Damian Smith
@smith_damian
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Producer @ABCPerth. Views my own.
Perth WA
Joined February 2010
@DuchesssNewTown @Biggy1883 @vogrady2132 I keep reading what I "called" on election night. 99% of the seat predictions on election night are automated. It is only when a result is obviously wrong that I intervene. I do sit down after the coverage and review every seat and my memory is having Goldstein in doubt.
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@Vk2Lj No. They write to the Returning Officer for Canberra informing them that they cannot vote given their position, and the Returning Officer writes back accepting their excuse for not voting.
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Early voting has finished. More than 6.77m people cast a pre-poll vote, 1.64m completed postal votes have been returned so far & 155,000 people voted with a mobile team. 👇
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Can we stop rating women at the Brownlow now? AFL players' partners divulge ‘lifelong body dysmorphia’ from online trolling. Comments along the vein of 'I thought WAGs were supposed to be skinny'. Latest for @abcsport: https://t.co/SE4mqCD1YM
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Paris Tier, the partner of GWS defender Conor Stone, found herself in her GP’s office asking to go on Ozempic after receiving online hate comments about her weight.
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Turnout for the 2025 WA election has reached 85.1%, passing turnout for the 2021 election.
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A table that explains how Labor defeated Kate Hulett in Fremantle. Hulett won the polling day vote but there were more Pre-Poll, Postal and Absent votes than polling day votes and Labor won these categories easily to retain Fremantle after an election day fright. #wapol
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Election analyst Antony Green says the result for the Liberals is a "disaster" for the Liberals, as Labor — led by Roger Cook — secures another thumping victory in the west.
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Election analyst Antony Green says the result is a "disaster" for the Liberals, as Labor — led by Roger Cook — secures another thumping victory in the west.
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Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate has returned from Vegas. Asked if he’d go again in a cyclone - “Hindsight is a wonderful thing”
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Ah, yes, "Tes Thdpssssps".
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Noting that electrification of our homes is one the best ways to bring down emissions and bills, I looked at what Australian states were doing to help their residents get off gas and electrify their homes.
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FASTEST 16-year-old EVER 👀 🇦🇺's Gout Gout storms to 20.04 over 200m in Brisbane 🔥 Oceania record ✅ National record ✅ Fastest time ever by a 16-year-old ✅ 2nd on the U18 all-time list ✅ Peter Norman's Australian record stood for 56 years 😮💨 📸 Casey Sims
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The exact moment a single drop of rain becomes one with the sea. (I waited very patiently for this shot.)
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At one point we even conducted an experiment: FOI for information we knew @fk_media had published in its annual report. “The information you are requesting is confidential”
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Look at the gender breakdown of who speaks in popular films!
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Montessori school sent home this photo with the caption “Introduced hammering nails into a pumpkin” like that’s supposed to be somehow self-explanatory
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