Brad Scanlan
@bradscanlan.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🪩 🇦🇺 happily married, retired ex-cop of thirty years in NSW also Police Gay Lesbian Liaison Officer (PGLLO) for most of that time.
A very interesting article about how Sky News, now News 24, is broadcasting free to air in the Regions.
A content deal that came out of frustration when Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon failed to take over Network 10 is now pushing regional voters to Pauline Hanson. Jason Koutsoukis reports. trib.al/rWNOY3s
Inside the Murdoch television deal driving One Nation
A content deal that came out of frustration when Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon failed to take over Network Ten is now pushing regional voters to Pauline Hanson.
trib.al
September 21, 2026 at 9:41 PM
A very interesting article about how Sky News, now News 24, is broadcasting free to air in the Regions.
Reposting this because it’s relevant today. I saw Pansy Division in Boston in the late Nineties; they were introduced as “Pansy Diversion”, they stopped playing and asked to be re-introduced properly, and were.
Very cool of Green Day 😎 thank you for bringing this to my attention @ohhthatsrich.bsky.social
September 18, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Reposting this because it’s relevant today. I saw Pansy Division in Boston in the late Nineties; they were introduced as “Pansy Diversion”, they stopped playing and asked to be re-introduced properly, and were.
Here are some ideas for protest signs this Sunday about NSW Police drug operations happening TWICE on Oxford St (LGBTQI area) even when being investigated following complaints from the first time!
September 18, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Here are some ideas for protest signs this Sunday about NSW Police drug operations happening TWICE on Oxford St (LGBTQI area) even when being investigated following complaints from the first time!
If #Raye doesn’t do the next #BondMovie theme song, then the world is not fair (it isn’t)
September 17, 2026 at 11:36 AM
If #Raye doesn’t do the next #BondMovie theme song, then the world is not fair (it isn’t)
September 17, 2026 at 3:13 AM
#yourmomentofzen Your moment of zen. #PalmCove
September 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
#yourmomentofzen Your moment of zen. #PalmCove
Post Traumatic Stress is not a Disorder, it’s a result, and it’s real.
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Stressed officer's death holds lessons for police force
The case of an outback police officer who took his own life after being exposed to trauma and stress at work holds key lessons for the force, a coroner says.
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September 11, 2026 at 6:15 AM
Post Traumatic Stress is not a Disorder, it’s a result, and it’s real.
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Reading about the #manosphere, but what about the #blokesphere?
September 4, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Reading about the #manosphere, but what about the #blokesphere?
This is a great article; no-one talks about the massive cost, and loss, of A.I. either, he says.
A platform is good to its users to lock them in, then it turns on them, desperate to feed itself for infinite profit and control. “The harder it got to leave, the worse the deal got.”
Cory Doctorow on enshittification and why "AI is not the end of the world": trib.al/CLpqkq9
Cory Doctorow on enshittification and why "AI is not the end of the world": trib.al/CLpqkq9
Author Cory Doctorow on the disenshittification nation
Cory Doctorow, in Australia to promote his new book, was among the first tech philosophers to name the rot eating the internet. He has not lost hope for a way out.
trib.al
August 28, 2026 at 5:52 AM
This is a great article; no-one talks about the massive cost, and loss, of A.I. either, he says.
So, if you still want to invite #OneNation to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras…
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One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts ‘in two minds’ about whether gay people should be equal
Footage shows senator on stage at the Church and State conference responding to question about party’s director James Ashby
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August 26, 2026 at 12:23 AM
So, if you still want to invite #OneNation to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras…
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
New Scott Marshall mural in Chippendale, NSW, Australia.
August 25, 2026 at 10:07 AM
New Scott Marshall mural in Chippendale, NSW, Australia.
“…And that may ultimately be the clearest sign that this is not a new Great Awakening at all, but the evolution of revivalist religion to support the country’s ongoing reversion to more explicitly authoritarian politics.”
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newrepublic.com/article/2143...
MAGA Christianity and the Return of Religious Coercion
The right is increasingly embracing an anti-social version of the Christian faith that favors restrictive control with none of the underlying moral obligations.
newrepublic.com
August 19, 2026 at 1:08 AM
“…And that may ultimately be the clearest sign that this is not a new Great Awakening at all, but the evolution of revivalist religion to support the country’s ongoing reversion to more explicitly authoritarian politics.”
newrepublic.com/article/2143...
newrepublic.com/article/2143...
#seagull perched on #statue of #QueenVictoria outside Queen Victoria Building (QVB), Sydney, Australia.
August 15, 2026 at 6:56 AM
#seagull perched on #statue of #QueenVictoria outside Queen Victoria Building (QVB), Sydney, Australia.
At the Divine Playhouse protest. “I thought that my protesting days were over; they’re never over!”
July 28, 2026 at 8:18 AM
At the Divine Playhouse protest. “I thought that my protesting days were over; they’re never over!”
Another good read, Sky “news” on free to air in the regions influencing politics.
"It is probably no coincidence that One Nation’s sudden rise in the polls is strongest in the places where Sky News Regional has its free-to-air presence," writes Jonathan Holmes. “If you love Pauline Hanson, you probably love Peta Credlin too.” trib.al/KecYFfB
How Murdoch captured regional Australia
The imminent rebranding of Sky News Australia is less a makeover than the consolidation of a long-sighted strategy that’s secured a far-right base.
trib.al
July 28, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Another good read, Sky “news” on free to air in the regions influencing politics.
Worth a read.
“The only credible answer to the question of what these AUKUS submarines are for is that they play the role the US manifestly wants them to play, and for which they are best equipped: supplementary assets, effectively embedded into US military command.” trib.al/HIJjEMJ
The case against AUKUS
As this week’s ALP National Conference will confirm, the Albanese government remains strongly wedded to the AUKUS nuclear-propelled submarine project. But the project was misconceived from the outset and, five years later, it remains even more obvious that it is not in our national interest.
trib.al
July 28, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Worth a read.
We made it onto ABC Instagram for the Divine Playhouse protest (for).
“I thought that my protesting days were over; it’s never over.”
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“I thought that my protesting days were over; it’s never over.”
www.instagram.com/reel/DbP1NNj...
July 26, 2026 at 11:57 PM
We made it onto ABC Instagram for the Divine Playhouse protest (for).
“I thought that my protesting days were over; it’s never over.”
www.instagram.com/reel/DbP1NNj...
“I thought that my protesting days were over; it’s never over.”
www.instagram.com/reel/DbP1NNj...
We made it the singing protest for the #DivinePlayhouse
July 25, 2026 at 4:52 AM
We made it the singing protest for the #DivinePlayhouse
July 23, 2026 at 10:59 PM
18,000 signatures on a petition to save the Divine Playhouse, their lease terminated citing “offensive trade” and given three days to move out. Sing!
July 21, 2026 at 8:10 AM
18,000 signatures on a petition to save the Divine Playhouse, their lease terminated citing “offensive trade” and given three days to move out. Sing!
Got tickets to #TheOdyssey in 70mm IMAX in a month’s time! What’s going on? A cultural shift, back to the movies on celluloid en masse.
July 20, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Got tickets to #TheOdyssey in 70mm IMAX in a month’s time! What’s going on? A cultural shift, back to the movies on celluloid en masse.