In all seriousness, put this on my tombstone.
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Taking a break from Twitter for a while – partly to embark on a work project, but mostly because someone tweeted this at me and was so powerfully correct that sadly I’ve now died and my ghost is unable to tweet.
Something here for all of us, tbh!
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Do you look like you belong in an 80s gay club? Do you live in Melbourne? Can you dance like it’s 4am Saturday at 2pm Monday arvo…? If so… #TheNewsreader
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A friend once told me the worst way to die would be to found dead on the toilet vanity-searching your own name on Twitter and years later I still can't imagine anything worse.
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Damn proud to know Michelle Lim Davidson. You’d know her from The Newsroom, After the Verdict and Playschool – and now she’s a magazine cover model.
One of the hardest working people on Australian stage and screen. You’re going to see so much more of her.
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For the Guardian, I wrote about how watching Top Coat by made me realise I wasn’t healed from the discrimination I faced in Australian media during my time as an international student. Thank you for reading and commissioning
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Completely heartbroken. Archie told of our pain, our love and our survival as blackfellas. We loved him so dearly.
His sons Amos and Eban say he was “healer and a unifying force”.
Rest in power with the ancestors. ❤️🖤💛
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Constantly amazed by the number of men that walk around the city with no bags. Just going to work raw. Walking out the door with no emergency tissue or painkillers. Just them and their hands in their pockets against the world
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Sydney! Join us on Saturday 6 August at 2pm for this free event at Darling Square Library thanks to ! It’s an afternoon of food-themed storytelling & hot takes with Sydney’s funniest and hungriest writers and comedians. Book your free tickets: whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/jennife
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Local shopping centre is randomly playing Radiohead’s Exit Music for a Film and suddenly cheery weekend errands have been imbued with soul-depleting anguish
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God listening to #Renaissance just makes me want to get DRUNK and MESSY and SWEATY amongst STRANGERS and yes probably contract covid in the process admittedly but it would be WORTH IT, it’s that good.
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Onya for pushing for this, @pocockdavid.
But FFS, if community arts events with budgets of tens of dollars can get their shit together to ensure Auslan interpreters, surely Australian Parliament can too.
Story:
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Victoria’s Chief Health Officer talks about coping with the politicisation of his role in the pandemic, studying Buddhism, and losing his father at a young age. By | Photo by Josh Robenstone.
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“When people say they want more detail, all that tells me is that they refuse to read our report.
“There's 500+ pages of detail. I do wonder if some of them can read and write."
—Marcia Langton on the Voice to Parliament and constitutional recognition.
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The Rehearsal (HBO) is part art! Part cringe-comedy! And the most batshit show you'll see ... ever. and I process it together on today's #StopEverything.
Also! Joni Mitchell makes us cry. And Natalie Abbott on #AftertasteTV S2.
10am , ABC Listen soon
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Apologies: we were strictly a Home & Away family, it was a sluttier show
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DO YOU WANT ME TO EAT THE FUCKING TOAST OR NOT?
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Remember how you used to get offered drugs at a gig? Tonight at the Fatboy Slim gig I was approached and asked if I had any gaviscon.
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A new parliament starts in Australia but,as always, refugees are forgotten. Let's not forget that the same parliament midwived the tragedy of Manus &Nauru,which still continues. We need the parliament to take action for those who remain. It is legally+morally responsible.#auspol
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Live your life today, and every day, the way Kate Bush handles interview questions
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Each year I'm in utter awe of the team and what such a small, tenacious, AMBITIOUS team can produce. This year's program is no different. Proud to play a part in bringing together some of your current and new favourite writers for this year's festival.
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The 2022 Festival program is live! From 8–11 Sep, immerse yourself in a thrilling exploration of ambition at #MWF22. Find your favourites – tickets go on sale at 9am tomorrow (early-bird discount anyone?). Explore now: bit.ly/2zJWEfL
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Disgusted at how well-dressed teenagers are nowadays, to the extent that when I see one dressed like absolute dogshit – zero style, horrible fit, no self-respect whatsoever – I mentally thank them for upholding TRADITION.
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"We may view Pasifika cultures as being homophobic — full of fear for the queer. But this was taught to us by white, Western attitudes brought with colonisation.
"Before the missionaries, sexuality among many Pacific communities was fluid."
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6/ Most of the 'teal' independents.
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2/ The United Nations Secretary General.
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Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals.
But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.
Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.
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People and authorities calling for no new coal or gas projects.
1/ The International Energy Agency.
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🚨🚨🚨 The SBS Emerging Writers' Competition is back for 2022! Entries open on August 16, with two excellent new judges - Alice Pung and Christos Tsiolkas 🙌
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ANNOUNCEMENT
SBS is looking to unearth a new crop of talented writers with the return of the SBS Emerging Writers’ Comp!
Write on the theme of ‘Emergence’ for your chance to win a prize of $5000.
#SBSEmergingWriters
Register now 
sbs.com.au/topics/voices/1
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For further thoughts on this matter, I once again refer your attention to ’s pinned tweet.
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Day two of the 47th Parliament and racism has reared its ugly head. Pauline Hanson disrespectfully stormed out of the acknowledgement of Country in the Senate, refusing to acknowledge “those people.” You want to make parliament safe? Get rid of racism.
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Shout out to all the First Nations parliamentarians and staff having to share a workplace with this piece of work.
May your ever growing presence and power continue to make her feel so uncomfortable that she shrivels out of existence.
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Pauline Hanson walked out of the Senate chamber after interjecting the acknowledgement to country with, "No I won't and never will".
The One Nation senator told AAP it was in protest to a proposed motion that will raise the Indigenous flag in the Senate. Story via @AAPNewswire
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no way. no fucking way
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Freya embodies all the best trends of 2022. An anti-work icon who sinks yachts in her sleep (which she does for up to 20 hours a day).
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Thread 🧵 : I can’t stop thing about this tweet and the idea that white people are marginalized in publishing. As a Black man who has multiple New York Times bestselling books, let’s talk about the Black experience in publishing…
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Quite a stark difference between the two sides of the chamber – Labor, the Greens, crossbench and clerks all wearing masks, but with just a couple of exceptions, the Coalition is mask free.
There is no mandate, but it was strongly recommended people in parliament house mask up
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Winter booster done and I now have AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna flowing through my veins and my nails have never been stronger, my hair more lustrous and genitals more throbbingly powerful
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All of us on Twitter would have better mental health if we got more comfortable with saying, “My fellow piece of shit, let’s take this fuckery offline.”
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