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[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

So, let's recap, shall we?

This week the @PressClubAust managed to:

* cancel at the last minute, the questions and subsequent presence of renowned journalist Margo Kingston, who’d travelled over 2 days to Canberra to ask her question of Pauline Hanson – and yes, they were questions initially requested and organised by the Press Club itself 9 days ago.

* cancel the press gallery membership of long-term journalist, Greg Jericho, allegedly because he works for the @TheAusInstitute. Although Greg has been employed by the Aust Institute for 4 years, his membership cancellation only came yesterday after he publicly called out the Canberra press gallery - which is of course a highly fortuitous coincidence and not at all connected to his criticism.

* somehow allowed a person or persons unknown to enter the Press Club premises and put up a 3 metre wide electronic banner, without anybody in the Press Club noticing them doing it. How several people enter a private club carrying something that large, then proceed to wire it up on an open stage and nobody at the premises noticed in any way, is yet another display of the NPC’s staggering incompetence.

* release an unnecessarily detailed, high-school level statement about said banner incident, a statement that reeks of defensiveness and hysteria, while also prejudicially naming an alleged culprit and arguably sinking to the bottom of the barrel in terms of the journalistic standards it supposedly represents. Read it below and remind yourself that people who work with words for a living wrote that.

* allowed the speaker, Pauline Hanson, to defame one of their own - a journalist from the Guardian who dared to ask a hard-hitting question - by calling her "trash". This was only weeks after calling the same journalist a "nasty bitch". Mirroring, Trump’s “Quiet piggy” incident, the journalist's alleged colleagues all sat mute, as did the moderator, Tom Connell from Sky News during the abuse. No rebuke, no blow-back, no support for their fellow journalist, standing alone under Hanson's hissing vitriol. Just pusillanimous silence.

The National Press Club outdid their already dubious reputation this week, spraying themselves in a spectacular shower of self-inflicted shit – wall to wall, dripping effluent.

Australians currently suffer some of the most timid, captured political journalism in the western world, and if the actions of the #NPC this week are the metric, then we can all see why.

What a national and international embarrassment of an organisation meant to serve as a vital democratic institution and a cultural conscience – and one that has offered us neither.

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[Lyn Leedham @Lynnyleedham]

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[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

[GBX @GBX_Press]

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[Louise Greene @GreeneLouiseAus]

Years ago, while standing in court black and blue on domestic violence charges after defending myself against a man who nearly killed me, I met a lawyer from Redfern Legal Centre, Susan Smith.

I told her, “I’m actually the perpetrator.”

She looked at me in shock and replied:
“Oh my God. I’ve got more like you.”

That conversation led to a major report involving seven women across NSW who had all been severely assaulted by partners or ex-partners — and then charged by police for defending themselves.

Some had thrown a toy. Some had thrown a shoe.

None of the men were injured.

Yet the women were arrested, charged, handcuffed, dragged to cells and treated like offenders while the men who assaulted them walked free.

The report was reviewed and endorsed by the Ombudsman.

And yet women are STILL being misidentified and criminalised today.

This matters because it destroys lives.

Before domestic violence, I had never even had a speeding ticket.

Afterwards came PTSD, alcoholism, homelessness, suicide attempts, brain injury and eventually prison.

That is why I am speaking publicly now.

Not for sympathy.

For truth.

Because people need to understand what happens AFTER the violence — and how catastrophically systems can fail traumatised women.

My latest piece:https://t.co/YTrrluhJ4x

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

I'm of the opinion that One Nation's core reason to exist isn't to get seats in parliament, that's secondary

They're a hard right, well funded lobbying firm that grifts and grafts to get the headlines, the donors and the electoral funding. If a candidate happens to stumble into parliament, that's more of a distraction than the aim

[Lin Mei @linmeitalks]

Zionism is not an ethnicity, it is not a race, it is not a protected characteristic, it is a political ideology which can absolutely be criticised, just like any other ideology or religion.

Stop conflating Jewish people with Zionism and the state of Israel.

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

I don’t think I’ve ever in my life seen a more deranged, perverted, intentionally dishonest campaign than the one trying to convince people that protesting genocide puts Jews at risk.

In no universe does this make any sense.

“Don’t protest against the genocide of Palestinians because that puts Jews at risk of harm.”

I mean what the actual fuck???

2 million Palestinians are slaughtered, displaced, maimed, starved, denied care, chewed by rats as they try to exist in tents pitched in rivers of sewage & we have to shut up about it IN CASE JEWS ARE HARMED?

Get fucked. Seriously.

FUCKING GET FUCKED

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

And just like that… everybody stopped talking about the Epstein Files.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Appalled but not surprised to see govt caving to the gas companies.

This just makes me more determined to go harder on our campaign to get a fair return on our gas through a 25% tax on gas export revenue.

Head to https://t.co/dcjuwV2f9S to add your voice.

https://t.co/j91tDxcfCT

[Alex Macdonald @alexfmac]

I hope this photo is a watershed moment.

Forced to carry on to the end of the race with a broken back.

Collapsed & died after the finish line.

RIP Gold Dancer.

If you’re making money off this kind of suffering - how do you look at yourself in the mirror?

[Zomby Pop @TheZombyPop]

A horse was killed today because it broke its back during a race at Aintree. It was ridden over the line with crippling pelvic fractures. All so a bunch of drunk cunts could place a bet. What a fucking horrible, abhorrent way to treat a creature. For a fuckin bet. Cunts.
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[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Killing a civilisation is a war crime. Threatening it is obscene. No country that does this is a worthy ally or friend of Australia. The world needs to respond with action to prevent these crimes.

[Claire🥇👑包玉思クレア @AuspiciousTimes]

Hopefully @alboMP and seriously concerned @SenatorWong are having crisis meetings about being far more than seriously concerned.

CUT OFF AUKUS NOW.

STOP PARTICIPATING IN GENOCIDE

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

[Wattle the day "From the river to the sea" @NotSoTravelled]

Dear @AustralianLabor @AlboMP @SenatorWong
Can we please have the #IranianAmbassador back, and get rid of the parasitic #IsraeliAmbassador.
Thanking you in anticipation
Australia.

[Judith T Soon everyone will have been against this @JuAvrilT]

Nice friends you have @SenatorWong @AlboMP

[Sophie McNeill @Sophiemcneill]

Australia must end AUKUS now & develop an independent foreign policy. We simply cannot continue to be hitched to this unstable fascist in the White House & his growing list of war crimes.