This absolute legend Saxon Mullins

“…it is one of the strengths of the survivor community, When you feel like you have nothing left to give, someone will give you a little of theirs…”

🙌🏻💪🏻❤️‍🔥

We are so grateful for everything you give, Saxon!

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My latest Staying Upright....

Today we commemorate the 4 year anniversary of the moment when a Nobel laureate articulated the collective mood of an entire nation.

We have received family permission today to post this statement from Emma Bates’s family, and provide a recent picture of her:

“Emma was a much loved member of our family. She was the 4th of 7 children. Emma spent her entire life dealing with health issues. She was a type one…

Lest we forget.
My The Sydney Morning Herald cartoon.

“Nor did I know about grace, that it meets you exactly where you are, at your most pathetic and hopeless, and it leads you into its wheelbarrow and then tips you out somewhere else in ever so slightly better shape.”
ANNE LAMOTT
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, 49

I don't how many more nails need to be banged into the coffin of the Australian cultural cringe - Australia's cultural clout is fare more significant, and has been for decades - but here is yet another one........

After a brutal five years, some grace.

Thanks 💥Dr💥 Julia Baird for covering Jess Hill and my paper on “Rethinking Primary Prevention” in the SMH today jesshill.substack.com/p/how-do-you-s…

Thoughtful and incisive, as always. In 💥Dr💥 Julia Baird's column today, analysing the persistence of rape myths, she also detailed a paper published this week by myself and Michael Salter, called 'Rethinking Primary Prevention'. You can read that here: jesshill.substack.com/p/rethinking-p…

Some gross rape myths were aired this week after the Lehrmann decision. The good news is these myths are eroding. The bad news is, they are doing so very slowly – and this is not doing enough to prevent sexual assault. Now what?

My The Sydney Morning Herald The Age column

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Why have people started saying that something is 'based off' something else. Shouldn't it be 'based on'? Hasn't it always been 'based on'? What is happening with the world? Who agreed to this? Why wasn't I given advance warning so I could lodge an objection?

Annoyed of Melbourne

OMNISHAMBLES

nordacious strikes again 🤣🤣

All those in the media who boosted #Lehrmann 's account -- and they know who they are -- must be dying of shame. Justice Lee has absolutely shredded his character and his evidence, caling it 'risible', 'an elaborate fancy' and 'a litany of lies'.

Dear #kimwilliams ABC Australia could you please make sure that #Markcolvins old PM interviews are made available in the archives, so his audience and researchers and young journos can hear them and learn from them. We will all be very grateful.

QUICKSTICKS: I have three tickets available for the long-sold out Pub Choir at Enmore Theatre, Sydney today. Doors open at seven, performance at eight. DM me if you'd like to snap them up.

A cruel culture war spurred an unprecedented savaging of a rape victim in Australia. Wrote this for ABC News abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

Just thinking how great it would be to have The Drum on tonight, 💥Dr💥 Julia Baird Ellen Fanning:Journo

Omnishambles first used in BBC political satire The Thick of It in 2009. It refers to a situation seen as shambolic from all possible perspectives. In 2012 'omnishambles' was Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year and now Justice Lee has popularised it via #Lehrmann trial.

Meanwhile live reactions on the BRUCE LEHRMANN IS INNOCENT Facebook group chat: