Bonita Mersiades
@bonitamersiades
Gets Stuff Done | Publisher @fairplaybooks.bsky.social | Curator @manlywritersfest.bsky.social | #FIFA whistleblower | author & editor | politics, #football, #books, dogs I #volunteer | #ausrepublic | Sydney | X refugee (& also daughter of real refugees)
Another underwhelming statement from Football Australia. Moral clarity has never been one of their strengths. All about process. #FIFAcomedy
I said 15 years ago (& repeatedly since) that the only thing that would fix #FIFA is to start again. Predictably, #Infantino has taken the rapaciousness to a new level. If you don't address culture in organisations like FIFA (& its related MAs), nothing will change. Let's hope #UEFA follows through.
Erste Einheit für Paul Okon-Engstler... I think this roughly translates as first training session for Paul Okon-Engstler at his new club at @fc.de 🙌 #Socceroos
So now the ‘woman of the people’ is at a Dolce & Gabbana fashion show with Rinehart and a Brisbane jewellery designer whose pieces are all ‘price on application’. Doing it tough. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... And as for those outfits…🫣
The view from Dallas from my Belgian friend. #GoSocceroos #AUSEGY
From German media commentary box for #PARAUS courtesy of Thomas 🔨 Hitzlsperger. #Socceroos #WorldCup2026
Just in from an #Everton loving friend - the new stadium in full flight.
I was fortunate to meet Nades recently at his & Priya’s food van in #Biloela (my partner’s hometown). #AustralianStory Ifyou go there, support them by visiting their food ban! Food is yummy!
Still stuck on the New England Highway, with no sign of being able to move yet.
Now stuck in a traffic queue. Presumably an accident ahead but local radio tells us nothing.
We could have done better, but the fact of the FIFA raid and the very limited changes subsequently were due almost entirely to the work of incredible journalists, investigators and less than a handful of whistleblowers.
Looking back on that time for the first time in years, it was an incredible period in world sport, and I say world sport because of just how big football is outside of Australia.
Fans of the old #CanberraCity FC (& its successors) will recognise this as Baz Giampaolo's son. From today's Fin Review. #football
I will raise you a wallaby behind a suburban backyard within hopping distance of the Manly ferry terminal.
President of #Mexico proposes reverting to naming USA ‘Mexican America’ and makes the point the Gulf of Mexico was so named 100 years before USA was established. 😁😎🇲🇽 via NYTimes.
What I came across on my morning walk yesterday. Very happy to have his photo taken!
Nothing like some product placement over #Canberra. Coincidentally I am wearing a @qantas-official.bsky.social 🦘 jumper.
#SantaTracker24 across #Australia. Merry Christmas! 🎄 Happy Hanukkah!🕎 Hapoy Holidays! 🎉