1 transgender shooter GOP: "We must institutionalize all transgenders!" 47,209 white male shooters GOP: "This is the cost of freedom."

Evergreen.

Today is apparently suicide prevention day and I want to remind people: UBI is suicide prevention. Universal health care is suicide prevention. Mental health care is suicide prevention. Patient advocacy and adequate disability resources are suicide prevention. Gun control is suicide prevention.

I usually don't join in on ABC bashing but this story failing to mention the new WA gas decision made less than a week prior to the target announcement is wilfully ignorant www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Do we need to provide a safe space for women & kids to enjoy finals without being at risk from men, where there are no men, no booze or where the game isn't on? Maybe we force men to choose between alcohol & stopping their violence? I bet they'd stop the violence womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...

Since she was appointed F&DV saw 136 Aust women murdered, c14000 women admitted to hospital, witnessed by c14% of kids. More than 75000 instances of F&DV were recorded in NSW alone in those 2 years + 24000 sexual assaults, more than all but 2 other crimes types womensagenda.com.au/latest/dr-an...

So important to say also that autism may not be what parents imagine & is certainly not something to stigmatise further. womensagenda.com.au/latest/medic...

A state-sanctioned thug, sent in by right wing NSW cops to quash anti-genocide protests, who punched Hannah Thomas in the face, is finally charged with assault. All protest-related charges erroneously incompetently laid against the protestors are now dropped www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...?

Please read the critical post in the screenshots, witches, and then help us act. Share to your networks and we can all do this. Are you in? #MAGAFreeWorld #ToYourBrooms

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage. This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country. #CommitToALivingWage

Surprise surprise! NSW, Vic & QLD fail to seek restrictions on rallies from right wing hate groups + allow/ignore > threatening behaviour. Compared with rallies eg protesting genocide etc It's almost as if the cops have an ideological bent here? www.deepcutnews.com/p/police-fai...

"Palpable through the conference was the devastating scale of gender-based violence & growing concerns about backlash" NSW June '25 quarter: *10% av. yearly increase in sexual assaults over the last decade continued *2000 more F&DV assaults than all other assaults womensagenda.com.au/latest/sydne...

I believe many women are scared to have kids because they fear for those kids' futures as well. Climate change is a huge disincentive & unabated male violence against women & kids is another. I wonder what women would say if we asked them about those factors? www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Imagine what we could achieve if every community cared enough about keeping women safe from violence www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

How in the turtle-fucking fuck do we live in a world where racists are now angry with non-racists for not giving them a free pass on their … racism? #NewsCorpse

ABC finance journalist Alan Kohler went to town on Trump in tonight’s news. Fucking brilliant lol. #auspol #uspol

David Pope in Canberra Times

Latest crime stats for NSW June quarter. Except for stealing & property crimes, most common was domestic & family violence. When sexual assault figures added, violence against (primarily) women, children & gender diverse people is by far the most common crime in NSW again. When is it enough already?

The Liberal Party hasn't moved an inch forward since 2009, when Turnbull was rolled the first time over climate change policy. This idiocy more than anything else proves its determination to bank on Australia taking the same course as the US and UK - recrudescent nationalist (racist) populism.

When AMP, ANZ etc financial orgs steal from clients incl. dead people as their business model, we all lose. Govt regulators use our tax $ & class actions use courts etc paid for by our tax $. Boycott creepy, parasitic businesses like these 2 where we can www.mauriceblackburn.com.au/blog/class-a...

First ginger beer spider/ice cream soda of the spring. Warm today. Yum

Sydney Water failed to perform adequate due diligence before claiming there were no PFAS hotspots within its drinking water catchments, and governments failed to keep pace with the spread of “forever chemicals” in the environment, a parliamentary inquiry has found archive.md/2025.09.11-0...

My 10yo granddaughter doesn't have skills to find a service to help her find housing. Luckily she doesn't need to. How do we have 13k Aussie in a year kids who've slipped through the gaps & need to seek housing help on their own? And how is that ok? womensagenda.com.au/latest/thous...

Nothing says “let’s make a meaningful effort to end this conflict” like assassinating the negotiators

Why we need to broaden the focus to reduce attempt numbers, not just successful suicides. Great piece open.substack.com/pub/cheekmed...

Glou Wine Bar in Collingwood - the bar that donated all of the drinks VS used during our federal election campaign - had Nelson Alexander reach out to ask if they could have their Christmas party there. Their response is marvellous.

I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.

John Howard has made clear the Liberal Party hates migrants after launching a racist attack on #SkyAfterDark saying Australia is making a “mistake” by “emphasising the tribalism of multiculturalism” Says migrants should forget their culture, focus on “assimilation” #RacistLNP

If you get arrested... go all floppy.

NSW cops had no case. Seems right for their level of competence. In this case, cop who punched Thomas in the face & his violent cronies must answer for their actions. Along with Minns, whose "terrorism" response to anti-genocide protests emboldened cops www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @Rattoons1776)

It's not a mistake. Overpayments, if there were any, would be a mistake. This is a business model www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Richard Boyle just dodged a sentencing bullet at the end of 8 years of persecution hell. Join Richard, Kieran Pender, Adele Ferguson & myself on Wednesday for a critical conversation on the cost of truth-telling in Australia, and what has to change. RSVP 👉 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Coalition is choosing to ignore its own history. Labor isn’t brave enough to push back. And now we’re having an immigration discussion that is AT THE BEHEST OF LITERAL NAZIS. FFS www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

What we do in the shadows www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Opinion | Child sexual abuse by adults does not happen because of a lack of respect or consent. It happens because adults weaponise their power over children, writes Grace Tame.

Save your confected outrage LNP. Here’s your boy Scott Robodebt Morrison wetting his pants with joy to be standing alongside his mates Vladimir Putin and President Xi in 2018 #NewsCorpse #auspol

We have to give up expecting Police to be the answer. Often they're a big part of the problem womensagenda.com.au/latest/a-blu...

It's as if ALP chose this week to throw out the trash? Also see Woodside decision, "good people" on both sides-ism in racist march, Nauru etc. This icing tastes like betrayal Labor’s FOI attack an insult to its better predecessors and a sign of hubris www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/f...

Someone please take this to Albo. (And if you knew enough about this march to go to it, you knew enough to know it was full of Nazis)

I've said it before, but I though last time should be an exception because Morrison. But no need to ask me why I can't vote ALP again. Esp added to Albo's "good people" on both sides view about the racist rally. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

It’s not possible to announce your guilt any louder than ordering a military flyover of the White House to disrupt Epstein survivors speaking out for justice.

Exactly this! 🎯🎯🎯 #TrustWomen #Pinks #TrumpEpstein

Men's values and empathy are key to making our social, commercial & public institutions safe for women & kids How men can help create a culture where all genders feel safe to report sexual violence without fear open.substack.com/pub/cheekmed...

Labor's FOI reforms are a betrayal of democracy. FOI is broken and rather than fixing it, Labor is seeking to make it more expensive and even more impenetrable. Government information belongs to the people they are supposedly working for but they keep hiding more and more.

The government's proposed FOI Act amendments are out. Media has focused on the new submission fee, but far more alarming are changes making it easier for govt to block access to public information. Two in particular stand out: