It’s because anyone who refuses to let go of their principles to assimilate into the shallow mediocrity of post-Howard era Australian Society, gets beaten up by bullies. In related news, I’m migrating to the UK and am unlikely to return to my native Oz as my leadership….
https://twitter.com/kirstinferguson/status/1426462002671591426
…made too many uncomfortable as it exposed their petty biases and intellectual laziness to ‘do the work’ to improve themselves. Instead? I was punished for being ‘outspoken’. I think you’ll find I was just ‘spoken’ but due to misogyny (explicit and internalised) I was shunned.
Well Australia, I gave you 10 years to see my value…. And you didn’t see I had anything to offer. So the Brain that drained the UK in the last Recession 1999 who then returned after the GFC in 2011 is now draining again in 2021. I’m not the first and after the Uni culture wars
….I’m unlikely to be the last. People with PhDs in Emerging Infectious Diseases should not be reduced to selling old growth Tasmanian forests per kilometre to the voracious Oz construction industry for $24 DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC
If you as a nation have eschewed the MANY opportunities to transition to a knowledge based economy from a ye olde ‘dig/grow/ship’ economy, you then get the leaders you deserve. Misogynist bullies. Most of those who show true leadership of any sort in Oz are Indigenous or migrants
But our racist insular penal colony mindset means they too are ignored, undermined and worse. Do better, Australia. Places to start? The Uluru Statement, constitutional and judicial reform and a bloody BILL OF RIGHTS, FFS!!! So fundamental, yet TOO HARD, apparently.
*FLOUNCES OFF TO DELTA RIDDEN BREXITLAND* Because as bad as BoJo is? He’s got bipartisan support for action on the #ClimateEmergency He’s a shocking leader, atrocious. But so is ScoMo the coal fondler. BoJo also knows he needs to stoke a decent #ideasboom after Brexit Brain Drain
…. So, maybe I’ll get the opportunity to use the THREE SCIENCE DEGREES (displayed in my wallpaper) again. Instead of selling dead trees to arrogant tradies at the arse end of the Earth. Maybe I’ll get to work on global challenges again, like Antimicrobial Resistance….
…or train others to do it. Gawd knows there’s no jobs left in the Oz Higher Ed sector, after its commodification then deliberate abandonment. Glad my global citizen kids will get opportunities to do more than run a cafe in a seaside town, catering to Franking credit rich oldies.
So Australia, you had a nascent leader arrive back on your shores, ready to get to work making this country and the work a better place. You fucked me over, so I’m GONE on SQ222 at 3pm today. ✈️✈️✈️✈️👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼
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