@ExposingNV I wasn't aware that Meuleman was suing Andrews for defamation, because the only media outlets covering the proceedings are News Corp and the Daily Mail.
What are the grounds for the defamation case?
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Ken Gratton
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Ken Gratton
@ken_gratton
Technical Editor @carsales to December 2021; now retired.
Katılım Aralık 2013
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Interesting
Dan Andrews is yet to file his defence in Ryan “Bike Boy” Meuleman’s defamation case against him
The defence was due on 19 December
There’s a Case Management hearing listed for 11 Feb so we’ll find out more then!
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@BernardKeane I am a 64-year-old Australian. I am yet to meet a fellow Australian who believes our gun laws are too stringent.
The yanks here are just idiotic trolls. They don't vote here, so why worry about them. Leave them to their 'shit-hole country'.
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Gun nuts already shrieking about attacks on their freedom -- some clearly not even in Australia. It's just the start of what will be a froth-mouthed reaction to fixing broken gun laws.
If the murder of 15 people doesn't make you sick, the response on this hellsite will.
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@rohan_connolly @rohan_connolly, when will someone make a movie about the 2016 grand final?
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Getting massive Danny Rowe from 'The Club' vibes about new Collingwood recruit Angus Anderson!! Appropriate, too. A viewing should be compulsory as part of his induction process. Great film!
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@MichaelPascoe01 Good Heavens. This is the thin end of the wedge. Before you know it, Mamdani will mandate French Fries in school cafeterias!
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Americans generally aren't big on irony. Mystery here is how many of the replies are ironic - or not.
Brian Krassenstein@krassenstein
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is expected to require ALL New York Elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals. As a Jewish American I still support this 100%
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@criprights @FKhnopff @CJMurrumbeena Indeed. Where was Mr Cheeseman when the NSN attacked Camp Sovereignty?
Was his silence due to the fact that the coppers were nowhere to be seen back then, so none of them were in personal danger?
I know that the police do a tough job, but his remarks were most regrettable.
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@FKhnopff @CJMurrumbeena Yeah.
I hope Mr Cheeseman gets brought in for a serious chat about his messaging, also. Sure, be upset. But don’t bring that to a presser and start voicing your political opinions about ‘left vs right’.
‘The Nazis were polite’ is a hot take by a cop. Just feeds the ACAB tbh
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No-one should be surprised Victoria Police started the violence at the counter-protest on Spring Street today.
You can see protesters were chanting "Nazi scum off our streets" with fists raised in the air when police move in and started the violence.
Credit: Daniel D Harris
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@neodavis57306 @CONSTITUTIONa2A @politvidchannel @grok Not just 'billions'... 'hundreds of billions'. The last I read, AUKUS is up to around AUD $380 billion.
We've already paid $1.6 billion to help the seppos ramp up production - because the home of mass production seems to have forgotten how to do it!
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@CONSTITUTIONa2A @politvidchannel @grok Nothing Australia is paying billions for nuclear subs which trump is threatening theres no garrantee they will be delivered and we fall under the commonwealth king Charles is our king as uk is nuclear power we are protected,what we get from america can always get elsewhere
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BREAKING: Australia Could become the First Western country to permanently ban Trump, his family, and Members of his administration from its Country
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@VicIndyMovement I think Jacinta is great, but I would never read the replies to her posts (do we still call them tweets?).
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The comments, dear Lord the comments.
There truly are two Victorias.
The real world where stuff like this happens, and the entirely invented horrorshow of 3AW/Herald Sun/Liberaland.
Where facts are not just unwelcome, but actively attacked.
Jacinta Allan@JacintaAllanMP
BREAKING: Tourism spending in Victoria has surged to a record $43.7 billion, including a massive 20 per cent increase in international visitor spend.
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@aaronsmith In fairness, I think she's been let down by some dimwitted subeditor.
Sumeyya wrote a biography about Andrews that I would classify as honest, but unforgiving.
That said, she also questioned Matthew Guy pretty hard leading up to the 2022 election. She pulls no punches.
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@RageSheen I like 'communitarian' as a label.
As time passes, the cookers will be relegated to history, and there is already global resistance to American values imposed on the rest of the world.
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Because as social animals, it’s an addiction. To ‘connect’, to do the imitative comparison with others. The platform owners know this.
We can’t look away or stop scrolling.
/end
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The genius of Australia is invisible to all of the political categories developed mostly in Europe and applied globally. All of the -isms: capitalism, socialism, liberalism, communism etc.
Australia is none of those things. And that’s why it works. So what is it?
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@DaveMilbo Don't bother. I already wrote one. It didn't sell. And then the publisher was placed in the hands of liquidators!
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I'm worried that if I keep paying attention to politics to this degree I'm gonna become one of those weirdos that writes a manifesto
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@VicIndyMovement Sorry, should have been 'Sontaran'. He has to be taking the piss.
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Shouldn't the belt buckle be a Louis Vuitton knock off?
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@TheNikiSavva I'm sad to say I did check out her account. She says that 3.7 million Australians can't put food on the table.
Where does that come from? With historically low unemployment and a population of just 26 million, that seems a ludicrously high number.
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I don't often post on this platform, but now seems like the right time for this: facebook.com/share/p/1B9WYJ…
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Ken Gratton retweetledi
Michael West is one of Australia's best journalists and his media operation has done some valuable work. Hope people can chip in a little to help out here.
chuffed.org/project/michae…
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@Yerrk61783 Australian Senator In Name, If Nothing Else - ASININE.
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Did an Australian senator just call for violence against unarmed Australian civilians? #auspol
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@timand2037 @abcnews This convinces me that ABC's Media Watch could be expanded to half an hour a week and co-hosted by Jan Fran and Linton Besser. Forget 'Question Everything', which is lightweight. Jan does her best work without Will Anderson and assorted comedians on a panel.
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@ExposingNV I guess he has to resolve this matter one way or another. It can't drag on for another 12 months and become deeply embedded in the minds of the voting public.
Pesutto must reckon he can change a few minds, provided they accept the split in the party is damaging.
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Pesutto calls another party room vote on Deeming’s re-admission theage.com.au/politics/victo…
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@cosmicjester In a land that dares to call itself 'the lucky country', Stephen Bradbury is an icon. But as my dear old mum used to say, you make your own luck. Good on Bradbury for being a winner in life as well as the Olympics.
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I was thinking about how Steven Bradbury was also a punchline from the Olympics from a questionable performance, and unlike Raygun seemed to be an awesome person. Looked up what he’s doing now and he’s still awesome.
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