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Jan 25, 2019 • 14 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I have, over a glass of red, come up with an alternative list of public holidays. #AustraliaDay 1 of 11
26 January: Rum Rebellion Day. Yep, It happened on this day and Captain Cook wasn’t there. 2 of 11.
February 1: Trevor Chappell Day. This is when the underarm incident happened. 3 of 11.
February 19: Bon Scott Day. Bon dies. Say no more. 4 of 11
March 24: Sandpaper Day. Thanks to messers Smith, Warner & Bancroft. 5 of 11.
April 12. Mad Max Day. The original flick is released st the arse end of the 1970s. 6 of 11.
June 3. Mabo Day. Google this one. Beyond debate.
July 23. Christopher Skase Day. Skase is ordered out of Majorca. It’s an almost biblical moment for the 1980s. 8 of 11.
June 17. Erin Malley Day. What’s more literary than a hoax? 9 of 11.
September 26. Ron Barassi Day. Hand ball it, says Ron during the 1970 VFL grand final, and so modern footy is born. It’s a foundational myth, up there with young Abe and the cherry tree. 10 of 11.
November 11. Ned’s Dead Day. Ned Kelly is hung. Such is life. 11 of 11.
December 3. Eureka Day. Ballarat! The Gold Rush! The stockade! Google it. 12 of 11 (ok, I can’t count).
Note: no women are honored in this list. How Australian is that? 13 of 11.
Ern, not Erin. Damn you to hell, autocorrect (he says, paraphrasing that not-great non-Australian Charlton Heston)

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Jan 4
I’m a poet. I’m also a former newspaper journalist. I just read the News Corp piece claiming that a poem by @omarsakrpoet accuses Bluey of genocide. I then read the poem.

Let me list 10 problems with this beat up.
1. It places genocide in quotation marks (“genocide”) which usually means that Sakr uses that word. He doesn’t.
2. Therefore the article is based on a fabrication.
3. The journalist did not contact Sakr or his publisher to ask about the intent of the poem. This is a basic requirement in fair reporting.
4. Therefore the article is based on a fabrication and non-reporting.
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Sep 23, 2020
I grew up in a newsroom. I believe you can’t have a healthy democracy without a strong, independent media. I know how hard it is to be a good reporter. I know there are plenty of good journos. So why do I feel betrayed by the profession I love?
1. For 25 years it’s failed to come to terms with the threat of the internet.
2. It’s allowed bean counters to run the industry, leading to clickbait churnalism and the clearing out of newsrooms.
3. It’s given too much power to too few publishers and broadcasters.
4. It’s tried to turn news into entertainment.
5. It’s aided and abetted the rise of Pauline Hanson.
6. It’s allowed the political class in Canberra to obsess over tactics for 20 years instead of holding them to account for not value-adding to the nation.
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Aug 19, 2020
Bolt is peddling BS. Read Blainey and Pascoe. Both detail the ingenuity of Aboriginal Australians.

Blainey in 'A History of Victoria': 'The way of life varied ... depending on the terrain, the climate, the foods available, the traditions ... and their own ingenuity.'
Blainey: 'The northern plains possessed no suitable stone from which axes or spearpoints could be made, and so the stone arrived as part of a long chain of barter. The finest quarry of such stone in Victoria in the past 5000 years was Mount William.'
Blainey: '[At Mt William] a hard, dense hornfels or greenstone was quarried by Aboriginal people from about 250 circular or oval holes, and the discards from the quarrying now cover an area the size of a small racecourse.'
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Jul 23, 2020
I see Ita Buttrose has sparked another intergenerational shit fight where the old farts annoyed everyone, the young farts blamed everyone and the middle-aged farts bleated that they've been forgotten by everyone.

But the Boomer v Millennial v Gen X blather misses the point.
The real issue is economic.

There is a large and growing underclass of working (and increasingly not-working) poor in Australia who largely missed out on the boom times.
And they're old and young.

And they're male and female.

And they're the ones who will be done over if the Federal Government uses the COVID Recession as political cover to make our already too-insecure workforce even more insecure under the guise of 'flexibility'.
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Jul 20, 2020
I interviewed Sue Salthouse on March 30, 2020. It was a wide-ranging conversation about the past, present and future of the disability rights movement in Australia. Sue was an insightful, generous, deeply impressive person. We've lost a giant. Vale. #disability Image
Sue Salthouse: 'People gravitate to the people who are most like them and unfortunately people who look different, sound different, act different doesn't fit into that spectrum, so, that there is inherent discrimination around us for people with disabilities.'
Sue Salthouse: 'Unless we've got a secure income and a roof over our heads we can't address the other things, because a woman particularly doesn't have autonomy if she has to stay in that house because she hasn't got economic security so she can be abused and she can't leave.'
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Jul 6, 2020
Regarding the @VerityLa blow up over Stuart Cooke’s ‘About Lin’: I’m a poet. I’ve also worked in politics as a press secretary. That’s the communications equivalent of crisis response. With that in mind I have some advice for the editors and author.
First of all: it’s not about you. It never is. You have to listen to and try to understand why people are upset. That should be pretty easy in this case.
Second: be honest. Spin never works, especially when there are two parties involved, because there’s always a gap between your story and the truth. And that gap kills you.
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