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Nicole Chvastek

@nicolechvastek.bsky.social
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📻Broadcast journalist, formerly ABC Radio TV & 7 News 📰 Now writing at thepolitics.com.au & podcast co-host of Truth Lies & Media podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/truth-lies-and-media/id1800099248 🙌🏻 Support me at buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia ☕️

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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not even watching ABC #Insiders But I think those that do should count what percentage of people appearing as hosts, journalists or commentators are current or former Murdoch employees. I don't know why the ABC needs to look like Murdoch News 24. #auspol
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The ABC is kicked out of One Nations Vic policy launch as the party announces it would axe Treaty with Indigenous Australians-you know the ones Pauline Hanson slandered as “the most primitive race on earth” Hey media. Report that THEY’RE RACISTS “Truth Lies&Media” is live! Promo Match Frame Editing
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is what genocide looks like in the early decades of the 21st century www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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digitaldenes.bsky.social @digitaldenes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@nicolechvastek.bsky.social and Dr Denis Muller with podcast No 76 Not to be missed ! Video Preview below!
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is enraging. So the ONLY thing available to counter inflation is to constantly ratchet up my mortgage repayments but they can’t do a thing about this shit in 11 years? I pay company tax, personal tax, council rates, exorbitant interest, every kind of fkn govt payment but look at these pricks.
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Murdochs hard right News Corp has racked up a decade of paying ZERO tax while blaming the poor, migrants and Indigenous Australians for our economic woes. Don’t fall for the bullshit fed to you by billionaire media moguls. “Truth Lies&Media” is live!⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol #NewsCorpse
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why do you support racist policy? The question the media don’t ask Pauline Hanson voters. “Truth Lies & Media” is live!⚡️ On Apple & Spotify🍎 Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol #NewsCorpse #Trumpenstein
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t... Why do you support policies that are racist? The question the media don’t ask Hanson supporters “Truth Lies & Media” just dropped!⚡️ 0n Apple & Spotify #auspol #NewsCorpse #Trumpenstein
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Truth, Lies and Media
News Podcast · Updated Weekly · Broadcast journalist Nicole Chvastek and Australia's pre-eminent journalism ethics expert Denis Muller seek out the media industry's good, bad and ugly, taking you behi...
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One Nation could collect $633000 from those who put their hand up to run in the Vic election - potential candidates asking if its just a “cash grab”.. all the while the media normalise the shrill racism of these crooks as if its business as usual TruthLies&Media is live!⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Superb Truth, Lies & Media Ep75 @nicolechvastek.bsky.social and Denis Muller discuss the use of bots to flood the ABC with complaints. Trump's persecution of the free press & the Australian context. News24 pushing RW content to regional Australia thru WIN TV. Superb. share.google/vH2JSJ7OIo5V...
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Ep 75 - The Harassment Industry | Truth, Lies and Media
Weekly discussions of Journalism Ethics
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trumps now charging rich clients $100,000 a month to know what he’s going to announce before the public does.. all while throwing out White House journos for stories that are “too negative” The slimy insider trading crook wants good publicity. “TruthLies&Media” is live!⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing
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tangonovember.bsky.social @tangonovember.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Israeli Ambassador to Australia demands Australia respect the ruling of Israeli Courts, and not a single journalist asks why Israel doesn't respect the rulings of International Courts like the ICC or illegal settlements #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Live: Israeli ambassador expresses 'deep sorrow and grief' for Zomi Frankcom death after IDF finding
The Israeli ambassador responds following a meeting with Penny Wong after the IDF cleared soldiers of criminal responsibility involved a strike that killed Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom. Follow ...
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One Nation has admitted using party funds to build a $56,000 shed on a staffers private property.. Why do the ABC - of all media outlets - help fuel the rise of these white supremacist shysters? “Truth Lies & Media” is live!✨ Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol #NewsCorpse #Trumpenstein
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... These are the pricks lecturing migrants and people in public housing on “Aussie values”
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One Nation admits using party funds to build $56,000 shed on James Ashby’s private property
Email to members says money lent to a party-linked company to establish a micro distillery
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Autonomous AI bots hacked into Medicare .. and hard right scammers are swarming the ABC with bullshit bot complaints Hey Albo! Its going to take stronger leadership than selfies with a fascist & pleas to the clunky old AFP to fix this shitshow “TruthLies&Media” is live! ⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
OpenAI agent breached Medicare, Albanese reveals - The Sydney Morning Herald Here it comes.
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The scammers have been at work flooding the ABC with digital BOT complaints as they can’t whip up actual HUMAN complaints. Bullshit is the stock and trade of the hard right after all. “Truth Lies & Media” is live!⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol #NewsCorpse #Trumpenstein
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t... Turns out most of the shrill complaints dumped on the ABC by far right attack dogs are actually BOTS. So WTF does Aunty sack people, change editorial policy or give a stuff about these mirages from the hate brigade? “Truth Lies & Media” just dropped!⚡️ #auspol
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Truth, Lies and Media
News Podcast · Updated Weekly · Broadcast journalist Nicole Chvastek and Australia's pre-eminent journalism ethics expert Denis Muller seek out the media industry's good, bad and ugly, taking you behi...
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
AI trillionaires say they might kill humanity in their race to make a buck. I didn’t vote for these sociopaths nor their revolting energy guzzling data centres.. nor the Murdoch press who back them in by claiming migrants are the threat. Truth Lies & Media is live!⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The lady? The Sunday Age continues its campaign to get white supremacist journo haters elected.
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If a rideshare warned you there was a 10% chance you’d die if you got in - would you? Yet we invite in trillionaire AI tech bros to rape the environment, gouge water & energy and maybe kill us for fun and profit. “Truth Lies & Media” is live!⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol #NewsCorpse
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why do The Age/SMH reveal a bombshell Rinehart/Hanson plot to recast a war hero MP as “a traitor” - and then inexplicably run a front page headline that says Hanson is “good for democracy?” “Truth Lies & Media” is live!⚡️ On Apple & Spotify🍎 Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol #NewsCorpse
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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Here’s a truth that lands harder every year.
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hanson sabotages her own white supremacist announcement with a grovelling apology for punching down on everyone from Indigenous Australians to Andrew Hastie to PM Albaneses DEAD MOTHER. And The Age thinks she’s “good for democracy” Truth Lies&Media is live!⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Truth, Lies & Media Ep74. A srsly outstanding ep. @nicolechvastek.bsky.social & Denis Muller discuss Gina Rinehart's involvement in One Nation's "traitor" attack on Andrew Hastie. Misleading headlines. The threat of AI. Reporting on pollies' private lives. #auspol shows.acast.com/67c7911ffc5f...
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Ep 74 - Good for Democracy | Truth, Lies and Media
Weekly discussions of Journalism Ethics
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pauline Hanson slanders Indigenous Australians, insults Albaneses DEAD MOTHER and brands a war hero a “traitor” And The Age publishes a headline suggesting she’s “good for democracy FFS The latest “Truth Lies&Media” has dropped!⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol #NewsCorpse #BlancheDAlpuget
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t... Yet another spiteful racist slur delivers Pauline Hanson her Sorry Day. A banger hour of “Truth Lies & Media” the podcast just dropped!⚡️ On Apple & Spotify #auspol #NewsCorpse #BlancheDAlpuget
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News Podcast · Updated Weekly · Broadcast journalist Nicole Chvastek and Australia's pre-eminent journalism ethics expert Denis Muller seek out the media industry's good, bad and ugly, taking you behi...
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We have seen One Nation, Labor and Liberals are seeking to do nothing more then whip up fear and division. People who come to Australia to build a life here and contribute are not responsible for the inequality and failing public services. 👇More below👇
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Brenda Nevill 🍉 @brendamagpie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have never heard before today that people in public housing should leave after a couple of years. To me public housing provides security in the long term. If I'd have left I'd be homeless now. After all Pauline has been sucking more out of the public purse than I ever could.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Ozmarshall @ozmarshall.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I read The Age for free on Borrowbox, and the article is worse than the headline. At one stage he describes Dave Hughes as authentic.
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tandigi @tandigi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Exactly this Nicole. The Age planting the seeds of hate and division and watching with glee as they grow with every click.
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Gordon Kerry @gordonkerry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Neil F*cking Mitchell
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trumps favorite white supremacist gets chained up and deported by the fascist cult that eats its own. Now Milo Yiannopoulos - a foreigner - thinks he might have been wrong about how great race baiting is. “Truth Lies&Media” is live!⚡️ Apple&Spotify Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol #NewsCorpse
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Apparently white supremacists are good for democracy according to the shitful Sunday Age
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Superb Truth Lies & Media Ep71 @nicolechvastek.bsky.social & Denis Muller deliver a thoughtful, nuanced discussion on the media's reporting of the alleged AFL sexual assault scandal. Trump staffer Natalie Harp. Pauline Hanson seeks a press sec. #auspol #VAW #DV #sexism share.google/cSD7jXK2N9LS...
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Ep 71 - Skewing the Story | Truth, Lies and Media
Weekly discussions of Journalism Ethics
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Outstanding Truth Lies & Media Ep72 @nicolechvastek.bsky.social & Denis Muller deliver an engaging, nuanced discussion on the media coverage of the Nepal disaster, China's censorship of it, the climate crisis, care for journos, #OneNation, #Meta, #DollyParton. #auspol shows.acast.com/67c7911ffc5f...
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Ep 72 - Newsroom Habits of Mind | Truth, Lies and Media
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ai overlords hate paying wages to humans so they’re going to kill your jobs and then (according to 3 Anthropic researchers) kill humanity. They also own the media so you’re being bullshiitted about this being a great deal. “Truth Lies&Media” is live⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol #NewsCorpse
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
True that
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digitaldenes.bsky.social @digitaldenes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Weekends are a great time to enjoy a podcast @nicolechvastek.bsky.social and Dr Denis Muller present their 73rd podcast Video Promo below
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Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com · 25/08/2026
Sharing this after returning from Magdeburg in east Germany, and going to report at an AfD rally in the nearby countryside. People outside of Germany do not understand how urgent this situation is right now. The AfD have a nationwide polling lead + are tipped to win control of two states next month.
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW: Dozens of AI data centre projects will escape Australia's proposed energy & water restrictions which aren't expected apply to green-lit projects. While the Prime Minister said they're "smaller", these projects are generally bigger and power hungrier www.abc.net.au/news/...
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is the interview Trump’s FCC doesn’t want you to see. We’re not just going up against the most corrupt politician in Texas. We’re going up against this entire corrupt system.
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
US AI developer Jacob Coxon has walked away from the industry saying they know it can hack in to anything and will kill humanity. But we build their mausoleum data centres like bedazzled enablers and barely mention it in the news. “Truth Lies&Media” is live!💫 Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A SMH reporter goes undercover online posing as a 17 year old boy. Within minutes she is told women need to be sexy, submissive housecleaners. We watch but do nothing as US toxic tech bros brainwash young boys to be violent and sexist. “Truth Lies & Media” is live!⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing
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WoooSpookybill🎃 @spoonbill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The UK should deport him to Greece. It'd be hilarious!
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Jen @jha444.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
That’s hilarious! Milo, the flog, on the receiving end of racism
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The hate that a favorite Trump propagandist created - just ate him. Milo Yiannopoulos says he’s ashamed of supporting Trump after being shackled and deported by ICE Too late for countless innocents tortured by the race baiting he promoted. “Truth Lies&Media” is live!⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"An emotional former USAID employee recounts how 500 pounds of food destined for starving children was already on the ground but could not be distributed because of the government veto, meaning it was allowed to pass its expiration date and then be destroyed."
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t... We look at the brutal fall from grace of one of Donald Trumps most toxic propagandists Milo Yiannopoulos .. arrested, manacled, roughed up and thrown out of the US by the ecosystem of hate he helped promote. Sad, huh. “Truth Lies & Media” just dropped!💫 #auspol
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News Podcast · Updated Weekly · Broadcast journalist Nicole Chvastek and Australia's pre-eminent journalism ethics expert Denis Muller seek out the media industry's good, bad and ugly, taking you behi...
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