Jenni Kirkbright

@selfie_monkey Thank you! It sure is real.

Having fallen for the kangaroo with a boarding pass I hesitated with this one but it’s real.

@DoctorLemma The Phillip Island Penguin Parade (in Victoria, Australia) still welcomes donations of hand knitted penguin jumpers. More info in photo.

In Australia, a man named Alfie Date moved into a retirement home at the age of 109. About 12 hours after he arrived, two of the nurses came to his room and asked if he could knit. He could, he’d been at it since 1932. They told him about a program asking volunteers to knit tiny woolen sweaters for an endangered species called Little Penguins. The sweaters stop oil-covered birds from cleaning themselves with their beaks during a spill, because the oil is toxic if they swallow it. Alfie said yes. He spent his last two years knitting hundreds of them. He was lost in 2016, at 110.

@Grayeeme @VeronikaSain @lesstenny Are Australians looking to place an elderly relative who lives in Australia, in aged care homes overseas?

@VeronikaSain @lesstenny Ever been to The UK? Or compared 1st hand against 15 western countries?

Politic@l Spinner @lessten... 1d Sometimes I wonder how things would have turned out if John Howard never became PM in 1996... Australia would have been in a much better place, No children overboard, refugees would not be criminals, we would be a much kinder, fairer nation.

@JayJay91341991 Can I choose 3?

Who would you rate as the worst Liberal Australian PM? 🤷‍♂️😳 #auspol

@philmupp1 Not going so well. He's way out of his comfort zone and just hoping the journos get some slogans. Go Laura T, show them how to ask a question!

Angus Taylor addressing the National Press Club and the audience are captivated by his mere presence and intellectual gravitas. One can only hope that the journalists present do not ask too many difficult questions or he may go to water...oh wait he's been there before !

@ShiannonC Oh, no Shiannon! Hope hubby continues with the plan and recovers well. Thinking of you too, take some time for you and filling your cup again. ❤️

It’s been another stressful week with my husband being in hospital for surgery. I’ve been a bit disengaged from the media as I continue to monitor my husband’s recovery. .. but it hasn’t escaped my attention that it has become absolute flog fest on social media of late - where every muggins from the putrified sewer pits of bogwarts thinks that their opinion about everything from the Olympics to lipsticking some orange pratt in the US … actually matters. It’s like watching seagulls fight over a hot fkn chip. Pecking away - insulting and debasing people they don’t even know in a nonsensical shyte fest of wasted energy and angst. Where does that even come from? Have we devolved that much as a society that it’s okay to hate on others without constraint, conscience or a moral compass? Take a step back and look at what is really driving the bus. Whose interests are the masses really serving when they are in constant disunity, distrust, distress and disarray? Who drives the division, the hate, the culture wars and the endless disinformation and misinformation? What is it distracting us from? What is it preventing us from doing? If you can answer that, then you may well find some solutions.

@Pleasure_Lab They were authentic. After that leader I could identify leaders who were full of 💩 at 20 paces.

Tomorrow morning I'm talking to a group of senior high school students about leadership. What's the single most important thing you can tell me about someone you have found to be a terrific leader?

Speaking on Nuclear, PM Albanese has torn Peter Dutton a new one on the Tasmania Election campaign trail “Nuclear energy is a lot like the Liberal Party. No help to anyone today. Completely wrong for Australia’s future and notorious for waste that takes forever to clean up.”💥🔥

The Weekend Mumbo: Thanks for the memories, Ita – but the ‘B’ in ABC doesn’t stand for brand mumbrella.com.au/?p=818829 via @MumbrellaNews

@ShiannonC Guessing there will be more protests when they finally release the locations. Who wants one of these in their backyard? Noone I know.

You know the right-wing media are completely bonkers when they swing in behind the Dudd-Ley Dutton crew to shine a light on the positives of nuclear energy. As an aside, there are no positives for backing nuclear energy for this country. Nuclear reactors are expensive water guzzlers. Not to mention the dangers of a nuclear reactor itself 😵‍💫 The length of time and breadth of slush funding required to get even one nuclear reactor realised would take a minimum of ten years. Imagine what can be achieved by positive funding of renewables in that timeframe. The only positive for nuclear is for vested interests. It’s all about the money. Yet here we have the right-wing media on an almost 24/7 cycle - talking up the merits of nuclear. I have to wonder if it’s a right-wing media vested interests thing. Who really benefits from nuclear power promotion and utilisation? The people who are not in it to save us from a climate crisis - but the people who are in it for the profits.

@ShiannonC Congratulations Shiannon! How exciting for you. ❤️

Introducing our newest grandie. Born on 21st January 2024, a little miracle and a bright spot in what has been a tumultuous and heartbreaking 12 months. He’s 3 weeks’ old here and bright as a button. He also has a magnificent set of lungs 😱❤️ Love him already ❤️❤️

@JaneKin54322448 I’m also on this journey with my Mum. Witnessing the little things that happen randomly catch me out as well and remind me she is slipping away. The grief is real and constant.

In the headlines on @3AW693 just now, they reported that businesses are leaving Victoria because of the Allan Government’s ban on gas. There is no gas ban for businesses. If you’re tired of 3AW running misleading propaganda masquerading as news, retweet and let them know.

I’ve developed and validated THREE unique cultural competency tests which took around 10 years to develop. These tools provide a critically unique opportunity in Aust to determine the causal contribution of a lack of cultural competency on service outcomes for the first time. There are 5 domains and 18 subdomains that are tested. We test whole organisations and then provide not only whole of organisational “benchmarks” against our national norms but we can also then target skills deficits and statistically determine whether improvements in these areas lead to improved outcomes (eg. Improve the cultural competency of police and determine whether that reduces incarceration rates; improve the cultural competencies of child protection workers against child removal rates etc) This is the only work in Aust that is measured & objective. Whilst it should be a standard because it’s so hard nosed; resistance behaviours are the most challenging aspect of this work. People and organisations simply do not like to face a reality that they have views; attitudes, beliefs and skills deficits that are inherently racist. However; I have had so many brave organisations and individuals undertake these & they have always ended up much better organisations as a result. If you want to know more you can contact us at admin@indigenouspsych.con.au

@ShiannonC Wishing you a kinder year ahead Shiannon, and all the best for Christmas day. I'm sure your son will be an amazing support again for you. My sister and I are hoping for a kinder year ahead too, now that a few things have resolved. ❤️

Well, it’s Christmas Eve. I honestly didn’t think I’d make it this far. Like many people, it’s been the year from Hell and not one I ever care to repeat. I don’t believe anybody gets a free ride to a perfect year and we all have our challenges to get through. As I move cautiously towards a usual day of celebration and family gatherings - where we’d all sit around the table, laugh, fight over favourite dishes and my beloved Mum’s rice pudding - I will remember with fondness and sadness the many years spent thus and how much these memories will both hurt - and eventually become more beautiful with time. I will undoubtedly cry and toast their amazing lives when I visit them at the cemetery in the late afternoon with my flowers. I miss them and likely always will - but it’s my first Christmas and it’s hard. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you who has supported me through this journey for the last two or three years. Just being here at times and being able to share and relate to others and their experiences has made me feel less alone. I hope you have the best Christmas you can have regardless of your circumstances - and be kind to yourself and others. Sometimes kindness is all we have - and the only tool we need. ❤️🎄❤️

Our favourite Australian politics genre is intelligent people crushing News Corp reporters who’ve just asked a moronic question

@victorsojo Agree, 100%

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@cheryl_kernot @abcnews I also don't like the Herald Sun sport reporter and the Ch7 political reporter chiming in during Sammy J's Breakfast show. Why is this happening???

I choose @abcnews because I don’t want to see/hear Mitchell or Stefanovic or their banal questioning!! Stop platforming them. You must be very ill informed to think that this is “news” that ABC viewers want.

@ShiannonC ❤️

We interred Mum’s ashes at our local cemetery today. I did everything I promised Mum I would do. Mum is in the memorial garden that she loved and picked out. She has a sandstone memorial stone and plaque I had made for her. I’m still waiting for the ceramic picture of her from council to adorn the front of the stone and then it will be complete ❤️ A sad day for us - but now Mum is home and at rest ❤️ I have carried out Mum and Dad’s wishes to the letter and they are both now at rest in the same cemetery where they wanted to be. It’s a very peaceful place and I can visit them as much as I want ❤️