If the Governor General secretly swore-in a Prime Minister to side-hustle Ministries, and the same Prime Minister promised $18 million to a pop-up charity supported by the Governor General that had no office, history, or plan, what time is the GG resigning?
I wish fiercely for all young women that they be uncontrollable. Thank you,
@TamePunk
&
@BrittHiggins_
: you’ve been brave & honest and refused to be silenced. It’s been so, so tough. Millions of girls and women feel solidarity with you both.
Walked home from the tram late in the very dark with keys pointing out of my hand: a man walking behind me went around me in a very wide berth, said ‘hello’ & walked quickly ahead & away so I could see him and I said ‘thanks’ & we both knew why.
Journos saying a woman who is not smiling is “sullen”! I’ve just written a book on the history of advice to women with a whole section on men telling women what facial expression to have, what tone to adopt, how audible they should be. Hundreds of years of it. That’s enough now.
A commentator has used the word “bedwetter” as an insult again, so once more I am asking people - please - not to do this. Bedwetting is a normal stage of child development, and a recognised symptom of real trauma. Grown-ups using cruel, school-bully taunts make me wince.
What Linda Burney has endured & achieved in her life is astonishing. And in the last 6 years she lost her son, had heart surgery and a mini-stroke, a staggering workload, ran a ministry & is deluged by racist abuse & faces down a millionaire-funded ‘no’ campaign. Truly brave.
Looking forward to a government policy requiring boys and men buying condoms to be publicly pulled aside for ‘counselling’ by the servo assistant, check-out supervisor, or pharmacist.
The ABC says Senator Reynolds’s barrister told the court it was arrogant of a rape survivor to believe she was the most seriously affected person. I am at the stratospheric limit of my gobsmackery. And did he say sanctity instead of sanctuary? Because it deserves a (sic), if so.
“ ... a young woman can find herself in such a vulnerable situation." - Scott Morrison. Remember, girls, not to find yourself vulnerable: avoid being at work or at home, public transport, cars, streets, parks, beaches, buildings, being drunk or sober, day time & night time.
The murk, the filthy murk.
The head of the Bruce Lehrmann inquiry spent seven hours on the phone, in 55 calls, to The Australian during the hearings. There’s hardly a wolf Brittany Higgins was not thrown to, one after another.
The Robodebt Royal Commission report described a tragic saga of ‘venality, incompetence and cowardice.’
It’s hard to understand how the NACC decided last week that further action on this is “not in the public interest”.
Feels like it *is* in the public interest.
A woman (& others) who report rape can now expect to have their private data leaked, be subject to media abuse, interrogated about the clothes that were torn from her, or shoved aside; face jurors who cause mistrials. The law punishes women who speak up. HOW do we get justice?
Cold today. Lots of schoolgirls walking to school in uniform trousers. Yay for change. One day we’ll tell girls, ‘Not long ago the state forced every girl to wear a skirt if she wanted an education’, and they’ll be gobsmacked.
Everyone I know in Melbourne is tired, and lonely or overwhelmed and scared about work, & some are breaking down. It’s so tough, but together we’ve saved the lives of tens of thousands of people, and really pissed off Jeff Kennett. Thank you. xx
Can we get a policy statement from
@theage
&
@smh
on which other private issues they will pressure people with, to get a comment, and then reveal, using tabloid tactics? They’ve done sexuality, will they branch out to a cancer diagnosis, or a pregnancy loss?
Just want to remind everyone that the Liberal Party is still resistant to quotas for women or anyone who isn’t a white man because theirs is totes a merit-based system which results in MPs with merit out the wazoo like Craig Kelly, Stuart Robert and Andrew Laming. So meritty.
Her name is Melissa Hoskins, an Olympian. More pics of him than her in the report. Identified only as an owned wife. Why doesn’t
@7NewsMelbourne
have a binding, set protocol for reporting the death of any woman in a way that respects her? Unprofessional, contemptible reporting.
For those blocked by Alan Tudge. His 2-page political response to the Royal Commission report has not one word of apology, empathy or sympathy. Not a word about the injustice or damage caused. He ‘rejects’ its findings about his conduct.
I just … a former judge secretly talking to a journalist throughout his inquiry into a rape case. Then giving his draft judgement to that journalist, who has publicly expressed opinions about the case. It is so utterly astonishing. Call this a justice system?
‘The former judge who presided over an inquiry into Bruce Lehrmann’s prosecution gave a draft of his report to Janet Albrechtson at
@Australian
before it was delivered to the ACT govt; she texted that she “loved the section on presumption of innocence”. 😳
This statement dodges no charge; marshalls facts and analyses them candidly with honesty and gravitas; provides essential context, and is clearly expressed.
Laura Tingle would be a terrible politician.
Just flabbergasting that Peter Hartcher in The Age/SMH has blithely used the known racist term ‘tar baby’ as a metaphor in this commentary on Kamala Harris.
How many people going off about drag performances for kids grew up on Mrs FlowerPotts in Adventure Island, Dame Edna, and dress-ups on Play School? (Gawd, I’d forgotten about Percy Panda.)
If Linda Reynolds goes ahead with this she will become radioactive, a political and societal pariah: nobody onshore or off will want to meet or consult with her about policy, a job, board position, investment opportunity, issue or charity. I don’t think she understands that yet.
I’m confused. Did a public servant just tell a Royal Commissioner that if the Department of Human Services got advice that it was acting illegally it just pretended it didn’t get the advice, but she can’t remember whether she pretended she didn’t?
#Robodebt
Abbott has no manners, no grace, no decency. He is exposed for all to see. This is uncivil, unChristian, & despicable. He is an unemployable state-pensioned biffer with too much time on his hands, a barrel of horseshit and a spatula.
When somebody steals your children, rapes, enslaves and exploits generations, takes your land, evicts you from your home, misrepresents and suppresses your culture, murders you and desecrates your remains, do remember to thank them for Shakespeare & importing marmalade.
Voice activists argue Indigenous history and elders must be celebrated, but fail to respect Australia’s British heritage and the debt owed to European civilisation. Also ignored is there is much about Indigenous history and culture that is violent, patriarchal and oppressive.
Sir, it was a depiction of the feast of Dionysius, not the Last Supper. And Australians of all religions fought in France. You could get a book, or Google things.
The Olympics Opening Ceremony “artistic” director who felt the need to mock The Last Supper & thereby Christianity should be reminded of the great sacrifice of Christian soldiers, including tens upon tens of 1000s of Australians, buried in 🇫🇷 soil who died to save that country!
The bravery & tenacity of Marcia Langton & so many, many others, year after year, decade after decade, inquiry after legal case, elected body after report, the Uluru statement after representations to countless parliaments. Evidence upon detail, ignored. This is so moving.
Marcia Langton cautions the media about parroting the scare campaigns of people who haven't participated in any attempts to close the gap.
#VoiceToParliament
#auspol
These girls will always remember the moment when they saw/heard. Their mental health will be affected. Their schoolwork. Nowhere may feel like a sanctuary. There’ll be bullying, rumours, trauma. And the perpetrators? Let’s see. Yet another useless non-punishment?
Terrible news. So sorry for Big W staff. Christian right extremists are learning from a US playbook to threaten booksellers. They should be arrested & charged. Parents have a right to choose books for their own children.
Big W has with drawn Yumi Stynes & Melissa Kang’s Welcome to Sex from physical stores to protect staff from customer abuse.
But teen sex education books can help keep young people safe - and are not new.
Expert
@emmawhatman
explains
@ConversationEDU
If it helps, you can see Russell Brand’s hideous realisation of who he has to hang out with now, repeated over and over in real time. He’s in purgatory. If Trump loses, the extra irrelevance and pointlessness will propel him directly into hell.
Devastating news - Australia’s Environment Minister
@tanya_plibersek
will allow land clearing by Defence Housing Australia to go ahead at Lee Point, despite the risks to one of Australia’s most beautiful birds.
When 4000 girls responded to the survey for my book Girl Stuff, so many volunteered that their first sex experience was pressured. This terrible proposed campaign about consent is breaking my heart. Girls deserve so much more respect.
Former West Coast star Daniel Kerr has managed to avoid more time behind bars after admitting he emotionally, verbally and physically abused his former partner over a six year period.
The 41-year-old walked out of court today with a suspended jail term of four years and six
Remember to wear black for women’s protests noon Monday at Parlt House Canberra & in other cities & towns. If you are stuck at work or school please wear something black in solidarity. For Ms Higgins, for the woman whose accusations the PM & AG refuse to read, for all of us.
I can express no comment or knowledge of specific events & allegations in the news. But I know there are thousands upon thousands of women tonight who’ve been reminded, again, of their memories of disrespect, dismissal, harassment, assault, and rape. And its cost. Solidarity xx
This is absolutely stupid. Shouldn’t even be legal. What if they lose all the data? What’s the point of even having a government if it has no core responsibilities. I am just going to vote independent and shout at dandelions from now on.
I keep thinking of how exhausted
@LindaBurneyMP
must be, but how she’s so dedicated and thoughtful. I think of the calibre of women asking us to say Yes, their history, knowledge and dignity. Talk to your family and help them access proper info at .
Ladies, if you’ve been struggling with
#menopause
symptoms try not to disappear in England or the police will announce it to the media as if it’s relevant or anyone’s business or some sort of proof you’re unstable.
Boycott was convicted of punching a woman in the face 20 times, and has ‘joked’ that he’d need to do blackface because West Indian cricketers won medals ‘like confetti’. The only issues here are the speed involved and the degree to which he can farque right off.
"If you want to win at all costs then cricket should not be for you."
Geoffrey Boycott thinks Australia should issue a public apology for upholding the appeal against Jonny Bairstow.
via
@telecricket
#Ashes2023
Nina has had to disclose her serious medical condition after an attempt to drag her into Linda Reynolds’s court action. Anyone who’s ever admired her work for assault survivors, & is able, may want to consider giving blood or plasma as a gesture of kindness & solidarity.
Every 3 to 4 weeks I go to the cancer unit where I spend four hours on a machine switching out my plasma for donor plasma in the hopes it will slow my nerve degeneration.
I have had to move homes to be closer to hospital and my treating team.
I am on 24/7 morphine patches to
Women are not responsible for men’s violence, or for stopping it! This poster in the Melbourne Town Hall subterranean women’s loo may be well-intentioned but it’s misplaced. Women are already trying to keep themselves safe, too.
@cityofmelbourne
I gasped when I read this. It would be evil to force women to give birth at 27+ weeks against their own medical needs & their doctor’s advice. This grandstanding SA Liberal party politician Ben Hood is unChristian & cruel. This ABC photo is ludicrous.
Well, except for
Aboriginal people forbidden to travel or marry by ‘Protectors‘, enslavement, removal to ‘missions’;
anti-gay laws;
women forbidden the vote, education, jobs if married; wartime blackouts;
Japanese citizen internment;
refugee detention;
Jim Crow;
Apartheid ...
I have several regrets about not being the perfect parent, but damn, I’m cross at myself for not teaching my kid to shout ‘F~ck the Patriarchy!’ before she turned 7.
Finding out from an
@annabelcrabb
column that the children of the Treasurer and the Shadow Treasurer get $20 for every tooth from the Tooth Fairy has caused my eyebrows to fling themselves into the air off the top of my head.
A male footballer’s lawyer says he broke quarantine because he “fell into a trap” because of an “attractive young lady”. Poor blameless men have been victims of luring witchiness for centuries, bloody siren songs and mermaid tails and Jezebel rouge and hexing texting.
I feel sick about these threatening extremists making drag story times unsafe for performers & children. This is the real cancel culture. Thank you to the gorgeous drag performers & organisers wanting to do something lovely & age appropriate for kids.
Not one. Not one tweet about this also acknowledges that Mr Bon Jovi’s wife Dorothea is RIGHT THERE, taking the lead in helping that woman. This is a microcosm of writing women out of news and history. I hope that poor woman is getting help and will have a good life.
I myself have never been murdered so I’m very skeptical that murdering really exists, and if anyone ever says that someone else was murdered then I think my experience should be considered as relevant because of the non-murdering of me so far.
I’ve just turned down another offer from a foreign publisher to adapt the teen version of my book Girl Stuff - they want to cut sections on feminism, sexual identity, contraception etc. No can do poo. Happy
#IWD2019
.
Men who are creeps think they’re too attractive, or charming, or funny, or clever, or powerful, or published, or left wing, or respectable to be creeps. They’re affronted when their creepiness is pointed out. But you’re just creeps, and we know it.
You've lit the blue touch paper now, you frightful sycophant. She supported her cunning, moronic, vicious demagogue husband's proven violently anti-indigenous, corrupt, anti-democratic gerrymanded kleptocracy while it spat in the face of decent Queenslanders for years.
After her long life of public service we say thanks to Lady Flo. Rest In peace. Joh and Flo devoted their lives to Queensland and its success and dynamism owes so much to their vision and leadership.
"Gambling is, as smoking was, a slow-acting poison that uses sport to mask its taste."
Gideon Haigh on Gillon McLachlan’s appointment as the CEO of Tabcorp.
Watch Offsiders:
#Offsiders
I’ve just filled in a medical form including married, de facto, separated, ‘single/never married’, and ‘divorced’. What medical reason could be relevant to ‘divorced’? And if you’re single who needs to know if you ‘never married’?! So weird.
The Channel 9 media newspapers travel section letters page is sick of letters about how awful travel is now for everyone especially Qantas customers, and asks that people send positive letters. If the avalanche of Qantas complaints continues, it will … be ignored.
Arrogant disrespect for hardworking (and most recently in Japan, life-saving) flight crews, from this Bitcoin-spruiking, limelight-opportunist, dick-move specialist Young Liberal dobber. He reckons a flag pin worn by a woman frightened him. Sure. Straight to Sky News.
I see the anti-trans lot is coming for Julian Clary, he of the most delightful diction and careful courtesy, saying he sounds too gay ~ as if there were such a thing. What a bunch of joyless nasties they are. Like school bullies who can’t give it up.
I’ll say there should be sirens going off. The media is repeating supplement-seller multi-millionaire Elle MacPherson’s claims on not taking medical advice to treat breast cancer, without due diligence. For shame. We’ve been here before & it ends horribly for vulnerable people.
What a disgrace. Seeing Marcia Langton and Nova Peris on the panel of
@NITV
and then hearing Barnaby Joyce say bridges must be mended. Devastating numbers to prove to anyone who pretended otherwise that we live in a deeply racist country. ‘Reconciliation is dead’. I’m so sorry.
So many of us who have been assaulted: tried to pretend they were fine; felt they couldn’t tell parents; tried to placate the perpetrator; processed it over time; recognising everything Brittany Higgins is saying despite endless glare of heartless media & legal onslaughts.
How anybody delivering such fatuous, superfluous, self-absorbed edicts is running a govt-subsidised company is an insult to us all. Standing outside the Westin Hotel telling people to get a job as if nobody’s thought of it. Last day of the comedy festival - no stars.
Opinion: I realised there was a problem when my four-year-old son came home from preschool feeling sad. He had learned about the Stolen Generation, and the lesson made him feel as if he were somehow to blame. What's your view?
Bettina Arndt given Australia Day honour for ’services to gender equity’. Wonder which lurking cabal of grim-faced rorty grifters, Young Liberals, and misogyny’s henchfolk came up with that bit of snickering troll work?
Men, please be mindful of how women have to go through life - always alert. YOU might know you won’t attack us. We can’t know that. Don’t make us sit there poised to defend ourselves. Don’t crowd us or sit next to us/right behind us in an empty carriage.
Please don't do this
Even if there's nothing behind your decision to sit next to me on an otherwise empty bus, it immediately puts me on edge
I can't be alone in this, surely
Hearing the argument that the man who’s gone to court to whinge that he was refused entry to a women’s lounge art work in an art museum was, in being refused entry, thereby experiencing the intended art of the work, has cheered me up immensely. What a plonker.
Mona could be ordered to close down its opulent, emerald-curtained “ladies lounge” following a discrimination battle waged by a male, interstate museum visitor.
via
@themercurycomau
Saying First Nations people were never at war with colonists is absurd. It’s recorded in military, government & settler history, countless Trove articles, Aboriginal records, my family’s (non-Aboriginal) 1800s documents. Past time for media to acknowledge Price as a proven liar.
In my grandmothers’ day there were entire wards in each major capital city hospital devoted to the damage & sepsis caused by illegal abortions. A bridge nearby was well-known as the place desperate pregnant young women went, to slip themselves into the river. They couldn’t swim.
Imagine thinking your legacy was a media company and not understanding it’s actually a sullen squabble of middle-aged children, and a public memory across continents of a wife-sacking, phone-hacking, Trump-backing, heart-lacking husk of a human.
When you take years to write a book trying to be funnier, more furious & off-the-chain-from-the-heart than anything you’ve ever written, have 2 weeks to promote it to young & older women, are terrified of getting a snippy review & then
@australian
bowls up an utter pearler.
This is not nature, for gawd’s sake. Those poor, nocturnal animals. ‘Pets’ as the result of illegal wildlife smuggling, on the other side of the world: no forest, just a bloody door in somebody’s house. I hate this trend for ‘cute’ videos of Australian native animals in the US.
Surely this requires a resignation. A weapons seller on the board of a public news broadcaster is unacceptable, regardless of newsroom policy. (Many bizarre LNP board appointments to our cultural institutions are still to be undone.)
#auspol
Hours after a report is released about the harassment and assault of women at Parliament House, Liberal National Party senators make growling noises at Senator Lambie when she speaks - and it takes Penny Wong to insist on calling it out. Election, please.
A Murdoch editor ran the Clarkson piece. Murdoch & Channel 9 papers & online tabloids here run endless comment pieces by men & white women primly ticking off or outright abusing Meghan Markle while dismissing, or not mentioning, the torrent of racism & misogyny. We see you all.
I will never forget how HEALTH minister Tony Abbott and other religious fanatics discouraged its use, and then the anti-vaxxers started. It’s one of the greatest, simplest, triumphant health gifts to women, men and non binary folk.
To male politicians telling women to have more children – proper pay, protected work in a crisis, equal maternal care everywhere, affordable childcare, climate change action, proper public school funding where are you going that's what I thought
I’m upset about the State Library fiasco because it’s a sacred space for me, for all of us, a repository & a reliquary of learning, knowledge, art & culture. It’s a cathedral of books. It’s free. It’s ours. It hurts my brain and my heart to see them obliviously trash its values.
That’s a lot of Linda Reynolds bot-bots. It’s almost as if they used an American baby name generator for the woman-names: Isadora; Sadie; Peggie; Donnette; Lorilee; Marilyn …
With the help of Lani's tweet (see 2/) I just easily located 31 Bots supporting Reynolds...
Similar wording, sentiment, accounts created last few weeks, max. 3 followers, all posted within a 2 hour time frame...
Who could be paying for them?
#Auspol
Fight for the ABC. Fund the ABC. Vote for the ABC. Or all your news & current affairs is going to come from Murdoch & the men who like employing Sam Newman.
The headmaster of a private school has explained that a vicious brutal murderer was delightful, a former boys’ school prefect who spoke normally to other staff members. I bet you he’s never asked, expressed interest it, or heard what a girl or woman thought of him.
The fact that the head of an “elite” private boys’ school saw no problem with writing this, is all we need to know about what the problem is.
via
@ABCaustralia
If your response to this was ‘it should read women, not people’ instead of ‘Oh, I hope this will help to people avoid more pain’ then as a woman who lived with endo for 20+ years I invite you to GFY.
More than 50,000 people with endometriosis have helped map the impact of the condition around the country, as the federal opposition calls on the government to expand its new pelvic pain clinics.
Hey
@ANZ_AU
, why are you sponsoring the Afghanistan mens’ cricket tour of NZ? Why fund a PR exercise for a regime that imprisons girls & women and forbids them healthcare, education, sport, fresh air, free speech. Your brand is off like a prawn on the carport roof.
Women (trans & cis) & non binary folk are being confronted in public toilets by bigots: one young cis friend with long hair & lipstick wearing a skirt was aggressively harassed with a trans slur in a shop centre loo this weekend for wearing a rainbow accessory. Just MYOB.
Just a reminder that at the Melbourne BLM protest last year was the first universal mass masked event, well-organised, violence free. The worst thing that happened at the women’s march was a cactus sound system.
Would
@theage
editor like to explain why it’s using an accused rapist’s salacious term in a headline to describe a crime? And why it uses the term ‘orgies’ instead of multiple sexual assaults? How different are you from a gossip tabloid with this?
A cacophony of mostly male commentary devoted to sympathy for Christian Porter and character assassination of an accuser who has died (7 or 8 stories on the front of
@australian
website). And they call us hysterical.