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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 1h

So the US President is a typical American? I've watched many doco's about America. Police Academy sums America up.
"Guns, guns, when do we get guns?"

w/apols to decent Americans (mostly on this platform) but that's what the world thinks of you now. A joke of a nation led by a dickhead.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 2h

It has nothing to do with 'keeping kids safe' or you'd need ID to buy the Herald Sun.

It's all about Murodch making bank. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Got two fifths of sfa to do with 'keeping kids safe.'

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 2h

Murodch's no doubt pissed off that he's losing audience to young, future journalists such as @leopuglisi6.bsky.social and his @6newsau.bsky.social team so the 'keep kids safe' campaign is all about that.

Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 2h

I mean, there's just as much bullshit on Sky News and in the Herald Sun that could impact children as there is on social media.

Forest. Trees.

Murdoch knows he's lost the young audiences of the future, so he just wants a way to force them to read his crap. Simple as that.

Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 2h

If Murdoch was truly about 'keeping kids safe' then you should have to show ID to purchase the Herald Sun.

It's not about 'keeping kids safe' at all. It's about sending news traffic to Murodch and away from social media.

Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 2h

Reality is, as ex-Murdoch myself, his "Keep Kids Safe" campaign is not about safety at all. It's about ensuring under 16s can't get news from social media, but they can from Murodh's news websites, if they pay a subscription fee, that is.

I note that under 16s in Victoria can buy the Herald Sun.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 5h

Leo Puglisi from @6newsau.bsky.social gave evidence to the parliamentary inquiry on the social media age ban - I asked him about the real impacts on young people. This isn't about protection, it's about control. You can't lock kids out of news and social connection and call it safety.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 3h

Say you're an unemployed single mother and Centrelink orders you to do WFD or lose your benefits.

Well, you can go do that and hang with Mokbel for the day, or lose your payments. Simple as that. I'm sure that single Mum wants to hang with crooks for a day to meet her WFD.

Think about that.

Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 3h

Say, for example, Tony Mokbel's cases are overturned.
A Judge reduces Mokbel's sentence to 200hrs of community work.

Well, he'll be working with WFD participants soon enough. Think about that.

"Improve employment prospects?" My arse.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 3h

WFD is just punishment for being unemployed, and I have all the proof of that to back my claims. Cold, hard, proof. Ya know, journalism.

Look at reality. The tasks and places that Centrelink sends WFD in Vic are the same places that Judges send crooks and parolees too ffs.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 3h

Journalists shouldn't write about themselves in articles (on here is fine) so I got an Age journalist to investigate themselves and handed them all my notes etc.

Jobless treated same as offenders

Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 3h

Could have paid a fine for traffic offences. But I told Your Honour I couldn't (on purpose) as I had a suspicion and I wanted to prove it.

So, Your Honour ordered me to do community work to pay off the fines. And I got sent to the exact same place, same tasks, same time, as WFD.

I busted them.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 3h

Which begs the question, doesn't it @amyremeikis.bsky.social is Work For the Dole really about improving one's 'employment prospects' or as punishment for being unemployed?

Given that courts hand out the exact same thing as punishment for breaking the law, well, therein is your answer.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 3h

So, in Victoria, Centrelink sends you off to sweep railway carparks and pick up rubbish to "improve employment prospects."

Yet, the Victorian Magistrates' Court sentences offenders to do the same work as a Community Work Order (a sentence), same time, same place, as punishment for breaking the law?

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 3h

Sadly, that's because the Murdoch press, even b4 the internet existed, created the "dole bludger" myth and amped it up.

It's lived on, mostly thanks to right-wing media, ever since.

Did you know this? www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

People who are asked to join work-for-the-dole program may end up doing the same work, and working alongside, people completing court-ordered community service for breaking the law.

www.smh.com.au

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 4h

Fatal crash in Mill Park
#ausnews #vicnews #MillPark #mva #police #fatality

Fatal crash in Mill Park

MILL PARK, VIC. — Police are investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash in Mill Park last night.

There's a crowd of radicals blocking the intersection ...

Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 5h

Walter Cronkite turns in his grave.

Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 10h

"There's a crowd of radicals blocking the intersection ... " (Moir, 13/10/25).
#ausnews #vicnews #moir #coalition #nationals #liberals #climatechange

Moir’s View …

Payne & Tander triumph in classic Bathurst 1000

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 23h

Payne & Tander triumph in classic Bathurst 1000
#ausnews #vicnews #Bathurst #GreatRace #MtPanorama #supercars

Matt Payne and Garth Tander have won the Bathurst 1000 after prevailing in an enthralling wet-weather race with heavy rain and a 'pea souper' fog affecting The Great Race.

Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 1d

I even fitted a switch so I could only have fog lights and parkers without even low beam to improve visibility.

How they drove through that at over 200km/h tells you about the skills of the drivers. Most powerful or 'best' car means nothing now. All comes down to a driver's skill.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 1d

Heck, the Kinglake township (yes, I wrote about it) fought to have road signs erected telling stupid drivers from Melbourne to "Turn High Beams Off in Fog" as high beams are useless in those conditions.

You want low-mounted quality fog lights.

Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 1d

Try doing 100km/h (now 80km/h) speed limit across the Kinglake Ranges in the winter fog. Try about 40km/h tops, unless you want to die. Ya can't see shit and headlights are useless. Everyone in mountain towns fits fog lights.

They were doing 200km/h+ on Mt Panorama.

Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 1d

A typical day in any town atop the Great Dividing Range. The rain came, so did the pea souper fog where ya can't see one foot in front of you - on foot - let alone at over 200km/h in a race car.

Sure, it used to be 100km/h across Kinglake. Just 'cause the sign says it ain't make it so.