Mark

@mark_melbin • 2,887 subscribers

My name is Blue Canary. At times I drunk-tweet. These are the times I sound completely sane and rational. Threads/Mastodon: mark_melbin Bluesky: mark-melbin

Live Cam

Mark

Shorts

Pauline Hanson and One Nation are now refusing to appear on the ABC altogether, cos they're too scared to face tough questions. This reminds me of the time Tony Abbott banned his ministers from appearing on Qanda. No ticker. #auspol #OneNation #FreedomOfSpeech

GP visits to be free for most under #Labor's $8.5 billion #Medicare election promise. The #ABC's Jane Norman: "Labor is UNASHAMEDLY using government money to to guarantee greater access to basic services" Why the actual F should Labor be ashamed? #journalism #insiders #auspol

Paul Sakkal claims on #insiders that Peter Dutton is "values-driven not polling driven". It's scary that some journalists actually believe this. #DodgyDutton promised a second referendum for #TheVoice cos it was the "right thing to do", then reneged. #ABC #journalism #auspol

Videos

Watch Anya Live

Pauline Hanson's One Nation, the party of FREE SPEECH, has banned the ABC from it's election room cos the ABC covered the UK sexual assault claims against candidate Aoi Baxter. #auspol #OneNation #SAElection #sapol #FreedomOfSpeech

Sky News hatemonger Sharri Markson hijacks the National Day of Mourning ceremony for the VICTIMS of the #BondiBeach terror attack to launch a hateful tirade against Labor and Muslims. Reminder: Murdoch incited the 2018 Pittsburgh Synagogue terror attack that killed 10. #auspol

Vic Liberal MP James Newbury tweeted that Victorians are coming for Jacinta Allan's Labor with baseball bats. Both Allan &amp; Dan Andrews and their partners &amp; children have been the subject of death threats from a NOISY MINORITY of Sky News cookers. #auspol #springst #HateSpeech

Pauline Hanson's been in politics for 30 years. What's she achieved? She's made herself rich of the backs of suckers. #auspol #insiders #OneNation

Labor's Tanya Plibersek makes the outrageous demand that Australia's journalists start asking some tough questions of #OneNation's Pauline Hanson. That's not how #journalism works in Australia. Labor gets the tough questions. The others get Dorothy Dixers. #auspol

LNP's James Patterson (#IPA): 🔹"I'm not worried about (#Woolworths) going out of business" 🔹"Australians... don't want⬆️weighing into divisive political debates". It didn't. Dutton did. 🔹"unsurprising to see the Prime Minister defend⬆️. He always defends big business" #auspol

Jacinta Price thinks she's on the road to become the Liberal Party's next Prime Minister. Hopefully Sky News keeps feeding this delusion. Which safe Liberal Party seat is she going to parachute into? Are there any left? #LNP #auspol

2023: Nikki Savva offers free advice to Peter Dutton and the Liberal Party in the wake of their shock loss in the Aston by-election. They didn't listen to Savva. They listened to Peta Credlin and Rowan Dean. #LNP #AusVotes2025 #insiders #abc730 #auspol

Why is Pauline Hanson's One Nation up in the polls? She gets a free ride from the right-wing stacked media that's either too corrupt, too stupid or too scared to ask the tough questions. Sunrise and Today are prime offenders. #auspol #OneNation #sapol #journalism

Tim Wilson on the ACTU's call for a 4-day week: "The #Labor Party is LITERALLY the political arm of the ACTU". Rich, coming from Timmy, who for 7 years worked for the #IPA, the policy/#propaganda arm of the #LNP (backed by Gina &amp; Rupert). #afternoonbriefing #auspol

Andrew Clennell (#SkyNews) &amp; Ashley Raper (#TenNews) push the 'hasty generalisation' logical fallacy about #CostOfLiving. Intent: - Clennell: Everyone is worse off. - Raper: Most are worse off. Albo hits them for six. #Election2025 #journalism #misinformation #auspol

#ABC news director Justin Stevens ran Trump rallies uninterrupted for hours, but when the Oz PM is giving a major update to the public about 30 pieces of legislation he gets cut off after just 150 seconds. Any questions from journalists? 🤷‍♂️ #journalism #misinformation #auspol

Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock give the top 4 reasons for rising #inflation / raising #InterestRates. 1. Strong Demand. LOW unemployment. 2. Supply Capacity. 3. Strong Global Economy. 4. Eased Financial Conditions. Government Spending NOT in the top 4. #auspol #insiders

One Nation's Pauline Hanson on Russian dictator Vladimir Putin after he killed 35 Australians on flight MH17: "I respect the man. He is very patriotic. The people love him. He is doing so well for the country." AS AN AUSTRALIAN... PH should FO to #Russia. #OneNation #auspol

One Nation's Pauline Hanson slips up and goes full Islamophobe for the first time since the introduction of Australia's new #HateSpeech laws. Lock her up? Barnaby Joyce knows this is bat-poo crazy bigotry but he's still wallowing in it. 💩💰 #auspol #OneNation #Islamophobia

#Labor welcomes the new MP for #Dickson, Ali France. #AusVotes2025 #auspol

#Labor Communications Minister Michelle Rowland sets the record straight on the #LNP's disastrous #NBN rollout. #Dutton #debt #misinformation #auspol

Patricia Karvelas invited Barnaby Beetrooter onto afternoon briefing to vomit Gina Minehart's Climate Change denials. No pushback to this misinformation. Journalistic malpractice. #auspol #insiders #NetZero #misinformation #journalism

It's left to Sentator David Pocock to educate Islamophobic ABC journalist Patricia Karvelas on the simple point that hateful speech &amp; actions from likes of Pauline Hanson can have CONSEQUENCES? Did PK forget an Aussie murdered 50 Muslims in NZ? #Islamophobia #OneNation #auspol

Vic Liberal MP James Newbury tweeted that Victorians are coming for Jacinta Allan's Labor with baseball bats. Both Allan & Dan Andrews and their partners & children have been the subject of death threats from a NOISY MINORITY of Sky News cookers. #auspol #springst #HateSpeech

Tim Wilson on the ACTU's call for a 4-day week: "The #Labor Party is LITERALLY the political arm of the ACTU". Rich, coming from Timmy, who for 7 years worked for the #IPA, the policy/#propaganda arm of the #LNP (backed by Gina & Rupert). #afternoonbriefing #auspol

Andrew Clennell (#SkyNews) & Ashley Raper (#TenNews) push the 'hasty generalisation' logical fallacy about #CostOfLiving. Intent: - Clennell: Everyone is worse off. - Raper: Most are worse off. Albo hits them for six. #Election2025 #journalism #misinformation #auspol

It's left to Sentator David Pocock to educate Islamophobic ABC journalist Patricia Karvelas on the simple point that hateful speech & actions from likes of Pauline Hanson can have CONSEQUENCES? Did PK forget an Aussie murdered 50 Muslims in NZ? #Islamophobia #OneNation #auspol