She/Her. Feminist. Mum. Nick Cave is my chosen Deity. Equity, sustainability, transparency and kindness (excepting rotten politicians). Views expressed my own.
Oh dear the mythology of the Queen’s non-involvement in the dismissal is being pedalled by one of the direct beneficiaries of the dismissal, John Howard. I urge all serious Australians to read the documentation in Jenny Hocking’s The Palace Letters.@InsidersABC
I will move for a judicial inquiry into media diversity because disinformation & lack of trust are the key challenges of our time.Outsized media power & lack of regional and suburban media disempower communities.I ask the parliament to support this motion, for democracy. #auspoI
@bobjcarr It is interesting to note that commensurate with the time-frame the Gov Gen and his office were lobbying Scott Morrison for the $18 million in funding for this leadership foundation (around April and May of 2021) Scott Morrison was being signed in to his extra ministerial roles.
The fall of Trump, Johnson and Morrison marks the end of the let ‘er rip- neo-Liberal experiment begun by Reagan and Thatcher. The US Republicans are now proto-Fascist; the British Tories a corrupt mess ; the Australian Liberals a split, shrivelled rabble. Quite pleasing, really.
The Supreme Court has gone rogue. We are in a full-blown Constitutional crisis. Congress must act. And we must pressure Congress to act, while it still can. #TheMajority
Why are Australia's views on issues like wage rises and covid constantly represented by a niche group known as cafe owners?
When did our geographically vast and diverse nation decide that people who rent space to sell coffee are the spokespeople and litmus test of the nation?
Have flown hundreds, if not thousands of domestic flights over the years. But tonight @qantas … you delivered a Total. Shit. Show. WTF is going on? Please get your shit together.
Something I've learned while in law school is about the social construction of crime. I work in a legal clinic on wage theft cases, where employers have "improperly paid" workers by not paying, paying below min wage, withholding overtime, paid sick time, etc. 1/
@semiosmith @RonniSalt Utterly bewildering that her stopping the China deal in the Pacific is not front page news. An extraordinary diplomatic triumph. In week one. Wonder what’s she’s doing in week 2.