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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 12h

One picture, 1000 words. At the One Nation stall at Wallan market, rural Victoria

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Signs of the times. A once ubiquitous cigarette vending machine in Hobart's fabulous Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Queensland is smashing illegal tobacco The state’s enforcement resourcing has been paired with strong long-term closure powers, landlord enforcement powers, and ‘blitz operations’, targeting 100% of stores in an area at once, all driving consumers back to the legal market. Other states take note

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This list needs updating. Trump surely peerless now?

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Be still my beating heart! I posted a clip of Mick moving on stage in response to one of Trump doing his daggy dad dancing in front of his zombies. And look what I got!

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pharmacies stock narcotics; bottle shops expensive taxed alcohol; gun shops, firearms. None of these are (yet) being firebombed/extorted by criminal gangs.There must be critical lessons in the governance of these by regulatory agencies for the tobacco shop firebombing problem.

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thinking Trisha's credibility might now be a little thin ...

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

NSW Coalition wilting on support for Minns' gun buyback after rural pressure. Buyback all about reducing likelihood of massacres. Here's list of 5+ gun fatalities. ALL hitherto "law abiding". Why assume no farmers at risk here? www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's often observed that people can look like their dogs. So too can people come to look like their vile beliefs and values. David Rowe's recent portrait of Pauline Hanson

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Well before RUOK day was thought of, AA Milne on how we can all look out for those who may be lonely. We all know Eyores

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Amid the gloom about illegal tobacco, always remember these two graphs that stamp tobacco control in Australia as the poster child of chronic disease control. We may be near to seeing smoking all but vanish in kids simonchapman6.com/2026/07/17/a...

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here's the result of my wife showing 9-10yo's photos of Tuscan landscapes. She framed them for a schoolfundraiser to get art gear. We bought it at the auction. So many beautiful efforts.

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Self portraits by grandson's 4yo preschool mates. I could look at these fr ages. Really fascinating the range of self images. As a 40yr teacher, my wife often talks at length about how wonderful it is to be with little kids all day long as they express themselves & play. @cathywilcox.bsky.social

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Enough sawdust between her ears to bed an elephant

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Only 5.6% (1.3m) of Australians now smoke daily. The die-hards still at it often insist it's "pleasurable". But what is the root of the pleasure? And do our 5.4m 18yrs+ ex-smokers & 15.9m never-smokers now have no pleasure in their lives? From 2016: theconversation.com/on-the-pleas...

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The government's pathetic reforms of gambling advertising is like the owners of the the White Star Line insisting they had diligently removed all the splinters from the Titanic's handrails @docsamantha.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @allegraspender.bsky.social @mon4kooyong.bsky.social

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Caligula's horse story was false, but the Hesgeth saga is playing it out in every detail. Many of us had obnoxious, grain fed, indulged boors like him in our school classes & laugh about their falls from grace when hit by reality. Clock is ticking VERY LOUD now

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Public health campaigns we can only dream of

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Liberals in Australia are currently banging the same drum as British American Tobacco has banged for years: illegal cigs are deadly (ergo..smoke our nice healthier ones which only kill 2/3 longtime users).The different risk is akin to being in hell & being anxious about the temp rising 1 degree

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Each time I read profiles of Hanson's latest recruits, I think of rats swimming TOWARD a sinking ship

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not wanting to sound curmudgeonly, but I empathise with every syllable of this.

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Pauline Hanson has had another gutfull. What an odious creature she is.

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

How long before we see lunatic anti-vaxers protesting the H5N1 bird flu vaccination effort? C'mon Malcolm Roberts & Pauline Hanson, don't disappoint us ...

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BOOKMARK This 268pp S-E Asian report from the UN Office on Drugs & Crime has invaluable data on the areas shown below. Essential for anyone working in these areas www.unodc.org/roseap/uploa...

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Staggering laziness from Hanson, Nats & the economic commentariat saying that illegal cigs cost $15/pack so dropping tax by magic 70-80% to $20 will make legal cigs competitive. www.nine.com.au/lifestyle/he... Look what I found in a nanosecond: carton prices now at $10/pack. So half the price

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cambodia is major tobacco smuggling transit nation. Pack of cigs costs as low as 1000 rial = $AUD34c cdn.who.int/media/docs/d... Illicits selling in Oz now for ~$10. Can go MUCH lower. "Lower tobacco tax" solution is an economically illiterate factoid

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A new low water mark for vaping promoter Alex Wodak? Says Philip Morris might be "100% right". You know, the company which shipped 607.4 billion cigarettes in 2025. Two in 3 of these long term customers die from smoking caused disease.

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When we bought our new Tesla it was raining. When it stopped I used the voice command "turn wipers off" and got this. I now use a US southern drawl "Turn waaarpers arrf!" Works everytime

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Do Simon & Garfunkel (Sounds of Silence) have a new vocation?

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Massive Uni NSW meta-analysis of 149 studies on cannabis & age at onset of psychosis shows association between cannabis use and earlier psychosis onset is robust www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So loving the widespread revulsion of our school kids for everything Hanson stands for.

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Breaking: Hanson to change Australia's coat of arms to have an emu with head in sand, following her failure to name Indonesia's "prime minister" (aka President) Subianto, leader of world's largest muslim nation www.news.com.au/world/asia/p...

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Somehow I think even this Bill Leak cartoon, drawn 29 years ago, is going to get a lot of shares

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In NSW, there are numerous examples of licensed shooters owning more guns than shown here: 386 (Cremorne), 300 (Chifley), 160 (Monaro) etc. Left photo "only" 69 @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Journalists take note: As #Hanson and the gun lobby limber up to attack the NSW post #Bondi gun buyback, a reminder of hitherto "decent law-abiding Australian shooters" who were until they weren't @ronnisalt.bsky.social @amyremeikis.bsky.social @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Please America, take your trash out

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Millions are inured & desenitised to the constant news diet of mass tragedy - Gaza, Darfur, Afghanistan, Ukraine, refugee plight, climate mayhem &c. In such times, so vital for news focus to frequently platform human stories to sharp focus relatable meaning. The ghouls driving this hate it.

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Then of course there are these too ...

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

2: Vapes are sold openly in US, UK, NZ and Canada with few restrictions. Yet all of these now have higher smoking prevalence than Australia. (3 of 3)

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