Not everyone is an artist but everyone is a critic.
- Marcel Duchamp

🧙 MFW 🧙 All our news media require controversy, conflict, prejudice, fear, loathing, hate, greed & jealousy to build modern audiences. Clicks & media are a large part of the problem.

Suicides of domestic violence victims are far more prevalent than we realize, across all socio-economic groups, whether abuse is physical or coercive, whether tactics to destroy are overt or covert.

This shocking quote is from one of my PhD participants who works with domestic

In 2005-06 the avge HECS debt for people in their 20s was $12,557.

Inflation since then has risen 57%, but the avge debt has gone up 145%.

That's $11,200 of extra debt now compared to then - and it will only get worse.
#OffTheCharts Greg Jericho
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‘Former Australian of the Year Rosie Batty went further, urging the state government to hold a royal commission into domestic violence.’

Yes.

Overdue and absolutely necessary.

We need a new, national approach.

To take it seriously as a country. smh.com.au/politics/nsw/r…

The country collects more in HECS repayments annually than it does in tax from oil and gas — and experts say changing that could pay down the HECS debt within three years.ab.co/3UdzFzO

Friendly reminder that if your employer isn’t giving you a wage increase (at minimum) in line with CPI, then they’re effectively giving you a pay CUT.

#auspol #inflation #HECS

MFW Yet when a woman takes a baby out to a show it is front pages and in every primetime news tv and radio but a women is murdered violently, crickets

31 women in under 4 months. 10 in 22 days.

If the same number of men had been killed in one-punch attacks in the same timeframe, we’d all be under curfew.

When does this start being treated as the crisis it is?

Bail laws are just one piece of the puzzle. There needs to be a full overhaul of every part of the system, with victim-survivor safety front and centre.

HOW can you allow the constant indexation on HECS. At the current rate, despite making voluntary repayments in addition to the compulsory repayments, my HECS debt is indexed at a higher rate than I am able to pay off each year. Anthony Albanese #auspol #HECS

People think of listening as a submissive act. Listening is so powerful. It allows people to reveal themselves while they underestimate you. They don’t realise their opinion of you is a confession of their character.

Inflation has come in higher than expected during the March quarter, dampening expectations of interest rate cuts by the later in the year.

#BreakingNews

ab.co/44dGC8s

6 weeks , no internet, unlimited food.

Yes or No ?

This diagram shows how dangerous a misdiagnoses can be if you are being treated for a deficiency when you in fact have a surplus of the hormone in question

#Hormones #MentalHealth #Chemistry #Depression #Anxiety #Neuroscience #Biology #Emotions #Psychology

“I am filled with a desire for clarity and meaning within a world and condition that offers neither.”

#Camus

Rest in peace, Molly.

I’m so, so sorry.

For you and your baby 💐

….. and I’m also so furious at the unchecked escalating violence and lawlessness in our country town and the completely inadequate national response, across the board.

Marijauna is actually a pretty serious drug. The evidence of its connection to schizophrenia is overwhelming, as well as lack of attention, memory loss, depression, social isolation and paranoia. Alcohol is also terrible, but no one except serious alcoholics are defensive about

A 30th woman has just been killed by male violence.

A woman has been killed every 4 days on average in Australia in 2024.

This is a national emergency.

Join a rally this weekend across Australia to demand real action and solutions from our political leaders 👇🏼

In going to court to try to get us all to believe that she did not treat Brittany Higgins badly, Linda Reynolds is proving to all of us that she is treating Brittany Higgins badly.