Professor, Analyst, Consultant, Editor, Author 🌱

Sydney, New South Wales
Freo already had their lick of the ice cream. That they used the picks on Rory Lobb and Jesse Hogan is their own doing. Brisbane turned him into a premiership player.
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Raised at a northern academy, no less.
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You can spin it any way you want but the core message is clear.
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This is the follow on from that earlier screenshot that deduces what the appropriate sanction should be.
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Replying to @TexanMeg
While you’re on your high horse, know that the MRO erred in grading the incident as medium impact. The grading should’ve be low impact and a fine and not a one game ban. Yes, he’s a love rat but that’s got nothing to do with his footy. Hate him for that instead.
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Also, looking at the MRO’s description as to what is low or medium impact, shows that the error in grading the incident lies at the nub of why this was a waste of time. 1. Didn’t impact the result 2. Ginivan was unimpaired 3. No medical attention Qualifies as low impact.
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The MRO stuffed up. It should’ve been graded low impact not medium. This is their own grading scheme: 1. Didn’t impact the result 2. Didn’t impair Ginivan 3. No medical attention given Mass hysteria and public lynching of a love rat means this has gone over everyone’s head.
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Then there’s the resulting sanction that should apply. The MRO erred and drifted away from its own categories.
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This is the MRO’s description of both low and medium impact. On the three indicators listed, the impact of the action was low impact. Ginivan was up and running within seconds. No medical attention gicen, no impairment to his ability to play.
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Replying to @DEADLINE
Now who’s copying who?
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Replying to @Chinaview0022
In The Korea Herald this week.
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Replying to @NuryVittachi
In The Korea Herald today, the iPhone Duo is really is a Samsung phone.
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Cowered and cowardly is Herr Merz.
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Segal and her ilk are trying to enforce collective guilt (Kollektivschuld) on Australians and hope it works just as well as it does in Germany. It’s cynical victimhood that works to downplay present day transgressions of the IDF and their land grabbing and destruction.
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“Tatreez: Reclaiming Palestine through Embroidery” revives this endangered cultural heritage, honouring Palestinian resilience while safeguarding a treasured tradition of Palestine.
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Before the catastrophic displacement of 1948, regional embroidery styles, motifs and colour palettes varied from one locality to another, reflecting the richness and diversity of Palestinian creative expression.
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War belies a forgotten history and culture. Colonialism and external intervention has wrought destructive inflection points that have led to the present status quo.
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Palestine has a long and illustrious cultural backdrop. The exhibition, “Tatreez: Reclaiming Palestine through Embroidery” at the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, showcases a humanity, buffeted by an egregious colonial settler backdrop.
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Go to Xinjiang man, and see it for yourself. I was in China recently and it was great! Some photos for your edification.
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China’s energy transition is rapidly changing. Carbon emissions per capita deserves a mention too. But that might be an inconvenient truth for you.
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Now do (1) per capita carbon emissions (2) carbon emissions exports It stands to reason that a country with 1.5 billion people will have a total carbon emission load much greater than a country of 250 million (Germany) or 350 million (US)
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I don’t see many African countries on that list. Let’s go a step further and consider where China’s total carbon emissions are consumed (includes the device you’re using). Same with Saudi Arabia, Iran & Indonesia’s oil exports. Westerners like you can’t see your hypocrisy.
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Now let’s look at carbon emissions per capita, shall we? Exceptionalism and simplistic analysis is for the daft and hypocritical.
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Replying to @xagreat @JJKALE2
When the Trans Atlantic slave trade ended, slavers moved to the Pacific to start Blackbirding. This involved colonial Australia ‘recruiting’ Pacific Islanders. The illustration depicts the blackbirding of Pacific Islanders. See my published paper: d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.ne…?
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I’m guessing your knowledge on China extends to YouTube, X and Gordon Chang. I was just in China. It was terrible and people were suffering.
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In ‘Red’ China a couple of weeks ago - sorry to ruin your Sinophobic bubble. While you’re at it, check out your own back streets, poor neighbourhoods and aged care homes.
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Replying to @BrianMcDonaldIE
GDP is a crude measure. It says some things, but glosses over others. Ditto, national debt per capita. Japan and the US are cases in point. Borrowing to invest in productive initiatives as opposed to borrowing to militarise and win elections, is another thing altogether.
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あなたは民主主義について、そして中国の人々が政府のためにどのように苦しんでいるかについて話しています。しかし、あなたは中国に行って、人々がどのように生活しているかを見たことがありますか?私は2週間そこにいましたが、人々は安全で安心しており、元気に暮らしています。 訪問をお勧めします
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Replying to @evian_sp @twinewss
ちょうど香港にいました。 自由がないとおっしゃるのですか。自分で見に行って、このばかげたことをやめることをお勧めします。 香港はまだ栄えています。
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Replying to @tv_asahi_news
In China right now, freedom and human rights not even an issue. Life is good - safe, secure and not dystopian as they would like you to think. Come and see it for yourself. This regurgitated Washington narrative is so cringy - makes people like Kihara look utterly foolish.
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I’m a man and I’ve spent considerable time working in and travelling in China and know that you are talking out of your arse. Instead of regurgitating nonsensical tropes, why not visit for yourself. Otherwise you’re talking shite.
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Replying to @MinMin89485072
Lai is a liar as his name suggests. He’s a shit stirrer and propagandist and is a tawdry American proxy. bcg.com/press/27may2026-hong…
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Replying to @ICEV__Official
Spent the last 12 days in third tier Chinese cities - Sanya and Haikou. It was a shithole. Suffered terribly. The sun was shining, the beers were cold, food was delicious, people friendly and public safety assured.
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Replying to @RnaudBertrand
Keep an eye on Hainan. The Free Trade Port will drive capital not only from the mainland, but abroad too. In 20 years it will rival Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan as an investment haven. And the weather and beaches are good too.
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Replying to @GrwaNnKqMn5nG68
Sumimasen. China is terrible. I spent the last week here and I have truly hated it.
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I’ve been Hainan this week. It’s a real shithole.
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Currently travelling in a third tier city of the dictatorship. It’s brutal. Public safety is uncompromising, infrastructure works, services are at a fraction of the cost in most western countries.
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Replying to @ICannot_Enough
Now imagine if they allowed Chinese brands unfettered access to markets you describe above. Also, your point about Model Y sales data for China is outdated. I visited a Nio showroom yesterday and their vehicles are far superior and better value than Tesla’s.
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Déjà vu.

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Yes. I was there last week. It was terrible and the dictatorship was unbearable 😆.
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Replying to @ShangguanJiewen
Last week in a third tier city, Haikou, China. It was horrible.
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Replying to @real_insight_1
Just left Haikou, a third tier city in China. It was terrible.
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The real reason for this nonsense - the US wanting to dominate global energy supply and then proceeding to extort the rest of the world, regardless of the costs to the global economy and to averting war. Brazen, self-serving bastardry. m.youtube.com/watch?v=0nt1Cg…
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It has always been about the US aims of dominating world energy supply and then extorting the rest of the world. m.youtube.com/watch?v=0nt1Cg…
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Richard Medhurst on America as a pirate state out of control, and its lust to control the globe’s energy resources - whatever the cost, including undermining its allies, and plunging the globe into chaos. Essential viewing. Thanks to @PeterCronau 🙏🏾 🔗 m.youtube.com/watch?v=0nt1Cg…
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This is not a new development. The term “ugly American” was popularized by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick in their 1958 book.
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Is the US Army now using Russian gear?
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Replying to @viewsoff
Onigiri 🤍

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Bro, Americans usually have a poor grasp of geography and you’ve just proved that. Perhaps to you, all the stans are the same.
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Replying to @oshiimid
Could she be the twin assassins that appeared in Austin Powers? Life mirroring art.

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Replying to @Rainmaker1973
As we valorise Japan as a utopia, cost of living runs rampant, democracy is undermined, acknowledgement that foreigners can play a key role in aspects of Japanese society, and calls for the country to retain it’s sovereignty and anti-war stance, resonates. At Shimbashi in Tokyo.
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Replying to @DudespostingWs
This is AFL and the reigning premiers, the Brisbane Lions hammered Geelong to go back to back.

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Replying to @OopsGuess
China and Japan have a great deal in common. I was in Japan recently and China/Japan cooperation was evident.
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Replying to @ChinaSelect
Batten down the hatches. Better still, prize scholarly endeavour and learning. Alarmism is lame.
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Replying to @oshiimid

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Replying to @beyondB_DAG
In the word of Michael Parenti. Over exploitation must end.
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