JR

Personal acct. Fmr HKer - swapped one tropics for another. Views mine. "We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn".RT not endorsements.

[Andrew Greene @AndrewBGreene]

Sometimes it just has to be said. Committee Chair @SenRaffCiccone says what most people watching senate estimates were thinking

[JR @jacredd]

@poss62637946 @DrNeilStone Girls and boys are vaccinated in Australia.

[JR @jacredd]

@ElmerOlson @DrNeilStone Will never forget it.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Australia 🇦🇺 is on track to eliminate - yes ELIMINATE - cervical cancer by 2035

Guess how?

Vaccines

The HPV one

Vaccines are amazing!

[JR @jacredd]

@SquizzSTK @JmarrMarr Meantime, who is the MP praying the rosary during question time? 📿

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.

[Martin Flanagan @Martin_Flanagan]

Neale Daniher was everything contemporary culture isn’t, or doesn’t appear to be - constant, brave, uncomplaining, cheerful. He was the best of us.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Let us learn to be rich in a different way: more attentive to relationships, more intent on valuing the common good, more attached to the local area, more grateful in welcoming and integrating those who come to live with us.

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

Our MRP today has One Nation surging nationally. The lazy read is that Australia is lurching far right. It isn’t.

In our latest piece, RedBridge’s Alex Fein lays out what’s actually happening: a sophisticated, transnationally-networked information operation has spent years cementing Pauline Hanson as “one of us”, and it’s pushing on a door the major parties left wide open, especially the Coalition.

Collapsed living standards. Failing services. A political class that stopped listening. That’s the door.

In focus groups, voters now call her “Pauline,” like a friend. Gina Rinehart’s plane didn’t hurt her, it thrilled them. One of theirs finally got a taste of what the elites have always had.

And then there are the Please Explain cartoons.

They’ve quietly done something no traditional political communication can. They’ve moved Hanson inside the tribe. These are easily the best political creatives in this country’s history.

Cartoons don’t get scrutinised the way normal political adds do. They get shared. Laughed at. Quoted at the pub. They become the in-joke and once you’re in on the joke, you’re in the tribe. That’s the trick. Please Explain has turned Hanson from a politician you vote for into a character you know and these cartoons have positioned her as the sensible ‘teacher’ in the class room of misbehaving politicians.

The One Nation vote isn’t really about immigration. Few participants even raise it. It’s a kick up the bum, delivered to a class of politicians voters no longer trust to deliver anything else.

The longer the established centre-right misread this, the harder the door is to close.

The link to her piece is below.

[Peter FitzSimons @Peter_Fitz]

LOVE this. How do we know it's genuine?

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I first met Clark Reynolds when he was just three years old at our Black History Month reception at the White House.

Over the last ten years, it's been wonderful getting updates about his life through his letters. Check out how he’s doing now:

[Cassowary @Real_Cassowary]

Omg, I hit 1K 😭 Thank you all for the love and support. Y’all are amazing, and it’s really nice to see that there are still animals and humans who love rare animals.
#animaltwt #cassowary

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

This is THE BEST! Happy happy birthday dear David - we need at LEAST another half century of you

[Julian Hill MP @JulianHillMP]

‼️Big Tobacco caught giving SECRET evidence - WHY?? What are they hiding? #auspol

[Ostrich @OstrichInCrisis]

Might crash the Met Gala later.

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

Some people use the Force… 🤨 I prefer a well-timed toast and a five-year mission. 🥂
May the Fourth be with you… if you must but let’s be honest; I’ve been boldly going since before it was cool. 😉🚀

[Harrison Ford @HarrisonFordLA]

May the fourth be with you

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Look at the orange line

Going down

That's cervical cancer cases in the age group that has had the HPV vaccine in England

This vaccine prevents cancer!!

[Rick @colonelhogans]

Former NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell resigned as he’d “forgot” to declare an expensive bottle of wine.

Federal Labor minister Mick Young waa forced to stand down in 1984 as he didn’t declare a Paddington bear in his luggage thru customs.

Hanson is gifted a new plane and $2M cash from a billionaire and the media thinks it’s a blow up over nothing?