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Melanie Tait

@MelanieTait

2 years

Reminder: the bigger the hoops the bigger the ho

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Melanie Tait

@MelanieTait

2 years

Please like if you still haven't had Covid.

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5 years

For reference when we’re putting together our new society after this is all over.

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3 years

Will never not enjoy this tweet reply from our anonymous Queen. Again, I remind you of her brilliance.

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4 years

Whatever you think of the monarchy, it would be bloody devastating to lose the person who made you laugh for 74 years. #PrincePhillip

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Hey ALP and Liberal Party, I did a housing shortage and affordability policy for you. Here it is, and you're welcome:

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4 years

Can Mrs Morrison please explain to Mr Morrison the symbolism of insisting women come to his office vs him walking a few 100m outside and listening to the thousands of women who’ve gathered for change?

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3 years

2. Five year leases for renters. These renters can have pets and hang things on walls. You're worried about them wrecking your property? You have a bond for that, and it's the risk you take while someone else's labour pays off your investment risk. That's what the risk means.

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1. No one needs more than one house, but we're a generous lot here in Australia, so you can have two. So, negative gearing can only apply to ONE investment property. You're on your own with the rest.

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Melanie Tait

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4 years

Is there a market for a CWA type cafe? Fresh sangas on white bread (egg & lettuce, chicken and mayo, ham cheese lettuce etc), scones, sponge by the slice,cheese & biscuits, cappucinos. Am so over sourdough and big, thick bread. And muffins. And dry anything made out of polenta.

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(Guaranteeing part of a deposit on an already outrageously priced home isn't the answer) (We need to change our housing culture so renters have more stability therefore owning won't be the be all and end all) (1/3 of this country rents, why is it always about home ownership?!)

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Melanie Tait

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4 years

Please like this tweet if you’ve had a COVID19 test.

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3 years

3. Build and maintain more public housing with the fund you set up from the capital gains tax you receive when boomers sell off their multiple investment properties that they can no longer negatively gear.

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4 years

TBH this sounds like the perfect day

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3 years

Mum calls “Wow, your hair is long. Are you going to keep it that long?” A beat. “What do you think I should do with it?” A beat. “It’s your hair but I don’t think women over 20 should have long hair.” Enjoy this 42 yo hair, which will now be grown to my ankles

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Melanie Tait

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1 year

Someone has their dog on the train. It's a revolutionary act that zero passengers seem concerned about, except me who's excited that this brave and excellent person is forging a path for all of us. Vote one 🦮 on 🚞 and 🚌 and ⛴️.

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Melanie Tait

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3 years

Spoken like someone who’s never really had to have a job

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Melanie Tait

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4 years

I don't know why the woman who wrote this tweet has had her name redacted because we need to find her and install her as Queen immediately

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Melanie Tait

@MelanieTait

1 year

Stoked to find, when going to order Yumi Stynes books (out of solidarity, to have ready when my nephew and niece begin to be curious), that they're sold out! May she feed herself and those she loves for years to come on the publicity those bonkers people have given her.

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Melanie Tait

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2 years

“When you see the real Peter Dutton…” says Entsch on @RNBreakfast Haven’t we already seen him walk out of the apology and make jokes about climate change sinking Pacific Islands? Was that all pretend?

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3 years

I love this, deeply. (Via @clhubes )

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2 years

Good morning eighties babies, watch this with your headphones on/in

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3 years

Can’t get these two images of Lismore yesterday out of my head. A filmmaker couldn’t dream up such a vivid climate change horror story. Via @abcnews

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4 years

Did you know a packet of Tim Tams only has 9 biscuits? Don't feel guilty if you eat a pack in a day, is what I'm saying.

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4 years

Shut up of course these are healthy they were inside every chemist and tuck shop in the 1990s

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2 years

DEMOCRACY!!!!!!!!

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3 years

With a picture, can you name your favourite Australian movie?

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Melanie Tait

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3 years

Find someone who loves and protects you like the government loves and protects private school boys.

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@MelanieTait

1 year

Could you please 'like' this tweet if you're familiar with the story of Black Beauty by Anna Sewell? (beyond name recognition)

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Melanie Tait

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1 year

I paraphrase, but Miriam Margolyes said something about Barry Humphries along the lines of that even though they disagreed with each other politically, they still loved each other and that was a beautiful thing. There's a real lesson in that, I reckon.

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Melanie Tait

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5 years

It’s not in my twitter profile anymore but full disclosure: My parents own The Big Potato My Christmas present was probably bought with profits from highly marked up The Big Potato merch I am The Big Potato heiress

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4 years

I kinda feel like anyone who has an opinion on what it's like to be Victorian right now should shut up unless they actually live in Victoria.

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4 years

Wow. A listener just told @rgloveroz on @abcsydney that grief is having love and nowhere to put it. How profound is that? 💔

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2 years

🧵, solo dining: Here's what I'd love for my birthday - for cafes and restaurants to treat solo diners like actual human beings. Am in Hobart. Want breakfast alone, as have a big day ahead. Want to have something lovely. In TWO cafes I was seated, then moved for couples.

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2 years

This is my annual reach out to entrepreneurs: PLEASE OPEN NAIL SALONS AND BLOW DRY BARS AT THE AIRPORT

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Melanie Tait

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4 years

Love it when the PM talks to us like he’s our dad and we’re twelve years old.

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Melanie Tait

@MelanieTait

3 years

Tonight’s lockdown culinary regression tour is brought to you by Milo and Bulla vanilla ice cream

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Melanie Tait

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2 years

Australia's Most Loved Man, Thursday July 28th 2022.

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Melanie Tait

@MelanieTait

11 months

This headline is such generational war baiting bullshit. People shouldn't be made feel guilty for living in their homes, that they've spent a lifetime paying off. They're not the problem. Do. Something. About. Negative. Hearing. And. Investors. With. Multiple. Properties.

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Melanie Tait

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5 months

Thank you to the very kind American man who stopped his car to catch my Goldie when she'd broken free of a double fenced park to chase ducks on a very busy road in Bowral, on a day where it's pelting with rain. I couldn't get to her. Am so grateful to him.

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Melanie Tait

@MelanieTait

4 years

Here’s Grace Tame’s full National Press Club address ICYMI

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Melanie Tait

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2 years

Fully obsessed with this city all of us who live here are the luckiest people alive

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@MelanieTait

2 years

Mates I was in auditions for my new play today* so missed the upfronts, but, yes, and yay! @ParamountPlusAU is making a film of The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race. It starts shooting in November. More details soon xx 🥔🏃‍♀️ 🎥 *massive not-so-humble brag, what a life

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Melanie Tait

@MelanieTait

6 years

Woke up still angry at that idiot on #abc730 suggesting you get two jobs to pay rent. Two jobs to pay someone else’s mortgage? In a perfect world you’d only need half a job to pay your own mortgage. Hope that clip is played on loop at the next inquiry into negative gearing.

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Melanie Tait

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2 years

What's your unpopular food opinion? 1. Carrot cake sucks 2. Nothing is improved by flaked almonds 3. Sultanas enhance almost nothing

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2 years

LOTS of people on the streets of Marrickville wearing masks again. Did I miss something overnight*? *not criticising, it's just a marked change this morning.

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Melanie Tait

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4 years

holy holy holy - Brides of Christ is on iView!

Brides Of Christ

A young woman growing up in the 1960s, walks away from her fiance to join a convent after being sure she has a calling to the faith.

iview.abc.net.au

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Melanie Tait

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5 years

Carrot cake is 100% the worst cake. A cake almost worth not eating at all. Almost. It is saved only by generous latherings if cream cheese icing. Discuss.

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Melanie Tait

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3 years

How is this bird not the @GuardianAus Bird of the Year EVERY YEAR?! This stunning photo of a Leucistic Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo will make your damn day. What a beautiful world we live in. 📸:

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Melanie Tait

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2 years

Will never understand why Laura Linney helping brother in Love Actually means that she'll never have a romance with her hot co-worker. Why couldn't they just see each other another night? Why wouldn't the dude see through that how kind she was and love her more? Why why why?

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Melanie Tait

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3 years

Why does no one ever advocate for people who live alone? Are we that small and inconsequential a part of the community? It’s always families, families, families - at election time, at tax time, on local radio, on commercial tv, in magazines, in op-eds.

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Melanie Tait

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4 years

Lots of talk swirling around about consent today. This reminder from @BLCKSMTHdesign is forever pertinent:

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Melanie Tait

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2 years

Update: now happily ensconced at Daci and Daci where I was immediately seated and am now enjoying an amazing Belgian mocha and coddled eggs with potato and leek. Accompanied by Ann-Marie Priest's excellent biography on Gwen Harwood. Yummers. Good outcome but SHEESH

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3 years

these phone calls just prove what slim pickings there are for women over forty in Sydney amiright

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Melanie Tait

@MelanieTait

4 months

How's your arvo going? I'm currently duking it out on Facebook with people who yelled at a journo for stating someone 'died' rather than 'passed away'. Grow up. We all die. We don't 'pass away'.

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It's appalling Brittany Higgins keeps having to relive this trauma. Surely there's a better way? Surely there are recordings of her many testimonies? The HUBRIS of this defamation case. Shameful.

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Melanie Tait

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2 years

Small 🧵 on 📺: Watching @ABCthedrum and Fiona Scott didn't like Heartbreak High, so doesn't believe in local storytelling quotas for streamers. I haven't been in the industry long enough, so don't know about the complexities of content quotas but what I do know is this:

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Melanie Tait

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3 years

I wish I knew who to credit here, because this caravan owner sounds like someone we all need to send chocolates to:

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Melanie Tait

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6 years

Men have some serious PR to do

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Melanie Tait

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5 years

Unpopular confession: Zoom group socialising leaves me feeling a bit depressed

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3 years

"This can happen to anyone." says #CraigMcLachlan . No, it super doesn't happen to 'anyone'. It happens to men who journalists methodically gather a bunch of reliable sources to speak out against.

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2 years

No big deal. My dog has just locked herself in the lobby of a building we don't live in.

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Melanie Tait

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3 years

I know this isn't the point of #4Corners , but we need more rights for renters SO MUCH. This increasing class divide wouldn't be so stinging if people who rented had a modicum of security.

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2 years

I have Big P(otato)ersonal News: Am no longer the Big Potato Heiress. My parents have sold up.

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Melanie Tait

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4 years

Since I’ve been watching A Country Practice as an adult I’m OBSESSED with Esme Watson and am looking forward to writing my PhD on the misunderstood spinster trope in television of the eighties and basically all pop culture since the beginning of time

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2 years

Has Tom Cruise ever made a bad movie*? The answer is no and your replies to the contrary are no good here. *And before you say Far And Away, go and watch Far and Away.

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Melanie Tait

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2 years

What I'm saying is: Fiona Scott says we 'don't want content for content's sake' - and I wanted to make the point that there's no such thing - artists need practice. The more content and opportunities, the better.

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Melanie Tait

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3 years

Content won’t get better than this today

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3 years

Kissing their dogs' forehead and seeing the reactions 🥺♥️♥️

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Melanie Tait

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2 years

What, exactly, are manufacturers protecting hair elastics from by making their packaging so impenetrable?!

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Melanie Tait

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5 years

Please, cafes of the world, can we go back to salt and pepper shakers? I hate thinking what post gym, unclean, grubby fingers I’m sharing these with when I want some salt on my poached egg.

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Melanie Tait

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1 year

Please enjoy this reminder that if someone in your life has gained weight or lost weight and you've noticed You actually don't have to say anything

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2 years

On Albo's office gate this morning #assange

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3 years

The 10th woman accusing Craig McLachlan. The 10th. .

UK host breaks 30-year silence to accuse McLachlan of groping her live on air

A former UK television star accuses actor Craig McLachlan of groping her live on air when he was a guest on her popular children's show in 1990.

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Melanie Tait

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4 years

It’s very hard to pic a favourite era of Alan Alda

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Melanie Tait

@MelanieTait

2 years

the horror of waiting for a package knowing the moment you take the dogs for a wee or step out for a coffee you'll miss them and they'll leave your package at a remote newsagency in North Campbelltown opening between 4pm and 4.05pm on the summer solstice of the year of the rat

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Melanie Tait

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3 months

🧵: 1/3 The responses to the 'childless cat ladies' stuff is all wrong. Doesn't matter than Anniston tried to have babies for years. Doesn't matter that Kamala has step-children. What matters is people shouldn't be defined by whether they have children or not.

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3 years

Eaten something bad or Covid? Dehydration headache or Covid? Hypochondria or Covid? Daily challenges of being a person of imagination during Covid.

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2 years

Surely, Sco to the Mo has to resign, doesn't he?

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Melanie Tait

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3 years

Please enjoy this picture of the sisters Kidman at the 1987 logies, Nicole in surely what must be the best logie dress of all time.

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Melanie Tait

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8 years

Mansplaining, summed up in one magnificent tweet exchange:

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Melanie Tait

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2 years

If there's a table free, I want to sit at the table. I don't expect you'll be happy with me taking up a 4 seater, but 2 seater for half an hour hardly seems like a huge issue. I'm there to buy one of your expensive breakfasts and coffees. And probably a takeaway pastry.

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Melanie Tait

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3 years

I’m just super over the idea that you can’t or don’t love or care like a parent does, if you’re not one. Personally, I’d be scared for my sanity if I loved any harder. Also, for many, not being a parent has a level of difficulty around it. So sheesh. Not over brekky please.

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Melanie Tait

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3 years

Will never get why dudes think it's going to be attractive to send a dick pic. Have they seen a dick pic? I mean, have they really, really looked at one? Would much rather a picture of your dinner, please. Or a nice coffee you drank. Or your puppy. Or your folded fitted sheet.

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3 years

@amandadeibert - I wish so badly I knew its author

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3 years

Will never not enjoy this tweet reply from our anonymous Queen. Again, I remind you of her brilliance.

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3 years

How devastating. A woman in her thirties, with no pre-existing conditions has died in NSW of COVID19.

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3 years

How boring are clothes right now

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2 years

I appreciate cafes would prefer the money from a couple's tab, but where is the hospitality or care for a person who's already doing something rather vulnerable in our society, that is, having a meal in public on your own?

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Dropped in to see my parents before leaving for London on Sunday. My mum has prepared a packing check list. Initial reaction: OMG MUM I'M FORTY TWO Current reaction: this is actually very thoughtful and helpful and makes sense when your daughter is Captain ADHD

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It shouldn't be upsetting but it is. I've made a decision since covid and most of my friends having babies and partners and commitments that I will travel alone. And I love it. Except for this part which sucks, as the food part of being in a new city is one of my fave parts.

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Melanie Tait

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4 years

It's been hard over the last few months not to feel as though our professional creative careers are over at darker moments. So glad that in the past two weeks, I've learned that for nearly 6 months of 2021 theatre companies have programmed my work. What a bloody relief.

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2 years

Mates: did your Nanna use 'toot' to rhyme with 'soot' for the dunny when you were a kid?

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1 year

Here's to Channel 7 - for its continued dedication to men's rights, making sure boomers and millennials have something to argue about over the long weekend, and most importantly persuading women to keep quiet about sexual assaults

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Melanie Tait

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3 years

While I was at my parents’ house recovering from op, my sibs and SIL cleaned my house from top to bottom and installed a washing machine (mine flooded part of the house the day I went into hospital). I’m home now in this blissfully tidy flat and gee aren’t people good?

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Melanie Tait

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3 years

@Jess_Rudd SNACK - once you get one, put it in the fridge. Pineapple, Turkish delight and orange are my faves in there. I overdid it during lockdown 1, but this tweet has me considering a return.

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Melanie Tait

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2 years

. @Tony_Burke says on @RNBreakfast aligning industrial relations and arts portfolios shows artists that their cultural dividend is valued, but also the govt knows they're workers too.

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3 years

Single social bubble announced: - allowed to nominate one person to visit you - has to be the same person Thanks to @GladysB for seeing how important this is to so many in this city.

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Melanie Tait

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6 years

"The real villain in this story is the Tasmanian government. It’s been eight months since a Tasmanian woman could have a surgical abortion in her home state." On Angela Williamson's sacking, me in @GuardianAus

Sacking a woman for her views on abortion? Cricket Australia should be ashamed | Melanie Tait

But the real villain in the sacking of Angela Williamson is the Tasmanian government for its dastardly abortion policy

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5 years

It’s just so comforting to see her face

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1 year

🧵: 👩🏼‍💻 A friend of mine doing a Masters in Creative Writing at a Big Australian University was told by three separate visiting lecturers of esteem the only way to have a career as a writer in 2023 is to have a rich partner. I think about this daily. Sometimes hourly!

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