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N95 😷 Vaxxed. ❤️Science. Retired. She/her. #BoycottIsrael #RaiseTheRate #ClimateEmergency #TruthInPoliticalAds

[Greg Jericho @GrogsGamut]

Posted at 1:56pm, got an email from Jane Norman at 3:03pm cancelling my membership of the press gallery

[Eddy Jokovich @EddyJokovich]

Jane Norman repeated Hanson’s lie that 25% of Australians speak Arabic or Chinese. It’s actually just under 4%. #NPC

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live in a country where Pauline Hanson can call Sarah Martin a “trashy journalist” on live TV at the @PressClubAust today and all the other journos didn’t get up and immediately walk out of there?

#NewsCorpse

[Sandy Horne @SandyHorne61]

Pauline wants to have a coal-fired power station in Sth Aust? Seriously? We don't have a single one of those at this point in time. Got rid of them years ago. So it would be a new build. And this state already gets the majority of its power from renewables. What a backward idea!

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

Very emotional moment from the interview with Zelenskyy. You should watch this.

JOURNALIST: Do you miss being an actor?

ZELENSKYY:?I miss being a good father.

JOURNALIST: When your children were little, what did you tell them the most? What was the thing that you told them the most when they were small?

ZELENSKYY: I love you.

JOURNALIST: And what do you tell them now that they're older?

ZELENSKYY: Oh, I miss you.

JOURNALIST: When was the last time you cried?

ZELENSKYY: I will try to do it after our interview. No, I mean this, between us. I'm a normal man and then there are a lot of different moments, between us, almost each day, a lot of losses on the battlefield and civilians, and there are absolutely crazy attacks on our people.

And I'm just, it's… I mean, It's very difficult really, when I give orders (medals). I said about it. It's always difficult for me when I give orders (medals) to the mothers and fathers, who lost their children. In such moments, really, I often cry.

JOURNALIST: Are you a hero?

ZELENSKYY: No.

JOURNALIST: So who is your hero?

ZELENSKYY:?My hero? My children, my army, our army, and Ukrainian people. So I'm a part… I'm also a Ukrainian, so I'm a part of our nation. But now our nation, I think, that our nation is absolutely heroic.

[jayzco @jayzcoz]

@DavidShoebridge @noplaceforsheep Why would they locate a USA weapons stockpile in Bandiana, Northern Victoria? At ADF Gaza Ridge Barracks which does not have an airstrip? There is no ocean port nearby. Hours by road to a military airstrip.

Would this make a joint USA/AUS base in Northern Victoria?

Bizzare.

[Louise Greene @GreeneLouiseAus]

An Aboriginal woman in Canberra's jail was pepper-sprayed while experiencing a severe mental health crisis. According to official findings, she lost consciousness, was escorted by 14 correctional officers to a crisis unit, and did not receive medical attention until the following day.

The following day.

Anyone who has experienced pepper spray knows the pain can be excruciating. Burning eyes. Burning skin. Difficulty breathing. Yet this woman was allegedly left without a medical assessment until the next day.

Then there is the case of Bennet Schwartz.

A Sydney prisoner suffering severe PTSD who repeatedly begged for help and repeatedly requested his prescribed psychiatric medication. Court evidence later revealed he went approximately two months without receiving it. Two months. He later died in custody.

This is not happening in some brutal overseas dictatorship. This is Australia.

And I know how dangerous this can be because I experienced it myself. When I entered prison, I was prescribed medication for major depression and PTSD. I was left without it for weeks. The result was severe akathisia, psychological torment and eventually psychosis.

How many more stories do we need?

An Aboriginal woman pepper-sprayed and left until the next day without medical attention.

A man begging for psychiatric medication for two months before dying in custody.

Prisoners with serious mental illnesses going without prescribed treatment.

This is barbaric. It is abhorrent. It is unbelievably cruel.

Australia urgently needs a major independent review into prison healthcare, mental health treatment and the management of vulnerable prisoners in custody.

A prison sentence is the punishment.

Untreated mental illness, or any illness, should never be part of it.

My article https://t.co/YCOuPLxwNi

#PrisonReform
#MentalHealth
#IndigenousJustice #auspol #HumanRightsForAll #HumanRightsViolation @humanrightsHRLC @amnestyOz

[stranger @strangerous10]

Jericho also noted this is the first time a gov has tried to tackle the root of the problem since the Coalition’s 1999 CGT discount came in, & any attempts to fix issues this discount created, up until now, have just been “putting a lot of lipstick on a pretty ugly pig.”💥

[CaraMia200 @CaraMia200]

Sherele,TY so much for yr work researching #femicide.🙏🏼

A grim task, forcing us all to confront our society’s abandonment of #women in difficult & challenging circumstances.

#Men,must seek help if they fear they’ll lose control of their behaviour. Don’t wait. #Auspol #Violence

[Rick @colonelhogans]

Cheer this young man while he’s scoring goals for Australia.

Blame him for high house prices and crime when he walks down the street.

The sheer fucking racist hypocrisy of white Australia and One Nation.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

Jeremy Johnson - in 50 years time this will be the only 1.39 minutes of your life you'll be remembered for. It'll be played in genocide museums to sum up the complicity and callous brutality of the British state in the face of the slaughter of the Palestinian people - and the courage of those who opposed it.

[Sam Connor @criprights]

Oh my dear God. What the fucking #Robodebt is this??

I just watched the last hour of the NDIS bill hearing and watched as @SenatorJordon, who has the patience of a saint, explain the actual NDIS and what a job interview looks like to a bunch of senior bureaucrats who have been called in to explain the enormous clusterfuck that is the plan for the former NDIS, which will harm hundreds of thousands of disabled people. At the end, he LOSES it. Justifiably. Go watch:)

And then I get curious about who one guy is so I look at a govt table which says he’s now working in and a different name catches my eye.

Russell de Burgh.

‘While working as the branch manager of the Pensions and Integrity branch of the Department of Social Services, De Burgh was identified by the #Robodebt Royal Commission as one of the officials who made "false representations" regarding the lawfulness and operation of the Robodebt program.’

And now this man has a very senior role in Health, rolling out cuts that will end lives and livelihoods in exchange for AUKUS submarines.

I do not know why I am still shocked, yet I am. #RoboNDIS

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

My latest article in The Shot

After spending obscene amounts of taxpayer's money on luxury travel, office refurbishments and airfares from their homes to their Canberra office, I examine the high price Australians have paid so far for an impotent #NACC

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https://t.co/BKPplkv0fZ

[jayzco @jayzcoz]

@gasugasu1984 I’ve used Belong premium, $95/mth, 100/17mbps. FTTN. They use Telstra service. Northern VIC. I find the speed ok for (tv) streaming, but lm not using any video computer development software. I haven’t done a speed test. Likely cheaper services available.

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

At 18%, you don’t negotiate. You beg!

Parties don’t usually die in a single election. They die when they stop giving their own voters a reason to stay. A non-compete clause with One Nation is exactly that moment.

The Party of Government, the party Menzies built to own the political centre, is preparing to raise the white flag.

They’re clearly delusional, a trait they haven’t been lacking lately, if they think One Nation will surrender territory to them when it can simply keep taking seats off them. Which will now be far easier, thanks to this ‘brilliant’ idea from some within the Liberal Party.

How/why? The moment the Liberals stand aside anywhere, they tell their remaining voters the mission is over. Soft Liberal voters in the seats they keep will ask the obvious question: if my party thinks One Nation is fit to govern there, why not here? And One Nation gets the ultimate validation, being treated as a partner rather than a competitor. That will only accelerate its growth.

Menzies built the Liberal Party precisely to deny the fringe a foothold: a broad church anchored in the centre-right, big enough to make minor parties irrelevant. His successors are now negotiating the terms of their own irrelevance.

Soft Liberal voters will head into One Nation’s arms. Small C conservatives will look for an alternative.

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

Our PBS has for decades done a great job in securing affordable medicines for Australians, but it's no longer working as it should. We wait an average of 3.6 years for new drugs to be listed. Only 26% of new medicines available in comparable countries are currently funded in Australia. Because of delays and failure to list drugs, nearly one in two Australians has to pay out of pocket for the 43% of prescribed medicines not listed on the PBS. Now, breast cancer survivors and women with endometriosis are unable to access an important treatment because of commercial considerations for the supplier, although the same medication is still available for men with prostate cancer.

The government has been working through the recommendations of the Health Technology Assessment Review for more than two years. It's acting too slowly, while Australians struggle to access and afford the health care they deserve. We need urgent PBS reform.
https://t.co/FUB1qNORUl

[Crikey @crikey_news]

Data centre builders are using dodgy offsets, loopholes and loose regulations to shirk their renewable energy responsibilities. We need a moratorium on all data centre developments.
https://t.co/3BQdSYhTJO

[stranger @strangerous10]

Update: Chris Sidoti has again spoken out & called on federal authorities to investigate Australians who have served in the IDF since October 2023 for potential “war crimes” and “genocide.”
“The full force of Australian law should be applied”💥 #auspol

[Ash @AshPolitik]

Two-party-preferred
🟥 ALP: 56% (+0.5)
🟦 L/NP: 44% (-0.5)

ALP vs ONP
🟥 ALP: 53.5% (-)
🟧 ONP: 46.5% (-)

Nice