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Victoria Fielding Profile picture
@DrVicFielding
Sep 17, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Again I'm having to call out @rachelbaxendale's misrepresentation of Victorian covid data in her never ending campaign to blame second wave on Vic contact tracing failures, and in turn Dan Andrews. This time she's ignoring a key event in her comparison timeline. A thread👇
If you missed last installment of Murdoch media misrepresentation of covid data, you can catch up on it here. NSW international arrival figures were left in to skew contact tracing data results in NSW's favour. I showed Vic and NSW are indeed comparable.
This time @rachelbaxendale is claiming she's got smoking gun data to show Vic had more cases under investigation than NSW did when they reached 10 community transmission. But this data comparison misses a key difference between Vic and NSW. Vic went looking for undetected spread.
On this chart, I've added another column to show daily increase in cases being investigated (starting from 17 June). I've also highlighted all cases from 25 June onward in red because this was the date Vic went looking for undetected spread. And guess what - they found it!
Here is the Vic DHHS factsheet about their testing blitz in 10 hot spot suburbs - 'selected due to the high rates of recent community transmission, the risk of undetected coronavirus circulating in the community and the risk of
outbreaks occurring...' dhhs.vic.gov.au/sites/default/…
The thing is, when you just look at data, you're not getting all the info. I'm a qualitative and quantitative researcher. So when I see data, my first question is always 'why has that happened?'. You have to take into account the context, otherwise data on its own is meaningless.
The fact that Victoria went looking for spread in covid hotspots - they went door to door testing as many people as they could - means when they did find undetected spread, much of it had to be investigated because they had no idea where these people first caught covid.
You've noticed I often question why NSW aren't going into hot spot areas and testing proactively. I ask this because I saw what happened when Victoria proactively tested - they found undetected spread. Don't forget 40% cases asymptomatic. You test proactively, you find them. End

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Nov 21, 2023
📍I'm pleased to announce the Murdoch Referendum Accountability Project final report is now available to download here📍

Here is a short thread summarising the key findings 👇🏻 murdochroyalcommission.org.au/final-report/
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The title of the report gives quite the insight:
👉🏻Under the Facade of Journalism: How News Corp used fear, manipulation and division to campaign against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament👈🏻
Key findings:
1) News Corp’s coverage of the Voice constituted an overt political campaign in favour of a ‘No’ vote.

2) The most frequently used ‘No’ arguments from News Corp were consistent with those of the official ‘No’ campaign.
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Sep 30, 2023
I’ve been monitoring News Corp’s Voice coverage so I am sadly well versed in the ‘No’ camp’s contradictions, misrepresentations and scaremongering - by both ‘No’ voices and News Corp voices. I’ll try to summarise it into one thread to give you a sense of how bad faith they are👇🏻
First is the idea that the Voice, an advisory body, can override decisions made by parliament. Bolt regularly refers to the Voice as an Aboriginal only parliament. They constantly imply the Voice has more power and can do more than give advice which is a total bald faced lie.
They also say constitutionally enshrined Voice is more powerful than legislated one. ‘No’ campaigners like Dutton and Price say they support legislated regional Voice and call constitutional Voice risky. Constitutional experts constantly say this is false but they keep saying it.
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Jan 14, 2023
I’m surprised at how few people who are watching Harry and Meghan on Netflix, or reading Spare, are discussing the big picture. Royal gossip and relationships don’t matter. What’s important is their story is about British/Commonwealth establishment fighting progress. A thread👇🏻
When Harry happened to fall in love with Meghan Markle, the royals were given an opportunity to modernise, to be progressive, to reflect a new-British culture. Meghan is self-made, successful, articulate, describes herself as an activist, is an outspoken feminist, and is biracial
Rather than see Meghan as an opportunity for the British establishment to represent a new Britain, in the midst of a country embroiled in Brexit debates, racism versus diversity, British power, particularly media power, decided Meghan was not what Britain represents.
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Dec 4, 2022
Since we can now talk about the Bruce Lehrmann trial, can I just check if anyone in their entire lives have ever heard of someone having a big night out, and then pissed, deciding to go back to the office to do some work his boss said wasn’t needed? Impossible.
Also, if he was such a gentlemen offering Brittany to share an Uber home to make sure he got her home safely, why didn’t he do that? If he seriously wants us to believe he decided to go back to work, why did he take Brittany there and not drop her home first? Beggars belief.
Furthermore, if Bruce said he was taking Brittany home, why didn’t he do that? Why did he leave her at Parliament House and was seen on security cameras jogging from the scene? Why not go back and make sure she was ok, take her home safely? Doesn’t make sense.
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Jun 10, 2022
I need to share a story about a really worrying thing I heard a journalist say, and will explain the issue. I'm going to leave names and some details out, as it's not about the specific journalists involved, it's about a wider problem in political journalism. A thread👇🏻
So in this forum, two journalists were discussing representation of women in politics. They got onto the subject of widespread public misogyny about Julia Gillard when she was PM. They discussed the fact the media didn't call it out at the time it was happening.
One of the journalists said that the press pack recognised that Gillard was experiencing this horrible thing where she was a victim of misogyny and just couldn't get any clear air as PM. They talked about how it was so obvious to journalists at the time, they discussed it openly.
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Jun 8, 2022
This piece ignores fact that if Greens forced Labor to adopt policies Labor did not take to election, Labor would be wiped out next election. Is that what Greens want? I don't recall Greens selling their massive super-profits tax during election either!
themonthly.com.au/the-politics/r…
Labor does not have a mandate to introduce the Greens’ policy platform. If you would like to argue otherwise fine, but please stick to this topic. The electorate would crucify Labor if they sprung Greens’ policies on them - how is that good for long term reform?
The Greens won three additional seats VERY NARROWLY to bring their total to 4. Labor won 77. Let’s use that as a frame for who has a mandate and who doesn’t please.
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