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Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
My husband navigates ships. He often navigates ships in waters where asylum seekers are more likely to be. He knows many other navigators who work in the area
Throughout the Coalition’s entire 9-year tenure, those boats didn’t stop. The media just didn’t report them.
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
'The risk of developing urinary incontinence after vaginal birth is like the risk of your child having autism after a caesarean birth'. Where to even start here 🤯
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
Find out what interests them, what gets the dopamine flowing in their brain, and then celebrate their victories as they follow those interests with abandon, even if doing so doesn’t line up with standard educational conventions or milestones. /28
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
Since the 1980s we've been told that emotional suffering is rooted in untreated 'mental disorders' rather than in unmet social/psychological/relational needs. In no other period has this historically outlying belief so dominated, nor has mental health disability so increased.
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
Jim Chalmers @JEChalmers speaks with authority and force. This guy may be the best communicator in the job since Keating. And brilliant to open the books now about “a budget heaving with rorts and waste” as he puts it.
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
Hey Jim Chalmers. You can save $247 million over the next 4 years by defunding Christian Chaplains in State schools. The diversity of the new Govt should show how exclusive and discriminatory that is. Trained Counsellors please.
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
Lots of talk about crime rates in Bayside Melbourne/Brighton after Bec Judd's claims re "rapes, bashings and home invasions at the hands of gangs". So I did a deep dive on the latest available statistics. Some things that I found. @newscomauHQ
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
THREAD: As cops try to spin Uvalde as one bad choice by a bad police commander from a brand new small “cowardly” police department, please remember these facts:
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
it would cost labor nothing to immediately end all mutual obligations that are hurting poor people every day. In fact, they’d recoup costs from all the millions spent administering programs like work for the dole. in the spirit of fiscal responsibility, why won’t they?
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
I've spent a lot of time talking to so many people, from experts to everyday Aussies, about the quality of homes we build in Australia in recent months. The line about living in "glorified tents" sums it up and it is dangerous stuff.
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
From building in flood zones, to building new homes that cannot be cooled down so they are building evac centres for residents, to rental properties that landlords are allowed to lease out & tenants freeze & boil in...we are so ill-prepared for climate change in every scenario.
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
We have a property market worth more than $9 trillion, which contributes to almost 60 per cent of building emissions, what does it amount to if it fails to provide its basic function of safe shelter?
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
I filled out an autism quotient questionnaire for my upcoming assessment and one of the questions was about if I am fascinated by dates and I said no BUT now I want to go to the supermarket and buy some dates and see how fascinating they really are
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
I am BEYOND relieved that DES isn't included in this. Because there is no way I could accumulate 100 points a month. I doubt I could even get 50.
Mark my words - people are going to die over this.
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
The government choosing not to give the Biloela family permanent residency is a sign that it may be too timid and waste the political capital it's been handed. Hope not, but this was an opportunity to do the obviously right thing and it's been squibbed.
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
The ten richest Australians increased their collective wealth by over $46 BILLION this year alone. If we taxed them properly we could put dental and mental health into Medicare, lift people on benefits out of poverty and take real climate action.
Ben Too Many Bones Buckingham retweeted
Infuriating to see Dutton & media trying to repair his image. I’ve spoken to refugees who were tortured on his watch. I’ve seen videos/pics of refugees dying/self-harming. I heard him joke about rising sea levels. I heard his racist comments about Africans & Lebanese. He sued me.