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Following the antisemitic stabbing of two Jewish people on the streets of Golders Green this morning, words of condemnation are no longer sufficient. This must be a moment that demands meaningful action from every institution, every community, every leader, and every decent person in our country. This is a hatred that we must face down together.

Some perspective from The Graziers Daughter on facebook https://t.co/pBvu7oLY5N "Alright Australia… a quick yarn from someone living out in the sticks. To our city cousins we love ya. We really do. But we need a tiny favour right now. Please stop panic buying the fuel and the food. I get it. Things feel uncertain and everyone wants to look after their family. Fair enough. But out here in rural Australia, fuel isn’t just something we whinge about at the servo it’s how the whole country keeps ticking. Fuel runs the tractors. Fuel runs the harvesters. Fuel runs the trucks that haul the food from our farms all the way to your Coles and Woolies shelves. No fuel out here means: No tractors. No harvest. No trucks. And eventually… no snags, no weet-bix, no Sunday roast. And here’s the thing about living out bush we drive everywhere. Kids sometimes travel 100 km just to get to school. Some people drive hundreds of kilometres for hospital appointments. Some poor bugger is doing an 1600km round trip for chemo just to stay alive. Meanwhile old mate Dave down the road is just trying to get diesel so he can plant the crop or harvest that’s meant to feed half the country. So when fuel disappears from small rural towns because everyone’s panic buying… the whole chain starts to wobble. And trust me farmers don’t panic easily. We’ve survived droughts, floods, mice plagues, and machinery that breaks five minutes before knock-off. But empty fuel bowsers? That one’s a bit harder to farm around. Look, rural Australia will always do its bit. We grow the food, we load the trucks, and we send it to the cities. We’ve got you. But right now we just need everyone to take a breath. Buy what you need. Leave some for the next bloke. Let the system do its thing. Because when rural Australia keeps moving… Australia keeps eating. And besides if the farmers can’t get fuel, who’s going to keep supplying the country with bacon, steak, and the sausages for Bunnings fundraisers? Exactly. So from the bush to the big smoke we’ve got your back. Now help us keep the farms running out the back. 🇦🇺 If you reckon that’s fair, give this a share so a few more Aussies see"