Nanny to Aubrey May and William Thomas. Proud mum of identical twins girls. I quit smoking on the 7/10/13 by switching to vaping. It saved my life.
Melbourne Australia
Joined December 2014
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Afternoon plenary session with Ron Borland’s keynote on rethinking regulation, illicit tobacco, vaping and public health response
Deakin University
#APSAD26
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The Albo-rithm: Please Explain
The Albanese Government wants to control the internet. They'll call it safety. It's censorship.
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In Australia, 167 women had their penis amputated over ten years, which is super weird because women don’t have dicks.
Donna retweeted
Apparently, 73 women had their penises amputated in Australia in 2023–24 🤡
@DrKarleenG exposing the absurd consequences of replacing biological sex with gender identity in health data.
📍 @CASCltd Gender Healthcare Summit 2026, Adelaide.
Donna retweeted
Sonja, respectfully, does anyone at @victorianlabor understand that the taxpayer funded construction jobs come with insanely inflated, economically suicidal, salaries that no private builder can compete with. Thus private builders lose their best workers. Also on the taxpayer funded sites the workers are ordered to work slow because ‘more days, more pays’.
So every build is triple what they should cost. Your Government set the contracts up so that the only people who lose on the extraordinarily overpriced builds are taxpayers. The motto is ‘Everyone eats on the Big Build’, the international companies make a fortune, the union bosses get crazy rich, the workers do a third of the work for triple the money that they would get in private sector. Public hospital doctors went on strike Friday over money. They get half the pay of an unskilled labourer on a taxpayer funded site. So many hospital beds in new hospitals remain unused because the @victorianlabor government has allowed so much taxpayer money to be stolen on the construction of these hospitals and this is only one area that your government has burnt billions of dollars of taxpayer money over the last twelve years. The executive segment of the public service in Victoria has gone from 600 people to 2000 people since @victorianlabor took charge in 2014. Their salaries range between 350k & $1000000 per year. No one thinks public services have improved in the last 12 years. Happy for you or anyone in @victorianlabor Government to publicly discuss above with me, or anyone. Thanks for your time.
Donna retweeted
MISSED IT BY THAAAAT MUCH
The collapse in the legal tobacco market is happening faster than forecasters can keep up with
Budget numbers released this week showed a $200m shortfall in tobacco tax
But that shortfall occurred across just nine weeks – the difference between a forecast that would have used start-of-May actuals to estimate end-of-June numbers
For those keeping score, that says Treasury got those nine weeks of tobacco tax collections wrong by almost 30%
At a time when our political debate is choking over whether to cut tobacco tax, this is your reminder that we are
(1) debating over cuts to something disappearing before our very eyes, and
(2) rapidly running out of time to reverse the stranglehold that organised crime has grabbed over a river of gold
History will slap its forehead at our stupidity
So good to be lectured about women's rights by a man advocating about men's rights because they pretend to be women! LOL
Yes you are right. Trans women aren't the same as other women because they are MEN.
Trans women are not the same as other women.
They're different but equally valid.
Two types of woman: One based on chromosomal sex & the other on gender identity.
Both types of women are victims of sexism, rape & violence.
Fight the misogyny that harms all women, including trans
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Donna retweeted
Another reason to return the National–ACT–NZ First coalition: get the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill through to law.
Jenny Marcroft’s member’s bill would write into the Legislation Act 2019 that, regardless of gender identity, a woman is an adult human biological female and a man is an adult human biological male. Same for female and male. The point is legal certainty and the integrity of sex-based rights — single-sex spaces, services, sports, data, and safeguarding — so statute language matches biological reality unless Parliament expressly says otherwise.
Where it sits:
•Introduced 1 April 2026
•First reading passed 20 May 2026, 67–55. National, ACT and NZ First voted for it. Labour, Greens and Te Pāti Māori voted against.
•Referred to the Social Services and Community Select Committee.
•Public submissions closed 2 July 2026.
•Committee report is due 19 November 2026.
That report lands after the 7 November election. This Parliament will be dissolved before the bill can complete its remaining stages. Second reading, committee of the whole House, third reading and Royal assent will be decided by the next Parliament.
If the current coalition is returned, the parties that already voted it through first reading will still be in a position to carry it. If the government changes to a Labour–Greens–Te Pāti Māori (plus Opportunity) arrangement, the parties that opposed it at first reading will control the numbers. The bill would almost certainly stall or be dropped.
Sex is not a feeling and it is not optional in law. Clarity here protects women and girls. That’s a reason to vote the coalition back.
Donna retweeted
"A tobacco store in Watsonia, in Melbourne's northeast, was firebombed just after 7.30pm on Wednesday, marking another incident in the city's ongoing tobacco wars. Police are investigating the arson attack with the perpetrator still at large."
youtube.com/watch?v=eesGeubB…
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Every glib, arrogant, virtue-signalling celebrity who’s broadcast the lie that kids will kill themselves if not allowed to transition deserves to have this read aloud to them non-stop through a megaphone for a year.
A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures.
The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019.
A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.
Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out — this is the complete national picture.
The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.
Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.
"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded.
Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.
The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.
The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.
How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?
Donna retweeted
A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures.
The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019.
A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.
Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out — this is the complete national picture.
The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.
Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.
"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded.
Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.
The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.
The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.
How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?
Donna retweeted
You cannot hate mainstream media enough, as the saying goes. They don’t care about the truth. They don’t care about people’s health, that their lies about vaping or any life-saving alternative to smoking 🚬 might keep people smoking. They don’t care that smoking kills.
Wow!!! Unfortunately scathing criticism of @GlennMcCNZ / @patrickgowernz by Rohan Pike, former AFP & ABF officer.
And saddened to see the usual Otago talking head sprouting on & fear mongering as usual.
Donna retweeted
Wow!!! Unfortunately scathing criticism of @GlennMcCNZ / @patrickgowernz by Rohan Pike, former AFP & ABF officer.
And saddened to see the usual Otago talking head sprouting on & fear mongering as usual.
Donna retweeted
Ok, I have now heard it for myself.
This is all ado about nothing.
Aboriginal culture in its purest form is primitive and very patriarchal, but because of it, I know how to survive on the land without food, water or any modern conveniences.
I can make a fire, weapons and hunt and find my way back to civilisation because my dad taught me how to.
Do I want to do this? No.
Am I glad I know this? Yes.
The big question is am I offended by these comments......Nope
Donna retweeted
When this little girl was ten, her father sold her and her niece, also ten, to a 60 year old man for $200. They were sold into muta’a, or “pleasure marriage,” a Shia Muslim concept in which a couple is temporarily “married” so that sexual activity can take place. In this case, the man in question was able to beat and rape two little girls without the expense of taking them into his household afterwards.
After the rapes, this girl and her niece ran away from their abuser. Unable to return home, lest they be sold and raped again, they now live under a bridge in Beirut.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is Islam.
Donna retweeted
THE WHO, THE WHAT, THE 80, AND THE 50
Those who argue Australia’s tobacco policies are on the right track often say that anyone with a different opinion must somehow be in the pay of Big Tobacco.
Yet:
1. Organised crime has become Big Tobacco in Australia: they’re now four-fifths of the market.
2. You’d hope that how we tax tobacco:
a. helps achieve better health for Australians,
b. successfully raises money while encouraging better health, and
c. doesn’t hand dollars on a platter to organised crime.
3. However, some in this debate seem to ignore those three sensible aims for policy (around health, revenue and organised crime) in favour of a fourth aim: putting the boot into the legal tobacco companies.
4. Let me put this as plainly as I can: if your preferred tobacco policy is driven by who you hate rather than what policy should be trying to achieve, then you are part of the problem.
5. And nor does it help in any way to believe that those with the opposite view in an argument must be being paid off. Doing so simply deflects debate away from the issues and on to the people, focussing on the who rather than the what.
6. Or, to put that differently, no, I don’t believe that those with the opposite view to me on tobacco are in the pay of organised crime …
7. Finally, since there are those who will ask, no, I have never received a single cent, either directly or indirectly, from the legal tobacco companies. And, while on the board of a large business, I was instrumental in changing our policy to ensure that we didn’t do any work for those tobacco companies.
Meantime, the latest (albeit still experimental) estimates from Australia’s Bureau of Stats show that illegal tobacco is now 80% of total tobacco sales, and that total nicotine use per person is up by exactly 50% in the last four and a half years alone.
Yes, you read that right: those numbers were 80% and 50%. Organised crime now dominates the Australian tobacco market, and they’re growing it at speed.
Look at the turnaround in this chart and weep.
Organised crime is now Big Tobacco. And on every sensible measure of how we’re going, Australia’s policy aims are being bulldozed:
· Our health? Nicotine use per person up by 50% in the last four and a half years alone, with the speed of that pick-up still accelerating.
· Our tobacco tax take? About $15 billion less per year than it would have been if the black market had stayed steady at its 2019 share of sales and if the rate of smoking had continued to fall (rather than rise).
· Organised crime? Raking in a river of gold that may well be north of $6 billion a year.
Yes, Australia’s policy of taxing smoking to death worked for many years. But then we took taxing tobacco to an extreme, and that attempt at Prohibition-by-price hasn’t been working since at least 2019.
Simply ignoring our multiplying failures because of blind hatred of the legal businesses that used to account for more of our tobacco sales seems like cutting off our nose to spite our face. And at the same time cutting off our nose to spite our health, to spite our tax take, and to spite our efforts at fighting organised crime.
Will cutting taxes alone be enough to solve this problem? Of course not – Australia also needs to throw everything we can at the enforcement side of this equation.
Perhaps we could have gotten away with only lifting enforcement if we’d started to do that properly three or four years ago.
But we didn’t. We’ve been so busy identifying the wrong enemy and fighting the wrong war that we’ve wasted way too much time. And organised crime has used that time well: it is now superbly positioned to fight any serious attempt at taking it on.
That mistake was an own goal that is already costing the equivalent of $1,000 in extra personal tax for the average Australian taxpayer every single year – a bill that’s still growing fast.
Our policies have been way too focussed on who we hate – the legal tobacco companies – rather than on the goals in health, revenue and law enforcement that we should be prioritising.
We’ve brought this on ourselves, and then we compounded the problem by dithering instead of being decisive. So now this nation needs both a large tax cut and a big increase in enforcement effort and funding.
And even then we will be hard pushed to succeed …
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Alleged tobacco crime boss shot in Melbourne.
Systemic violence linked to illicit tobacco has become so routine that it's easy to forget this is a uniquely Australian phenomenon, one sustained by our de facto prohibition on recreational nicotine.
abc.net.au/news/2026-08-16/a…