Dr Eileen O’Brien
@eilyob.bsky.social
Law academic, grandma, traveller and animal lover. Kaurna land (Adelaide SA)
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ABC’s news breakfast cross to its Adelaide reporter this morning is about Taylor Swift’s Era’s tour - instead of this 👇
We are very broken 😞 #auspol
We are very broken 😞 #auspol
Tweeted about an hour ago by 7 news in Adelaide #auspol
December 9, 2024 at 7:45 PM
ABC’s news breakfast cross to its Adelaide reporter this morning is about Taylor Swift’s Era’s tour - instead of this 👇
We are very broken 😞 #auspol
We are very broken 😞 #auspol
Dreadful.
Tweeted about an hour ago by 7 news in Adelaide #auspol
December 9, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Dreadful.
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Fascinating to see Amy Remeikis dropping all these truth bombs about the true agenda behind Dutton’s nuclear push in her new role working for @australiainstitute.org.au. She’s had to leave mainstream media to say this - all of it factual, watchdog journalism. Why can’t mainstream say it too?
When Peter Dutton releases the nuclear ‘costings’ later this week (as he’s committed) keep your eye on what’s actually at stake - the necessary energy transition
December 9, 2024 at 7:41 AM
Fascinating to see Amy Remeikis dropping all these truth bombs about the true agenda behind Dutton’s nuclear push in her new role working for @australiainstitute.org.au. She’s had to leave mainstream media to say this - all of it factual, watchdog journalism. Why can’t mainstream say it too?
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👌😉
Banks that don't want to bank, employment services that don't serve the unemployed; health insurers that do not insure health. The uniting theme here is disdain for people. My newsletter today: rickmorton.substack.com/p/merchants-...
Merchants of Menace
corporates that exist as the opposite of what they say they do
rickmorton.substack.com
December 9, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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“The soaring cost of rent, food, and essentials is driving people on income support payments deeper into poverty…
The way to end poverty is by raising the rate of income support. One of the world’s wealthiest nations should not be condemning people to poverty.”
theaimn.com/income-suppo...
The way to end poverty is by raising the rate of income support. One of the world’s wealthiest nations should not be condemning people to poverty.”
theaimn.com/income-suppo...
Income support needs a real increase, not just indexation - The AIM Network
Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) Media Release ACOSS is calling on the Federal Government to substantially boost income support payments after it announced small increases due to routine i...
theaimn.com
December 8, 2024 at 10:33 AM
“The soaring cost of rent, food, and essentials is driving people on income support payments deeper into poverty…
The way to end poverty is by raising the rate of income support. One of the world’s wealthiest nations should not be condemning people to poverty.”
theaimn.com/income-suppo...
The way to end poverty is by raising the rate of income support. One of the world’s wealthiest nations should not be condemning people to poverty.”
theaimn.com/income-suppo...
Amazing eyebrows www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
Police release two more photos of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s shooter
The hunt for Brian Thompson’s killer has yielded new evidence but few answers. New York’s mayor said, “The net is tightening.”
www.smh.com.au
December 9, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Amazing eyebrows www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
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You can’t end anyone’s #homelessness if there’s no #housing. State government’s must reinvest in social housing. #fixhousing
Homelessness much worse than before COVID leaves agencies battling a perfect storm
Agencies that help people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness are struggling to house them because of the shortfall of social housing and intense competition for affordable rentals.
theconversation.com
December 8, 2024 at 8:17 PM
You can’t end anyone’s #homelessness if there’s no #housing. State government’s must reinvest in social housing. #fixhousing
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To the people fear mongering about the Syrian victory. This one goes out to you.
December 8, 2024 at 4:40 AM
To the people fear mongering about the Syrian victory. This one goes out to you.
Same, same…
Had such a tumultuous growth year. Don't even know how to talk about it properly. Work and personal life: telling liars to go jump has been an ever-present theme of 2024. I feel better and at peace with myself for it, but I can't help feel any lingering naivety about humanity has been crushed.
December 8, 2024 at 6:46 AM
Same, same…
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The government should build public housing rather than waiting for it to be gifted to the community by developers who will extract the cost of it by overdevelopment. Fund it by value capture, land tax, rents or whatever, but don’t let the vulnerable become homeless and hopeless.
December 8, 2024 at 5:24 AM
The government should build public housing rather than waiting for it to be gifted to the community by developers who will extract the cost of it by overdevelopment. Fund it by value capture, land tax, rents or whatever, but don’t let the vulnerable become homeless and hopeless.
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Just wondering why lying in wait for someone and then putting several bullets into them is pre-meditated murder, but creating an algorithm to deny someone the medication that keeps them alive isn’t?
December 6, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Just wondering why lying in wait for someone and then putting several bullets into them is pre-meditated murder, but creating an algorithm to deny someone the medication that keeps them alive isn’t?
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“ACOSS has referred the Federal Government to the Commonwealth Ombudsman following the latest revelations that income support payments may have been illegally cancelled, affecting at least 1,000 people between April 2022 and July 2024.”
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ACOSS refers Federal Government to Ombudsman - The AIM Network
Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) Media Release ACOSS has referred the Federal Government to the Commonwealth Ombudsman following the latest revelations that income support payments may hav...
theaimn.com
December 6, 2024 at 10:28 PM
“ACOSS has referred the Federal Government to the Commonwealth Ombudsman following the latest revelations that income support payments may have been illegally cancelled, affecting at least 1,000 people between April 2022 and July 2024.”
theaimn.com/acoss-refers...
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‘If any good can be salvaged from this evil time, it is the solidarity of ordinary people, the crowds assembling again and again and again at events at which noisy contingents of Jews and Palestinians stand side-by-side…Writers – and everyone else – must take sides…’ Thankyou Jeff Sparrow.
Friday essay: ‘A future of dust’ – Jeff Sparrow on Gaza and why, in evil times, writers have a responsibility to take sides
Paradoxically, the very scale of the crisis in Gaza makes worthwhile even the tiniest gesture of solidarity.
theconversation.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:11 AM
‘If any good can be salvaged from this evil time, it is the solidarity of ordinary people, the crowds assembling again and again and again at events at which noisy contingents of Jews and Palestinians stand side-by-side…Writers – and everyone else – must take sides…’ Thankyou Jeff Sparrow.
These people are seriously 🦇 💩 crazy.
War against women and girls.
"Marriage is a sacred God-made union between a man and a woman, which is to be separated by no man. It is to model the reverence, love, sacrifice, and respect exemplified by Christ for His bride. Husbands are the head of their wives just as Christ is the head of the church." - Patrick Henry College
December 5, 2024 at 11:24 PM
These people are seriously 🦇 💩 crazy.
I sincerely believe this was a significant factor, Maryann. My daughter lives in the US and her partner is a committed Democrat (who voted) but several in their circle did not because of Gaza. I don’t think the older Dems (who, of course, run everything) understood the (rightful) degree of concern.
The youth vote was not as high in 2024 as in 2020 for Dems. They bizarrely swung to the incoming president or stayed at home. Gaza may have had something to do with it. There were warnings. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report finds
Human rights group says Israel ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ on strip’s 2.3m population
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2024 at 10:16 PM
I sincerely believe this was a significant factor, Maryann. My daughter lives in the US and her partner is a committed Democrat (who voted) but several in their circle did not because of Gaza. I don’t think the older Dems (who, of course, run everything) understood the (rightful) degree of concern.
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we have reached the ‘my iphone automatically dims its screen to unreadability to avoid overheating’ time of year here in australia!
December 4, 2024 at 11:51 PM
we have reached the ‘my iphone automatically dims its screen to unreadability to avoid overheating’ time of year here in australia!
Truth…
The sad and inevitable truth is in another 10 years, when it is all said and done and it is irrefutable Israel committed a genocide in Palestine, there will be many a handwringing think piece from those who defend Israel's actions now, claiming 'we didn't know'. They know. Remember that they knew.
December 4, 2024 at 6:58 AM
Truth…
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In electorates with significant Chinese and Muslim populations, AUKUS raises concerns. Policies like AUKUS fuel distrust, perpetuate racism, and ignore community voices. Voter education is essential to challenge a foreign policy that prioritises militarism over equality and dignity for all. #auspol
AUKUS harming Chinese and Muslim Australians - Pearls and Irritations
In electorates with high numbers of Chinese and Muslim voters, it is time for a reckoning with Labor’s AUKUS policy.
johnmenadue.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:30 AM
In electorates with significant Chinese and Muslim populations, AUKUS raises concerns. Policies like AUKUS fuel distrust, perpetuate racism, and ignore community voices. Voter education is essential to challenge a foreign policy that prioritises militarism over equality and dignity for all. #auspol
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Here's me. "Australia’s duopoly is cruel, captured, and must be destroyed"
Australia's duopoly is cruel, captured and must be destroyed - The Shot
Parliamentary politics cannot save us - but we might be able to save parliamentary politics. The ALP and the Coalition cannot be trusted.
theshot.net.au
December 3, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Here's me. "Australia’s duopoly is cruel, captured, and must be destroyed"
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Environmental policy IS economic policy
#Climate change exacerbates inequality & disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable.
"The world is getting ever hotter and we must reduce the temperature to protect our health...we must phase out fossil fuels" - Dr Kate Wylie
@docsenvaus.bsky.social
#auspol
"The world is getting ever hotter and we must reduce the temperature to protect our health...we must phase out fossil fuels" - Dr Kate Wylie
@docsenvaus.bsky.social
#auspol
December 2, 2024 at 5:13 AM
Environmental policy IS economic policy
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Except if you have dementia ... then your access to VAD is denied, regardless of whether any living will instructions. By definition, you can't consent when you are not sentient. Just live with it. Dreadful iniquity. See simonchapman6.com/2022/06/09/t...
Those with dementia shut out of Australian voluntary assisted dying laws
Photo by Tim Doerfler on Unsplash With the long overdue and very welcome passage in the NSW parliament of independent MP Alex Greenwich’s bill to legalise voluntary assisted dying, all six states h…
simonchapman6.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Except if you have dementia ... then your access to VAD is denied, regardless of whether any living will instructions. By definition, you can't consent when you are not sentient. Just live with it. Dreadful iniquity. See simonchapman6.com/2022/06/09/t...
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Fortunately there is adequate and affordable #housing for everyone in Australia, so it only seems right that our collective investment funds should now fix Britain’s housing crisis, she said sarcastically.
A new town centre in London promises to build 3,000 homes. It's being funded by everyday Australians' super
Australia's biggest super fund has invested millions of dollars into a London development, which will deliver homes, workspaces and a retail precinct in London at the same time Australia's housing cri...
www.abc.net.au
December 1, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Fortunately there is adequate and affordable #housing for everyone in Australia, so it only seems right that our collective investment funds should now fix Britain’s housing crisis, she said sarcastically.
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We killed another 21 aged care residents this week.
About 8% of aged care homes in Australia are currently experiencing a COVID outbreak, putting many more thousands of people at risk. 133 new outbreaks, 21 deaths and 1,313 COVID infections in just 7 days.
About 8% of aged care homes in Australia are currently experiencing a COVID outbreak, putting many more thousands of people at risk. 133 new outbreaks, 21 deaths and 1,313 COVID infections in just 7 days.
November 30, 2024 at 2:10 AM
We killed another 21 aged care residents this week.
About 8% of aged care homes in Australia are currently experiencing a COVID outbreak, putting many more thousands of people at risk. 133 new outbreaks, 21 deaths and 1,313 COVID infections in just 7 days.
About 8% of aged care homes in Australia are currently experiencing a COVID outbreak, putting many more thousands of people at risk. 133 new outbreaks, 21 deaths and 1,313 COVID infections in just 7 days.