Melanie Raymond,OAM
@melanieraymond.bsky.social
Melbourne, Australia. Chair, Youth Projects
Well behaved women rarely make history.
Labor historian, feminist, and a nuisance.
Fighting on public health, homelessness, social and economic justice, improving lives in Melbournes's poorest areas.
Well behaved women rarely make history.
Labor historian, feminist, and a nuisance.
Fighting on public health, homelessness, social and economic justice, improving lives in Melbournes's poorest areas.
Former Nun recounts 50 years of abuse in a Carmelite monstery to an inquiry on cults and fringe groups, and Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Peter Comensoli lectures her on "lived reality"
If she didn't like it why didn't she just leave?
First rule: always deny.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
If she didn't like it why didn't she just leave?
First rule: always deny.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Mary was looking for a noble life. Instead, she says she was caught in a fringe group
Former nun Mary Hughes alleges she was subjected to multiple forms of abuse during her 60 years at a Carmelite monastery in Melbourne.
www.abc.net.au
December 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Former Nun recounts 50 years of abuse in a Carmelite monstery to an inquiry on cults and fringe groups, and Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Peter Comensoli lectures her on "lived reality"
If she didn't like it why didn't she just leave?
First rule: always deny.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
If she didn't like it why didn't she just leave?
First rule: always deny.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Trump is now just yelling :
"The floggings will continue until
morale improves"
🤦🏽♀️
"The floggings will continue until
morale improves"
🤦🏽♀️
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Trump is now just yelling :
"The floggings will continue until
morale improves"
🤦🏽♀️
"The floggings will continue until
morale improves"
🤦🏽♀️
It's absolutley true that the transition into housing can be traumatic and cruel in the way it's handled, from day one, with little respect for the individual's prior sense of friends, community, local know how and geography. So little housing left now, nobody's making the transition anyway in Vic.
ICYMI: Older adults who have experienced homelessness feel deeply alone, even after returning to housing.
Nearly 40% report #loneliness—far higher than those who were able to remain in housing.
It's not just a feeling—it can harm people's health.
Learn what supports could help: buff.ly/Dr4VxKa
Nearly 40% report #loneliness—far higher than those who were able to remain in housing.
It's not just a feeling—it can harm people's health.
Learn what supports could help: buff.ly/Dr4VxKa
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
It's absolutley true that the transition into housing can be traumatic and cruel in the way it's handled, from day one, with little respect for the individual's prior sense of friends, community, local know how and geography. So little housing left now, nobody's making the transition anyway in Vic.
Reposted by Melanie Raymond,OAM
Trump's response to Rob Reiner's death drips with a tone of just deserts. It reads like a narcissist’s cackle. It is a grotesque response from a man whose boundless and wholly unearned sense of self-worth long ago crowded out any decency.
My column on a new low:
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
My column on a new low:
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Trump's response to Rob Reiner's death is a vile new low | Opinion
Less than 24 hours after the horrific stabbing deaths of beloved Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, Donald Trump found a new low.
www.usatoday.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Trump's response to Rob Reiner's death drips with a tone of just deserts. It reads like a narcissist’s cackle. It is a grotesque response from a man whose boundless and wholly unearned sense of self-worth long ago crowded out any decency.
My column on a new low:
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
My column on a new low:
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Shut up and go away John Howard.
You passed historical gun control laws, we had strong consensus and you should be using your voice to help the effort to do more, not trying to scorepolitical points for your disaster of a Party.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
You passed historical gun control laws, we had strong consensus and you should be using your voice to help the effort to do more, not trying to scorepolitical points for your disaster of a Party.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Howard slams Albanese’s leadership, calls changes to gun laws a ‘diversion’
Former prime minister John Howard has declared the government’s push to reform gun laws following the Bondi terror attack a distraction from fighting antisemitism.
www.smh.com.au
December 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Shut up and go away John Howard.
You passed historical gun control laws, we had strong consensus and you should be using your voice to help the effort to do more, not trying to scorepolitical points for your disaster of a Party.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
You passed historical gun control laws, we had strong consensus and you should be using your voice to help the effort to do more, not trying to scorepolitical points for your disaster of a Party.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
There's two of them in there.
Mila and her brother Nikolai.
They boss the two large golden retrievers around. Have also taken possession of the two dog beds without incident.
#Caturday
Mila and her brother Nikolai.
They boss the two large golden retrievers around. Have also taken possession of the two dog beds without incident.
#Caturday
December 7, 2025 at 5:39 AM
There's two of them in there.
Mila and her brother Nikolai.
They boss the two large golden retrievers around. Have also taken possession of the two dog beds without incident.
#Caturday
Mila and her brother Nikolai.
They boss the two large golden retrievers around. Have also taken possession of the two dog beds without incident.
#Caturday
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“Kash Patel lecturing America about ‘attacking our institutions’ while Trump pardoned roughly 1,500 people who literally attacked our institutions is peak MAGA comedy. It’s like the arsonist giving a fire-safety seminar.”
December 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“Kash Patel lecturing America about ‘attacking our institutions’ while Trump pardoned roughly 1,500 people who literally attacked our institutions is peak MAGA comedy. It’s like the arsonist giving a fire-safety seminar.”
Very affirming when a client says this at the opening of our 4th social enterprise cafe:
"When I think of Youth Projects, I think of nothing but respect and kindness"
It's the only thing we preach.
She now has core job skills, confidence and a path out of poverty. We're set open two more cafes.
"When I think of Youth Projects, I think of nothing but respect and kindness"
It's the only thing we preach.
She now has core job skills, confidence and a path out of poverty. We're set open two more cafes.
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Very affirming when a client says this at the opening of our 4th social enterprise cafe:
"When I think of Youth Projects, I think of nothing but respect and kindness"
It's the only thing we preach.
She now has core job skills, confidence and a path out of poverty. We're set open two more cafes.
"When I think of Youth Projects, I think of nothing but respect and kindness"
It's the only thing we preach.
She now has core job skills, confidence and a path out of poverty. We're set open two more cafes.
Reposted by Melanie Raymond,OAM
They're going broke from all the abuse.
But today, I think this is the story: Anglican Bishop says he is shielding parishioners from extent of sex abuse payouts because "offenders have been much admired people in our diocesan community"
This is the reckoning.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
But today, I think this is the story: Anglican Bishop says he is shielding parishioners from extent of sex abuse payouts because "offenders have been much admired people in our diocesan community"
This is the reckoning.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Anglican Diocese of Ballarat under financial strain from abuse payouts
An Anglican bishop says regional dioceses around Australia are facing financial pressure and potential closure due to having to pay millions of dollars to abuse victim-survivors.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
They're going broke from all the abuse.
But today, I think this is the story: Anglican Bishop says he is shielding parishioners from extent of sex abuse payouts because "offenders have been much admired people in our diocesan community"
This is the reckoning.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
But today, I think this is the story: Anglican Bishop says he is shielding parishioners from extent of sex abuse payouts because "offenders have been much admired people in our diocesan community"
This is the reckoning.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Such an honour to announce the Youth Leader of the Year,
Harry Quayle, at our Youth Awards
as chair of Youth Projects. Lots of nominees in every category all superstars advocating for human rights,
dignity, respect, and all inspired to make a difference in their disadvantaged communities.
Harry Quayle, at our Youth Awards
as chair of Youth Projects. Lots of nominees in every category all superstars advocating for human rights,
dignity, respect, and all inspired to make a difference in their disadvantaged communities.
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Such an honour to announce the Youth Leader of the Year,
Harry Quayle, at our Youth Awards
as chair of Youth Projects. Lots of nominees in every category all superstars advocating for human rights,
dignity, respect, and all inspired to make a difference in their disadvantaged communities.
Harry Quayle, at our Youth Awards
as chair of Youth Projects. Lots of nominees in every category all superstars advocating for human rights,
dignity, respect, and all inspired to make a difference in their disadvantaged communities.
Hey @NYTimes.com
Still a pariah.
To me and so many others.
Once a Pariah, Saudi Prince Resets U.S. Relations on His Own Terms www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Still a pariah.
To me and so many others.
Once a Pariah, Saudi Prince Resets U.S. Relations on His Own Terms www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Once a Pariah, Saudi Prince Resets U.S. Relations on His Own Terms
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Hey @NYTimes.com
Still a pariah.
To me and so many others.
Once a Pariah, Saudi Prince Resets U.S. Relations on His Own Terms www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Still a pariah.
To me and so many others.
Once a Pariah, Saudi Prince Resets U.S. Relations on His Own Terms www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Neighborhood Dog Club meeting couldn't think of any agenda items because they already have everything they want and need. Maybe more food scraps at the table or second breakfast, but that won't pass the Senate.
Meeting descended into zoomies and chaos.
The local border collies are unimpressed.
Meeting descended into zoomies and chaos.
The local border collies are unimpressed.
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Neighborhood Dog Club meeting couldn't think of any agenda items because they already have everything they want and need. Maybe more food scraps at the table or second breakfast, but that won't pass the Senate.
Meeting descended into zoomies and chaos.
The local border collies are unimpressed.
Meeting descended into zoomies and chaos.
The local border collies are unimpressed.
This man is a pedophile. He chose to assault
a girl in her bed.
Why does The Age include "problematic workplace culture" and "the myriad failures within NSW prisons which allowed a former prison guard to rape 14 female prisoners."
Did work make him do it? No. 🤦🏽♀️
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
a girl in her bed.
Why does The Age include "problematic workplace culture" and "the myriad failures within NSW prisons which allowed a former prison guard to rape 14 female prisoners."
Did work make him do it? No. 🤦🏽♀️
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
The girl woke to find a man in her bedroom. Police later discovered something very disturbing
Former prison guard Gary Waddell had previously asked the girl to sell fetish photos and start an OnlyFans account. He has been sentenced to prison.
www.theage.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
This man is a pedophile. He chose to assault
a girl in her bed.
Why does The Age include "problematic workplace culture" and "the myriad failures within NSW prisons which allowed a former prison guard to rape 14 female prisoners."
Did work make him do it? No. 🤦🏽♀️
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
a girl in her bed.
Why does The Age include "problematic workplace culture" and "the myriad failures within NSW prisons which allowed a former prison guard to rape 14 female prisoners."
Did work make him do it? No. 🤦🏽♀️
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
Wait. Are people figuring out how tariffs work? Including their President?
The US has a record shortage of beef cattle. It doesn't even grow coffee.
Tariffs raise prices .
None of this is new information.
Trump's power trip is just economic idiocy.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
The US has a record shortage of beef cattle. It doesn't even grow coffee.
Tariffs raise prices .
None of this is new information.
Trump's power trip is just economic idiocy.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Trump reverses course on beef tariff as pressure builds over cost of living
Hundreds of food products, including beef and oranges, are now exempted from US trade tariffs, according to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Friday.
www.abc.net.au
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Wait. Are people figuring out how tariffs work? Including their President?
The US has a record shortage of beef cattle. It doesn't even grow coffee.
Tariffs raise prices .
None of this is new information.
Trump's power trip is just economic idiocy.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
The US has a record shortage of beef cattle. It doesn't even grow coffee.
Tariffs raise prices .
None of this is new information.
Trump's power trip is just economic idiocy.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Maybe the police can base the new laws on the rules introduced at Sydney and Melb universities after a half dozen undergrad students in sleeping bags protested genocide were harassed, threatened and punished.
The students were never the problem. We have actual Nazis.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
The students were never the problem. We have actual Nazis.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Far-right figure who visited ‘motherland’ Germany is close to forming national party
Sydney man Jack Eltis said the National Socialist Network “was about 90 per cent” of the way to forming state and national parties.
www.smh.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Maybe the police can base the new laws on the rules introduced at Sydney and Melb universities after a half dozen undergrad students in sleeping bags protested genocide were harassed, threatened and punished.
The students were never the problem. We have actual Nazis.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
The students were never the problem. We have actual Nazis.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Crazy to spend well over $1 billion upgrading public transport in an inner city area rich in PT like Brunswick while delaying urgent projects in the rapidly expanding west of Melbourne where there is nothing. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
Infrastructure Victoria objects to government delay on key rail upgrade for the west
Plans to extend the Metro network to Melton should be accelerated, the state’s infrastructure adviser says, but the state government has said it will wait until after 2030.
www.theage.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Crazy to spend well over $1 billion upgrading public transport in an inner city area rich in PT like Brunswick while delaying urgent projects in the rapidly expanding west of Melbourne where there is nothing. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
The @nytimes.com offered up this
pile of largely unchallenged horeshit as analysis.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
pile of largely unchallenged horeshit as analysis.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
The MAHA-Fueled Rise of Natural Family Planning
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The @nytimes.com offered up this
pile of largely unchallenged horeshit as analysis.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
pile of largely unchallenged horeshit as analysis.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
Deeds matter much more than words. 🤦🏽♀️
A children’s pastor filmed girls in a church bathroom.
A preacher accused of abusing children was sent to therapy.
A worship minister who molested boys got a welcome-home party from his congregation .
All remained ministers in the Assemblies of God — all went on to abuse more children.
A preacher accused of abusing children was sent to therapy.
A worship minister who molested boys got a welcome-home party from his congregation .
All remained ministers in the Assemblies of God — all went on to abuse more children.
How Assemblies of God churches shielded accused predators as they abused children
NBC News uncovered a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.
www.nbcnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Deeds matter much more than words. 🤦🏽♀️
We are all owed an apology about the very existence of about beauty pageants.
Financial scandal, sexual predation, exploitation, misogny, insult.
Miss Universe Organizer Apologizes After Tirade at Miss Mexico www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
Financial scandal, sexual predation, exploitation, misogny, insult.
Miss Universe Organizer Apologizes After Tirade at Miss Mexico www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
Miss Universe Organizer Apologizes After Tirade at Miss Mexico
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We are all owed an apology about the very existence of about beauty pageants.
Financial scandal, sexual predation, exploitation, misogny, insult.
Miss Universe Organizer Apologizes After Tirade at Miss Mexico www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
Financial scandal, sexual predation, exploitation, misogny, insult.
Miss Universe Organizer Apologizes After Tirade at Miss Mexico www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
So you dont have to bother, no it did not.
But this boring evidence-free clap trap says feminists are ruining things for men. It's alarmist NYT click bait. Talk to feminists not mock Schlafflys 🤬
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
So you dont have to bother, no it did not.
But this boring evidence-free clap trap says feminists are ruining things for men. It's alarmist NYT click bait. Talk to feminists not mock Schlafflys 🤬
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
So you dont have to bother, no it did not.
But this boring evidence-free clap trap says feminists are ruining things for men. It's alarmist NYT click bait. Talk to feminists not mock Schlafflys 🤬
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
So you dont have to bother, no it did not.
But this boring evidence-free clap trap says feminists are ruining things for men. It's alarmist NYT click bait. Talk to feminists not mock Schlafflys 🤬
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Reposted by Melanie Raymond,OAM
A children’s pastor filmed girls in a church bathroom.
A preacher accused of abusing children was sent to therapy.
A worship minister who molested boys got a welcome-home party from his congregation .
All remained ministers in the Assemblies of God — all went on to abuse more children.
A preacher accused of abusing children was sent to therapy.
A worship minister who molested boys got a welcome-home party from his congregation .
All remained ministers in the Assemblies of God — all went on to abuse more children.
How Assemblies of God churches shielded accused predators as they abused children
NBC News uncovered a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.
www.nbcnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A children’s pastor filmed girls in a church bathroom.
A preacher accused of abusing children was sent to therapy.
A worship minister who molested boys got a welcome-home party from his congregation .
All remained ministers in the Assemblies of God — all went on to abuse more children.
A preacher accused of abusing children was sent to therapy.
A worship minister who molested boys got a welcome-home party from his congregation .
All remained ministers in the Assemblies of God — all went on to abuse more children.
Four right wing male politicans are trying to incite debate about "late term abortions"with wilfully ignorant definitions and accusations regarding still births.
They have no idea how the term abortion is used medically or of the procedure and why.
A vote loser.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
They have no idea how the term abortion is used medically or of the procedure and why.
A vote loser.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Hastie, Joyce ignite late-term abortion fight over paid leave for stillbirth law
Four Coalition MPs have renewed a debate over “late-term abortions” in federal parliament, raising concern that laws guaranteeing paid leave for parents of stillborn children will be used by mothers w...
www.theage.com.au
October 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Four right wing male politicans are trying to incite debate about "late term abortions"with wilfully ignorant definitions and accusations regarding still births.
They have no idea how the term abortion is used medically or of the procedure and why.
A vote loser.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
They have no idea how the term abortion is used medically or of the procedure and why.
A vote loser.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
There are American institutions that are so well known they have their own roles in movies and TV shows, eg the CDC.
This is ruining vital infrastructure that helped make America amazing to the world.
Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or ‘Humiliation’? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...
This is ruining vital infrastructure that helped make America amazing to the world.
Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or ‘Humiliation’? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...
Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or ‘Humiliation’?
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
There are American institutions that are so well known they have their own roles in movies and TV shows, eg the CDC.
This is ruining vital infrastructure that helped make America amazing to the world.
Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or ‘Humiliation’? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...
This is ruining vital infrastructure that helped make America amazing to the world.
Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or ‘Humiliation’? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...
Reposted by Melanie Raymond,OAM
Watch my supercut of things Mike Johnson doesn’t know. You can see the whole show here: www.youtube.com/live/Ams4OLn...
October 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Watch my supercut of things Mike Johnson doesn’t know. You can see the whole show here: www.youtube.com/live/Ams4OLn...