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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Love this! At the moment I am 3. @JaneCaro4Reason

Jennifer Crawford 

@OurNewHomecoach

2 years

So we’ve had Penny Wong. Now it’s @JaneCaro ’s turn. Vote @JaneCaro4Reason #auspol

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

7 years

Hey America, awesome move. 1.5 million of you killed by guns since 1968 versus 5 killed by refugees, but you guys ban.....refugees!

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Jane Caro

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3 years

How good is Australia! You can get raped in parliament but you are unlikely to get shot protesting about it #EnoughIsEnough #MarchForJustice

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Today, a young feminist taught this old feminist something important. Why should these men who regard us with thinly disguised contempt demand that they bask in our smiles? The young women of today give me such hope. Thank you again @TamePunk

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Anyone else watching the @abcnews right now getting the feeling the international community is almost as relieved as we are about the election result?

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

1 year

This hatred of Meghan Markle is unhinged. It reveals so much about the haters - their cliched, sexist, racist, controlling, threatened & threatening view of the world - and precisely nothing about her.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

So it looks like we’re getting an ALP govt - minority or majority - despite everything the Murdoch & mainstream media could throw at them. This is as much of a defeat for them as it is for the LNP.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Smile, girlie, and be nice. All our lives smiling, smiling, smiling till our jaws, hearts and brains ache. Thank you @TamePunk

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

I said from day one that women would bring this election home and they have.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

5 years

Let’s put it as simply as possible: not all men (or even most men) are toxic and dangerous but all women are afraid because we can’t tell just by looking which man is dangerous & which isn’t & the wrong guess could be fatal.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

These mass protests by so-called freedom lovers are a massive insult to every front line health worker, police officer, ambo, retail worker, aged care worker, child care worker, disability carer & everyone else who has just had their health & safety just put at increased risk.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

To @TamePunk , to a young feminist from an old one. You give me hope. You pass on courage. You make me feel that for all those years, even when it felt like we were losing, we weren’t. Happy birthday and thank you.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

4 years

My god these arsonists are clever. Now they are lighting floods!

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

The men who can only relate to women via the women they are in fact related to (as a husband & father et al) reveal their own sexism & narcissism. They cannot see women as people in their own right, only through some connection to him!

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

5 years

@MCITLFrAphorism And this is why I despise organised religion. A woman's shoulders are not provocative. Women's bodies are not grenades, liable to explode at any moment. Men's sexual/emotional/paranoid reactions to other people are entirely their own responsibility.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

Oh dear. If only politics was not the stupid tribal game it is, NSW could have watched and learned from Victoria. Instead we all have to suffer so the LNP doesn’t have to admit someone from the ALP got something right. FFS! Could we be led by adults? Even if just temporarily.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Dear media, nobody ‘won’ or ‘lost’ the first week of the campaign. This is not a football game. It is a contest of ideas about the future direction of this country it’s not about gaffes or spin or who can exhale the best word salad. Please, could you all report it like that?

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

Christian Porter is Acting Leader of the House. I have no words to describe how I feel about this.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

There are things we can make free - like PM travel, the Lodge, Kirribilli House & tax free churches. &then there are things we can’t -like tests that help people not infect others with a ferociously infectious, possibly fatal disease. Surely anyone can understand that? #dickhead

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

I was just on Neil Mitchell @3AW693 talking about what he called @TamePunk stunt and I called a revolutionary act. He thought Gillard’s misogyny speech was a stunt too. I argued both were examples of women refusing to give away their power.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 months

No female politician, no indigenous politician could survive a video like this. That’s what white male privilege gets you - indulgence for your mistakes.

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@grumpyoldfool62

3 months

And we pay hundreds of thousands a year to this fucking YOBBO! I hope the voters of NE are happy with their elected representative?! Fucking Clown 🤡.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

Whatever you think of Gladys, I shudder to think who may replace her.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

‘I didn’t want his sympathy as a father. I wanted him to use his power as PM.’ @BrittHiggins_

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Tomorrow Priya, Nades, Kopica and Tharnicaa can #GoHomeToBilo

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

My perennially unpleasant next door neighbour just yelled at my 5 year old grandson who was trying to smell one of his roses overhanging the footpath. His unnecessary fury made my grandson cry. I turned into a lioness and tore a strip off the miserable bastard! Surprised myself!

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

America: the land where women are forced to give birth because of 'right to life', where men are free to buy weapons of deadly capacity because of 'right to bear arms' and where few can see the contradiction.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Dear everyone, as we struggle with the dire consequences of libertarian/neo-Lib/small government ideology, can I ask that we stop electing governments who do not believe in governing? Thanking you in anticipation.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

I never want to hear Donald Trump’s voice again.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

Women don’t come forward about sexual assault for one very good reason. They see what happens to those that do. No matter what those in power say in public, patriarchy wins by keeping women silent & afraid. #EnoughIsEnough #March4Justice

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Hmmm, we’ve spent decades gutting TAFE, underfunding universities and beating up on public schools and now we have a skilled worker shortage? Who’d have thought it! (Irony font is on.)

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

5 years

So much fun to wake to messages telling me that I am an absolute bitch who should leave the country. I guess this is Australia right now. Like so many others, I despair. Trump, Brexit, Scomo - while the planet disintegrates.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Hmmm, an attack from Sky News, I must be doing quite well on the campaign trail. Thanks guys. @JaneCaro4Reason

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Whenever a media organisation has wanted to attack me, the interview always comes via a young woman. So far, I have always engaged those young journos after the hatchet job & offered to help them leave the org perverting their calling. Their response has been relief.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

So- we’re blaming the woman who sacked him not the men who promoted him? OK, just so we’re clear.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

The tragedy of this era is that our leaders (& I use that term reluctantly) have come to believe that spin is the solution to every problem. They keep thinking that if they just come up with the right phrase any crisis - climate change, pandemics, et al - will be neutralised.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

4 years

When I was young in the 70s I thought we were on our way to a better, fairer, more democratic & diverse world. If you had told me that in my 60s I would watch the media crumbling, dissent demonised, science scorned and facts ignored, I would have laughed at you. How niave I was.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

4 years

So, let me get this right -this govt gives a big stimulus to an industry that employs mostly men & then turns round & cuts off an industry that not just employs mostly women but is indispensable for many other working women, &we’re not supposed to notice? Boys will favour boys

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

I love the icy, controlled rage of @latingle

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

4 years

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD (and I am an atheist) DECLARE A LOCKDOWN! We all know it’s inevitable and we’re all dithering about in limbo waiting. This incremental shit is achieving nothing but misery & stress. And it could cost lives. Just bite the bullet!

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

4 years

$61.4 million for chaplains in secular schools! Holy shit. Disgraceful compared to 1:1500 ratio of actual, qualified counsellors to students #Budget2020

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

‘Men are not the enemy, abuse of power is the enemy, behaviour is the enemy’ @TamePunk Hear, hear.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

Imagine a woman poised to be Premier, leading a govt of 75% women, who believed that men were primarily suited to labouring work due to their greater muscle strength & that the Goddess she worshipped could dictate what men did with their bodies & their lives. Still ok with that?

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

Just a question: all the journos telling us they knew about the sexual shenanigans in Parliament House years ago, why didn’t they tell us?

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

@jmhorp @kcarruthers Texas Pop 29million COVID deaths 19,917 Australia Pop 25million COVID deaths 901

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

1 year

@tmsilverman We don’t hate god. We don’t believe in god. We do hate what belief in god seems to do to some people. Gods are far too often used to justify bigotry, misogyny and homophobia.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

So @ScottMorrisonMP wants govt out of people’s lives. Good to know he enthusiastically supports Voluntary Assisted Dying, access to legal abortion and the right to marry whoever you choose.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

I have never heard a President or PM shout out to educators & teachers before! After the horror of DeVos Jill Biden (who will keep teaching) must seem like the sun coming out from behind storm clouds.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

Dear every bloody business I ever have dealings with, no, I do not want to give you feedback, rate you, get your special offer, fill in your survey or respond to your need for constant reassurance. Go away. If you were good, I’ll come back. If you weren’t, I won’t. Enough said.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

5 years

Every woman who seeks asylum from Saudi Arabia is a legitimate refugee. Imagine how we would regard men escaping a country which denied them the vote, the right to travel, marry or work without a woman’s permission & could kill them for disobedience?

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

I HATE the way Scott calls women he finds troublesome by their first names - Grace, Julia, Brittany and now Bridget. Yes, it’s faux-concern, yes, it’s patronising & disrespectful, but it also seems vaguely menacing.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

4 years

COVID2019 is unleashing something really nasty in Australia. This morning an elderly Chinese woman asked if she could walk with us around the local oval because yesterday a man yelled ‘bastard’ at her & she was frightened. We agreed, of course, & apologised as Australians. Awful!

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

First class topical ad from ALP! Genuinely funny, biting & also including their own policy and benefit. Top job.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

4 years

I love how the right call the left snowflakes & then a smart woman tweets something about a navigator who has been dead 300 years & they all get the vapours. Seriously, gents, who exactly was hurt by Dr Van Diemen’s tweet (cannot believe that’s really her name)? Drop the outrage

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

6 years

Dear fellow white people, maybe we should listen 2 people of colour when they tell us what is racist. It isn't our intent that matters (most prejudice & bias is unconscious), its the effect our denial has on people who have experienced such prejudice & bias all their lives.

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Jane Caro

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2 years

I am not opposed to the ALP plan to attract high achievers to teaching BUT the issue is not teacher quality (ghastly phrase). The issue is we put too much money behind already advantaged kids doing well & far too little behind the kids for whom it’d make real difference (thread)

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Just saw a tweet from @sallymcmanus saying that CEO pay rose by 24% last year & our PM is pushing the panic buttons over a 5.1% rise for our lowest paid workers which equates to 1 measly dollar an hour. He is either a fool or takes us for fools @JaneCaro4Reason

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

While Perrottet lectures a bewildered & frightened population about ‘personal responsibility’, surely ministerial responsibility in a democracy demands he resign. @abcnews

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Watching @abcnews on Scott Morrison’s appalling manipulation of desperate asylum seekers for his own benefit right up to the last hours of his disgraceful reign. I. Have. No. Words. Except, thank whatever deity you believe in, he has gone.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

This makes me cry. Not a backward step from @AmyRemeikis I would not have had the courage or confidence to do this as a young woman, and I was considered pretty fierce. We were so timid, all of us, and it is so good to see our daughters flatly refusing to be.

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Today, Grace Tame met with the Prime Minister at the Lodge, with now-viral photos appearing online. We discuss the day and the differing opinions with @AmyRemeikis . #TheProjectTV

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Jane Caro

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2 years

Ain’t it grand? We’re heading towards a predicted global recession with a trillion dollars in debt thanks to those great economic managers the LNP. No doubt, if & when it hits, they will piously blame Labor. Will the media collude with that nonsense? Watch this space.

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Jane Caro

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5 years

So, despite all the millions and millions and millions of public & private money showered on Australian private schools, it’s a teacher from underfunded Rooty Hill High who makes world’s top ten. Save your money people. Local public schools rock.

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Jane Caro

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2 years

So, there’s a new COVID variant in South Africa and Hong Kong and our illustrious PM isn’t going to rush to take action. Haven’t we been here before? Will 2022 be a repeat of 20 and 21?

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Jane Caro

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2 years

I have just been called (and I quote) ‘one of the foulest individuals this country has ever produced’. Do I get a prize? A badge? A medal? Something, surely.

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Jane Caro

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3 years

I am sure News Corp hoped to ruin my weekend. Thanks to all the lovely, kind and supportive messages from all sorts of people, sent both publicly and privately, I have rarely had a weekend where I have felt so good. Thank you all. You pass on courage.

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Jane Caro

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3 years

China just announced tariffs of up to 212% on all Aust wine. Congratulations to all who have ramped up this conflict & turned their backs on diplomacy. U have hobbled one of Australia’s few value-added exports & a great Australian success story. Many smaller producers will close.

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Jane Caro

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3 years

Horrified that the LNP just got rid of The Family Court. What will this mean for the vulnerable? Especially women and children?

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

4 years

I need the ABC because it gives the lie to the cliche that Australian culture is blokes, sport and beer. The ABC is our brains, heart and courage. We trust it because it represents our best selves. #saveourabc

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Jane Caro

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2 years

Dear Mr Dutton, Teachers are already chronically overworked & underpaid. They have turned themselves inside out during the pandemic & are trying to cope with a rapidly growing teacher shortage, due to illness & resignations. The last thing they need is your self serving attacks.

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Jane Caro

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5 years

@StefanMolyneux Whatever we like, at bloody last. Post menopause I have written or co written 12 books, countless articles, won a Walkley, made 5 documentary series and been awarded an AM - and you?

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

4 years

@TimSmithMP How about Premier of Victoria? Cheers

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

4 years

Shout out to the Emergency Dept at Royal North Shore Hospital. Last night, they dealt with my agonising pain kindly, compassionately and efficiently. All for no charge. Public health care rocks.

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Jane Caro

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5 years

Dearest tweeps, I know we are supposed to hate twitter but I love it. I learn more, read the best articles & essays and enjoy the wit & wisdom of so many. Thank you to you all & all the very best for Christmas & the new year.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

5 years

Anyone else going to completely and utterly ignore the Melbourne Cup?

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Dear fundamentalists Christians, it is not really a defensible argument to claim that stopping you from discriminating against others is discrimination against you. Maybe just live & let live?

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

I have been saying for years that Australia is run by a claque of private school boys who all know each other & whose fathers all knew each other. Entitlement is not merit. Privilege is not talent. Exclusivity is not democratic. @4corners

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

Look, I don’t want to stay in lockdown a minute longer than necessary & I am prepared to trust the experts advice on this. What makes me anxious is our neo-lib leaders using the advice for their own ends & rushing us back too soon. Am I wrong?

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4 years

Regarding Shore school - if you send already privileged young men to luxurious & exclusive schools, why would you be surprised when they hold outsiders in contempt? That's literally what exclusivity is about.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Dear Barnaby Joyce, ‘If there’s a market, someone will be selling it’ is no justification. There are markets for human trafficking, drugs, stolen organs, children, child pornography, people smuggling, arms & a whole lot more.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

4 years

Dear @DanielAndrewsMP Hang tough. The more they hate you, the more effective you are being. That Mike Pompeo (what an appropriate name for a blow hard) is attacking you is praise beyond praise. Congratulations.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Dog noises and growling from male Senators as @JacquiLambie speaks? Yet another example of what feminism is about - the millennia long fight by half the human race to be taken seriously by the other half. Unbelievable frankly,

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Over 21,000 cases! Perrottet must resign.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

The attempts by libertarian men - so far, exclusively men - to shame & bully those of us who are alarmed by our govts dereliction of duty re the safety of the community are despicable. It is not silly or neurotic to be afraid in a pandemic. It is logical, reasonable & realistic.

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I studied for #MyArtsDegree at Macquarie University in the late 70s. I have since published 12 books, including 3 novels & won a Walkley. My Eng Lit major taught me empathy & the value of words. It taught me to think critically & read widely. Gifts beyond price.

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Jane Caro

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2 years

The trouble with Morrison’s attempt to deflect Macron’s criticism is when he says the French President ‘sledged’ Australia, the footage we all saw of Macron’s actual words shows even Morrison’s defence is playing rather fast & loose with the truth.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

5 years

I really hope that the police now include in their terrorism watch white supremacists, MRAs, trolls and those in the media who incite racism, sexism and hatred. It is angry white men who most frighten me & that’s not bias, that’s backed up with evidence.

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Jane Caro

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3 years

Can I be blunt? Given Australian women have fallen from 15th in the world for gender equity to 50th since 2006, can we stop voting for any of the bastards in the major parties? Clearly they are bad for us.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

1 year

And how much respect did these blokes show Julia Gillard, precisely?

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@JaneCaro

4 years

I am talking to women living on Newstart for an article and I knew it was bad but I had no idea it was this bad. Their stories are devastating, their courage is awe-inspiring. Our politicians are morally bankrupt.

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2 years

Tonight one daughter told me she was proud of me for standing &my younger daughter without telling me signed up to hand out flyers on Saturday. I was worried they’d feel exposed, ignored, embarrassed. I was wrong. I love them both more than I can say @JaneCaro4Reason

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@JaneCaro

3 years

Booing vaccinations in the middle of a pandemic where millions have died globally? It simply doesn’t get much more irresponsible or destructive than that. Peak stupidity.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

6 years

Dear voters in Warringah, Can you do something for the future of Australia, please? Stop voting for Abbott. Thanks, Sincerely, the rest of the country.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

5 years

I tweeted about the fear women feel as they go about their lives & was accused of fomenting hate, driving division & demonising men. Yet, ever since, I have been receiving tweets from women about their near misses, attacks & the strategies they employ 2 keep themselves safe.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

3 years

Anyone still wondering why feminism is necessary?

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Surely a fundamental principle of democracy ought to be that if you receive public money you must serve every member of the public without discrimination? If you want to discriminate & pick & choose surely you must be privately funded? #ReligiousDiscriminationBill

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Jane Caro

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I thought (hoped) the YES campaign were keeping their powder dry & marshalling their forces. It seems they were. I am feeling much more hopeful about the referendum being passed than I was. Thank you John Farnham. You are the Voice.

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Jane Caro

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6 years

So ScoMo stared down the barrel of a camera with his best firm but friendly expression & said his first priority was the drought. This from the man who brought a lump of coal into parliament to mock the science of climate change.

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Jane Caro

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2 years

Dear @ABCthedrum if teachers & nurses can’t afford to live in cities we are clearly paying the wrong people too much and the right people too little. That’s what we need to change.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

2 years

Dear those who comparing Perrottet with Andrews, please stop. We know @DanielAndrewsMP did not remove almost all restrictions against health advice in the face of a ferociously infectious new variant, two weeks before super-spreader event that is Xmas. Comparison does not hold.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

4 years

@corydunco @LiberalAus What appalling, nasty, rude behaviour by these self righteous young liberals. I’d rather my grandchildren were read a story by a drag queen than a young liberal any day of the week. Drag queens are smarter, kinder, funnier and way more stylish - and that’s just for starters.

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Jane Caro

@JaneCaro

5 years

While I congratulate Gladys Berejiklian on her achievement, I voted against her (she is my local member). Just a heads up, feminism does not require I agree with every woman on the planet. I would never vote for Pauline Hanson or congratulate her, for example.

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Jane Caro

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2 years

92,000 plus cases! Remember when the idea we’d reach 25,000 cases a day was seen as scaremongering? Happy days.

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