Source: www.climateplus.info --- Friday, September 29, 2017
1. The power of Tweet South Australia’s Craigburn Primary School organised a Do It In A Dress fundraising drive with the aim of raising $900 to help girls in Africa who did not have access to education. Senator Bernardi tweeted his frustration about the idea on Wednesday by writing, “This gender morphing is really getting absurd”. That tweet prompted a backlash and a flood of donations and in less than 48 hours, the school had hit $200,000. Here is the Chief Executive of the SA Education Department in a dress raising money for charity when he was in the Attorney General’s Department: 2. Tweets from angry old white men For many it was the biggest story of the week. US rapper has been hired to perform four songs including “Same Love” about same-sex marriage. Back in 2014 when Abbott was PM Tom Jones sang “Delilah” – about stabbing a woman who was unfaithful. He did not complain. Now he reckons Macklemore is “bizarre”, and politicising the grand final. George Brandeis says what about free speech . Macklemore says he is going to go harder in response to the tweets from “angry old white men”. The real issue is that the Cowboys have been denied access to the ground for the captains run , bumped by a rehearsal. For the record, I heard on our ABC that the fans had chosen the entertainment, and Macklemore himself is straight. Apparently the song topped the charts here in 2012, but nowhere else in the world. It’s top again now and Macklem ...
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