Runner Girl

Healthy lifestyle, fitness, love the Aussie spirit and way of life. Views are my own.

[Runner Girl @Tracey358]

This is brilliant! Gladys has plans for NSW. What are your plans for Gladys? 👇👇👇

[° @Halcyon_33]

Believe me guys Oscar piastri is fucking Great. No one was even close to him and We all know mclaren did something but can't prove it.

#f1 #AbuDhabi #AbuDhabiGP #OscarPiastri

[Liz⁷ 🪭 @arirangliz]

Whoever the announcer is over the speaker at Wynyard Station - calmly directing the staff, marshalling people into the correct areas, telling passengers where the meeting point for the pro-Pal march is today - you are doing a magnificent job.

[Gabe Pluguez @Gabepluguez]

6. Dr Peter Attia

[Heston Russell @HestonRussell]

Tune in to finally see the shocking truth of how far some within @abcnews went in their campaign to make-up a war crime story… it’s time for real accountability.

@7NewsSpotlight @7NewsAustralia

#Spotlight #Shocking #Exclusive #Media #HestonRussell #Accountability #Veterans

[Fred O’Frog @kangarooted]

Here they are…the weak, woke, spineless management team of #AustralianVenueCo who believe their vicarious faux guilt needs to be shared by all of us. I’ll never set foot in one of their venues again. #australiaday

[Francynancy @FranMooMoo]

Sue Lines, the Senate president, has issued a statement about the unparliamentary & disrespectful conduct in the Senate today. She's mentioned Lidia Thorpe in particular. Senators Faruqi and Payne were also totally disgusting, and Senator Pauline Hanson deserves an apology. Senators Thorpe & Faruqi are perpetual victims always complaining about how they are treated with Senator Payne also quick to label actions she doesn't like as "racist." It turns out the senators who moved a reference to the procedure committee to improve safety & respect are actually the very ones demonstrating the worst behaviour. Such hypocrites.

[Avi Yemini @OzraeliAvi]

There is an extraordinary irony in Fatima Payman, Mehreen Faruqi, and Lidia Thorpe calling Senator Pauline Hanson a racist

Always was, always will be… projection

[Rizza @Rizzabeast]

Charges need to be pressed this is corruption.

**Crime Broken:**
- **Section 44 of the Australian Constitution**: This section outlines disqualifications for members of parliament. Specifically, under Section 44(i), any person who is a subject or citizen of a foreign power is ineligible to be chosen or sit as a senator or member of the House of Representatives. However, knowing about this and not acting does not constitute a criminal offense under this section itself; it's more about the eligibility to sit in parliament rather than a criminal act.

- **Misconduct in Public Office**: If high-level politicians knew of the ineligibility and took no action, this could potentially fall under the common law offense of misconduct in public office. This crime involves wilful neglect of duty by a public official. However, this would require proving that there was a clear duty to act (such as reporting or ensuring the ineligibility is addressed) and that they failed in this duty willfully.

**Prosecution:**

- **High Court of Australia sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns**: This is the mechanism typically used to determine eligibility under Section 44. If the ineligibility comes to light, the matter would likely be referred to the High Court to decide on the vacancy of the seat. This isn't a prosecution per se but an adjudication on eligibility.

- **Criminal Prosecution for Misconduct**:
- **Evidence**: There would need to be substantial evidence that the politicians knew of the ineligibility and deliberately chose not to act or mislead others. This would involve proving intent or gross negligence.

- **Legal Process**:
- **Investigation**: This would likely start with an investigation by agencies like the Australian Federal Police or the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions if there's a suspicion of criminal conduct.

- **Charges**: If evidence suggests misconduct in public office, charges would be laid. This would involve presenting the case before a court, where it would need to be proven beyond reasonable doubt that the elements of the crime were met.

- **Outcome**: If convicted, penalties could include fines, imprisonment, or both, depending on the severity of the misconduct.

- **Parliamentary Inquiry**: Before or alongside any criminal proceedings, there might be an inquiry by a parliamentary committee to investigate the matter, which could lead to political consequences like censure or forced resignation but not directly to criminal prosecution.

It's important to note that Australian law does not explicitly criminalize knowing about another's ineligibility under Section 44 without taking action unless it can be framed under a broader crime like misconduct in public office. The political fallout might be significant, potentially leading to resignations or by-elections, but criminal prosecution would hinge on specific acts of misconduct or corruption, which are more about the conduct of the individual rather than the knowledge of ineligibility itself.

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

Tomorrow, I will ask the Senate to vote and determine whether the attached document on Senator Payman’s eligibility paperwork, the entirety of the evidence she has provided, passes the pub test.

Take a look and compare it with what other Senators have submitted: https://t.co/y4rFTCaYEN

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

The Australian Greens do not want you to see these documents!

Many Australians are aware of the serious questions surrounding Senator Payman’s eligibility to sit in the Senate due to her dual citizenship status.

Earlier this year, I gave the Prime Minister the opportunity to address this matter. He chose to take no action and instead protected Senator Payman.

As a result, I followed Senate procedure, writing to the Senate President and asking her to refer this matter to the Senate Standing Committee on Senators' Interests for an urgent inquiry and report.

The Labor Senate President ruled that she would not refer this matter to the committee. Her interpretation of an existing resolution means that, despite the lack of evidence provided by Senator Payman that she took the steps required under law to renounce her foreign citizenship, she will not be referred to the committee. Once again, Senator Payman is being protected by Labor.

As this correspondence is not automatically made public, I sought leave to have it tabled in the Senate. Leave was granted by Labor and the Coalition but denied by the Greens. It seems they too are protecting Senator Payman.

However, I have never been one to let obstacles stop me from doing what is right.

This is why I have submitted a motion for tomorrow that allows the Senate to bypass the President’s ruling and make its own decision on whether Senator Payman's eligibility should be investigated.

Unlike the Greens, I have no interest in hiding this apparent protection racket. Senator Payman is likely using her position in the Senate to automatically register a political party, one that may influence the outcome of the next federal election.

And yet, Senator Payman may be ineligible to sit in the Senate.

The Prime Minister’s failure to take the appropriate action risks undermining the integrity of our elections and the confidence of the Australian people in the integrity of our parliament.

Tomorrow, the Senate will vote to have Senator Payman investigated, and I urge everyone to pay close attention to which politicians vote to keep this shameful protection racket going.

[Alexandra Marshall @ellymelly]

Senator Pauline Hanson (@PaulineHansonOz) is one of this country's longest serving politicians.

She has ALWAYS had this nation's best interests at heart.

Not the interest of foreign dictatorships or imported religious wars.

Australia and its people are her life.

She is Australia FIRST. Always. And the establishment want her gone.

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

Why won’t they listen?

For the fifth time, I’ve stood in the Senate and called for an inquiry into the experimental use of puberty blockers on vulnerable children.

Every single time I have asked for an inquiry, it’s been because new evidence has come to light showing the risks and harm these treatments pose to kids. This time, even New Zealand has joined the growing list of countries, including the UK, Finland, and Sweden, raising the alarm.

While other nations are waking up, the Albanese Labor government and the Greens remain asleep at the wheel, refusing to act.

They claim denying an inquiry “protects” children, but the reality is their negligence is causing real harm.

The evidence clearly shows these experimental treatments and drugs are dangerous, poorly supported by research, and that Australian safeguards lag far behind international standards.

I hold onto hope that today Labor, the Greens, and those on the crossbench, Pocock, Tyrrell, Thorpe, Lambie, and Payman, who have blocked inquiries in the past can set aside their ideology and do what is needed to protect Australia’s children.

I’ll keep fighting for these kids and their families because they deserve better. If other nations can prioritise evidence and caution, why can’t we?

Here’s what I’ve called for:

An inquiry into Australia’s failure to adopt evidence-based safeguards for the use of puberty blockers in gender dysphoric adolescents, with particular reference to:

(a) The dangers posed by puberty blockers, as evidenced by poor-quality and inconclusive research on their safety and efficacy;

(b) The inadequacy of current Australian safeguards compared to more precautionary approaches adopted in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and other nations;

(c) The over-reliance on experimental treatments instead of prioritising holistic, psychological, and social interventions for young people experiencing gender dysphoria;

(d) The lack of regulation and oversight of off-label prescriptions of puberty blockers in Australia;

(e) The absence of long-term data on the physical, mental health, and fertility impacts of these treatments;

(f) The Government's role in ensuring proper medical, ethical, and legal standards are applied to protect vulnerable adolescents;

(g) The stifling of dissenting medical and scientific views in public and policy debates on gender-affirming treatments; and

(h) Any other related matters.

This is a reasonable, sensible request.

It is to the eternal shame of the Albanese Labor government that they continue to fail to do what is right.

[Alexandra Marshall @ellymelly]

lf only the Queensland courts hunted down criminals the same way they pursue this innocent little rescued magpie. 😠

https://t.co/GMr4IyIqTj

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

An important graphic to understand:

[Senator Matt Canavan @mattjcan]

The Senate Committee's report on the social media ban is now published and the Senate could vote on the ban tomorrow.

Yet just over 100 (of the 15,000 submissions) have been published on the Committee's website. That is less than 1%.

(This is no fault of the hard working Committee staff. There is a process that has to be followed to publish submissions and that just humanly can not be done in the time we have given them.)

[Senator Matt Canavan @mattjcan]

It is an indictment of our political class that it has taken Chris Uhlmann and @SkyNewsAust to do an analysis of how much net zero is costing us.

This should have been done before we signed up to this trillion dollar program!

Their Real Cost of Net Zero documentary is a must watch - especially if you're wondering why Australia pays some of the highest power prices in the world even while we have some of the world's largest energy resources.

https://t.co/CIo086uaCg

[Gerard Rennick @RennickGBR]

RBA clueless as to how monetary policy works.

In 1985 Paul Keating lifted government capital controls. This meant that private banks were no longer restricted as to how much money they could borrow from offshore banks and what they used it for.

The private banks had $8 billion in foreign debt in 1985. By 2008 they had $800 billion in foreign debt. This lifted house prices from 4 times average earnings to around 12 times average earnings.

Banks now lend 70% to Households (consumption) and only 30% to Business. (They now tap superannuation funds I.e. your money that be used to pay off your mortgage.)

The 1937 Banking Royal Commission recommended that the central bank should control the volume of credit in the system as opposed to private banks.

In 1992 the RBA was made independent and APRA was split off in the late 1990’s.

It’s a sad reflection on just how little monetary policy is understood that RBA officials had no idea as to what I was talking about when I asked why they don’t establish an infrastructure bank.

It beggars belief that the RBA could print $300 billion to pay people to stay at home and get brainwashed by State Premiers but not actually set about funding our Australia’s infrastructure which would actually solve our productivity crises which is what is driving inflation.

More at:
https://t.co/AdFG7pbxxO

#auspol

[Melinda Richards 🇦🇺🇺🇸 @goodfoodgal]

These men murdered a 70 year woman in front of her grandchild yesterday when she went grocery shopping at Ipswich in Queensland.

So why have these men not been arrested? Here they are. Right here. What, can’t find them?

I remember in 2020 I couldn’t turn around without a police officer being there: telling people to stand up on the beach, asking people to put a mask on, manning the state border to check vax status, following people in the M1 to make sure they weren’t driving more that 20km, raiding restaurants, arresting people at coffee shops…

Wish we had that same police presence now..,

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Late in the 2016 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Villanova blew a 10-point lead.

With 4.7 seconds left, UNC hit a 3-pointer to tie the game.

Villanova's head coach, Jay Wright, called a timeout, and as his players walked to the huddle, they were all saying the same word:

“Attitude.”

“It's the most important aspect of our program,” Coach Wright explains in his book titled, Attitude. “We wear 'Attitude' wristbands. And when we break a huddle, we say '1, 2, 3, Attitude.'”

The test of Attitude, Wright taught his players, is:

“Where is your mindset after something bad happens to you?”

Where is your mindset after you blow a 10-point lead? Where is your mindset after your opponent hits a 3 to tie the game with 4.7 seconds left?

“When I looked into the eyes of our players,” Wright writes, “I saw no anger or regret. No one bemoaned [the UNC player's] 'lucky shot,' or that any of our guys had failed to stop him from grabbing the pass that led to that shot, or anything else.”

Instead, “they were all saying, 'Attitude. Attitude. This is what we do. Attitude. This is what we do.'”

With this mindset, the players returned to the court.

Villanova's Kris Jenkins inbounded the ball to Ryan "Arch" Arcidiacono. Arch dribbled up the left side of the court, crossed half court, cut right towards the 3-point arc, where he underhanded a pass to Jenkins, who caught the ball with 1.3 seconds left, and, in perfect rhythm, jumped then released the ball with 0.6 seconds, and hit a buzzer-beater to win the 2016 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.

Takeaway 1:

A primary indicator of physical fitness is recovery time. If you are doing all-out sprint intervals, for instance—people who are physically fit recover from one interval to the next faster than those who are not physically fit.

“So then, what is mental fitness?” the mental performance coach Greg Harden likes to ask. “Mental fitness is about recovery time,” Harden says.

It's about, as Coach Wright said, where your mindset is after something bad happens to you.

After something bad happens, people who are mentally fit recover faster than those who are not.

Takeaway 2:

Just after Kris Jenkins hit the buzzer-beater, Coach Wright famously barely reacted.

Before his guys went back on the court, he explained, “I processed all the potential scenarios.” Most likely, the game was going to go to overtime where UNC would ride their wave of momentum and win the game.

“No matter the outcome,” Wright continued, “because of the way our players responded after UNC tied the game ["Attitude. Attitude. This is what we do."]—I felt like they had the greatest lesson in life. I felt like that was an accomplishment that would follow them through their lives.”

Ryan Holiday once told me, “You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.”

Wright got to that place. He had done the work to instill in his players a mindset, he said, “that they would carry with them for the remainder of their days on earth.”

“In that sense, I knew we had already won.” Everything else was extra.

- - -

“The fact is, none of us control what happens to us in life—but we do control our responses to those circumstances...no matter how tough it gets or how much of a challenge you face in the final 4.7 seconds of a game.” — Jay Wright

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