Val Steane

[Val Steane @val_steane]

What has happened to our kicking for goal? Too many very gettable shots missed. I hope this will be focused on this week at training. #AFLNorthDons

[Alicia ⎊ @aliciaisabelx]

Justice for Riley!! 🥲

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@NMFCOfficial Why isn't Riley in the team? I feel so sorry for him. He does everything right and they just won't pick him. I'm worried that we will lose him at the end of the year. Please play him @NMFCOfficial

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@maffygirl @PhilHazell1 Yes, Phil is just wonderful. I love these posts. It's great to hear about dementia from someone who really knows about the disease. With beautiful Margot next to him. You can see how much they love each other. We can't forget Jan in the background always giving her support.

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@Maria3938219406 You didn't let her down. You loved her and did all you could for her. And in the end you did the right thing. You were with her at the end and you were the lest petson she saw. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[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.
/2 sources

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@DavidZita1 @FOXFOOTY This is appalling. Para 8 - "A reasonable player...." Are they saying that PC is not a reasonable player and deliberately went to ground to hurt Davis? Why did PC not attend and give evidence himself? Because he knows that it will make absolutely no difference to theoutcome.

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@kangamerchant The lack of consistency with these decisions is rediculous. Nothing wrong with the tackle - was was a football action and the outcome an accident. What about precedent with cases like this where bans have been overturned? PC must wonder what the hell he's supposed to do.

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@7AFL This is jusy someone's opinion. Time will tell. Everybody, including North supporters, carry on about North not getting Harley Reid. Of course, he's going to be a star but we have Finn O'Sullivan and he is a generational talent. We have missed him so much in the last 2 weeks.

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@FkYeahMatt It doesn't count. You didn't have any opposition.

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@rohan_connolly 50 years ago.... I can't believe it. I was there in the outer at Princes Park watching. And I knew he was going to kick that goal because he was Malcolm Blight. Malcolm just did things like that as if it was oh so ordinary. 💙🤍🦘

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@nmfc_18 @ArdenStReview According to the protocols and the timing of the injury, he will miss 2 games. I think it happened on Wednesday.

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@NiallHarbison Niall, you really perform miracles. He is such a beautiful boy. ❤️

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@JustCantEven18 Me too! I'm going to both games. I would be ecstatic if we won both of them.

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@Martyfields Well said Marty. The American pronunciation of words in sport drives me crazy.

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@BhattiLaib9960 It's beautiful and elegant. Buy it!

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@Avabelly__ Caspar

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@Juryduty81 Also Dursma.

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@kangamerchant @NMFCOfficial @HarveySuth On one level I understand why it is only two years but I wish it was longer.

[Val Steane @val_steane]

@honeymoon250 I have all 20. I'm 65.