Synergy Scaffolding, now known as the ‘Muslim water boys’, used their massive trucks to drive 36000 bottles of water to fire-affected Shoalhaven. A firefighter escort lead them through the rough bits. Thank you, boss Sam Soukie and all those boys!
I have an appointment with the gynaecologist 😬 tomorrow. You know, just to get the all-clear on the lady bits. They just sent a text. Would I prefer a Telehealth appointment? 😱😱😱😱 I just can’t even picture myself getting ready for that …
A man who does outdoor work on my sister’s property arrived yday, a little hot under the collar. Told her what had just happened in Bowral. He saw a man grab & belt his wife on the street. Did anyone help her? I guess I did, says he. He thumped the bloke and left him on ground.
I’m a bit upset 😡 I just had to explain to a dear friend what Robodebt was all about. Yes. I did. Obviously I queried why they had absolutely no knowledge (in a steadily rising voice ...). “Well, it doesn’t apply to me.” Then I asked if they voted LNP. “Always!”
May need to commence divorce proceedings. Knew about husband reading The Australian. We had a talk. Caught him watching Sunrise, looking ever like a RWNJ sitting up in bed, laughing. Is there a book I can read with strategies? Or a respite husband out there? Or should I just go?
Oh, look at this!
@MadFckingWitch
are responsible for stripping 2GB of $24 million of advertising dollars and seeing off Alan Jones. Now, it’s
#newscorpse
they’re after ... with stunning success. >100k advertisers have exited Murdoch media. Gone! Hit him where it hurts!
Well, I just got a call from my federal member 😱 Okay, it was a recorded message, but I’m impressed. Asked me to call her if I am not okay in lockdown.
@zalisteggall
you bloody legend!
Twitter won’t let me follow 47,569 new followers, so don’t think I’m being rude. And you’d all better say Happy Birthday on 3/3. I can’t do this one alone 😂😂😂🥰
Here we go 😶
I was fiddled with by teacher at Catholic school when newly 12 - my first weeks at high school with no big sister. Held me back after school. Said I needed help with Bunsen burner. I didn’t. Locked lab door. Had window, so put me down back. Dad was waiting outside.
Catholic school ‘social’ harbour cruise. My niece, 16, was excited to go. Not long into the cruise, Catholic boy has his hands on her breasts from behind. She turned around, put her hands on his shoulders, smiled, then kneed him in the ghoulies... 1/2
@josiegirl62
@ScottMorrisonMP
If young Brittany can be as brave as she is, I can do this. Been accused of blackmailing the PM, but that’s not my understanding of the word. I didn’t write the emails, that’s on him, but I was accidentally included in the group. So mine to share.
What do we think of this, eh? A GOOD friend of my family owns and runs a big childcare facility in regional NSW. She will tell anyone who’ll listen that she wants to “get Covid” so she can show people “it’s nothing”. Steadfastly refuses to be vaccinated. Thoughts? Actions?
Will rape allegations change Australia's 'toxic' politics? - BBC News.
The toxic culture and sexism towards women by those in power in Australia is “unique in its inertness”. And
@ScottMorrisonMP
is behaving like an “onlooker”. Ouch.
@shaunwarnock_sw
@ScottMorrisonMP
Hearing you. Was going to write something myself, but the best coverage of an important issue happens here. I’ll also flick to a reputable journo.
@tegangeorge
seems nice.
Two cabinet ministers attended event at which woman alleged Christian Porter raped her
Just how is this ever going to go away? It gets bigger every day.
This is Hope. She lay on her mum’s bed for 5 days as she was dying. Ambos took mum away and she died in hospital. Hope was forgotten, alone, no food for 3 days. Here she is with all her things in my sister’s car. She’s coming to live with me. I’m her new mum! Haven’t told hubby.
Is there a better advertisement for making any Parliament building absolutely booze and drug free. It is long overdue. It costs us a fortune, to say nothing of the productivity of this turd. The rest of them are enablers.
I met a young woman with brain lesions. She has absent seizures daily; where she is physically present, but that is all. She told me
@Centrelink
put her on Newstart, but she is incapable of working with such severe issues. She cannot drive. She has a carer. Rejected for NDIS.
Anyone have a list of anything the current LNP Govt has actually done for this country? All I can find are rorts on rorts; death by robodebt; death by Ruby Princess; preselection candiditure for Cook criminally stolen by incumbent PM; and, please add...
Terrific interview. Peter Fox is a fine human being. He’s withstood some real horrors. He believed victims. Church and police couldn’t silence him. Brave don’t cover it.
Woke to a beautiful card from Mike. It says, “Happy 8,760 sleeps”. Married 24 years today and have managed to stay this way. We met on a blind date. Yes. My gawd, ya gotta kiss a lotta frogs, eh? I’ve made many stupid decisions in my life, but not this one. I’d marry him again!
@TonyHWindsor
@ScottMorrisonMP
Evil flourishes when good people do nothing. Hear the klaxon! Maintain the rage! Literally sick I’m so deeply disgusted over the avalanche of corruption-scandals-misogyny-bonking-torturing-abject inhumanity-blatant theft-etc-bloody-etc that PM just bats away.
@TonyHWindsor
😚
Today is the Solemnity of Australia’s first saint and patron saint, Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop.
She was the first mother superior of the order of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. We pray for her to inspire us today.
So, police said it was a lawful visit. Tones was ‘exercising’ at a cafe that is outta his lockdown boundary. I’m no triathlete, but how does one lawfully exercise in a cafe out of one’s area?
My entire heart 😭
The Sikh community distributed thousands of hot fresh meals, masks, and groceries to anyone in need including healthcare works on the front lines.
I Love this SO MUCH
This is what HUMANITY looks like ❤️
PORTUGAL JUST LEGALIZED ALL THEIR IMMIGRANTS, INCLUDING ASYLUM SEEKERS, and gave them access to public services. So proud of my parents’ country, every other nation should follow suit ❤️❤️❤️
New profile picture. This shot is 50 years old. I was six. I just felt this shy little Catholic girl needed an airing. I look at this photo and wonder what she could have been. All she wanted was to be a mother, as good as her own. The church took all that away from her, and me.
Oh dear. Can’t write the rest just now, but you get the drift. It’s not memories I have, but a horror movie on loop. I can describe the sheets in sports room. I can smell my boss. I can feel the weight of doctor on top of me. I have no children because I never learned to trust.
(2) I was set upon in a locked sports room near Caringbah Catholic presbytery. There was a bed. It stank of old sweat. He was Fr Kevin Cox. Uber paedophile. Gave girl money for abortion. I’d gone to him at his suggestion. He wanted to talk to me about my stuffy, strict parents.
At Victoria's coronavirus update tomorrow, one thing will be different.
#DansDayOff
! Watch him make a curry, build a cubby house, buy an inflatable toy, finish a 4000-piece jigsaw, then whip up some scones for morning tea.
#SoScared
😱😱😱 I’m minding an old house. The house says bugger all in the day, but it’s VERY CHATTY at night. Dog under doona ... petrified. Doors that don’t creak, now do. One does it and the others answer. Shit. Please check in with me tomorrow. I may not survive the night.
@GregNanscawen
I’m gonna be marching in Canberra! 🤗🤗🤗 And I don’t think I’ll be needing the pot lids! Nor a megaphone! I think this march will be very healing. Otherwise, it’s a frontal lobotomy for me. I’m sick of my baggage, I really am. 🥰🥰🥰
Several more horrors as young naive secretary. Several sudden trips back to the office with someone. Physically fought to get away. Then at 21, a really horrific rape. Happened the day we buried another 21 yr old. My friend. She was impregnated by my boss. Aborted baby.
You need a brain, a heart, and a giant dash of decency,
@sussanley
. Shameful, disgraceful, disgusting woman. Any candidate who thinks scaremongering, racism, inciting hatred is a campaign strategy has absolutely nothing else to push. Kon will fix your little red wagon.
#Racist
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre will be complaining to Australian Human Rights Commission that Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party is in breach of the Racial Discrimination Act for inciting racial hatred towards refugees & migrants & seeking to offend, insult, humiliate & intimidate
Dear lovelies 😚 vI’m gonna ‘cease & desist’ before I’m made do so. Have seen fab offers from IT peeps 🙏🏼 & noted all feedback 🙏🏼 During this lull, I’ll get well & get moving. BTW, posted this a v long time ago to a tiny blip. Those who did blip, I’ll get back to you 🥰
@Brad59414697
Just bought new bed. The one I wanted was cheapest at
#HarveyNorman
. So I paid an extra $150 to another supplier for same bed in yet another boycott moment.
#NeverAgain
Lawn mower boss shares scathing message for Peter Stefanovic after Sky News host sparked outrage for 'disrespectful' interview with 19-year-old fishing champ Keegan Payne | Daily Mail Online.
Seriously doubt there’s any coming back from this racist taunt.
I just enquired about adopting a cat. Woman in charge, who said somewhere in the convo that she was 45, asked me a “sensitive” question, with enough of a pause to sound ominous. Did I have a succession plan for my animals given I was newly 60. 😱 🥲
Can’t wait for the day Australia is so stuffed that Jacinda decides to buy it at bargain price, and we’re renamed West New Zealand and booted up the arse for our abject inhumanity.
WATCH - Compassionate New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, says she would not tolerate tens of thousands of New Zealanders dying from COVID-19 for the nation to obtain herd immunity before a vaccine is found - Boris Johnson, "Meh"
Well, I’m just outta recovery and guess I’m waiting for Simpson and his donkey ... Mike came for visit. Burst into tears and left. He’s such a softie. 6000mg of antibiotics intravenously each day. Hair like straw after washing in Physohex. Nasty. But ... I’m back! 😳
Sheesh. I won’t be facing my public any time soon. 😬 Up in the night, stumbled, and fell … using my face and the bedside table to break the fall. Gawd, everything went white then black. Fell on bed. Blood all over my face! Dang. Nose now undulating. Eyebrow on stalks.
#Ouch
“When I first started at parliament the level of alcohol in the building was beyond anything that I had ever seen. I mean, it was a workplace ...” LNP Karen Andrews on
#Nemesis
. And it is NEVER addressed. Make our national decision makers’ place of work
#BoozeFree
! NOW.
@AlexHawkeMP
Listen, bucko. Thanks to your interference, the Ruby Princess docked coz your in-laws were onboard. Get real. You owe the bloody country - especially those whose loved ones died so your rellies could get home from their cruise. Not something we are EVER likely to forget.
Catholic Church's massive wealth revealed
In 2018, SMH conducted an investigation and found the Catholic Church in Australia is conservatively worth $30 billion. Property value bigger than Westfield. Westfield!
My friend, Leanne, died of septicaemia. After funeral, some peeps came back to our place, where I lived with a dear girlfriend. Spare room, so she offered it to drunk boss. During the night, I was fast asleep, waking to find him pinning me down. Raped by my boss. Went to work!
My question to
@ScottMorrisonMP
If all you had to do was speak to your wife, why did you waste $190,000 of taxpayer money 18mths ago hiring an empathy consultant?
@janine_hendry
PM Bob Hawke fronted a hostile mob of 45,000. Copped it. He persisted. He stayed among the mob on Parliament House steps. Listened. Made changes to budget. Oh, the comparisons will be delicious.
#HeWontShow
#MinisterForMen
-
@MarisePayne
After a solid week bed, I could be off to hospital shortly. Suspected viral meningitis. Off painkillers to see what’s what. Poor husband is a carrier. He has Mollaret’s meningitis - comes and bloody goes. Trying hard not to take up a bed, or bring the old Covid home.
(3) Hospitalised with very low BP at 17. Doctor Baird moved me from one ward to one with old ladies. The ladies spoke to Mum. She just ran out and came back with Dad. ** I am shaking writing this. It happened 43 years ago ** The ladies told them the doc came several times a day.
@flickafaida
Those boys went with a mission. The culprit ended up on the floor. There was a loud collective gasp as it happened, but Grace just walked away. Didn’t happen again!
Wow! God really is getting angry! Australia must tax the churches. Brian Houston boasting of the “miracle” of “God opening the door” so Hillsong could buy three luxury floors in a Manhattan building. The son of a paedo, Houston refuses to join the sex abuse redress scheme. Farque
4 hours into a 12 hour night shift in Emergency Psychiatry & still going strong 💪 Absolutely love my job. Such a huge honour to provide care to patients with mental health problems. 30 minute break to replenish fluids & back to the frontline I return! Wishing you all the best.
Top two trends today?
@MrKRudd
and
#ThanksKevin
. This is DEMOCRACY! Even if you share a picture of an otter today - or a capybara, or anything else - please, please, please remember to put
#ThanksKevin
on every tweet and retweet. Get the feels that today the worm is turning 🤗
“Oh, non! No more …”
“So, he boasted skilled welders taught him to … weld, but it blew up in his face!”
“Not go well, then?”
“No, you fool! IT BLEW UP IN HIS FACE! Poof! Flash of light, this far from his face…”
“But he had the visor!”
“Best bit! He lifted it to weld 🤣🤣🤣.”
Ever had a bucket of water thrown over you? 😱 Mum saw me drawing on the driveway with chalk. Ran to fill bucket. “KATHRYN! You will not draw male genitalia on the driveway!” Was too shocked to tell her it was Mr Squiggles’ rocket.
Just had an amazing chat with neighbour. She is awfully busy, working from home. Chatted about all n sundry, then she had to go prepare for a Zoom meeting, and still had three podcasts to script and record for Monday. Sad she can’t volunteer at Powerhouse Museum tho. She is 96.
This is a thread that really needs a read. Want a very human perspective on
#UluruStatement
- one that’s not being tossed about in an argument at a political level? For big cut-through on on the banter, please read. Thank you, Doc Lou. ♥️
So I’m voting for Uluru. For the Statement from the Heart. For the unfinished business. For the men, women and children in detention. For the families experiencing intergenerational trauma. For my own trauma growing up in a silent Australia.
#UluruStatement
Seriously, you can’t make this shit up. Hanging out for the book of
#ScottyFromKindy
’s time in his orifice. Then the movie on Comedy Channel. Benny Hill coulda played Scotty and Michael Crawford, Christian Porter. Hey, they’re both narcissistic enough to want to play themselves!
@Peter_Fitz
@adambedders
says his 5 year old has made himself the local virus warden. Over the fence to neighbour:
‘JEAN YOU NEED TO GO INSIDE’
‘Okay I will in a minute’
‘YOU’RE OLD AND THERE’S A VIRUS’
‘I’m not that old thank you’
‘HOW OLD ARE YOU JEAN?’
‘I’m 68.’
‘THAT IS NEARLY 70 JEAN.’
Catholic church to use late Ballarat bishop's estate to help victims of abuse
And here’s me thinking there’s a vow of poverty for priests. Or is that just for nuns. Millionaire priest, go figure.
I woke this morning to no husband. He often goes AWOL. Sent text requesting rough whereabouts, and got this lovely picture. He rang ambo himself and was admitted immediately. Meningitis. Again. Got a blast from me for letting me sleep. How’s your morning so far?
@JulianAndrew63
@LadyPoop2
He doesn’t ‘come from’ the shire. He was parachuted in to participate in rigging the Cook candidature result. Michael Towke won 80 votes to Morrison’s eight, who was cut first round. Then Rupert stirred up trouble for Towke thru toe rag Tele. Towke won defamation. Morrison is PM.
The Catholic Church documented Ridsdale’s offending in the 1950s, while he attended the seminary. They knew. For six decades they knew there was a cluster bomb among their putrid ranks.
I’m sure every single Australian will think this so heartwarming. Especially the 700 families who call a charred block ‘home’. Could
@ScottMorrisonMP
be any more callous and inappropriate?
Christmas party for Parliament House while so much of the rest of Australia suffers ! 😡😡😡 Morrison plays Santa in a merry start to festive season break
Essential poll: Morrison’s approval takes a hit from female voters while remaining unchanged with men.
Now, what does this tell you? Ladies, we’re on our own.
@gruntat
@chaser
That list of rorts they have is priceless. Found it! The full list has 902 points. If you’re that keen, there’s a list at the very end.
George Pell and Father Bob Maguire: The man that clashed with the Cardinal | Daily Telegraph
@Joe_Hildebrand
what a brilliant story! Fr Bob is a legend. Can you imagine the world if he was pope? That’s a world I’d like to call home. Thanks, Joe.
** My palms are sweating! ** He circled my bed in curtains and they couldn’t see his feet. The strongest memory is my beautiful father yelling at hospital staff who said he could not take me home. They wrote to everyone, but doc now has a thriving specialised health business.
@stevejco
@Kristie00374988
“…lazy, juvenile and overly competitive with no sense for ‘digging in the dirt’.”
A seasoned Canberra press gallery journalist summarising the current crop of gallery dwellers who, no doubt, will remain wilfully ignorant.
First piece of work that our Liam received a prize for AND got paid for. It's blue biro on beer coaster. I find the message open to interpretation.
#auspol
#wherethebloodyhellareya
#Smoko
Karen Ridge named as woman who tried to pull down Aboriginal flag as husband sacked from McDonald's | Daily Mail Online
McDonald’s! Thank you. I’m buying a Big Mac tomorrow. Swift action is so yesterday, so thank you for the speed.