And we NEED it now, before it is all burnt to the ground, one way or another.

So true!!!

If the government wants to improve social cohesion, they could stop the compliance model of social security and have a UBI instead. #auspol

Please don’t let our loved ones die from dementia like this. We can help our animal companions have a dignified death. Why not our family or ourselves. Please sign and share if you agree 🙏

I’m not gonna lie to you. This last week’s been a bugger. When I put my hand up for the leadership of the National Party, I did so because I was sitting by the pool of my holiday resort in Saigon, and I wanted another fifty-cent beer...

The manosphere is a hundred thousand percent responsible for the male loneliness crisis.

good morning from my cheery brother 🙈 #paperstraw

We are living in a ridiculous time

Goodnight all x Had some great news that my osteoporosis has now been reduced to osteopenia due to the infusions I have to counteract the cancer tablets so yay! Bones are getting stronger! Giddy up! 🥰🖖 And I brought home a veg roti from the Peter Mac Super 8 cafe to have for my dinner. Delicious 😋

But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people." Eugene V. Debs

If you are in Hobart on Sunday come to Moonah Arts Centre, join others who are concerned about increased militarisation, AUKUS and the loss of our sovereignty.Watch a great documentary film about the futility of war and join the struggle for a peaceful and safe world.

We have a framed poster of this on our wall. It lists all the musicians at the bottom. A moment in time captured brilliantly.

Goodnight all x Early appointment awaits. See you on the flip side 😉

A really interesting article…

Increasingly clear that the future of the species hinges on the American/Israeli empire collapsing before the climate does

Heavy sigh

Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth

I'm a free agent now, I suppose. Bit daunting. Subscribe to my silly newsletter? rick-morton.ghost.io/i-quit-my-job/

we’re in the midst of a #ClimateCrisis … please sign to support act.350.org.au/petitions/pr...

@harrychemay.bsky.social What do you think of this? It’s a quick listen. Would value your opinion…

“When the world wearies, and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden.” — Minnie Aumônier (1865–1952) Flowers now blooming in my garden to brighten your day. #SolaceInNature

TAX WEALTH NOT WORKERS!! Tax passive wealth ie. handed down. If people leave the country, their assets are still taxed. Winning! Let’s at least try it!! @garyseconomics.bsky.social

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Brilliant! Bring it on. Now!!

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: In a cafe: A woman (80s?) is gifted a pretty tea towel with teapots, cups and saucers on it. Laughing, she ties it on her head like a makeshift bandana, asking her friends: "Anyone want to be in my tea gang?" (1)

poor little fella is plum tuckered out from all that thinkin'

The Australia I'm working for shows empathy & compassion for all asylum seekers - not just those where it's politically convenient to do so We also look after Australian citizens overseas & those wanting to come home from war zones inc 23 women & children in Syria #auspol #qt

Canada's PM even did a trip here to point out to Albanese that we don't have to lick Trump's boots (and indeed we shouldn't be), but Albanese just ignored that. So yeah, it is Albanese's fault. He *wants* to be part of the human centipede that is US foreign policy. That's on him.

Whitlam used the Pine Gap leases as a bargaining chip, much yo the chagrin of the Nixon administration. Whitlam withdrew from Vietnam & criticised the bombing of Hanoi in 1972. He an independent relationship with the US. Albanese & Marles have tethered us to a fascist regime. #endthealp #auspol

Lets go sistas

As Brent Crude surges past USD $100/barrel, here's one from the vault.

"It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing." Helen Keller

I want none of this. Not in my name. We apparently can always find money for war, but not our most vulnerable or our environment?

Goodnight all x I’m so embarrassed that it’s so early, 8.40pm!! Who am I anymore? Clearly someone who needs to go to bed early. This back thing is really giving me the squirts! I can just hide the brace under my dress which I’m pleased with, but see the oncologist this week to see what’s what 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤷‍♀️

“When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22 #auspol

I think it’s time to take our country back from politicians who do the bidding of powerful people in other countries, and have made us the servants of the US. How do we go about firing Albanese, tearing up AUKUS and kicking every American servicemen out of the country and take the bases back?

CALLING: Any lawyer in #Brisbane who is willing to come to my home to read, look, assess and then attest formally in a written statement to the veracity of evidence I have submitted to QCAT, in tenancy matters, is welcomed. Please contact me. ASAP. 🙏 #legalhelp #auspol #RentersRights

Lovely relaxing day on Labour Day in Melbourne. Feeling very grateful to all the people who fought to have Victoria become the first place in the world to mandate an eight hour work day. It’s people like this who make the world a better place.

Stop subsidising fossil fuels and buying nonexistent submarines. Make university undergraduate education free. Raise the rate. Fund public schools properly. Would be a good start for a progressive government, if we had one. It’s not rocket science. #AusPol

If you think migrants are the problem the oligarchs have achieved a significant win.

Australia obsesses over "welfare dependency". Meanwhile govt support for wealth includes: Superannuation tax concessions $52B Capital gains tax discount $11B Negative gearing $5B That's about $68 billion a year, mostly benefiting the richest Aussies. That's the welfare worth talking about. #auspol

World Safety and Peace do feel like they're very much within reach any minute now

Good morning on this Labour Day public holiday, 8 hours each of work, home and sleep thanks to the unions of old. And let’s start it off with a laugh, because we’ve all been there at some point. This is why I keep my hair long and cut if myself 🤣

Goodnight all x A family day. We live in two different time zones, my darlings with a 2year old that get up at 5am, and my darlings here that get up at 11am after being awake sometimes until 5am!! 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️ Needless to say, we are very tired as we met here for brunch at 9am 😳😉 Such great fun day ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Design for a Art Nouveau style brooch, 1901 by Glasgow Shool artist Frances MacDonald #Womensart

"Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead." Arundhati Roy

Favianna Rodriguez, contemporary US poster designer and activist of Afro-Peruvian heritage, #womensart

The very epitome of .... Don't miss the comment I left attached. 🥒 sorry no Choko wanted to die on this 🚽