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When delivering distressing news, particularly about cricket, it’s important to warn viewers. 😂
#australia
#england
#cricketworldcup
@abcnews
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Some of the reporting about Conor McKenna’s positive Covid-19 test is SO disappointing.
He’s actually a human being. No one plans to catch a virus & take down the AFL.
For anyone actually concerned with his wellbeing, you’ll be pleased to know he’s going ok, considering.
#AFL
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As an Irish person, I can’t imagine a public holiday celebrating a date that marked the start of hundreds of years of pain.🇮🇪
For that reason, I can’t begin to imagine what today is like for Aboriginal people.
Imagine a date that ALL Australians could celebrate? 🖤💛❤️
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HOW LUCKY ARE WE to have this team
💛💛💛
Watching little boys go insane for this team in the crowd and I’m done
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
EPIC
They’ve changed sport here forever
#FIFAWomensWorldCup2023
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What happened at Essendon was a drugs scandal, an anti-doping investigation that led to players and coaches being suspended.
If you’re calling it a ‘supplements saga’, you’re using a PR term coined to crisis manage that period.
Ps. Supplements generally come in smoothies.
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Just watched crowds stream out of THAT Special Ks win. They’re young, they’re hip, they’re high on life 🔥
Maybe sports don’t need to find quirky, new, faster formats to attract younger ppl..maybe sport always had what it needed:
PERSONALITIES 🎾
@NickKyrgios
@TKokkinakis
🙌🏻
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Some personal news from me!Following my report last night, I was awarded the title ‘AFL Princess’. 👑
Thanks to
@dwilliamson931
for the honour. The
@AFL
will be in touch to advise of my new privileges soon, I’m sure.
Dave’s bio says ‘Be nice..or at least try’. What a prince💞
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Rafael Nadal says he tried to the end but it was “impossible”.
Doesn’t know extent of hip injury.
He said he wasn’t able to hit his backhand or run but he wanted to finish the match.
Says he didn’t want to retire as a defending champion.
All class. Always.
@abcsport
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SINEAD DIVER. 🙌🏻
Went for a run aged 33 and realised she was “quite good”.
Just finished 10th in
#Olympics
marathon.
What. An. Achievement. 😭😭😭
@diversinead
🇮🇪🇦🇺👏🏻👏🏻
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At the airport waiting for my flight to Dublin..can’t even describe the relief to have that boarding pass in my hand😭
Can’t help thinking about those who are yet to reunite with family. My heart breaks for my WA friends. You shouldn’t still be waiting for your boarding pass 💔
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NICK KYRGIOS is teaching
#Melbourne
how to CROWD again.
How to barrack again.
And it is a BEAUTIFUL THING...!!!!!!!
@AustralianOpen
@NickKyrgios
❤️ 🎾❤️🎾❤️🎾❤️🎾❤️🎾❤️
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If you’ve seen a better interview lately, I’d love to hear about it.
This is GOLD. ☺️
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While friends in Europe plan holidays and enjoy normal life… Australia can’t commit to an international sports event, in a biosecure bubble, in 4 MONTHS time.
Think about that.
A sad day for Melbourne and for Australia’s status on the global sports stage.
#GrandPrix
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Conor McKenna says it's time for unethical/inaccurate reporting to face "repercussions" & called his treatment by some sections of Melbourne's footy media "disgraceful"
As he leaves for home, he's urged the
@AFL
to take a stand.
@abcgrandstand
#AFL
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Don Pyke says
#AFL
landscape is causing "a wide range of issues around contentment". Couldn't agree more. Media coverage is saturated at best, toxic at worst. Ethics was part of my journalism degree-I don't see much of it around. For most media it's a race to be first, not right.
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Apologies to
@BreakfastNews
viewers who probably didn’t tune in to watch a sports presenter cry.
I can’t deal with
@mjrowland68
&
@LisaMillar
’s kind eyes...
Thanks for fixing my eye makeup
@kerriestanley1
& for the hugs
@theshineline
@SciNate
I promise no more blubbing!! 🤦🏻♀️
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Always impressed by
@Tonaaayy_
but even more so after the past two weeks. All dignity and class. Watch this ⬇️
@Tonaaayy_
weighs in on the distressing news this morning of allegations against former Hawthorn Club coaches separating First Nations players from their families and their partners.
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The only thing more depressing than the Olympics ending..is watching athletes from other countries celebrate their success with holidays.
Meanwhile (vaccinated) Australian athletes are forced into hotel quarantine-like that’s normal.🤦🏻♀️
We are SO behind the rest of the world. 😭
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Days like today are the reason we need to stop celebrating ‘doughnut days’ 🍩 & claiming to be the “only jurisdiction in the world to beat Delta”. Not accurate & not helpful. Pandemic is still going. Will need to be managed until AND after vaccination % catches up to rest of 🌍.
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Still pinch myself that I live in a city staging a Formula One Grand Prix… just two months after the Australian Open💙
There is NOWHERE ELSE in the world like this 🌎
Packed MCG last night, NRL, Football, basketball, netball…& more!
It’s Disneyland for sports fans 🏎️
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One more time in 2021… just want to say…
I LOVE DAISY SO MUCH
SO genuine, SO knowledgeable, SO good analytically. Just SO 🙌🏻
Loved that chat with Goodwin. Her rapport with interviewees is 11/10.
#AFL
@DaisyPearce6
❤️💙
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Just an idea.... WHY don’t we open up vaccines to those who want them??! 💉
Or should we wait until the middle of next year for that too? 🤷🏻♀️
#COVID19Vic
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Anyone not crying right now?!!
ASH 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
HOW LUCKY are we to have her?!
❤️💛🖤 🇦🇺
#AusOpen
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I’ve never had a lump in my throat doing a voice over but today got me... 😢
“Once the capital of sport, soon there will be no teams left in Melbourne.”
Not a line I ever thought I’d have to say.
I know sport isn’t everything but it makes this city.💔
#lockdown
#Melbourne
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Roger Federer is like the
@AustralianOpen
’s ex-boyfriend, who has moved on and is already posting happy pictures of his new life, when it’s abundantly clear that his ex (and all of us) have not 😭
How could you
@rogerfederer
🤣
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Lisa Millar… the kindest, most generous colleague, and all class, always ❤️❤️❤️
Makes me sad she had to say this on the day that’s in it. Watch below:
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No words can describe this…
Just watch 😭😭😭
A rousing performance of 'Fairytale of New York' was given by Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill at the funeral of Shane MacGowan in Nenagh, Co Tipperary. The performance was greeted by cheers inside and outside the church |
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Brownlow 2019 💃🏻
V Brownlow 2020 🤦🏻♀️
Recycling my Caulfield Cup outfit. SO versatile. 😂
#AFL
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Day one ✅ Thanks SO much to the amazing
@mjrowland68
for guiding me through, and to lovely Lisa who helped so much in the build up. As for
@SciNate
&
@Tonaaayy_
, I mean how could you not have fun on this show 🥰
@BreakfastNews
📺
It's great to be back!
Lisa is away for the next month.
Sharing the desk with me for the next fortnight is the delightful
@CathMurphySport
.
I'm sure you'll make her very welcome!
@BreakfastNews
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How have I never heard of this beer?
Should I drink it after my last bulletin?
Is it like VB but more city orientated?
So many questions 🍺🤣
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Minister for Health Greg Hunt just said unvaccinated players will be permitted to enter Australia (& quarantine) but states will have to apply for an exemption.
In summary, the Feds just lobbed it back to the state, who are at the net, with the baseline wide open.
#AusOpen
🎾🎾
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Apologies to
@BreakfastNews
viewers who are Manchester Utd fans.
You’re right - “Manchester United are rubbish” is wrong & should not have appeared on the
@BBCSport
ticker.
“Manchester United IS rubbish” is both grammatically and factually correct.
🤣🤣🤣
@mjrowland68
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If a journalist can cause “turmoil” in a club, by naming a team early (or by doing anything else for that matter), it doesn’t say a lot for where a club is at, going into a game.
#AFL
This is pathetic from Luke Beveridge.
Tom is just doing his job and he got it right.
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Belated thanks to all who reached out with messages of support after I decided to blub on
@BreakfastNews
🥲
So many are people are struggling and stranded away from family, with no end in sight.
This week is especially difficult for people in that situation. Thinking of you. X
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Beautiful interview with
@ashbarty
As Jelena Dokic said so well, it’s SO good to have the Wimbledon champion HOME ❤️
You can’t help but think about how
#Wimbledon
could have been for Jelena in different circumstances…
We very lucky to have both of them 🇦🇺 🎾
#AusOpen
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Tennis fans were already preparing to say goodbye 🎾
There’s Roger. We don’t know how long we’ve got ⏰
AND Serena 👑
And Rafa was on crutches months before his
@AustralianOpen
win 🤕
But Ash. We weren’t prepared for Ash 😭
Thanks for everything
@ashbarty
❤️🙌🏻 🌟
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Fear mongering has real & lasting consequences. It affects mental health immediately & lasts much longer than lockdown.
Political spin WILL FOCUS on quarantine facilities tomorrow. But, 15 months later, Victorians deserve to know why fear & lockdown is the predominant strategy.
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Devastated for my WA friends, who still don’t know when they’ll see their families.
Just heartbreaking.
💔💔💔
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Taylor Walker used a racial slur & was suspended for 6 matches. Said he would take time away from club. Tried to come back a week later-wasn’t well received. A week later, he’ll be permitted to attend a club function while suspended. What message does that send?
@Adelaide_FC
#AFL
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If it’s so “appalling”, why do YOU keep publishing the photos
@FOXSportsAUS
?!!
Media in Australia needs a SERIOUS overhaul.
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Due to a MASSIVE oversight by ABC management,
@Tonaaayy_
& I will be presenting ‘Grand National’ at 10am, Saturday mornings on
@abcmelbourne
774. 🎙
That’s unless Ita gets so many complaints...we’re taken of air. 😂
In the meantime, tune in, call us, text us!!
@abcsport
📞
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Living my best lockdown life. Half-time takeaway beers, consumed while wearing activewear. 🤦🏻♀️
#sporty
But on a
@BreakfastNews
curfew even if my team wins. 😂
C’MON
@MelbourneRebels
!!!! 💙❤️
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Greg Sheridan on
@InsidersABC
re Victorian election:
“This is depressing. Andrews deserves to lose. Guy doesn’t deserve to win.”
#Insiders
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Why do Victorians keep comparing our situation to other countries?
Yes our lockdowns have been as lengthy as some countries, but with our borders firmly shut, surely the only valid comparison is to other Australian states?
I can only assume it’s a coping mechanism? 😢
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💜💜💜
Things you haven’t heard in 2020:
1. Melbourne Storm complaining about hub life..EVER.
Best team culture in Australia. 🙌🏻
And the respect they’ve shown
#lockdownMelbourne
by not doing so?
Winners already in my book.
ALL CLASS
@storm
#NRL
💜💜💜
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It’s a topic I wrote about reluctantly, because I know I’m one of the lucky ones. I wrote about it, because so many people are struggling.
Thanks to the
@BreakfastNews
team for being the best place to work,on your worst morning.
@abcmelbourne
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Punishment for saying
@melbournefc
were not the “Real Deal” for aprox 20 weeks. 😳
We sincerely apologise to those offended including but not limited to
@rwillingham
@TitusOReily
And no Titus, I’m NOT swapping teams. But for this GF
#GoDees
❤️
@abcmelbourne
@sammyjcomedian
#AFL
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Ash Barty is RETIRING
So happy she is choosing what is best for her but, as a tennis fan, in shock.
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Australia (Victoria) has got to be the only place in the world that spent 580 MILLION DOLLARS on a quarantine facility (now lying idle) but is still debating whether to let one unvaccinated human in?? 🎾
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**Some personal news from me**
Thanks to all who have sent their congratulations already, including my neighbour, who sent below. It’s not easy when you’re out watching sport all the time, but I finally did it.
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One minute, you’re reading the radio sports news in your active wear..Next minute you’re on
@BreakfastNews
in your leggings & sports bra (with a blazer over the top) talking about Nick Kyrgios😳🤦🏻♀️
Sorry to
@mjrowland68
Lisa &
@SciNate
who are always impeccably dressed🤣
@abcsport
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My last sports story of the week featured Richmond, stuck in a traffic jam, on a bus, with no bathroom facilities, on the way to a match scheduled for the G, but being played, now later than planned, on the Gold Coast.
It feels like a fitting end to the week.
I’m. Out. 🤦🏻♀️🐯
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Conor McKenna confirms he’s tested NEGATIVE to Covid-19.
Yes NEGATIVE.
He has no idea what this means for his quarantine/playing arrangements...
#AFL
Never a dull moment in 2020!!
@abcgrandstand
@abcmelbourne
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Finally some good news in 2020. 14-year-old Will Callaghan has been found alive & well after 2 nights missing on Mount Disappointment. 💞💞💞
@abcnews
Here’s to good news!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
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And that ladies and gentlemen…
IS WHY WE WERE SO OBSESSED WITH HER CALF
QUEEN OF AUSTRALIA
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
KERR
#TillItsDone
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Nathan Buckley ALL CLASS.👏🏻
When asked what the headline should be, he responded “even if I speak from the heart and tell you what I think & feel the headline is very rarely connected to what I say”.
Just summed up EVERYTHING that’s wrong with
#AFL
media in
#Melbourne
@ncb_cfc
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LOVE that
@alexdeminaur
can celebrate becoming a TOP TEN player on his home court, by beating his third consecutive top ten player 💛
No one has worked harder for that ranking 🙌🏻
SO happy for him 😭
#UnitedCup
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PLEASE GOD NO
I CAN’T DEAL WITH PENALTIES*
😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩
#FIFAWomensWorldCup
*but I’ll take them over a French win obvs
😭😭😭
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Could Ash Barty BE any more CLASSY?!!!
I seriously don’t think that would be possible 🙌🏻
LEGEND 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
And yes. Let’s DO IT!!!
#AusOpen
@AustralianOpen
🎾🎾🎾
@abcsport
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Back on my box for the
@AustralianOpen
🤦🏻♀️😂 📺
Who would have thought
@karina_carv
& I would spend a lot of our first Melbourne Park bulletin talking about
@wallabies
new coach Eddie Jones 👀
Stay tuned to
@abcnews
for all your tennis updates during
#AO2023
🎾
@abcsport
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LOVE THIS 💛💚💛
Will forever be grateful for what the
@TheMatildas
did for sport in this state, in this country 🙌🏻
YOU did this. Thank you Tillies 😭
What a moment 💚💛 Sam Kerr and
@TheMatildas
score and the crowd erupts in Melbourne
@FedSquare
tonight during the
@FIFAWWC
semi-final match ⚽️
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Nothing against Fox Sports coverage which is great (I know it’s on Kayo freebies) but the Super Netball Grand final absolutely should be on free to air TV.
I know broadcast revenue is crucial but surely the lack of visibility resulting from this costs the sport more?
#Netball
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My Monday morning stint has come to an end & so have my chats with
@JoeABCNews
(for now). Thanks for the laughs & apologies to those who tuned in for F1 but got the Spice Girls. What can I say, the 2 became 1 & I knew it was what
@SciNate
really, really wanted.🤣
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GOLD TRIP!!!!!!!
Loved him the moment I met him 🐎
Woohoooooooo
Thanks for letting me hang out with him
@cmaherracing
@abcsport
@BreakfastNews
Ate my jacket, won a Melbourne Cup
💙💙💙💙💙💙
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SAM KERR JUST PUT HER JERSEY ON
SAM KERR JUST PUT HER JERSEY ON
SAM KERR JUST PUT HER JERSEY ON
Send the helicopter UP
AND it’s 2-nil 🚁 🚁🚁🚁🚁
🎉 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
#FIFAWomensWorldCup2023
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ENOUGH
ENOUGH
ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Over it. And the irony of it being International Women’s Day, a day after this sort of statement still needs to be made…. Just 🤯
Enough.
Enough of the abusive comments about Lisa Millar, and other female presenters.
And enough of amplifying the bullying by republishing offensive comments.
Do better.
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My favourite thing about tennis is watching a girl’s dream come true.
Ash’s face when THAT final became a reality. 😭😭😭
#Wimbledon
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It’s not about who wore it best (that’s you
@SarahHarris
- I’m a big fan)… 👗
… it’s about who wore it FIRST. And I got up at 3am. Just sayin 😴🤣
@BreakfastNews
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Young men struggling with their sexuality are more likely to attempt suicide. It’s a statistic. It’s a fact. That’s why what
@RugbyAU
&
@raelenecastle
did today is so important. NOBODY (or their beliefs) is more important than the respect that rugby is founded on. Nobody. 👋🏻
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Wow. Looks like
@Olympics
aren’t so impressed with Novak Djokovic’s decision to withdraw from bronze medal mixed doubles match?! 🎾
Ouch.
He's won everything in tennis but just look what Olympic gold meant to
@rogerfederer
! 🤩
#StrongerTogether
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It's not often that sports organisations pick integrity over performance. In sacking one of their top players, Rugby Australia has done just that. They've sent out a message that homophobia, or any sort of hate, is NOT ok. I really hope other sports codes follow.
#IsraelFolau
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Having to “smile”, to “educate”, not be angry, after yet another incident must be soul destroying.
@Tonaaayy_
💔
Shout out to
@ShelleyWare
also..called upon to be spokesperson, in the most upsetting times & does it with class & grace❤️
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No comment on below… there’s no need.
Just beyond grateful for
@karentighe
💙
Karen Tighe was a trailblazer for women in sports media, and it wasn't always easy: here she is in 1993 eloquently shutting down a question about her credibility as a sports broadcaster.
Just perfect. 🤩
Hear her farewell on Summer Grandstand:
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When you work with
@BreakfastNews
they really do make you feel like family. Last week they gave a shout out to my little sister
@corglassgirl
Miss her so much & it made my week. Thanks
@mjrowland68
Lisa & the amazing producers that organised it.
@AnthonyRFurci
@ErinMarsico
💓
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Thanks so much for all the fun Monday mornings. Loved every minute with this team. 🥰 If I promise to be on my best behaviour they’ll let me be back for visits.☺️ Thanks so much
@mjrowland68
@LisaMillar
@SciNate
& all the hard working producers you don’t see, but make the show. X
Sad farewell today to
@CathMurphySport
who is finishing up her regular Monday sport presenting slot on
@BreakfastNews
. She has brought a vibrancy and good humour that has helped us overcome the worst Mondayitis! Her Irish eyes are always smiling! 😀 😢 (pre-lockdown photo)
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I cannot thank this guy enough ⬇️
Not only is he AMAZING at his job, every single day, he’s also the kindest, most generous AND funny co-host. Thanks for guiding me through the last two weeks
@mjrowland68
🙌🏻
@BreakfastNews
Huge thank you to
@CathMurphySport
for sharing the
@BreakfastNews
desk (and couch) with me over the last fortnight. I’m sure you’ll all agree she has been terrific! My Canberra colleague
@NourHaydar
is escaping the pollies and joins me for the next couple of weeks!
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Had a Ron Burgundy incident thanks to
@mjrowland68
messing with the autocue.
@BreakfastNews
🤦🏻♀️
Stay classy
@westernbulldogs
🤣
I’m really sorry,
@CathMurphySport
, for editing your scripts this morning.
Nah, I’m not really... (and what a pro you are!)
@BreakfastNews
@westernbulldogs
#woof
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I don’t understand the necessity to put athletes who travel to Australia, post 80% vax rate, in “bubbles”. When we open (or states that have committed to national plan do), Covid will be in the community. You’re more likely to catch Covid off your neighbour than Joe Root, surely?
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Alex de Minaur withdraws from Wimbledon due to injury.
Gutted for him that he misses his first Wimbledon quarterfinal.
Out with the hip injury he sustained on match point in 4th round.
Get well soon
@alexdeminaur
😢
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Some days at work, are more fun than others 💛 Thanks to the ‘Matildas’ pictured this morning 💛🇦🇺
#TilitsDone
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SAM KERR all smiles….
The way she has carried herself during this tournament is BEYOND impressive…
IN AWE of her and this team 🙌🏻
Based off the cheer when her face appeared on the screen… can you even imagine what happens when she does take that bib off?
Can’t DEAL 😭😭
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Here we go.
#Olympics
We’ve never felt so divided & today was particularly depressing.
So happy that we have this to get behind, together. 💛💚
What would we do without sport?
Go Ireland & Australia. 💓
Bring. It. On.
☘️ 💛💚
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Things that happened in
#Melbourne
this week.
- World record lockdown
- Violent protests
- Earthquake
- Public holiday to celebrate AFL
Grand Final parade 🤯
Live footage of me working said public holiday. 🤣
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Such a fun morning on
@BreakfastNews
💕I think I did well styling
@Tonaaayy_
🤣 Huge thanks to
@cmaherracing
for the interview AND letting us hang out with his horses on Cup Day 🐎 IN LOVE with Gold Trip (he can eat my coat any day😂)💙Thanks for the tips
@SciNate
☔️
@mjrowland68
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HOW GOOD is
@Mel_Mclaughlin
💫
I mean we knew this already but seeing her, in her element, leading this
#FIFAWomensWorldCup2023
coverage is epic ⚽️
She loves football SO much and it comes across…
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
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Who doesn’t love the craic?! 💚
By the look of it the
#NewsBreakfast
crew certainly do 🤣
Happy St. Patrick’s Day ☘️
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