If you're wondering why the government made a song and dance about employment services reform last week
It's to distract from this 👇
https://t.co/83BmioG6OJ
@P_bogan@YaThinkN Yes, the Father of the Internet who gave us his Multiple Technology Mix (MTM) broadband network wherein his thought you could solder copper cable to glass fibre & hey presto there's your 12Mbs broadband...a fucking genius I tells ya
@LNPvoterfail ex Labor Fatima Payman.
She stuck to Labors Platform position on recognition of Palestine and was dumped for it.
Ed would be dumped too already if he was a woman.
@DeniseEllen7@Twovvles@mattjcan And as I said all the hundreds of women I've known have had that free space. It's just confected outrage. And you are sucked in bad.
@EJjohnsontweets@mattjcan I have had women enter my spaces. I've had lots of women enter the mens toilets when women's toilets have those long queues. You've probably done it. Why not. Not everyone are beasts.
@strangerous10@jaraparilla I heard all the Australians went to the dunny at the same time during the attack to avoid being considered being on "active duty". By orders of the ADF.
@DeniseEllen7@Twovvles@mattjcan Hey I've had wifes, girlfriends, have sisters, daughters, nieces and it has NEVER HAPPENED.
Your supporting confected outrage to bait people to have them align with certain political narratives whose parties DONOT serve women well, just use them as proxies.
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
Watching Peter Garrett on #abc730 on submarines.
And he's right.
The Navy never wanted nuke subs until Morrison got sucked in by the yanks.
The Navy didn't want our subs to travel the world. Diesel subs can go silent.
These were well stated objectives for decades.
@thatreviewplace@mattjcan blah blah blah. I can guarantee you that will never happen to your nieces. Statistically. But run with that issue while there are folk in your suburb homeless and living in poverty.