Viv Edwards

Retired RN/Midwife/Child Health/PaedSleepScience. Concerned about Climate crisis and unequal distribution of wealth.Peace not war.Voted Yes.

[Fremantle Dockers @freodockers]

file this video under ‘why we love watching Pat Voss’ 📂

#foreverfreo

[Viv Edwards @Flossies_View]

@DalrympleWill @JLFLitfest So sad, I can barely force myself to watch it. 😢

[Viv Edwards @Flossies_View]

@Baumann_Mac My favourite
is TNT with Bon Scott, it follows the Freo/ Dockers team victory song.⚓️💜🥰

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

Recreational abuse of nitrous oxide can cause permanent neurological injury, psychosis, and sudden death. I’ve previously asked the state and federal health ministers to act on this emerging issue - they’ve not done so. We urgently need age restrictions, limits on canister sizes, restrictions on online sales and delivery hours, and public health education for young people about the dangers associated with nangs. They’ll save lives https://t.co/8Utu716eIx

[Viv Edwards @Flossies_View]

@PhilHazell1 @xskinn Margot’s so glad to have you back home Jan .

[friendlyjordies @friendlyjordies]

Who the Capital Gains and negative gearing changes ACTUALLY affect

[Paul Bongiorno @PaulBongiorno]

O'Neil's 'remarkable' speech shows what's possible https://t.co/otSY73EujV

[GregMarScience @GregMarSci]

Never forget that Rinehart owns Pauline Hanson & One Nation. The billionaires are not interested in helping working Aussies. They are a blight on humanity.

Rinehart bought Hanson with the plane & all the other donations. Hanson/ON works for her & not the community.

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

One of my biggest inspirations. The amount of incredible forest that is standing because of him today is something ALL Australian's should be thankful for! 💚

[Viv Edwards @Flossies_View]

@SandyHorne61 In the 60’s milk was delivered direct to town homes from the local dairy farm,(the Browns farm if I recall correctly),fresh from milking an hour or so earlier and poured into a container left on the veranda.We were all very healthy in Pemberton. WA. Those were the days!🥰

[angela rubin @angelar68197975]

Why should Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia be influencing our tax policies , but through Pauline that’s exactly what’s happening

[🔥💧⛺️Russ Robinson @RrRjrobinson9]

@EdmundMorley @DavidShoebridge @BelindaJones68 Mossad operates freely in the US especially since Nov 22,1963 & further claimed positions in the Reagan era securing positions in the Pentagon … why wouldn’t they have influence here ?
President John F Kennedy wanted them listed as foreign agents…👇🏼

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Israeli President Herzog got a personal tour of ASIO headquarters. Asked if they could name another foreign leader ever given that access, ASIO drew a blank.

[Safety First @djt1940]

If Labor wants to regain credibility it needs to
1) Junk AUKUS in its entirety
2) reshuffle out Judas Marles & bring back Ed Husic.
3) condemn Israel with sanctions by expelling their ambassador & cease all dealings with Israel.
4) sack Segal

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Independent journalist, Jan Fran:

"Take polls about Hanson with a pinch of salt. They can only ever give you a snapshot of this particular moment. The big thing to remember is that polls are just a tool commissioned by the media to create content.. it's a self saucing pudding."

[Palestine Daily News✌️🇵🇸✌️ @Palestinedaily1]

Retweet if you believe Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Viv Edwards @Flossies_View]

@Baumann_Mac Such a beautiful song, sorry about your Mum Ron.🥰

[Viv Edwards @Flossies_View]

@SandyHorne61 @annaclarity1 I didn’t know about the eyes, there’s plenty of pink & grey galahs close to where I live, I will check the eye colours when I next see them.🥰

[Viv Edwards @Flossies_View]

@PhilHazell1 Morning Phil, Jan & your affectionate Margot,have an enjoyable weekend.🥰🐾

[Ron Baumann @Baumann_Mac]

It infuriates me that the people we trust with our most sacred duty, caring for our parents at their most vulnerable, are among the most undervalued workers in Australia.

We live in a country where a person looking after a corporate spreadsheet is routinely paid vastly more than a person looking after a human soul.

What makes this even harder to stomach is the relentless political rhetoric we so often hear from racist, grifting politicians and media folk who use their platforms to dehumanise non-citizens, temporary residents, and migrant workers, painting them as a burden on our society. Yes, I’m looking at you,@PaulineHansonOz @AngusTaylorMP @SenatorCash @mattjcan @Barnaby_Joyce @Bobkatter @BenFordhamLive et al.

Walk into any aged care facility in Australia, and you’ll see the truth: it is these very workers who are holding our healthcare system together. While politicians trade in cheap division, these temporary and migrant workers are doing the heavy, essential lifting, contributing far more to the fabric of Australian society than the politicians vilifying them ever will.

Mum passed away last night. It wasn’t sudden. I’d been saying goodbye to her in pieces for years as dementia slowly eroded the woman she used to be. When the end finally came, it was quiet, expected, and peaceful. But knowing it’s coming doesn’t make it much easier.

In the midst of the grief, my mind keeps returning to a group of people who deserve more respect, honour, love and, of course, money than society currently gives them: the aged care workers at Mum’s facility, and thousands of others around the country.

Unless you've watched a loved one go through the late stages of dementia, it’s hard to comprehend what aged care workers actually do.

They don’t just work a shift. They navigate confusion and fear with infinite patience. They handle the deeply intimate, physical realities of human decline with total dignity. They learn the quirks of a mind that is unravelling, figuring out just how to soothe a sudden panic, or how to feed someone who has forgotten how to swallow.

They did all of this for my mum. In her final years, when she could no longer tell us what she needed, the staff at her facility became her translators, her protectors, and her surrogate family. They made her final years tolerable and comfortable.

The nurses, personal care assistants, cleaners, social workers, kitchen staff and lifestyle coordinators who looked after my mum saw the woman she used to be, even when the dementia hid her. They treated her with the same tenderness you would show your own mother.

And when the time finally came, and in the days leading up to, they made sure I was ok, as well.