Sweden’s experience with midwives providing abortion care offers lessons for other countries. Swedism midwives have long led care for healthy women during pregnancy and birth, with doctors supporting when complications arise. Applying the same model to abortion care is both logical and effective.

Violence at work is a concern beyond healthcare – calls for a national plan to tackle violence against teachers www.croakey.org/violence-at-...

Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich. Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else. Trickle-up economics.

'Disunity is death' – but Labor's cowed caucus has a cost too www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Your Black History Moment Not in The Epstein Files.

The CHILDREN? "There was very much a class aspect to this. A lot of the YOUNG GIRLS came from broken homes and poor backgrounds. Some of them had been abused in their own families. CHILDREN WERE VIEWED, BASICALLY, AS OBJECTS … THEY WERE VIEWED AS DISPOSABLE CHILDREN." AUCTIONABLE CHILDREN!!

Ten countries have launched investigations related to the released Epstein files. Norway, UK, France, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Australia, North Macedinia, Turkey, Poland. Conspicuously absent is the United States, the epicenter of this scandal. We know why. …

Once considered by some judges and lawyers as merely an eccentricity, the sovereign citizen movement is becoming increasingly emboldened with pseudo-law and poses a growing threat to courts. satpa.pe/uEwX0J4

Cost of living is rising in Australia – but migrants are not the cause. “Migration isn't the issue here and blaming migrants is not going to fix the problem.” - Matt Grudnoff Read more: https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/is-population-growth-driving-the-housing-crisis-heres-the-reality/

American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar. Why? This chart has the answer.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's such an interesting feature of these times that fantasised paedophilia is constantly invoked by reactionary conservatives as a boogie-man (eg to demonise trans people) but actual predatory child sexual abuse is always downplayed as a moral panic. Speaks to a deeply internalised conflict.

“At the age of 23, before she'd even earned her PhD, Carol Greider made the discovery that would earn her the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Along with her supervisor and co-laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, she discovered the enzyme telomerase…”

There’s been a lot going on this week and today. And part of that is dead women near Goulburn and Forster.

Four paintings from tne 'Bush flowers' series, by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Australian Indigenous artist from the Tweed Valley area of NSW #WomensArt

What does that line from the #insiders commercial that Speers says mean? "Drawing a line on hate speech. How far will it go?". Is he saying that stopping hate speech has a limit? Is he saying hate is good so you cant get rid of it all? Ideas? #auspol

“One economist writing in the AFR blamed inflation on . . . the Government mandating a 15% pay rise for childcare workers. That’s a stunning impact given childcare workers make up about 1.5% of the labour force." - Greg Jericho Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4rv9wv9

Great to see Senator Shoebridge quoting our research in Parliament! The only way to fix the housing crisis is to address real issues like negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount, instead of blaming immigration. #auspol @davidshoebridge.bsky.social

Just your regular reminder that John Howard never pushed back against Pauline Hanson and One Nation policies. He embraced them, which is how he outflanked them, while also setting the stage for what the Liberals are today. The myth that he 'pushed back' truly needs to die.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. The headline and lede from The Daily Mirror:

Wednesday

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

#auspol #Australia

During the Invasion Day rally in Naarm a First Nations speaker asked for a minutes silence to honour victims of colonial violence. The screeches from the Nazi March for a White Australia being held elsewhere could be heard echoing to us. Not sure there's a more perfect symbolic moment. #AusPol

Our timing is stupidly impeccable. We are losing so many chances at great discoveries & applications for mRNA b/c of HHS. mRNA vaccines engineered for high risk skin cancers reduced the risk of recurrence & death by 50% over 5 yrs, compared to standard treatment. 🧪 arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Looking forward to the AFR's column on how people on Newstart can avoid mutual obligations

They owe her, and all of us, an apology.

“And if there were questions about why The end was so sad Well George had no answers about why a son Ever has need of a gun” Is as heartbreaking of a few lines as there is.

Marque will be open for business on 26 January. We do not think it’s a good date for our national day because what it marks is the beginning of the destruction of an entire population and ancient culture. We would like our country to grow up and choose a kinder day.

On Christmas Eve, the minister for the environment, Murray Watt, quietly gave the go-ahead for Korea Zinc to kill a certain number of threatened and endangered species every year, writes Bob Brown. satpa.pe/knldqIK

The extraordinary biochemist & pharmacologist Gertrude Elion was born #OTD in 1918. Elion won the 1988 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (w/2 others) for her pioneering "rational drug design." Her work saved countless lives...(👇 1/2) #WomenInSTEM

"Social cohesion needs to be taught and measured as a benefit, like the financial economy. Australia has a unique opportunity to lead globally on this. We can demonstrate how it is possible." ​​satpa.pe/dmQfg6u

Morning. ☕️

Happy days :)

Let's observe a master of camouflage working its magic. 🐙 What amazing aliens of the deep.. #cephalopod #marinelife #intelligence #camouflage

Horrific events unfolding in Lake Cargelligo - three dead in a shooting. Pressure should be on Premier David Crisafulli to justify why he’s refusing the gun buyback scheme for his state and splintering on needed gun reform. #AusPol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Honestly, even amongst the long horror show of Nationals leaders Australia has had to endure, surely David Littleproud has to rank as one of the absolute worst. Makes Barnaby look like a deep thinker.

Since we're talking about One Nation and their history of providing us with some truly exceptional candidates, this is from the PHON candidate for Macalister in the 2017 State election. One of the top ten twitter exchanges of all time.

What about if the Libs cannot work with Littleproud as the leader of the Nationals. Why is the tail wagging the dog. #auspol

“business could falter without customers”

Current status of the Coalition #faaaarked

Coalition can’t agree on how to be racially intolerant but not antisemitic, falls apart under the strain

"We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers" globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

Ukrainian-born French artist and designer Sonia Delaunay, Rythme colour, 1946 #womensart

A wonderful tribute. Vale, Rob. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OZ_...

When 88 Australian's were killed in the 2002 Bali terror attack, Australia didn't get a Voice to Indonesian Parliament. John Howard didn't criticize President Megawati Sukarnoputri or demand a Royal Commission.

RIP Rob Hirst, Midnight Oil founder and drummer.

#Newspoll Preferred PM: Albanese 51 (-3) Ley 31 (+4) #auspol