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Jul 14, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Tim Smith’s comments about violence in sport have gotten under my skin.
My youth was full of violent men.
Men who’d go out onto a sports field and be applauded for acts of violence
Men who beat their dogs, their wives, their children, my mother, me. Even kill my pets. 1/7 🧵
Men who drank too much, who killed in cars going too fast & too drunk
Men who’d be racist just to be cruel, homophobic to be “manly”, sexist for a laugh & murderous in a rage
They lived for the “biff”
They lived in & spread pain, love was “weakness”
They lost everything
2/7
Sep 10, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A short thread on why, as a Victorian, I care so much about #COVID19nsw.
Firstly, Victorians did so much to protect, not just Victoria but, the whole nation in 2020.
We locked down, we worked from home, we zoomed, we did PPE, we sat in a cold dark winter so the rest of Australia didn’t get COVID.
It was hard, no one “enjoyed it”, but we did it because it protected ourselves, our families, Victoria and the nation.
May 9, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Josh Frydenburg was given the power to save jobs, save livelihoods and even to save lives as he could alter #Jobkeeper to include more people and workplaces
Instead he’s been doing the opposite and now millions are missing out #Thread#auspol 1/10
His first changes were to improve the access for charities, change some definitions around entity rules to capture people in that sector but he also stripped people under 17 of JobKeeper (they all lost their jobs) and made it harder for universities to get #Jobkeeper 2/10
Aug 10, 2018 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Just to be clear turning off a pay tv service on public transport because it's airing nazis isn't fascism it's the opposite of fascism. Let me provide some examples of "creeping fascism" from the Australian context in this thread...
