Jess McGuire

Apart from a half-joking, futile yearning for her husband, I felt a kinship with Nicole. I reported on her wedding to Keith, blagging my way into his bucks' night and having a dumb fight with one of his pals over his bad jewellery. Nic and I even had a private moment on the day. When her bridal car stopped at lights en route to the church, I was on the corner eating a Chinese takeaway, waiting for my own ride to the service.

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Liberal deputy mayor’s children among party’s biggest donors The children of Liverpool Council’s Liberal deputy mayor graduated from high school only recently. In March, they each donated $7500.

Great to see teenagers engaged and passionate about politics!!!!! 🤪

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These are definitely the files everybody wanted to see released

What’s a reasonable taxi fee from Sydney Airport to approx Town Hall d’ya reckon?

Real proud to have collaborated with my ol’ ABC Western Plains colleague Zack Marlan on this. These kinds of stories are so important to tell!

And a massive shout out to all my regional ABC colleagues who work SO HARD on the ground every single day keeping their local communities informed.

Outback nurse tackles diabetes with cans, rocks, bush tucker and chat When Rishoniy Caine arrived in a remote NSW community with one general store and no gym, she knew fixing its diabetes problem would need a different approach to what had already failed the locals.

It wasn’t long into my conversation with this outback nurse for me to realise - there’s something really special happening here.

A First Nations-led program achieving real results for communities dealing with a diabetes problem in a town with limited resources? Yes!

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Day for it, mate! 🤙🏼

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No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.

NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.

Israel's plan is unfolding at a time leaders don't care about global criticism The debate in the Israeli media over Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to occupy Gaza have barely mentioned the fate of the two million people who live there.

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I had no idea we’d had such a history of trouble with the leading scientific researchers from those countries.

Also, frankly, you’d think in 2025 we’d be pretty keen for the best minds in the world when it comes to zoonotic diseases to have opportunities to exchange information and knowledge.

Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event Organisers say move will damage nation’s scientific standing as government refuses to comment on why group of scientists were refused entry

I can’t believe I’m reading this right. Our immigration minister refused visas to international researchers coming to attend a conference on the basis of “social cohesion” and they happen to hail from “Kenya, Uganda, India, Pakistan and Georgia”?

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Was glad to be able to discuss this with Senator Pocock on Wednesday afternoon on ABC NSW - and the feedback from listeners seemed to indicate there are a lot of people who’d like to see this reform too.

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Living by a popular fishing spot, I cannot tell you how often I am cleaning up fishing line, hooks, lures, AND cigarette butts all discarded carelessly by anglers. It makes me SO MAD!

Genuinely do not understand how so called outdoorsy people can give so little care to the environment they’re in.

imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone

it's crazy that i wake up every day and think "i can't possibly have anything else to say on twitter" and then the US Department of Defense will be like "Our Secretary of Defense has great jeans ☺️"

The DoD Rapid Response team on Twitter writes: "The Secretary of Defense has great jeans." The attached photo shows Sec. Pete Hegseth wearing a blue sport coat, white button-up shirt, blue jeans, and a big buckle Western belt.

I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. 🧵

The year is 2066. I am 85 years old. I wake up, and gingerly reach for my iPhone 58, the font on my waiting notifications large enough for my ailing eyes to make out the text…

“New episode of Mushroom Case Daily just dropped”

I gasp, splutter, then die. The podcast has outlived me.

MEAA supports the right to protest and freedom of expression. We stand up for press freedom across the world, including the almost 200 journalists that have been killed in Gaza since October 2023 — the fact that international media has been blockaded from entering Gaza is a press freedom crisis.

I look forward to the next strongly worded statement issued by world leaders, they seem to be working well.

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’

“Israel has built the most efficient starvation machine you can imagine...

“Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide. It’s a crime against humanity. It’s a war crime.”

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John Oliver not mincing words: "Gaza is starving, is a sentence that's objectively true, but it's also slightly misleading because it's too passive. Gaza is being starved by Israel,"

CORRECTION AND APOLOGY Earlier today, we published a breaking news alert on our social media channels about an arrest connected to the Adass Israel Synagogue arson. In taking the information from an update from The Australian's website, we made a grievous error in wrongly taking the name of The Australian's journalist, Mohammad Alfares, and including it in the post as the arrested party. The post was removed as soon as we realised our mistake. We sincerely regret this error and the upset that it has caused for Mr Alfares and The Australian.

Ooft quite a correction

These five women, who are predominantly solo mothers by choice or in same-sex relationships, said they had initially requested artificial insemination, which involves using a syringe to aim sperm into the cervix or uterus. Veitch denies pressuring any women into having natural insemination. This masthead is not suggesting that he committed sexual assault or committed any crime. "Andrew pushed hard to be more involved than I was comfortable with, and when it came to my fertile window, he pressured me to opt for natural insemination, claiming it had the highest success rate," one woman recalled.

I just wonder if they did, whether there’d be so many women acquiescing to the donors they meet online who pressure them to switch to “natural insemination”

The sperm donor loophole that led to 27 half-siblings Andrew Veitch donated sperm to 15 women he met through donor-matching social media, creating 27 half-siblings. Much to the shock of their mothers, many of those children live within a few kilometres o...

When one of my BFFs was a donor years ago I went through the paperwork/legalities with him and clocked that if you use “natural” conception methods, even if there’s no relationship, the guy has full parental rights & obligations… feel like many women don’t know this?

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It’s so strange the things that you kinda go, “oh ok I suppose that’s fine then???” about at certain points in your life, only to look back years later and go YIKES AHOY

So grateful to have locked down a kind loving sweetheart, highly recommend

This article reminded me of a terrible ex who demanded I sleep on the side of the bed closest to the window. Why? So if burglars came, they’d get me first. 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩

It’s funny now but ONLY cos I’ve had enough therapy to stop choosing dud selfish partners 😂

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Chris Martin is going to be the internal narration in my head whenever I see a canoodling couple who seem a bit suss.

“Ooooh, look at these two! Alright cmon, you’re ok… uh oh what? Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy”

Here's Colbert on July 14 making fun of Paramount for paying Trump $16 million. It's hard not to see CBS canceling his show through this lens.

"I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's big fat bribe."

Classic Peter, “any show Jess isn’t hosting”, etc. Smdh

As someone who was MISQUOTED due to a journo mishearing a quote and then publishing it and then a right wing numbnuts pulled that WRONG QUOTE to blast me, I am passionate about accurate transcriptions lololololol