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When people are scared and anxious, information is more important than scoop!
Politics · 8 August, 2020

When people are scared and anxious, information is more important than scoop!

Right! About *that* Dan Andrews Victorian government press conference (06 August 2020) on the first day of the second lock down in Victoria…
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Scott Morrison cancelling Parliament - again - is pathetic!
Politics · 20 July, 2020

Scott Morrison cancelling Parliament - again - is pathetic!

This afternoon I was horrified to see the below tweet fly through. Not that Parliament had been cancelled, we were already informed of that and you might have seen #JobShirker trending on twitter, it was apt, but the click bait question from The Drum – which they seem to have form for nowadays – [...]
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Oh Super Netball has a 2-point shot now, I must watch. Said no-one ever!
Stuff · 24 June, 2020

Oh Super Netball has a 2-point shot now, I must watch. Said no-one ever!

With no netball, not even signing news, netball twitter has been pretty quiet in recent months, until yesterday when it went off like a firecracker with the decree when after not tweeting for a month, @9Netball dropped the 2-point shot change.
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Twitter - Not an echo chamber
NBN · 17 June, 2020

Twitter - Not an echo chamber

It always starts with a tweet, always! As with many things on twitter, a random conversation can turn into all sorts of things and one evening a discussion between @Info_Aus, @slsandpet and I in regard to a very interesting thesis turned into something we all wanted to read. Though at nearly 400 [...]
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Dr Sally
Queensland grew up on the weekend, but racists gotta racist ☹
Politics · 10 June, 2020

Queensland grew up on the weekend, but racists gotta racist ☹

If you are of a certain age, let’s say over 50 and grew up in Queensland, you grew up under the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era and if you don’t know what those years were like, you just can’t appreciate what we saw on the weekend with the #BlackLivesMatter protests.
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WOAH! People we have a JobKeeper, but is it really?
Politics · 31 March, 2020

WOAH! People we have a JobKeeper, but is it really?

I am really happy that the government has finally done something more than just bail out Qantas, and I hope this JobKeeper will actually help many employees who have been sacked or are in terror of losing their jobs and of course those businesses which this may help survive, or at least be able to [...]
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Give yourself the gift of 'doing a Morrison' for Christmas
Stuff · 22 December, 2019

Give yourself the gift of 'doing a Morrison' for Christmas

Aloha! The last 4am brain dump straight to keyboard rant for the year for me. Reflections of the year, lovely feel-good Christmas spirit type pieces seem to be the go, so I thought, hell, yeah! I can do a pontificating Christmas thing too 😉 So let’s do this… Christmas! That [...]
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Never too old to learn a new sport, even as a spectator 😉
Stuff · 17 November, 2019

Never too old to learn a new sport, even as a spectator 😉

Did you know we had a National Women’s Ice Hockey competition in Australia? I didn’t, well, I didn’t until a few weeks ago. As a proponent of women’s sport in this country, have to admit, I was pretty disappointed with myself. Then again, I didn’t even know we had any sort of national comp [...]
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The 2 point shot idea in Netball? Get in the bin!
· 26 September, 2019

The 2 point shot idea in Netball? Get in the bin!

The 2 point shot is back again, like a bad smell it just won’t go away UGH! We just had a great season of Suncorp Super Netball, we are now in the phase where the post-mortems are done on how the season went, what needs to be improved, changed, what we can do better etc., and the survey has gone out. [...]
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