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💧😷Kate Hayford 朱晓韵, Unquiet Australian 🇦🇺 🇱🇹 Profile picture
@democratie_kate
Sep 17, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1/UPDATE: Thanks to @ajmckenna for this. Yesterday the AEC released a notice of intention to deregister #ClivePalmer's United Australia Party, under section 137 (1) (b) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act.

I've got the Act in front of me so I'll cut and paste exactly what it says:
2/ 137. Deregistration of political party on other grounds

(1) If the Electoral Commission is satisfied on reasonable grounds
that:

(b) a political party so registered, not being a Parliamentary party, has ceased to have at least 500 members
3/Knowing Clive, he'll try and get his employees to become members, which is against the Constitution. (Hah! I didn't read it for nothing!)

Anyway, I'll keep working on my independent report just in case he manages to weasel out of this one. But yay AEC!

#auspol #QLDvotes

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💧😷Kate Hayford 朱晓韵, Unquiet Australian 🇦🇺 🇱🇹 Profile picture
Nov 7, 2020
1/I have always deplored Australia's aggressive stance towards China. We were right to call for an inquiry into COVID-19, but Morrison's sledgehammer tactics were a grievous error. The US can get away with it. But Australia is a small nation economically dependent on China.
2/I cannot fathom why Morrison sought to emulate Trump other than that 'imitation is the sincerest form of flattery', in which case Morrison lacks an understanding of Trump as well as of China. Surely he didn't expect Trump to back him up or bail Australia out of this mess.
3/If he did, he has no business being the Prime Minister of Australia. That's no way to run your foreign relations. Any diplomatic advisor worth their salt would have warned Morrison against such aggression towards China w/out other nations' support. Pity he got rid of them all.
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💧😷Kate Hayford 朱晓韵, Unquiet Australian 🇦🇺 🇱🇹 Profile picture
Oct 31, 2020
@tengbiao 1/Je suis entièrement d'accord!! ✊C'est précisément ainsi que je considère Trump. Merci de partager cet article, il clarifie plusieurs choses que j'ai eu du mal à articuler précédemment. J'ai parlé avec plusieurs amis du danger que Trump représente pour la démocratie.
@tengbiao 2/Presque tous rationalisent que Trump est un outil à utiliser pour s'opposer au CCP, auquel je réponds, Trump est un couteau sans poignée, il n'y a pas de moyen sûr de le saisir. La fin ne justifie pas les moyens; Trump lui-même est une menace pour la démocratie.
@tengbiao 3/De plus, soutenir Trump signifie soutenir les faux récits diffusés par les médias tels que Fox News. Comment cela peut-il être une bonne chose? Je suis australienne, j'ai vécu la majeure partie de ma vie dans une société démocratique, mais je sais tout de même de la propagande
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💧😷Kate Hayford 朱晓韵, Unquiet Australian 🇦🇺 🇱🇹 Profile picture
Oct 30, 2020
1/I'll expand on this. My sons' primary school was able to build a new wing of portable classrooms and buy iPads for every class. The garden & cooking programs have been a huge success - for 10 years the kids have grown their own produce & raised chooks.
2/Each class works in the garden once a week and the kids love it. They harvest the veggies and learn to make nutritional recipes from them. Any surplus is sold to parents on 'market day'. Once every school in the area had a kitchen and garden program. Now, ours is the only one.
3/And the only reason we've still got it is b/c a number of parents generously volunteered their time & b/c we've paid out of our own pockets to keep it going. Other schools haven't been so fortunate. It's a real shame. I mean it. I see for myself how much the kids get out of it.
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💧😷Kate Hayford 朱晓韵, Unquiet Australian 🇦🇺 🇱🇹 Profile picture
Oct 13, 2020
1/OK, I'll address this once more & then I'm done.

The concept of renouncing one's 'entitlement to citizenship' is not a simple one, because there is no provision for it under Australian law. It depends completely on the law of the country to which one is entitled citizenship.
2/The 26 other 'entitled' parliamentarians aside, I see no practical reason to go through the hassle of applying to Lithuania essentially to say 'Hi, just letting you know I will never, ever claim citizenship in your country. Can you acknowledge in writing? Ačiū, gražios dienos!'
3/A hypothetical: What if Australia becomes unsafe to live in down the track? What if I am forced to seek asylum elsewhere? There are two countries in the world where I have family: Lithuania and the US, and the US is proper fucked. I know, what a ridiculous question, etc.
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💧😷Kate Hayford 朱晓韵, Unquiet Australian 🇦🇺 🇱🇹 Profile picture
Sep 27, 2020
1/Hey Tweeps

I have ideas and I can make speeches but I can't organise an uprising. I can barely organise myself. I just got over a ten-year opioid addiction, I have MS, and I'm so tired. I'm working a demanding job that pays fuck-all at present because I'm still in training.
2/I translate Chinese for an e-publishing house. I taught myself to read & write it but I've only been learning for 2 years. Translation is not an easy job but I can do it from home, an important consideration b/c of my MS and being in the at-risk 10% for COVID-19 complications.
3/I could've got an easier job in academic editing, maybe, but after 8 years I'm fucking over it.

Seriously, I'm exhausted. I'm still trying to finish my report on #ClivePalmer. With no legal qualifications & a lengthy act of legislation I acquainted myself with a week ago.
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Sep 27, 2020
1/Fuck. I knew this would open a can of worms. I'm not done yet. I said I held off commenting until I was decently informed. But there was one crucial thing I overlooked and I'm so sorry. It's to do with the BRI and its relationship to China's central government.
2/The BRI is critical to China's success on the world stage and to Xi Jinping's claim to the presidency for life. That's why it's so important to the CCP and why China's top brass are pushing it so exhaustively. But there's one thing about this that misleads everyone.
3/The impression we get is that the BRI is Xi's brainchild, centrally organised & executed flawlessly from top to bottom.

In reality, the BRI is neither centralised nor uniform in planning & implementation.
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