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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · 4h

We can’t get complacent. We must keep showing up and raising our voices for Palestine, holding this government to account until freedom, self-determination, and justice is achieved.

There’s a Nationwide March for Gaza in Naarm this Sunday. Free Palestine

Poster for Nationwide March for Palestine. Sunday October 12, 12pm State Library Melbourne/Naarm

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · 4h

But the Israeli government has violated ceasefires before. Even now, hours after the agreement has been signed, they are still bombing Gaza City.

Australia must do everything in its power to hold Israel and the US to this agreement, and ensure peace is sustained.

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · 4h

News that a ceasefire agreement in Gaza has been signed is welcome.

For the sake of the survivors on the ground, who have been through years of horrific genocide campaign, I pray this is the end of their nightmare.

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · 22d

By allowing Australian weapons to be used, this government is complicit.

There is no neutrality in genocide.

This must be the turning point.

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · 22d

The UN has confirmed Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The Albanese and Allan Government must act now - stop the siege, end the two-way arms trade, and sanction Israel. Australia has a legal duty under the Genocide Convention.
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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · 23d

Right now, the system is failing to notify, respond, and protect children.

Childcare worker speaks out after being accused of abusing toddlers

A Goodstart worker who allegedly abused toddlers at a Ballarat centre speaks out for the first time and says he is appealing after being banned from working with children.

www.abc.net.au

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · 23d

Victorian children deserve a safeguarding system that leaves no room for predatory behaviour to take hold.

Now more than ever, we must ensure that our child safe frameworks and systems are not only vigilant in identifying risks, but also prompt and effective in taking decisive action.

Headline from ABC News:

Victorian childcare worker denies abusing toddlers, says he is appealing ban

Pull quotes from the article:

“A flawed system”
“...These processes and this outcome did not support child safety.”
“When numerous workers complained about Peter's behaviour, the company responded by telling him to "tone down" his physical interactions with children.”
"Children seem to live in a legal void, a legal black hole where they can't speak on their own behalf."

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Sep 4

We encourage parents, educators, community members and experts to have their say on how we can improve the system to support educators and ensure proper safeguards are in place.

To make a submission online and for more information, visit the inquiry website:

Inquiry into the Early Childhood Education and Care Sector in Victoria - Parliament of Victoria

parliament.vic.gov.au

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Sep 4

Thousands of Victorian parents and families have been left devastated by a system where regulation and compliance failed to protect Victorian children.

Our Select Committee inquiry will take a detailed look at what’s happening in the early childhood education and care sector.

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Sep 4

Public submissions are now open for the Parliamentary inquiry into Victoria's early childhood education and care sector ⬇️

Child playing with building blocks. Text reads "Call for submissions: Early childhood education and care sector"

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Sep 1

To our multicultural and First Nations communities: you are not alone. Our strength is in our diversity and solidarity.

To the Premier: the time for empty words is over. You must act NOW to protect our communities and tackle the inequality that allows this hatred to fester.

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Sep 1

This government has failed.

For 3 years, it has ignored the clear roadmap from the 2022 Inquiry into Extremism, which included funding to challenge radical beliefs, anti-racism education, and action to stamp out white supremacist groups.

Yesterday’s violence is the result of their inaction.

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Sep 1

The white supremacist violence we saw in Melbourne yesterday was disgraceful.

Far-right extremists marched with racist, anti-immigrant, and anti-Indigenous hatred before attacking First Nations people at Camp Sovereignty.

Nazis have no place here. Our full solidarity is with those targeted.

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Aug 27

Everyone deserves a safe and affordable home. Adding the right to housing to the Victorian Charter of Human Rights would mean that affordability, accessibility and adequacy of housing will be central to future government decisions.

Watch the debate now: www.parliament.vic.gov.au/watch?tab=pa...

Watch - Parliament of Victoria

www.parliament.vic.gov.au

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Aug 27

Housing is a human right, and right now, the Victorian Parliament is debating the Greens' bill to make it law.

Anasina standing outside parliament with a paper copy of the Housing is a Human Right bill

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Gabrielle de Vietri MP @gabrielledevietri.bsky.social · Aug 27

BREAKING: Land Forces weapons expo is officially out of Victoria.

Protest works.

Thank you to the thousands that organised, turned up and raised your voice to say no to war profiteering in our state.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · Aug 11

Recognition of Palestine should have happened decades ago and is a fundamental right that the Australian Government has denied for too long.

Now we need action: Australia must sanction Israel & end the two-way arms trade.

Recognition won’t feed starving kids or stop the bombs.

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Jul 24

We need the strongest possible action from our state and federal governments, not just words.

End the siege.
Stop the two-way arms trade.
Sanction Israel now.

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Jul 24

The Israeli Government is starving Gaza.

Over 111 dead, and counting.
Children & elderly starving at record rates.

Enough food exists, but Israel blocks aid, and slaughters civilians seeking scraps.

This is deliberate mass starvation. A crime against humanity. An act of genocide.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 23

Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live

More than 100 aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children and Oxfam, say ‘our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away’ Palestine Red Crescent says the situation in Gaza is “only getting worse”, with spokesperson Nebal Farsakh calling it an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe”. Farsakh said in a video posted to X on Tuesday that there has been no food, clean water or medicine entering the Gaza Strip for more than four months. This has resulted in a catastrophe where people are literally starving to death. More people are being admitted to hospitals with malnutrition especially among children, pregnant women and the elderly. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Jul 22

If Labor won’t be honest with Victorian families about what’s going on, how are we meant to fix it?

Of all the moments to follow the rules and do the right thing - this should be it.

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Jul 22

We really thought this time, given the scale of what’s happening in our childcare system, that Labor would put politics aside and choose transparency for every family that’s living their worst nightmare right now.

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Jul 22

Our motion was respectfully worded with sensitivity to children’s privacy and limited in scope to only capture what was needed to see the full picture of what’s happening in our childcare sector.

The exact same documents were released in NSW, so there's no reason that Labor can’t do the same here.

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Jul 22

The fact the Premier is lashing at the Greens to try and take the heat off herself just proves that Labor is more focussed on the politics and damage control than children’s safety.

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Jul 22

Parents in Victoria are going through hell right now and to hear the Premier say she won’t apologise for breaking Parliamentary rules and failing to release documents about their children’s safety is shameful.

News headline with image of Jacinta Allan: Jacinta Allan refuses to apologise for missing childcare safety document release deadline

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Anasina Gray-Barberio @anasinagraybarberio.org.au · Jul 10

We need:

✅ An independent childcare safety watchdog with real power to crack down on rogue centres.

✅ Full transparency from the state government on the scale of the childcare crisis – including the release of key documents by July 18th about neglect and abuse, which the Greens have called for.

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