Stuart Rintoul

Optimist, despite everything. Writer. Most recent book: Lowitja - The authorised biography of Lowitja O’Donoghue (Allen & Unwin)

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You don’t boo at an ANZAC Day dawn service. Simple as that. You just don’t.

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The stone age! Seriously! The fucking stone age

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@Martin_Flanagan Just all class

[Peter Murphy @PeterWMurphy1]

I always thought Tony Abbott was a pretty unworthy recipient of the PMship of Australia, and everything that he's done since then has confirmed that view. #auspol #IStandWithGrace

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🍉🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

Interview with Sydney philosophy Professor Peter Slezak, whose parents were Holocaust survivors. #auspol #Bondi #GazaGenocide

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Build it now! Travis Head and Alex Carey.
Under the Southern Cross I stand, a sprig of wattle in my hand … #Ashes

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Howard, Abbott, Morrison, Frydenberg … so many ghosts of Christmas past

[Rachel Withers @rachelrwithers]

What @cathywilcox1 said

[Rachel Withers @rachelrwithers]

Ah yes, that's where a recently unemployed 24-year-old bricklayer, who spent years hanging around Australia's pro-IS network, and his 50-year-old migrant father were radicalised: university anti-genocide protests 🙄

Be fucking serious for a moment.

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Australia has some of the toughest gun laws in the world and they’re about to get even tougher. This is what the US can’t seem to get its head around: the way to stop a crazy fool with a gun is to take away the gun https://t.co/snS7Gxj9qd

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The smoking ruins of the Liberal Party

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The greed of the AFL knows no bounds. It’s all about the bucks

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@PatrickRyen @ForrestsMind @bromobile07 @cdesilva23 What do you reckon you’ll be offered next year when he’s 31 with one year left on his contract? And then … bupkis. Staggers me that Essendon didn’t think it could turn 3 more first round picks into a really good draft hand.

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@bromobile07 @ForrestsMind @PatrickRyen @cdesilva23 I guess the risk is that Merrett really does "loathe" being at Essendon now (to use Damian Barrett's word)

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@bromobile07 @ForrestsMind @PatrickRyen @cdesilva23 I can understand Merrett wanting success, but loyalty (and contracts) matter too. I've been trying to put the shoe on the other foot. If someone like Luke Hodge had been held against his will, I wouldn't have felt great. I also wouldn't have wanted him playing for the Bombers

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@PatrickRyen @bromobile07 @cdesilva23 I reckon Mitchell has come in for some unwarranted criticism. He did his bit: Merrett wanted to cross. It was Essendon’s recalcitrance that was the problem. As for giving up future stars, that was never going to happen

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@AFL Made a good offer, refused to be stupid, kept our future, can’t wait for ‘26

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@HawkTalkPod Happy to move on. Sad for Merrett

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@spitatem @lightsupleclerc The thing about Hawthorn is that it’s not about one flag, but prolonged success. Merrett, who wants to play for the Hawks let’s not forget, would be an asset next year and maybe the year after, but it’s not just about the here and now