Quentin Dempster ✓

@QuentinDempster · Australia · joined 03 Mar 2009

Journalist and author

59 666Followers

4 933Following

44 035Posts total

132.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views5 750this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %9.64%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.73%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 750	2 896	1.99×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	9.64%	9.51%	1.01×
Engagement rate	2.73%	1.56%	1.75×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

48.4K31 Aug

13.2K

9.4K1 Sep

2.1K

1.8K

54K3 Sep

1.7K

1.5K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.75%31 Aug

4.19%

0.48%1 Sep

2.40%

1.36%

3.05%3 Sep

4.87%

4.54%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes40.5%1 163 in total

Reposts9.2%265 in total

Replies47.4%1 361 in total

Quotes1.7%49 in total

Bookmarks1.1%32 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan want to drop the price of cigarettes supposedly to stymie Australia’s black market. Fellas : it won’t work. Bikies and gangsters need to be rooted out by enhanced law enforcement. Maintain the excise. It has worked to save Australian lives. And by 1.5K views · 36 likes · 10 reposts · 20 replies 03 Sep 2026 Your support for Pacific renewables is noted Prime Minister @AlboMP .. but regret to report you are disingenuous. You need you to drop the pretence. Climate change is a global crisis requiring decarbonisation leadership however hard politically. Australia must rapidly phase out 1.7K views · 63 likes · 18 reposts · 4 replies 03 Sep 2026 Climate change is the Pacific’s greatest threat. But clean energy is one of its biggest opportunities. That’s why Australia has brought clean energy to schools, healthcare centres and communities right across the Pacific. This massive solar and battery project will provide 25% 54K views · 395 likes · 70 reposts · 1.1K replies 03 Sep 2026 Global debt as measured by the bond market is now reportedly 2 to 3 times the size of the global economy. Governments increasingly expend their cash flows (tax revenues) in bigger debt servicing. "Growth" is said to be the antidote to the necessity for horror budgets with the AI 1.8K views · 14 likes · 4 reposts · 7 replies 01 Sep 2026 Critiquing the critic: Heresies: Richard Flanagan is rarely heretical, but rarely dull - by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth >> https://t.co/59Om7g5trc 2.1K views · 37 likes · 13 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 Last night's @abcnews finance report icymi, including a 15-year high for the 10-year bond rate and a rundown of each city's fall in house prices, from its peak. https://t.co/lEKGCI0ZjH 9.4K views · 37 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies 01 Sep 2026 Dear Nick Dyrenfurth @dyrenfurth, by all means critique RichardFlanagan’s analysis but no where in your response do you acknowledge, even mention, his key point: if we all do not condemn Netanyahu’s now obvious overkill (Gaza “genocide”) we condone yet another crime against 13.2K views · 399 likes · 111 reposts · 44 replies 31 Aug 2026 My piece in @Australian ($) today: Why Richard Flanagan is in denial on the true sources of Jew hate. Antisemitism survives because it adapts. Change Jew to Zionist, add conspiracies about money, lobbies and secret power, and the grammar is ancient. After October 7 — and after 48.4K views · 182 likes · 37 reposts · 139 replies 31 Aug 2026