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In our 2025-26 Victorian pre-Budget submission, we highlight 18 recommendations across interconnected areas of social policy where early intervention and prevention are key to addressing the underlying causes of disadvantage: https://t.co/8ixobBxdpZ
“We’re concerned that the Victorian government is committing well over half a billion dollars of new funding to a costly, ineffective prison system.”
Our CEO Julie Edwards at @GuardianAus in response to the Victorian Government’s announced $727m prison expansion: https://t.co/YqFKpJyuZA
As 'tough-on-crime' rhetoric escalates, states like Victoria and Queensland have passed new bail laws. But experts argue such changes lack scrutiny, won't work to prevent crime and will disproportionately impact First Nations communities.
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@WellsIza@dinksella 1990. St Louis. Asked by local women in her 20s "I know you have opposite seasons in Australia. So that means that the season you call winter is hot, and summer is your cold months".
@highbrow_nobrow Notice audience didn't respond? That would be cheered and clapped today. Then...Don trying to big laugh it off, not wanting to be political.
Right now Australia has a huge problem.
It’s inability to see the truth and recognise factual information through the constant cacophony that once called itself the 4th estate - that in reality is just white noise. A sound wall of absolute shytefokery designed to make almost anything plausible if it’s repeated often enough.
It’s a hard-core and deliberate agenda of RW media and the majority of MSM to continue to control the narrative in constant cycles of disinformation, misinformation and lies with a sprinkling of the truth to justify their established line of “news source”..
.. some news sources even go so far as to describe themselves as “trusted news sources”… of which I’m pretty sure is the result of sloganism rather than any accredited source or credible polling.
The recipients of this almost 70 to 90 percent saturation of bastardised balderdash are often rinsed and repeated daily in local, community, regional and national airwaves via television, radio and repeated again en masse on the internet and social media platforms.
I liken the influx of the MSM of the last 20-30 years to a locust invasion - gradually decimating everything they touch and spreading out further and further afield - destroying everything in their path.
The only difference between the locusts and the MSM is that the locusts move on and there is a chance to rebuild. RW media shyte fokwittery tends to not only destroy every scrap of commonsense, decency and empathy in its path as it spreads - it hangs around and digs its tentacles deeply into our communities via the continuance of lies, misinformation and disinformation to the detriment of truth, factual information and unity in our society and our communities.
It gets more difficult to find the truth when minds are fed an itinerary of lies mixed with half truths which are supercharged to feed off of emotions and create culture wars and division.
That is the sole purpose of RW media. To distract, distort and disrupt stability and cohesion. They do it covertly and overtly. Throughout communities through community groups and engagement at a local level. Throughout the media overtly to foghorn the lies and distortions that infiltrate covertly on a cycle into our communities.
Make absolutely no mistake. It’s a strategy. Nothing else. This strategy does NOT have community interests, social support, democracy or equality of the many at heart. The issue is that many in the community are led to believe that they will eventually benefit.
The only people who ultimately benefit from strategies such as these are those who are driving the bus. Those with the most to gain through power and control.
The solutions to this artificial dissemination of toxic information are clear and until they are addressed this cancer will continue to grow.
The media must be controlled by legislation.
Truth in politics and advertising must be implemented.
Misinformation and disinformation must be addressed.
Organisations that support the dissemination of misinformation and disinformation must be called out.
Imagine the alternative if the road we are travelling on leads to Peter Dutton. People may not be happy with Labor at present - and in truth some things that Labor have done have disappointed me, too.. but they have achieved much in two years. If people don’t like an action of government they must always be active and participate. Write letters as I have done and sign petitions. Join groups to lobby for change.
.. but under absolutely NO circumstances elect a compromised and corrupt coalition government… because Peter Dutton is the second biggest problem this country has.
This message is to every Australian journalist covering the Reynolds v Higgins defamation trial in WA.
I have read all your articles on the Reynolds defamation trial and am curious why you haven’t included any of the evidence Ms Young presented to the Court, that seriously challenges Linda Reynolds and Fiona Brown's accounts of when they first learned of the sexual assault?
For example, yesterday Christopher Payne's Federal Court evidence was raised by Ms Young about the meeting/conversation he had with Fiona Brown on Tuesday the 26th, March 2019 which is highly significant. But not one of you bothered to cover that evidence!
And you wouldn't know it from the media coverage, but Brittany's legal team have been successfully arguing her defence so far. Furthermore, a lot of what Martin Bennett (Linda Reynolds lawyer) has been arguing has been rejected by Justice Paul Tottle.
So, what is it with the Australia media's obsession with reporting EVERY single claim against Brittany, whilst skipping over the untrue statements of Linda Reynolds and Fiona Brown? The one sided and selective reporting is very frustrating, and is making an already traumatised rape victim, even more traumatised.
The research I have conducted over the past year, linked to below, essentially proves that both Linda Reynolds and Fiona have been untruthful for 5 years about when they first learnt that the March 23, 2019, Parliament House incident was a possible sexual assault.
This was achieved by forensically researching all the available evidence from the ACT criminal trial, the ACT Inquiry, and the Lehrmann defamation trial. Linda Reynolds even recanted her ACT Criminal Trial evidence after my first Twitter thread was posted on the 15th, August 2023.
Aug 16, 2024
https://t.co/A40dSMGYWj
Aug 26, 2024
https://t.co/RTp2eIOLeR
Aug 15, 2023
https://t.co/DASMGqsVmt
Yet not a single Australian media outlet has reported on any of this.
Why is it up to someone like me, who works full time, in a non-media role to spend hundreds of hours labouring over transcripts, media articles and evidence to investigate this matter properly? Isn’t that your job?
The question to all of you is why not?? Were you censored, and ordered by your editors not to write about these issues? Legal threats? Please enlighten me.
And apart from not investigating this matter properly, why are so many of you complicit with publishing a narrative that attacks and hurts a rape victim?
I would encourage all journalists in this country who have reported on this case to ask yourself what role you have played in continuing to traumatise Brittany Higgins?
PS: I wonder if any of you will have the courage and integrity to investigate and report on this breaking story?
https://t.co/fzS7luVbdq