Amanda Boyd

650 million women and girls alive today were sold into “marriage” - that is, sexual slavery — as children. That’s 16.25% of all women and girls — and 12 million more are sold every year. There is no bigger human rights issue in the world today.

When did disagreeing with someone become grounds for destroying their life's work? The Grace Tame Foundation is closing. Not because protecting children stopped mattering. Because a small, powerful, organised group pressured sponsors and event bookers until the funding collapsed. No court. No law broken. No democratic process. That is not a debate. That is a veto. Grace Tame is still standing. Her foundation isn't. We should all be asking why. Debate is democratic. Defunding is not. Know the difference. Cowardice dressed as conviction fools no one. Read the full piece and decide for yourself. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/suebarrett… #auspol @deniseshrivell @aaronsmith @TheNoisyTrunk

@Mr_Indigo Education, equity, jobs, food on the table are where we will see population doing better. Fixing inequity from the bottom up will improve the lives of disenfranchised groups. But really I wish laws were a greater deterrent!

@Mr_Indigo I think you’re right - the laws are there for prosecution not prevention. Which is devastating for any victim of crime - and they already know this! Ask any woman experiencing intimate partner violence. While we all like to think the law aims to prevent crimes.. it doesn’t. 1/2

Zionism is strikingly similar to Nazism in its nationalism, supremacism, dehumanisation, propaganda, violence, and even its rhetoric, however, the few areas where it differs actually makes Zionism look worse: The Holocaust was not live streamed to the world Regular Germans were not publicly rejoicing over the slaughter Zionists seem to have a particular affinity for rape and pedophilia And Nazis did not have the backing of the entire Western order in spite of the above being common knowledge How things have gotten to this point is staggering — unthinkable, really, which is why so many bury their heads in the sand — but the only way we’re going to create a world within which this isn’t the ‘new normal’ is to make sure there is a reckoning for these crimes like never before

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he was 14 when he was falsely arrested and prosecuted. 14. years. old. his trial lasted a single day. he spent 17 innocent years behind bars and the rest on state supervision. impossible to heal. and no one will be held accountable.

@Kon__K The racism is so blatant. No restrictions on Israeli or Americans, the ones that started the illegal war, however. I think most Australians can see what is happening and are livid at the extraordinary power being held by a small group in this country.

@AjaxXanthe @DaveMilbo It’s dumb. Sounds like an 80’s movie starring Steven Seagal and John Claude van Damme.

Who calls a supposedly humanitarian attack “ epic fury” anyway????

THIS is how you introduce the genocidal president of Israel Isaac Herzog

@JamesMelville @SuDharmapala Junior nurses will not have the lasting impact my predecessors did when I was a jnr nurse. Times & priorities have changed for health services. There will continue to be brilliant clinicians & well meaning health services but the overall standard (and equity) can’t be met. 2/2

@JamesMelville @SuDharmapala It really did accelerate the decline that was already in train. As a HCW in Melbourne - while we didn’t have the same impact as the USA/UK, our healthcare system is permanently broken. As I age, I’m concerned about all the investment I have given to my patients & 1/2

I’m not the only one to say this, but something was broken in society during the Covid era, and it has never fully recovered.

The Taliban have a truly brilliant plan for Afghanistan’s women: ban them from education past primary level, forbid them from universities, then slam the door shut on medical, nursing, and midwifery training as of late 2024. All while insisting that only female doctors & nurses can treat female patients, because decency and Islamic propriety demand strict gender segregation in healthcare. Genius, really. What better way to “protect” women than to ensure that, within a few short years, there will be virtually no qualified Afghan women left to provide the very care their own rules require? Male doctors cannot properly examine or treat women without risking violation of those same modesty rules and women often refuse or cannot access male providers anyway due to chaperone requirements and cultural barriers. So the Taliban have engineered a perfect catch-22: no male care allowed in practice and now no new female providers being trained either. Existing female healthcare workers are ageing out, burning out, or fleeing the country if they can. Current female medical students were turfed out mid-training. Midwifery and nursing programmes, already scarce, are now closed entirely. The predictable result? Skyrocketing maternal mortality, untreated gynaecological conditions, women dying in childbirth or from preventable complications because no female professional is available nearby and rural areas turning into death traps for half the population. Yet the Taliban still claim this is all for women’s honour and protection. One might almost admire the sheer audacity of the hypocrisy, were it not costing thousands of lives. They have decided that female illiteracy, poverty and death are preferable to the horror of a woman learning how to read, work, or save another woman’s life. It is not merely cruel, it is spectacularly self-defeating lunacy dressed up as piety. The rest of the world watches, issues statements, and occasionally wrings its hands, while Afghan women pay the price for this masterclass in regressive logic. The Taliban really are as stupid as they look.

@Marlowe_1564 @DaveMilbo @sussanley I am beginning to think that because the z1on1st influence would be under scrutiny the PM will never say yes to a RC… it would reveal too much. RWNJ know this is so they can ask for an RC adnauseum and they then seem like that good guys. Ps I don’t think they are the good guys!

@DaveMilbo @sussanley Yes, I'd support a RC if that was in the terms of reference. The Zionist lobby & supporters like Ley should be careful of what they wish for.

Every corner of Australian society is now calling for a Commonwealth Royal Commission into the Bondi terror attack and the rise of antisemitism. This is not about politics. It is about truth, accountability and respect for those affected. Australians deserve honesty from their leaders. They deserve the courage to confront hard truths. Above all, they deserve clear answers. So the question now is simple. What is the Prime Minister hiding?

@PeterCeasefire @JaneCaro And with LNP’s years of leadership they also failed to have a credible climate policy. They have been delaying the transition deliberately for years.

@JaneCaro They can't win the next election so they're going to use this parliamentary session to destabilise the future to slow down the transition away from coal.

There can only be one explanation: the LNP have become the creatures of the fossil fuel lobby entirely.

This is an excellent explanation of Fascists and Fascism. People need to understand what they are speaking on, so take a few moments to listen. #DemsUnited

@nadaa01012 🇦🇺

If you support Greta Thunenberg, comment with your country's flag.

@JohnFSilver @SpencerHakimian And social housing .

@SpencerHakimian Lack of infrastructure spending. Airports, roads, trains, buildings. It is like we made the interstate system and that's it. We stopped building.

If there is a book written in 100 years from now as to why America fell, what would be the main reason(s)? I’ll start. The combination of income inequality, lack of investment into education, and social media. Your turn:

@MichaelWestBiz @deniseshrivell My thoughts too!

@deniseshrivell mostly bc the Libs and Nats policies are far closer to the other than Labor and Greens ... and Libs and Labor

Why is the Liberal Party able to work with the Nats - but Labor are unable to work with the Greens? Aside from a media pile on - which we know doesn’t matter and Labor will attract anyway - I don’t get it #auspol #politas

@Russputin2 Yup - I noticed that too. Channel 7 news also commented at the end of the piece that the prediction of pharmacies closing under the 60 day scripts scheme close pharmacies at all growing the sector by an additional 80 pharmacies or similar. What a stooge he is!

Has anybody else noticed that the Loud wailing, projectile tear squirting, Aspro Boy , (who predicted the end of all Pharmacies in Australia), with Dud Spud Dutton, is today schmoozing the benefits of Labors PBS extension, beside the Health Minister?😂😂

@PeterCronau I think their productivity should me measure me in quality and breadth of care rather than nurse /patient ratio.

@PeterCronau My experience in various aged care settings & the NHS as a younger Australian nurse would argue that less care was provided to each patient/resident if you had more patients to care for. The care that is missed in those settings surprised me & the pt/resident always came last.

Raising productivity means increased exploitation  “Productivity is higher in classrooms when there are fewer teachers per student. “At least, the bean-counters will tell you that, but the students will tell you the opposite. “Similarly, the higher the ratio of workers to residents in aged care homes, the better for the elderly. But their productivity rate will be lower.” - greenleft.org.au/content/why-ra…