petsam

lefty, witchy granny pip, lover and supporter of Public Schools,NDIS, progressives, retired teacher, lives in the bush-loves it. @petsam.bsky.social

[petsam @petsam8]

@PhilHazell1 Hugs and love Phil 🫂❤️🫂❤️

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@RizviAbul @Thejimpenman I love it when you’ve got the actual stats Abul. 👏

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@Andre21653405 @Russputin2 I think also she was given an ultimatum to ‘step down’ if she lost the Upper Hunter’ bi election I seem to recall. She was given 1 chance.

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

Slam dunk: Charlie Pickering has managed to piss off both progressives and conservatives.

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

All pretence cast aside. A vicious attack on the Anti-Zionist movement by the British state acting for the Zionist regime in defence of genocide.

Shameful.
#FreeTheFilton4

[petsam @petsam8]

@JonesHowDareYou Fabulous!

[Megan @MeganApple6]

@marlene4719 Never living down Gilead.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Attachment theory shapes which Aboriginal children are removed from their families. It determines what “good parenting” looks like in court. It drives reunification decisions.

It has never been tested on Aboriginal populations.

We just assumed it transferred. That assumption has a name in science: it’s called the null hypothesis. And we skipped it.

My paper in Clinical Psychologist. Share, repost, and comment to get it in front of the people who need to see it.
https://t.co/rKxCr7gf4o

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Please share widely.
My paper has just been published in Clinical Psychologist: “Arguing the need for Aboriginal specific testing of attachment theory as a foundation of culturally informed child protection and attachment best practice.”

This paper, I believe is critically important to reducing Indigenous child removals.

The gap it documents is this: Aboriginal child removals have increased 119% over a decade. Non-Indigenous removals are down 12%. And the primary scientific tool used to assess infant attachment — Ainsworth’s Strange Situation Procedure — has been validated in more than 40 countries. Never with Aboriginal Australians.

That is not a footnote. That is a foundation missing from every child protection decision made about Aboriginal families by a workforce that is 94% non-Indigenous.

Based on over two decades of original research and clinical work, this paper presents new models for understanding culturally informed attachment — including collective caregiving, kinship obligation, skin and avoidance relationships, race-mediated trauma, and Black Identity Formation — and what it means for assessment and treatment.

The Westerman Jilya Institute has secured funding to do what this paper argues is urgently needed: validate the SSP with Aboriginal children for the first time, and build the first evidence-based attachment program designed from within Aboriginal culture.

https://t.co/rKxCr7gf4o

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Look who just joined the Grace Tame pile on:

"Given an honour by the Australian people you have a responsibility to conduct yourself in a way that inspires..."

[petsam @petsam8]

@gomichild Good one CP cunt pile, me too! 👏

[Abul Rizvi @RizviAbul]

Bridget must have been asleep in cabinet when in 2022 it stomped in the immigration accelerator in the most unprecedented way in OZ history. Fee free visa applications, unrestricted student work rights, covid visa, 3rd WHM visa. Labor was too slow to reverse those.

[petsam @petsam8]

@JmarrMarr @DianaRyall @MikeCarlton01 @IzzyRascal21 It’s a very good reminder. If we all Download Grace’s interview about her experience of neurodivergence on the ABC listen app, it might signal significant support. I believe Yumi Stynes is the host.

[The Hon. Matt Kean @honmattkean]

Australia’s renewable energy boom — proudly brought to you by those notorious woke warriors… the mining industry 😂 Fortescue and Rio Tinto are building solar farms faster than the outraged deniers can yell ‘unreliable.’

https://t.co/f39Slmngqf

[petsam @petsam8]

@henrys_mumma24 Hi Stacey, hope yre on the mend soon, or is it little man? Either way hoping illness improves along with the weather. 🫂🥣🫂

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@EmergencyBK @BaronGotcha @wingfield @JonesHowDareYou Already downloaded it, I might have missed it if not for your post. Thanks Bridie ❤️

[Abul Rizvi @RizviAbul]

@CaroDiRusso That’s in seasonally adjusted terms which fluctuate enormously from month to month. No one serious analysing the data focuses on seasonally adjusted data. Try looking at the trend data which shows approvals are up from 13,387 in Feb 24 to 17,363 in April 26.

[Bridie (EBK) @EmergencyBK]

Grace Tame's hosting 4 podcast episodes of 'Ladies, We Need to Talk' on topic of neurodivergent women, called 'Autistic AF'.
Shares her experiences, interviews experts and more... Bloody legend✊💜
https://t.co/kvcKP9GSWg
#Auspol #Autism #Neurodivergence

[petsam @petsam8]

@EmergencyBK Couldn’t have said it any better Bridie 👏❤️

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@LeeBeeWassup @AlanLew56185276 @JaneCaro Exactly there is none.