Stu Watters

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@noplaceforsheep 4 bands with women in them. Only one with one out the front …sometimes .

[Mark Buttigieg @ButtigiegMark]

Dutton pushes the button

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@HumansNoContext “Not 6”

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@NoContextHumans What….

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Far Enough - Vote Yes https://t.co/VVziTylZuD via @YouTube

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https://t.co/D7GGqI2vlP

[ulurustatement @ulurustatement]

💬“What if we replaced ‘Indigenous' with ‘women’?”

A clever explanation from Lauren Dubois for anyone still unsure about how the Voice works.

#TheVoice #VoteYes #UluruStatement

[Peter FitzSimons @Peter_Fitz]

Breathtaking. #Yes2023

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

Let me tell you a story about being a sporty woman in Australia today.

And why it’s relevant to the #Matildas win.

This story started when I was 2 years old and my grandpa registered my younger brother for membership of a football club after his birth … but didn’t do this for me or my older sister when we were born.

It continued when I was 7 and my other grandparents won a big trailer raffle and saved the new basketball in it to give to my younger brother *in front of my older sister and I* as he was their oldest grandSON.

It continued when I was 12 and the school banned all girls from playing footy on the oval at lunchtime because sometimes when we kicked the ball our knickers showed (and we weren’t allowed to wear shorts).

It continued when I was in Year 12 and won the Open Cross Country Run event at school, yet that night my father asked my younger brother how he performed in the run (he came 7th or something) and my father didn’t ask me how I went till my mother made him. (My father was a kind, decent man who never deliberately hurt me but was also very much a product of his time.)

It continued when my son played Under 10’s Aussie Rules and I ran water for the team the entire year but when it came time for end-of-year photos, the team coach wouldn’t allow the women team helpers in the photo (but my boy’s father who was the team runner and all other men helpers were in the pic).

This is an incomplete list. And yes, it’s very minor in the general scheme of oppression and discrimination faced by so many people in so many ways.

But almost every woman on earth has stories a bit like (or very like) mine, and they hurt. Because while most men certainly face unfairness in their lives, they don’t face systemic oppression just for being male.

Yet for women such stories are part of the fabric of our lives. We never know when the harm will come or how much it will hurt, but we’ve been psychologically braced for it at all times since we were little girls.

There are stories in the media already about the kinds of harm some Matildas players have faced since they were little girls, too.

One of them talked about how she was forced to play for boy’s teams when younger and sometimes had no team at all: because she was a girl. One talked about her club having no women’s toilets or other facilities, which made their games very difficult. Others have spoken about the years and years where they played to crowds of just a few hundred, and have had to continually fight tooth and nail for fair conditions and pay (which was only kind-of achieved just a couple of years ago).

This means their current achievements are even more extraordinary, because they were gained despite a cacophony of oppression and male derision running like a poisoned stream alongside everything they did on a sporting field (and off of it).

It means the sheer guts they displayed last night is even more remarkable because they all had to overcome the myriad ways others tried to undermine their confidence at every stage of their sporting lives, as well as focus on the game.

And still, they had the courage and mental toughness to stand up and win.

For this reason, they’re true heroes in ways that male sporting stars rarely are. And this is why we women are so proud of last night’s victory, and so utterly absorbed by it.

We recognise the unbelievably difficult slog it is just to survive in a world dominated by men’s power. We’ve all (in sport, and elsewhere) suffered the hurts of being regularly ignored, laughed at and demeaned.

So the victory feels like a victory for all women, and an even bigger victory for the little girls who’ll suffer a little less in future because those incredible women have eased the path for those coming after them.

There are literally no words for how wonderful they are, for what we owe them, and for how much we wish them well for whatever comes next.

Forever and ever, let’s play like GIRLS.

#PlayLikeAGirl
#TilitsDone

[Stu Watters @stuwatters]

Let’s bring the country together. Pledge to vote Yes in the national referendum for Indigenous constitutional recognition through a voice to Parliament: https://t.co/EzUjTkhhuz https://t.co/IY4vHpKBdd

[QandA @QandA]

“I am down but I will get back up. And you can come at me again and I will meet you with the love of my people.” Stan Grant delivers a powerful message on Q+A before taking a break from the media. #StanGrant #QandA #WeStandWithStan

[Patricia Karvelas @PatsKarvelas]

I urge you to listen to these words.

You don’t have to
react - respond

Just let them sit with you.

#istandwithstan

[Julie Moon @JandgmoonMoon]

Please retweet as much as possible!

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@samanthamaiden https://t.co/e8HMxEffw7

[Wild Geerters @steinkobbe]

How had Jordan Peterson never heard this extremely basic counter argument to his position before

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@RNBreakfast did the additional portfolios impact Morrison’s post political pay packet?

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@murpharoo And perhaps even further south. I’ve heard reports of trade evidence as far south as the WA and SA

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So I hear Peter Dutton is trying to soften his image. How about this?

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@TamePunk Less than 1M people watch sky news each week compared to the major FTAs. He’s irrelevant

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@LyleShelton Lyle if you think that this labor government is “hard left” then it is clear you know 3/5ths of FA about the state of politics in Australia.

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@Heathfidelity She’s my member and that guy, Chris, lives right next door to a mate of mine. He was pretty humble in the end I thought.