Margery Cass
@margerycass.bsky.social
Human rights are universal rights.
There is no planet B.
There is no planet B.
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Not only WA- a depressing pattern for 'youth justice' across Australia:
1 Govts respond to Murdoch scare campaign by locking up more kids - mainly black.
2 Kids abused or killed in detention
3 Royal commission/coronial inquiry set up
4 Findings ignored
5 Repeat
Tragic, racist & counterproductive.
1 Govts respond to Murdoch scare campaign by locking up more kids - mainly black.
2 Kids abused or killed in detention
3 Royal commission/coronial inquiry set up
4 Findings ignored
5 Repeat
Tragic, racist & counterproductive.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12.... Youth Detention = Criminal Training College. I'd rather see funds spent on Diversion programmes with jailing youth a Last resort. #Auspol #WApol #WestAus #news #Aus
Urgent closure of notorious youth jail recommended after 16yo's death
Western Australia's first recorded death in youth detention was predictable, a coroner finds, declaring the care of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd was "inhumane" and "reminiscent of 19th century jails". W...
www.abc.net.au
December 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Not only WA- a depressing pattern for 'youth justice' across Australia:
1 Govts respond to Murdoch scare campaign by locking up more kids - mainly black.
2 Kids abused or killed in detention
3 Royal commission/coronial inquiry set up
4 Findings ignored
5 Repeat
Tragic, racist & counterproductive.
1 Govts respond to Murdoch scare campaign by locking up more kids - mainly black.
2 Kids abused or killed in detention
3 Royal commission/coronial inquiry set up
4 Findings ignored
5 Repeat
Tragic, racist & counterproductive.
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Don't miss that this is the same KKR that owns most of the world's big music festivals now djmag.com/news/multipl...
Multiple artists withdraw from Lost Village 2025 line-up over ties to Superstruct and KKR
The festival is the latest event to have artists drop out in light of connections to Superstruct Entertainment and its owners, KKR
djmag.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Don't miss that this is the same KKR that owns most of the world's big music festivals now djmag.com/news/multipl...
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What the everloving fuck is this
They wonder why people think government is a sick joke
Nah, we won't stop funding fossil fuels, or stop gambling ads, or regulate AI. We'll do an unworkable and idiotic social media ban for kids...
Oh and here's a pile of cash for private equity because Tim Tams.
They wonder why people think government is a sick joke
Nah, we won't stop funding fossil fuels, or stop gambling ads, or regulate AI. We'll do an unworkable and idiotic social media ban for kids...
Oh and here's a pile of cash for private equity because Tim Tams.
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
What the everloving fuck is this
They wonder why people think government is a sick joke
Nah, we won't stop funding fossil fuels, or stop gambling ads, or regulate AI. We'll do an unworkable and idiotic social media ban for kids...
Oh and here's a pile of cash for private equity because Tim Tams.
They wonder why people think government is a sick joke
Nah, we won't stop funding fossil fuels, or stop gambling ads, or regulate AI. We'll do an unworkable and idiotic social media ban for kids...
Oh and here's a pile of cash for private equity because Tim Tams.
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"But as a teenager with a severe disability who relies on social media for connection, community and access to a largely inaccessible world, this policy actually has the potential to create further harm."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m 15 years old and have a disability. Social media has been a lifeline – why is the government kicking me off? | Ezra Sholl
As I come to terms with life as a quadriplegic, Instagram and TikTok are a reminder I’m not alone
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"But as a teenager with a severe disability who relies on social media for connection, community and access to a largely inaccessible world, this policy actually has the potential to create further harm."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...
www.cnn.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
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Australian children held in increasingly “militarised” displacement camps in north-east Syria have been told they will be shot if they try to breach the fence line, as Australia refuses to issue its citizens with passports so they can be repatriated.
#auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’
US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Australian children held in increasingly “militarised” displacement camps in north-east Syria have been told they will be shot if they try to breach the fence line, as Australia refuses to issue its citizens with passports so they can be repatriated.
#auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually
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Labor is failing to meet even Scott Morrison’s moral benchmark here. He brought Australian children home.
Albanese is refusing to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us.’ Utterly shameful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese is refusing to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us.’ Utterly shameful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’
US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Labor is failing to meet even Scott Morrison’s moral benchmark here. He brought Australian children home.
Albanese is refusing to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us.’ Utterly shameful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese is refusing to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us.’ Utterly shameful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Infuriatingly, the Government clearly knows that the system is fucked because the new DV single rate exemption (if you’re partnered but your partner is abusing you, you can get single rate) is actually part of a broader discretionary single rate exemption authority that they don’t talk about
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Infuriatingly, the Government clearly knows that the system is fucked because the new DV single rate exemption (if you’re partnered but your partner is abusing you, you can get single rate) is actually part of a broader discretionary single rate exemption authority that they don’t talk about
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My agenda for Australian welfare is that all payments should be raised above the poverty line and the partner income test should be abolished for at least those pensions given on the basis of incapacity (AP and DSP)
December 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
My agenda for Australian welfare is that all payments should be raised above the poverty line and the partner income test should be abolished for at least those pensions given on the basis of incapacity (AP and DSP)
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Record again in Tanzania:
34.5C at Tabora 1200m asl on the highlands:
Hottest December day on record,aftering setting the hottest night and the heat will continue...
Every single tropical country in every continent is smashing record after record, like never before.
34.5C at Tabora 1200m asl on the highlands:
Hottest December day on record,aftering setting the hottest night and the heat will continue...
Every single tropical country in every continent is smashing record after record, like never before.
TANZANIA RECORD HEAT
Exceptional and unprecedented warmth even at night in the highlands.
Tabora at nearly 1200m asl recorded its hottest night for December (by much) with a Minimum of 22.6C.
Tanzania in the past 12 YEARS, had cooler than normal months only a couple of times!
Exceptional and unprecedented warmth even at night in the highlands.
Tabora at nearly 1200m asl recorded its hottest night for December (by much) with a Minimum of 22.6C.
Tanzania in the past 12 YEARS, had cooler than normal months only a couple of times!
December 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Record again in Tanzania:
34.5C at Tabora 1200m asl on the highlands:
Hottest December day on record,aftering setting the hottest night and the heat will continue...
Every single tropical country in every continent is smashing record after record, like never before.
34.5C at Tabora 1200m asl on the highlands:
Hottest December day on record,aftering setting the hottest night and the heat will continue...
Every single tropical country in every continent is smashing record after record, like never before.
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Macquarie is purging Arab and Palestinian women from its staff.
Two were forced out. One suspended.
Three Arab women targeted in one year.
This is a crisis of racism in Australian academia.
If you’re outraged, hit repost.
Two were forced out. One suspended.
Three Arab women targeted in one year.
This is a crisis of racism in Australian academia.
If you’re outraged, hit repost.
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Macquarie is purging Arab and Palestinian women from its staff.
Two were forced out. One suspended.
Three Arab women targeted in one year.
This is a crisis of racism in Australian academia.
If you’re outraged, hit repost.
Two were forced out. One suspended.
Three Arab women targeted in one year.
This is a crisis of racism in Australian academia.
If you’re outraged, hit repost.
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📢 Senator Fatima Payman said the Afghan embassy's closure would be 'the second fall of Afghanistan'. Insiders say it's barely been operating.
Fears for thousands of Afghans in Australia amid 'secrecy' over potential shutdown
www.sbs.com.au
December 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN MEXICO
Record heat is relentless in every single Central America and Caribbean country.
Exceptional heat on the Gulf with
36.0C at Merida Airport, its hottest December day on record.
Record heat is relentless in every single Central America and Caribbean country.
Exceptional heat on the Gulf with
36.0C at Merida Airport, its hottest December day on record.
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN MEXICO
Record heat is relentless in every single Central America and Caribbean country.
Exceptional heat on the Gulf with
36.0C at Merida Airport, its hottest December day on record.
Record heat is relentless in every single Central America and Caribbean country.
Exceptional heat on the Gulf with
36.0C at Merida Airport, its hottest December day on record.
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The other day, Bangladesh had 750 admissions to hospital due to dengue in one day.
Not once have I read “let’s give up mosquito control!”
How pathetic UK. How utterly pathetic.
Not once have I read “let’s give up mosquito control!”
How pathetic UK. How utterly pathetic.
December 7, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The other day, Bangladesh had 750 admissions to hospital due to dengue in one day.
Not once have I read “let’s give up mosquito control!”
How pathetic UK. How utterly pathetic.
Not once have I read “let’s give up mosquito control!”
How pathetic UK. How utterly pathetic.
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Well.
Certainly not with that attitude.
Certainly not with that attitude.
NHS England: “It will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.”
This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.
This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.
December 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Well.
Certainly not with that attitude.
Certainly not with that attitude.
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"Auslan is not included as an option in the language list when applying for My Aged Care, which Mr Casey says means Deaf seniors face access barriers "from the first step"."
The 87-year-old woman was born deaf and has spent the past two years living in a nursing home in Brisbane without Auslan support after she was diagnosed with dementia.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Deaf residents in aged care left without basic support services
One Deaf woman living with dementia has been without basic care services for two years. Advocates warn her story represents a much larger problem.
www.abc.net.au
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Auslan is not included as an option in the language list when applying for My Aged Care, which Mr Casey says means Deaf seniors face access barriers "from the first step"."
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This is straight from joseph Heller‘s Catch-22. We wouldn’t have had to kill them if they just let themselves drown.
December 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This is straight from joseph Heller‘s Catch-22. We wouldn’t have had to kill them if they just let themselves drown.
I've just asked SBS to #BoycottEurovision
You can send a complaint to SBS through their website. I hope they are flooded with them.
December 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I've just asked SBS to #BoycottEurovision
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I love #Eurovision but I've not watched the SBS telecast since Israel began its #GazaGenocide. Please support boycott.eurovision.au as they urge SBS to cut the mic on genocide. Here's the link to their petition on Change.org c.org/cVkHXqCyLx
#BoycottEurovision #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
#BoycottEurovision #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I love #Eurovision but I've not watched the SBS telecast since Israel began its #GazaGenocide. Please support boycott.eurovision.au as they urge SBS to cut the mic on genocide. Here's the link to their petition on Change.org c.org/cVkHXqCyLx
#BoycottEurovision #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
#BoycottEurovision #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
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That escalated quickly... Maybe they will be able to put out the bushfires with hot air + election promises given the datacenters will be needing that water instead. #auspol
December 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
That escalated quickly... Maybe they will be able to put out the bushfires with hot air + election promises given the datacenters will be needing that water instead. #auspol
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Migrants moving to your local area is not a “legitimate reason” for racism.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Migrants moving to your local area is not a “legitimate reason” for racism.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
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‘Nightmare scenario for disabled people’: NDIS overhaul risks lives, advocates say
Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Nightmare scenario for disabled people’: NDIS overhaul risks lives, advocates say
Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
‘Nightmare scenario for disabled people’: NDIS overhaul risks lives, advocates say
Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Nauru has also become an absurdly outgrown feature of Australia’s fixation with Chinese influence in the South Pacific. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/an...
Contract bikies and bribes: Australia’s Nauru refugee deal
A former Australian army rifleman and a senior bureaucrat have revealed the depths to which Labor is prepared to go to revive offshore detention in Nauru. Binoy Kampmark reports.
www.greenleft.org.au
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Nauru has also become an absurdly outgrown feature of Australia’s fixation with Chinese influence in the South Pacific. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1444/an...
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As new details come out about follow-up strikes on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, a reminder that each of these attacks sets a dangerous precedent for a United States government that is trying to use a non-existent armed conflict to justify dozens of patently unlawful killings.
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As new details come out about follow-up strikes on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, a reminder that each of these attacks sets a dangerous precedent for a United States government that is trying to use a non-existent armed conflict to justify dozens of patently unlawful killings.