Surprised Owl

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High livable minimum wage, Universal Healthcare, Universal Free University/trade education, Affordable housing.

Straight, CiS, married, no kids. He/Him. Australian Labor Supporter. FSU. Born 1976.
#IstandwithAlbo #IstandwithDan #AusRepublic #IstandwithPRGuy17 #VoiceToParliament Melbourne Citizen, raised in FNQ, Australia.
On Wurundjeri land. My friends all the land is stolen.

Assault charges against former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro dismissed due to mental health

The former NSW deputy premier, 51, denied charges of common assault and destroying or damaging property over the incident at Manly in July last year.

ABC News

This Russian student spoke out against Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine… and two classmates ratted her out to the cops. Now, she’s been designated as a terrorist.

She’s 19.

(Check out this gift article, at no cost to you.)

Read here: https://wapo.st/3XJskYM

After classmates snitch, Russia charges 19-year-old war critic as terrorist

Olesya Krivtsova, a student in the Arctic city of Arkhangelsk, was denounced by classmates for speaking against the war in Ukraine and arrested as an extremist.

The Washington Post

If you're in Melbourne or Victoria (or even if you're not), consider donating to the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service this week. They do great work. Despite occasional headlines, the myriad ways the police and the colony crush and kill the Indigenous people of the land called Australia is mostly invisible.

#InvasionDay #melbourne

https://www.vals.org.au/donate/

Donate - VALS

"Your donation will help us ensure that everyone who wants to access high quality, culturally safe legal assistance is able to." - Nerita Waight, CEO

VALS
Jacinda Ardern's resignation: gender and the toll of strong, compassionate leadership

Despite women now having equal representation within New Zealand’s parliament, the misogynistic abuse directed at Jacinda Ardern shows equal treatment of women in leadership is still a long way off.

The Conversation

A message from Big Brother:

Jacinta Ardern is very evil.

George Pell was a Saint.

You will obey and not think otherwise! #1984

It’s 2023 and the Albanese Government have still not given permanent protection to any of the 31,000 in limbo in Australia for a decade now.

Nor have they granted more people seeking asylum the right to work, health care or a safety net or evacuated the nearly 200 offshore

A video of the dismantling of the #ContainerWall along the U.S.-Mexico border on Jan. 10th from Mexico. The barbed wire fence and "Normandy barrier" is a few feet on the U.S. side of the border line.

From here, these containers will be unstacked and eventually transported to a storage yard near Whetstone, AZ.

This is what the Forest Service and contractor AshBritt have gone out of their way to prohibit the public from seeing — but they can't stop me from going to Mexico to film it.

Does #Auspol realistically believe that Labor will win the NSW State Election?

This Is Sydney and NSW we are talking about here. I don’t have that much faith.

Are they still going to carry on about Eddie Obeid for next 100 years??

The face you make when you know you’ve been thrown under a bus by the people that said they love you…..#princeharry #Spare #abolishthemonarchy

Vic Premier Dan Andrews nails it & says no to state funeral for George Pell.
But if as reported, NSW Liberal Premier & conservative Catholic Dominic Perrottet,
Is also ruling out a state funeral,
This will be another moment like the #StolenGeneration and Indigenous #VoicetoParliament
Where Peter Dutton has not only failed to read the room, failed vulnerable children. #ChildSexualAbuse

#DanAndrews #DominicPerrottet #ChildAbuseRC ##GeorgePell #StateFuneral
#auspol
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/12/daniel-andrews-rules-out-victoria-state-funeral-for-cardinal-george-pell?CMP=share_btn_tw

Daniel Andrews ‘couldn’t think of anything more distressing’ for victims than a state funeral for George Pell

Victorian premier says those abused ‘at the hands of the Catholic church’ are foremost in his thoughts

The Guardian