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Cameron Murphy MLC: ‘I plan to attend the protest on Monday against the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Australia

again, anybody living in NSW can sign. your name and email won't be public and will be deleted after six months. it's already at the 500-signature mark which means a Minister must provide a response, but if it reaches 20,000 it will be debated in the NSW Parliament's Legislative Assembly

and the reason this is so vindicating (other than the obvious apology bit) is because every time i try to tell people that religious schools can expel you for being gay they DONT BELIEVE ME. i’ll tell them that i was scared to ask for any accommodations for being trans (even just wearing the sports uniform instead of a dress) because they could expel me and they say i must have misinterpreted something. i went and READ THE ACTUAL LAW before anonymously contacting my vice principal and was basically told that if i brought it up with anyone else then i WOULD be expelled, and PEOPLE DONT BELIEVE ME

I love it when the books are beautiful, and this one is. Now I need the article someone is undoubtedly drafting up right now about the personal background of this copy (get on it ABC).

It also reminds me, since it IS Ramadan, of my favourite book used in any Australian ministerial oath, the sunset pink Qur’an, the first Qur’an used for a federal ministerial oath.

Along with being visually stunning, the background to this one is just moving. It’s been used by Ed Husic and Dr Anne Aly for their federal Ministerial oaths and affirmations (respectively). It was a gift from the Muslim Women’s Association to Husic by Maha Abdo, who chose it specifically because it had been a gift to her by a group of teenage girls.

“Every young girl had a pink Koran. Pink, what does it stand for? There’s so much in it. I didn’t realise it was to be gifted to this amazing person who was sworn into parliament,” Abdo said, adding she could not divine its purpose until now.

“For me, it is very much about feminity, purity ... it is also hope in the fact that it reminds me, as well, when the sun sets, the sky goes that pinky colour. The sun has set, and now it’s about to rise.”

It’s just so beautiful and meaningful (Husic passed it to Aly in the line, and I’ve never been able to figure out if they discussed sharing beforehand or agreed on the day, because Aly was making an affirmation) and it matches both Labor’s colours and their outfits so well. Aly became Minister for Early Childhood and Minister for Youth holding a Qur’an originally chosen and gifted by a group of teenage girls. 

So, the Rail Tram & Bus Union (RTBU) has been doing low-commuter-impact strikes actions on and off for months. Stuff like no overtime, no work changes, that sort of thing. And it’s been over things like hygiene, enterprise agreements, concerns over privatisation, poorly made trains from overseas that started cracking after like 4 years, etc.

Rather than negotiate with the RTBU, the NSW government has has been trying to take legal action against them striking. (x)

As part of that today when workers turned up to do their jobs they found they were locked out and told the trains weren’t running by management (x)

And that the Transport Minister was on the radio saying it was all the unions doing and comparing them to - no shit - terrorists.

The Courts have been putting out some absolutely banger decisions lately. This isn't a complete strikedown of the anti-protest laws but does defang them a bit.

From Justice Walton: "The provision impermissibly burdens the implied freedom of political communication contrary to the Commonwealth constitution." Hehe get fucked Perrottet.