Jennifer Knop

Inland Rail Big problems with Narromine Floodplain. Get this rail out of harms way & protect our community. Past time we were listened to. @NSWFarmers @cwaofnsw

@BenPennings Beautiful 💖

My Father was born Hendrick Willem Pennings in The Netherlands while it was occupied by Nazis. He survived the ‘Dutch Hunger Winter’ as a baby and lived a rich and dramatic 83 years until his passing a week ago. Dad’s experiences as a child migrant/refugee in a camp were challenging, as was being the eldest of 9 kids in a dirt poor migrant family. He left school aged 12 to work out west in NSW, doing all sorts to help the wider family while revelling as cricket and rugby player of note. The stories my uncles tell of Dad looking wild and bowling super fast with a cigarette hanging from his lips are very easy to picture. He made state level Rugby but never made it to Sheffield Shield in Cricket. Dad embraced the faith of his birth in his mid 20s and felt the call to Christian ministry. He met my Mum when she attended a course where he was studying at the Reformed Church Theological College in Geelong. They married soon after and I arrived a couple years later as the eldest of 3 kids in 3 years. Dad’s vocation/calling took our whole family to church communities in the working class suburbs of Adelaide and Sydney, followed by rural Tasmania. Mum and Dad then served church communities in Brisbane, regional Queensland and regional NSW before retirement. Their retirement has been filled with volunteering, local travel and serving the needs of others. What we now know as Autism on top of childhood trauma presented big challenges to Dad as a parent and the leader of church communities. He had what were called ‘nervous breakdowns’ when I was a teenager but still managed to support countless people, including a stint as a chaplain at Royal North Shore Hospital for his long service leave. I won’t hide that Dad was socially challenged, often emotionally incapable and lived with patriarchal entitlement to his dying days. But he was a great parent for play, silly games, being home/present and spending time on physical activities like sport. I always knew he loved me in his own way, even when I experienced profound rejection from him for not embracing the Christian faith in my late teens. Religion and politics are the sensitive topics in many families. Dad loved my work within a ‘charity model’ but never what I did within a ‘justice model’. But parental protectiveness certainly kicked in when a bullying centi-billionaire named Adani came after me for a few years. Ironically, much of my rebellious anarchistic personality came from Dad. Autism too! I’ve lived a similar ‘sense of calling’ to Mum and Dad, also spending my whole adult life focussed on caring, community and service. Despite different political perspectives I’ll always cherish key values gained from them both. Nonviolence has been a key theme of my life. I’ll be forever grateful Dad chose not to use violence on children, unlike teachers and most other Dads of the time. He was also brave enough to intervene and stop violent situations. I’ve appreciated the generational gift of raising my children with peaceful parenting. Anti-materialism was also a big part of my childhood, learning the value of people over things, that life satisfaction comes through serving and connections rather than dominating others, consuming and hoarding resources. It’s held me in good stead. These last years have been quite hard for our family, with Dad’s mental health deteriorating alongside his mental capacity and physical health. The care he received was excellent and very patient but it probably kept him alive longer than he or any of us really wanted. In the current political climate I cannot emphasise enough how much worse the last years would have been for our family without the magnificent migrants working as doctors, nurses, drivers and carers. The waves of physical grief this last week have somewhat surprised me but not others. Thinking about my own kids sets me off the most. They’ll be more to come with a gravesite funeral followed by a church service on Thursday. Please contact me if you knew Dad and want the funeral details or livestream. Rest in Peace Dad, you deserve it.

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation banks millions in public funding. Where does all the money go? - Guardian Australia apple.news/A525SAmmwRlyC4…

23 marzo: scommessa di 500 milioni di dollari sui futures del petrolio, 15 minuti prima che Trump rinviasse gli attacchi contro l'Iran. 7 aprile: scommessa di 950 milioni di dollari sui futures del petrolio, poche ore prima del cessate il fuoco tra Stati Uniti e Iran. 17 aprile: scommessa di 760 milioni di dollari sui futures del petrolio, 20 minuti prima che Hormuz venisse dichiarata aperta da Trump. Indovinate chi è stato il genio che ha piazzato queste scommesse sul mercato? Si legge insider trading, ma si scrive Barron Trump.

Hear hear

A beautiful ceremony in #Galway this morning to unveil a plaque honouring Private Stephen Griffin (21), a #UN peacekeeper who was murdered by an Israeli-backed militia in #Lebanon in April 1980. Irish Army officers blamed #Israel for his killing. Photo via @niall_mcnelis

Irish U.N. Peacekeeper recalls 1996 Shelling of Qana, Lebanon: youtu.be/jMACDVGOssU via @YouTube

When poorline opens her mouth a fact check is mandatory 🤨

Demolishing civilian infrastructure is a WAR CRIME, not a ceasefire. How is no Western media outlet reporting this?

@Heal_within96 Pauline Hanson is an uneducated, racist criminal. No one who went to jail should be able to be a politician and receive a taxpayer funded pension for life. Has not made a single policy contribution in her 30 years in politics.

Just when you think poorline couldn't get any stupider 😳

Were we expecting more? No, they're much too busy grifting & as we all know that takes up all their time🤨

As I$rael claims that destruction of Christian icons is “inconsistent” with its values, here is my footage of a church it destroyed in Derdghaya in southern Lebanon in October 2024, killing at least 8 people.

@polly70 @TheNoisyTrunk

Pauline can't even listen, let alone talk properly

@RodCaddies Guess you haven't seen the latest poll! One Notion is tanking which we all know will happen before 2028 election! She is on the way to the flusher!

I asked President Trump about the FBI reportedly seizing election records in Arizona. He said they must have done that because it was a “rigged” election. I pointed out to him that his own AG said there was not measurable voter fraud to overturn that election. Then he called me a rotten reporter.

Man who voted against fast tracking projects complains that laws he opposed haven’t started yet.

#auspol #IStandWithDan Dr Andrews treating a very sick man. 😷

@TheNoisyTrunk 2GB the liberal propaganda Chanel