Amanda Boyd

Nurse, partner, mother. Equity & equality for all

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

Let me get this straight.

Brisbane’s Marist College “Old Boys” found it necessary to even move a motion that “Women be respected” at their AGM, which is remarkably antediluvian in itself…

But then they VOTE IT DOWN??????

[stranger @strangerous10]

Pauline Hanson Vic fundraiser turns ugly as Neo-Nazis show up in support.
But a humiliating end for Neo-Nazi Michael Nelson—arrested face down in handcuffs, sobs out to his hero
“Heil Hanson! The great white hope!”
Hanson owns this. She is their champion with same agenda #auspol

[Amanda Boyd @akboydee]

@StMaryMacKiller @VicAusMidwife I think people really fear the mouldy yams retribution. It really knows no bounds…

[Amanda Boyd @akboydee]

@RonniSalt @aaronsmith Excellent read @RonniSalt & @aaronsmith! Thank you.

[Amanda Boyd @akboydee]

@Damcrazywoman @Gadget440 I just had a look at the Dorset police website - there was one case.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

650 million women and girls alive today were sold into “marriage” - that is, sexual slavery — as children. That’s 16.25% of all women and girls — and 12 million more are sold every year.

There is no bigger human rights issue in the world today.

[Sue Barrett-Onward We Press @SueBarrett]

When did disagreeing with someone become grounds for destroying their life's work? The Grace Tame Foundation is closing. Not because protecting children stopped mattering. Because a small, powerful, organised group pressured sponsors and event bookers until the funding collapsed. No court. No law broken. No democratic process.

That is not a debate. That is a veto.

Grace Tame is still standing. Her foundation isn't. We should all be asking why.

Debate is democratic. Defunding is not. Know the difference.

Cowardice dressed as conviction fools no one.

Read the full piece and decide for yourself. 👇
https://t.co/Bv6EXzJGi2

#auspol
@deniseshrivell
@aaronsmith
@TheNoisyTrunk

[Amanda Boyd @akboydee]

@Mr_Indigo Education, equity, jobs, food on the table are where we will see population doing better. Fixing inequity from the bottom up will improve the lives of disenfranchised groups. But really I wish laws were a greater deterrent!

[Amanda Boyd @akboydee]

@Mr_Indigo I think you’re right - the laws are there for prosecution not prevention. Which is devastating for any victim of crime - and they already know this! Ask any woman experiencing intimate partner violence. While we all like to think the law aims to prevent crimes.. it doesn’t. 1/2

[Amanda Boyd @akboydee]

@PalPress24 @slsandpet 🍉

[𝗁𝗈𝗈𝖽 𝗅𝗈𝗋𝖽 𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗊𝗎𝖺𝖺𝖽💂🏾‍♂️ @hoodfarquaad]

he was 14 when he was falsely arrested and prosecuted. 14. years. old. his trial lasted a single day. he spent 17 innocent years behind bars and the rest on state supervision. impossible to heal. and no one will be held accountable.

[OZ Economist @OZ_Economist]

@Kon__K The racism is so blatant.

No restrictions on Israeli or Americans, the ones that started the illegal war, however.

I think most Australians can see what is happening and are livid at the extraordinary power being held by a small group in this country.

[Amanda Boyd @akboydee]

@AjaxXanthe @DaveMilbo It’s dumb. Sounds like an 80’s movie starring Steven Seagal and John Claude van Damme.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

THIS is how you introduce the genocidal president of Israel Isaac Herzog

[Amanda Boyd @akboydee]

@JamesMelville @SuDharmapala Junior nurses will not have the lasting impact my predecessors did when I was a jnr nurse. Times & priorities have changed for health services. There will continue to be brilliant clinicians & well meaning health services but the overall standard (and equity) can’t be met. 2/2

[Amanda Boyd @akboydee]

@JamesMelville @SuDharmapala It really did accelerate the decline that was already in train. As a HCW in Melbourne - while we didn’t have the same impact as the USA/UK, our healthcare system is permanently broken. As I age, I’m concerned about all the investment I have given to my patients & 1/2

[⭕️Faerie ❤️ @LiquidFaerie]

The Taliban have a truly brilliant plan for Afghanistan’s women: ban them from education past primary level, forbid them from universities, then slam the door shut on medical, nursing, and midwifery training as of late 2024. All while insisting that only female doctors & nurses can treat female patients, because decency and Islamic propriety demand strict gender segregation in healthcare.
Genius, really. What better way to “protect” women than to ensure that, within a few short years, there will be virtually no qualified Afghan women left to provide the very care their own rules require?
Male doctors cannot properly examine or treat women without risking violation of those same modesty rules and women often refuse or cannot access male providers anyway due to chaperone requirements and cultural barriers. So the Taliban have engineered a perfect catch-22: no male care allowed in practice and now no new female providers being trained either.
Existing female healthcare workers are ageing out, burning out, or fleeing the country if they can. Current female medical students were turfed out mid-training. Midwifery and nursing programmes, already scarce, are now closed entirely.
The predictable result? Skyrocketing maternal mortality, untreated gynaecological conditions, women dying in childbirth or from preventable complications because no female professional is available nearby and rural areas turning into death traps for half the population.

Yet the Taliban still claim this is all for women’s honour and protection. One might almost admire the sheer audacity of the hypocrisy, were it not costing thousands of lives. They have decided that female illiteracy, poverty and death are preferable to the horror of a woman learning how to read, work, or save another woman’s life.

It is not merely cruel, it is spectacularly self-defeating lunacy dressed up as piety.

The rest of the world watches, issues statements, and occasionally wrings its hands, while Afghan women pay the price for this masterclass in regressive logic.

The Taliban really are as stupid as they look.

[Amanda Boyd @akboydee]

@Marlowe_1564 @DaveMilbo @sussanley I am beginning to think that because the z1on1st influence would be under scrutiny the PM will never say yes to a RC… it would reveal too much. RWNJ know this is so they can ask for an RC adnauseum and they then seem like that good guys. Ps I don’t think they are the good guys!

[Amanda Boyd @akboydee]

@PeterCeasefire @JaneCaro And with LNP’s years of leadership they also failed to have a credible climate policy. They have been delaying the transition deliberately for years.

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

This is an excellent explanation of Fascists and Fascism. People need to understand what they are speaking on, so take a few moments to listen. #DemsUnited