PhD. Social Worker. Author: 'Leaving Christian Fundamentalism & the Reconstruction of Identity'. Environmentalist. Views my own.
@uqpbooks
2025๐
#exvangelical
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How to keep losing elections:
Move further to the Right. Wheel out John Howard.
Cosy up with Gina Rinehart.
Fan the flames of culture wars & promote hate.
Keep using words like โwoke agendaโ.
Keep silent on the vileness of One Nation.
Rant on Sky News.
#nswelection
Please
#AmericanTwitter
.
Stop giving us advice about guns & arming our population.
This advice is entirely unwelcome.
Just compare your death statistics with ours and reflect.
From
#Australia
#bondiattack
It is patently obvious that in NSW at least you CANNOT get tested for covid. Sick people cannot queue for upwards of 5 hrs, then wait for 3-4 days for results. And now the results arenโt always reliable anyway. Plus no
#RATs
. How can we โlive with covidโ without any govt support?
For godโs sake, why canโt we be more like Scandinavia & less like the US?
A huge middle class, much smaller gap between the rich & the poor, a welfare system that ensures high quality FREE state education & childcare for all. โCulture warsโ minimal.
#education
#auspol
โLaura Tingle has blown open a debate about the public broadcasterโs approach to the Voice referendum, arguing an obsession with balance has degraded coverage of the debate.โ
Itโs nuts & has meant the ABC has platformed blatant lies.
Should we just shut down Sydney for 2 weeks as a circuit breaker?
Nothing open except chemists & supermarkets, with restricted opening & reduced numbers allowed? Police on all highways leading out of Sydney? Masks EVERYWHERE & curfews.
Something has to change in NSW
@GladysB
.
Who are these people complaining about the welcome to country?
I just donโt get it. A moment of respect & acknowledgment. What is the problem?
Letโs find some generosity & sensitivity here.
#aflswansport
The millions of doses of Pfizer & Moderna vaccines will not arrive in Australia for at least another 4 weeks. Until then, Pfizer is being rationed & argued about between states.
This is NOT how effective vaccination is achieved. What an epic public policy failure.
#MorrisonFail
Itโs very sad to hear of the death of Shane Warne. But the first 10 pages of todayโs Sun Herald totally devoted to eulogies of him
@smh
?
We donโt get to the terrifying humanitarian crisis in northern NSW till page 11.
Lismore may need to be evacuated & rebuilt: newsworthy??
Imagine if you worked for the NSW ICAC, committed to the highest standards of ethical & professional behaviour, & your PM just called you a 'kangaroo court'.
What a massive, undeserved insult to public servants trying to do their job & uphold the rule of law.
#MorrisonMustGo
My son in the US: โyou do know Australia is 12 months behind the rest of the world? No rapid antigen testing at work?? Arguing about eligibility for vaccines? & even lockdown protests! Thatโs totally 2020โ.
Yup. Weโre way behind. And our politicians talk like this is *all new*.
Now I am receiving emails from Jacinta Nampijinpa Price asking me for money for the No campaign, to 'help stop Labor's voice.'
Since when did
#theVoice
belong to Labor?
Isn't it about Indigenous Australians?
The agenda of the
#LNP
is clear: tell lies for political gain.
#yes23
I seriously canโt believe how people have treated
@simonahac
, who has just wanted to direct his resources into saving the planet.
You do wonder why the press & so many desperate politicians are busy trying to bring him down by any means possible.โฆ
#auspol
As a mental health professional, I dare predict that the mental health of many Australians will improve with a change of govt.
People long for a renewal of hope, the restoration of vision & competence in govt, & more than anything - meaningful action on
#climatechange
.
โDuring today's hearing Mr Lehrmann sat with his solicitor, Rowan King, while his two barristers, Andrew Hoare KC and Patrick Wilson, were at the bar table.โ
Amazing how someone with no income & no employment can afford such expensive counsel ๐คจ
I am asking the same question many have asked today.
Zoran Radovanovic, who travelled while covid positive to Byron Bay passed the character test but the Biloela Family havenโt?
@AlexHawkeMP
you could let them stay TODAY.
I also think it could be a vote winner, if that helps.
May I remind
@abcnews
that Trump is a convicted rapist & felon? These are real crimes. I would welcome this to be stated & re-stated, not forgotten or *overlooked*.
He may be a presidential candidate but he is a lying, dangerous criminal.
It is not 'balance' to ignore this.
Visited my 96 yr old mother in the nursing home today, who was being visited by her 96 yr old friend.
Both vehement in their horror of what Morrison has done to this country, the swing to the far right, & the lack of action on climate change.
Donโt tell me oldies donโt get it.
โZoรซ Daniel, voted in favour of the motion & said โthe pain of more than one group of people can coexistโ.
โShouting at each other in this place does not cancel out anyoneโs pain.โโ
Well said.
I think the vast majority of Austโns would agree with her.
Is this a bigger stuff up than โprivate security guardsโ in Melbourne, when you allow international airline crews to manage their own self isolation with absolutely no scrutiny or accountability
@GladysB
?
This is appalling, &
@ScottMorrisonMP
calls this โgold standardโ?
Going to take a little break.
Sick of the insults to my profession, my intelligence, my ethics, & worse.
The trolls are out in force.
Iโm not perfect, but Twitter can be a hellsite when you
try to speak up against inequality & social injustice.
#VoteYes
#VoteYesAustralia
Within 24 hours, I have heard from 2 friends who both have
#covid
. All double vaxxed, no booster. The clinical severity uncertain. We have a Premier who has zero interest in public health, as long as the economy grows.
@Dom_Perrottet
what is the plan? Weโre dropping like flies.
Imagine the privilege of 10 years in govt, & having absolutely nothing to show for it.
No achievements to speak of, no progress on
#climatechange
, & to have nothing left but phoney credentials on โstrong foreign policyโ & โgood economic managementโ.
Sad.
#auspol
#ausvotes
Does anyone work anywhere where it is ok to drink two glasses of red wine before participating in an important meeting?
Who would get sacked or deregistered if they drank at work?
๐๐ผโโ๏ธ
#TheNationals
Iโm not interested in interviews with cafe or gym owners, I want journalists to find out what the hell happened at
@Optus
.
Malware?
Monumental stuff-up?
Please dig around and give us something useful.
@abcnews
What on earth is actually wrong with
@ScottMorrisonMP
?
And please donโt say a mental health issue or any associated language.
This is aberrant, appalling, deep-seated, deeply-held ideology.
A sense of divine calling & divine choosing & belligerent self-righteous indignation.
Are my fellow Australians as pissed off as I am about
@ScottMorrisonMP
โs response to the
#NSWbushfires
? Refusing to answer qโns about
#ClimateChange
& then offering
#ThoughtsAndPrayers
? Itโs terrifying to have a PM whose belief system is so utterly divorced from science & reason.
โThe right thing, now, would be to open the sealed section of the robodebt royal commission. The institutions in which the commissioner put her faith have all failed. The only reasonable path to justice is for the public to know who the commission named..โ
@nick_coatsworth
I seriously can't believe you tweeted that
@nick_coatsworth
.
As a health professional myself, I cannot understand why you would make light of so many people getting sick.
It is profoundly unethical.
โJulia Gillardโs achievement is a case study in making a life outside politics.Unlike some of her colleagues, she has not only enhanced her own legacy but provided a role model for former PMs in how to use their skills& experiences as a force for good.โ ๐๐ป
โA new Lowy Institute poll finds that 73% of Australians say they would prefer Kamala Harris to become president. Only 22% say they would prefer Donald Trump.โ
Iโm surprised itโs as high as 22% to be honest.
Do you what I like about
@SBSNews
?
You very rarely hear โPeter Dutton saysโฆ.โ & I seriously appreciate that.
Take note
@abcnews
.
Many people are heartily sick of it.
#auspol
Children donโt wear masks & are unvaccinated. They almost certainly will catch
#omicron
then give it to their parents & grandparents.
Who may not yet be eligible for the booster.
Can you see the problem
@Dom_Perrottet
?
Taking *personal responsibility* is a meaningless concept.
Talked to my dear friend, 60 yrs single woman, just canโt live on the reduced
#jobseeker
rate. Applies for multiple jobs,always misses out to younger applicants. Why is there zero support for people over 55
@Anne_Ruston
? She feels totally abandoned & desperate.
Bloody Morrison.
If there were enough vaccine for everyone, we wouldnโt give a damn about private school boys or rich people jumping queues. Weโd just be grateful the whole community was getting vaccinated, ensuring herd immunity. This white-hot community anger only happens when the system FAILS.
A report released today shows that under Peter Dutton, contracts by Home Affairs funnelled millions into companies that were allegedly to be involved in serious criminal wrongdoing.
What did Peter Dutton know and why didnโt he do anything to stop this from happening?
More from a young person I spoke to:
โWhy would I vote no? The voice does not affect me in any way, Aboriginal people have asked for it, so whatโs the problem?โ
Donโt troll me & say the conversation didnโt happen. It did.
Young Australians will save this referendum โบ๏ธ
#VoteYes
In the same news bulletin: Morrison gets his 2nd Pfizer dose, & an un-immunised junior doctor in Brisbane treating covid patients contracts the UK variant of Covid-19.
See a problem with this govtโs priorities?
#wheresthevaccine
This is the campaign & I really like it.
A vote for Dave Sharma is a vote for Barnaby.
A vote for Trent Zimmerman is a vote for Barnaby.
A vote for Josh Frydenberg is a vote for Barnaby.
Etc. Etc.
Simple but effective.
#VoteThemAllOut2022
We all know the architect of
#Robodebt
was Scott Morrison, donโt we?
He conceived it & set it up.
The buck stops with him.
I donโt care if heโs swanning around Italy, or canโt get a job elsewhere because heโs unemployable, his time is finished.
Done.
#ResignMorrison
โOne of the biggest qโns emerging from Kate McClymontโs investigation is how many people knew about Jonesโ alleged predilections & remained silent. McClymont has been flooded with messages from ppl who claim that Jones either bullied or abused them..โ
@AlboMP
I know youโll have a lot to do when you become PM, but could you please add โRoyal Commission into the Pandemic Responseโ?
Australians absolutely need to know how key decisions were made, who made them, & who profited from deals & contracts.
#AlboForPM
#MorrisonFail
Seeing the life & words of a woman who took her own life picked over, trashed & even mocked, is sickening & deeply disturbing.
I think weโve reached rock bottom here.
#EnoughisEnougth
I know Iโm late to this, but I was wondering why Morrison was talking about his anxiety NOW & not previously.
As a mental health professional, I was interested in his disclosure till I realised heโs actually plugging his book.
It all goes to the question of trust, &
@ScottMorrisonMP
has lost the trust of the Austโn community.
My conservative-leaning friends tell me the vaccine debacle, the Christian Porter affair, & the undermining of global efforts on
#climateaction
are the key issues.
Heโs cooked.
He canโt stay in Australia now, can he?
Brittany Higgins migrated to France to make a fresh start & escape endless media scrutiny.
#lehrmann
will need to go to Siberia.
Heโs surely
unemployable in Australia.
6 wks of a new
@AlboMP
govt & huge progress has been made. My hope is that soon
@JasonClareMP
, a stalwart champion of public education, will start the necessary review of the bloated funding to private schools.
I trust he will consult with advocates like
@JaneCaro
& get it done.
I donโt think Commissioner Catherine Holmes would be happy that her Robodebt referrals have been snubbed. Holmes did her job, was ruthless in exposing the truth & calling out deceitful witnesses. But the AFP & NACC did not do their job & let the crooks get away.
#RobodebtRC
โProfessor Langton said she "deeply resented" Duttonโs reference to city-based academics. She said the group of 25 Indigenous & TS Islander peoples convened by the PM to work on
#TheVoice
are a diverse group "from all over the country".
Lies from the
#LNP
.
If Tim Wilson, Josh Frydenberg, Dave Sharma & the rest lose their seats to the independents, then surely that is democracy working exactly as it should.
Strong candidates get elected, poor candidates get dumped, & a failed govt gets consigned to the dust bin of history.
Amen.
I donโt need to read Chris Uhlmann as well as Greg Sheridan point to the โgodlessnessโ of Australia as the source of the current woes. I grew up in the โgodlinessโ of the evangelical Christian church my whole adult life, & am still undoing the toxic effects of abuse & control.
Itโs been more than 2 weeks since the
#BlackLivesMatterAustralia
rallies, and not a single
#COVID19
infection has been traced back to them.
Do you think
@MathiasCormann
will now apologise for calling ppl โselfish & self-indulgentโ?
Can anyone tell me who supports the No campaign other than the Morrison leftovers & obviously
#BinBen
?
And who supports the Yes campaign?
- major sporting codes
- major faith groups
- all state premiers
- major companies
- vast majority of Indigenous Austโns
#VoteYes
A person much younger than me said, โwho are these ppl voting no? I donโt get why this is such a big deal at all. Their arguments are so weak.โ
Perhaps the young ppl of Australia will win this referendum for the country. They donโt vote in polls.
#VoteYesAustralia
#VoteYes23
Deborah OโNeill also revealed that Peter Dutton received a copy of the damning internal audit into the many failures within the Home Affairs Dept, but did nothing about it.
#Estimates
Iโm in
#Melbourne
- and I notice how many โyesโ placards people have put up on their fences & in their front yards.
Melbourne has always been progressive.
Might move here.
Itโs so heartening.
#VoteYesAustralia
#VoteYes
โContinuing litigation against a woman found to have been raped 5 yrs ago, who has had periods so black that she has been in & out of hospital repeatedly ever since, who has been forced to sell a house when pregnant is a bitโฆoffโ
Yes! โฆ
@bairdjulia
โฉ
โBy siding this week with the Coalition & One Nation to delay a vote on the governmentโs Help To Buy legislation, the Greens have joined the RW parties in a populist raceโฆin pursuit of their own electoral fortune. It is a betrayal of voters..โ
Agreed.
โโฆ
@Birmo
โฉ says the phone call was not "necessary nor appropriate", saying Mr
#Assange
was undeserving of that kind of treatment.โ
I once had some respect for Birmingham. No longer.
Struggling for relevance, he employs tired wedge politics.
Whoโs voting no & promoting the no vote?
*Hanson, Roberts & Babet
*Latham
*Richo
*Dutton incl โmoderatesโ
*Alan Jones
*Bolt
*Credlin
*Mundine
*Murdoch press
There is a definite pattern here.
#VoteYesAustralia
#VoteYes
โThere were six principal reasons why the โNoโ campaign triumphed. The first was its shameful, morally bankrupt slogan: โIf you donโt know, vote โNoโ.โ The โNoโ campaign essentially argued โWhy bother?โ
The brilliant Barry Jones.
Tried to get a pulse oximeter at the chemist for my friend who has covid. All sold out. I have to wait until the next delivery comes in. I said to the pharmacist โthis means covid is everywhereโ & she said โit sure isโ.
Just business as usual
@Dom_Perrottet
? Economy ticketyboo?
Next time someone says, โoh but I donโt like
@AlboMP
, heโs a good person but he hasnโt got enough junkyard dog in himโ, ask if they prefer a lying, rorting, misogynistic, deceitful, failed marketing man?
The choice is so very clear these days.
All days in fact.
#AlboForPM
โI have grave concerns about Scott Morrisonโs leadership,โ says
@zalisteggall
.
โPart of the problem is sitting here right now: Barnaby Joyce & the stranglehold the Nationals have on govt policy on climate change. They hold the country to ransomโ.
Well said, Zali.
#QandA
โ2 days after justice Michael Lee found former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann had raped his then-colleague Brittany Higgins in a ministerial office, their former boss Linda Reynolds sat down to dinner with The Australianโs Janet Albrechtsen.โ
Well, well.
Morrison receiving legal aid is the last straw.
Is there anything this man wonโt take from this country, while giving back nothing but woe?
Grifter to the end.
#RobodebtRC
#ResignMorrison
There is no constitutional risk.
It is an advisory body.
Itโs all negative politicking & lies.
And I for one am so very, very tired of it.
Canโt the
#LNP
get on board just for once to achieve some positive reform?
#VoteYesAustralia
#Yes23
Sussan Ley left humiliated after insisting thereโs Constitutional Risks with
#TheVoice
but cannot name any expert who agrees, going on to suggest const. experts arenโt relevant
Speers โYouโre talking about const. Risk, surely you gotta listen to some constitutional experts?โ๐ฅ
โScots College once had an altitude training facility for its sports teams. Shore has underwater cameras in its pool. Cranbrook has 4 tennis courts & 2 playing fields..โ
What say you โฆ
@JasonClareMP
โฉ? Where are yr reforms? The inequity is staggering.
โFormer prime minister Paul Keating has launched a scathing attack on Peter Dutton, urging voters in the Home Affairs Minister's electorate to "drive a political stake through his dark political heart"โ.
Best advice you will hear all week.
โThe National Anti-Corruption Commission has betrayed its core obligation & failed to carry out its primary statutory duty by refusing to investigate 6 public officials referred by the
#robodebt
RC, acc to former NSW Supreme Court judge Anthony Whealy.โ ๐๐ป
Just wondering what ever happened to
@JNampijinpa
, the *next PM of Australia*?
Has she spoken at all since the referendum or has the media abandoned her now?
I donโt want to get into a spirited defence of
@AlboMP
- but I have rarely seen a PM cop so much pressure from both the right & left sides of politics.
My constant fear is that this only emboldens
@PeterDutton_M
, rightly named โGina Rinehartโs special envoyโ by
@MikeCarlton01
.
I blame
@ScottMorrisonMP
Morrison utterly & completely for the lack of vaccines, the constant border closures, & the lockdowns. This is all on your government.
Are we at 4% vaccinated yet?
Oh sorry those specific numbers arenโt released to the public.
Huge policy failure ๐ก
Firefighters pleading for donations of water,muesli bars & sunscreen? What sort of nation have we become? This is so deeply depressing on every level, with a disengaged govt distracting the masses while
#AustraliaBurns
.
Where is the national emergency
@GladysB
@ScottMorrisonMP
?
Heโs been a โthorn in the sideโ of the Libs because he has integrity, makes sense, cares about the planet, & is not owned by the fossil fuel industry.
#DuttonLies
#nuclearnonsense
And now we hear โmore white Austโns would have voted yes if they knew most Indigenous communities supported it.โ
Good grief ๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ
Media platforms the lies of Jacinta Price, pretending she speaks for mob - and SHE DOESNโT.
Cโmon
@abcnews
.
This is so very important.
#Referendum
If another politician says โwe have to live with the virusโ, I will scream. Of course we do. Itโs the bleeding obvious. But how about making it easier by prioritising our health? Ppl who received AZ vaccine should be able to get booster at 4 months.
And keep masks & QR codes!