@pippa the queen mother, Shakespeare and Dr Phil………..omg!!!! Are these the best quotes you could source to support the idea that Harry and Meghan should just have no right to say and do whatever they please. 

WOW!! 

thank you Shannon. so beautifully written. such perspective at such a young age. 

I spent years thinking this. 

Taking on more of the parenting role is an honour and a privilege that many do not get the chance to do (either because they lost their parent early or choose not to make the effort), so concentrating on the positives helps. 

@laura__palmer any school with any religious affiliation will have some version of these rules whether they are in black and white or not. And they all receive public funding. 

@azzuri because they all are!! It just so happens that this specific school and their religious organisations’ ‘declaration of faith’ has been open enough (or stupid enough) to put their hateful and discriminatory behaviours into written text. Any school affiliated with any religion will have some level of this happening whether it is in writing or not!! And……they all receive public funding. Independent school, my arse!!!

@jasc.cunningham not so ‘astounding’!!! Their bible, (historic writings from the time before Jesus and from his birth until his death along with random predictions of the future, highly edited and translated thousands of times usually to ensure that men remain in power) that is not written by god or his son (should either of them really exist) makes these claims. All they are doing is using these words to marginalise those who they do not think belong!!!

Disagree with this quote “while I understand the importance of religion and appreciate it, I also understand how it can have extremely outdated views that …..in.” Religion has no importance and should never ‘be appreciated’. Religious views are based upon historic ‘texts’ that have been edited to keep those in power powerful. The rules quoted from these texts are cherry picked to serve specific purposes. These texts are ‘not the word or god’ they are fantasy fiction used to maintain power.

@anonymous unfortunately often times this cannot be left up to the parents as they themselves have probably been brainwashed to believe all this hateful discriminatory bs!! 

@mamamia-user-482898552 yes they are private companies but what to you think the 5 or 6 number procedure code is for????? It is the data required for the private business to send to Medicare to receive the public funding for that procedure!!

A healthy mum and baby are the most important things. 

All of this is so true. 

And do not even talk about the private hospital networks. Some have helped with urgent public surgeries but many have continued to do their own private non urgent patients and say they have no space to help out the public hospitals. Everyone needs to remember that private hospitals receive government funding (through Medicare) just like public hospitals do, so they should have been forced (if necessary) to become an equal part of the health care team during this pandemic.

Everyone from the hospital administrators, through the health departments and into state and federal governments are presenting an image, providing data and playing a shell game to ensure the community see only what they want them to see.

@mb1111 I read this piece as an opinion piece from a frontline hcw. The references to our prime minister are focused on his actual words at press conferences. Anyone with half a brain knows that the information spewed by our leaders is provided to them from health department workers and hospital administrators that are all ‘playing the game’ of keeping the community from panicking and pretending that they are ‘doing their jobs’ and meeting their kpi’s and keeping their employees and customers safe. It is all just perception, an image and a bit of a shell game.

@mumma-cat I believe that ‘third world countries’ as you refer to them would probably deal with this situation better than Australia has. We pride ourselves on being so many good things, but essentially we seem to be none of them!!

@snorks I was, quite clearly, talking about an urban area. Neighbouring suburbs essentially all a part of the greater Sydney metropolitan area.

@anonymous depression and anxiety are caused by a chemical imbalance in a persons brain. In most cases this imbalance happens when a stressful experience occurs. If this experience is repeated and/or continues for an extended period of time the brain learns that this chemical imbalance is ‘normal’. Because of this, even if the stressful experience ends the brain will continue to maintain the imbalance as it now believes that this is ‘balanced’!

@anonymous I may be late to this conversation, but I feel the need to wholeheartedly condemn your comments here.