🙌🏼🙌🏼 abortion care is health care and health care decisions should be made between doctors and patients, not politicians

Homo Sapiens emerged about 300,000 years ago. Imagine you gave an early Sapiens $9,000. And they looked at you and said “the fuck is this?” But anyway, you piled up $9,000 Every Single Day since the first Sapiens walked the Earth. You still wouldn’t have a trillion dollars. Capitalism is fucked

BENDIGO WRITERS FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE: La Trobe Uni pressured #Bendigo Council to send the infamous code of conduct to participants, according to those at a council-run roundtable. Council confirmed to us it sent the code with specific additions at La Trobe Uni’s request. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

I'm the director of an anti-sexual violence charity. This measure won't prevent harm, nor will it mean perpetrators will hand themselves into police. It will, however, make some victim-survivors less likely to report, and subject others - including children - to additional financial distress

USyd certainly won't be the only uni in breach of these requirements

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

"They mine the expertise of a chronically underfunded and overworked sector, thank us for the incredible work we do, don’t pay or partner with the sectors for their contribution" Sounds familiar 🤔 www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/11...

The report found that about 68,500 people annually require sexual assault support services in Australia but about 23,000 are left with unmet support needs. The funding shortfall for support services is $80 million - or 0.02% of the $368 billion the Commonwealth gov is spending on 11 submarines

A devastating but critical new report from the UWA Public Policy Institute, commissioned by Allambee has found that sexual violence costs the Australian economy almost $2 billion every year. thewest.com.au/politics/fed...

Reset to 0 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Lush Australia followed the UK example yesterday, closing all their stores for a day in solidarity with Gaza and posting signs in their windows to explain why. Except that if you walked past Lush in a Westfield shopping centre you may not have known because many centres blacked out the signs.

Unless there’s a reset of senior officials at the top, universities won’t change. Toxic cultures are embedded. Broken governance is breaking people. theconversation.com/there-are-ne...

Remember when she hosted a convicted child sex offender on her youtube channel and laughed and joked with him about his offending, before blaming the child he abused for her own assaults?

Setting the “days since an Australian university admitted to wage theft” back to 0 www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908934...

Rather than disturbing capitalism, the Westfield shopping centre across the road from my apartment building has gotten permission to disturb the sleep of hundreds of people while they operate heavy machinery to install new air conditioning from the hours of 10:30pm tonight until 2am tomorrow

It really is the equivalent of telling women not to walk alone at night. The government is choosing to regulate the behaviour of victims and potential victims, instead of actually addressing the perpetrators

I reckon $3000 a day would go a long way to protecting their systems from the endless security breaches (www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...) and/or ensuring that their degrees are actually fit for purpose (www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...)

He never made it into anyone's top friends on myspace, did he?

Jesus christ. These poor students. Once again, where the fuck was TEQSA?? How can a regulator continue to fail over and over again like they have?

Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla Mandela is among nearly 500 people, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, kidnapped by Israel in international waters on their way to deliver aid to Gaza on the Global Sumud flotilla capeargus.co.za/news/politic...

Just four years after abortion was decriminalised in SA, anti-choice politicians want to roll back access, making it harder to get care after 23 weeks. Sign the petition before October 15 to help keep medical decisions between patients and their doctors. www.fairagenda.org/abortion_sa_...

This is such great news from QLD. Massive congrats to the legendary advocates who have pushed for a sexual violence peak body for so long!

The social media ban is the 2025 version of telling women not to walk alone at night. We're regulating the behaviour of victims and potential victims, instead of addressing the people causing the harm

Cool cool cool. So... why do we bend over backwards for these disgusting eco-killing companies again?? 💁‍♀️ #AusPol #EatTheRich

🧵Update: Thurs 2 Oct 04:30 AEST 6 Aussies & 3 NZ'ers in #GlobalSumudFlotilla Australian Vessel WAHOO At ~3.40am Aus.EST Samual Leason (NZ) posted 👇Insta. Reports, Flotilla surrounded by Israeli military ships, most communication signals jammed, some have been boarded... 1/

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

I pay an exorbitant amount of rent for an apartment with 3 rooms (bedroom, bathroom/laundry, living/dining/kitchen), where the gas & hot water go out whenever the wind gets over 10km/h & there's no affordable places left in Adelaide to move to & buying is about to become even more unattainable 🙃

Absolutely massive. Sending much love and strength to Raya Meredith, the lead plaintiff in this case, who was subjected to horrific behaviour at the hands of police. Redfern Legal have, once again, done brilliant work. You can help them do more of it by donating here: rlc.org.au/donate

This isn't an "inappropriate relationship". Adults cannot have sexual relationships with children. This is the persistent sexual abuse of a child.

BREAKING: At least 24 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the besieged Gaza Strip since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lwdqjj

More than 170 rape kits caught up in the Forensic Science Queensland laboratory's backlog will be sent offshore next week for vital forensic testing, as the facility's new boss says it will take years to clear them.

How much did UTS spend on the FOUR reviews into their handling of sexual assault reports since 2022? What did it cost for them to do not one, not two, not three, but FOUR reviews in three years, just to ignore the recommendations and continue causing harm to their students?

"This process is failing, it's re-traumatised people who've reported, and it's completely unfair." "I honestly at times regret even reporting." "They have the report, but they are refusing to release it to me." This is why we fought so hard, for so many years, for reforms like the NSO 1/?

I had a bad identity theft within weeks of the last time I applied for rental properties. Always thought it was from either an agent or 1Form. They had enough to make 3 forms of fake ID including a drivers license

The data, but the photos...all of my worldly possessions, pics of the grandkids. All appeared on the for sale board outside my rental. Yes I covered bits with tape.

Applying for a rental property in Australia currently requires you to hand over a horrifying amount of personal and financial information and I'm yet to get an adequate answer from a real estate company about how they protect the information of current and prospective tenants

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

A good first step, but let's not forget that the Nixon review found that "ANU has a remarkable tolerance for poor behaviour and bullying" and that there is "little or no consequence for this behaviour". This behaviour is entrenched and won't simply disappear because the VC has resigned

It should never have taken this long

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

It takes a village to protect and enable abusers. Someone - often many people - knows. Always.

"The number of alleged incidents of unlawful sexual contact in residential aged care facilities is estimated to be about 50 a week, according to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety's report" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

I’m calling again for the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor and Pro-Chancellor to all step aside while the evidence provided in the Senate inquiry is examined. Fair and due process cannot be achieved under these circumstances.

incredible work. become uncarryable.

An anti-semitism envoy who WON'T use her speech to condemn Nazis marching in the streets, sharing platforms with politicians, and bashing Aboriginal people -- but WILL strip funding from unis and arts orgs that don't silence criticism of Israel. Got it.

Over the course of 12 years, I collected just over 300 complaints from people who had been sexually assaulted in an Australian university context. Sara's work on complaint has kept me sane. If you're in the UK, go along to one of these events. You won't regret it.

If you spent your day caught up with men being Nazis I also encourage you to read this — Men working in sexual assault services sexually assaulting sexual assault survivors.

“There is no evidence that people seeking refuge are more likely to commit acts of sexual violence. Many are themselves survivors of violence, war, and persecution. Blaming them distracts from tackling the deep-rooted causes of abuse and from holding those truly responsible to account.”

‘Deeply sorry’: Breached Western Sydney University student data exposed on dark web - includes tax file numbers, passports and licence data ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...