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Barrister & Human Rights Lawyer, writer, feminist, filmmaker - political being. Latest books Wage Rage for Equal Pay-Australia's Long Long Struggle, 2024; Beauty Women's Bodies and the Law-Performances in Plastic, 2020; Women Power and Autonomy, 2025
The Democrat Who Split MAGA Over the Epstein Files www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
Opinion | The Democrat Who Split MAGA Over the Epstein Files
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November 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The Democrat Who Split MAGA Over the Epstein Files www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
It's time for Schumer to step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people. sign.moveon.org/petitions/sc...
Schumer: Step Down as Minority Leader!
It's time for Schumer to step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It's time for Schumer to step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people. sign.moveon.org/petitions/sc...
Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
#TaxTheBanks
Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing.
The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Well who takes this House would-be-speaker seriously anymore, either!
Reporter: Dr Oz said that—
Jeffries: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously… I’m not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz who is woefully unqualified.
Jeffries: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously… I’m not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz who is woefully unqualified.
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Well who takes this House would-be-speaker seriously anymore, either!
It’s no accident that Nazis rallied in Sydney. Police waved them through — and now Minns wants to punish us all www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/11/n... Utterly incomprehensible. Shame NSW Premier Minns. Shame NSW Police Commissioner (forgettable character who ought to have resigned immediately).
It's no accident that Nazis rallied in Sydney. Police waved them through — and now Minns wants to punish us all
The existing law in NSW is more than adequate to have avoided the images of Nazis outside state parliament over the weekend.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
It’s no accident that Nazis rallied in Sydney. Police waved them through — and now Minns wants to punish us all www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/11/n... Utterly incomprehensible. Shame NSW Premier Minns. Shame NSW Police Commissioner (forgettable character who ought to have resigned immediately).
Similar to a former Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives who, when the Liberal (conservative) Party lost, said words to the effect of 'we didn't lose, we just didn't get enough votes' ...
Fox Propaganda has gone Full George Orwell to cope with last night's ferocious rebuke to Republicans and, especially, Trump.
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Similar to a former Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives who, when the Liberal (conservative) Party lost, said words to the effect of 'we didn't lose, we just didn't get enough votes' ...
Scientists thought the Great Barrier Reef was doomed – but a new study finds hope www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in... [But why should it have to 'adapt'? Shouldn't we be able to work harder to save it?!]
Scientists thought the Great Barrier Reef was doomed – but a new study finds hope - News | InDaily, Inside Queensland
The most comprehensive modelling to date paints a troubling portrait of the Great Barrier Reef under climate change, but finds adaptation is still possible.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Scientists thought the Great Barrier Reef was doomed – but a new study finds hope www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in... [But why should it have to 'adapt'? Shouldn't we be able to work harder to save it?!]
NSW Australia - Labor says no to future privatisation.
Sign the petition now. www.nswlabor.org.au/say_no_to_pr...
Sign the petition now. www.nswlabor.org.au/say_no_to_pr...
Say No to Privatisation
Say no to future privatisation.
Sign the petition now.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
NSW Australia - Labor says no to future privatisation.
Sign the petition now. www.nswlabor.org.au/say_no_to_pr...
Sign the petition now. www.nswlabor.org.au/say_no_to_pr...
Update for Cambridge/Arbury/Nth Cambridge-£80m Proposed Development
Drop-in Sessions
Monday 17 Nov-Akeman St Community Centre 5pm-6.30pm
Saturday 22 Nov-Meadows Community Centre 11am-12.30pm
Monday 1 December-Brown's Field Community Centre 5.30pm-7pm
Webinar - 27th November from 5.30-7.30pm
Drop-in Sessions
Monday 17 Nov-Akeman St Community Centre 5pm-6.30pm
Saturday 22 Nov-Meadows Community Centre 11am-12.30pm
Monday 1 December-Brown's Field Community Centre 5.30pm-7pm
Webinar - 27th November from 5.30-7.30pm
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Update for Cambridge/Arbury/Nth Cambridge-£80m Proposed Development
Drop-in Sessions
Monday 17 Nov-Akeman St Community Centre 5pm-6.30pm
Saturday 22 Nov-Meadows Community Centre 11am-12.30pm
Monday 1 December-Brown's Field Community Centre 5.30pm-7pm
Webinar - 27th November from 5.30-7.30pm
Drop-in Sessions
Monday 17 Nov-Akeman St Community Centre 5pm-6.30pm
Saturday 22 Nov-Meadows Community Centre 11am-12.30pm
Monday 1 December-Brown's Field Community Centre 5.30pm-7pm
Webinar - 27th November from 5.30-7.30pm
For up-to-date analysis/insights into women's rights to our own bodies see chapter 8, Women, Power and Autonomy - Rights, Respect and Representation in Law and Society, out 16 November, Palgrave Macmillan, JA Scutt ...
Male resentment is driving right-wing populism. It will always default to a war on women www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/04/m...
Male resentment is driving right-wing populism. It will always default to a war on women
The determination of anti-abortion MPs to talk about curtailing access to abortion reflects something fundamental to right-wing populism.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
For up-to-date analysis/insights into women's rights to our own bodies see chapter 8, Women, Power and Autonomy - Rights, Respect and Representation in Law and Society, out 16 November, Palgrave Macmillan, JA Scutt ...
Male resentment is driving right-wing populism. It will always default to a war on women www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/04/m...
Male resentment is driving right-wing populism. It will always default to a war on women
The determination of anti-abortion MPs to talk about curtailing access to abortion reflects something fundamental to right-wing populism.
www.crikey.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Male resentment is driving right-wing populism. It will always default to a war on women www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/04/m...
Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
Save NHS dentistry now!
I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...
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October 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
Not a word re profit-motive in privatised child 'care'. Get privateers out. Return to publicly run childcare. It won't cost $22b and the harm profiteering creates. Children are too precious for sacrifice to private profit. Get shareholders out. Sue the lot. womensagenda.com.au/latest/we-bu...
We built a playground for perpetrators. Here’s how to stop them
Child abuse in early learning continues to grow because systemic naivety, secrecy, neglect and ignorance allow perpetrators to thrive.
womensagenda.com.au
October 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Not a word re profit-motive in privatised child 'care'. Get privateers out. Return to publicly run childcare. It won't cost $22b and the harm profiteering creates. Children are too precious for sacrifice to private profit. Get shareholders out. Sue the lot. womensagenda.com.au/latest/we-bu...
Biden Admin Discarded Internal Finding That Israel Killed Journalist on Purpose truthout.org/articles/off...
Biden Admin Discarded Internal Finding That Israel Killed Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Purpose
Col. Steve Gabavics says his boss suppressed evidence that Israeli soldiers intentionally killed Shireen Abu Akleh.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Biden Admin Discarded Internal Finding That Israel Killed Journalist on Purpose truthout.org/articles/off...
PM Announces "Presumption of Contact" Scrapped! But Is It Just Window Dressing?
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PM Announces "Presumption of Contact" Scrapped!
But Is It Just Window Dressing?
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October 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
PM Announces "Presumption of Contact" Scrapped! But Is It Just Window Dressing?
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@thebarcouncil #PupillageFair2025 Happening Saturday 18 October www.barcouncil.org.uk/training-eve...
Pupillage Fair 2025 programme
View our 2025 Pupillage Fair programme - your complete guide to the event
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October 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
@thebarcouncil #PupillageFair2025 Happening Saturday 18 October www.barcouncil.org.uk/training-eve...
Week beginning 8 October 2025 robrjo6.com/2025/10/08/w...
Week beginning 8 October 2025
Danielle Leavitt, By the Second Spring Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for re…
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October 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences.
They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
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October 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for Forestry England to restore their Ancient Woodlands lost under timber plantations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for Forestry England to restore their Ancient Woodlands lost under timber plantations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for Forestry England to restore their Ancient Woodlands lost under timber plantations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for Forestry England to restore their Ancient Woodlands lost under timber plantations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
SHAME! Yes, shouting ... How the Commonwealth Organization Colluded with Pakistan to Suppress Evidence of a Rigged Election open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
How the Commonwealth Organization Colluded with Pakistan to Suppress Evidence of a Rigged Election
Commonwealth was dedicated to improving democratic practices. Now it was being wielded to protect a government that had clearly come to power by stealing an election.
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September 27, 2025 at 6:07 AM
SHAME! Yes, shouting ... How the Commonwealth Organization Colluded with Pakistan to Suppress Evidence of a Rigged Election open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
Don't ever use @aussiehomeloans.bsky.social - I have been trying to call them from overseas - they do not have WhatsApp and play interminable music (sic)(musak) then automatically cut off after 4 minutes. THEY ARE HOPELESS.
September 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Don't ever use @aussiehomeloans.bsky.social - I have been trying to call them from overseas - they do not have WhatsApp and play interminable music (sic)(musak) then automatically cut off after 4 minutes. THEY ARE HOPELESS.
Virgin Airlines Idiocy. But what else could one expect from the naming and origins of this 'transport provider'.
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It’s 2025, and breastfeeding in public is still treated like a crime
Dr Elise Turner was recently asked to leave the Virgin Australia business lounge for discreetly pumping breast milk beneath her shirt.
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September 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Virgin Airlines Idiocy. But what else could one expect from the naming and origins of this 'transport provider'.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/its-2...
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