What we need FIRST are advocates and allies before anyone earns the right to make suggestions. Our experiences are unique to us, first individually and THEN collectively. 6/

Crate trained for 8-12 hours a day and spending most of her time in the bedroom, 12 month old Halo Mocah 182987’s family dumped her for “no time”. Now she’s looking for a new and improved family. TBK Tuesday (NYCACC kills young puppies), a social, affectionate and playful girl…

More shit reporting at @ABCNews. Albanese is apparently “under fire”, because Sussan Ley said so. What Albanese did say is the issue has gone through the normal diplomatic channels. This is how the public broadcaster frames news for conservative interests, against Labor. #AUSPOL

Indonesian Hospital in Gaza is calling for urgent intervention by UN and Red Cross.

It's claimed there was no warning before the hospital was shelled.
Article 18 again.

Prof Brendan Crabb AC Ok so twitter categorically will not allow me to post question number 8 for some reason 🤷‍♀️ all I can do is post a screenshot

Prof Brendan Crabb AC 14.Are you proud or ashamed to be doing a far more incompetent job of vaccine procurement than the Lib govt did?

Do you lose even a moment’s sleep over Australians who will die unnecessarily over the next few months as a direct result of your inadequate, negligent choices?

Prof Brendan Crabb AC 13.Given you promised to “leave no one behind”, what about children? Why continue to ensure kids <5 completely unprotected against severe disease? Why refuse to boost schoolkids?

Why ignore additional risk of millions of Australians with autoimmune disease, asthma, LC etc?

Prof Brendan Crabb AC 12.CMO Kelly said Australians were exceptional b/c majority not infected til after vaccinated.

If we accept this advantage, why expose unprotected Australians to new variants so different they need a whole new vaccine not just a booster?

Why throw away that advantage?

11.Have you forgotten cases didn’t actually go away just b/c you erased public data? You’re not falling 4 yr own minimising false narrative are you?

Prof Brendan Crabb AC ests 2-5 million to be infected in next 4-5 mths. Can you ignore realities of this level of unprotected infection?

10.Have you calculated the extra, unnecessary loss of productivity and the cost of staff absences due to illness that will occur this summer because you failed to offer vaccine protection?

It will surely dwarf the cost of vaccines for all Australians

9.Are you sure you’ve calculated Health system burden of millions of unprotected Australians infected over next few months?

Are you nervous restricted access to XBB vaccines will cause healthcare collapse during this wave? How many unprotected HCWs will be collateral damage?

7.In Feb this year you specifically announced 10 million Omicron-specific Pfizer vaccines were on their way within weeks.

Why have you omitted this information this time around?

How many XBB doses have you actually ordered to arrive in December 2023?

6.There was much speculation that you wanted to hold back updated vaccines to use in autumn 2024 side by side with flu shots.

Has media pressure forced you to make a minimal effort for show as you hold back the vast majority of vaccines til autumn 24 just as you wanted to?

5.Why did you wait until it is so late in the year that

even if someone gets vaccinated on the very first day available,

they won’t enjoy full protection until Xmas day

after almost all their festive season socialising is done?

4.Why aren’t you pulling & binning old bivalent vaccines like US did?

Are you hoping you’ve kept most Australians so badly informed they won’t know which offers better protection & will “use up” yr bargain bin, out of date stock? Have you no duty of care to your constituents?

3.Why did you base yr bold, reassuring assertion that older vaccine formulations continue to provide strong protection against severe disease on evidence that’s now >6 mths old?

Given how much variants have evolved in meantime, yr source is as out of date as the old vaccines

2.Are you so dazzled by the cost cutting excitement of free infection immunity that you can look past the terrible longterm health consequences of a repeated infections strategy?

🧵 14 questions for Mark Butler MP ATAGI & CMO Kelly on XBB vaccine advice

1.Why are we out of step with & less protected than the rest of the world?

Are you deliberately infecting the vast majority of Australians this summer just to save money on an extra vaccine dose?

Morning thought... #79/855 #CelebrateMonday #quotesoftheday #edchat

Israel is now saying of 1200 people killed on October 7, more than 300 were soldiers.

Initially Israel claimed 1400 civilians, now less than 900 civilians killed and Israel now admits helicopter gunship open fired on Israelis fleeing Nova rave.
Gunships kill many fast. #auspol