Nancy

Nothing much to say really

[Nancy @mencf425]

@TimRichardsonMP All in the city. What about Warragul hospital? The termites will walk away with it soon and the staff will have health issues from the mould.

[Nancy @mencf425]

@LevSzeps @criprights Why. With no disrespect to Helen, why is she “special “. Don’t all injured workers need to be supported?

[Nancy @mencf425]

@alijzimmerman @criprights Why?

[Nancy @mencf425]

@AussieDisplaced @criprights Well aren’t you a lovely. Just asking a genuine question.

[Nancy @mencf425]

@Mon4Kooyong @wyvernsrose That’s a great idea. Light some extra candles for all of us that have been injured at work.

[Logical ⚽️ 🍺🦘 @BinManIan]

I’ve spoken about Victorian economic myths previously, so let's talk some facts.

​The two main causes of Victoria's debt are:
​1. COVID (which is pretty self-explanatory).
​2. 30 years of infrastructure underfunding from Canberra.
​
Case in point: did you know Victoria didn't receive a single cent of federal funding for major projects like the Metro Tunnel, West Gate Tunnel, or the Level Crossing Removal project? We had to foot the bill ourselves because politicians in Canberra acted like the Australian border ended at the Murray River.

​Meanwhile, comparable projects in NSW received billions in federal backing—like $3.5 billion for Sydney's WestConnex and over $5 billion for Sydney Metro.

​Notwithstanding the awful decision regarding the Commonwealth Games, Victoria has recovered exceptionally well since the pandemic. We've returned the state budget to a $2.4 billion surplus, and our debt growth has been reined in to a manageable level—despite what the naysayers claim.

​Crucially, Victoria is finally getting its fair share of federal infrastructure funding for big projects like the SRL, North East Link, and Airport Rail.
​
We all know the Liberals can’t manage the economy, as the attached image clearly shows. A vote for the Liberals risks undoing all the hard work and economic progress of recent years.

[Sam Connor @criprights]

I am getting increasingly uncomfortable with the buildings being lit up, the gushing praise and the almost saintly status being bestowed upon Helen Haines.

Because none of that is going to help Helen. And frankly, it feeds straight back into this angels & demons narrative that has taken over everything.

Helen is a remarkable woman. But I reckon she’d be the first to tell you she’s also an ordinary woman, an Australian citizen who went to work on Monday and had her life torn apart.

She voted against the government’s NDIS changes. She’s been a strong ally to disabled people & now she faces a long recovery in which she may need many of the very supports she has fought to protect.

And what I want to know is whether she’s getting the best possible care in hospital. Whether there are enough nurses to nurse, without having to double as disability support workers. Whether ambulances are still ramped up the wazoo and emergency departments are bursting at the seams.

What I want to know is whether Helen will get the prosthetics, orthotics, wheelchair, home modifications & personal support she may need to rebuild her life.

And here’s a particularly cruel irony.

Helen is 65. Unless she was already an NDIS participant before her 65th birthday, she cannot access the NDIS now.

So who is going to fund and provide those supports? How many systems will she have to navigate? How many bureaucrats will get a say in what she needs?

I want Helen to have every possible opportunity to recover, to go home, and, all the Gods willing, to return to the life and work she loves. Without having to fight for every bloody thing along the way.

And I want to know why we are still so hopeless at preventing violence against women.

The man accused of attacking Helen reportedly had significant mental health concerns. His lawyer told the court today that he has a rare neurological condition. There have also been reports of chronic pain and difficulties accessing the NDIS.

We don’t yet know his motive or the full circumstances of his medical care.

None of that excuses what happened to Helen. Not one bit.

But nor should we ignore what happens when people with serious illnesses, disability, homelessness or drug dependency fall through the cracks of systems that are supposed to help them.

Mental illness doesn’t make someone a violent criminal. And women should not have to pay the price when someone becomes violent, whatever the reason.

I want women to be safe walking down the street. I want people who need treatment to receive it. And I want governments to stop waiting until somebody is dead or catastrophically injured before they take any of this seriously.

We are well past the tipping point.

And I’m sure the government will shortly announce another grand plan to fix the NDIS market, as though concentrating services in the hands of increasingly large corporate providers & private equity interests, while destroying jobs and choice, is somehow going to improve our lives.

It won’t help Helen. And it won’t help the thousands of other Australians already fighting to get the care they need.

The bitter irony is that Helen Haines & Jordon Steele-John, himself a survivor of violence, are precisely the kinds of politicians who understand what’s wrong with these systems and have been trying to fix them.

We need politicians from every side of politics working together to make things better. Not more theatre, not more political point-scoring, and certainly not more bloody platitudes.

I don’t object to people expressing their love & admiration for Helen. I share it.

But if we really want to honour her, perhaps we could start by making sure the systems she fought to improve actually work for her, and for everybody else.

Prevention is always better than remedial treatment.

And both are a hell of a lot better than thoughts & prayers.

You can light up every building in Australia.

But you can’t illuminate your way out of a broken health, disability & care system.

[Nancy @mencf425]

@AndyMac1923 @criprights True for politicians. Those in the Worksafe Victoria compensation system are treated like criminals with medical care delayed and denied. Not eligible for NDIS or Centrelink but unable to work. Living in cars and suiciding.

[Nancy @mencf425]

@alijzimmerman @criprights So treated like a criminal and medical care denied. That’s what happens in worker’s compensation.

[Nancy @mencf425]

@AussieDisplaced @criprights So the pollies have their own workers comp do they? Separate from WorkSafe Victoria?

[Nancy @mencf425]

@criprights You forget to mention work cover. Will she be treated like a criminal and have her medical care denied? Will she have to fight for payment of her medications, will she have to undress to her underwear for an IME examination? Will a PI film her in her backyard?

[Nancy @mencf425]

@GreenTyler27 Planning rules for regional areas need to loosen. I’m not allowed to build a 2nd house on my 35 acres. Australia is a big country, why is all the housing forced upwards in cities?

[Nancy @mencf425]

@Mon4Kooyong Maybe you could investigate how women like me are being denied surgery by Victorian Worksafe and their agents. Hundreds of us with work injuries are being forced into poverty and denied the basic human right to medical care.

[Nancy @mencf425]

@TheJournal_Pain @HayleyLeake A study with only 19 people. Really 🤣

[Nancy @mencf425]

@Steve_Dimo Still waiting for @ Steve_ Dimo to speak to injured workers. The harm being caused is unacceptable. 7000 ombudsman complaints and nothing being done. Worse than ROBODEBT

[Nancy @mencf425]

@Retlouping It’s not rocket science.

[Nancy @mencf425]

@DocPriyamMD B

[Sherele Moody (Femicide Researcher) 🌈 @ShereleMoody]

A shark killed one man this week.
Men killed three Australian women - YESTERDAY!
Only one of these scenarios will receive widespread attention - and no, it won't be the fact that three women are dead at the hands of men known to them in one day.
* A 70-year-old woman's body was found in a home at Mole River in NSW when police responded to an act of domestic violence yesterday, A 37-year-old male is in custody.
* A 23-year-old woman was stabbed to death in a home at Kooringal, NSW, yesterday.
* A 90-year-old woman was stabbed to death at Bondi Beach, NSW, yesterday.
* A Northern Territory woman was taken to hospital in critical condition yesterday and a man known to her is in custody.
* Early this week a woman died after an assault at Palmerston, NT. Her partner was charged with assault. An autopsy will determine if he is charged over her murder.
There's always been a huge disparity in how the media, politicians, policy-makers and our community responds to shark attacks compared to femicide.
We've seen hundreds of headlines published about the shark attack in Perth this past week but there's been very few published on the deaths of women this week.
I have documented the violent deaths of 52 women this year. Not once has a 'catch and kill' order been issued within hours of a woman's death at the hands of a man. No I am not suggesting femicide perpetrators be killed, but I am using this as an example of how hard authorities will go when a shark kills a person.
But it shows how authorities see the existence of wild animals as an urgent threat to public safety that require immediate preventative interventions.
Beaches are closed. Nets are put in place. Wild animals are tracked. Warnings are issued.
Political leaders come with flowers and sympathy.
When women are killed, we're asked 'what did she do to deserve it', the perpetrators score a 'good bloke narrative', political leaders have no words of condolence and calls for increased funding, support services and better legal responses fall on deaf ears.
Where there is a policy response, it always re-active and far too minimal.
We need strong investment in systemic prevention targeting perpetrators and sustained cultural and structural responses so we shift the drivers that underpin male violence against women in our country.

* You can help me get a Royal Commission into the Killing of Women and Girls by signing the petition using the link in my bio (Insta) or go to: https://t.co/Cxq1KK37O6.

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[Nancy @mencf425]

@Retlouping Success Depends when surgery occurs. Favourable results if nerves are compressed for less than 3 months.

[Nancy @mencf425]

@theheraldsun Now he needs to dump IMEs from the workers compensation system. It will save employers millions.