Matthew Toohey

Dear new followers, After butting up against Twitter's silly and arbitrary "can't follow more than 5,000 people" rule for the last 18 months I appear* to be allowed to follow more people now. I'll aim to add a few each day lest I trigger some kind of automated response.

Tomorrow the Press Club platforms Israeli Ambassador Hillel Newman who questioned whether 165 people killed in an Iranian school strike were actually there. It's not even listed on their website. Many who've long argued Australian media is biased will see this as proof.

Excellent rebuttal.

A reminder that just two years ago RFK was a Democrat who was comparing Trump to Hitler and now he sits at CPAC as a loyal sycophant making up absurd stories to praise Dear Leader Trump and keep his job.

Another good sign. 👌

If you believe this story you may be the dumbest, most gullible person you yourself have ever come across

President Trump keeps saying “nobody” knew or expected things lots of people knew or expected: cnn.com/2026/03/28/pol…

“Mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990!!!” Professor Andrew Sinclair is Deputy Director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. He discovered the human SRY gene and has continued to research gonad development for over 30 years "The IOC states that SRY gene is a reliable test for determining biological sex and therefore who can complete in women’s events. However, this policy is based on the overly simplistic idea that the presence of the SRY gene alone is equivalent to being male. Male sex is much more complex, involving multiple genes other than SRY in developmental pathways as well as hormones. The presence or absence of the SRY gene does not determine the range of human sex characteristics. Individuals with differences of sex development may carry the SRY gene but develop either complete or partial female bodies while others develop male bodies but lack SRY. All the SRY test tells you is whether or not the gene is present. It does not tell you how SRY is functioning, whether a testis has formed, whether testosterone is produced and, if so, whether it can be used by the body. The SRY gene alone should not determine who can compete in women’s sport." theconversation.com/world-athletic… Additionally, geneticist and anatomist Murray Barr, of the eponymous Barr body, requested sport officials stop using the technique. “Buccal smear testing in the area of athletics is totally inappropriate,” he wrote. “Its use in this way has been an embarrassment to me.” The @ioc return to genetic testing revives one of sport’s most damaging regulations. The SRY test erroneously assumes that a single gene can definitively identify sex. Yet, science has never supported that claim. Women with DSDs may carry the gene but develop as females, just as some men may lack it but develop as males. Coventry is wrong when he suggests that sex testing protects women’s sport. The reintroduction of these tests does not mark scientific progress, but institutional regression. Sex testing has not, and will not, preserve fairness. Instead, it has caused and will cause irreparable harm to countless women. idrottsforum.org/feature-pieper…

@davidsmosspiggy @StephenPunwasi 🤷‍♂️

@StephenPunwasi @TooheyMatthew I thought the legit fear was suicide vests packed with explosives and enriched uranium to scatter radioactive contaminating bits everywhere. I.e. not an actual nuclear explosion just contamination. Is that possibly a thing?

FYI a nuclear suicide vest isn’t feasible due to basic physics. Nuclear explosions require critical mass, which means slamming the particles together. It needs space, so containers are large & heavy. This isn’t limited by tech. It’s limited by physics and reality.

@KeenyDhk @kevinbonham @headington11195 What he said. ☝️

@kevinbonham @headington11195 They are tirelessly ignorant. You have the patience of Job.

Just had some incredibly mindless (and clueless) abuse from One Nation supporter @headington11195 simply for correcting factual errors about election results. I have also been correcting factual errors people make about One Nation.

That’s not a haircut, it’s a lawnmower accident. We would know.

I believe the the small text on the middle sticker says "...ourselves in the foot"

The best description I heard of it was “as if Louis the 14th and Liberace got together and smoked cystel meth then redecorated the Oval Office .”

@redo72JR 🤣

@TooheyMatthew An whiter shade of beige.

According to a post on *ahem, another social media network, ahem*, it is four years since this happened. When was the last time you thought about Paul Fletcher, tweeps? #awkward #carboncopy #AusPol

@MJF9991 @swrighteconomy Alas, it is you who is naive. Read up on how the CPI is calculated. And never forget that Well Done Angus changed the rules to prevent Aussies from learning about impending electricity price hikes before the 2022 election.

@TooheyMatthew @swrighteconomy Why are you so naive? We have Australians being cut off from electricity because of ridiculous Renewables. Many Australians cannot afford to live. Electricity prices increased by 37% last year and now petrol prices will push inflation higher. Angus Taylor did the right thing.

So, Angus Taylor says halve fuel tax for 3 months, which will increase demand. Just going back to my point here: smh.com.au/politics/feder…

What do the coffee shop owners think about the fuel crisis?

Mike Lindell was served with a lawsuit today while doing an interview at CPAC.

Not inconceivable

@FredSpider 🤷‍♂️ Just another press conference in a long series of press conferences ...

@TooheyMatthew Whenever I see something triangular, Fletcher comes to mind. Drives me crazy! What is this occasion from 4 years ago Matthew?

@MJF9991 @swrighteconomy The first is possible but unlikely. The other two do not follow from the first.

@swrighteconomy @TooheyMatthew Without the reduction people will be unable to eat, inflation skyrockets and interest rates go higher.