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@James58924167 @TracyWesterman Top of your head spitballing. No real facts or statistics. If you want to be in the debate, be more like @TracyWesterman and do your research. Her research is impeccable and she uses it to inform her work.

@TracyWesterman You are full of shit. Aboriginal services are funded beyond belief and then some. The problem is the corrupt aboriginal industry itself skimming millions from those they are meant to help. The kids should absolutely be removed and the violent perpetrators locked up for good.

Every time an Aboriginal child dies, the response is the same. Not fund services. Not resource families. Demonise an entire culture. I cannot think of a single instance where a non-Indigenous child’s death prompted calls to demonise all non-Indigenous people. Yet here we are. Again. The data tells a different story to the one being weaponised right now. 92% of children in NT care are already Aboriginal. The system has never gone soft on Aboriginal people. 82% of those removals are for neglect — the lowest level on the risk continuum, the most vulnerable to cultural bias, and the one that warrants intensive family support. Not removal. Sexual abuse — where people’s minds immediately go — accounts for 6% of notifications for Aboriginal children. It’s 10% for non-Indigenous children. We have now surpassed 25,000 Aboriginal children removed from their families. The same number as the Stolen Generations. We are not learning. We are repeating. In WA, removing just 4 of 20 child protection districts — the most remote, the most under-resourced — drops the Aboriginal removal rate from 61% to 38%. In the Kimberley, 100% of children in care are Aboriginal. The Pilbara, 96%. It defies logic. We are supposed to believe there has never been a non-Indigenous child in the Kimberley deemed in need of state protection. The Kimberley also has the highest rates of child suicide in the country — Indigenous children dying at 6 times the rate of non-Indigenous children. Removal does not protect children. It destroys them. And the harm is generational. Meanwhile, the government funds intensive family support programs that 80% non-Indigenous families access — delivered by a workforce that is 90% non-Indigenous. Over the past decade, the non-Indigenous removal rate has fallen 13%. The Indigenous rate has risen 120%. Same system. Same decade. One group served, one group not. Only 5% of child protection notifications come from wealthy suburbs. We are targeting poor Black families while other children go unseen. Child abuse is a human issue. Linking culture to abuse is eugenics. It has always been eugenics. The pipeline is straightforward: removal → justice system → substance use → violence → poor health → poor education. Every organisation working on those outcomes exists largely because of the Stolen Generations. We are building the next generation of that client base right now. The Child Placement Principle has never stopped authorities from protecting a child at genuine risk. If Senator Price and the CLP believe otherwise, they need to show us exactly where. Not rhetoric. Actual cases. Abd report those cases. Dont stand in front of the country and demonise an entire culture acting like the system hasn’t removed children at breathtaking numbers. And deny the fact that when families reach out fir help they are being harmed instead. What it does is prevent us from repeating history. We are repeating history.

@MssJilly @GutterTwits Oh great, another remote control to lose in the bedding along with ones for the tv, aircon, phone, etc etc

@GutterTwits Lol, they are accessory switches that you can hang on the wall and also take off if you want to control the lights from the couch, bed etc without using the app. They can be preset to cycle through colours and have dimming buttons. I’ve had them for a decade, just love them.

So, while I was away my husband changed all our lights to a "smart lights" and now if I want to turn on a light I have to find my fkn phone open the fkn app find the right light and then turn it on. Would you like me to tell you how I feel about this or can you imagine.. 🤔🙄

@EmergencyBK Hope you can find a better GP, one who'll do the job of finding an Endo sooner for you. Your GP has seen your results, knows it's risky, needs to get off their arse and help you get to treatment. Good GP's seem thin on the ground these days.

NB: I'm embarrassed I'm resorting to social media for help, sharing personal health details and disgusted Australia's public system's so under-resourced/funded, this is what I need to resort to. I Don't want advice from non-Endo. specialist, just help to see one soon. Thx🌷 ..3/

🚨Help Victorian, Aus. Endocrinologists🚨 I’ve an ‘Urgent" Referral to see Endo. re below results. On Disability Pension, no private health Ins. & public health Endo. 2+ months wait. Do you know (or are you) an Endo., Melb CBD/North suburbs, I can send referral to and ...1/

A budget detail many missed last night was how the Albanese Labor government is addressing what it calls social cohesion. It is cutting $9 million from the Australian Human Rights Commission, the independent body that protects and serves every community equally.

When Allyson Felix became pregnant, Nike threatened to cut her sponsorship contract by almost 70% because of her pregnancy. They told her: “You should know your place… and just run.” Amid all this, at seven months pregnant, Allyson had to undergo an emergency C-section due to a serious complication. Her baby girl spent over a month in the neonatal intensive care unit. But two years later, Allyson qualified for her fifth Olympic Games, with her daughter in the stands cheering her on. Allyson left Nike. And she founded her own shoe brand: Saysh One. At the Tokyo Olympics, she ran wearing her own sneakers, carrying the motto: “I know exactly where my place is.” With 11 medals, she surpassed Carl Lewis and became the most decorated American track and field athlete in history. And to all women, she gave this message: “I raised my voice and built this company for you, so that you’ll never have to train at 4:30 in the morning, five months pregnant, just to hide it from your sponsor.” ❤️

@Ostrov_A @SkyNewsAust When do Australians with Palestinian and Lebanese heritage who see their lands pillaged and families killed get to tell their distress of having a Government that actively supports their oppressors, criminalises words expressing their pain, and unfairly tars them as “terrorists”

@fiapsa @robynbryant33 Lots of older people on blood thinners bruise easily from catheters or other trauma. Doesn't make us mad or demented. Something else made him stupid.

@robynbryant33 Queen had those bruised hands didn't she have a blood cancer?

Do any doctors or nurses know what is actually wrong?

@MancellPam @jiangyin It should be a basic right for everyone

@jiangyin Congratulations, but really this should be the norm. Nothing feels better than secure housing

Came home just now to a letter from Housing. Once my current 2-year lease ends next year, I'll be on a CONTINUOUS lease. As in, no more worry about whether or not I'm going to get booted out once my lease is up for renewal. My flat is mine FOR AS LONG AS I WANT TO STAY HERE.

@jiangyin @avspook That is fantastic news and decades overdue. So glad it happened for you and hopefully many others. I know of deserving PH tenants kicked out after decades, now struggling with private rentals.

@avspook I'm in public housing so yep. Rules here in New South Wales changed last year so that everyone in public housing is now on a continuous lease.

@PeterJamesRoth6 @AlanKohler Yes it has, featuring all the biggest tv presenters and celebrities, especially financial gurus.

@AlanKohler If it's the one i think has it been franchised as it's been around 4ever.

There’s fake story around of me and Michelle Bullock have row on TV - trying to flog some dodgy product. Beware! You know it’s fake because me and Michelle always do our fighting in private

@JaneCaro @Beno10_MFC I agree

@Beno10_MFC D

Strong eye test. Which stand mixer is different? 99% people failed.

@EddyJokovich Tried to set up herself up with Trump-esq authority and control over ANU governance. Oops... didn't figure on an investigation by a higher authority. Time to bail.

Why did it take so long?

@BillySisu @MikeCarlton01 @devalara44 Wonderful quote. Wish I'd heard it first time around. Its always relevant because LNP grows old but never grows up.

A positive explosion of exciting young talent…fresh people, fresh ideas…a waiting nation hails the dawn of a brave new era !

@Leafmalone Oh great. We're in the middle of a mouse plague in WA with limited resources for effective control. And now Hantavirus

Today I got the news I’ve been waiting for and dreading. It’s not news about me personally, but it’s about a situation I can’t control. I am utterly despairing and so heartbroken and I will take a break from here for a while. Stay frosty muchachos. 🥷🥷

@JimmyBarnes @TwoPaddocks Did he bring NZ Bluff oysters with him? Its the right thing for a kiwi to do.

Guess who’s coming to dinner? Always a special time with my great friend @twopaddocks.

@MSL2035 @virgotweet Utter nonsense. Tomlinson is correct. Clearly you haven't read the history of white settlement in Australia. Your choice to remain ignorant of course, but if you make ignorant comment you can expext some blowback.

@virgotweet Yes it was. Mistreated children removed from unfit parents.

It is time for some real Truth Telling, I for one, I am sick and tired of those those on Facebook and other social media that continually spruik their codswallop about why Aboriginal children were taken away from their birth parents. The Stolen Generation, never was about

@strangerous10 @BethCharleston @MikeCarlton01 The irony being that the governments silence in response to these and countless other cases of Israel violating international law, amounts to a clear and unambiguous statement that Israel has the Australian government's unwavering support and that Australian citizens do not.

@DaveMilbo I blame neoliberals for this mind-torture (cos I blame them for everything). the final straw tonight watching a bit of Icelandic noire to calm the angst. Suddenly SBS cuts the feed and orders me to scan qsr, log in, enter code..etc. etc. Right in the middle of the damn episode!

I've spent all today logging into things, verifying things, sending codes between emails and social media and banks and fucking hell, is all the future holds? I want to break stuff. My theory is big tech wants everything to be as annoying as possible to shatter our resolve.

@noplaceforsheep @terra155 Her family have asked that she now be called Kumanjayi Little Baby from now on❤️

@RonniSalt If xyz silenced you @RonniSalt they'd lose all the best subscribers.🤬