Trisha Carter

[THREAD] This #WomensHistoryMonth, let's not forget how many of our rights were only won in recent decades, and weren’t given by asking nicely and waiting. We need to fight for our rights. Here's are a few examples:

My boy brought this home from school today so sharing if needed to help communicate cyclone to neurodiverse kids #CycloneAlfred

Australia's strength lies in its diversity! 🌏✨ No amount of divisive rhetoric can change the vibrant tapestry we’ve woven together. Let’s embrace our multicultural future instead of clinging to a past that never truly existed. 🥳💖 UnityInDiversity… blakandblack.com/2025/02/21/mul…

***Recommended*** A few days ago I posted about the caravan with explosives abandoned by the side of the road for a couple of weeks with a note that listed Jewish institutions as targets. I deleted the post because I was unable to confirm that the Deputy Commissioner did indeed say the police are considering it may be a set up, other than in one report. However, it has been indeed been reported elsewhere. Here, by reputable journalist @PaulrGregoire with no paywall. Link below. ‘Deputy commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force, David Hudson, told reporters on Thursday that detectives are considering whether a caravan packed with explosives found abandoned on the side of Derriwong Road in the northwestern semirural Sydney suburb of Dural, which was located by NSW police on 19 January 2025,  might be an elaborate setup.’ Gregoire reports police have now arrested 10 people for the various ‘antisemitic’ attacks or threats, and they conclude NONE of these individuals have been motivated by antisemitism but rather, the suspects are paid criminals. Police believe it is orchestrated by a sophisticated (according to NSW Premier) overseas entity. ‘NSW police has also confirmed that all ten suspects that have been arrested in relation to these “Jewish hate crimes” have not been motivated by any ideology, so the earlier framing of the antisemitic fear campaign as being potentially linked to the local pro-Palestinian movement were not only unfounded but were likely too part of an effort to deflect criticism of the Israeli state.’ Gregoire points out the graffiti messaging has evolved from the use of ‘Israel’, to ‘Jews’: ‘The spate of incidents that have been classed as antisemitic did commence with anti-Israeli messaging, and since the nation of Israel has been blatantly killing innocent Palestinian civilians in their tens of thousands since October 2023, the countering response to the assertions that these crimes were antisemitic was that they were reflecting violent political criticism, not religious hate. And after some weeks, the messaging of the vandals shifted so that “Jews” became the subject of derision, and no longer was it the apartheid Israeli state. The Islamophobia Register of Australia noted in December that there had been a 530 percent increase in reported Islamophobic incidents in this country since October 2023… So, as the Albanese government was providing unbridled support to Israel in its commission of the gravest of all crimes, it might be considered that the fear campaign around a spike in antisemitism in the community, as opposed to any attention paid to increasing Muslim hate crimes, the authorities were actively propagating the conflation in order to stymie criticism of Israeli crimes in this country. Indeed, if foreign actors are at play, this might be the reason that early anti-Israel messaging was dropped for the more precise antisemitic messaging of the later incidents.’ sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/foreign-a…