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Elton John has announced he will no longer be posting to Twitter. The singer posted the reasons for his departure from the social media platform before logging off. “All my life I’ve tried to use music to bring people together. Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our […]
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11 Dec 2022 /
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Senator Fraser Anning from Katter’s Australia Party has launched a long rant on Twitter attacking the Safe Schools program and transgender youth. The politician, who defected from Pauline Hanson’s One Nation to the Katter Party, said in the late 1960’s Australia would have declared the Safe Schools program to be communist propaganda and the people […]
Tags: AusPol, Bob Katter, Fraser Anning, Katter's Australia Party, safe schools, Twitter
20 Sep 2018 |
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Update: 30-01-2018 1:00pm Australian Conservatives senate candidate has admitted he mistook an Pride advertisement from the Swedish Army, and thought it was a campaign from the Australian army. “Someone sent me the image and I mistook it for the Australian Army. My bad. I can only hope the Australia Army doesn’t keep going down this […]
Tags: armed forces, Australian Conservatives, Lyle Shelton, Pride, Sweden, Twitter
1 Aug 2018 |
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Tennys Sandgren has had a sudden rise to fame via this week’s Australian Open, under increased media attention he’s apologised for his past homophobic comments. Sandgren had an unexpectedly good performance at the Australian Open this week, ranked number 96th in the world the American player made it all the way to the quarter finals […]
Tags: Australian OPpen, Homophobia, Tennys Sandgren, tweet, Twitter
26 Jan 2018 |
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Defamation is a wild beast. It’s hard to understand and even more difficult to explain how it works. It is the Khloe Kardashian of the legal world. Here is the black and white: for something to be defamatory a person must be able to prove that someone has published a matter, as defined in the […]
Tags: defamation, Facebook, instagram, jo wynaden, legally speaking, social media, sonder legal, Twitter
12 Dec 2017 |
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Acting Special Minister of State Mathias Cormann has announced that the financial cost of the postal survey was much less than the anticipated $122 million. Senator Cormann announced on his Twitter account that the process had been delivered by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for $80.5 million. “Happy to report that the ABS delivered the […]
Tags: Derryn Hinch, Jim Chalmers, Madeline King, Marriage, Mathias Cormann, postal survey, Twitter
9 Dec 2017 |
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We’ve all had this farce of a Marriage Equality Survey foisted upon us and most of us are pretty disappointed that our civil rights are being put to a voluntary, non-binding, $122M survey. So why not have some fun with it, and make the most of a terrible situation? Introducing: #postboxselfie When was the last […]
Tags: Facebook, instagram, Marriage, marriage equality, post box, postal survey, postboxselfie, sayYES, selfie, tim callow, Twitter, yes
19 Sep 2017 |
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Lily Allen is facing an online backlash after she referred to the LGBT people as “fags” on a Twitter post. The F*ck You singer was responding to a post from queer magazine GT suggesting that their followers should check out Allen’s latest song which is an anti-Trump rallying call. Allen responded by tweeting “Fags hate Trump”, […]
Tags: Bisexual, donald trump, gay, Joe Jackson, Lesbian, Lily Allen, Mark Ronson, Peter Tachell, slur, social media, trans*, transgender, Twitter
26 Jan 2017 |
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An event at the University of California’s Davis campus has been cancelled as a result students protesting the appearance of controversial Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. Yiannopoulos, who secured a book deal with the with publisher Simon & Schuster late last year, has made a name for himself with his incendiary opinions and has recently ridiculed transgender […]
Tags: AIDS, alt-right, breitbart, California, Ghostbusters, HIV, Leslie Jones, martin shkreli, milo yiannopoulos, Twitter, uc davis, university of california
17 Jan 2017 |
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Micro-blogging site Twitter has permanently suspended the account of gay conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos. The move comes a day after the writer led a harassment campaign against Ghostbuster’s actor Leslie Jones. Twitter closed down Yiannopoulos’ account after he asked his followers to bombard the actress with racist and misogynistic material. A spokesperson for Twitter told Buzzfeed […]
Tags: Andrew Bolt, banned, Ghostbusters, Leslie Jones, milo yiannopoulos, Twitter
20 Jul 2016 |
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