Cathy Wheeler
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STATEMENT BY @AngusTaylorMP
Yesterday the Full Federal Court confirmed that Australian law does not properly protect single sex spaces for women and girls. Most Australians would find that hard to believe. A coalition government I lead will fix this. We will amend the Sex Discrimination Act to ensure that women and girls (and men and boys) have protections based on biological sex.
We will define biological sex in the Act. Male or female. The sex you are born. And we will protect single-sex spaces across Australian life.
This is not radical. It is common sense.
Let me be clear about what this is not. This is not about targeting transgender Australians. Every protection they currently have remains. We are not removing a single protection from anyone. But we are recognising something that should never have been in doubt: biological sex is real, it matters, and women and girls deserve spaces where it is respected.
This will be a first-term priority.
The Prime Minister now has a simple question to answer. Does he believe women and girls deserve protections based on biological sex?
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@ReubensteinM @BelindaJones68 I see Josh doesn’t allow comments to these posts of his…prove it Josh
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Josh needs to come to my neighbourhood - 5 kms from Bondi - and explain what I'm not seeing. Nobody is getting abused in the streets, more Jews than ever are wearing yarmulkes and stars of David as an act of pride. The politicisation of a vile act of two evil men is never ending.
Josh Frydenberg@JoshFrydenberg
The first week of the Royal Commission’s public hearings have come to a close. So many harrowing stories of antisemitism in Australia. Patients who can’t go to hospital without fearing mistreatment if they reveal their religion. Students in public schools who are constantly harassed with Nazi salutes and the glorification of the Bondi attackers as teachers stand by and refuse to intervene. Small business owners losing their livelihoods as their shops are burnt down. Adults abused on the street for wearing a Star of David leaving them fearful of going to the local shopping centre and frequenting other public spaces. Kids threatened on the local bus as their other passengers tell them if they find a Jew they will burn it down while players on the footy field some as young as 7 are being targeted each week with vile abuse such as ‘Hitler should have finished you off’. The situation is so bad the local league appointed an investigator to deal with all the incidents. And the list goes on and on and on. The targets are young and old. The abuse public and in private. The culprits from every walk of life. It’s systemic, it’s normalised. There is a pandemic of hate in our country and our leaders must bring it to an end. The Royal Commission is the opportunity. It must not be missed.
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@TheIPA They’re only divisive because you morons have made it divisive. A cultural practice that doesn’t harm anyone and ia all about respect.
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“They’ve become divisive, very unwelcoming.”
It's a practice meant to unite, but is now dividing opinion.
Welcome to Country ceremonies have their place, but it's not everywhere. Context matters.
On the latest episode of the Australia's Future podcast, Former PM Tony Abbott and IPA Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild discuss how Welcome to Country ceremonies have become divisive and out of place in most settings, and that it's time they were scaled back to be performed in more appropriate contexts.
📺 Watch more: bit.ly/4nmWH5q
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@TotalSeasons @Krissa_Kray_ We don’t think they’re stupid, we know
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@Krissa_Kray_ This is why everyone thinks MAGA are stupid.
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So King Charles is here in the US.
Where are the No Kings protests?
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@normboy562 @Qldaah We don’t want her either, she should just fuck off to trump land with her pal Gina. And take dictator David crisafulli with her. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
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@Qldaah One Nation stands for everything decent Victorians HATE, and by the way so does the #VicLibTrashParty and it's umpteenth leader.
Hanson is a pox on decency, Victorians do not need her brand of filth infecting our state, back to QLD with ya and fucking stay there slag..👉👉👉👉👉
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@UnpaidThinkTank @Matt_Camenzuli Liam Bartlett has a huge vested interest in fossil fuels and the biggest conflict of interest since Scott Morrison advocated for Australia to follow grumpy to a war against Iran.
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@Matt_Camenzuli The next journo should have told Bowen should prefer to hear him answer Bartlett's questions. Journo's rarely back each other in.
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There are two sides to every story.
Get a load of this cut - watch as Liam Bartlett goes to town on hapless Bowen.
This proves the MSM is dying not because of the medium, but the lack of substance.
More.
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@WhiteHouse You’re disgusting, celebrating the deaths of children.
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Why do scuba divers fall backwards into the water?
Because if they fall forward they’d still be in the boat.
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Queensland took the right moral decision with regard to incitement.
Calling for annihilation of a state or people is a crime. As everybody saw, incitement leads to actions, to terror attacks.
Other Australian states should do the same.
theguardian.com/australia-news…
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@PaulineHansonOz Your battler days are long gone. You only care about your billionaire donors.
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It was great to chat to Karl Stefanovic after launching our Farrer campaign over the weekend.
The movement has arrived. One Nation will be fighting for all Australians.
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@ozteachertalk @JaneCaro What absolute crap. I went to a state high school in western Sydney. You clearly have never stepped into a school and have zero knowledge of the curriculum, spouting the nonsense that teachers just come up with their own programmes. You people are fucking mentally disturbed.
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Absolutely. Australia now has one of the most segregated education systems in the OECD, by social class but also by religion, race and gender. How does this help social cohesion? thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/…
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Get a load of this imbecile!!!! It’s because of super that my wife and I can now do the things and enjoy the life we want without being a burden on tax payers. We don’t and can’t get a pension.
Miss Madeleine@MadsMelbourne
Superannuation is the biggest con! Australians have been tricked into thinking that giving 12% of their hard earned income to the government on top of the income tax and Medicare levy they already pay is a good idea. There is absolutely no guarantee that you will even get any of your money back when you do finally retire. Ex ALP politicians, high ranked ALP members and Union bosses including the CFMEU sit on the boards of these super funds and get to decide however it is they want to spend or invest your income. Whilst they take a huge proportion from you in fees. They make themselves and their mates rich whilst you struggle. They’ve even ensured there is no way for you to access those funds until you’re literally old and grey. Imagine if everyone had 12% more of their earnings to spend on necessities or to save right now. How much of a difference that would make to peoples lives.
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@KirstiMiller30 🤣🤣🤣would love to see the reaction…what a tosser, I’m being polite.
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@rocweiler Steve would have a cardioinfarction if he realized in an abusive way he used my correct pronoun.
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With the exception of the five prisons, two Centrelink Officers, and the entire Far West New South Wales Community Development Program, WFD, and Remote School Attendance Programs, all of which I successfully managed.
steve crick@stevemorwell
@KirstiMiller30 Says a pathetic mole thats never done a days work in her life fuck you. fuck off take your jippo doctors with you.
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It annoys me that so many people are under the impression that this guy, Steven Bradbury, is some subpar goober who lucked his way into gold.
That could not be further from the truth.
This is one of the most satisfying victories in the history of the Olympics if you know the full backstory.
This medal final was during his fourth Olympics, in Salt Lake City in 2002.
Earlier in his career, he was among the best athletes in the world in this specific event, the 1000 meter short-track men's speed skate.
But despite his talent, he just had some of the shittiest luck in the sport. We're talking a decade of shit luck.
In the '94 Winter Olympics, he was considered the odds-on favorite to take gold, but he fell in his heat after getting illegally pushed by an opponent (who was later disqualified). He didn't get a re-do. That was it. He got shoved by some asshole, and his Olympics was over.
Then in the '98 Winter Olympics, he was a favorite to at least medal in the same event but got caught up in a collision that wasn't his fault and failed to advance.
In 1994, he got his thigh sliced open by a competitor's skate during a race, which required 111 stitches and 18 months of recovery time.
In 2000, he broke his neck during training because a skater in front of him fell and tripped him up. That required a bunch of screws and plates being inserted into his skull and back and chest.
And doctors told him that he should stop skating. But he didn't wanna give up. It meant too much to him.
So, there he was in Salt Lake City in 2002, past his prime, a walking erector set, going up against opponents who were faster and younger and in their prime.
He manages to win his heat and advance to the quarterfinal but then has the shit luck (yet again) of having to go up against the best two athletes in the quarterfinal and only the top two advance.
He finishes third and thinks: "Damn, I gave it my best shot." But then, the second place finisher is disqualified, so Bradbury gets to advance to the semifinal.
Now, at this point, he's thinking: Well, shit, I'm not as fast as these younger guys, and I got a bad habit of getting taken out by crashes that aren't my fault.
So, he consults with the Australian national coach, Ann Zhang, and they decide that he should hang back from the pack and hope the pack crashes.
That is a perfectly valid strategy. If you crash, you lose, but speed skaters risk crashing to gain an advantage in order to win.
It may not feel exciting, but it is a valid strategy and just as risky: avoid crashes entirely and hope that pays off.
It paid off in the semifinal: the pack, including the defending Olympic champion, jostled too much and crashed. Bradbury wins and advances.
So, he's improbably in the final and takes the same approach, and it works: the entire pack jostles too much and crashes, and Bradbury's risk of hanging back pays off.
This victory was not some un-athletic schlub lucking his way into gold.
It was a journeyman athlete who never gave up and played smart after a career of shitty luck and finally got his due after it being snatched away from him so many times.
Hands down, one of my favorite Olympics stories.
Chris Fronzak@FRONZ1LLA
"Dude there's no way you could ever win unless every single person in front of you crashed"
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@SaraJade_13 Yes body language was very telling. I saw no eye contact when they came out.
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@beema41 @PaulBongiorno @smh @australian @AlboMP @AustralianLabor Agree, some terrible decisions but what’s the alternative?
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@PaulBongiorno @smh @australian I hold concerns that @AlboMP isn’t as competent as I once thought and his @AustralianLabor govt is riddled with grave errors of judgement. AUKUS, NACC, failing to address gambling ads, price gouging, zero tax corporations, energy reserves & now this Herzog visit!
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Laura Tingle encapsulates the issues engulfing the Herzog visit.
An ill conceived provocation that can only fuel anti-semitism here especially as @smh and the @australian today quote Herzog supporting Netanyahu’s UN condemned cruelty. abc.net.au/news/2026-02-0…
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