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Painter, punner, prognosticator “When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less”

Melbourne, Australia
Joined March 2012
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THIS IS WHAT ISRAEL WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR… In Gaza, 70 kilograms of human body parts are counted as a single victim.
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Scoop - this could save the Australian govt millions in resources. Just in case Jillian Segal, Albo, et al were wondering where the rise in anti-lsrael sentiment is coming from. It's not caused by the ABC or SBS or progressives or anybody else. It's driven by lsrael itself. .
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Public service mandarins invariably conduct their byzantine machinations with polite diplomacy. Ploys and thank you. #artwiculate
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Make it so..@fin
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Went to see NAZA (collateral damage) at Nova in Carlton. At end, audience remained quiet and allowed all the credits to roll. Most chilling statement from one of those interviewed in the film. Killing Palestinians is 'fun', so war has become a video game, as if we didn't know.
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So, Ms Segal is proposing 'independent' monitoring of ABC and SBS for what purpose? Well, pretty obvious would've thought. Having cowed University Vice Chancellors (not that they take much cowing) we're now getting to work on public broadcasters QED abc.net.au/news/2026-10-30/j…
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Of all Mr Albanese's disastrous appointments, the Jillian Segal 'social cohesion' commission is close to being the most disastrous. This country is replete with respected Jewish community leaders who would have helped salve a real problem, instead of making a bad situation worse.
The antisemitism envoy told the Royal Commission that Gaza’s death toll was “grossly inflated” and that the UN accepted this. The UN said otherwise. When I asked she said she “notes” the UN’s views.
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The fact Jillian Segal waited til after her Senate appearance this week before releasing an updated report with further crackdown measures on Universities and public freedoms, after already being caught lying at the antisemitism RC, is an absolute disgrace and she must be sacked.
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Special Envoy Jillian Segal’s latest report is a dangerous and ideologically driven roadmap that threatens freedom of speech, academic freedom and democratic rights, while failing to meaningfully address the root causes of antisemitism. Our release: jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/10…
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I've been reading through this, which was released today, and let me tell you - it is a hot mess. Jillian Segal (well let's face it, the taxpayer-funded team who work for her) has delivered a line of limited thinking that aims to insert itself into every aspect of Australian life - with no peer review, or any form of independent assessment. We are expected to simply take the Antisemitism Envoy at their word and shut up. As usual, it presents as a wandering discourse of unevidenced claims, taking particular aim at the increasing dissatisfaction with Israel by most of the western world and hiding it within the cloak of 'antisemitism' - a word tossed about freely throughout the document, a word that underwrites the document and all it's radical thought-policing, but a word that they fail to provide with any concrete definition or cohesive meaning. .
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Some claim the Mid-Term Elections will set the scene for Trump’s denouement? But is it just a wind up? #artwiculate
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Report: In ‘unprecedented confrontation,’ IDF chief resisting carrying out military action ordered by Netanyahu relating to Iran timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e…
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El-Sayed: In my Neurology unit, I would have to give that MOCA exam, that cognitive test he's so proud of… The only people you give that test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you’re taking one of those tests, something is wrong.  And you know the doctor who gave it to him was like, I just want to see how smart you are, sir. And he's like, me too. He brags about having taken it. He's like I remembered the rhinoceros. You're like Habibi, everybody remember the rhinoceros. And the funny thing about it is, you know, he's taken it multiple times. So he's not even bragging about the first time he took it. He's like, I took it the 1st time and then I took it the 2nd time. So with Donald Trump, you can't blame him for this, he's just dumb. But for Mike Rogers, can you imagine how small of a human being you have to be to know that he has real deficits and to just nod your head approvingly at the most ridiculous shit that the man proposes?
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THE COMPLETE DATA: Australia's GDP is higher, and unemployment lower than the average in the developed world.
Why does Australia have the highest inflation in the developed world?
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A Melbourne based fella set up a website, employs Filipinos to write FAKE stories, FAKE pictures to "expose" crime in Victoria the website included a list of FAKE journos complete with FAKE profiles All FAKE This is how misinformation spreads #auspol abc.net.au/news/2026-10-29/c…
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