Nicole Chvastek
@nicolechvastek.bsky.social
📻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
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📰 Now writing at thepolitics.com.au & podcast co-host of Truth Lies & Media podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/truth-lies-and-media/id1800099248
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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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Where the hell are the courageous media leaders?
We spotlight Journalism giant Kerry O’Briens thunderous Walkley speech and the “weapons of mass destruction” threatening journalism and democracy.
“Truth Lies & Media” just dropped! 💥
On Apple & Spotify🎙️
#auspol
Where the hell are the courageous media leaders?
We spotlight Journalism giant Kerry O’Briens thunderous Walkley speech and the “weapons of mass destruction” threatening journalism and democracy.
“Truth Lies & Media” just dropped! 💥
On Apple & Spotify🎙️
#auspol
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#auspol
Geez! Trying to engage a Support At Home aged care provider as a potential new client (with package funds ready to hand over) is now like trying to deal with Centrelink! Have left emails & phone messages with several in the past week & they are just not returning calls.
Geez! Trying to engage a Support At Home aged care provider as a potential new client (with package funds ready to hand over) is now like trying to deal with Centrelink! Have left emails & phone messages with several in the past week & they are just not returning calls.
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Geez! Trying to engage a Support At Home aged care provider as a potential new client (with package funds ready to hand over) is now like trying to deal with Centrelink! Have left emails & phone messages with several in the past week & they are just not returning calls.
Geez! Trying to engage a Support At Home aged care provider as a potential new client (with package funds ready to hand over) is now like trying to deal with Centrelink! Have left emails & phone messages with several in the past week & they are just not returning calls.
ABC legend Kerry O’Brien bursts back into the national conversation with a fiery speech condemning the monsters who wreck democracies and press freedoms.
And still the MSM platforms hard right abusers and political whackjobs.
“Truth Lies&Media” is live!
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#auspol
And still the MSM platforms hard right abusers and political whackjobs.
“Truth Lies&Media” is live!
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#auspol
December 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
ABC legend Kerry O’Brien bursts back into the national conversation with a fiery speech condemning the monsters who wreck democracies and press freedoms.
And still the MSM platforms hard right abusers and political whackjobs.
“Truth Lies&Media” is live!
Promo Match Frame Editing
#auspol
And still the MSM platforms hard right abusers and political whackjobs.
“Truth Lies&Media” is live!
Promo Match Frame Editing
#auspol
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Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces.
There’s no such thing as a “free market.”
It is designed.
It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.
There’s no such thing as a “free market.”
It is designed.
It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces.
There’s no such thing as a “free market.”
It is designed.
It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.
There’s no such thing as a “free market.”
It is designed.
It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.
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Excellent analysis as always
Recommended listening
Recommended listening
December 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Excellent analysis as always
Recommended listening
Recommended listening
In a world that silences critics of the powerful and the brutal, ex 4 Corners host Kerry O’Brien would not be silenced at The Walkleys.
Perversely his fiery praise for Palestinian journalists was then cut from two of Nines flagship papers.
“Truth Lies & Media” is live!💥
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December 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
In a world that silences critics of the powerful and the brutal, ex 4 Corners host Kerry O’Brien would not be silenced at The Walkleys.
Perversely his fiery praise for Palestinian journalists was then cut from two of Nines flagship papers.
“Truth Lies & Media” is live!💥
Promo Match Frame Editing
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Who will benefit from this decision?
The list would have to include: vaping/tobacco industry; alcohol & gambling interests; those who profit from unhealthy food systems....
Who else?
www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...
The list would have to include: vaping/tobacco industry; alcohol & gambling interests; those who profit from unhealthy food systems....
Who else?
www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...
Shock and alarm greet news about VicHealth’s demise
News that VicHealth (the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation) will close as a standalone agency – 38 years after launching as
www.croakey.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Who will benefit from this decision?
The list would have to include: vaping/tobacco industry; alcohol & gambling interests; those who profit from unhealthy food systems....
Who else?
www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...
The list would have to include: vaping/tobacco industry; alcohol & gambling interests; those who profit from unhealthy food systems....
Who else?
www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...
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Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company.
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone comp
popular.info
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company.
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
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The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
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Monique is cut that she won’t get to talk to Rita 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks to @aaronsmith333.bsky.social for the vid
#CommunityIndependents ✅
Thanks to @aaronsmith333.bsky.social for the vid
#CommunityIndependents ✅
December 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Monique is cut that she won’t get to talk to Rita 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks to @aaronsmith333.bsky.social for the vid
#CommunityIndependents ✅
Thanks to @aaronsmith333.bsky.social for the vid
#CommunityIndependents ✅
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From the censorship of our own Kerrie O'Brien to the self- censorship of the BBC's Reith Lectures and a whole lot in between.
Make sure you catch @nicolechvastek.bsky.social and #DenisMuller for another great media analysis.
#auspol #independentmedia
open.spotify.com/episode/1ume...
Make sure you catch @nicolechvastek.bsky.social and #DenisMuller for another great media analysis.
#auspol #independentmedia
open.spotify.com/episode/1ume...
Ep 40 - It Can't Happen Here
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December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
From the censorship of our own Kerrie O'Brien to the self- censorship of the BBC's Reith Lectures and a whole lot in between.
Make sure you catch @nicolechvastek.bsky.social and #DenisMuller for another great media analysis.
#auspol #independentmedia
open.spotify.com/episode/1ume...
Make sure you catch @nicolechvastek.bsky.social and #DenisMuller for another great media analysis.
#auspol #independentmedia
open.spotify.com/episode/1ume...
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"Where are the current giants of journalism stepping up to fight these fights?" asks Nicole.
And as Osman Faruqi noted, if Kerry O'Brien was working today, he'd be sacked for these comments.
The hypocrisy of so many at the Walkleys who gave O'Brien a standing ovation was astounding. #GazaGenocide
And as Osman Faruqi noted, if Kerry O'Brien was working today, he'd be sacked for these comments.
The hypocrisy of so many at the Walkleys who gave O'Brien a standing ovation was astounding. #GazaGenocide
A Trumpian demolition of press freedoms could well happen here - aided by toxic tech platforms - warns renowned journalist Kerry O’Brien in a fiery Walkleys speech.
Plus BBC bends the knee to the Orange Fascist
“Truth Lies & Media” is live!💥
Promo Match Frame Editing
#auspol
#NewsCorpse
Plus BBC bends the knee to the Orange Fascist
“Truth Lies & Media” is live!💥
Promo Match Frame Editing
#auspol
#NewsCorpse
December 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Where are the current giants of journalism stepping up to fight these fights?" asks Nicole.
And as Osman Faruqi noted, if Kerry O'Brien was working today, he'd be sacked for these comments.
The hypocrisy of so many at the Walkleys who gave O'Brien a standing ovation was astounding. #GazaGenocide
And as Osman Faruqi noted, if Kerry O'Brien was working today, he'd be sacked for these comments.
The hypocrisy of so many at the Walkleys who gave O'Brien a standing ovation was astounding. #GazaGenocide
A Trumpian demolition of press freedoms could well happen here - aided by toxic tech platforms - warns renowned journalist Kerry O’Brien in a fiery Walkleys speech.
Plus BBC bends the knee to the Orange Fascist
“Truth Lies & Media” is live!💥
Promo Match Frame Editing
#auspol
#NewsCorpse
Plus BBC bends the knee to the Orange Fascist
“Truth Lies & Media” is live!💥
Promo Match Frame Editing
#auspol
#NewsCorpse
December 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A Trumpian demolition of press freedoms could well happen here - aided by toxic tech platforms - warns renowned journalist Kerry O’Brien in a fiery Walkleys speech.
Plus BBC bends the knee to the Orange Fascist
“Truth Lies & Media” is live!💥
Promo Match Frame Editing
#auspol
#NewsCorpse
Plus BBC bends the knee to the Orange Fascist
“Truth Lies & Media” is live!💥
Promo Match Frame Editing
#auspol
#NewsCorpse
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Don't miss this week's Truth, Lies and Media - It Can't Happen Here.
The Age/SMH's "editing" of Kerry O'Brien's Walkley speech, the BBC "editing" a Reith Lecture & Labor's failure on whistleblower protections.
@nicolechvastek.bsky.social
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The Age/SMH's "editing" of Kerry O'Brien's Walkley speech, the BBC "editing" a Reith Lecture & Labor's failure on whistleblower protections.
@nicolechvastek.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
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...
podcasts.apple.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Don't miss this week's Truth, Lies and Media - It Can't Happen Here.
The Age/SMH's "editing" of Kerry O'Brien's Walkley speech, the BBC "editing" a Reith Lecture & Labor's failure on whistleblower protections.
@nicolechvastek.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
The Age/SMH's "editing" of Kerry O'Brien's Walkley speech, the BBC "editing" a Reith Lecture & Labor's failure on whistleblower protections.
@nicolechvastek.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
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tell us how you really feel Nicole 😂
"My headline for Jess Wilson. The Liberals are a pack of climate-denying bigots who funnel cash to their rich mates who invariably cut services, primarily affecting the poor. If you fall for this sunny Jess is going to save the day, then you're deluded”
boom 💥
"My headline for Jess Wilson. The Liberals are a pack of climate-denying bigots who funnel cash to their rich mates who invariably cut services, primarily affecting the poor. If you fall for this sunny Jess is going to save the day, then you're deluded”
boom 💥
A fired up Kerry O’Brien delivers some truth bombs at journalism’s night of nights .. but why did some of Nines papers omit his praise for courageous Palestinian reporters who paid with their lives to report a genocide?
Plus Trump vs BBC
“Truth Lies & Media” is live!💥
Promo Match Frame Editing
December 4, 2025 at 10:48 AM
tell us how you really feel Nicole 😂
"My headline for Jess Wilson. The Liberals are a pack of climate-denying bigots who funnel cash to their rich mates who invariably cut services, primarily affecting the poor. If you fall for this sunny Jess is going to save the day, then you're deluded”
boom 💥
"My headline for Jess Wilson. The Liberals are a pack of climate-denying bigots who funnel cash to their rich mates who invariably cut services, primarily affecting the poor. If you fall for this sunny Jess is going to save the day, then you're deluded”
boom 💥
A fired up Kerry O’Brien delivers some truth bombs at journalism’s night of nights .. but why did some of Nines papers omit his praise for courageous Palestinian reporters who paid with their lives to report a genocide?
Plus Trump vs BBC
“Truth Lies & Media” is live!💥
Promo Match Frame Editing
December 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
A fired up Kerry O’Brien delivers some truth bombs at journalism’s night of nights .. but why did some of Nines papers omit his praise for courageous Palestinian reporters who paid with their lives to report a genocide?
Plus Trump vs BBC
“Truth Lies & Media” is live!💥
Promo Match Frame Editing
Where the hell is the next wave of progressive journalism firebrands!
Kerry O’Brien more than delivered in a fiery Walkleys speech with more truthbombs than you’ll ever see in the mainstream media.
“Truth Lies & Media” has just dropped!💥
Apple&Spotify
Promo Match Frame Editing
#auspol
Kerry O’Brien more than delivered in a fiery Walkleys speech with more truthbombs than you’ll ever see in the mainstream media.
“Truth Lies & Media” has just dropped!💥
Apple&Spotify
Promo Match Frame Editing
#auspol
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Where the hell is the next wave of progressive journalism firebrands!
Kerry O’Brien more than delivered in a fiery Walkleys speech with more truthbombs than you’ll ever see in the mainstream media.
“Truth Lies & Media” has just dropped!💥
Apple&Spotify
Promo Match Frame Editing
#auspol
Kerry O’Brien more than delivered in a fiery Walkleys speech with more truthbombs than you’ll ever see in the mainstream media.
“Truth Lies & Media” has just dropped!💥
Apple&Spotify
Promo Match Frame Editing
#auspol
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2/2 🧵 press freedoms. I’m guessing you’ve never bothered listening to Denis on his podcast, today’s episode is especially pertinent but there are 39 other episodes too. I’d suggest take a listen to at least a couple
It’s a sad day when independent journalists are attacking independent journalists 🙁
It’s a sad day when independent journalists are attacking independent journalists 🙁
TikTok award's RACISM ROW | Trump’s new press hit list | Gaza media petition anniversary
YouTube video by Ette Media
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December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
2/2 🧵 press freedoms. I’m guessing you’ve never bothered listening to Denis on his podcast, today’s episode is especially pertinent but there are 39 other episodes too. I’d suggest take a listen to at least a couple
It’s a sad day when independent journalists are attacking independent journalists 🙁
It’s a sad day when independent journalists are attacking independent journalists 🙁
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
Where the hell are the courageous media leaders?
We spotlight Journalism giant Kerry O’Briens thunderous Walkley speech and the “weapons of mass destruction” threatening journalism and democracy.
“Truth Lies & Media” just dropped! 💥
On Apple & Spotify🎙️
#auspol
Where the hell are the courageous media leaders?
We spotlight Journalism giant Kerry O’Briens thunderous Walkley speech and the “weapons of mass destruction” threatening journalism and democracy.
“Truth Lies & Media” just dropped! 💥
On Apple & Spotify🎙️
#auspol
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...
podcasts.apple.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
Where the hell are the courageous media leaders?
We spotlight Journalism giant Kerry O’Briens thunderous Walkley speech and the “weapons of mass destruction” threatening journalism and democracy.
“Truth Lies & Media” just dropped! 💥
On Apple & Spotify🎙️
#auspol
Where the hell are the courageous media leaders?
We spotlight Journalism giant Kerry O’Briens thunderous Walkley speech and the “weapons of mass destruction” threatening journalism and democracy.
“Truth Lies & Media” just dropped! 💥
On Apple & Spotify🎙️
#auspol
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It's interesting how prescient some writers were.
Recently reviewed in The Guardian is Crooked Cross by Sally Carson, set in Germany during the rise and consolidation of Nazism.
Bleak times then, and now as well I'm afraid.
Best wishes, and thanks for TL&M
FYI:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Recently reviewed in The Guardian is Crooked Cross by Sally Carson, set in Germany during the rise and consolidation of Nazism.
Bleak times then, and now as well I'm afraid.
Best wishes, and thanks for TL&M
FYI:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A prophetic 1934 novel has found a surprising second life – it holds lessons for us all | Charlotte Higgins
Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross was written and set during the rise of nazism. It shows both how extremism takes hold, and the moral certainty needed to resist it, says the Guardian’s chief culture write...
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It's interesting how prescient some writers were.
Recently reviewed in The Guardian is Crooked Cross by Sally Carson, set in Germany during the rise and consolidation of Nazism.
Bleak times then, and now as well I'm afraid.
Best wishes, and thanks for TL&M
FYI:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Recently reviewed in The Guardian is Crooked Cross by Sally Carson, set in Germany during the rise and consolidation of Nazism.
Bleak times then, and now as well I'm afraid.
Best wishes, and thanks for TL&M
FYI:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump just gave a commutation to David Gentile, a private equity executive who defrauded investors of $1.6B.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Trump just gave a commutation to David Gentile, a private equity executive who defrauded investors of $1.6B.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
Journalism giant Kerry O’Brien, is warning that a wrecking Trumpian state obliterating press freedoms is not impossible here.
Interesting Denis is reading a book about a racist creep who becomes President called “It Can’t Happen Here” - written in 1935.
“Truth Lies & Media” drops at midnight! 💥
Interesting Denis is reading a book about a racist creep who becomes President called “It Can’t Happen Here” - written in 1935.
“Truth Lies & Media” drops at midnight! 💥
December 2, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Journalism giant Kerry O’Brien, is warning that a wrecking Trumpian state obliterating press freedoms is not impossible here.
Interesting Denis is reading a book about a racist creep who becomes President called “It Can’t Happen Here” - written in 1935.
“Truth Lies & Media” drops at midnight! 💥
Interesting Denis is reading a book about a racist creep who becomes President called “It Can’t Happen Here” - written in 1935.
“Truth Lies & Media” drops at midnight! 💥
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Reminds me of the failure of his and Lachlan Murdoch's One.Tel - it wasn't their fault either.
"Both Packer and Murdoch, who were One.Tel non-executive directors, have maintained since the collapse that they were profoundly misled about the telco's financial situation"
"Both Packer and Murdoch, who were One.Tel non-executive directors, have maintained since the collapse that they were profoundly misled about the telco's financial situation"
James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch foot $40m One.Tel bill
Former non-executive directors settle protracted dispute with creditors of the failed telco
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Reminds me of the failure of his and Lachlan Murdoch's One.Tel - it wasn't their fault either.
"Both Packer and Murdoch, who were One.Tel non-executive directors, have maintained since the collapse that they were profoundly misled about the telco's financial situation"
"Both Packer and Murdoch, who were One.Tel non-executive directors, have maintained since the collapse that they were profoundly misled about the telco's financial situation"