a huge success. Rare earth metals don’t you know. Staring the PM in the face was #Gaza, a smoke & mirrors “peace plan”, #Ukraine, Trump’s grand fail there, & the unravelling #USA 🚫#democracy 🚫. #fascism #AUKUS
20 Oct 2025
Nothing about the meeting changed this earlier view. Trump guaranteeing submarines soon means nothing. Trump and Albo will be long gone when it officially falls over.
Meanwhile our great ally keeps murdering people and applying febrile economic coersion at the MAGA mob's whim.
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22 Oct 2025
Extra judicial murders. Just one of the #Trump fascist side hustles. He still has plenty of time to illegally demolish a sizeable chunk of the White House & indulge in some regular corruption demanding $230 in compensation from “his” DOJ. #fascism #dictatorship 🚫 #democracy 🚫
20 Oct 2025
Trump has launched seven deadly strikes in the Caribbean Sea.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
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20 Oct 2025
A thoughtful, reflective insight into the #NoKings protest marches by the president of the #USA, Donald #Trump. #fascism #democracy #freespeech
20 Oct 2025
Trump on No Kings: "I think it's a joke. I looked at the people. They are not representative of this country. And I looked at all the brand new signs I guess paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. It's looks like it was. We're checking it out. The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective. And the people were whacked out."
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20 Oct 2025
1. The 18C relic electoral college is an anti #democracy way to elect #USA apex national office holder. 2. #Trump gained a PLURALITY of 49.8% or so popular vote. With a 65% turnout, he garnered votes from a 1/3 of eligible US voters. Not a “landslide mandate”. @MeghanMcCain
19 Oct 2025
The furious debate over whether Meghan McCain's seemingly willful stupidity is willful or just stupidity has now ended in a draw
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18 Sep 2025
From the ARCHIVE. “On the record”. Not #AI.
Your drink uncontrollably spraying out of your mouth hilarious. #Trump the fabulist (being kind), in top form posing as a universal rights guy. It’s #MAGA #GOP cult “rights” now?
#Trump #fascism #freespeech #censorship
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#Trump at the #USA Open men’s singles final really stuffed it up for the paying fans who’d paid big money for their seats. Match start was delayed with thousands unable to be inside for that. Security! Then #censorship of the crowd’s booing. At least he was kept off centre court.
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26 Aug 2025
The Huckster, #Trump, “musing”. Saying the quiet bit out loud. He can’t help blabbing. Meanwhile, he is accelerating his emerging #dictatorship. The #USA #democracy, as chronically flawed as it already was, is unravelling. But Trump is symptom, not cause. #fascism #GOP
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16 Aug 2025
#Trump is citing Russian dictator, #Putin, on voting & #democracy. Putin is wrong of course. He’s playing to Trump’s ego. Australia has postal voting & an Australian Electoral Commission. Compulsory/preferential (ranked choice) voting. One of the most robust democracies on earth.
16 Aug 2025
Trump: "Vladimir Putin said something -- one of the most interesting things. He said 'your election was rigged because you have mail in voting.' He said, 'mail in voting, every election -- no country has mail in voting. It's impossible to have mail in voting and have honest elections.' And he said that to me because we talked about 2020. He said, 'you won that election by so much.'"
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12 Aug 2025
OPINION Any student of history will discern the same patterns in Hitler & Mussolini in their rise to totalitarian power. Many parallels, much rhyming. #USA is descending into #dictatorship. A deeply fissured republic (founded on slavery, #racism), unravelling #democracy. #fascism
11 Aug 2025
Important context for Trump's DC police takeover:
Over the past 6 months, Trump is redefining criminality to punish his enemies, let white collar criminals off the hook & pardon violent pro-Trump rioters --->>>
nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/po…
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12 Aug 2025
As the #Trump #fascism project rapidly unfolds on multiple fronts & his dictatorship consolidates, the frog in the cauldron syndrome applies. It’s confronting for old school #USA journos such as Stelter to comprehend that #democracy has unravelled. #Exceptionalism their nemesis?
12 Aug 2025
"A generation ago conventional wisdom held that as China liberalized, its economy would come to resemble America’s. Instead, capitalism in America is starting to look like China." wsj.com/economy/the-u-s-marc…
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25 Jun 2025
Oh really? Specious generalisations anyone? “Socialist” is the great #USA boo word. Its potency depends on widespread ignorance & their poor education system. Most Americans haven’t a clue what it means in its multifarious forms & histories. Then there’s “Marxist”. The horror.
25 Jun 2025
Ppl over ~45 hear "socialist" and think "he's going to abolish private property and send the rich to a gulag"
Ppl under ~45 hear "socialist" and think "he wants higher taxes on the rich to strengthen the social safety net"
This is why people are talking in circles about this
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29 Nov 2024
#PODCAST Really worth a listen. What we will witness with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as #Trump Health Secretary applying personal fringe beliefs & conspiracy theories to #publichealth policies will be historic. Regressive. #Autism included. #science #vaccines #democracy #USA
29 Nov 2024
An autistic journalist covers the nomination of RFK Jr., who has theories about autism.
npr.org/2024/11/29/nx-s1-519…
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16 Nov 2024
16 Nov 2024
From today, 16 November, 2024, this is my last post on this #socialmedia platform, @X, formerly Twitter, owned by oligarch, @elonmusk, @realDonaldTrump @GOP cult propagandist. I joined in 2009. Now at @mediaactive.bsky.social. #fascism #disinformation #hatespeech #democracy
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16 Nov 2024
From today, 16 November, 2024, this is my last post on this #socialmedia platform, @X, formerly Twitter, owned by oligarch, @elonmusk, @realDonaldTrump @GOP cult propagandist. I joined in 2009. Now at @mediaactive.bsky.social. #fascism #disinformation #hatespeech #democracy
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15 Nov 2024
“The overriding rule of medicine is: First, do no harm.
We’re certain installing @RobertKennedyJr to head Health & Human Services breaks this rule” - @nypost. Are @realDonaldTrump cabinet nominations simply “flooding the zone with shit” as usual? “Spooking” #USA senate? #fascism
15 Nov 2024
It’s already hard to discern which @realDonaldTrump cabinet pick is going to disturb, divide, dismay, dumbfound the most: @MattGaetz as attorney general, @RobertKennedyJr as health secretary or @PeteHegseth as defence secretary? #Murdoch #Trump #fascism
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15 Nov 2024
It’s already hard to discern which @realDonaldTrump cabinet pick is going to disturb, divide, dismay, dumbfound the most: @MattGaetz as attorney general, @RobertKennedyJr as health secretary or @PeteHegseth as defence secretary? #Murdoch #Trump #fascism
15 Nov 2024
While Murdoch's "Fox & Friends" defends and promotes the same pick...
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15 Nov 2024
OPINION @nathanheller “For years, @TheDemocrats have sought to win elections by micro-targeting communities with detailed facts. What if the secret is big, sloppy notions seeded nationwide?” Gullibility in #USA? #democracy #disinformation #propaganda newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
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