Anna Harper

Brazil and Serbia, defying rise the tide of autocracy. This is how we do it, everywhere. 🌈

Native Ptilotus. I’ve never seen it like this. I’ve been walking here 23 years. We’ve had much more rain.

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Can’t believe the growth in the garden this year. Much more rain than usual.

One more time for the dummies (e.g. Dick Marles), AUKUS is "barking mad". John Menadue: pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

Political culture comes from the top - it is normalised and legitimised from the top!

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Lest we forget. #AusPol

Thanks to Kon Samaras for writing this ... I can feel his searing hot anger in every word. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10...

A Liberal MP called for Anne Aly to be "stoned in the square" just a few days ago www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

How much of the rise of hate and illogic in some sections of society can be traced back to #Murdoch and other RW conservative mainstream media? From America to UK & Europe to Australia… the psychopathic hateful rhetoric and disinformation have increased political tempers and dangerous extremism.

Wish everyone would have held their hot takes on the alleged attack on Helen Haines. As it looks now, it's the perennial failure of policing & mental health care in the bush.Something needing to be dealt with through extra funding. Wishing her surgeons & health care professionals every good thing.

Everyday, so many of us show up to protect our democracy, build a safer future for our kids & grandkids - & be our best selves. Helen Haines is the very essence of this commitment - as so many have said. Thoughts are very much with Helen, her family & community. #auspol

Where do we go from here? This is not the Australia I want my grand kids to grow up in. Where do we start? #auspol

Meanwhile... This was not an isolated incident. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Perhaps because I’m a woman, the attack on Helen Haine’s feels more about the epidemic of violence against women than politics. Sure politics might have been a motivating factor - but there seems to be no shortage of factors that drive male rage against women. Deeply upsetting. 🕊️💙🦋 #auspol

What would Helen do? 🧡 From my chat with Helen Haines in 2024. No one is exaggerating in saying she is "the best of us" www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/19/h...

Shocking to hear the news about the suspected attack on MP Helen Haines. If this was politically motivated, it’s a sign that Australian politics has reached a new low. It’s time to turn the temperature down - there’s too much hatred, abuse, division and disinformation. It’s radicalising people.

Hate begets hate. I truly hope @helenhainesindi.bsky.social is ok. Please can we stop being and supporting arseholes now. 💜💜

I’m sorry but Pauline Hanson, who talks about now much she admires Donald Trump, who’s said she’ll lock up political rivals, who’s backed by a billionaire who talks about how we need Trumpism here, *she’s* saying there’s no place for political violence in Australian? She can utterly fuck off

Having a presenter on the ABC, who maintained a list of left-leaning people and called it “Lobotomised Shitheads”, talking about what has happened to Helen Haines, and wringing her hands about how people can lower the political temperature, is more than I can stomach. #AusPol

the ABC go straight to hyperbole.... inappropriate, clickbait, a beat up, frankly beneath contempt.... i say that as someone who spent most of his working life at the ABC ... deeply ashamed of this.

A really, really horrible attack (by a man, using a SUV) on one of the greatest advocates of community power and equitable climate action in Australia this morning. She's in a critical condition in a hospital in Melbourne and I'm hoping for a swift recovery. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Last week, Ann Aly received 19 death threats. Now Helen Haines. This is not ok Australia!. May Helen have the speediest of good recoveries 🤞🏻🤞🏻

I'm old enough to remember when Pauline Hanson was so offended at being lampooned by drag artist 'Pauline Pantsdown' that she took her application for an injunction against PP all the way to the High Court. Seems the admonishment to 'have a laugh' only goes one way.

How do you shake off your stress?

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For three years our viewers on YouTube have been asking us to set up a dedicated If You're Listening channel they can subscribe to and exclusively get our videos as soon as they're posted. Well, better late than never! www.youtube.com/@IfYoureList...

Every law school graduate knows you are not a lawyer (or the synonym "attorney") until you pass the bar. Otherwise, you are just a shameless, illegal liar.

@albomp.bsky.social’s Govt has started appealing citizens’ #FOI wins to the Federal Court, a course of action that could cost FOI applicants up to $300,000. Well done to Senator Lambie 💪 for introducing a Bill into the Senate that will neutralise this transparency-chilling tactic. #auspol

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