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Promoting Competition in Policy for Rural, RR Australians. John is a policy advisor to cross bench members of parliament.In the second half of his first century

[Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺 @AvidCommentator]

What a lot of people dont know is this is the Australian version of a 'Millenium Falcon' 😂

Source: https://t.co/8VN3Odoon5

[Colin James Bettles @ColinJBettles]

Fantastic memory popped up today on Facebook - absolutely loved doing this story about a couple of young farmers having a serious crack at life and doing it their way. 🇦🇺🇦🇺

[Gillian Fennell @stationmum101]

Now everyone who welcomed him back in the first place needs to resign.
If you can’t see that supporting a convicted rapist back into a community club was an issue then you’re too stupid to be in charge of anything.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

1. Women’s spaces are for women. It’s irrelevant how the women look.

2. Men don’t belong in women’s spaces. It’s irrelevant how the men look.

3. Most trans-identified men would give at least one ball to look like Sharron Davies.

[Dachshund Heaven USA @dachshund_heave]

She is 22 today❤️

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Willy Field, a German Jew who had survived the horrors of Dachau concentration camp, landed on the Normandy beaches on D-Day +1 and went on to fight with the British Army on the front line for the rest of the war in North-West Europe.

As a tank driver, he was the sole survivor when his tank was hit.

Always humble, never saw himself as a hero.

Loyal supporter of Arsenal Football Club for over 70+ years.

Sadly no longer with us.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

5 June 1931 | A French Jewish girl, Madeleine Driay, was born in Paris.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 June 1944 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She as among 627 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

[Just Ger 🇺🇲 @BigGer_1970]

Actor Don Adam's, enlisted into U.S. Marines Dec, 1941. Saw combat with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines during WWII, Pacific Theater at Guadalcanal. later contracting Blackwater Malaria. Upon returning stateside he became a drill instructor. Corporal Adams, forever a veteran🇺🇸

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

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[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

The photo was taken by the SS in a forest located right by gas chambers and crematoria IV and V at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

Learn more about deportations of some 430,000 Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz:

Online lesson: https://t.co/UriR5fLdkB

WEBINAR: https://t.co/XJbud0F4gI

[Hugo @lowlandsapien]

My cousin is up around Marree, SA currently.
Standard pic of Marree on left, his pic from yesterday on right

[Tony Brown @agbdrilling]

The Rolls Royce Crecy aircraft engine. Two stroke, Sleeve Valved and Supercharged. Had the potential to be developed to deliver around 5000 HP. Never entered service as was superseded by the Jet engine. Sadly there is no known footage of one running. Apparently when test run it could be heard from 5 miles away 🇬🇧🙂

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

5 June 1933 | Dutch Jewish girl, Hilde Münz, was born in Heerlen.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://t.co/KArryHBbea

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

4 June 1904 | A German Jewish woman, Lore Berentzen, was born in Frankfurt am Main.

In May 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

3 June 1892 | Czech Jewish woman, Alice Fuchsová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 1 February 1943. She was murderdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

[NSW Police Force @nswpolice]

Can you help us find Katie?

MORE INFORMATION ➡️ https://t.co/0KAsLNQ2nd

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1965, a 17-year-old girl in Sicily was kidnapped, assaulted, and held captive for over a week.

Then her attacker offered her a deal:

Marry him, and everything would be “forgiven.”

At the time, Italian law allowed rapists to avoid punishment if they married their victims.

It was called “reparatory marriage.”

The logic was horrifying:

A woman’s “honor” mattered more than her consent.

If she married the man who violated her, her reputation could supposedly be restored — and the rapist could walk free.

Most women had no real choice.

Families pressured them.
Communities expected obedience.
The law itself encouraged silence.

But Franca Viola said no.

At 17 years old, traumatized and publicly shamed, she refused to marry the man who assaulted her.

That single word changed Italy forever.

Her decision sparked outrage in her town.

Neighbors turned against her family.
Their vineyards and olive groves were burned in retaliation.

But Franca’s father stood beside her and supported her decision to press charges.

In 1966, Franca testified publicly against her attacker in court.

At a time when most victims were expected to stay silent forever, she spoke openly in front of the entire country.

Italy watched in shock.

Her attacker, Filippo Melodia, was convicted and sentenced to prison.

For the first time in Italian history, a woman had publicly rejected “reparatory marriage” and won.

The case became international news.

But the law itself still remained.

For another 15 years, rapists in Italy could technically still escape punishment by marrying their victims.

Then finally, in 1981, Italy abolished the law completely.

And many activists pointed to Franca Viola as the moment the country first began confronting the cruelty of that system.

Years later, Franca married a childhood friend who had stood beside her through everything.

Not because she needed her “honor restored.”

But because she deserved love, dignity, and a life defined by her own choices.

That’s why her story still matters.

Franca Viola wasn’t just resisting one man.

She was resisting an entire culture that treated women’s suffering as something to hide rather than something to fight.

At 17 years old, she stood against her attacker, her community, and even the law itself.

And eventually, the law changed.

Sometimes history moves because powerful people decide to act.

And sometimes history moves because one terrified teenager quietly refuses to surrender.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

3 June 1935 | A French Jewish boy, Jacques Moncarz, was born in Paris.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 13 February 1944 in a transport of 1,500 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 1,229 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.