Sarah Joseph
@profsarahj
Followers
13,578
Following
8,100
Media
2,676
Statuses
193,496
Human Rights, law, politics, sport, pop culture, stuff - views are my own. RT not necessarily endorsement. New Farm personality
Brisbane
Joined June 2010
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
#KAMIGATA_BOYZ
• 130327 Tweets
jeonghan
• 129154 Tweets
ALRIGHT ON TMC STAGE
• 94794 Tweets
#光る君へ
• 60650 Tweets
ジャック
• 45163 Tweets
あんスタ
• 39131 Tweets
ananの表紙
• 38182 Tweets
#阪神タイガース
• 38151 Tweets
ぱしゃっつ
• 26912 Tweets
#鉄腕dash
• 22401 Tweets
ツイステ
• 16421 Tweets
#Meb20BiniYuvarlamalıAçıkla
• 16348 Tweets
阪神ファン
• 11557 Tweets
スイング
• 10087 Tweets
To think this site is free.
My favourite is the “are not”
56
368
3K
I guess our increasingly vicious refusal to help Australians in need is just a logical follow up to our long term vicious refusal to help refugees in need.
40
302
1K
I hate this so much. So offensive and parochial. So devoid of empathy and ambition
190
166
1K
There are doctors absolutely gunning for Omicron not to be milder.
They’re despicable and they can fuck off
Apologies for my language today … but they really can fuck off
59
76
1K
We have normalised international & internal border closures, quarantines & lockdowns.
I’m afraid I genuinely find that more terrifying than Omicron.
0
139
1K
1/ what’s happening in Israel and Gaza is war, and it’s horrible because war is horrible. The footage is horrible, tho some of the footage is from horrible former conflicts.
I’m going to say some things here about relevant international law.
63
406
1K
Oh dear, ScoMo has said that we’ve forged “an Anzac path” thru the pandemic.
🤦🏻♀️
288
114
892
Haven’t they suffered enough?
As Australia faces catastrophic bushfire conditions, Sky News is making its main channel available for free online so communities around the nation can stay informed of the very latest developments.
Stream live:
123
60
111
13
67
877
FFS, it’s not “class warfare” every time theres a proposal to get more tax $ from the very rich.
Robodebt, an illegal policy based on a BS notion of “undeserving” poor which put many thru unimaginable and even unendurable stress - that’s fucking class warfare!
7
157
697
So now the federal govt is at war with ... the EU, Qld and NSW. Good-o
66
78
637
Unless you’re Gerry Harvey
8
123
588
Quarantine is a shared responsibility under the Constitution! It just is!
I’ve taught Constitutional Law for 27 years! I know what I’m talking about!
Could the Cth take more responsibility? Yes! Could it take sole responsibility? Yes. Has it? NO!
Stop this BS trope!
66
98
558
Hey
@abcnews
. How about this week you de-prioritise Covid experts. We’ve heard from them for 18 mths, and it’s just 1 week (& you do tend to go to same ones over & over)
Instead, interview experts on mental health, education, socialisation. We need a more rounded picture
23
74
543
Govt apparently concedes Djoker is of good character & it’s not disputing his medical exemption. So it seems Djokovic is being excluded on the basis of being a poor influence on public debate & behaviour in a pandemic,
That might be legal but it seems a dangerous precedent!
59
68
523
I don’t think a person shouting at the PM in a pub proves anything.
73
29
522
Every govt in Australia must be asked - has their hospital capacity expanded since 3/20 & if not why not? If so how so?
33
70
517
Genuine life hack. Have you done your washing, only to find that there was a tissue in a pocket that has exploded all over your clothes? Gnarr!
Do another wash, including 4 soluble aspirin, which dissolves the tissue flecks. It works!
You’re welcome.
30
106
514
Tomorrow I leave Melbourne after 25 years, one of the coolest cities on the planet. This is my photo tribute to it, Ordinary Melbourne, from the last 3 years. Photography has taught me how to see better. Comments in the album welcome.
63
55
492
The fetishisation of Melbourne’s version of lockdown is so aggravating. The harsher nature of some Syd measures is ignored. Outdoor masks, 5 v 10km - who seriously thinks they’d make much difference? And I utterly reject the performative authoritarianism of ‘sending messages’
0
65
493
There must be a conversation soon about the rights of Australians to enter their own country. Or do we all just risk indefinite exile every time we go anywhere?
And I would love an advisory opinion from High Court on the scope of s92. Unfortunately, such things are forbidden
20
51
468
4/ the military forces of Gaza have a right to resist, rebel and fight. It is their right of self defence, which all occupied/blockaded peoples have.
They haven’t started an unprovoked war as much of the media is saying. There’s been a lot of “provocation” for decades
9
90
468
ALP thinks collecting data on LGBTIQ+ people will cause division. What does that say about maturity of Australians? What does it say about ALP capacity to lead?
I hate their gutlessness & constant capitulation to forces of extreme conservatism & bigotry. What’s their point?
120
70
477
I know Marcia Langton didn’t do it. But really, we’ve gotten to a point where it seems it’s worse to call someone racist than to be a racist. FFS
58
59
447
Behold! An independent process outside the criminal process which accords with the rule of law
Former Melbourne mayor Robert Doyle committed ‘serious misconduct of a sexual nature,’ report concludes
33
88
152
4
143
430
I invite all Australians to salivate over the possibility that the Legalise Cannabis party might take Pauline Hansen’s Qld Senate seat!
16
35
435
I think there is a certain type of man who was a prominent “leftie” by the standards of 70s Australia, who has assumed for evermore that they’re “with it”. But they haven’t understood modern social changes at all, esp re sex & sexuality, & don’t get that they don’t get it
29
22
423
The Stage 3 tax cuts must get on the table. They were absurd in the first place, & were always a bomb set by Treasurer ScoMo (and PM Turnbull) to go off in 2024. But they’re even more absurd now. There’s a big windfall coming to people who don’t need it, taken from those who do
16
141
423
2/ Israel was already at war with Gaza as it has blockaded the strip for over a decade. That’s an act of war. One can also make arguments about “effective occupation” but regardless, war existed.
Due to occupation same pertains to West Bank.
17
54
420
The extraordinary disconnect between Western populations and political elites on this will only widen. As well as gap between West & Global South which just sees hypocrisy. France has flipped after originally banning such marches.
This is the largest anti-war rally Melbourne has seen since the Iraq war 20 years ago. Tens of thousands.
70
437
1K
25
116
411
None of the people in ICU In NSW has been fully vaccinated, only 5 out of 50:partially vaccinated
None of the 5 who died today was vaccinated.
Get vaccinated
34
72
408
The pressure on
#ATAGI
to recommend vaccines for 5-11 yo is extreme. That’s not how it’s supposed to work.
25
28
389
I am so here for this exchange, which captures how I’ve felt about much of the debate over the Sydney lockdown. Go Casey!
0
48
402
I’m not the first or last to say this. But this outlet is run by a 15 yo (tho surely Leo turns 16 soon?). It’s doing the best job of coverage of Middle East
8
26
390
Indonesia is experiencing a Covid Delta disaster. We’ve got millions of doses of AZ just lying around. Send it to them now!
And ramp up CSL production of AZ to, again, send to them if we won’t take it.
9
87
388
Any Australian or permanent resident who has registered to come home, who dies of Covid overseas, should be added to the official fatality count in this country.
32
50
376
Whatever the cause, they were also exercising a democratic right of peaceful protest. Which is probably more intrinsic to democracy than a sockpuppet account that pumps out propaganda constantly
They are a crazed cult, dizzyingly high on panic and disinformation. They are senselessly throwing matchsticks at the mountain of our democracy, because they don't understand it and they are afraid of what they don't understand. This is heading in a dark direction, rapidly.
36
106
788
24
21
348
6/ on that last point, Israel justifies blockade and occupation as its own right of self defence. I’m not going to get into that, but I will say I won’t buy it. The relentless settlement project in West Bank, for example, is not necessary in self defence
10
33
361
5/ so it’s not a breach of jus ad bellum, the law governing whether a war can be fought.
Indeed, that goes the other way - the Israeli blockade of Gaza and effective 57 year occupation are breaches of that part of international law.
3
53
346
Soes anyone really think a tweet about Captain Cook has any bearing on a person’s competence to combat a pandemic?
Or is it just culture warriors frustrated by their exposure as purveyors of small minded combative nonsense that matters not one jot when something big hits
18
54
339
As a Victorian who lives in a suburb which has been prominently "afflicted" by relevant "gangs", I am unaware of a single person for whom this is true. So I posit that our Home Affairs Minister, as his first order of business, is scaremongering. Please RT.
31
434
327
Sure, Dreyfus was overly terse in the presser. But of course the media focuses on that rather than the substance of his answer, which was to call out media nonsense.
Honestly, she asked if the govt should apologise for upholding the Constitution. He was correct: that's absurd!
24
78
337
It is despicable how the government has left certain industries to wither, namely universities and the arts. It couldn’t be ideological could it?
23
101
324
Wouldn’t it be nice if the Premiers of the zero Covid states sent best wishes & congrats to NSW, ACT & Vic for their magnificent vax rates enabling emergence from lockdown. A sign of goodwill towards the federation.
21
16
319
Looking at this
#730report
story - nothing matters but Covid, regardless of actual risk. We’ve lost sight of proportionality. We’re losing sight of humanity.
10
32
300
Annastacia’s “where do you want to go” was massively disrespectful of people with family overseas. It was really parochial and irritating. Stop it!
27
27
310
Let’s take away Medicare for overdoses, skylarking, anything that happens at Schoolies, anything that’s driven by alcohol or any drug.
What about self harm? Why should MY taxes pay for that?
FFS don’t be a smug, sanctimonious, inhumane dickhead!
9
22
306
Jan 26 as Australia Day is doomed. It’s a hurtful day for our Indigenous people. The numbers rejecting it are growing & won’t be browbeaten into patriotism. We should be mature enough as a country to have a conversation about changing the date.
21
100
295
Please
@JacquiLambie
- just reject the cruel welfare drug testing proposal. Don’t grandstand with silly suggestion to drugtest politicians. Drug testing should be restricted (eg to clear safety issues like pilots) not legitimised by further expansion. The whole idea is insidious
7
94
298
The health advice regarding sixes into the crowd in Perth has to be released and put into a museum to remind future generations of how much we all lost our minds.
9
29
292
Qld CHO says most useful metric is ICU of which there are none in Qld. Says hospital nos are difficult as it’s hard to tease out the nos of people in hospital for Covid or with Covid. Also says Omicron more dominant in Qld than in other jurisdictions.
24
30
278
It’s as if people on this hellsite don’t actually want this to end. Not even a plan for it to “end” in months with a modest plan for “clopen”. Like we can’t even aspire to a plan unless every variable is known now, months in advance?
I don’t get it.
37
22
285
1/ The ease with which Australians remain comfortable with lockdowns and border closures over single figures worries me.
We should, may must, be able to handle handfuls of cases without such disruption. We have good systems and if we don’t that’s a disgrace! Demand more!
64
39
288
The sheer fervour with which the ALP wants to lock up people, now and into the future, is deeply deeply worrying to me.
The Prime Minister has had more than a year to realise hotels were not built for quarantine and build new facilities.
He has built none.
738
2K
9K
12
22
277
Lol. Sarah Ferguson to Sidney Powell: “Do you ever hear yourself and think that it sounds ridiculous?”
#4Corners
5
41
265
Hey guys. It’s a matter of indisputable fact that by far most violence is perpetrated by men. Women are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators. There are shocking recent egs in Aust of that. So why so sensitive for some of you when that is highlighted? It’s the truth.
18
46
259
War crime
And tbc war crimes aren’t allowed as a response to war crimes.
5
48
267
Does everyone else wake up to at least one overnight scammer text?
76
1
266
1/ Melbourne remains significantly locked down.
But really, Australia is locked down. We can’t travel; people can’t come here.
A single case triggers panic and insane headlines (SCRAMBLING, RULEBREAKERS).
We’re getting vaccinated but there’s no plan to move beyond this.
16
27
253
So utterly depressing & devoid of any appreciation of the value of knowledge and inquiry
35
63
254
Australia is getting to world-leading vax rates. Which seems to be increasing the desire to punish the unvaced (see
@bobjcarr
), even as huge vaccination diminishes the danger they pose to others, including impact on health care system.
When did Australia become so vindictive?
36
21
249
So, in Milo's quest to offend everybody, I'm wondering if he's had a go at Anzac Day.
11
61
241
So Niki Savva has just said that there is no mandate for ScoMo as he took no policies to the electorate. Hooray!
#insiders
23
97
240
So
@AnnastaciaMP
is doubling down right now on
#abc730
- is totally dumping on AZ.
Suddenly the enemy is AZ not the pandemic.
41
29
238
It’d be good to have a day where none of Australia’s political leaders gave a presser.
11
8
244
This is an incredible, and awful, response from a commercial account. Does
#HarveyNorman
actually want customers?
I shall not be going there again.
19
60
232
Wellness at work. No thanks - I will do my wellness outside work. My advice to workplaces is - just don't make people unwell. And don't for a second believe that adding at-work wellness makes up for unwellness caused by work.
7
59
236
I think the Qld authorities just blew up AZ in this state once and for all.
While yesterday its inventor got a standing ovation at Wimbledon.
14
40
223
24/ so that, I think, lays out LOAC re this war.
LOAC is pragmatic in recognising that wars happen so there must be rules that apply. Those rules if followed reduce the horror but still allow for horror.
When it’s breached, as here, the horror increases.
22
22
234
A whole story of people shaming others. I’m not sure what this achieves sort from people turning on each other
35
18
227
11/ deliberate targeting of civilians, including hostage-taking is not legal under any reading of LOAC, and is a war crime. Footage so far (if real) indicates such war crimes by Hamas
But there is another LOAC principle of relevance here too - that of proportionality >>
8
26
231
3/ the better view, but not the only view, is that this is an international armed conflict, where the international rules are clearer. Though the law of internal armed conflict is catching up.
2
24
229
Practical matter. Israel didn’t see this coming. So something has gone v wrong with its intelligence. We can’t assume its claims to know where fighters, weapons are are correct. They can’t just guess and indiscriminately bomb the hell out of Gaza.
4
31
230
Sudden trip to “hot spot India” with outward flight in Dec. 25 person party in Bris that never happened. Ditto horny security guards. All the beach shaming with no cases.
Pernicious “rule breaker” narrative distracts from govt failure & gives sanctimonious media opp to tut tut
8
44
220
Has our PM said anything? After all, Australia’s biggest city is going into lockdown, and regions into restrictions. Or does he not work on Saturdays?
49
22
224
There’s a crisis in PCR testing in the country. It is irresponsible & medically counterproductive for Qld not to drop the requirement, esp given Covid has (as expected) got away in the State.
14
19
214
#zerocovid
forever means:
Goodbye international family & friends, international competitiveness (in services) esp tertiary education & tourism, understandings of the world we live in, certain basic freedoms & understandings of a liberal society.
But we’ll all be “safe”.
18
35
223
I can’t support this.
18
12
212
1/ Let me lament, as a constitutional lawyer, the plain fact that a man is planning to challenge for the Prime Ministership for a second time shortly when there are legitimate doubts over his eligibility for Parliament. This is arguably contemptuous of the Constitution
#auscon
10
123
210
Wow. Qld going ahead and building Toowoomba quarantine anyway, without fed govt support, with the Wagners.
Wants it up and running by end of the year.
No offence, but I hope it's a white elephant soon. Coz ongoing quarantine shouldn't be our future!
41
20
206
There is very little logical reason to refuse home quarantine to people flying into Sydney.
There may not be much reason soon for Melbourne either.
#strandedaussies
12
35
212
So my flu vax is Afluria Quad. Im outraged that no choice was given to me
26
7
210
If I was an Australian Olympian in Tokyo, I’d buy a ticket to somewhere else
22
18
198
8/ a basic law of LOAC is principle of distinction. War should be fought by identifiable combatants who can target other combatants, including killing them even if they can be captured
So, Hamas’s incursion is legal to the extent they’re targeting IDF
9
21
208
Sorry Jeanette Young. You were, absolutely, scaremongering over AstraZeneca. You should clarify, apologise, and move on, and focus on getting us out of lockdown.
0
17
201
@albericie
I went to both of those protests in Brisbane and I don’t recall anyone being attacked, nor of reports of attacks. I recall cops kettling BLM in a Sydney train station. Nothing anywhere re women’s protest.
So I have no idea what you’re talking about.
6
11
199
18/ we are likely to see, & may already be seeing (not sure as some footage is of previous wars) that response is to aerially bombard major centres of civilian life in Gaza - apartments etc. That seems disproportionate! And thus a war crime. It certainly has been in the past.
6
31
204
As at 27/11, anyone who asserts the new variant evades vaccines is bullshitting. Anyone who asserts it beats Delta is bullshitting. Anyone who asserts that it leads to more severe disease is bullshitting
They 👏do👏not👏know!
8
18
196
Re NSW Covid
1. Incredible testing w/ v low nos o’whelmingly linked to NB. Bravo!
2. It’s NOT like Melb in June. Become data literate if you disagree
3. Don’t minimise lockdown harms which >> economic. Check your privilege
4. Don’t spread panic & lies
5. Bin Schadenfreude
14
23
196
You know what’s ironic? The LOW NUMBERS IN HQ!
Today: one in Qld, one in Vic, none in NSW.
And I’ve noticed the nos have been pretty low for a while.
Yet we’re halving intake.
#strandedaussies
28
30
191
Australian govts.
I’ve done what you’ve asked of me. I’ve obeyed lockdowns & borders. I got my AZ vax & I’ll get 2nd one in 9 weeks.
How about giving me something? Like a plan to move beyond hermit Australia?
Rather than a compromised rollout & a promise of more quarantine
8
25
192
1/ Voice will be in place by 2024 if referendum passes. There’s no way a treaty (or treaties) would be in place by then. Unless one really thinks a Voice will detract from a treaty, rather than aid crystallisation, I can’t see how lack of a treaty is an argument against Voice
5
35
196
22/ but even so, proportionality still applies to Israel. If Hamas is mixing its military stuff with civilian stuff in Gaza, & breaching LOAC in doing so, that’s not a free pass to just bomb the hell out of Gaza. The proportionality calculation must still be made!
3
28
196
16/ 2 asides. Those same allies/media, inc Australia, never talk of the right of Palestinians to self defence.
Second, extent of RSD in context of occupation is murky. Eg does Russia have RSD in Crimea or eastern Ukraine?
Hopefully ICJ can bring clarity there.
3
26
194
7/ back to the current conflict, the conduct of which is governed by jus in bello, aka the law of armed conflict (LOAC), or international humanitarian law (IHL). There is a debate over whether LOAC and IHL are exactly the same thing but whatever, I’m gonna call it LOAC.
2
21
194