Daniel Teng

Writer for Epoch Times 🇦🇺 covering national affairs including federal politics, economics, and Australia-China relations. Got a tip? 📧

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@TMFScottP Actually, parties don't need to release full suite of policies right away. The electorate doesn't read it, media barely covers it. I remember Australian Values Party had a very detailed policy outline, but it struggled with getting votes.

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@Amarillo1942237 @MikeMeehallWood So how is a fullback supposed to make a tackle like that? Cause I can't see any physical way to achieve that? Head first? Feet first? Take the blow to the torso? Or just leave it completely?

The rules leave a very narrow space for defenders to actually defend, or risk penalties

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@draughtsports Average footy fan doesn't realise tactically NSW were completely done. Willie Mason, Andrew Johns, Paul Gallen all admit NSW wouldn't have won without the send-off. Have fun in Melb and Bris guys.

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@MikeMeehallWood Right. What are your thoughts about all those 6 agains on the Maroon tryline for NSW? I couldn’t decipher what most of them were for.

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@toddvs35 Players should just protest. Start playing touch football en masse

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@MickWallaceMail Sadly, its the same problem that's affected sports around the world, appealing to shorter attention spans and trying to win "casual" fans. F1's doing it and cricket has been doing it with T20—it all isolates purist fans, but we haven't reached inflection point yet ...

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

The warrior class is disintegrating worldwide.
It started with the defund the police movement in the U.S. No one wants to wear a badge anymore. Why would you? Do your job, get labeled a criminal.
Look at Daniel Penny, a man who stopped a threat and got rewarded with a prosecution.
Who protects the community after that? No one. And everyone knows it.
People remember unjust consequences. They adjust their behavior accordingly.
Now we're watching military heroes across the world get prosecuted for doing exactly what their country trained and ordered them to do, find the enemy and destroy them.
You think this ends well? I'll tell you how it ends, a draft, Forced service, a generation of "soldiers" more afraid of their own government than the enemy in front of them.
No one in their right mind is going to volunteer for that.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been evacuated from his residence in the capital city Canberra amid an ongoing Beijing-backed transnational repression campaign targeting Falun Gong. https://t.co/Mosx5RHZMA via @epochtimes @AuEpochTimes

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@DefiantLs Interesting. At the Australian Open the US athletes were very strict with themselves and avoided any commentary on politics. Not sure why Winter Olympians so much more vocal.

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“I don’t think it was actually me who did that. It was God the whole time," said 13-year-old Austin who swam 4 kilometres to save his stranded family

https://t.co/9grqgrAQEJ

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WA Police provide footage of the man who threw a bomb into an "Invasion Day" rally during Australia Day

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@MeidasTouch I recall that decision was contentious then. He had only been in office for 9 months and beat out Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who struggled against Mugabe for years.

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@verifiedjeff @ragipsoylu Statehood probably isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Lifting every citizen regardless of ethnicity is likely better for entire nation

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

What Trump is addressing is the risk that if Greenland becomes independent (which many of our left-wing politicians want), then Greenland's politicians may make a deal with Russia or China.

They have previously been in talks with China about building airports there. Their politicians make statements saying they want strengthened ties with China.

An issue is that Greenland is a country that has way too small a population and economy for its global military importance. We can't have these Greenlandic politicians, who are similar to small-city mayors, have such enormous power over international security.

And this is why Greenland cannot be independent. And why, if Greenland is on a path to independence, the USA should make moves to take over Greenland instead.

I don't like Trump's talk about military action against Denmark obviously. But we Danes also have to realize our own failures in the matter.

Our first failure was to put Greenland on a path for independence in 2009, with the Self-Government Act of 2009. This was naive and a mistake. As explained, Greenland cannot become independent. But many of our politicians are naive and woke.

Our second failure was that of our Prime Minister who harshly rejected Trump when they first discussed Greenland in 2019. Instead, she should have been more open to dialogue. She flatly rejected him with "people are not bought and sold", and called his idea "absurd". But if there is a deal that Greenlanders are happy with, "selling" them is not the correct frame. It could be a mutually beneficial deal for all involved.

Also especially when you yourself have made mistakes like the first failure, you should be more open to dialogue in general. And you should not publicly call the ideas of our most important ally "absurd".

Our third failure is happening right now. What we should do is offer a price for Greenland. There are serious estimates putting the value in the range of $400 billion to $1 trillion. So an offer in that range. If we did this, then the USA could have their needs for military security fulfilled for a fair market price. This would make talk about the idea of a military conquest look (even more) unacceptable.

And a sale could benefit all. It could bring wealth and opportunity to the people of Greenland, and greater military security to the U.S. and the world.

[Australian Jewish Association @AustralianJA]

BREAKING

Reports of a man described to AJA as of Middle Eastern appearance and appearing to carry some kind of suspicious bag or vest.

Bondi road.

We are told that the bomb squad has just arrived.

This is a developing story and please treat details as unconfirmed at this stage. Hopefully it turns out to be nothing.

[Senator Dave McCormick @SenMcCormickPA]

Today, my friend @SenFettermanPA and I had the profound honor to meet with the heroes of the Bondi Beach massacre. Together Rabbi Ulman and Ahmed al-Ahmed are protecting the light of hope over hatred.

John and I will always stand together against antisemitism in all its forms.

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Craig English spent 12 months in the thick of far-left agitation, before finding a practice older than any revolution.

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"It's taught me resilience to standing around your feet. No one owes you anything. The world owes you nothing, and I'm sick and tired of seeing people out there play the victim," said @PaulineHansonOz at @CPACaustralia 2025.

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CBS Is Canceling ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ in 2026 https://t.co/UuKSKfPsmR via @epochtimes