So, here’s a 🧵 on just how fucked Australia’s media are ATM.

A. First, a disclaimer.

You don’t have to believe @AlboMP is either a hero or a villain on this issue to understand it.

Life is complex & politics is even more complex. B. But here’s the thing: the media claiming today they’re innocent victims in the Paul Keating issue and therefore claiming they’re being “attacked” unfairly is the greatest fucking hypocrisy in the known universe.

And we’re going to explain why.

“I’ve been attacked by Hartcher, that psychopath … who has this great stentorian voice, but no stentorian mind to match it”.

Keating’s still got it, LOL.

#NPC “Contextualisation of an issue may not be your strong suit.”

Keating to Andrew Probyn at the #NPC today, LOL.

Short 🧵.

A. As @RonniSalt first reported last night, @SenatorHume’s outrageous attack on @Mon4Kooyong via Rupert’s #NewsCorpse stooges for not attending Parliamentary Divisions several days ago is a clear indication Murdoch intends to help Frydenberg win back the seat. B. The piece (part-written by Simon Benson’s mate Geoff Chambers, who together hid evidence of Morrison’s multiple ministries last year to better spruik their book) is just 1 in a deluge of recent pieces going after Dr. Ryan & other so-called “Teal” candidates & parliamentarians.

Memo for Lisa Millar and the @abcnews Breakfast team (who can no longer be tagged via their own program).

Maternity leave is just ONE small reason women normally retire with much lower Super balances than men do.

There are many sexist, unfair reasons, including:

1/- A. Women typically earn less from their very first job, because of innate discrimination in company hiring practices;

B. Female-dominated careers have lower overall wages than male-dominated careers (think early childhood education workers vs. the mining industry);

2/-

Here’s a short 🧵, witches, about Australia’s bastard supermarkets.

All Australia’s big supermarket chains advertise with #NewsCorpse.

But @Coles & @woolworths advertise with Murdoch far more than @igaAustralia & @ALDIAustralia.

If you can, please boycott the first 2.

1/10 To emphasise this first: IF YOU CAN’T BOYCOTT ANY ORGANISATION BECAUSE OF DISABILITY, MOBILITY ISSUES OR FOR ANY OTHER REASON, PLEASE DON’T FEEL GUILTY.

The 10%-20% of people who CAN’T boycott a company don’t matter: what matters is the 80% who can do so if they try.

2/10

Yesterday, we did a 🧵 on one of the biggest distortions of truth in the #NewsCorpse hit piece on @BrittHiggins_ yesterday.

Today, we’re going to do another thread.

Strap in.

1/13 We’re going to address the statements and implications in the piece (2 are included below, but there are more) that because Brittany initially:

- behaved as if she were embarrassed;

- said she wasn’t going to make a complaint to police;

- sent Reynolds flowers; and

2/13

There’s a lot we could say about the @AusFedPolice leak about @BrittHiggins_ in #NewsCorpse’s @australian rag out today.

But for now, we’ll limit ourselves to addressing just one issue.

So here’s a 🧵.

1/- We want to address the implication that Brittany is somehow complicit with Labor or some sections of the media by meeting with prominent Australians during the furore over her alleged rape.

It may surprise people to learn that when a person or group is in the news …

2/-

1. If you say you don’t wanna scrap #COVID19 protections because they’re annoying: well, road safety rules are also annoying.

2. If you say you don’t wanna scrap ‘em because Australia can’t afford it: well, we spend hundreds of billions on obsolete submarines & affords those. 3. If you say it’s because people hate #COVID19 restrictions: well, they don’t like bans on taking bottled liquids & nail scissors on planes, either.

4. If you say it’s because COVID is “just a flu”: well, there’s no flu that kills from heart attacks & strokes for months after.

A. Okay so here’s a 🧵 on all the things people are getting wrong about Alan Jones & others spreading hatred, lies, racism and misogyny on shows like QandA.

Strap yourself in.

1. For the love of Christ, stop saying it’s fine for arseholes to be given big media platforms. B. If you can listen to Jones spreading his hate on Indigenous affairs without being badly traumatised, it makes you highly privileged.

For you to say others should also be able to listen to it too because “balance is important” or “they show themselves up as pricks” is shit.

🧵 A. I’m sitting outside a coffee shop in a Victorian town, waiting for a client.

There’s an older woman drinking tea at the next table, chatting to her friend.

She’s obviously fairly poor and somewhat unwell, judging by her appearance and lack of mobility when she leaves. B. She’s crying.

Because she’s just found out her home is being sold by its owner, and in this town it’s v. unlikely that the new owner will let her stay since every second residence is now an @airbnb_au.

In fact, in this town many businesses are now only open intermittently …

So here’s a short 🧵 on 1 of the consequences of uncontrolled #COVID19 spread.

My mother turns 83 this weekend, & until today we had a function for a relatively large extended family function booked in a large hotel near where she lives.

1/7 But as BA.5 spreads wildly, we’ve had a family convo today in which we’ve decided to go to a park for a socially-distanced picnic instead.

Because we’ve several health-compromised people, plus others who work in healthcare & don’t want to take #COVID19 back to patients.

2/7

A. Thread. Every year at MFW we’re more filled with dread as #IWD rolls around.

Not because we oppose a day meant to be about raising awareness of justice & equity for women, but because every year it’s more and more performative bullshit which sends women’s rights backwards. B. Yes, we know there are some events which benefit women for #IWD. This thread isn’t about those events and women: good on ‘em.

But as our Twitter poll last week showed, the vast majority of events and actions are performative, infantilising, virtue-signalling bullshit.

A. If you’re more interested in moaning on Twitter than getting real, this urgent thread will be hard to read (so scroll on).

But if you want to get truth instead of more sugar-coating or tears, here it is.

The first thing needed to be said is: with respect, please grow up. B. What #Snotty did yesterday has been coming for a while, for those willing to see it.

In fact, it’s been coming since January 2020.

Because this is LNP philosophy: people are not humans to them, they’re just workers or units of production power.

Your ONLY value to these …