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Great speech Katrina. So glad it turned out to be an excellent women's rights and child safeguarding activist day! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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Thank you :-) Yes, amongst other things the rally with the police presence was a good example of much we need to feel safe in our public lives to thrive.

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hurrah for nz women🎉🎉🎉

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Sep 21, 2023Liked by Katrina Biggs

Well done! I'm glad this event finally went ahead in NZ and the police decided to actually do the job taxpayers pay them to do. I'll listen to the talks after work.

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Sep 21, 2023Liked by Katrina Biggs

Thanks for this … interesting to follow what is occurring in my home country.

I haven’t heard of too much activity on this matter in Aust - not in Queensland at least.

Interesting regarding the windy conditions - competent pilot there!

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I'm hearing that a lot is going on in Australia. Victoria is especially bad at entrenching gender ideology, but Queensland is not too far behind, I believe. There are lots of women and groups who are trying to push back against it - for example, if you're on X (formerly Twitter), the women who come to mind immediately are Sall Grover @salltweets; Katherine Deves @deves_katherine; and Angie Jones @angijones. There's a fair number more, but their names aren't quite as quick to spring to mind. Bernard Lane, who's an ex-journo (I think), writes a Substack about the egregious harms of gender ideology on children, called 'Gender Clinic News'. I think once you tap into it, it's quite shocking what you can find. It's been entrenched in many places without the public being very aware, and not just in Australia.

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Sep 21, 2023Liked by Katrina Biggs

I will delve deeper. Thanks for these contacts. Very little on MSM.

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The MSM is dire here in NZ on reporting next to nothing about anything to do with gender ideology. When they do, until very recently they have taken an overtly biased stance against those who oppose it, referring to us as "anti-trans", whilst only publishing puff pieces about transpeople.

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Sep 22, 2023Liked by Katrina Biggs

I would like to know what is going on here…why is that they take this position?

What’s in it for them?

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There's no quick and easy answer to that. It's a tangled web of factors that have come into play, much of which has been done deliberately on the quiet, so as to get the ideology embedded before most of the public become aware of what's happened. Although it feels like a sudden thing, it has actually been a few decades in the making, which is why the trans lobbyists had time to develop a very sophisticated way of twisting words so that the concepts they were promoting sounded believable in the heads of academics and those who jobs deal in words in some way. Not much of it stacks up when it hits reality, but we're being told that we need to change our beliefs of what reality is, and people are falling for this because the narrative is worded so cleverly. It's the word-made embodiment of an 'evil genius' in many ways.

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Sep 22, 2023Liked by Katrina Biggs

Thanks for your knowledge and clear insights. Deception is everywhere.

It seems we are being scammed in numerous ways. I will keep alert here

and do what I can to support those who are speaking out.

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Transgender is not so big in Oz. But the Victorian & NSW Greens are falling into line behind it as are many of the Labor party activists around the place. But there's more push back in Oz as well.

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Thanks Richard, it is actually through you that I am mostly aware of this issue.

I think I am out of touch with what is occurring. There isn’t much in our papers here.

The Voice is being covered quite well and we vote on the same day as you vote.

As you know voting is compulsory here.

Tony Ryan, ex NZ works in the Northern Territory with Aborigines and has told me that they won’t benefit at all if there is a YES vote and he gave detailed reasons.

Albanese has announced there will be an enquiry into how Covid was handled.

I think the outcome will be fairly predictable.

Our QLD Premier has a new boyfriend so has taken a few holidays…with criticisms there. You probably know more about Victoria than I do. My cousin lives in Melbourne and is furious about the debt the state is in.

I lived in Sydney for many years, but have no idea of the current political status there.

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Not sure what the Voice is about but I think it's about land rights for the few and 'you'll own nothing and be happy' for the rest of us, aboriginal or not.

I have to vote in that too. Definitely a no here.

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A No from me too. Must use the word NO or YES as ticks or crosses will be invalid.

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I've just searched for her (Qld Premier) boyfriend. Another Clarke by the looks of it.

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Apparently he's been married 3 times before. To George, Simon and Shaun.

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Well done @katrina!

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Glad you could make it Katrina and co, what a great day!

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