Why on earth do people on low incomes want working toilets in their accommodation? They should just be grateful to have a roof over their heads & stop complaining about such trivial things.

National Shelter ACOSS NCOSS Tenants' Union of NSW
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'These killings do not happen in isolation: they happen within a culture that permits them. Until that changes, nothing will change.'
Sadly, too many of us don't see that we live in culture which facilitates violence against women & children.

Janine Hendry @_Janine_Hendry on Threads | Insta Lynie 🐦

BREAKING:

Fresh government data shows Australia directly exported another $1.5 million worth of weapons to Israel in February.

Literally feeding weapons into a genocide.

Labor can’t deny it any longer. We need to end the two way arms trade with Israel.

Free Palestine.

In The Age today: Christine Nixon & I argue all too often perpetrators are cast in the shadows in responses to family violence. Improving victim-survivor safety is the priority. To achieve this we must cast a spotlight on the perpetrator, particularly those who commit multiple…

In a scathing dissenting opinion in the Weinstein appeal, Judge Madeline Singas wrote, “Fundamental misunderstandings of sexual violence perpetrated by men known to, and with significant power over, the women they victimize are on full display in the majority’s opinion. By…

'Postmortem examinations of patients who have died due to COVID-19 have revealed the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in several organs, thus suggesting that this viral infection may lead to certain systemic diseases.'

Study: doi.org/10.1016/S1473-…

news-medical.net/news/20240425/…

With real listening, comes good understanding.
With good understanding, comes effective action.
Our $ should be spent to get the culture & systems change we desperately need to keep women & girls safe.
That's more important than nuclear subs.

Jane Caro Lynie 🐦 Full Stop Australia

Last week, the Australian govt. announced an additional $50 billion in defence funding for long-range missiles, targeting systems and lethal autonomous systems.

This $50 billion could have provided free and unlimited mental healthcare to every person in Australia for a century.

Remember how horrified we were when 19 aged care residents died in Newmarch House in 2020? NSW Health called it 'Tragic'. We now have 6,443 aged care deaths. We've moved from 'Tragic' to 'Inevitable' because we've given up on public health measures?

Prof Kathy Eagar Bill Bowtell AO

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS

More than a quarter of people with Covid infection develop Long Covid york.ac.uk/news-and-event…

Nooooooooo 😔

This isn’t CHINA..🇨🇳 This is AMERICA..🇺🇸

Emory Professor, Caroline Fohlin is violently arrested by police at her workplace…

This is Fascism, this is in violation of her 1st Amendment

Private schools get 61% of the Commonwealth Govt's expenditure on schools ($17.8 bn out of $29.1 bn).

While 98% of public schools are under-resourced, private schools have used tax-deductible funds to build lavish facilities.

Read more from Alexia:
australiainstitute.org.au/post/federal-f…

They knit, they sing, they even have their own ‘nannafesto’, and these unlikely environmental activists are a force to be reckoned with.

It was a treat to host two of the Knitting Nannas and Friends - Sydney on the latest #FollowTheMoney .

#auspol Ebony Bennett Mark Ogge australiainstitute.org.au/post/here-for-…

60% of single mothers have escaped domestic abuse.
Even after they leave, our systems make it almost impossible for them to be safe. We need to reform our systems – from family law to child support & child protection. Jess Hill

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If this were true it would be sad, but literally nothing Scott did in his public life gave anyone a reason to believe anything he says now

Land of the free, home of the brave…

Of course here in Australia we too have criminalised peaceful protest and regularly lock people up for doing so

#auspol

Fully fund public schools now! Take money from overfunded private schools to do it. It can’t be that hard. smh.com.au/politics/feder…

The first two rally’s over three days of protest calling for an end to male violence against women are on today in Newcastle and Ballarat. Details below.