The Socceroos decisive win today with an inspiring array of our wonderful multicultural talent gives the LIE to One Nation’s betrayal of our unique society. Don’t let them exploit the distress & anger that inequality & neoliberalism has caused.

For most of us, we can’t even imagine what Nestory’s journey has been like. As with all refugees. Displaced, homeless, full of hope but in desperate need of safety. A chance. An opportunity at life. With a dream and a ball, making a new life, in a country with a proud history of welcoming refugees, but facing its own forces of opposition today. Nestory didn’t just shoot the ball into the Turkish net, he struck a lightning bolt to the conscience of millions of Australians. How can we cheer one brilliant, skilled, explosive and confident young kid representing us, and we him, and simultaneously portray refugees or new arrivals as less worthy? It also should raise the question of how refugees come to be? Everyone wants to live a safe life at home, with kin, generations of family, not having to ask for a chance.. But conflict, it’s funding, the breakdown in international law, the weapons industry needing to be fed, exploitation of resources, religious tribalism and extremism, all create the more than a hundred million people who have fled their home. It is these drivers we must stop, and these causes we must never support nor participate in. Football brings everyone together and shows us what we share. Now, we share a love of a young Aussie kid who overcame every barrier put in his way, to reach the pinnacle of world sport. And that is needed more than ever.

No. You don’t get to say shit about this team.

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I blame Dan Andrews…

Nestory Irankunda, a refugee from Tanzania, Africa. Current status: Deadset hero in the whole of Australia right now. 👏🏼 Awkward day to be a racist, ain’t it. Go #socceroos

Cheer this young man while he’s scoring goals for Australia. Blame him for high house prices and crime when he walks down the street. The sheer fucking racist hypocrisy of white Australia and One Nation.

Nestory Irankunda, our youngest goalscorer at the World Cup. True Aussies are delighted but Pauline and friends are bitter and hateful because dude is black and a refugee. #Socceroos #FIFAWorldCup

Ooh! …she’s gonna’ take SA. …Ooh! ..she’s gonna’ take Victoria. Ooh, .. she’s headin’ for the lodge! The only thing Hanson is takin’ is, some suckers money! ..We know it, & the bleeding misleading MSM & @abcnews …know it! @AustralianLabor 😇😇😇

Congratulations to @AnthonyNegus1 who has been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2026 King's Birthday Honours for services to Opera, particularly Mozart and Wagner, and to Young Artists. Fantastic news and well-deserved recognition.

Just watch Jennifer cats bum face trying to butt in to defend hanson when Ralph tries to look at hansons behaviour the way most voters see it, divisive and plain nasty.

Kim Williams: “Audiences at @abcnews are down across the board, that's what we need to address." The man who turned #Insiders and @QandA into the LNP happy hour can't work it out? Help him.

I am.......you are 🎶 🎵

I love @cathywilcox1 and - as a woman of Jewish descent - I do not think this is anti semitic. It is political. It is clear eyed. It is accurate.

RT @JayJay91341991: Let’s drag out ole cat’s bum face Jennifer Hewett to bash Labor, with David Speers cheering on. Come on ABC do better.…

I don’t know why you’re so critical of Trump. He’s ended the war in Iran 27 times this week alone.

A big F**K off to Pauline Hanson from Moonee Ponds .

A gloriously Hockneyesque moment......an f-ing fitting farewell.

Oh my dear God. What the fucking #Robodebt is this?? I just watched the last hour of the NDIS bill hearing and watched as @SenatorJordon, who has the patience of a saint, explain the actual NDIS and what a job interview looks like to a bunch of senior bureaucrats who have been called in to explain the enormous clusterfuck that is the plan for the former NDIS, which will harm hundreds of thousands of disabled people. At the end, he LOSES it. Justifiably. Go watch:) And then I get curious about who one guy is so I look at a govt table which says he’s now working in and a different name catches my eye. Russell de Burgh. ‘While working as the branch manager of the Pensions and Integrity branch of the Department of Social Services, De Burgh was identified by the #Robodebt Royal Commission as one of the officials who made "false representations" regarding the lawfulness and operation of the Robodebt program.’ And now this man has a very senior role in Health, rolling out cuts that will end lives and livelihoods in exchange for AUKUS submarines. I do not know why I am still shocked, yet I am. #RoboNDIS

I think Cathy Wilcox was rather restrained.