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[Brad @SogDog81]

@FOXFOOTY 🤞🤞

[Brad @SogDog81]

@ScooterMcNeice Jimmy X2 on the coaching panel next year. Just has to be.

[Brad @SogDog81]

@rohan_connolly So many players just being gifted games. Zero accountability for continued poor performances. But then, who comes in for dropping the players? Zero depth and a long list of senior players who look like they don't want to be there. Rock bottom has a basement apparently.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak.
This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it “proving her critics wrong.”
We are all watching it happen in real time.
At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
-1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.” Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25–30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her “a trashy journalist” and banned her from all future press conferences.
• “Babies are aborted the day before birth.” Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies.
• “Interest rates are heading towards 10%.” False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise.
• “There’s no gender pay gap — just women taking time off.” False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks.
• “$30B a year on Indigenous programs.” False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses.
• Transgender people were compared to “militant Islam.” False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the pop’n. There’s no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violence— assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern)
• “23% of Australians can’t speak English.” False. That 23% speak another language at home — most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%.
• “The CEFC has had $200 billion.” False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion.
• “I care about the homeless and hungry.” Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding — despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate.
• $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling.
• “I support worker rights.” False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers
• Called Australian workers “lazy.” She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year
• Labor have let immigration get out of control.” False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 — 538,000 → 446,000 → 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS pop’n projection as a fresh “next 50 years” forecast

Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out — and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts.
Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like.
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[Brad @SogDog81]

@FlightPlanPod If I'm choosing between him and May, I'm going May. The kid just really has a presence and once he has a few more games and pre seasons under his belt will really shine.

[Brad @SogDog81]

@PatrickRyen Gutter journalism and he should know better. I hope someone rips in to him off camera and tells him to pull his head in and to apologise to the young fella.

[Brad @SogDog81]

@BomberRicko I really dislike this narrative. Zach royally effed this up and only has himself to blame. He and Potroro gave EFC little to no notice which left them in a horrible stance from a neg or leverage position. Why should EFC suffer because you've thrown your toys out of the cot?!

[Brad @SogDog81]

@FlightPlanPod 2m Peter, reverse cycle heater as FB when he comes back?

[Brad @SogDog81]

@PrinceISname @Zookilux 22-1 this is the best and worst thing ever. Lol

[Brad @SogDog81]

Dang it. Got shown this just now.....so long spare time, hello me trying to get 23-0 at 2am

[Brad @SogDog81]

@Zookilux @PrinceISname Amazing - thanks 🙏

[Ronny Lerner @RonnyLerner]

The umpiring has been getting worse week on week as the season has gone on. And this is AFTER going up to 4 umpires for a game. It’s almost as if they actually don’t know the rules. And spare me the “hardest sport in the world to umpire” line, they need to take responsibility like players and coaches do #AFLPiesDees

[Brad @SogDog81]

@PrinceISname @7AFL Also, not sure if Jordan realises this but James was involved with GWS... Who, last time I checked... We're the orange team, not Red and Black 🤔

[Brad @SogDog81]

@FOXFOOTY Great lesson to teach my kids.
"Don't bother son, you won't get picked because they have favourites". You realise Gerard, that in 2022, EFC board established an independent panel to select the next coach (B.Scott) you know who put his hand up for that role but was unsuccessful 🤔

[Brad @SogDog81]

@jaetea5 @DonCaldwelll Oh and for the record, I'm a big Tsatas fan. Was a bit of tongue in cheek . Lol

[Brad @SogDog81]

@jaetea5 @DonCaldwelll There's miss kicks and and then there's missing your boot entirely 🤣

[Ronny Lerner @RonnyLerner]

West Coast clearly the better team today but wow, this is some of the most disgraceful umpiring I’ve seen in a long time #AFLEaglesDons

[Brad @SogDog81]

@Jrod_Dons The new Weightman.
You'd think he was KOd the way he carries on... Then bounces back and all good.