An explanation of That Mean Girls Tweet.

Jackie's comment ("the Greens Political Party are obsessed with themselves") struck me as a very Mean Girls tone. So I screencapped her comment & posted it w/ the well-known Burn Book quote, parodying her vitriolic tone toward the Greens

the @brisbanetimes, in reporting this 'story', included only my caption ("this party is the nastiest skank bitch I've ever met etc") and not the screencap of Jackie's comments to which it referred. That made it seem like I was calling the ALP a nasty skank bitch and a fugly slut.

Very quickly this was twisted into my calling Jackie Trad those things, which simply wasn't true even in the most disingenuous reading of the tweet.

In context, there's virtually no controversy, but political smear campaigns are all about removing context. I had to watch doctored images & completely false quotes attributed to me circulate rapidly around the internet, and I knew there was nothing I could do about it.

It's hard to exaggerate how sick & powerless that makes you feel. I haven't been able to eat or sleep properly for days, and I've been basically having a constant low-level panic attack since the story broke.

Of course, that was what @QLDLabor wanted. (That and to undermine the Greens in South Brisbane, who look set to take Trad's seat.) I'm a literal nobody - a 29 y/o volunteer w/ fewer than 500 followers - but they were happy to make my life hell to claw back a fraction of ground.

(One of the weirdest things has been being referred to as a 'staffer' or 'senior official'. M8s the branch secretary role is extremely unpaid & involves taking the world's most boring minutes. The Greens have never given me a cent and Adam Bandt doesn't know who I am lmao)

I want to thank my partner & friends for their unflinching solidarity, & particularly @amymacsouthbris. It would've been easy to throw me under the bus. All the loudest voices in Labor were baiting her to do it, and she didn't take the bait, and I reckon that says a lot about her

Finally, I've lodged a Press Council complaint against @eastTMoore and the @brisbanetimes for their misleading reporting, and am strongly considering legal action against the individuals who attributed false quotes to me. Hope this clears everything up