This is my father’s home being destroyed by
#NSWfires
a few weeks ago - just one of 64 in this fire alone. Two of his friends were killed. My brother and his wife have today had to evacuate their home. I think now is a very good time to talk about
#climatechange
.
Dear
@NewcastleFarmer
stallholder who was rude & patronising because I choose to continue wearing a face mask. I'll very happily never spend a cent with you again. :)
My father’s home was destroyed on 8 October. His home was approx the 50th lost to
#AustraliaFires
. Almost 3 months later around 1,000 destroyed in
#NSWfires
alone. And several lives. Can we talk about
#ClimateChange
yet?
This is my father’s home being destroyed by
#NSWfires
a few weeks ago - just one of 64 in this fire alone. Two of his friends were killed. My brother and his wife have today had to evacuate their home. I think now is a very good time to talk about
#climatechange
.
The fire that destroyed my father’s home & everything he possessed was THREE MONTHS AGO TODAY. Every photo, every sentimental item. How exhausted our
@NSWRFS
volunteers must be.
This is my father’s home being destroyed by
#NSWfires
a few weeks ago - just one of 64 in this fire alone. Two of his friends were killed. My brother and his wife have today had to evacuate their home. I think now is a very good time to talk about
#climatechange
.
For those of you following my Dad's story - last night, he spent his first night in his new home - six months after losing his home in the October bushfires. Now we just need to get him lots of groceries, loo rolls, etc, so that he doesn't have to leave.
My son has been applying for casual jobs (1st year uni). He's been offered some work & I'm delighted that his new boss talked to him about induction, training & how/why to join a union!
@unionsaustralia
@sallymcmanus
One of the things my Dad lost when his home was destroyed in the
#bushfires
last year was a portrait of his mum, aged 21. She died when he was just 8. I took a B&W photo of it nearly 40 years ago. With a bit of help from
@PhilStefans
- I'm taking Isabel back to Dad tomorrow.
Thread: -> An update from my Dad's village of Rappville & surrounds where 64 homes were destroyed & two of his friends were killed in
#AustraliaFires
just over 3 months ago - 8 October.
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I am in *awe* of Mr 19 & his GF who spoke to our GP this morning about
#AstraZeneca
vaccine & got their first shots a few hours later.
#TheKidsAreAlright
❤️💯💉🙌
“Our PM on Kangaroo Island. “Well fortunately there’s been no loss of life.” .... “Well actually two people have died.” Watch it and weep. Scott Morrison speaks to the public on Kangaroo Island via
@abcnews
One of the things my Dad lost when his home was destroyed in the
#bushfires
last year was a portrait of his mum, aged 21. She died when he was just 8. I took a B&W photo of it nearly 40 years ago. With a bit of help from
@PhilStefans
- I'm taking Isabel back to Dad tomorrow.
I've just spoken to Dad (evacuating from his home in Casino) - safe to say he is not OK. The trauma of this after losing everything in the bushfires is overwhelming. He's safe - which is great, but ... ugh. :(
I bought a photo today, from a local amateur photographer who doesn't consider himself an 'artist'. Um, excuse me? Taken during the high seas in
@CityNewcastle
in May.
We're told that natural disasters will become more frequent & more intense with climate change. Here's my father's home being destroyed by bushfire a few weeks ago for your consideration.
There are still people in my Dad's village of
#Rappville
who have no access to water or telecommunications nearly three months after the bushfires destroyed 64 homes & killed two of his friends.
#australiaburns
So. Lockdown. Two young adult sons & their brilliant girlfriends bunking in with us in our tiny 3br, 1bath house. I feel really privileged that this is where they all chose to be. ❤️
'She really is beautiful, innit.'
This is the moment a cheeky student complimented the Duchess of Sussex, receiving roars of laughter from both his classmates and Meghan.
The duchess was visiting the school ahead of
#InternationalWomensDay
.
More:
Young journos:
@ScottMorrisonMP
just gave the nation a masterclass in the ‘Gish gallop’. He’s a marketing guy - of course he did! It’s media training. Learn it, see it when it happens & learn how to confront it. It has a name.
Keep your powder dry. There will be coronial inquests. The coroner will ask questions like, “Why did you ignore the warnings, advice & requests of the former fire chiefs?”
Alan Jones is retiring from radio. A thread of reasons why this is good news. But mostly, being a bully shouldn't be acceptable in any forum, any workplace, anywhere at all.
It would be wise to remember that
@realDonaldTrump
is only one man. He didn't create the American horror story by himself. There are plenty more where he came from, and worse. They enabled him. They are him.
684 homes lost in
#NSWfires
so far - not including any lost yesterday. Hospitals reeling under pressure with people with respiratory distress. I reckon we can start talking about
#climatechange
now because your thoughts & prayers aren't working.
#auspol
#NSWfires
- a thread.
#Rappville
bushfires 7 weeks on via local Connie Scholl (edited by me): "This community constantly lives in a state of fright and flight and are anxious because it has ruined their farms, their homes, traumatised their children and damaged their resilience."
I just spoke with my Dad. I told him all of his Twitter friends are sending him love & good thoughts and he said to thank you all. So, thank you, pocket friends. x
This morning I was sworn in for my second term as a Councillor of
@CityNewcastle
- an immense privilege to have this role in our community. Thank you to Novocastrians for trusting me once again.
It really is quite extraordinary- and not in a good way - that local government was excluded from the National Cabinet. Imagine how much 537 councils covering every bit of Australia could have helped with
#covid
#vaccine
rollout. 🦠🤦♀️
This is disgusting. Not news, not journalism. Be furious. -> Lisa Wilkinson sips on a margarita as she dines alone at a restaurant in Melbourne | Daily Mail Online
Today is the 1st anniversary of the bushfire that destroyed my father’s home. A small gathering was held in Rappville today, also remembering Dad’s two friends who died in the fire. He says hi.
#bushfires
#prepare
On miracles, and being patronising. It wasn't a miracle that saved my father & his wife from dying in a shed during the bushfires - it was the RFS. It won't be a miracle if my brother survives his sudden illness - it'll be research & medicine.