Ian Peter Abbey

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

This is excellent.
Problematic Pickering "also perfectly embodied everything rotten about Australia’s legacy comedy scene: comfortable, captured, terminally unfunny and full of lame opinions that ridicule genuine champions of the people while kissing the boot of our masters."

[JayJay @JayJay91341991]

Grace Tame is a bloody legend. 🔥💕

“Charlie Pickering made a direct choice to cosy up to a man found guilty of abusing his wife, while denouncing me as ignorant. Surely I needn’t point out the irony here.”

@ABCaustralia @RadioNational
@charliepick #IStandWithGraceTame

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Bob Carr live tonight at NSW Parliament House:
The Israel Lobby is the largest foreign influence operation in this country.
This is being live-streamed by Consortium News. I’ll post a link to the recording tomorrow.

[Daany Saeed @daanysaeed]

Personally if I was ambushed by a known provocateur outside my workplace at the far-right protest attacking my workplace I would simply decline to be interviewed

[Christie Whelan @Christie_Whelan]

i will always stand with Grace Tame. Always. People hate to see a woman who won’t shut up when they want them to. But Grace has seen and endured too much. She isn’t afraid and it inspires me.

[Sandy Horne @SandyHorne61]

My daughter has always hated Charlie Pickering.
Turns out she has very good judgement.

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

Agree, Louise. The fixation on Grace has become pathological. Every comment, appearance and opinion is treated as a fresh excuse for outrage. The sheer volume of vitriol directed at one person is astonishing and says far more about her critics than it does about her.

[JayJay @JayJay91341991]

Australia’s two biggest knob heads.

Charlie Pickering. Dave Hughes.

#auspol @abcnews #abc730
@DHughesy @charliepick

[Wazza from Melbourne @Melbourne_says]

Grace Tame being called 'problematic' by a bloke who happily did an interview with another bloke who was convicted of beating a woman is breathtaking.

Dunno about you, but #IStandWithGraceTame on this one.

[Phillip Riley @philmupp1]

So when does 'our ABC' give Charlie Pickering who presently hosts ' The Weekly' a downgrade to
'The Monthly'? Or perhaps a new program called 'Misogyny Matters' aimed at the Avi Yemini's of this world. In Yemini's case 'Misogyny Batters' might be more appropriate.

[Expert Thug Churnalist [email protected] @CroodBong]

I was today old when I learnt that Charlie Pickering took it upon himself to be interviewed by Avi Yemini. One week after he took the job of Melbourne Drive radio host on ABC.
As life choices go, Mr Pickering has certainly misjudged his audience, his community and his luck.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

It’s all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors - instant peace, the Strait of Hormuz can be opened, and gas drops $2 a gallon. Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.

[JayJay @JayJay91341991]

Do you stand with Grace Tame?

#IStandWithGraceTame

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

The Israeli ambassador to Europe is protesting the spread of this image. Let it spread all over the world. 🌍🔥"

[Prof Kathy Eagar AM @keagar.bsky.social @k_eagar]

@JJKALE2 Jillian Segal has done more harm than good. However, she has done one thing that benefits Australia. She has shone a light on the disproportionate power and influence Zionists have in Australia and the way that they have used that influence to undermine democracy.

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

Seriously, fuck this.

Grace Tame is being given a platform to speak about autism.

Zionist screaming that she shouldn’t speak about autism because she supports Palestine & opposes genocide?

WTF is this shit?

[Louise Greene @GreeneLouiseAus]

I am absolutely fed up with the relentless targeting of Grace Tame.

Let's be clear. There is a difference between fair criticism and a public pile-on. What we keep seeing directed at Grace is not constructive debate. It is constant scrutiny, personal attacks, outrage cycles and a level of judgment that seems reserved for women who dare to speak too loudly, too honestly or too unapologetically.

Grace Tame survived child sexual abuse. She helped change laws. She gave a voice to countless survivors. She has spent years doing work that most people would never have the courage to do.

Yet the attacks never seem to stop.

A few weeks ago it was the Prime Minister taking aim at her. Now it's Charlie Pickering. Before that, countless commentators, columnists and social media critics. Different names, same pattern.

And frankly, it disgusts me.

No, women in public life should not be immune from criticism. Nobody is. But there is a world of difference between criticism and the kind of sustained public hounding that seeks to diminish, discredit and exhaust someone.

As someone who has experienced public judgment and media attacks, I know how destructive these campaigns can be. They reduce human beings to caricatures. They erase context. They encourage outrage while ignoring the very real emotional toll on the person at the centre of it.

What troubles me most is that women who survive violence are so often expected to be perfect. The moment they become angry, outspoken, political, imperfect or inconvenient, they are treated as fair game.

Grace Tame has contributed more to the conversation about sexual abuse and survivor advocacy in this country than most of her critics ever will.

Maybe it's time some of the men lining up to take shots at her stopped and asked themselves a simple question:

Why are they spending so much energy attacking a survivor instead of supporting the change she helped create?

Enough. #gracetame #charliepickering

[Craig Emerson @DrCraigEmerson]

I just checked it out. There are 27 higher taxing countries than Australia (all of them rich countries). John Symon’s claim that Australia is the highest taxing country in the world is utter rubbish.

[cmdibley @cmdibley]

The Right complaining about the ‘backlash’ against Pickering is a bit rich. He chose to denigrate Grace Tame & criticise her appointment by @abcnews as he is free to do. And he’s free to be a proud #Zionist. Just as we are free to publicly denounce him for being an arsehole.

[Antoinette Lattouf @antoinette_news]

In 24hrs: Wong sanctioned West Bank Israeli settlers & entities for horrific violence against Palestinians.
Charlie Pickering also gave an interview to a DV offender/former IDF soldier scolding Grace Tame new ABC autism podcast. One story got dozens of writeups & one hardly any