Julia Em

* Secularist * Humanist * There is no Planet B * We need a kinder, less greedy society *

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Latest article from Declassified Australia:

‘Australia’s subterfuge around its anti-nuclear commitments keeps Australians in the dark about American nuclear weapons on our territory.’

AUSTRALIA’S SECRET EMBRACE OF U.S. NUCLEAR PLANNING https://t.co/3nwbmCJFyO

[Julia Em @66jayel]

@Cassandrasl99 Suggestion for all: can we please normalise calling these people what they are - forced birthers?

[Julia Em @66jayel]

@rockoyster @aaronsmith @QBCCIntegrity @Mon4Kooyong It kind of is "interest" in the sense that the outstanding amount is added to the longer you leave it.

Then there's the lost interest earned on the amounts paid & held by the ATO.

It's like being doubly punished for bettering yourself via education.

[Julia Em @66jayel]

The ATO holds the funds for months without applying them to the debt?

Do those funds earn interest during that time & the total deducted from HECS? (ofc not!)

So they miss out on interest earned & pay "interest" on their debt for this period

Doubly punished @JasonClareMP

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

Almost 3 million Australians have HECS debts: they’ll increase today. Compulsory payments made this year towards that debt won’t be counted before indexation is applied.

We wouldn’t put up with this on our credit cards or home loans. We need to fix HECS. https://t.co/MNFP1PO2uv

[Rationalist Society @AusRationalist]

Despite the eye-watering wealth of the Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches, the Albanese government is re-directing tens of millions of taxpayers’ dollars to renovation projects at these churches’ facilities. Here’s the bill. Read more: https://t.co/mBOf5MKbA4
#auspol

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

‘Besides her extensive personal experience dealing with far-right antisemitism — including being doxxed in neo-Nazi chat groups — Silverstein emphasised in her evidence that “the majority of the antisemitism [she has] experienced has come from Jewish Zionists”.
“While I have a PhD in Jewish history, it has repeatedly been made clear to me that I will never be employed in a Jewish Studies department in Australia because I and my work are anti-Zionist,” Silverstein’s evidence stated. “I have also been targeted on social media by Jewish people who discuss me as being a ‘traitor to Jews’, as ‘self-hating’, and so on.”
Examples of such targeting featured in Silverstein’s report include a Melbourne rabbi accusing her of “adopting a narrative of those who hate us”; a prominent Melbourne lawyer describing her on social media as “a token self-hating Jew”; a pro-Zionist Instagram account depicting her and other anti-Zionist Jews as rats and comparing them to Nazi collaborators; and abusive emails labelling her “kapo shit” and wondering why her family did not die in the Holocaust.
While many of the witnesses before the Commission have routinely conflated antisemitism with support for Palestinians and opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Silverstein noted in her report that, “I have never experienced antisemitism from proponents of the [pro-Palestine] movement throughout the course of my extensive, decades-long, professional and personal involvement in the Palestine solidarity movement and in researching histories of Palestinians in Australia”.’

https://t.co/6szpHrlePs

[Noely 🤔 @YaThinkN]

"The Holocaust profoundly shaped my moral worldview. But rather than teaching me to centre Jewish suffering above all others, it taught me to recognise dehumanisation, racism and mass violence wherever they occur." Judith

[Julia Em @66jayel]

@EVERALDATLARGE It's not so much his physical age as his backward thinking. In that sense, he is way too old.

[Julia Em @66jayel]

Oh, that's just great. The self-appointed moralists are telling the regular punter to tighten their belts instead of calling out the greed of the already-rich & the appalling maldistribution of wealth & resources.

What the hell are they for?

[Rationalist Society @AusRationalist]

A committee of religious clerics appointed to advise the NSW government on policy matters considered making a statement urging citizens to “moderate expectations about luxurious living” to address housing affordability, documents reveal. More: https://t.co/s36cAdI4JK
#NSWpol

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Shame on the media and the political class for inflicting this Royal Commission on the Australian people.

“Australia is a secular country full of reasonably decent people who instinctively recoil from war and injustice.

“The claim that this natural revulsion is actually some mysterious, pathological hatred of Jews that has suddenly bubbled up from nowhere is not just insulting – it is deranged.”

https://t.co/J74Jz41W21

[Julia Em @66jayel]

@S_GerardRennick You should be disqualified from being a senator for not knowing how the citizenship thing works.

Or is this just the Australian version of "Obama's birth certificate?"

Pathetic.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@MichelleZee20 Is that the immigrants who are simultaneously not skilled, but taking all of the jobs, and also on welfare, but buying all the houses?

[Julia Em @66jayel]

@tristar_au @JonesHowDareYou @SenatorWong Again, you're proving my point how nothing is black & white. Both can be true.

Did you consider that could be Iranian propaganda? I don't know if it is or not, but if you apply black & white thinking, I guess you'd look at it uncritically & accept it at face value.

[Julia Em @66jayel]

@tristar_au @JonesHowDareYou @SenatorWong You're right, we couldn't possibly believe the testimonies of thousands of women. I mean, it's unheard of for a theocractic government, or any religion really, to oppress women as a form of social control.

It has to be a conspiracy...

FFS

[Julia Em @66jayel]

@tristar_au @JonesHowDareYou @SenatorWong I don't. I believe her & the thousands of other women who contribute their experiences

You're proving my point. It's not bad (US/Israel) vs good (Iran, though rightly aggrieved at being attacked on this occasion). It's not black & white, hence my comment

https://t.co/zeaLSYM0rW

[Julia Em @66jayel]

@SLaforest2026 @couriermail Satanists? Lol.

[Julia Em @66jayel]

@tristar_au @JonesHowDareYou @SenatorWong Are you unaware of the My Stealthy Freedom movement, headed by Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad, who lives in the US but has been targetted for assassination more than once by the Iranian government?

https://t.co/mW6Es0Uv7W

https://t.co/oktftaKeg5

[Andrew Wilkie MP @WilkieMP]

The Fed Govt tabled its response to the Murphy gambling report during Budget lockup and wall-to-wall Budget media reporting. Same cynical political trick as last Budget when they buried the Environment Act change to protect their mates in the salmon industry. #auspol #politas

[Julia Em @66jayel]

@alisterberkeley @cjoye @GeoffWilsonWAM So they want all the advantages of the infrastructure but don't want to contribute to it?

[Julia Em @66jayel]

@DianaRyall @AlboMP @TonySheldonNSW And get us out of AUKUS. We're in bed - subservient to! - an autocratic, fascistic country, slavishly obeying their orders to be involved in illegal conflict & handing over our sovereignty on a platter. It's an unspeakable betrayal.