Hannah Arendt: “Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.”

Regional Victoria, Australia
Joined May 2013
Australian Hobby, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo and a young Pied Butcherbird are a few of the birds sighted on my morning walk around Bowenville, Qld. #birdphotography #Ozbirds #birds #birdwatching #birding #birds #wildoz #BirdingQueensland #ornithology
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Sending love, kindness, healing and have everything crossed for Independent MP Helen Haines this evening 💜🤞
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Replying to @gasugasu1984
How your life can change in a flash 😢
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Just a few of the budgies (budgerigars) that we found yesterday. Note that this is their natural colour. You don't get blue or purple budgies in the wild. Southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
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Read this. Please. “A disabled man who sent Facebook messages to two women a decade ago, women who did not even make any kind of formal complaint to the Greens, a matter investigated by the WA Greens at the time, has been dragged through the political sewer and publicly compared to Bruce Lehrmann on Insiders.” Read the detail 👇
I received a goodbye message from a disabled woman this morning. She told me ‘she couldn’t take any more’. She had no hope left. Having someone like us in Parliament, someone who fought tirelessly for us, had been one of the things keeping her alive. I searched her Facebook wall, found her CoS, who called her and contacted police. An ambulance was sent. Her Facebook page has since entirely disappeared. I don’t have her number. This is the third incident like this in 2026. I don’t know whether she’s alive. I don’t know whether she’s going to spend six months in hospital, like the last disabled woman who reached this point. I don’t know what happens next. But I know what happened this week. A disabled man who sent Facebook messages to two women a decade ago, women who did not even make any kind of formal complaint to the Greens, a matter investigated by the WA Greens at the time, has been dragged through the political sewer and publicly compared to Bruce Lehrmann on Insiders. A man found by a Federal Court judge, on the balance of probabilities, to have raped a woman. Jordon has also been dealing with relentless stalking, has an AVO in place (as do others, against the same woman), and serious related matters are before police. Apparently, none of that warrants the slightest consideration from the self-appointed guardians of decency. And then there’s the particularly filthy business of ‘feels on wheels’. An insult coined by Labor in 2022 because Jordon cried in Parliament over dead disabled children, now being twisted into something sexual. What sort of miserable, grubby little bastard takes a man’s grief over dead children and repackages it as a sexual smear? And what sort of journalist repeats it without establishing where it came from? There is a special place in the political gutter for people who manufacture moral outrage out of somebody else’s suffering, then congratulate themselves on their integrity. These grubs couldn’t recognise due process if it walked into Parliament wearing a fucking name badge. They’ve confused cruelty with courage, public humiliation with justice, and political opportunism with principle. Their compassion is a theatrical production with a press release and a remarkably convenient list of people who don’t qualify for it. And while this circus was consuming every available inch of political oxygen, Parliament was getting on with the business of dismantling disabled people’s lives. The very changes Jordon had been fighting. The ones you’re not talking about while you’re talking about this. Cuts to essential supports. Data matching and surveillance. People being shut inside their homes and shut out of life. Disabled and aged Australians facing terrible harm at the hands of a government that treats us as disposable commodities. Fuck that. You can find an unreported complaint of an inappropriate Facebook message from ten years ago, but apparently you can’t find your conscience when disabled people are begging you not to destroy their lives. What a thoroughly rotten collection of political cowards. You have mistaken the absence of consequences for the possession of principles. You know every word. Trauma-informed. Safeguarding. Human rights. Procedural fairness. You can pronounce them all beautifully into a microphone. You just don’t give a fuck about practising any of them when doing so might cost you a headline, a preselection - yeah, looking at you, WA Greens - a dead cat on the table or a convenient political scalp. And spare me the lectures about protecting women. Where was this righteous fury when disabled women testified about being raped, beaten and abused in institutions? Where is it now, when disabled women and carers are trapped in violent homes because they cannot get the support they need to leave? Where is it when women are telling you that the loss of their disability supports will put their lives in danger?
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The other point on the timing of the Jordan Steele-John leak - not just Shoebridge ascension - but that corporate profiteers from NDIS are protected while disabled are cut. JSJ opposes this michaelwest.com.au/inside-jo…
Sam has posted several times on this, and the wider ramifications of its effect on Jordon's NDIS advocacy. If you want to take this "harassment" story, propagated by a total Murdoch zioscum like Massola, without considering its political or other nuances, then unfollow me now.
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It seems as if there’s 2 issues for the Greens - 1. Sexual harassment, which requires complainants not hearsay. 2. The reported 10 yr old dossier on its accused Senator, which is in no universe an acceptable method of dealing with claims of allegedly ongoing sexual harassment. Shoebridge is a real political force in Australia we very much need. Surely former leaders are responsible for this situation, not him?
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It’s very weird
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“I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.” - William Shakespeare, Othello (1604)
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None - “Palestinians” didn’t exist in 1948
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Having watched ITV’s undercover investigation into Reform UK, I’m struggling to understand how the party can recover from such a damning exposé. More disturbing still is the willingness of its supporters to defend the indefensible.
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Imagine thinking “Muslims” brought riots and revolution to … France.. ….to France!?
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Wonder why we’re fighting so many unnecessary wars? Here’s your answer. Our leaders’ job is to keep feeding the insatiable war machine, sending the poor to die in unwinnable wars while the rich profit. The goal isn’t to win. It’s to never stop.
Asked about the Iran War's effect on defense stocks, Lockheed Martin CEO says: "Investors need to know and understand that this demand is not fleeting — it's permanent."
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What they need to know and understand is that they're scumbags.
Asked about the Iran War's effect on defense stocks, Lockheed Martin CEO says: "Investors need to know and understand that this demand is not fleeting — it's permanent."
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The public needs to start 'frank conversation' with the nutters baying for WW3.
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Getting blown up by a Russian drone to protect my beautiful nation of privatised water companies, boarded up shops, cracked paving, and political-media class who think I’m a racist because I oppose a genocide. No thanks mate.
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