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Shiannon Corcoran

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Photographer. Proofreader. Happily married to a seafarer. #Labor supporter, USQ grad. Writer on life. RWNJs blocked. Weird DMs blocked #LoveDogs #Autism #Feminism #VoteYes shiannonlc.wixsite.com/mysite-1

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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
They’ve gotten rid of the Department of Education in the US.. .. and “whites only” townships are now popping up all over America. 😵‍💫 There’s a correlation in there somewhere 🙄
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
This is what happens when Dutton disappears 😏
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
A little bit of Ziggy Stardust doggy goodness for your feed. A rock-star personality in a tiny, precocious, cuddly body. Dogs are a gift of unconditional love. We don’t deserve them. ❤️🐾🐾❤️
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Netanyahu is a piece of excrement. Pictures of starving Palestinian children circulating the globe & he orders full occupation of Gaza while pulling out a poor-me Germany-Jew persecution card Bec of that persecution he should be well positioned to understand why it shouldn’t happen to anyone else
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Like the writer of this piece, I find it difficult to believe that all the apparent “antisemitic” attacks that are taking place in this country are all motivated by religious beliefs and hatred. Who has the most to gain from manufacturing outrage? independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
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Weaponising outrage: The hidden hands behind Australia's antisemitic attacks
As fabricated terror plots unravel, questions mount about who’s truly behind Australia’s wave of antisemitic attacks and why.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
‘Former A Current Affair reporter Benjamin McCormack has been charged with dozens of child abuse material offences, as well as breaching his child protection reporting obligations’ Geezuz 😵‍💫 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Former A Current Affair reporter facing 65 child abuse material charges
Benjamin McCormack is facing 65 counts of using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
QLD firefighters will join teachers & nurses in protected strike action as the QLD LNP government fails to reach a wage deal with yet another union . We haven’t had strike action en masse in QLD for years. The LNP spend millions in self-promotion, but don’t want to pay workers what they are worth.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
QLD Housing Commission tenants are becoming concerned as the QLD LNP continues to cut funding, staff and programs to Housing Commission services. It has also been revealed that the QLD LNP intends to quietly restart the program to sell public housing homes in QLD In the middle of a housing crisis😵‍💫
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Convicted rapist, Gareth Ward is not only appealing conviction -he’s seeking an injunction against the leader of NSW lower house to prevent parl from moving a suspension order against him So, Ward is sitting in jail -not representing Kiama -but doing everything he can to continue to b paid as an mp
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The Young Liberals have seen the writing on the wall & are in panic mode. They are literally witnessing the demise of the Liberal Party. Pity the old rusted-ons won’t listen to them 🙄 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Young Liberals urge Coalition to distance itself from Sky News and blame Maga ‘mirage’ for Dutton loss
Exclusive: Submission to election postmortem says ‘fringe right’ of the party membership had too much influence
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Hunter Valley man Joseph Baldwin, 20, has been convicted & fined after sending threatening messages to NRL player James Schiller on Instagram. Absolutely unhinged. It’s a pity that online stalking & threats to women aren’t met with the same decisive action www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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Death threat sent to Knights player on Instagram earns 20yo a $750 fine
A 20-year-old man is convicted of using a carriage service to threaten Newcastle NRL player James Schiller, including sending a message telling the athlete to "count his days".
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
‘QLD Olympics villages may not become affordable housing after the end of the games Under previous Labor govt, a minimum of 20% of the athletes’ villages were to b set aside as affordable housing. But parl estimates heard on Wed that the LNP govt had no specific target’ It’s the LNP so no surprise
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Convicted NSW MP Gareth Ward has been taken into custody after a judge granted a prosecution application to revoke his bail ahead of sentencing Ward is still an MP & may not b forced to resign. It is also likely he will appeal In any other workplace he would b sacked www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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MP Gareth Ward jailed ahead of sex crime sentence
NSW MP Gareth Ward has been taken into custody following his conviction for sexually abusing two young men. A judge has revoked his bail ahead of sentencing.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
‘Stephen Colbert tells Donald Trump 'the gloves are off' as giants of late-night television rally around cancelled host’ Should be an interesting 10 months. The US is no longer a democracy. It’s authoritarian. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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Colbert tells Trump the 'gloves are off' as late-night hosts rally amid cancellation
Stephen Colbert's late-night rivals appear in the audience during the host's first show since The Late Show was cancelled.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Sussan Ley says coalition won’t “get out of the way” despite the strong Labor majority. 🙄 Partially true.. The coalition can’t get out of their own way.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
‘Federal opposition flags more ‘sensitive’ approach to foreign students at Australian universities’ 🙄 Apparently Dutton wasn’t as “constructive” as he could’ve been. The coalition haven’t changed. They just aren’t saying the quiet bits out loud anymore. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Federal opposition flags more ‘sensitive’ approach to foreign students at Australian universities
New Coalition education spokesperson Jonathon Duniam says Peter Dutton policy to slash numbers wasn’t ‘as constructive as it could have been’
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Looks like Libs are on track to form govt in TAS Not that it’s a win bec the Libs are offering anything better. Neither is anyone else A reminder of just what TAS are voting into govt👇🏻 & a reminder to Ley not 2 use this as a Lib buffer. The fed coalition are a sh*t show in free fall into oblivion
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“Since the rise of fact-checking in the 2010s, factchecking has become a target of populist & conservative politicians around the world who equate it to censorship” Fact checking is NOT censorship, it is holding ppl accountable who do not want to b held accountable www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/17/g...
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Google ends fact-checking funding in Australia after letting AAP FactCheck deal expire
While the US search giant is signing new deals with Australian publishers, it will not renew its fact-checking contract with Australian Associated Press amid a global backlash on fact-checking.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Giselle Kapterian encapsulates everything you’d expect in a liberal in Aus. Hubris, snark, refusal to acknowledge reality and sour grapes if one doesn’t win an election. She wants to go to the HC now bec she did win and it’s not fair. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
abc.net.au
Defeated Liberal candidate petitions High Court on election outcome
The seat of Bradfield was won by just 26 votes. Now the defeated Liberal candidate has lodged a High Court appeal over 150 ballot papers that, she claims, could swing the result.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
SkidMark Latham back in the news for the wrong reasons - as usual. This time he’s allegedly taking covert pics of female MPs & making lewd comments. The fwit can’t help himself. Labor dodged a heat-seeking missile with that miscreant. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Mark Latham is a pig’: NSW MP criticised for allegedly taking covert photos of female colleagues in parliament
Premier Chris Minns says former One Nation MP’s alleged remarks about female MPs in messages to his then partner ‘troubling’
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Look at this sh*t A “stand up to hate” campaign organised by the media “This has been authorised by a consortium of Australia’s leading media executives” The media r literally RESPONSIBLE for enablement of racism, hate, division, culture wars, antisemitism, Islamophobia, etc They’ve got a nerve
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
If you only read one article today - read this one. How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke. ‘The threshold of acceptability is lowered through irony and humour.’ Inhumane behaviour is being normalised this way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot
Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2025
Their fair share: the tax debate we need to have australiainstitute.org.au/post/thei… #Auspol
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Their fair share: the tax debate we need to have - The Australia Institute
By limiting generous tax concessions for the wealthy and collecting revenue from Australia’s natural resources, the Government could fund health and education systems that work properly.
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Patrick 🇺🇸🇨🇦 @pghdlo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Bibi Netanyahu nominating anyone for a peace prize is irony at its best.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Ahem.. Queenslander! 🎉😃👏🏻 .. for everyone except the QLD LNP and their sycophantic supporters.. who only support themselves and their donors.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Lib senators Bragg & Hume caught out lying by AAP Fact Check about Australia never taxing unrealised gains. It appears in their efforts to sling mud regarding Labor’s super tax on unrealised gains - they haven’t checked historical data. Lies as usual from the Libs www.aap.com.au/factcheck/li...
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Liberal senators falsely claim Australia has never taxed unrealised gains
Amid Labor's super tax proposal, Andrew Bragg and Jane Hume are claiming there has never been a tax on unrealised gains in Australian history, but experts say such taxes have been, and are, in place.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
QLD LNP are introducing health KPIs to pressure staff to manipulate data, reclassify patients & rush decisions -not to improve patient care but to avoid funding penalties LNP are trying to manipulate the statistics in their favour - so that they appear to be getting better outcomes when they aren’t
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Looks like a Bjelke-Petersen revival🙄 QLD state transport minister has questions to answer re meeting organised with brother-in-law on behalf of a client that happened to b an engineering co vying to win $5b state govt contract 4 Sunshine Coast rail line Nobody does corruption better than the LNP
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The family of a Canadian national who supported Trump’s plans for mass deportations of immigrants say they feel betrayed after fed agents detained the woman in California while she interviewed for permanent US residency & r working to expel her from US. 🙄 Boohoo www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘I want my vote back’: Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained over immigration status
Family of Cynthia Olivera reconsiders support for president after Ice detained her at green card interview
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I see 7 News on SM are flogging the same misinformation over & over again on social media -in different demographics This isn’t news, it’s recycled bullshyte & lazy journalism for clicks We don’t have news anymore, we have tabloid gotcha cheap seats that attempt to sell failed brain farts as facts
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
RW lackeys will b losing their minds. None of their efforts to polish that Vic Lib shyte show has made any difference to a jaded electorate -likely sick of the Deeming-Pesutto Days of our Live’s saga of spite, hubris & blackmail for bloviators. Vic Labor are on track to win historic fourth term.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Timmy Wilson’s uncle, Geoff Wilson - has been a strong and aggressive advocate for rich folks against Labor’s superannuation tax. What a surprise to find that Geoff Wilson has over $40 million in assets in self-managed super funds 🙄
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
‘The Catholic Church has made misleading claims about having reported to authorities allegations of abuse against one of its most senior figures’ The Catholic Church lying? What a surprise 🙄 Any wonder I have a healthy disrespect for religious organisations. theklaxon.com.au/catholic-chu...
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Catholic Church caught in Opus Dei "cover-up" - The Klaxon
The Catholic Church's powerful Sydney Diocese has made misleading claims about reporting allegations of abuse by one of its most senior clergy.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
While we know that the Lib party have direct funding links to far-right fwit group, Advance - we now also know that John Howard oversaw that $500,000 payment to Advance from Lib party Cormack Foundation. Howard has much shyte to answer for in our country’s history theklaxon.com.au/howard-overs...
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Howard oversaw $500,000 to "Advance" - The Klaxon
Liberal heavyweights John Howard and Richard Alston oversaw a $500,000 payment to MAGA group “Advance”, specifically to fight the Greens.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
David Janetzki, the QLD LNP’s treasurer - is a real little Hitleresque jackbooter Janetzki & Bleijie are the mining industry donor sycophants calling the shots in QLD LNP govt. Right now they’re drunk on power & their access to the treasury trough Prepare for the privatisation of QLD energy sector
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
A flashback to 2025 election campaign & the QLD Courier Fail’s on-point election analysis 🙄😵‍💫 Honestly, the media shyte we have to put up with here in Queensland is next level. I suggest saving this headline in a screenshot to remind the Fail just how batsh*t their bloviating sycophancy has become.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
‘Coalition signals dramatic shift away from anti-immigration rhetoric of Dutton era’ 🙄 Stoking the fires of hate, culture wars, racism & “go home if u don’t like it here” has been part of their strategy forever. Only difference now is it is covert. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Real people, real families’: Coalition signals dramatic shift away from anti-immigration rhetoric of Dutton era
Exclusive: Shadow immigration minister promises a new tone when talking about migrants as Liberals work to rebuild support among multicultural communities
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Sky News, political bias & culture-war fanatics- are fear mongering this nugget.. “A giant asteroid previously plummeting towards earth could now hit moon - which wld destroy satellites & spark global chaos” Global chaos out of Murdoch’s control? Hit the Fox News & Starlink satellites first! 🙏🏻
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
QLD LNP continue to provide comic relief -but not financial relief for QLDers LNP’s change of coat of arms colour from maroon to blue on govt docs & signage looks like a political flex- but has provided some entertainment. QLD Blues versus NSW Blues is nonsensical Yes, the LNP are THAT ridiculous
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Wow. Not a parody.. .. but a creepy-ass vibe. The US has become a reality show of cuckoo-nutz-R-Us.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Trouble in the Lib ranks, on cue, from An*us re Ley’s push for quotas for women An*us: I don’t support quotas bec I support the democratic process 🙄 An*us only supports the “democratic process” when it’s political opportunism He’s stirring the pot of ye olde misogynist discontent to undermine Ley
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Welcome to Joh Bjelke-Petersen politics under David Crisafulli’s regime ‘Indigenous communities opposing Victoria Park stadium hve been told to cooperate with QLD LNP’s fast-tracked plans or b pushed aside This is what u get in the banjo state when u vote in narcissistic racist hubris. Joh Mark II
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
In July Libs will have a few women to scrub off their site as sitting MPs.. eg, Sen Hollie Hughes & Sen Linda Reynolds.. but the inclusion of Giselle Kapterian is interesting. Are they still considering options re Kapterian? Surely those sour grapes have sailed?
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
FMD 😵‍💫🤢🤪 Who’s your daddy? 😵‍💫
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
QLD LNP Cristafulli “We’re simply changing our email signatures from maroon to blue” 🙄 No, they’re not. QLD LNP are changing everything from coat of arms on govt docs to govt signage -from maroon to blue. Blue -the colour of the LNP QLD’s has been maroon since 2003. LNP are making it political
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Funny how nobody is paying much attention to the US now Healthcare & welfare cuts, vet cuts, attacks on unis & abductions of citizens. The assassination of a politician. Trillions in debt & massive protests across the country. Create an issue - a threat - & nobody looks at what you’re really doing
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
NZ RW coalition are introducing the golden visa to attract wealthy foreigners. A concept Dutton wanted here. NZ are attracting wealthy Americans -likely now getting out of Dodge. We’ll all now get to see how a policy like that will evolve to influence social, community & political decisions🙄
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Geezuz😬 Panahi’s off her snarky leash. Brought to you by the old, white ‘scrotes’ of Murdoch media & the ripple effect of hubris, entitlement and greed.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Steve Zenek from the Australian wrote this article where Darryl Maguire is described as “a disgraced ex-ALP MP” Darryl Maguire is an ex-Liberal MP and Berejiklian’s ex-lover. Did Zenek fk up or was this purposeful disinformation? A retraction in print is warranted. The media is an ass.
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Shiannon Corcoran @shiannonc.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Pakistan (of course they would) nominates the Mar-a-Lago Marmalade man for Nobel Peace Prize, praising 'stellar statemanship' Now I’ve heard everything. The world’s gone fkn mad😵‍💫
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