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Daniel Best - Author

@danielbest.bsky.social
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Author, researcher, historian, cinema, music & comic-book junkie. 5x Rondo Award nominee. My latest book, Louise Lovely: Australia's First Hollywood Movie Star, out now. My views are my own. Substack: danielbest1967.substack.com

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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is the myth of the golf course redevelopment and how it will benefit all South Australians. In short, it will not benefit all South Australians. It will benefit only those who can pay to use what is, allegedly, public parklands open to all. #SAParli #Golf
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is the kind of person that Peter Malinauskus has put in charge of moving wildlife from Possum Park, all so Greg Norman and his rich mates can play golf. It’d be a shame to see this go viral. #Adelaide #golf
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
You can add Henry Reynolds to this now as he’s withdrawn. There have been some who have wanted to defund the #AdelaideWritersWeek for a while now. Thanks to the actions of the Board, they’re going to get their way. This is sadness beyond words.
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is highly disappointing. #AdelaideWritersWeek has caved in under pressure from lobbyists and are now removing people who don't fall into line with Zionists. This is not how Writer's Week should be run. This is pure censorship from the Board. I can't see it survives now.
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Never liked it. It's just an awful day for many reasons. The abuse of animals, the domestic violence, the fleecing of people. It'd be good to see this kind of crap ended for good, but that's a long way off. Until then, you won't catch me near it. #NupToTheCup
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Tasmanians!! Cracked and Spineless in Hobart now have copies of my Louise Lovely book. Get in there and grab your copy. And they're all signed - by me.
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Why is this happening? Because the Liberal Party is out of touch with the youth of the country. That's not just here in South Australia, but country wide. The traditional Liberal voting base is dying off and they're not picking enough new ones up. They're not relevant. #SAparli #auspol
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Any other point in time, Tarzia would be booted. The trouble is, nobody wants the job. The only viable alternative is Ashton Hurn, and she's not stepping up. She might not have a seat after the election. They're finished. #SAParli #auspol
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
If this trend is replicated at the election in eight months time, then the Liberal Party will be reduced to two seats in the Lower House. As the site says, this would be 'the worst performance by the conservative side of politics since 1857.' #SAParli #auspol
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Chika ain’t no kitten anymore.
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I can hear the circus music as the ponies circle the inside of her skull.
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Barney has the face of someone who’s just been caught lighting a fart. Plibsy has the face of the person who caught him.
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Tim Wilson might be suffering from premature celebration. His lead is narrowing by the day, and there's more than enough votes left for Zoe to win. #auspol
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Who knew Susssan had a sense of humour? That's the funniest thing she's ever said. #Delusional #Auspol
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Congratulations to the new Pope, Pope Leo XIV! #PopeLeoXIV
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The new leader of the Liberal Party has been chosen!!! #Auspol #StayPuft4PM
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Louise Lovely, Australia's First Hollywood Movie Star, is currently sitting at #5 in the Best Sellers for the Performing Arts Industry and is one of the Hot New Releases in Film Industry! Wooohoooo!
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In case I forget, have a great Easter those who celebrate such things. And have a great break everyone else. #Easter
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I’ll be speaking about my Louise Lovely book with Jo Laverty this Friday at 4pm (Adelaide time) on ABC Radio. It’s a national broadcast, so everyone will get it, no matter where you are. Tune in and hear me rave about this amazing woman and why you need to know her life.
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Donald Dutton backflips on WFH. Or does he? I'm sure this policy isn't off the table, after all Donald Dutton is the one who's got a real problem with telling the truth. You cannot trust this Temu Trump. He will lie, just like his predecessors, to get into power. #Auspol
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Niki Savva nails Donald Dutton perfectly. This is how he operates. He slags everyone off, insults and resorts to personal attacks, but the minute anyone responds, he starts crying foul. He's as weak as old piss. More spine in a Jellyfish. Would that the rest of the media were this honest. #Auspol
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
True aspiration.
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Liz Dealey has left us. Liz was an incredible musician and a wonderful person. She was a pioneering woman in an often toxic male dominated rock field, giving us some incredible songs and being totally committed to animal rights, especially chickens. Vale Liz. You will be missed.
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I just sent another shipment of the Louise Lovely book to Cracked & Spineless Books in Hobart, so get in there and place your order. All are signed. In Adelaide, #Dymocks have them. On-line, Amazon. Or buy a copy directly from me! And why haven't you got your copy yet?
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Spotted at Dymocks #Adelaide and just sent to me via text. Louise Lovely is on the shelves! #LouiseLovely #Dymocks
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I was going to tell you all that you can buy my Louise Lovely book at Cracked & Spineless in Hobart, but...they sold out of the entire shipment in under an hour! More copies will be heading down to Tasmania shortly. #LouiseLovely
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Mine has books and a lamp on it. At night it has my phone, Kindle and iPad. But then I'm not a paranoid fucking lunatic. Occasionally it has a cat sleeping on it. My cat likes me. I doubt Elon has a cat. You know who else had a gun nearby in the bedroom? Oscar Pistorius. That ended well, didn't it?
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
You can read about her amazing life via my book, "Louise Lovely: Australia's First Hollywood Movie Star", available now via Amazon (worldwide), Dymocks Adelaide, or directly from me, and soon to be in Cracked and Spineless New and Used Books in Hobart! Viva La Lulu!!! #InternationalWomensDay 5/
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
It's International Women's Day. Louise Lovely would have been right in there celebrating. And rightly so. Louise was a pioneer filmmaker, an actor of both stage and screen, and packed more into her first 40 years than most people would even think of doing in three lifetimes. 1/
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
For those asking. You can buy my book at Dymocks (Adelaide), Cracked and Spineless (Hobart), Amazon (worldwide) or direct from me. It’s out there. Louise Lovely, Australia’s First Hollywood Movie Star. It’s a story you need to read. #LouiseLovely
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Oh, wonderful! I just got sent some photos from my little talk with Jo Laverty at Writer's Week. I'm honoured to have been part of the afternoon. #AdlWW
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Compare the pair. One is in her community, helping people get ready for what is shaping to be a once in a generation storm. The other is wining and dining with millionaires and billionaires in Sydney. Vote accordingly #Dickson. #Auspol
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
For those who are interested. I'll be down at Writer's Week today, talking to Jo Laverty on ABC Adelaide about writing and the Louise Lovely book. North Stage, around 2:30pm. Pop along! If not, tune in and have a listen. #AdelWW
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Ex-Govt employee here. WFH made me, and many others, far more productive because we didn’t have to deal with idiots making noise and carrying on in the office. None of the continual interruptions and endless bs. WFH is good for productivity. #auspol
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Some random guy asked if he could get a photo with me at the cinema. #Spit
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Writer's Week! See the shirt, say hello. Yes, the image is backwards in the photo but right way around on the shirt. Gah. #AdlWW #writersweek
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I'll be at Writer's Week this morning (babysitting duties in the arvo). If you see the shirt, say hello! And yes, it has a swear word on it. #adlWW #WritersWeek
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I'm not about to take a multi-millionaire multiple property owner seriously when he talks about the problems around cost of living, let alone rent relief. He knows nothing about it, which is why he has no policies. He's one of the elite he rallies against. #auspol
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
It's worth noting that Anne Ruston told ABC Adelaide yesterday that the 36,000 jobs to be cut are all Canberra bureaucrats. She was very clear on that. That means that 36,000 jobs in Canberra will be cut under Dutton. No other state will be touched. Or was Ruston lying? (sarcasm alert) #Auspol
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The self confessed 'victim' is still at it. How long before certain sections of the media claim that the car was asking for it? #BruceLehrmann
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
‘Pie connoisseur.’ Mate, it’s a maggot bag that may or may not contain something that resembles meat. Just what meat it is is open to question. Saying you’re a ‘pie connoisseur’ is like saying you’re a scent specialist when all you do is smell farts in elevators.
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
My biography of Louise Lovely will be released on 28 February. This was her birthday, and she was born 130 years ago. You'll be able to buy the book online, or directly from myself, and I'm currently negotiating to get it into stores around #Adelaide. #LouiseLovely
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I guess Chika is helping me work today by not being his usual, playful, mischievous self. #Cats
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Happy Valentines Day peoples. Big love to those who care, and those who are alone today. You're never truly alone really, as long as you can laugh.
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Dutton, STILL politicizing antisemitism, and now attacking Dreyfus for taking time off due to his wife passing away. There is no low that this disgusting man will not sink to. @amyremeikis.bsky.social nails the vile creature, and exposes his lies. Dutton, what a bastard. #Auspol
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Artists, you know exactly what to do now.
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Siri, show me a classic case of NIMBYism. Oh, and if you can throw in some arsehole boomers at the same time, that’d be great. Ta!
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Daniel Best - Author @danielbest.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Knew it. And who doesn’t remember that time Ed Asner suited up and rode with Larry Wilcox on C.H.I.Ps? Good times.
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