Bev Lee

Now armchair social worker and economics educator with a keen interest in human rights and environmental issues

[The Saturday Paper @SatPaper]

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[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Meanwhile, the heroic doctor's torture by Israel continues. They continue to torture Dr. Hussam Abu Sefia for the crime of not abandoning his patients. Without laying charges, offering him anything resembling due process, Israel is killing him slowly. One day, everyone will say they were against this

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Julia Roberts honors Renee Good:

“Renee Nicole Good was doing the very best she could do to be good in an unjust world.”

That’s a powerful way to describe a life.

Not perfect. Not famous. Not flawless.

Just someone trying to do the right thing when the system around them often made that difficult.

Sometimes the highest praise isn’t that someone changed the world.

It’s that they refused to let the world change them.

[Michael Pascoe @MichaelPascoe01]

Former ADF chief: " If AUKUS is the right answer for Australia, it will withstand examination. If it cannot withstand examination, that is something Australians need to know now – not in 2035" https://t.co/DRiZZYocxJ

[Martin Tye @martinrev21]

Partha Dasgupta’s new book is a must-read!

Dasgupta is one of very few economists who pay sufficient attention to nature (the biosphere) & human numbers as key factors in a sustainable economy.

Praised by both Paul Ehrlich & David Attenborough, how does he describe a sustainable economy & sustainable development?
https://t.co/SfLQ0YIWnt

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Thank you @Consortiumnews
Honoured to receive the Gary Webb Award. Gary’s career & life were destroyed by the mainstream press for exposing the truth. He was later vindicated by the CIA’s own internal investigation. Τhanks to colleagues @PeterCronau @MichaelWestBiz @Wendy_Bacon and Senator @DavidShoebridge and former Head of SBS Television Sawsan Madina and others, for your tributes, and your commitment to holding power to account..

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

The system is working exactly as it was designed.

▪️Adani’s $400 million royalty liability forgiven after a $600,000 donation.
▪️The gas industry paying less tax than beer drinkers.
▪️900 days of gambling reform delay with secret industry meetings running in parallel.
▪️The think tank that produced the Shadow Treasurer funded by the companies he now shadows.
▪️The party that wrote Australia’s donation disclosure laws writing itself out of them.
▪️A housing policy blaming immigrants for a crisis created by a 1999 tax discount.
▪️A leader who stepped off a billionaire’s jet to demand gas returns – then voted against the only mechanism that would deliver them.
▪️A political class that spent $22 billion on buybacks, while telling you to work harder.

👉 You want straight talking? Here it is. No jet required.: https://t.co/rOfK1aT89Y

[Bev Lee @lee_bev]

I'm glad I clicked on this insightful article by Zoe Daniels ... https://t.co/KJFGU7tC67

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

🚨The recent images of Dr. Hussam Abu Safyia are shocking evidence of Israel's abuse against Palestinian detainees.

Dr. Abu Safyia has been arbitrarily detained for one and a half years without charges, while being physically abused and denied healthcare.

His recent solitary confinement adds a further layer of concerns over his deteriorating health. Dr. Abu Safyia must be immediately and unconditionally released. Israel must release all Palestinians arbitrarily detained. States must pressure Israel to stop abusing Palestinian prisoners.

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

We are losing Antarctica and when we lost Antarctica we lose the planet as Earth will be too hot
Temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula have reached a record-breaking high of 15.4C for June, and ice is melting at abnormal rates during the current winter

https://t.co/LG11o9NIWS

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

WHY are we letting Israeli soldiers destroy every inch of Palestine? Is it ''a war''? Would you accept others do this to you and your home?

Let's stop this genocide together.
Diplomats
Politicians
Judges
Police officers
Journalists
Citizens
Anyone can and must take action.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Richard Burgon just exposed the most glaring double standard in British policy

"Imagine if this weekend in London there was a Russian real estate event selling Ukrainian land. The government would ban it immediately.

Instead, we have an Israeli real estate event openly advertising the illegal sale of land in occupied Palestinian territories. The government recognizes Palestine. Why isn't this banned?"

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

*** Update
Today’s mediation - the second - has again failed to bring vexatious legal action against me to a close. This is not a fight I’ll shy away from as there is far too much at stake.

As an Australian and as a journalist I have a responsibility to stand up for our right to criticise a govt engaged in what the UN, most major human rights organisations around the world including in Israel & most genocide scholars, have deemed is a genocide.

Strong criticism of a country being investigated by the ICJ for plausible genocide, whose leaders are wanted by the ICC, is not only warranted, it is necessary.

I have been cognisant of the complexity of geopolitical issues my entire life and cannot resile from the very thing that propels my enquiry - wanting to understand both what is happening and why, including the historical context.

No one should presume they are entitled to hijack our deliberations and conclusions made in good faith, to the best of our ability, and after taking into account the views of all parties to a conflict and stakeholders. 

I will not be told what to think, and whether you agree or not with conclusions I have reached on specific issues, I’m sure you wouldn’t stand for it either. 

Our government should stand on the right side of history and impose sanctions on Israel, as we did against South Africa. Israel should not be held to a different standard.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israeli settlers are burning Taybeh in occupied Palestine.

A village that has stood for thousands of years.

A place where Jesus once walked.

Home to the oldest living Christian community in the world.

And not a peep from Western mainstream media.

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

Hussam Ebu Safieh, "İsrail'in rehineler için ölüm cezası" ile öldürülecek olan Filistinli doktorlardan biridir (diğer 95 doktor arasında).

Onu öldürmelerine izin verme.
Bunu yeniden yayınlayın.

[Michael Pascoe @MichaelPascoe01]

The Australian and associated tabloids have long ceased being newspapers. They are political organs operating with a news facade.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Australia is anchored to 70 year old nuclear technology for its new submarines — ignoring the advances in electric submarines made by countries that are not the US or UK.

“European navies including Germany, Norway, Italy, the Netherlands and Greece are now in the process of acquiring LMB-equipped submarines, while Spain and Sweden are evaluating the technology for future adoption.

“Of greater significance for Australia, Indo-Asia-Pacific navies including Japan, South Korea, China, India, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines are either actively acquiring LMB-equipped submarines or planning to do so in the near future.”

All of which shows #AUKUS is a con to make Australia a military base for the US war against China.

Undersea warfare is moving faster than AUKUS https://t.co/Ca4332VkeN

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

November 1971. Chiswick, West London.
Erin Pizzey is 32 years old. She is not a lawyer. Not a politician. Not a doctor.
She is a woman who talked Hounslow Council into lending her a cold, rundown building on Belmont Road — a former community hall — for almost nothing. Her original plan was modest. A warm room. A cup of tea. Somewhere for mothers with young children to simply get out of the house.
Then the door opened.
A woman stood in the entrance. She was covered, head to foot, in bruises. She was holding two small children. She was shaking.
She didn't want tea.
She needed somewhere to hide.
Erin let her in. She didn't turn her away. She didn't tell her to call the police.
Because Erin had already called the police. They told her the same thing they told every woman in Britain at the time: they could not enter a private home over a "domestic dispute." That was the law. The home was private. What happened inside it was a family matter.
When Erin contacted a female civil servant to report what she was seeing, the response was astonishing. The woman told her flatly: "There wasn't a problem of battered wives until you made one."
Erin put down the phone. Then she went back to her residents and made sure they were fed.
Within weeks, 40 mothers and children were sleeping in four tiny rooms. No funding. No staff. No legal authority.
She didn't stop.
By 1973, word had spread through quiet whisper networks — one woman telling another, "There is a place. Go to Chiswick. She won't turn you away." That same year, Erin hosted the first National Women's Aid Conference in the UK. Women from across Britain arrived, and they all recognized the same thing at once: what she had built needed to exist everywhere.
In 1974, the council set a maximum of 36 residents. At peak times, 150 women and children were living inside those walls — sleeping on floors, on chairs, in hallways. The building smelled of cooking, fear, and something else entirely: relief.
Erin was taken to court for overcrowding. She appealed all the way to the House of Lords.
She kept the doors open the entire time.
That same year, she wrote a book. Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear. It was the first published account of domestic violence in British history. It used real stories from real women inside the shelter. Overnight, a problem that had no official name was on front pages from London to New York.
The movement spread. Refuges opened across the UK. Then Australia. Then Canada. Then the United States. The pattern she created in four small rooms in West London — no blueprint, no permission, no funding — had been replicated in hundreds of shelters across the Western world.
MP Jack Ashley stood up in Parliament and said: "It was she who first identified the problem, who first recognised the seriousness of the situation and who first did something practical."
She was ranked 14th in a poll of the 100 women who shook the world. She was awarded the Italian Peace Prize. She received a CBE. The charity she founded — Chiswick Women's Aid, which became Refuge — grew into the largest domestic violence charity in the United Kingdom, with over 460 employees and an annual income of more than £33 million.
Erin Pizzey passed away on October 4, 2025, aged 86.
She never stopped.
It all began with one woman, one borrowed building, and an absolute refusal to say no.
Forty women and children showed up with nowhere to go.
She made room.

Share this if you believe one ordinary person, refusing to look away, can build a shelter that holds the whole world.

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[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

Thank you @sallymcmanus #auspol

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Well done to Tom Emerson for taking on this usage in the ACT. He is introducing a bill to ban gambling donations in the ACT.

Vested interests have far too much power over the major parties and communities pay the price.

This is a sensible step that ACT Labor & Liberals should support.
https://t.co/HZ5JbbxxZ6