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Dr Eileen O’Brien

@eilyob.bsky.social

Law academic, grandma, traveller and animal lover. Kaurna land (Adelaide SA)

321 Followers  |  468 Following  |  31 Posts  |  Joined: 11.11.2024  |  1.9509

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Get it tested and removed. A few years ago one of my dogs was diagnosed with a “fatty lump”, I wasn’t comfortable with that so I took her to another Vet. It was cancer and she was in surgery the next day. Don’t take chances - get rid of it. 🐶💕

30.01.2026 01:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please come back next year!

12.12.2025 17:40 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Only in WA…🙄

12.12.2025 17:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The vital lessons these survivors are getting in Sydney’s suburbs Swim Brothers is providing free lessons to newly arrived young refugees from Gaza, and in a way that also recognises their recent trauma.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

10.12.2024 21:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ABC’s news breakfast cross to its Adelaide reporter this morning is about Taylor Swift’s Era’s tour - instead of this 👇

We are very broken 😞 #auspol

09.12.2024 19:45 — 👍 202    🔁 68    💬 13    📌 3

Dreadful.

09.12.2024 09:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fascinating to see Amy Remeikis dropping all these truth bombs about the true agenda behind Dutton’s nuclear push in her new role working for @australiainstitute.org.au. She’s had to leave mainstream media to say this - all of it factual, watchdog journalism. Why can’t mainstream say it too?

09.12.2024 07:41 — 👍 758    🔁 235    💬 32    📌 10

👌😉

09.12.2024 00:06 — 👍 19    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

Really don’t think so…

09.12.2024 05:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Income support needs a real increase, not just indexation - The AIM Network Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) Media Release ACOSS is calling on the Federal Government to substantially boost income support payments after it announced small increases due to routine i...

“The soaring cost of rent, food, and essentials is driving people on income support payments deeper into poverty…

The way to end poverty is by raising the rate of income support. One of the world’s wealthiest nations should not be condemning people to poverty.”

theaimn.com/income-suppo...

08.12.2024 10:33 — 👍 88    🔁 44    💬 6    📌 0
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Police release two more photos of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s shooter The hunt for Brian Thompson’s killer has yielded new evidence but few answers. New York’s mayor said, “The net is tightening.”

Amazing eyebrows www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

09.12.2024 00:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Homelessness much worse than before COVID leaves agencies battling a perfect storm Agencies that help people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness are struggling to house them because of the shortfall of social housing and intense competition for affordable rentals.

You can’t end anyone’s #homelessness if there’s no #housing. State government’s must reinvest in social housing. #fixhousing

08.12.2024 20:17 — 👍 96    🔁 35    💬 4    📌 0
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To the people fear mongering about the Syrian victory. This one goes out to you.

08.12.2024 04:40 — 👍 9294    🔁 1632    💬 166    📌 44

Same, same…

08.12.2024 06:46 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The government should build public housing rather than waiting for it to be gifted to the community by developers who will extract the cost of it by overdevelopment. Fund it by value capture, land tax, rents or whatever, but don’t let the vulnerable become homeless and hopeless.

08.12.2024 05:24 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Just wondering why lying in wait for someone and then putting several bullets into them is pre-meditated murder, but creating an algorithm to deny someone the medication that keeps them alive isn’t?

06.12.2024 21:14 — 👍 213    🔁 70    💬 4    📌 3
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ACOSS refers Federal Government to Ombudsman - The AIM Network Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) Media Release ACOSS has referred the Federal Government to the Commonwealth Ombudsman following the latest revelations that income support payments may hav...

“ACOSS has referred the Federal Government to the Commonwealth Ombudsman following the latest revelations that income support payments may have been illegally cancelled, affecting at least 1,000 people between April 2022 and July 2024.”

theaimn.com/acoss-refers...

06.12.2024 22:28 — 👍 13    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

I’m so sorry, I have loved following Rex ❤️

06.12.2024 14:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Friday essay: ‘A future of dust’ – Jeff Sparrow on Gaza and why, in evil times, writers have a responsibility to take sides Paradoxically, the very scale of the crisis in Gaza makes worthwhile even the tiniest gesture of solidarity.

‘If any good can be salvaged from this evil time, it is the solidarity of ordinary people, the crowds assembling again and again and again at events at which noisy contingents of Jews and Palestinians stand side-by-side…Writers – and everyone else – must take sides…’ Thankyou Jeff Sparrow.

06.12.2024 11:11 — 👍 58    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 1

These people are seriously 🦇 💩 crazy.

05.12.2024 23:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I sincerely believe this was a significant factor, Maryann. My daughter lives in the US and her partner is a committed Democrat (who voted) but several in their circle did not because of Gaza. I don’t think the older Dems (who, of course, run everything) understood the (rightful) degree of concern.

05.12.2024 22:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

we have reached the ‘my iphone automatically dims its screen to unreadability to avoid overheating’ time of year here in australia!

04.12.2024 23:51 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

Truth…

04.12.2024 06:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🤣🤣🤣

03.12.2024 09:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AUKUS harming Chinese and Muslim Australians - Pearls and Irritations In electorates with high numbers of Chinese and Muslim voters, it is time for a reckoning with Labor’s AUKUS policy.

In electorates with significant Chinese and Muslim populations, AUKUS raises concerns. Policies like AUKUS fuel distrust, perpetuate racism, and ignore community voices. Voter education is essential to challenge a foreign policy that prioritises militarism over equality and dignity for all. #auspol

03.12.2024 03:30 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Australia's duopoly is cruel, captured and must be destroyed  - The Shot Parliamentary politics cannot save us - but we might be able to save parliamentary politics.  The ALP and the Coalition cannot be trusted.

Here's me. "Australia’s duopoly is cruel, captured, and must be destroyed"

03.12.2024 00:29 — 👍 1013    🔁 422    💬 128    📌 96

Environmental policy IS economic policy

02.12.2024 05:13 — 👍 183    🔁 44    💬 4    📌 2

Appalling…

02.12.2024 05:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Those with dementia shut out of Australian voluntary assisted dying laws Photo by Tim Doerfler on Unsplash With the long overdue and very welcome passage in the NSW parliament of independent MP Alex Greenwich’s bill to legalise voluntary assisted dying, all six states h…

Except if you have dementia ... then your access to VAD is denied, regardless of whether any living will instructions. By definition, you can't consent when you are not sentient. Just live with it. Dreadful iniquity. See simonchapman6.com/2022/06/09/t...

02.12.2024 02:09 — 👍 29    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 0

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