Quentin Dempster ✓
@QuentinDempster · Australia · joined 03 Mar 2009
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Parliamentary committee hearings are open to the public and many are now live streamed. For Australian Defence Force officials to try to have MHRs/Senators prohibited from posting excerpts of evidence they may seek to highlight is a breach of parliamentary privilege. The ADF is
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An unbelievable attempt by senior Defence officials to censor even material they provide in a public at the Parliament. The fact an official even thinks it’s okay to make such a claim shows a deep malaise in the Defence organisation. The officials misunderstand our democracy.
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Queensland state government removes domestic violence recording from its crime data. This is wilful blindness, a political assault on women and children in family extremis and adds to risks for investigating police. In Australia a woman is killed by a man at the rate of about one
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“Boldness is all” advises SMH editorial 4/9/26 as global warming to exceed 1.5 degrees by 2030 with a species extinction future from extreme weather events. Agreed. But no mention of Australia taking leadership in decarbonisation by stopping coal/gas exports NOW. Not so bold. htt
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‘Reckless’: Coalition’s 80% cigarette tax cut slammed by health experts
https://t.co/r3r9u21Vve
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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
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The LNP have removed domestic and family violence victims from crime data. https://t.co/EsNqzDV314
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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
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Critiquing the critic: Heresies: Richard Flanagan is rarely heretical, but rarely dull - by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth >> https://t.co/59Om7g5trc
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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
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Against accounts of the same size
10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views5 420this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %9.08%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %4.07%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 5 420 | 924 | 5.87× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 9.08% | 3.62% | 2.51× |
| Engagement rate | 4.07% | 1.52% | 2.68× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
13.2K31 Aug
2.1K1 Sep
1.8K
21.9K3 Sep
4.4K
30.1K
1.4K
8.3K4 Sep
6.4K
1.2K
Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
4.19%31 Aug
2.40%1 Sep
1.36%
3.95%3 Sep
6.52%
0.27%
4.88%
8.92%4 Sep
1.79%
6.37%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes64.3%1 869 in total
Reposts25.5%741 in total
Replies7.0%205 in total
Quotes1.9%54 in total
Bookmarks1.3%39 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.
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