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Dave Earley

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Audience Editor @australia.theguardian.com. Previously digital editor Quest Newspapers, engagement editor Courier Mail, online news editor 7News Brisbane and more. Social media, journalism, analytics, audience engagement, etc. All the digital news things

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Dave EarleyĀ·Mar 23

šŸ“£ BREAKING šŸ“Æ Australia's Top News website rankings for February were released today. ABC held No1,Ā newscomau No2 and🄁 @australia.theguardian.com is the 4th biggest news website in the country for the 3rd month in a row. Thanks to the 7.8 million Australians who visited GdnAus in February šŸ™

Top 20 News Websites in Australia, February 2026. Source: Ipsos Iris Online Measurement Service, January 2026, Age +14, All Devices (PC/Laptop, Smartphone and Tablet)s, Text, Brand Level, News Category Excluding aggregators and Weather, Audience (000s), Audience Reach (%), Average Mins PP
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Dave EarleyĀ·Sep 8

Amazing chutzpah in TheOz media diary today, calling the Guardian a ā€œniche news siteā€. Guardian @australia.theguardian.com has an audience more than 2x TheOz & that’s been the case for pretty much the entirety of the last 10yrs. Not to mention the Guardian's the 5th biggest news website in the world

excerpt from Media Diary in The Australian newspaper: 
The Groan-iad
If you thought the lyrics to Sting’s hit tune Every Breath You Take were a little stalkerish, try reading the Guardian. The niche news site can’t seem to stop writing obsessively about News Corp.
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Dave EarleyĀ·Aug 2

The Guardian has identified the man behind an openly extremist YouTube channel. Rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism & racism, it's garnered 50k subs, 2.3m views & likely thousands of dollars from YouTube’s revenue-sharing monetization program. From @jasonaw.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/...

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Dave EarleyĀ·Sep 1

In Melbourne, neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell was welcomed to the March for Australia stage, where he told the crowd how "his men" had led the march. He later led a large group of "his men" to violently attack Camp Sovereignty, the Indigenous protest encampment in King's Domain

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My "Never had a relationship with Epstein" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

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idk, I’m no former footy star and car enthusiast, but seems like it’s a good idea to gauge the price of fuel before filling the tank at the moment.

Herald Sun Facebook post.

Post text:
AFL legend and car enthusiast Barry Hall has slammed the fuel crisis gripping Australia, lamenting the public may not have much choice to turn to electronic vehicles if it continues.

Image of Barry Hall at the wheel of his car, with text over image:
Former footy star Barry Hall slams fuel price gauging amid global crisis
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Even with Trump’s ā€˜ceasefire’ some sort of global apocalypse is still on the cards. Which would you prefer? mr dog votes triffids www.theguardian.com/... All hail Ms Rachel


Choose your global apocalypse!
Mad Max - Petrol wars in the desert 
Terminator - Sentient Al goes lethal
Handmaid's Tale -already happening lol
Children of Men - No more babies
The Road - Everyone eats the babies
Day of the Triffids - Everyone gets eaten by plants from outer space (I'm voting for this one)
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Dave EarleyĀ·3d

Liam Bartlett is John Beard in Arrested Development, but in reverse

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Totally cool and normal genocidal maniac stuff. ā€œA whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.ā€ www.theguardian.com/...

Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal

US president Donald Trump once again warned Iran to make a deal on Tuesday, saying a "whole civilization will die tonight" if an agreement is not reached to end the conflict.
Writing on Truth Social, he said:

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.
However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?
We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
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Trump claims Iranians are begging him to ā€œPlease keep bombingā€. Okay dude.

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An attack on the life-supporting infrastructure for 93 million Iranians would constitute a war crime. Trump has promised to commit war crimes. This leaves US military officers with a choice: disobey orders 🤷 or help commit war crimes? 🤷

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ā€œSo whoever it was, we think we’ll be able to find it out because we’re going to go to the media company that released it, and we’re going to say, ā€˜national security, give it up or go to jail’. And we know who – and you know who – we’re talking about.ā€

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Trump began his day standing with a person in a giant bunny costume and boasting about the Iran war to an audience of children A couple of hours later, he held a press conference that did little to dispel growing fears that the commander-in-chief has lost touch with reality.

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ā€˜Unhinged madman’: US politicians react to Trump’s expletive-laden threat to Iran

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