@salltweets started a fire of common sense to resist bad law obliterating the rights of biological woman to feel safe in their own spaces. She and opinion leaders like @jk_rowling need our support to keep that fire burning.
Almost 150 years ago, the famed British jurist A. V. Dicey wrote that sovereign parliaments ‘can do everything but make a man a woman, and a woman a man’. Yet in Australia, Britain and elsewhere, parliaments now have done just that.
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@PumlaMajali@spectator@TerryBarnes This woman married for influence and status derived from her husband's family, cut off her children from their extended families on both sides, and cruelly abandoned her father. It's not unreasonable to point this out.
But if the pair felt a touch of love today and assume that Australians generally share that affection, they are mistaken. A petition entitled ‘No taxpayer-funded or official support for Harry and Meghan’s private visit to Australia’, garnered 45,000 signatures, and a very defensive response from the Sussex camp before they arrived. The trip is all privately-funded, they insist; but tell that to Australian taxpayers stuck with the cost of a police presence, and the costs of the arrangements for hosting the Sussexes at the Royal Children’s Hospital and the other quasi-royal events during their Australian visit.
And it hasn’t been lost on the Australian public that the Sussexes are here for several lucrative commercial events, with price tags for attendees that can only be afforded by commercial and social elites – photos with the couple extra, of course.
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@afneil And, on numbers of frigates and destroyers, the Royal Navy is only slightly ahead of the Royal Australian Navy, which has more of these in readiness than the RN.
In 1989, as tanks rolled into central Beijing to crush the pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square, Australia’s then prime minister, Bob Hawke, spontaneously offered asylum to all Chinese citizens who happened to be in Australia. Thousands took up his offer and made lasting contributions to the country that gave them shelter.
On Tuesday, Hawke’s successor, Anthony Albanese, granted five women of Iran’s national football team asylum, and offered it to all those in the team’s party. Unlike Hawke, however, Albanese did the right thing only after being pressured by Australian public opinion and, if you accept his version of events, US president Donald Trump.
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This video deserves the widest possible viewership across the Anglosphere. Canada is fortunate to have @PierrePoilievre in her public life and contest of ideas. So very impressive.