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Matt Bevan

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Host/writer of 'If You’re Listening’ from ABC News. http://seedisclaimer.com Contact me via ifyourelistening [at] abc.net.au

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 11d

Trump bombing speedboats off the coast of Venezuela seems kind of pointless. Until you look at it from a historical perspective.
This is page one in the Panama Invasion Playbook.
The full story is in the latest episode of If You’re Listening youtu.be/UrcROiL-IXI?...

Why Trump is blowing up boats off Venezuela | If You're Listening

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 1d

Set to pursue other opportunities such as tying damsels to railroad tracks or working for Cruella de Vil

NRL News: REAGAN CAMPBELL-GILLARD
HAS BEEN GRANTED AN EARLY RELEASE FROM THE TITANS
(Campbell-Gillard is a rugby league player with a cartoonish moustache)

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 3d

After suffering though M1 traffic too many times I will never pour one of anything out for the Gold Coast

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 3d

Watching the #nrlgf surrounded by Broncos fans like:

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 3d

This was the only view we got of the first half highlights. Letterboxed amongst ads for a Kia Ute.

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 3d

Yes but to be fair, only like 10 million people like Rugby League vs like 4 billion who like the other kind of football.

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone: I’ll make sure I’ve got access to a nice big TV to watch the Grand Final highlights.

Channel 9: Lol thanks, more room for Kia ads

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 3d

Whatever the Broncos are paying Reece Walsh it’s not enough

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 3d

They’ve given Joey a touchscreen. I fear he is now overpowered

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 3d

Oops and now we’re back to the original reporter talking to Billy Slater on the field.

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder if someone came up and did something unbroadcastable behind the reporter and they had to dump it.

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 3d

Somethings happened on the 9 news Queensland stream. Halfway through a reporter’s cross at the Olympic Stadium about the Grand Final they cut to 5 full minutes of ads without explanation, and then threw to a prerecorded story about crime rates.

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 3d

Gotta find your own.

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 3d

On K’gari it is not only very grown up to carry a cool stick, it is a basic safety procedure.

Reddit Post: I couran't stop talking about this stick I found during a hike with my girlfriend and she told me I needed to "grow up". I'm pretty sure the boys will appreciate it.

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 3d

Visiting K’gari (Fraser Island) with family and it wasn’t until I got here that I learned that you have to carry a stick with you wherever you go.
This should be on the tourism brochure. Mandatory stick carrying is every dude’s dream.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5d

I thought that adding more computer would fix the problems but now I just have different problems and less money.

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 6d

We like going to Foghorn Brewery and the Comedy Club for a night out but we are boring suburban parents of 4 kids. Lock’s Paddock, Signal Box, Humbug, Bolton Street Pantry, Light Years all very good at the pricy/fancy end but there’s heaps of good stuff surrounding them too.

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 6d

I am! Though I’m in Queensland for the school hols atm.
Watt Space Gallery & Lock Up v good. As is the Newcastle Museum in Honeysuckle for history.
Honestly if you start at Watt Space and just walk to Newcastle Baths and eat anywhere that looks interesting you can’t go wrong.

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 6d

I’m your guy here. You like looking at stuff, drinking stuff, eating stuff or doing stuff?

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 6d

“Older generation who grew up with The Simpsons”

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Dan Tehan, the Shadow Energy and Emissions Reduction minister, has two views on why the opposition's nuclear energy policy wasn't popular with voters at the last election.
• LISTEN: https://ab.co/3WiVFdL
"The first is that we fell foul to a pretty dishonest scare campaign by the Labor Party. They put a figure on the costings of our nuclear program which wasn't a true reflection of those costings," he told ABC Radio National Breakfast.
Mr Tehan said while some attitudes towards nuclear power had changed, there were some that had an
"outdated mindset".
"Now, there is some in the older generation that grew up with The Simpsons who still have those sort of outdated mindset, but most young Australians are very much open to it," he added.
Hear ABC Radio National Breakfast from 5.30am to 9am on the ABC listen app: https://ab.co/
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YOU, SIR, HAVE THE BOORISH MANNERS OF A YALIE.

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 8d

I knew it

Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 8d

Stalin after he’s clipped his last former ally out of all the photos.

“There Is No Purge”
6 News Chief Anchor Leo Puglisi

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 9d

What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k

Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Aug 14

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

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Martin Rayner @martinrayner.bsky.social · 11d

Matt Bevan (ABC Australia) sheds some much-needed light on alarming events occurring off the coast of Venezuela (i.e., a sizeable US military buildup, ruthless attacks on several boats, etc.) and what historical precedent may perhaps suggest could be taking shape.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrcR...

Why Trump is blowing up boats off Venezuela | If You're Listening

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 11d

Trump bombing speedboats off the coast of Venezuela seems kind of pointless. Until you look at it from a historical perspective.
This is page one in the Panama Invasion Playbook.
The full story is in the latest episode of If You’re Listening youtu.be/UrcROiL-IXI?...

Why Trump is blowing up boats off Venezuela | If You're Listening

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth