Grateful for all the things
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Heath 🍉 retweeted
Every time a woman finds the courage to speak publicly about her assault, countless other women are forced to relive their own experiences. It can feel like a thousand tiny wounds reopening all at once. And still, we speak. Still, we persist. Still, we hold onto the hope that one day, speaking out will help bring an end to the violence.
Heath 🍉 retweeted
More women have been murdered since 2024 by men than all Australians killed by terrorism globally in the past 100 years. Yet there are no Royal Commission’s for women still. No emergency task forces. No addresses to the nation. No days of mourning
Heath 🍉 retweeted
Absolutely insane how the World Cup hosts are bombing another World Cup participant right now.
And FIFA gave the guy doing it their Peace Prize, lol.
Heath 🍉 retweeted
The Government™ has made an ad about #Palantir, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
Heath 🍉 retweeted
The media has not bothered to thoroughly fact check Hansons National Press Club address so I’ve done it for them. 18 false and / or misleading statements. John Paul Janke was the journalist who pushed back on her claims and Sarah Martin questioned her about her daughters position as campaign advisor (rightly so) and was called a “trashy journalist” by Hanson and told she would be banned from future pressers. Nothing else was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
Heath 🍉 retweeted
For those interested, an essay by Jillian Segal's essay, published in Israel.
Not sure if it got an airing here.
cst.tau.ac.il/essay-the-road…
Heath 🍉 retweeted
Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club address.
The vision?
Cut education, health, childcare, climate programs, the ABC, SBS, Aboriginal programs and government departments. Scrap the NDIS and NIAA. Pull back from international cooperation. More coal. Nuclear.
Yet somehow also spend more on hospitals, schools, homelessness and cost of living relief.
When asked how she would help working Australians, she pivoted to business owners, complained about wage rises, workplace protections and workers being “lazy” and on their phones. Apparently owning a fish and chip shop 40 years ago qualifies you to lecture Australians about running a business in 2026.
Asked about interest rates? Admitted she has no control over the RBA but claimed spending cuts would magically bring rates down.
Asked about migration? Straight into fear campaigns about Muslims and Europe.
Asked about her daughter’s taxpayer-funded job? Refused to answer, attacked journalists and cried “trashy journalism”.
Asked about SBS helping migrants integrate? Her answer was basically: watch Sky News and learn English.
Asked about childcare? Complained about qualifications and pay rises for childcare workers.
Asked about abortion? Repeated the myth that women are having abortions the day before giving birth. They aren’t. Late-term abortions are extremely rare and usually involve serious medical complications or fatal fetal abnormalities.
And when asked why Aboriginal programs should be cut, she argued everyone should be treated equally.
But equality isn’t pretending everyone starts from the same place. Aboriginal Australians still experience poorer health, education and social outcomes. You don’t close those gaps by removing the services designed to address them.
That’s like removing a wheelchair ramp and calling it equality because everyone now has the same stairs.
If you’re asking Australians to hand you government, you should be able to answer questions about your policies without changing the subject every time it gets uncomfortable.
Heath 🍉 retweeted
Trump came to power partly by a spineless, toe licking media that sane-washed his every utterance and treated him like a normal person - now look at him
Australia - we're in deep trouble
This is Australia's legacy media today, right down to the ABC
Sane washing a maniac
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Heath 🍉 retweeted
“The Socceroos aren’t just a team. We’re a reflection of modern Australia.”
A desperately needed message for Australia, and Australians of all hues and backgrounds.
Bravo @Socceroos!!! 👏🏾 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Heath 🍉 retweeted
Political allegiances aside; this is pure misogyny
AUS is in the midst of a Femicide epidemic. Fact that this abhorrent vitriol towards yet another female leader is tolerated at all explains why too many women still live in fear here every day
This is completely intolerable
Heath 🍉 retweeted
The "ditch the witch" mobile billboards targeting Premier Jacinta Allan isn’t politics—it’s misogyny.
It is a deliberate attempt to dehumanise and objectify a female leader and tries to rationalise blatant misogyny.
To claim it isn't sexist is pure gaslighting.
1/3
Heath 🍉 retweeted
Grace Tame is a bloody legend. 🔥💕
“Charlie Pickering made a direct choice to cosy up to a man found guilty of abusing his wife, while denouncing me as ignorant. Surely I needn’t point out the irony here.”
@ABCaustralia @RadioNational
@charliepick #IStandWithGraceTame
Heath 🍉 retweeted
Grace Tame being called 'problematic' by a bloke who happily did an interview with another bloke who was convicted of beating a woman is breathtaking.
Dunno about you, but #IStandWithGraceTame on this one.
Heath 🍉 retweeted
Her father, Lang Hancock, said on national television in 1984 that Indigenous Australians he described as “half-castes” should be rounded up and have their water “doped up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future.” Donnell Wallam — only the third Indigenous woman ever to represent Australia in netball — privately requested that Rinehart publicly denounce those comments. Rinehart refused. Wallam was then denied an exemption from wearing the Hancock logo on her debut, and under unbearable pressure eventually agreed to wear it — at which point Rinehart pulled the $15 million sponsorship anyway, describing the players’ concerns as “virtue signalling.”
This is who funds One Nation. This is the legacy behind the money.
And Gina Rinehart — who built her fortune on foreign workers, importing over 1,700 migrants to build her $9.5 billion Roy Hill iron ore project — now funds One Nation and publicly complains that immigration is causing the housing crisis. The same immigration she has personally and profitably relied upon for decades. The hypocrisy is not incidental. It is the point. Use immigration to build your wealth. Fund the politicians who blame immigration for everyone else’s problems.
Heath 🍉 retweeted
38 days in and the United States Commander in Beef has already pulled off the most complete victory in modern history.
Let’s recap the wins. 🏆
• Replaced Khamenei (86) with Khamenei (56)
• Reclaimed exactly 0kg of uranium
• Reopened a strait that was already open - now with a $2M toll per ship (up from $0)
• Proved F-15s and F-35s can in fact be downed by guys who “belong to the Stone Age”
• Got US bases destroyed across four or five countries (I've lost count)
• Shattered allied trust that the US would actually show up if things got spicy
• Put Iranians back in the streets (this time for their government)
• Installed Pakistan as the region’s voice of reason. Pakistan.
• Openly admitted arming the Kurds to stir trouble in Iran. The Kurds did nothing and kept the weapons.
• Bragged about the Crown Prince of the Gulf’s biggest petro-monarchy “kissing his ass”
• Raised the cost of living for all Americans even more thanks to skyrocketing gas prices.
He really did all that to the Middle Eas for the low, low price of a few thousand civilian lives, tens of billions in equipment, and every ally not named Israel.
If that’s not the Art of the Deal, I genuinely don’t know what you people expected.
And again, we had money to do all that, but not to provide healthcare to our own citizens.
Truly a victory that could only be won by someone capable of bankrupting a casino.