Kerry (she/her)

Cis, social justice advocate, non-diet dietitian & counsellor, ADHDer. Lover of cats, nature, science, truth. Opinions my own.

[Kerry (she/her) @Kerry2theLeft]

#poverty posts - a thread. Please feel free to add to this.
1. As a therapist I can say confidently, that while therapy is helpful, what most people really need is money -
@caitiehannan

[Kerry (she/her) @Kerry2theLeft]

@ArtistAffame Oh geez!!! I’m so sorry you have to deal with this shit

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Asking questions at Senate Estimates about why a year on from an investigation by Choice, which found that 16 out of 20 sunscreens tested didn't meet their SPF claims, 15 are STILL being investigated.

The TGA has put forward some options for reforms, but I'm worried how slowly this is moving.

In the country with the highest skin cancer rates in the world, confidence in sunscreens is vital and we need to rebuild that.
https://t.co/OllqmLaBJc

[Kerry (she/her) @Kerry2theLeft]

@ArtistAffame @JaneCaro @rodneycsmith1 @AbortionChat Having access to safe abortion is a healthcare necessity. And those objecting are often the same people who think poor people should not get handouts or tax cuts etc

[Kerry (she/her) @Kerry2theLeft]

@ArtistAffame @JaneCaro @rodneycsmith1 @AbortionChat We make the best decision at the time xxxx it’s hard though isn’t it

[melissa @ArtistAffame]

@JaneCaro @rodneycsmith1 @AbortionChat In 1980 my mum had a baby girl with a serious heart defect she lived for 4 months had multiple surgeries and she was in constant pain. My mum said if she had known she would have had an abortion so my sister didn’t have to suffer the pain that she did.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

AUKUS is such a rotten deal, that even buying second hand submarines still means the Australian public is paying top dollar.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

@susan_taylor07 @CarmelNunan @cheryl_kernot @GregWithers3 @iamthenas @BevFloyd10 Yes, correct. It's why you see the Israeli media and the Israel lobby in the western world always calling out the Greens - whichever country they're in

It's not the Greens policies they object to, it's that they can't puppeteer them like they do with the major parties

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Did you know that Australia runs a factory 24hrs a day manufacturing explosives for Israel's atrocities?

@AlboMP tried to hide this "explosive" story from us - David Milner @shot_au found his signature all over it.

There is nothing "non-lethal" here.

https://t.co/0yTQ14htlU

[Geoff Langdale @geofflangdale]

@ArtistAffame @sirhumpyAU Reading Corey Doctorow's book "Enshittification" (recommend!) and today I hit the chapter "With An App" - that pointed out that many new companies do something illegal but magically "because it's an app" they aren't regulated. The whole BNPL sector is just unregulated banking.

[Kerry (she/her) @Kerry2theLeft]

@ArtistAffame @sirhumpyAU Agree. As a dietitian I am also concerned that it will increase and enable addiction and displace food, push people further into debt etc

[Misinformation Fact Checker. @MisinfoFact]

Pauline Hanson says young people don't want to work, but If you only showed up to work 12% of the time, you'd probably be looking for a new job.

Yet Pauline Hanson wants working Australians to take her seriously after an 88% absence rate at Senate Estimates.
#auspol #OneNation

[Bernard Keane @BernardKeane]

Bit of a pattern developing around Grace Tame. Powerful white Establishment men attack her using code words like "difficult" and "problematic", then run for cover when there's pushback and plead they've been misunderstood.

[Kerry (she/her) @Kerry2theLeft]

@RhondaGarad @SerkanTheWriter The fixation demonstrates how utterly insecure and pathetic the individuals and organisations are.

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

Agree, Louise. The fixation on Grace has become pathological. Every comment, appearance and opinion is treated as a fresh excuse for outrage. The sheer volume of vitriol directed at one person is astonishing and says far more about her critics than it does about her.

[Kerry (she/her) @Kerry2theLeft]

@JeremyPoxon @antipovertycent The lives impacted along with the compounding impacts on them and others is hidden, but it’s there.

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Or, another way to put this: the government has been hiding the true number of unlawful mutual obligation cancellations for years https://t.co/rAbCUUIx9R

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

David Shoebridge:

"Why did you not declare your conflict of interest forms?"

Jillian Segal:

"Uh um uh uh uh uh uh and um uh uh uh uhh.."

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

It’s a national embarrassment that a former Labor minister is crowdfunding for an independent inquiry into AUKUS, one which the government keeps denying us.

You wonder why people are giving up on the major parties: first they commit us to an extraordinarily expensive deal with unreliable allies and even less reliable deliverables, now they change terms of the deal without real transparency, and tell us we're getting a good deal when we’re paying the same for less. Australians aren't buying it.
https://t.co/hsdlc7r5ql

[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

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

At Estimates Defence confirmed it on the record that the Palantir software Defence is paying $14.4 million for is the same suite of products used in Gaza, Lebanon, and the US attack on Iran. I then asked if anyone ran an ethics check. See what happens next.