Dr Dee Michell #cep

Former foster kid, former academic at the University of Adelaide, Kaurna country. Views are mine.

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

Kudos to Judy Nunn & Gabriel Farago for their novels written because they were inspired by their trips on the Ghan. However, I now think Benjamin Stevenson's is the best of the 3.

https://t.co/PxK6u68E47

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

@ThPeterLockhart Have you meant any Muslims @ThPeterLockhart ? I have & that's not true. So who is divorced from reality?

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

It's a good questions critics should be asking themselves:

"Why are they spending so much energy attacking a survivor instead of supporting the change she helped create?"

[Louise Greene @GreeneLouiseAus]

I am absolutely fed up with the relentless targeting of Grace Tame.

Let's be clear. There is a difference between fair criticism and a public pile-on. What we keep seeing directed at Grace is not constructive debate. It is constant scrutiny, personal attacks, outrage cycles and a level of judgment that seems reserved for women who dare to speak too loudly, too honestly or too unapologetically.

Grace Tame survived child sexual abuse. She helped change laws. She gave a voice to countless survivors. She has spent years doing work that most people would never have the courage to do.

Yet the attacks never seem to stop.

A few weeks ago it was the Prime Minister taking aim at her. Now it's Charlie Pickering. Before that, countless commentators, columnists and social media critics. Different names, same pattern.

And frankly, it disgusts me.

No, women in public life should not be immune from criticism. Nobody is. But there is a world of difference between criticism and the kind of sustained public hounding that seeks to diminish, discredit and exhaust someone.

As someone who has experienced public judgment and media attacks, I know how destructive these campaigns can be. They reduce human beings to caricatures. They erase context. They encourage outrage while ignoring the very real emotional toll on the person at the centre of it.

What troubles me most is that women who survive violence are so often expected to be perfect. The moment they become angry, outspoken, political, imperfect or inconvenient, they are treated as fair game.

Grace Tame has contributed more to the conversation about sexual abuse and survivor advocacy in this country than most of her critics ever will.

Maybe it's time some of the men lining up to take shots at her stopped and asked themselves a simple question:

Why are they spending so much energy attacking a survivor instead of supporting the change she helped create?

Enough. #gracetame #charliepickering

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

@ThPeterLockhart another personal attack. I'm done.

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

@ThPeterLockhart nope it hasnt stopped. have you seen the pastors accused/charged in the USA?
eg https://t.co/7dCwwyZIiM

you do know child marriage is permitted in a majority of American states?

I'm sorry to hear of your experience.

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

@MyFirstCousin yes its puzzling isnt it. perhaps because they come across as a nasty bunch who'll work out some way to punish whoever speaks against them?

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

@TerryMoran you've looked stupid to the rest of us since you voted him back in

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

@TheKennyDevine love it!

[Kenny Devine @TheKennyDevine]

JUST IN: Barnaby Joyce apologises for 'trainwreck' Sky News appearance; admits to "bigotmaxxing" prior to interview.

Bigotmaxxing is a process where a person bangs their head against a hard surface until they consider voting for One Nation. Extreme bigotmaxxing may result in the individual blaming non-citizens for almost everything.

"In Mr Joyce's case, he's bigotmaxxed in combination with livermogging (boozing) and the results are what we witnessed last night", said one expert.

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

@YBT0905 @MikeCarlton01 is hanson holding hands with farley?

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

@GrumparseJeremy @JohnRowsthorne she's a disappointment

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

@TabularasaMMXIX @Martina but they always rise to the top

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

National polls are one insight. But this is what fragmentation actually looks like on a map.

Take our RedBridge Accent Research May MRP and sort all 150 seats by where people live.

Labor still dominates the cities, 34 of 43 inner-metro seats, 30 of the outer suburbs. One Nation dominates the other Australia, 28 of 39 rural seats and 10 of 17 provincial ones.

The action is in the middle. In the outer-suburban mortgage belt, One Nation is already on 15 seats and climbing, while the Coalition is down to five. In provincial Australia the Coalition is gone entirely, wiped out...leaving a straight One Nation v Labor fight.

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

@cmdibley yes!!

[Rarely Wright @2Rarely]

KPMG audits the RBA and runs its whistleblower hotline but maybe not for much longer

#CorpGov

The Reserve Bank will re-tender its whistleblower hotline service contract after KPMG has been caught up in a swirl of scandals.

Australia
https://t.co/c7BGie2SLW via @ABCaustralia

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

Solving the male misogyny crisis starts at home
Some fathers and mothers are not ignorant bystanders to their children’s sexism and misogynist radicalisation, but colluders and even architects.
By Dr Stephen Whitehead
https://t.co/nU5EFM3AbH

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

@ElaineM11584892 me too!

[Serkan Öztürk @SerkanTheWriter]

🚨 BREAKING: Australians that do not find Charlie Pickering's comedic stylings funny in any way will automatically be found guilty of hate crimes against Jews and sent to prison for five years, according to new laws to be soon unveiled by 'Antisemitism Envoy' Jillian Segal

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

@MyFirstCousin sooks

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Motion passed at the conclusion of the forum:
‘This public forum held at the New South Wales Parliament on June 4, 2026 shares the grave concern of Speakers the Hon Bob Carr, Chris Sidoti, Rawan Arraf and Ben Saul who have detailed why the Australian government is indifferent to international law.
Therefore we urgently call upon the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to immediately act to demonstrate Australia’s responsibility under both Australian and international law to prevent Israel continuing what the International Court of Justice has defined as plausible genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and apartheid’

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

get back to me when you've done a tally of christians who are in jail/accused because of child sexual abuse, including clergy.

perhaps also take into account nuns who arent as numerous as the blokes but they've been accused too of physical, emotional & sexual abuse.

def also take into account the long history of mohels sucking the penis of baby boys.

and you've not yet explained why Israel is critisized for being a haven for sexual predators.

When you can do all that & still say Muslims are the worst, get back to me.

In the meantime, i'll leave you to glory in your Islamophobia.