Dr Lynn Weekes

Quality use of medicines tragic. Keen traveller, taking time for thinking and writing

[Dr Lynn Weekes @LMWeekes]

@MFWitches The Black Sorrows - no wait they actually had something to say

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Watching Aust v Pakistan on Channel 7. Husband notes the commentator’s statement regarding a ‘ cardinal sin’ for a Pakistani and possibly of a run out may not wash given their belief.

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And it’s a wrap for the 2nd International Conference to Improve Use of Medicines. Such a great event https://t.co/5WAeOVck96

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

This statement on the failure of the Voice Referendum is dignified, powerful, moving and horrific in its implications.

We agree with every word.

We ask all followers of MFW to read and absorb every sentence, particularly Points 7, 8 and 9 which specifically discuss the mainstream media’s role in the amplification and legitimisation of the NO vote.

These 3 paragraphs are incredibly illuminating in that they rightly place the failure of the referendum squarely at the feet of the same people MFW’s mission is to expose, fight and reform: the media. Not just social media and not just bad-faith actors like LNP-aligned commentators, but the ENTIRE mainstream media who all amplified lies; gave liars unfair airtime and column inches; and have refused to this day to even acknowledge their own part in the failure (in fact, they’re STILL lying).

And that they did this purely for profit, the appreciation of their own mates, and/or their own self-promotion and self-enrichment makes their actions even worse. They prosper via the pain and hurt of people their own company mission statements (let alone their own consciences) should cause them to champion.

It’s unconscionable and barbarous.

We wonder how any of them will deal honestly with the information clearly set out in this letter or if they will (as expected) continue to minimise their role and lie about how this debacle occurred. We wonder whether the untruths they’re still communicating about Dutton and other bad faith haters (who couldn’t have achieved anything without the eager and even rabid re-telling of their lies by those who had huge reach and microphones) will continue in the face of this exposure of their bastardry.

If there’s anything positive for witches to take from this sad document, it’s that we are a collective whose main activity for the past seven years has been to fight media hate and lies, particularly where those lies involve oppressed people.

In fact, we’re the main organisation in this country undertaking this work, and by far the most successful.

This vindicates the importance of our work; makes us proud of our work despite the hate and lies we ourselves constantly attract; and makes us more determined to work even harder to combat the terrible destruction and pain wreaked every day by almost every Australian media organisation in this country.

The harder they defend themselves and use the pages and airwaves they own to deny the truth, we know it, and so do all witches.

The media failed Indigenous people and it failed all of us. As this letter says, Australia is a smaller, meaner, dirtier and sadder place now than it was before October 14th, and the reasons for that are crystal clear.

For these reasons and others, we all have to work harder. We have to continue to fight the lies and reform an industry that will not and cannot reform itself. And that’s just what we intend to do.

To the brave people who wrote the statement below: thank you. Your courage and truth-telling after the blow you’ve endured is remarkable, admirable and humbling.

We’re still so sorry about the result and will do our best to cause that pain to inspire and energise us so that one day in future when Australia is again asked to stand up for the rights of others they might do so on the basis of truth and justice, not ignorance and deception.

And that’s a witchy fucking promise.

#ToYourBrooms
#PunchDownProfit

[Dr Lynn Weekes @LMWeekes]

@MrMennoTweets I wrote about this for me in The Arcane Art of Folding Sheets. It’s fiction but our joint experiences inspire it

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So happy to say it’s almost out… my new novel available from Friday under usual pseudonym. Try Kindle for epub or Booktopia for print. Happy reading

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Excited to be approaching the launch date for my new novel. Pre-order on Kindle has already begun https://t.co/OAyAMwo2Z8

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Loving didgeridoo player when swans score #sydneyswans #afl should keep him @sydneyswans

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Delighted to announce International Society to Improve Use of Medicines Conference. October 18 to 30, 2013 in Chiang Mai. See https://t.co/YRyN8O9l52 for more detail is. Don’t miss it.

[Diane Ashiru, PhD @DrDianeAshiru]

#AntimicrobialResistance: Choose one simple pledge about how you’ll make better use of antibiotics and help save these vital medicines from becoming obsolete. Help #KeepAntibioticsWorking #AntibioticGuardian #WAAW2022 https://t.co/YR5ITXmckb

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@normanswan Congratulations Norman

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@JJKALE2 It’s predecessor was virtually

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@DRugby56 But not as we know it …

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Why does ABC continually ask the coalition for its position on national and international affairs in preference to the government. We have a new govt. let’s hear from them. Watching Sarah Ferguson and Peter Dutton

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@archieroach listening to let love rule and regretting a great life left too early but thankful for a great man and all his years nevertheless

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@KylieParkerCA @BenisonOReilly Also redoing our kitchen and decided NOT to have an island bench but a table instead. Designer horrified, we are happy albeit almost 3 months and still 2 weeks to go. Good luck

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@PatsKarvelas @Valentine702 Loved Adventure Island

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@DrGeropsych My Mum who is now deceased was prescribed gabapentin- read the consumer medicines info leaflet and decided she would prefer to live with the pain. That is quality use of medicines: informed choice of what matters most to you

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@gedkearney @GrogsGamut Great appointment, go well