I posted this earlier in response to all the men on here impressed with Waleed Aly’s piece..
what I didn’t go into was that my brother was a witness but chose to say nothing
I was shocked at the time that my b/f attacked me in front of someone.. he’d never done that before.

From q&a

More (actual independent) experts yelling at politicians so they look sheepish and in trouble please.

Part 1 because of limits

Jane Munro Michael Earp 🏳️‍🌈 Anna Leticia DrMichael Carr-Gregg Nicole Hayes: author/podcaster/reader/human Not just important
Incredibly enjoyable when you have a good book to read together ❤️❤️❤️

So fortunate to be hearing from some exceptional Australian authors and creators @SorrentoWritFest:
“Please Read Me A Story
The importance of bringing children and books together”
Michael Earp 🏳️‍🌈 @annawalker_ DrMichael Carr-Gregg Nicole Hayes: author/podcaster/reader/human Jane Godwin

HECS debts are set to increase by 4.8% in six weeks unless the Federal Government urgently intervenes.

A person on $60,000 with an average HECS debt will see their debt increase by $1,177, despite having paid off $1,200 over the year.

Time for urgent reform.

The next election has to be about intergenerational inequity, and what we have to do to leave the world a better place than we found it.

I know my generation deeply cares about our children and grandchildren.

Our political parties just need to get a backbone.

The major parties are screwing it up for the next generation.

Take an average 22-year-old today 🧵

My book A Kind of Magic is being remaindered 💔 An inevitability of being an ok-but-not-great author.

If you'd like a copy, please let me know! I will have several hundred of them at rock-bottom prices and can sign and send one to you.

(it's this: ultimopress.com.au/products/a-kin…)

Extremely important to have this point made explicitly by Justice Lee :

'The notion a woman is expected to either fight or flight to be accepted as having been a victim of sexual assault is not only not reasonably open but wrongheaded.”

#Lehrmann

Oof.

(This man can WRITE.)

I hope more judges absorb Justice Lee's measured analysis of how rape victims behave. The stereotypes that have been out there for centuries - she should've fought him off, she should've shunned him at work, she should've acted in this particular way - need to stop. #Lehrmann

The ripples of this judgement will be felt by women everywhere - women who have been shamed, dismissed and not believed. #Lehrmann #Consent

Benjamin Cohen, who was falsely named on social media and by Channel 7 as the Bondi Junction attacker, has given a response (via The Australian):

The same people who said women were hysterical for warning that Roe v. Wade could be overturned are the same people now saying we're being alarmist about a Trump-enacted national abortion ban.

ALLY-SHIP IN ACTION.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Ashley James

This 1 star review of Portnoy's Complaint is one of the greatest pieces of literary criticism I've ever read

PuffinBooks Greg James Chris Smith Emilybob How, in 2024, are you using a disability as a way to show someone is disgusting. Do you know how damaging this is?

Yeah hi, Alice here. I am so mad about the new Roahl Dahl book. Imagine reading this as a kid, blind in one eye which I am. Have some respect for your child readers for crying out loud.

✨I’ll be reopening to queries on 4/22, but before I do that I’d like to give back to the #writingcommunity by doing a free giveaway. Follow and RT to enter for a chance to win a 1st 10 pgs critique from yours truly. I’ll choose a winner on 4/10. #amwriting #amquerying 👀👀✨📚

Huge congratulations to friend of the pod, the ever excellent champion of inclusion and equity, Sam Mostyn, on her appointment as Australia’s next Governor General.