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Andrew Stafford

@andrewstafford.bsky.social
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Author (Pig City, Something to Believe In), journalist. Views own. Content: music, wildlife/biodiversity, AFL, cats. patreon.com/andrewstafford

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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 14h
Growing up in Melbourne and Brisbane, I didn't get to see Richard Morecroft read the news much. But - 25 minutes into this old clip - I did see him flap his arms to encourage Archie, an orphaned flying-fox, to take his first flight. It tells you everything about him. m.youtube.com/watch?v=TMWH...
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Animal Passions - Raising Archie (Tuesday 7th Dec 1993, BBC Two)
YouTube video by Appropriated Subdiffusion
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've been writing my share of Australian music obituaries, and after reading this I feel one may be necessary to mark the death of Australian music writing www.theage.com.au/culture/musi...
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Quick question: Anyone else think Radiohead suck?
The band’s Australian tour has sparked the sort of frenzy that would embarrass Swifties.
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
RIP Priscilla, gone one year today. The way it ended was utterly traumatic and I'll never forgive myself, or forget you 💔
My ragdoll cat Priscilla, a floofy lilac-point bicolour with a dark mask over her nose
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Don't argue with me about his latter-day dodgy politics. Listen to Remedy, Nice Boys and Astra Wally, then get back to me. All of 5'1" and a giant of Oz rock www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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Angry Anderson dies aged 79: Rose Tattoo frontman was a ferocious rock ’n’ roll singer and youth advocate
The singer, songwriter, actor and advocate, who has died following a cardiac arrest while touring in Europe, kept his band’s flame burning until the end
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I miss when you'd just go straight to the bad hold musak, instead of getting the full five minute trauma download from Ms Robot
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is a long read - longer than usual for a Graun profile - and I can only assume they let it run on because Mr T is f***ing magnificent interview talent, and because Simon Hattenstone does such a bang-up job. Just wonderful, 💯 recommend. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Neo-right media grifting remains the easiest refuge for deeply mediocre people www.thecarpet.com.au/p/portrait-o...
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Portrait of a grifter
The making of Lisa Jane Spencer
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Oo-mow-moo-mow-mow, ooh mow-moo-mow-mow, ooh-mow-moo-mow-mow, ooh-mow-moo-mow-mow #johnnyyoung
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It's a profound self-awareness fail when a journalist in the employ of Murdoch accuses a band (Massive Attack, in this case) of distributing propaganda
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Six years ago was getting shaved down in a cardiac ward awaiting open heart surgery the next morning. I remember the night before more than the day itself, apart from wheeling into theatre! Anyway, every second is still a second chance ❤️🙏
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Glenn A Baker might have looked like a caricature of a music nerd, but he took Australian music seriously when very few others did, and remained a champion of it. We all owe him a debt for that
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is for Jennifer Finch of L7, one of the greatest bands to ever stalk this earth. www.patreon.com/andrewstaffo...
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A Song For You: Everglade | Andrew Stafford
How do you measure an artist's influence? By the number of wind-up soundalikes they inspire? The number of cover versions? In this era, by t
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Burn, mofo, burn
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Aussie people: Might be a good idea to pop the bird flu hotline number into your contacts list. Emergency Animal Disease Hotline: 1800 675 888
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A review of Even the Good Girls Will Cry, the excellent memoir by ex-Hole/Smashing Pumpkins' bass player Melissa Auf der Maur. I don't push my own page as often as I should, probably, but I'm still churning out my stuff here from as little as US$1/month www.patreon.com/andrewstaffo...
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Just Because: Even The Good Girls Will Cry | Andrew Stafford
Put yourself, for a moment, in the shoes of Melissa Auf der Maur. You’re an eager and intelligent young artist, barely into your 20s. You ha
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is a really good piece by @catrionamp.bsky.social on the state of Australian publishing (I've got stories, none of which I'm sure she hasn't heard) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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Australia is publishing books too quickly – and everyone is losing out
Thanks to rushed deadlines, financial pressure and overworked staff, titles are going to market before they’re ready – and then sliding from view immediately
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"No journalist asked the obvious question of whether she [or Joyce] would be standing for the HoR now One Nation is vying for government ... there is a surprising indifference in the commentariat about this hardly trivial matter" - @frankbongiorno.bsky.social insidestory.org.au/once-a-liber...
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Once a Liberal • Frank Bongiorno
Pauline Hanson’s Press Club speech provided plenty of ammunition for at least some of her opponents
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This might be the funniest Red Hand File I've read since Nick was asked why Nocturama sucked so bad www.theredhandfiles.com/really-old-r...
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Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #369 - What’s the worst thing about having become a really old rockstar?
Dear Daffo, This morning I wake feeling great. I’ve had a good night’s sleep, which is rare when you’re on tour. I leap out of bed, fling...
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I can't think of another industry that hands out as many awards to itself as journalism, nor one with a glassier set of jaws
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Always a good day when you see one of these, let alone this close
A close encounter with a platypus on the Sunshine Coast hinterland, with its head out of the water
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This was fun to write (1) www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Lydia Lunch: ‘There won’t be a funeral. You’ll never find my body’
The Teenage Jesus and the Jerks frontwoman shares her hatred of sandwiches and pop culture, plus her wish to evaporate and return to ‘the ether’
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Who remembers this? I took a photo for posterity. It lasted about five minutes, of course. October 2021.
Courier-Mail front page: "CLIMATE OF CHANGE. News Corp heralds its own extremely brief conversion to climate science with a man in a high-vis vest holding a young girl, possibly his daughter, who's in a white dress, because of fucking course. Subhead: "How we can go green and save jos in a net-zero world" and a green button with white text, "SERIES LAUNCH 16-PAGE SPECIAL". They were probably trying to save Scott Morrison's job. At the bottom: MISSIONZERO2050.COM.AU
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Me (unbylined) on Split Enz. They were magnificent in Wellington. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
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Split Enz tease new album ahead of first tour in 17 years: ‘We’d make a really good record now’
Always one step ahead, the new wave innovators are not done yet – and their hair is bigger than ever
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AAP FactCheck @aapfactcheck.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The cost of 53 investigations and a defence inquiry into war crimes in Afghanistan is being misrepresented as the bill for the probe into Ben Roberts-Smith alone. www.aap.com.au/factcheck/social-med…
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Social media claims misrepresent cost of Roberts-Smith investigation
The cost of 53 investigations and a defence inquiry into war crimes in Afghanistan is being misrepresented as the bill for the probe into Ben Roberts-Smith alone.
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Welton B. Marsland @wbmarsland.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
My favourite Australian band of all time. And a brilliant album. "On stage, they could be a mess or transcendent, sometimes in the same show." YES. BackInTheDay wisdom was if they played 2 shows - get to both, bc 1 will end in fisticuffs & stormings-off, 1 will be greatest gig you've ever seen.
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Chris Salisbury @chrissalisbury.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
In remembrance of this great album and the brilliant Ron Peno, give this a read. And thanks @andrewstafford.bsky.social , there goes my working Monday as instead I lapse into a reverie of DP back catalogue bangers 🖤
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Another advanced case of billionaire brain www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs
Steve Roth was responding to the announcement by New York’s mayor of tax on second homes worth more than $5m
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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Haha, I enjoyed @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social’s bemused rebuttal of the vitriol aimed inaccurately in his direction by Michael Gawenda
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Journalism in decline: a response to Michael Gawenda - Overland literary journal
As the author of a jeremiad about media ethics, Gawenda must, at some stage, have stumbled across point twelve in the MEAA code. It reads: “do your utmost to achieve fair correction of errors”. I awai...
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Chris Salisbury @chrissalisbury.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Ch9 morning tv nailing the significance and sombre remembrance of Anzac Day: crossing from a live piece at Canberra’s war memorial straight to a real estate talking head spruiking astronomic property prices on Sydney’s north shore. Respectfully driving home what Aussie diggers fought and died for 😔
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
What do I hear when Barbados comes on the radio? That sax break. James Valentine touched people in lots of ways, besides that sweet, comforting voice
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
*quick scan for self in crowd*
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I think the main problem with mainstream political journalism these days is the credibility given to clearly preposterous people
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 13/04/2026
It's impressive that so many major outlets are still managing to sanewash what's happening. The linguistic gymnastics are Olympian. It's also sad as hell they're still doing it.
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hey @sirswampthing.bsky.social: Geelong have three Ollies and an Oisin out there today. This strikes me as a matter of statistical significance. When was the last time a team fielded four first names starting with O, if ever? Asking for a friend.
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Imagine the reaction had Barack Obama said “praise be to Allah” on Easter Sunday, in literally any context
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/04/2026
From Catherine Belton, on why Vance is going to Budapest www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It’s a setback for your cu-u-un-try
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Brutal www.betootaadvocate.com/cooker-final...
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Cooker Finally Gets His Shots
WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT A prominent local cooker has today finally caught up on his shots. Dezi Deadman, the man formally known as Dezi Freeman, was shot and killed earlier this morning by ...
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
To patrons: I promise I’ll be back very soon. Just did a bit of a thing
Hands of my partner and I wearing wedding rings … married 14th March
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Rubbish treatment by @thequietus.com: first, they commissioned me to write a long read (5000-6000 words) on the Saints, then summarily withdrew the offer, told me they’d have to park the idea - then turned around and got another writer to do this on Ed Kuepper instead. thequietus.com/interviews/s...
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The Strange World Of… Ed Kuepper | The Quietus
Ed Kuepper of The Saints and Laughing Clowns is one of the unsung heroes of Australian rock; Chris Pugmire offers ten points of entry
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Vale Bernie Lynch, who gave us this m.youtube.com/watch?v=dhC7...
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Eurogliders - Heaven (Must Be There) - (Countdown 1984)
YouTube video by Eurogliders
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Bob Burton @bobburtonoz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Not so long ago this would have been described as an invasion #auspol
An image of a headline from  ABC News (the Australian public broadcaster) that says 'Israel sends troops into Lebanon for 'limited' ground operation'
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Dr Christina N. Zdenek @cnzdenek.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Why are our owls dying?? It’s all about which rat bait that you, your neighbours, your council, and pest controllers are using. Read this excellent article by @andrewstafford.bsky.social , with expert comment from myself among others. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/919290...
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Owl be damned: regulator stops short of rat poison ban
Conservationists are pushing for a regulator to outlaw a common class of rodenticides having pervasive effects on owls...
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Au contraire: I will dance on it, then I will piss on it - unless it is on fire, in which case I will pour petrol on it ⛽️
SMH headline: “don’t dance on Kyle and Jackie O’s grave”
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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
from the ephemeral lakes to the sea
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Centimetre perfect by @jonathanhorn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2...
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Dennis Cometti was erudite, funny and engaging. His witticisms could fill a library | Jonathan Horn
Look back at football’s defining moments and Cometti did them all justice – he didn’t miss a beat and always had the perfect one-liner ready to reel off
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Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Fascinated at the disinterest of Australian media in the visit of Canada's PM Mark Carney - or indeed his schedule just before flying into Australia. After his "disruption" speech, calling for middle powers to take action... he's literally signing nations to a reset www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...
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Canada's Mark Carney and India PM Narendra Modi announce deals as they reset ties in Delhi
India and Canada aim to conclude a trade deal by the end of the year as their leaders reset strained relations in Delhi.
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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
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