Heidi Seltmann

Teacher, Artist, Unionist, Mother. She/her

[Heidi Seltmann @heidiseltmann]

@bpdm77 @adammocklerr Works fine here in Australia

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

It’s not that everything is getting worse.

It’s that you’re also affected now.

[AEU @AEUfederal]

Like many LNP politicians before him, Matt Canavan has decided to attack teachers, particularly women. Our members experience misogyny every day, they should not be subject to it by politicians. https://t.co/rDokH8hwbd

[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

apparently it needs to be said - if an economic system is incompatible with a liveable planet, you change the damn economic system

[⋆⁺₊⋆ jessica ☾ ⋆⁺₊⋆ 🍉 @ItsMrsRabbitToU]

EVERY. WORD.

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

Why is it that despite having more time-saving technology than any civilization in human history, we are working longer hours, feeling more burnt out, and trading away our best years just to afford the exact life we’re too exhausted to enjoy?

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

"The idea that socialists want free stuff is the great lie of capitalism. Socialists want the fruits of our labor to be equitably distributed rather than allowing 10 old men to hoard half the planet's resources."

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Poverty is treated like a personal moral failure instead of what it actually is: a societal one.

If millions of people are working full-time and still can’t afford rent, groceries, healthcare, or other basic necessities, those aren’t millions of individual failures.

That’s a system failing millions of people.

Poverty isn’t a character flaw. It’s the predictable outcome of policy choices.

[Judith T Soon everyone will have been against this @JuAvrilT]

Yesterday I was invited to meet with the lawyers assisting the Royal Omission. That was down to my ranting and raving!
They asked if they could quote my submission in Counsel’s opening statement. Well here it is. For 30 seconds the narrative was countered. I’m the Jewish woman

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

You're NOT struggling because immigrants took your job. You're struggling because billionaires took your wages.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How in the goddamn fuck do we live in a world where if Iran were bombing bridges, water treatment plants, schools or hospitals in France, the USA or Australia the entire world’s media would yell about nothing else for months but because it’s just the USA and Israel bombing those same structures and people in Iran the media is almost universally SILENT on the destruction and suffering?

#NewsCorpse

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

The Billionaires are negativeły impacting my daily life more than any iłlegal immigrant ever has.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

One Nation will tell you Pauline Hanson is the only one fighting for them. “Australians first.” The whole MAGA-pitch. Here's who she's spent her life fighting against:
• Aboriginal ppl— opposed Native Title and Welcome to Country; wants to abolish the National Indigenous Australians Agency to “save” $12.5B; her 2020 “Close the Gap” speech called Aboriginal parents lazy & negligent
- Nurses & aged care workers — $20,000–$34,000 worse off under Hanson. Called nurses overpaid
. Immigrants & refugees — wants to deport 75,000 “illegal migrants,” withdraw from the UN Refugee Convention, cut immigration to a 130,000 visa cap, with no economic modelling on the cost to Aust,
• Public schools — voted almost always against incr funding for public schools, incl cuts that stripped support from students with disability
• Teachers — pushed a narrative schools have “poor academic standards” & a lot of teachers can’t read & write properly.
• Students with disability — said they don't belong in mainstream classrooms because they're “disruptive”
• Welfare recipients— supported mandatory drug testing for recipients, & when a senator opposed it, publicly used that senator's son's drug addiction against her
• Welfare recipients broadly — $90B spending-cut plan targets the NDIS, Medicare & welfare payments, with no independently costed detail on how or any alternative method to support these vulnerable groups,
• Disabled Australians— wants to scrap wheelchair-access requirements for new homes
- Trans Australians — called it a “militant force” & “subversive transgender insurgency” that “must be dismantled; said trans “propaganda” was being imposed on children in schools. Trans Australians make up 1% of the pop’n.
• Childcare workers —questioned why they need qualifications, asking why centres need “people with some sort of degree to look after a child”
• Families /childcare access — voted consistently against incr childcare support, called the system “completely out of control”
• Asian-Australians — infamous 1996 maiden speech claiming we are being, “swamped by Asians”
• Muslim Australians — Senate burqa stunt got her suspended by Parliament, called for a Muslim immigration ban, said in 2026 there are no “good” Muslims
• African-Australian communities — pushed an “African gang” rhetoric against the actual data
• LGBTQ+ Australians — opposed marriage equality
• Domestic violence victims — repeatedly claimed women lie about abuse to win family court cases
• Women's reproductive rights — pushes to roll back abortion access nationally
• Women's pay / parental leave — dismissed the gender pay gap & said women shouldn't be paid on parental leave because “they're not at work”
- pledged to sack the Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Human Rights Commission
• Rape victims — kept convicted rapist Sean Black on staff for years & defended it
• Working Australians — opposed the minimum wage rise & tax break for low-paid workers, while taking a $100k pay rise
• Casual workers; voted no to same job, same pay
• Coal miners: a deal with the LNP cost mineworkers $16M in entitlements
• Pensioners;opposed pension increases
• Renters / home buyers; voted almost always against incr housing affordability
• Journalists — banned the ABC, voted consistently to cut ABC/SBS funding, called a reporter “trashy”
- Australians who rely on global health & scientific cooperation —wants to withdraw Australia from the WHO & the UN, abolished the TGA in her spending plan, rejects the IPCC’s climate science consensus, and wants to scrap net zero and the Department of Climate Change

So; yes, Hanson is “Australia first” — as long as you're not:
Aboriginal,
a nurse,
an aged care worker,
a public school student,
a teacher,
disabled,
rely on welfare,
in childcare,
Asian,
Muslim,
African,
gay,
transgender,
a survivor of abuse,
a woman,
a worker,
a pensioner, a
renter,
a journalist, or
someone who trusts science

So who, exactly, is she fighting for?

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

One thing I find painful is that life could be SO EASY, like SO ÐAMN EASY. There is so much stuff rotting in storage units, in garages, nearly half of all food goes to waste, there's enough clothing for the next Six(6) generations!!! We don't even need to be working really at all, our ancestors broke down their bodies to build all this sht, the least we could do is slow down to actually utilize and fairly distribute it all. Instead, we all suffer endlessly while 8 men control half the world's wealth.

[Josh Butler @JoshButler]

The Morrison govt changed the line from "young" to "one" in 2020, explicitly to be more inclusive to Indigenous Australians, and recognise multiculturalism

By the by, the anthem's second verse also says:

"For those who’ve come across the seas, We’ve boundless plains to share"

[Ron Wright @ronsterd89]

Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number.
When the UN replied saying 6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end Famine for the year he never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for 44 Billion.

You struggle and suffer because people like him are allowed to exist, not because your neighbor is an immigrant.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

The fact that billionaires still want more money should be studied by the same people who study serial k!lłers.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live in a country where everyone knows “monoculture” is just Nazi code for “white australia” but the media keep on refusing to call it out?

#NewsCorpse

[daz @MetamateDaz]

Rich people don't die if you tax them.

Poor people do die when you cut welfare and healthcare.

no comment, just 2 facts.