Feminist/Existentialist/Reader/ Gourmand. Once was: Public Servant/Political Adviser/Industrial Officer/Lawyer.
Melbourne
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Jenny Doran retweeted
Hi I’m the editor form @theage and I’m not trying to deceive the reader but this is what it will actually look like up close.
Except the first thing she’s committed to is overturning Treaty.
🎙️ Victoria wasn't always Labor heartland. Historically, it was the Liberal Party's jewel in the crown — the home of Deakin, Menzies, Bolte and Hamer.
💥 @Dyrenfurth argues that the Liberals dominated Victoria because they occupied the political centre, building a broad electoral coalition rather than retreating into ideological battles. And that's the path Jess Wilson appears determined to take: mainstream liberalism rather than MAGA-style culture wars.
Could a return to the party's Victorian traditions be the key to its revival?
🎧 Watch the teaser and listen to our Victorian Election Special:
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Jenny Doran retweeted
The Islamic regime in Iran is going to execute this young girl.
She's only 16 years old!
Be her voice #DianaTaherabadi
Jenny Doran retweeted
"Whatever women wear, wherever they go, whatever they drink, they retain the right to say no and demand justice in the criminal courts when sexual predators act without their consent"
Mr Justice Bennathan, while sentencing Russell Brand to a decade in prison for rape and sexual assault.
Amen.
Wonderful film
‘Half Nelson’ at 20: How a $700,000 Indie Addiction Drama Earned Ryan Gosling His First Oscar Nod indiewire.com/features/inter…
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This is shocking - everyone should resign! Including the Governor General.
There is a disturbing new development in the story surrounding the Women’s International Club in Canberra.
Following the decision to admit Irina Petrakova, wife of the Russian Ambassador, three members of the diplomatic community, the wives of the Ambassadors of Ukraine, Italy and Estonia, chose to withdraw from the Club in protest.
My wife, Liana, was among them.
At the Club’s recent Annual General Meeting, its President, Sandie Kaine, referred to the three women as “bigots”.
I am particularly appalled by this development given the extraordinary solidarity and support that Australia and the Australian people have shown Ukraine throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion, including among the WIC’s members. Such a dismissive attitude of the President of the Club towards the personal pain and principled position of those directly affected by this war is deeply disappointing.
Let me be very clear: refusing to socialise with a representative of Russia, which is waging a genocidal war against Ukraine is not bigotry. It is a matter of conscience, dignity and solidarity with the victims of that aggression.
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Jenny Doran retweeted
"De Spiritu Sancto" is a hymn with an ancient sound, composed by Hildegard of Bingen nearly 900 years ago. It dates back to a time long before harmony, chords, or musical accompaniment developed into what we know today.
The melody is performed in a style known as monophony, meaning all the singers follow a single melodic line together. No voice rises above another, and no one tries to stand out. Instead, all the voices blend into one continuous flow of sound, creating the feeling that everyone is sharing a single breath.
Jenny Doran retweeted
Again, we Iranians woke up this morning to horrifying news:
The Islamic Republic has hanged three more innocent protesters.
Shocking that how hanging human beings for speaking, for demanding Freedom has become the Islamic Republic’s new normal. Worse, the world seems to be getting used to it.
Today, Hassan Dioband, Hamid Kazemi, and Reza Zanganeh were executed over January’s protests.
Three lives taken. Three families shattered.
Stop normalizing executions in Iran.
#StopExecutionsInIran
Jenny Doran retweeted
My deepest condolences are with the man's family, friends and community.
I condemn this attack. And I stand with the community today and every day.
Jenny Doran retweeted
BREAKING: The Liberals will build our trains in Spain. Labor will build them here.
Jenny Doran retweeted
Can't answer questions at a press conference.
Won't release detail on how much her policies will cost Victorians.
Refuses to front up to a leadership debate.
Jess Wilson is hiding because she doesn't want to answer for her plans to cut health.
Jenny Doran retweeted
Sentenced to death for posting on @X in Iran. His name is Amirhossein Mousavi.
Dear @elonmusk, this should outrage you.
Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s former dictator and the regime’s current Supreme Leader, uses your platform to broadcast his messages to the world. So do other officials of the Islamic Republic.
They enjoy freedom of expression on X while sentencing ordinary Iranians to death for exercising that same freedom.
Amirhossein is now facing the gallows because of his online activism.
The executioners have a voice on X. Their victims face execution for having one.
Elon, will you speak up for Amirhossein?
No one should be hanged for a tweet.
#SaveAmirhosseinMousavi #StopExecutionsInIran
Jenny Doran retweeted
The whole campaign has been very carefully stage managed.
- Would-be Ministers don’t get seen
MPs don’t do interviews
- A would-be Premier avoids constituent forums
- Friendly media outlets are hand-picked
- A leader distrusts her party-mates to the extent she plans to be Premier AND Treasurer
And even then, the first-term-MP turned leader flubs
Despite their critiques that former Premiers concentrated power, avoided accountability, and spent too much - they’ve become it all, and then some.
Whether or not the voters of Kew (already on a narrow margin) do the funniest thing and elect an independent to replace her, I don’t see a stable path ahead for a state led by a party that sues its own leaders into near-bankruptcy.
The Governor-General should resign too
Russian ambassador’s wife joins Canberra club, prompting walkout
-- good scoop from @politicoryan on @POLITICO_AUS
politico.com/news/2026/11/03…
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Jenny Doran retweeted
Shocking…
This is Taraneh Alidoosti. The actress who represented Iranian cinema to the world, the star of the film that won the Oscar. What did she do? She posted one photo without the hijab during Woman Life Freedom uprising in 2022 to show her solidarity with the People of Iran .
That is all. She said no to executions, no to the crackdown. That same week they came to her home and took her to Evin prison. When she was released, she was no longer the same Taraneh. Doctors diagnosed her with a rare illness that made her skin fall off and ravaged her body. She is still under treatment.
They say it was caused by drug interaction. Which drugs? What did they give her in that prison? No one answers. Today this photo is going viral across Iran because people want to see the price of one photo without hijab. To the regime it was just a photo.
To us, Taraneh is a woman who gave up everything: her career, her cinema, her health. And even now, in silence, mourning her father, she has not bowed. Taraneh, you did not just remove the hijab. You tore off their mask. We are your voice.
Jenny Doran retweeted
Ben Carroll hits back at Today’s Tom Steinfort on facing “the hard questions” on ch9, reminding him that Jess Wilson is running from his network, after only Labor & One Nation signed up to the ch9 debate.
“She’s happy to preference them but won’t stand on a stage with them.”🔥
