policy & project work in mental health & social policy; critic of marketisation; campaigner, researcher & writer; voracious reader of poetry & non-fiction,
Perth, Western Australia
Joined February 2017
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Colin Penter retweeted
🚨Attacks by The Australian newspaper on Jewish Council of Australia head — including publishing far-right slurs — have left her fearing for safety and unable to get help from police.
Pro-Israel lobby running savage, "co-ordinated campaign to silence"...
theklaxon.com.au/wjt8
Colin Penter retweeted
JCA’s Sarah Schwartz tells the Royal Commission that she’s contacted every day by Jews “terrified of speaking out” to criticise Israel or to support Palestinians, in fear of being abused or vilified.
Says Israel ‘shields itself from a lot of criticism’ by claiming to be victim💥
Thanks to Tracy Westerman for her forensic analysis on Hanson's lies.
The media has not bothered to thoroughly fact check Hansons National Press Club address so I’ve done it for them. 18 false and / or misleading statements. John Paul Janke was the journalist who pushed back on her claims and Sarah Martin questioned her about her daughters position as campaign advisor (rightly so) and was called a “trashy journalist” by Hanson and told she would be banned from future pressers. Nothing else was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
Colin Penter retweeted
Keeping the revolution at bay — by the criminalisation of unemployment.
“2.7 million penalties each year. 300,000 unlawful payment cancellations, and counting.”
The anti-poverty campaign is holding tonight’s free online panel with real life experiences of the disastrous privatisation of employment providers.
Tonight! Join us + Rick Morton for an online event about the employment services / welfare compliance scandal: events.humanitix.com/profit-…
This is the party of the woman who reckons she is qualified to be PM theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Colin Penter retweeted
Now do it for what it already costs us to have the super wealth parking half a trillion $ in offshore tax havens …and then try to tell me the super rich are pulling their weight
Colin Penter retweeted
Deliberate targeting. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant - “What the Wounds Tell” documents 114 children in Gaza under 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest.
volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2…
Colin Penter retweeted
36 hours ago my paper on Aboriginal-specific testing of attachment theory went live.
It’s now #8 in Clinical Psychologist. Top 4% of 32 million research outputs globally. Altmetric score of 44 and still climbing.
This is what happens when a question has been waiting to be asked.
Share, repost, comment — every interaction counts.
tandfonline.com/eprint/BBRMB…
Colin Penter retweeted
Misogyny in schools and domestic and sexual violence will not be solved by entrepreneurs
Deeply embedded social problems have become business opportunities, with schools targeted as consumers of expensive, programmatic fixes.
patriarchypowerviolence.subs…
Colin Penter retweeted
Shoebridge calls out David Speers for “suggesting we have some guarantee” of US AUKUS Subs, reminding him that under US law, at best we get "second-hand clunkers", & under “fantasy” conditions
Speers “You’re right to point out those caveats”🙄Try doing your hw next time #auspol
Colin Penter retweeted
Introducing RoboNDIS. We built a tool that applies the same automated assessment logic from the NDIS Sustainability Bill 2026 - the one that lets a computer cut your support without explanation, without appeal, without a human in the room - to federal politicians.
Search your favourite MP. See their attendance record. Get their "adjusted salary" after deductions. Receive their automated debt notice.
The point is not that politicians should be treated this way.
The point is that no one should.
Try it: robondis.com
#robondis #NDIS #ProtectOurNDIS #disabilityrights #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #auspol
ALT Tile 1 text description Black protest-style square graphic with large cream and red block text. The main text reads: “WHAT IF POLITICIANS WERE ASSESSED LIKE US?” The words “ASSESSED LIKE US?” are in red. A red arrow points to a red torn-paper note clipped with a black binder clip. The note reads: “NO EXPLANATION. NO APPEAL.” A small cute but angry RoboNDIS-style robot/Dalek icon appears at the bottom left.
Colin Penter retweeted
An audience member at a Q&A recently asked me why I'm so apocalyptic. The genocide in Gaza, beyond being a tragedy, marks an irreversible shift in the global world order. Before the genocide, the imperialist ambitions of the Western oligarchic class were partially constrained by the utopian ideal of the rules-based order. Now that ideal is gone, and unrestrained barbarity will characterize the methodology of the war-making ruling class. In other words — our future is an apocalyptic one.
Colin Penter retweeted
You lied @AlboMP. You said never again. You said people should be treated with respect.
Did we learn nothing from robodebt? NDIS automation will put vulnerable lives at the mercy of machines | Georgia Van Toorn | The Guardian share.google/NcNXmkzJuO27Ml9…
Colin Penter retweeted
This is a great blog by @psychgeist52. It spells out, very clearly & concisely, why the burden now falls on psychiatry to justify its authority, not on critics to justify their opposition.
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
Colin Penter retweeted
Gotta love Grace Tame’s response to Charlie Pickering’s attack, well said & all correct.
“Charlie Pickering made a direct choice to cosy up to a man found guilty of abusing his wife, while denouncing me as ignorant. Surely I needn’t point out the irony here.”🔥 #auspol
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The combination of arrogance and ignorance is the worse. That’s Charlie Pickering
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ABC must fire Charlie Pickering immediately!
Pickering has platformed a wife basher Avi Yemini, whilst attacking a brave young autistic woman.
ABC must take action!
@ABCaustralia @charliepick #auspol @abcnews #IStandWithGraceTame
Colin Penter retweeted
In my latest @PsychToday post, I examine @AwaisAftab's attempt to rescue psychiatry on pragmatic grounds after conceding longstanding critiques of its foundations.
I argue the defence fails—and it leads not to reforming the psychiatric paradigm, but to moving beyond it.
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…