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Something not mentioned often in the killing of Australian women this year, is that alarmingly, rural and regional women are grossly over-represented.

I looked at both Femicide Watch* and Counting Dead Women for my stats**
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** australianfemicidewatch.org/database/
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Between the 2 sites I came up with 31 women killed in Aust in 2024 (I did not count overseas deaths). Of those 31 women, 2 were viciously attacked in the previous year, but died of their injuries in 2024

Women killed:
0 - NT
1 - ACT
1 - Tas
1 - SA
4 - WA
6 - Vic
7 - QLD
11 - NSW

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Now here's something interesting.

Browsing through the documents provided by former Channel 7 staffer, Taylor Auerbach to the Lehrmann defamation trial, I noticed *some* information that doesn't seem to have been made public until now (not that I could find). In Exhibit MRS-110 on ~page 12, we come across a document titled Master Chronology

Now this is usually the type of timeline of events used in trials by the lawyers to give them an overview of everything

In this instance, Mr Auerbach alleges he received this doc from BL himself

The deliberate naivety of middle-aged men about young women is astonishing

Ignorantly gobsmacking in fact

Young women are raised to be compliant & polite; not make a fuss, not assert themselves.

Young women aren't confident enough yet. They'll often do anything to appease

1/ Statistics show that in cases of corporate rape, the victim will usually do all they can to appear normal at work, especially if they're young & unsure of their position

It is absolutely normal & not unusual for a rape victim in a workplace to pretend as if nothing has happened

Oh dear, such a shame.

These Liberal party men who've spent the past decade boasting to Australia of their superior abilities and their supreme confidence in all things have now developed a severe case of the vagues.

Their superior cognitive functions have deserted them. And here's dear old Scotty assuring us all the buck stops with him.

I'm the Prime Minister . . .

Just caught up with Sussan Ley's interview on #Insiders today.

Oh. Dear. Sussan.

Some highlights:

* We need a Prime Minister who takes responsibility for the Victorian Premier’s decisions to not host a sporting event in Victoria using Victoria’s money. * Why is Anika Wells the Minister for Sport in a sporting photo with the Matildas?

* I want them (Dan and Albo) to explore creative solutions. How about looking at other nation’s stepping in, although I DON’T KNOW THE DETAILS OF ANY CONVERSATIONS.

#Insiders

@PatsKarvelas you forgot to tell everyone the most important point about this "Binary" org.

They used to be called Marriage Equality Aust.

They changed their name one day to join in the trans culture wars and are headed up by a former Cory Bernardi senate candidate.

#4Corners It's an important point because people need to take this into account when platforming their views

'Binary' are an organisation born out of homophobia & are constantly engaged in right wing culture wars

Anybody who speaks on their behalf should be viewed accordingly

#4Corners

Morrison was "tipped off" on the eve of the 2021 interviews?

Oh no, no.

In the days and weeks immediately after the alleged rape in March/April 2019, let's recap:

- Morrison's deputy chief of staff Fiona Brown knew

- Morrison's private secretary, Yaron Finklestein knew

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https://twitter.com/MichaelPascoe01/status/1667691504587132928

- Morrison's chief of staff, John Kunkel knew

- Morrison's key media adviser in his office knew 👇🏽

- Morrison's cabinet colleague Peter Dutton's media adviser (Adrian Wenke) knew

- Morrison's close friend Alex Hawke, who was advising Linda Reynolds with the BL sacking, knew

If nothing else, this latest game highlights how grossly naive so many lawyers and the judiciary are about the way modern media tactics are played

They really have no idea that this is a deliberate, crafted battle

It's designed to rattle Ch10/Wilkinson/Higgins/ABC/journalists The game here is on several fronts

- fire as many shots as you can as often as you can to confuse the public

- rattle the people defending the defamation claim

- rattle the witnesses

- smash effigies of powerful women to show what happens when you fight back against power

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One year later, the complainant is still waiting for an outcome, or any information on the outcome, from PM&C over the complainant's allegation of rape by the head of their department.

▫️ And by the way, we won't do anything, but let us warn you about who you can or can not speak to about your own trauma.

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There is currently an investigation into a high-ranking public servant within a former agency of the Morrison govt.

The investigation involves an allegation of rape and sexual assault by this high-ranking public servant.

The complainant, a young woman, was one of his staff. Upon learning of these serious allegations, the incoming Albanese govt contracted the issue out to an independent investigator.

The investigator delivered their report to the govt in Nov 2022.

Since then the complainant has been informed of nothing.

I'm equal parts astonished and saddened at the lack of knowledge of how #TheVoice was developed, as well as people's basic lack of knowledge of the document that underwrites Australia as we know it - the Australian Constitution.

It's quite shocked me. I've just had people on my timeline claiming they think the best way to create #TheVoice would be to go around to Indigenous communities speaking to Indigenous people - when the Voice was developed over years by going around to Indigenous communities speaking to Indigenous people

After observing #RobodebtRC this month and the endless parade of convenient amnesiacs and dribbling liars who can't keep records, read emails, answer a memo, take notes, or remember who was in a room with them, Australians should be storming Parliament.

/1 Lawyers who ignore the law, ministerial advisers who don’t advise, public servants who hate the public and an Australian government at war with its own people - what a contemptible display of incompetence and inhumanity in one spectacular package of deep, shitful shame.

Your regular reminder that while Australia's politicians and journalists run ongoing campaigns vilifying no-name citizens on twitter, msm journos like Brad here can run their PR campaigns for fossil fuel billionaires without a peep from anyone.

And all to audiences of millions. In fact, so enamoured is Brad with Gina Rinehart and her magnificent prowess and philanthropy and popularity with cattlemen and generosity to all humankind, that the Rinehart conglomerate regularly runs his unbiased articles in their *own* publications.

Twice the exposure.

A short true story.

There was this guy a few years back who raided a prison, took a whole heap of the prisoners hostage and shoved them into some trucks. None of the prisoners wanted to go, but he had guns and shoved them into the trucks anyway and bashed the ones who refused. He drove them all across country about, god knows how far, but they ended up on somebody’s property in the middle of the night. He didn’t know the property owners at all but he had his guns and his prisoners and he threatened violence, so he rammed his trucks through anyway

🧵 Breaking

Did the Governor General, David Hurley, breach his own official guidelines?

Did he breach his guidelines re; the Australian Future Leaders Foundation - the entity earmarked to run the unknown program and almost gifted $18 million by Scott Morrison?

With @jommy_tee New evidence has emerged regarding testimony given in recent Senate Estimates from the Office of the Governor General.

In Senate Estimates on April 4 this year, Paul Singer, the official secretary of the GG's office, described the Governor General as a personal patron

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It’s probably time for a bit of plain talking - in the public interest.

Let's talk about the $18+ million of public money Scott Morrison was planning on handing over this year for something called the Australian Future Leaders Program.

with @jommy_tee In September, our new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese put the kibosh on funding the Governor General’s pet project to the tune of $18 million - with a planned $4 million ongoing every year.

$4 million every year, ongoing.

🧵 - Doctor Doctor

There's a great deal people don't understand about how spin doctors work, or in this case, the masters of the dark arts.

They're a different breed, these unseen political strategists.

They work by manipulating issues without ever being involved in them. Most people think along simplistic lines:

"Oh the media are colluding with X"

"Ooh this is a dead cat"

The truth is, political spin is much more nuanced than that

There isn't a vast web of people behind a news story who are all "in on it"

That's where the dark arts comes in