Joel Backwell

Melbourne-born, Asia-passionate. Travel addict, sports nut and lover of random facts. This is a personal account and all views are mine and mine alone.

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2023 was a painful period of rebuilding and uncertainty. Hats off to all the @GeelongCats fans for sticking tough through difficult times #AFL #GeelongStrong

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@djx1984 @7AFL @georgrampling Thousands of moments throughout a game. One moment or one call never decides the outcome of a game.

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#whylearnIndo

[Acicis @Acicis]

“[A] concept that’s important to our region, using a language of our region.”

Does Australia’s first Indonesian/Malay-speaking foreign minister have a word for the 2023 ACICIS #BahasaSesh Challenge? You bet she does.

Thanks @SenatorWong

[Elena Williams @elewilliams]

Great to talk to @abcnews about 🇦🇺🇮🇩learning abroad and to see the English version of this out today! Thanks @natasyajour @erwin_renaldi https://t.co/qbARiDOWSi @RobbieGaspar23 @acicisCD @Prof_David_Hill @IEAAustralia @NewColomboPlan @ANUIndonesia @ANU_CHL @ANUmedia @dfat

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@Pollytics Plenty of good political podcasts. Turn off the TV.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

A Texan has become an unlikely star of Australian rules football, considered one of the world’s roughest sports. 60 Minutes’ @jon_wertheim reports, Sunday. https://t.co/mEN4CWeXMW

[AFL @AFL]

All class, Darcy 👏

#AFLPiesDons

[Dan Andrews @DanielAndrewsMP]

As a country, we've spent so long telling Aboriginal Australians how it's going to be.

Telling them what's best for them.

And it hasn't worked.

The Voice is an offer to change that.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

This is a heartbreaking lack of leadership. Inexcusable to call it a "divisive Canberra Voice" - the Uluru Statement from the Heart (that put forward the Voice to Parliament) is the result of years of consultation by First Nations people with Firsts Nations people right across the country.

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@jpurcellstar Loved this article.

[Stacy Cay @stacycay]

Jon Stewart: “What’s the leading cause of death among children in this country? And I’m gonna give you a hint: it’s not drag show readings”

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#whylearnIndo

One of the world's biggest democracies and economies, right on our doorstep. Australia must do far more to understand Indonesia. It starts in our schools.

[Liam Prince @acicisCD]

Indonesian language on the front page of the @canberratimes this morning courtesy of @KeremDoruk17:

https://t.co/FqtLaJIiO2

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@OurNewHomecoach https://t.co/hnmpVUKIoY

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@AFL @sirswampthing what's the quickest a player has become captain of an AFL club since arriving?

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@acicisCD @Menlu_RI I hope Bu encourages her government to invest in an Indonesian language centre in Australia and across the world of the calibre of the Goethe Institut or Alliance Francaise.

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@stuartistics @SimonSharlott @GeelongCats Worse. IPA

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@anjsharmaaa The Voice is for all Australians. By providing Indigenous Australians a constitutionally-embedded voice it makes us a better nation. Of course this process must be led by Indigenous communities @anjsharmaaa but if the naysayers (white and non white) give rise to a NO we all lose.

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@ljayes First Betts, then Pearce. Good time to be a @GeelongCats fan

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@footyindustryAU Isaac Smith got in their heads. #Normie

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Very good choice.

[Stephen Dziedzic @stephendziedzic]

News: Kerri Hartland has been appointed as the new Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service. She is the first woman to take the position.