The Chinese Navy carried out an unannounced military exercise over the last month in which it encircled Australia, causing alarm amongst military experts.
China&#8217;s Navy sent a three-ship task force around Australia, including entering its exclusive economic zone, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/world/australia/china-warships-australia-aukus.html?smid=tw-share">reported</a>. They fired live ammunition around commercial airspace, which disrupted dozens of flights, and came close to a military base where a U.S. nuclear submarine was docked.
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China&#39;s warships encircle Australia. 
A flotilla of three Chinese navy ships sailed around Australia for nearly a month, moving in and out of its exclusive economic zone, conducting live-fire drills and forcing civilian flights to reroute. 
China&#39;s two warships had 144 missile… <a href="https://t.co/0uu1SpvF0M">pic.twitter.com/0uu1SpvF0M</a>
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The military exercise was the furthest south the communist nation&#8217;s navy has ever gone, the report said.
Australian officials, while projecting calm to the public, were reportedly unnerved by the incident and have forced it to take a serious evaluation of its naval shortcomings.
The report noted that Australia&#8217;s navy is &#8220;the oldest and smallest it has been since World War II.&#8221;
Out of the three Chinese naval vessels that encircled the country, one was a cruiser, another a frigate, and the third a replenishment tanker. The two warships in the task force had a combined 144 vertical launch missile cells, the report said. The 10 warships Australia has have a combined capacity for 200 vertical launch missile cells.
Military said that China was showing up Australia in its own backyard and was effectively taunting them by highlighting inadequacies within their fleet.
Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-moves-arm-troops-with-anti-ship-missiles-china-threat-looms-2025-03-13/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=twitter">reported</a> that the incident has Australian officials racing to equip its army with new anti-ship missiles fired from mobile launchers and advanced targeting radars.
Proposals for the new weapons are under consideration with a decision expected to be reached by the end of the year:
<blockquote>Australian government officials have said that future versions of one of the contenders, Lockheed Martin’s Precision Strike Missile, were expected to have a range of up to 1,000km and could be fired from High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers. Australia has 42 HIMARS launchers on order from the United States, with launchers expected to be in service from 2026-27, according to the defense department.</blockquote>
Retired Australian Army Major General Mick Ryan said, “You could put a HIMARS launcher with a maritime strike missile in Sydney and it would have the potential to hit one of those ships.”
He said that mobile land-based launchers have major advantages over building expensive naval vessels.
“It’s a truck,” said Ryan. “You can park it under a tree and come out to fire it and move back again. They won’t find you.”
Australia has also ordered new long-range missiles for its navy and air force, the report said.
Ross Babbage, a former Australian government defense official, said that the procurement of the new missiles &#8220;deserves a high degree of priority.&#8221;
&#8220;We ought to be really turbo-charging this,&#8221; he added.

Third Phase Of Sino-Russian “Peace Mission 2005” Military Exercise

Australia Races To Deploy New Weapons After China’s Navy Encircles Nation

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An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/australia">Australia</a>-based high school <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/teachers">teacher</a> has failed to return to work after videos of her reportedly dressed as a cat went viral online.
A report by The Courier-Mail included complaints from students who accused the educator of referring to herself as “Miss Purr” and engaging in catlike behavior, such as hissing when students failed to comply with her demands, per social media complaints from parents.
The teacher was working at Marsden State High School in Logan City, south of Brisbane, when the alleged behavior occurred, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/lifestyle/queensland-teacher-allegedly-behaving-like-a-cat-in-class/">reported</a>.
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High school teacher reportedly identifies as cat, licks hands, hisses at students <a href="https://t.co/qrDRlPmlG8">https://t.co/qrDRlPmlG8</a> <a href="https://t.co/MU19V9zlF3">pic.twitter.com/MU19V9zlF3</a>
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Photos and videos allegedly taken during class were published in the Australian outlet The Courier-Mail. The images depict the teacher wearing a cat ears headband during class and a rainbow lanyard with the word “purr” on it.
“She … forces the children to call her Miss Purr and cat screeches and growls when they don’t listen,” one Facebook commenter wrote. 
“She sits in class and licks her hands. It’s absolutely disgusting. Something needs to be done about this,” another comment said.
A Facebook commenter identifying herself as the mother of a student claimed her daughter was made to “purr” to get a lollipop. 
Another person who professed to be a relative of a student said their child “barks” at the teacher when they walk past.
“It’s more frustrating that the mainstream schooling and education system we are sending our kids to every day has teachers doing things like this,” that commenter said, per local news outlet <a href="https://7news.com.au/sunrise/queensland-teacher-allegedly-behaving-like-in-a-cat-in-the-classroom-sparks-parent-concerns-c-17668308">7News</a>.
“I want teachers who I can rely on to teach my kids what they need in life and be someone they can look up to, which isn’t someone who wears ears,” that person added. 
A spokesperson for the Department of Education provided a statement to 7News, saying, “The school is aware of parents’ concerns and the principal has addressed the issue directly with the teacher.”
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Australian Teacher Who Reportedly Dressed As A Cat, Hissed At Students Misses Work After Going Viral

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A Melbourne, Australia, synagogue was firebombed on Friday morning — with worshipers inside at the time.
“Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) crews were called to the scene around 4:10 a.m., finding the single-story synagogue engulfed in flames,” the Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-832246" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “According to ABC News, 60 firefighters and 17 firetrucks worked tirelessly to bring the fire under control within an hour.”
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Terrorists in Melbourne, Australia poured petrol on top of a synagogue and set it ablaze while Jews were still inside.
Two people were taken to the hospital for severe burns.
They’re burning Jews alive, again, just like on Oct 7.
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— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) <a href="https://twitter.com/persianjewess/status/1864852365633032515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Masked men just tried to burn Jews alive inside a synagogue in Melbourne. Australia has seen some of the most vile antisemitism in the past year I’ve ever seen. The disease has spread across the West. We are in a global emergency. <a href="https://t.co/z9Xrly2lTH">pic.twitter.com/z9Xrly2lTH</a>
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) <a href="https://twitter.com/HeidiBachram/status/1864776375598448799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EXCLUSIVE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EXCLUSIVE</a>: CCTV showing the moment a Melbourne synagogue was firebombed overnight <a href="https://t.co/naeJuz1cbl">pic.twitter.com/naeJuz1cbl</a>
— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) <a href="https://twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1864839176119816382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Meanwhile, in Sydney, a Jewish man was detained and accused of “antagonizing” pro-Palestinian activists who were targeting the synagogue in front of which the Jewish man stood after he waved an Israeli flag across the street.
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Jew detained outside Sydney&#8217;s Great Synagogue for having Israeli flag
A Sydney Jew and friend of AJA, Ofir Birenbaum was detained by police for having an Israeli flag as he was on his way to attend a Jewish event at Sydney&#8217;s Great Synagogue.
Police said he was being detained… <a href="https://t.co/CFVSTW1tSZ">pic.twitter.com/CFVSTW1tSZ</a>
— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) <a href="https://twitter.com/AustralianJA/status/1864638001269330073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“I unequivocally condemn the attack on a Melbourne synagogue,” Australia&#8217;s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. “I have zero tolerance for antisemitism. It has absolutely no place in Australia.”
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A synagogue getting lit alight was inevitable. This is the antisemitism stoked by a loud, self-righteous minority in Australia.
The guilty know exactly who they are. They’ve incited this hate and are, in my view, directly responsible, but they’ll never own up to it.
They’ll…
— Osher Feldman (@OsherFeldman) <a href="https://twitter.com/OsherFeldman/status/1864851793643213090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Yet Albanese and his Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, abandoned Israel earlier this week, shifted the government’s position, and split with the U.S., endorsing a UN <a href="https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ltd/n24/368/10/pdf/n2436810.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> that demanded Israel end its “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible” and “calls for the withdrawal of Israel from the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem.”
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That resolution, which made no demand for Hamas to return the Israeli hostages it holds, would mean Israel would have to withdraw from Judaism’s holiest place, the Temple Mount, and the Western wall that served as a retaining wall around the Biblical Holy Temple.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton <a href="//3D58E8FB-7094-4B10-8F3B-1134BB5324A9/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed the decision</a>, saying, “I think the prime minister stands condemned … it&#8217;s for votes. He sold the Jewish community out for &#8216;green&#8217; votes.’ They have been prepared to sacrifice the wellbeing of the Jewish community here in Australia to do so.” A new poll from Accent Research and Redbridge Group found that Dutton would likely replace Albanese as Prime Minister next year. “It found the Dutton-led Coalition is on track to pick up at least nine seats and win an outright majority, pointing to a potential defeat for the Albanese government,” Sky News <a href="https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/pm-anthony-albanese-no-chance-of-winning-majority-at-2025-federal-election-as-peter-dutton-victory-increases-new-poll-suggests/news-story/3f0f9bfc16953febe022e4cc54c4c90a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“They’re hard-Left extremists, that’s what they are,” Michael Kroger, former Liberal Party president, said. “Albanese, Wong, these people are of the hard Labor Left. It’s time for the UN to sit down and tell the world: What type of Palestinian state are we looking at? What we know is this: It’s not going to be a democracy, right? Because Hamas and Fatah don’t have (legitimate) elections. There’s not going to be freedom of the press in a Palestinian state. They’re not going to be freedom of religion unless you’re a Sunni. They won’t recognize Israel’s right to exist. There’s no rights for gays; there’s hatred of Americans, there’s ‘Death to America, death to the West.’ &#8230; A Palestinian state, on the basis of everything I’ve seen, is going to be like an Iranian theocracy, run by the Sunni rather than the Shia.”
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Michael Kroger obliterates the government and the UN over their latest anti-Israel motion.
For the raw facts, this clip from <a href="https://twitter.com/SharriMarkson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SharriMarkson</a>’s show is a masterpiece. <a href="https://t.co/Vg4iuzzVPs">pic.twitter.com/Vg4iuzzVPs</a>
— Osher Feldman (@OsherFeldman) <a href="https://twitter.com/OsherFeldman/status/1864256760011473272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Community Reacts To Melbourne Synagogue Arson Attack

Melbourne, Australia Synagogue Firebombed With Worshipers Inside

Anti-Semitism

Crime

Israel

Jews

The fearless Erin Molan of Sky News Australia stood up for Jews targeted around the world and issued a warning to the West over its tolerance of violence from pro-Palestinian forces.
Molan’s monologue confronted the notion pushed by anti-Semites that violence perpetrated against Jews was always a response to something the Jews had done rather than simply the evil of anti-Semitism.
“To the conflict in the Middle East and the unrelenting idiocy that defines the West’s support of terror, I want to do another quick fly around the world and look at some of the horrific attacks on Jews just this week,” she began. “Then — because as we all know and learned from the events of Amsterdam, when a handful of bad-behaving Israeli fans were apparently the justification for a sickening Jew hunt — these attacks only occur, not because of anti-Semitism, no, God no, but because, of course, the Jews started it — so first, and we always have to be fair here, I’ll show you the incident. Then I’ll show you where the Jewish community attacked first, because clearly, it’s science.”
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“So let’s kick it off in Canada. Mobs rioting in the streets. Even Justin Trudeau, potentially the weakest leader in the world, — but as I said last week, competition in that division, well, it’s stiff — he called the violent attacks anti-Semitic,” she noted. “But, according to the Amsterdam theory, that cannot be true: the Jews must have started it. So now let’s go to the pictures of the catalyst: the rioting Jews.”
She listened to the sound of crickets.
“Oh, I knew we would; we found it: an incident involving a Jewish man in Montreal. He must have provoked the entire thing. Oh, no: he was just being Jewish, having a coffee but moved on by police, because apparently his presence wearing a kippah bear a pro-Palestine rally was a threat to public order,” she said sarcastically.
“In the United Arab Emirates, Rabbi Zvi Kogan was horrifically murdered,” she continued. “Not that you’d know from The New York Times’ coverage: ‘Israel Rabbi Who Disappeared in Dubai Is Found Dead.’ Sounds like a tragic accident. No, no; he was brutally killed for the crime of being Jewish. But if we apply the logic of the well-thought-out and ‘evidence-based’ Amsterdam theory, he must have started it. This incredibly kind, loving, and generous human being, who had devoted his life to God, must have been at fault in some way, shape, or form because there is no way he was killed for just being Jewish; that doesn’t happen, they tell us. So let’s roll the vision now of him starting it.”
Crickets.
“In Melbourne, the Jewish community themselves were forced to come out and defend a synagogue after plans of a pro-Palestine protest across the road emerged,” she noted. “In fairness, according to the ‘AT’, the Amsterdam theory, the protests only would have been reactionary; the Jews must have gone to another religion’s place of worship to intimidate and harass. Fair is fair; we cannot conceal the truth. Roll that vision now, please.”
Crickets.
“In London, Jewish schoolgirls were violently attacked, glass bottles thrown at their heads, hospitalized,” she stated. “Again, no crickets required. You know. They didn’t start it; they didn’t deserve it; they didn’t stand a chance in a country that continues to shamefully tolerate and, at times, encourage the most vicious attacks on a minority group — yes — just because of the God to which they pray.”
“This isn’t rocket science, by the way; I’m not a genius, unfortunately; other media could do this, too: point out the bleeding obvious. So why don’t they?” she asked rhetorically.
Then she turned to non-Jews in the West: “And for those sitting there now thinking — and I get it — ‘I’m not Jewish; I’m not from Israel. Look, that stuff’s not nice, but it doesn’t really affect me,’ — it does. It already is. Our own Christmas traditions here in Australia, the unveiling of the Myer window, ruined this year by these protesters. In New York, overnight, a Thanksgiving parade, ruined by these protesters.”
“You don’t need to stand with Israel or agree with every move they make, to stand against what their enemies represent,” she declared. “But they are the only country currently fighting back and destroying the terrorists currently trying to destroy our way of life. At least, for the most part, Israel’s enemy is on the outside. Yes, they’re close and they’re dangerous; but as a country, regardless of each individual’s own political persuasions, they know definitively what they don’t want, because when that ideology is emboldened, they die.”
She warned: “For most people in the West, that’s not the case. Yet. But as this movement grows — and it is — we won’t have an Iron Dome to protect us. Unlike Israel, the enemy in the West is already within. And the damage they will capable of with just a little more encouragement and leniency will be unthinkable.”
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I honestly don’t know how <a href="https://twitter.com/Erin_Molan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Erin_Molan</a> does it. Week after week after week she breathtakingly knocks it out of the park every single time. 
Watch as Erin calls out every single cowardly government for their blatant inaction in the face of the worst wave of hate and antisemitism… <a href="https://t.co/OlMvjPSZku">pic.twitter.com/OlMvjPSZku</a>
&mdash; Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) <a href="https://twitter.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1862429255000301794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Molan went on about the U.N.’s hypocrisy, a deeply personal matter for her, prompting a popular comment from a social media user who called the television host &#8220;a lioness with no equal.&#8221;
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THE MUST-WATCH VIDEO OF THE YEAR IS HERE. WOW 🙌🏽
This is the most sensational and powerful indictment of the hypocrisy, complicity and dishonesty of the <a href="https://twitter.com/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UN</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FranceskAlbs</a> you will ever see on X or any platform. <a href="https://twitter.com/Erin_Molan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Erin_Molan</a> you are a lioness with no equal. Just wow. 
Watch… <a href="https://t.co/2sceRbSpUd">pic.twitter.com/2sceRbSpUd</a>
&mdash; Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) <a href="https://twitter.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1862448688666485080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Podcaster <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-rogan">Joe Rogan</a> weighed in on an insane rant from Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) boss Kim Williams, who claimed Rogan preys on “people’s vulnerabilities.”
“LOL WUT,” the host of “The Joe Rogan Podcast” wrote on Wednesday on <a href="https://x.com/joerogan/status/1861806984967688372">X</a> as he reacted to the clip of Williams’ tirade against him and the power he said he has in America following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
In <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14130579/ABC-Kim-Williams-Joe-Rogan-podcast-attack.html">the clip</a>, a reporter asked Williams, “In the wake of the U.S. election, the Democrats have said that one of Kamala Harris’ mistakes was that she didn’t appear on his program. So I was just wondering if you had any observations what’s behind the Joe Rogan effect?”
&#8220;I think people like Mr. Rogan prey on people&#8217;s vulnerabilities,” Williams told the National Press Club. &#8220;They prey on fear. They prey on anxiety. They prey on all of the elements that contribute to uncertainty in society, and they entrepreneur fantasy outcomes and conspiracy outcomes as being a normal part of social narrative.”
&#8220;I personally find it deeply repulsive, and to think that someone has such remarkable power in the United States is something that I look at in disbelief,” he added. “I&#8217;m also absolutely in dismay that this can be a source of public entertainment when it&#8217;s really treating the public as plunder for purposes that are really quite malevolent.”
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— Joe Rogan (@joerogan) <a href="https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1861806984967688372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
Ahead of the election, then-former President <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBMoPUAeLnY">Donald Trump</a> sat down with Rogan and had a wide-ranging conversation for three hours in a podcast that has since garnered more than 50 million views.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-gave-them-an-open-invitation-rogan-opens-up-more-about-potential-kamala-interview">Rogan</a> made it clear he had offered to sit down with Harris, too, and revealed that he had given her team an “open invitation” to appear on his show.
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During “The Joe Rogan Experience” <a href="https://youtu.be/t5_EdPRLHuE">podcast</a>, the host said that it was Harris’ team who first reached out to him about appearing on his show after her campaign learned that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Trump</a> was coming in for an interview.
“She [Harris] had an opportunity to come here when she was in Texas and I literally gave them an open invitation,” Rogan said, hitting back at claims he was somehow being a “diva” about their interview.
“I said, ‘anytime, if she’s done at ten o’clock we’ll come back here at ten o’clock,’” he added. “I’ll do it at nine in the morning, I’ll do it at ten p.m. I’ll do it at midnight if she’s up and she wants to drink a Red Bull, f***ing party on.&#8221;
“So their camp reached out to me, so I said, ‘great. I would love to talk to her,’” Rogan continued. “But it was very difficult to tie it down. They wanted to travel and see, the thing is, if I go somewhere, then there’s going to be other people in the room, and they want to control a lot of things, I’m sure, according to the Bret Baier interview on Fox. That’s a distraction.”
The podcast host said that his goal was to simply sit down across the table from Harris and have a conversation, to get to know the person who wants to become the President of the United States as a human being — as he did with Trump.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-gave-them-an-open-invitation-rogan-opens-up-more-about-potential-kamala-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘I Gave Them An Open Invitation’: Rogan Opens Up More About Potential Kamala Interview</a>

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‘LOL WUT’: Joe Rogan Weighs In After Australian Broadcaster Attacks Him In Insane Rant

Joe Rogan Weighs In After Australian Broadcaster Attacks Him In Insane Rant

Donald Trump

Kamala Harris

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U.S.

NZEALAND-POLITICS-TREATY

Why We Should Stop Apologizing For Our History

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Colonialism

Matt Walsh

New Zealand

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Parliament

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Social Justice

Woke Culture

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">Radiohead</a> frontman Thom Yorke walked off the stage during a recent performance after being yelled at by a pro-<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/palestine">Palestinian</a> heckler in the audience.
The incident occurred on Wednesday night during a solo show in Melbourne, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/australia">Australia</a>. A video circulating on social media captured the moments after a concert attendee yelled at Yorke as he performed at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. 
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“Don’t stand there like a coward,come here and say it!”
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke responded to an anti-Israel hackler who kept yelling about Gaza throughout his show in Melbourne today.
Yorke left the stage and came back after the crowd kicked out the protester. <a href="https://t.co/a5yhtBWpTo">pic.twitter.com/a5yhtBWpTo</a>
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&#8220;Do you condemn the Israeli genocide of Gaza?” the heckler shouted, per <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/radiohead-thom-yorke-walks-off-stage-heckler-israel-genocide-rcna178175">NBC News</a>.
“Come up here and say that. Right here. Come on. Come up on the f***ing stage and say what you want to say,” Yorke can be heard saying in reply.
“Don’t stand there like a coward. Come here and say it,” the singer continued. “Come on. You want to piss on everybody’s night? Come on.” 
Yorke concluded, “OK, you do. See you later, then.” 
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Yorke then left the stage but returned later and performed “Karma Police,” according to social media users.
Radiohead has been targeted for its decision to perform in Tel Aviv in the past. 
In 2017, a group called Radiohead Fans for Palestine wrote several open letters urging Yorke and his band to cancel their scheduled appearances. Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters and British film director Ken Loach led the effort to have Radiohead reconsider the show, per <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/18/middleeast/radiohead-tel-aviv-concert/index.html">CNN</a>.
The 56-year-old singer responded at the time, saying, “Playing in a country is not the same as endorsing its government.” 
“We’ve played in Israel for over 20 years through a succession of governments, some more liberal than others. As we have in America. We don’t endorse Netanyahu any more than Trump, but we still play in America,” he wrote in a conversation with Loach on X at the time. 
“Music, art and academia is about crossing borders not building them, about open minds, not closed ones, about shared humanity, dialogue and freedom of expression. I hope that makes it clear, Ken.&#8221;

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Radiohead Lead Singer Walks Off Stage After Heckling By Pro-Palestinian Concertgoer

Radiohead Lead Singer Walks Offstage After Heckling By Pro-Palestinian Concertgoer

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In a fiery denunciation condemning Vice President Kamala Harris and other Western leaders for their abandonment of Israel in its time of crisis, a fearless Australian television presenter declared Harris had “demanded a proud nation of good, strong, resilient people, lie down and die.”
Erin Molan, primetime contributor on Sky News Australia, made her comments after Israel had killed the Hamas terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar, who had orchestrated the horrific October 7 massacre of 1200 people in Israel that included the barbarous slaughter of children and rampant rape of women.
“In arguably the biggest moment since the war began, Israel has killed Hamas leader, October 7 mastermind, Yahya Sinwar,” she began. “It wasn’t Mossad who got him nor was it elite IDF fighters. A group of trainees and reservists took out enemy number one.”
“He died as he lived, like a coward, cowering in the shadows,&#8221; Molan stated. “Hiding in buildings bombed off the back of his terror raid. It was a drone that captured these shots from his last moments alive. Look at him. He was no freedom fighter. He wasn’t a leader of any resistance. He was evil personified. He was also weak. So very, very weak. He knew that he was no match for soldiers, no match for an army. That’s why he went for women, children, unarmed innocent men, teenagers, the elderly, Holocaust survivors, the sick, the disabled. And then he hid, using the bodies of his own people and those he kidnapped as human shields.”
“He was no hero. No idol,” she asserted. “I don’t care who you are or what you believe, but nobody, no government, no religion, no so-called resistance could ever justify his reign of terror. And any attempts to do so, well, they’re disgraceful.”
Molan followed by quoting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, telling the people of Gaza that the war could end in one day if Hamas laid down its arms and returned the Israeli hostages they had seized. He added, “To those who would harm our hostages, I have another message. Israel will hunt you down and bring you to justice.”
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“And after today, well, after this year, find me someone who doesn’t believe him,” Molan said. “You won’t. World leaders of course, reacted.”
Then she turned to Harris, who said after Sinwar’s death: “I will say to any terrorist who kills Americans, threatens the American people, or threatens our troops or our interests, know this: We will always bring you to justice.”
“Now I don’t want to put a damper on a very good news day for the world, but, come on. We?” Molan snapped. “We will always bring you to justice”?
“Madam Vice President, you have done everything in your power to stop Israel from doing this,” she declared, adding:
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He was killed in Rafah. You told Prime Minister Netanyahu not to enter. In fact, you told the world: “We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake. Let me something, I have studied the maps.” You weren’t even present in Congress when Netanyahu spoke of how his country was fighting terror on behalf of all of us. You kept calling for a ceasefire, fully aware that the other side would never stop.
So in other words, you demanded a proud nation of good, strong, resilient people, lie down and die. You underestimated them, like so many others in the world. You hindered this, rather than helped.
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Molan noted that Australia’s Foreign Minister had warned Israel not to go into Rafah, then launched into her condemnation:
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So to the rest in the West and all of those countries who cowered, just like Sinwar did at the end, this victory is in spite of you, not in any way because of you. So make your speeches. Say all the right things. Hail the death of an evil terrorist. Take credit if you must. But know within how you enabled him.  You encouraged him, allowed his reign of terror to go far longer than it every should have.
Every single person who failed the most basic, the most basic test of moral clarity, on October 7. Killing kids? “Ooh, complicated.” Raping women? “What’s the context?” Burning people alive? “Resistance.”
All those who joined a movement that glorified death, who marched in our streets, waving their flags and chanting for more. Sinwar is responsible for every single death that has occurred in the Middle East since October 7 and many before, but his global cheer squad, wow.  Take a bow. You played a big part, and most of you are too stupid to even realize.
Where did it all go so wrong? Honestly, it’s a legitimate question. How did we get here? How did those we elected to lead us, fail us so miserably, and how did that then seemingly filter down to the masses? No one ever had to make a choice between supporting Israel and supporting humanity. Standing up for innocent children goes hand in hand with destroying the terrorists who were killing them. October 7 was a dark, dark day, the most horrific thing I’ve witnessed in my lifetime but do you know what’s been even worse? The soul-destroying reaction of all those around the world who purport to stand for life, freedom, democracy and peace.
This won’t just go down in history as the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust, but as the darkest day for leaders all over the world who were tested, and the vast majority of whom failed miserably. Those who stood tall despite the relentless campaigns to do otherwise will be remembered. Those who shrunk and sold their souls will be as well for very different reasons.
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“The Earth is now a much safer place — thanks in no part to the majority of the Western world,” she said bluntly.
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Australian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/airlines">airline</a> Qantas has issued an apology following an incident it had on a flight from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/australia">Sydney</a> to Tokyo when all of the screens started playing a sexually explicit R-rated <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">movie</a> with no option to turn it off.
“Our crew members had a limited list of movies that they were able to play across all screens on the aircraft and based on the request from a number of passengers, a particular movie was selected for the entire flight,” the statement shared with <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/07/travel/qantas-r-rated-movie-inflight-daddio-intl-hnk/index.html">CNN</a> on Tuesday said.
“The movie was clearly not suitable to play for the whole flight and we sincerely apologize to customers for this experience,” a Qantas spokesperson told the outlet.
“All screens were changed to a family friendly movie for the rest of the flight, which is our standard practice for the rare cases where individual movie selection isn’t possible. We are reviewing how the movie was selected.”
The official statement did not reveal the name of the film in question, but that information was available from social media users who confirmed it was the 2023 drama “Daddio.” 
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The film, which stars Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn, is rated R “for language throughout, sexual material and brief graphic nudity.”
The movie reportedly features &#8220;references to oral sex, masturbation&#8221; and a &#8220;brief but clear photo of erect penis on phone screen. Photos of a woman&#8217;s naked breasts. Explicit sex-related dialogue and texting,&#8221; according to a review cited by <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/qantas-apologizes-explicit-movie-daddio-every-screen-flight/">CBS News</a>.
&#8220;The movie they played was extremely inappropriate,&#8221; one passenger <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/QantasAirways/comments/1fwr31r/qantas_played_an_inappropriate_movie_to_the_whole/">posted</a> on Reddit. &#8220;It was impossible to pause, dim, or turn it off&#8230; It took almost an hour of this before they switched to a more kid-friendly movie, but it was super uncomfortable for everyone, especially with families and kids onboard.&#8221;
Qantas is the flag carrier of Australia and the only airline in the world that <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/qantas-centennial-australia-intl-hnk/index.html">offers flights</a> to all seven continents. It was founded in 1920, making it the third oldest airline.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia announced on Monday that his government will introduce legislation that would “enforce a minimum age for social media and other digital platforms.” He followed up on Tuesday by informing the <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-10/anthony-albanese-on-social-media-age-limit-proposal/104330904" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Australian Broadcasting Corporation</a> that he is considering making the platforms unavailable to children under the age of 14-16.
“Parents tell me they’re worried about what age their kids should be on social media,” he wrote on X. “We’ll introduce legislation in this term of Parliament to enforce a minimum age for social media and other digital platforms. It&#8217;s about supporting parents and keeping kids safe.”
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Parents tell me they’re worried about what age their kids should be on social media. 
We’ll introduce legislation in this term of Parliament to enforce a minimum age for social media and other digital platforms.
It&#39;s about supporting parents and keeping kids safe.
&mdash; Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlboMP/status/1833093958240719057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“We’re looking at the range between 14 and 16,” he stated on Tuesday. “That’s one of the reasons we’re having a trial. And what we’re looking at is how you deliver it. This is a global issue that governments around the globe are trying to deal with. And so we can look at the experience, look at the response, as well, of social media companies. Social media has a social responsibility in order to have that social license that they require to operate in a decent society.”
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“They’re not above everyone else; they can’t just say, ‘We’re a big multi-national company, we can do whatever we like’ regardless of the harm that’s being caused,” he stated. “So we’ll look at this age-verification trial; we know that it’s not simple, and it’s not easy, otherwise governments would have responded before. But we’ll look at the experience; we’ll look at the report and work that Justice French has done, but we will also have that legislation before Parliament by the end of the year because we know that this is what parents are talking about after school, in the parents and citizens’ groups, at the sideline of sport on the weekend. They’re talking about the impact that this has. And we know, for example, that the banning &#8211; which many state governments have done &#8211; of phones from school has made a positive difference. And so we know that if we get our youngest Australians off these devices then it can make a positive difference for them.”
“Millions of underage children have been able to set up accounts for these services <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/technology/instagram-meta-children-privacy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">by providing a false date of birth</a>,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/world/australia/social-media-age-restrictions.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
In March, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law <a href="https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/3/BillText/er/PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a> that banned children under the age of 14 from holding accounts on social media platforms such as services like TikTok and Instagram, enacting a strict social media bill that is likely to upend the lives of many young people. The legislation stated, “A social media platform shall prohibit a minor who is younger than 14 years of age from entering into a contract with a social media platform to become an account holder.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/models">Supermodel</a> Elle Macpherson is discussing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cancer">cancer</a> diagnosis she received seven years ago and how she refused to do traditional treatments despite medical recommendations.
The 60-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">celebrity</a> is opening up about what happened in advance of her new book, “Elle,” which is being released in November.
&#8220;It was a shock, it was unexpected, it was confusing, it was daunting in so many ways,&#8221; Macpherson <a href="https://www.womensweekly.com.au/news/elle-macpherson-now/">told</a> The Australian Women&#8217;s Weekly of being diagnosed with breast cancer. &#8220;And it really gave me an opportunity to dig deep in my inner sense to find a solution that worked for me… I realized I was going to need my own truth, my belief system to support me through it. And that’s what I did.&#8221;
Despite the model’s doctor recommending a mastectomy with chemotherapy, radiation, and hormone therapy, Macpherson opted for &#8220;an intuitive, heart-led, holistic approach” instead, which earned her mixed reactions from family members.
“I realized I was going to need my own truth, my belief system to support me through it,” she told the outlet. “And that’s what I did. So, it was a wonderful exercise in being true to myself, trusting myself and trusting the nature of my body and the course of action that I had chosen.”
“I chose a holistic approach. Saying no to standard medical solutions was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. But saying no to my own inner sense would have been even harder,” she wrote in her book.
The model also talked about how in her opinion, not everyone should take the same approach to cancer treatment. “Sometimes an authentic choice from the heart makes no sense to others … but it doesn’t have to. People thought I was crazy but I knew I had to make a choice that truly resonated with  me. To me, that meant addressing emotional as well as physical factors associated with breast cancer. It  was time for deep, inner reflection. And that took courage.”
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Her sons Flynn and Cy, who were 19 and 14 at the time, had different reactions, as did the boys’ father and her former partner Arki Busson.
Macpherson wrote in the book, “Cy simply thought that chemo kills you. And so he never wanted me to do it because he thought that was a kiss of death. Flynn, being more conventional, wasn’t comfortable with my choice at all. He is my son, though, and would support me through anything and love me through my choices, even if he didn’t agree with them. My children were extremely supportive in their different ways but I knew they felt very scared.”
“Arki was really supportive,” she continued. “He didn’t agree with what I was doing … Yet he wrote to me to tell me how proud he was of the courage I was showing. Of course he was scared because I’d decided not to take a conventional pharmaceutical route. He considered that extreme.  I, on the other hand, felt the chemo and surgery route was extreme.”
The Australian-born star also shared an update on her current health. &#8220;In traditional terms, they’d say I’m in clinical remission, but I would say I’m in utter wellness. And I am!&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Truly, from every perspective, every blood test, every scan, every imaging test … but also emotionally, spiritually and mentally – not only physically. It’s not only what your blood tests say, it’s how and why you are living your life on all levels.&#8221;

Elle Macpherson

Model Elle Macpherson Refused Chemo Following Secret Breast Cancer Diagnosis Seven Years Ago

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More than two years after the release of my film &#8220;What is a Woman?,&#8221; it&#8217;s still impossible to get a straight answer to that question from gender activists, liberal professors and political commentators on the Left. They might call you &#8220;weird&#8221; for asking the question, or call you a transphobe, or call the police. But whatever they do, they won&#8217;t respond in any meaningful way to a question that, throughout all of human history up until very recently, has been extremely easy for every living person to answer. They won&#8217;t tell you the truth, which is that a woman is an adult human female. Instead, they&#8217;ll tell you that the definition of a &#8220;woman&#8221; is whatever you want it to be.
One of the many reasons this approach isn&#8217;t sustainable is that it&#8217;s extremely important, from a practical perspective, to have a functional definition of the word &#8220;woman.&#8221; This isn&#8217;t some abstract philosophical exercise. We need a definition of the word &#8220;woman&#8221; in order to interpret our laws, including the various pieces of civil rights legislation that have been passed over the years. And yet, there haven&#8217;t been a lot of court cases addressing the issue. Instead, major legal battles concerning gender ideology have primarily focused on the area of so-called &#8220;trans medicine.&#8221; The legal issues in those cases — including the landmark Sixth Circuit case upholding Tennessee&#8217;s ban on child castration — are about the degree of supposed &#8220;consensus&#8221; in the medical field on the issue of whether children should be sterilized. They&#8217;re about the rights of parents to decide what physicians do to their children but they&#8217;re not really about this fundamental, underlying issue — which is the most basic question of all, which is what it means for someone to be a woman, or a man.
This is changing, though, and it&#8217;s changing very quickly. Courts overseas are being forced to issue rulings on the definition of womanhood, and unsurprisingly, they are having difficulty conjuring up the right answer. They&#8217;re coming up with political rulings instead. The most recent case arrives to us from that perpetually confused country known as Australia, where the Federal Court has just made a landmark decision in a lawsuit by a man who claims to be a woman, and who now uses the name &#8220;Roxanne Tickle.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the background. In February of 2021, Roxanne Tickle downloaded an app called &#8220;Giggle for Girls,&#8221; which was advertised as a way for women to speak to other women, exclusively. It was specifically promoted as an online refuge by Giggle&#8217;s CEO, who said she created the app as a kind of safe environment for women after she suffered some form of sexual abuse in the past. 
So, yes, this case is quite literally &#8220;Tickle v. Giggle.&#8221; It may sound like an episode of Teletubbies, but it is in fact a real court case. 
Initially, an AI program at Giggle looked at Roxanne Tickle&#8217;s profile picture and concluded that he was probably a woman. So Tickle was allowed into Giggle. But a few months later, someone at Giggle took a closer look, and concluded that Roxanne Tickle was in fact a man, and that this fact was blindingly obvious to anyone who looked at his picture. So Roxanne Tickle was banned from Giggle, which led him to sue the company for sex discrimination. And ultimately Tickle won. Australia&#8217;s federal court decided that Tickle is, in fact, a woman, so Giggle has to pay tens of thousands of dollars in fake damages. (Giggle, in case you&#8217;re looking to download it, is apparently offline at the moment, although it&#8217;s supposed to relaunch soon. At its peak it had around 20,000 users, so it was never a particularly large platform).
It&#8217;s impossible to go any further in discussing this case without showing some footage of what Roxanne Tickle actually looks and sounds like, so here&#8217;s a news report that gives you some idea:
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This is one of those situations where you obviously don&#8217;t need a 50,000-word federal court decision to figure out if Roxanne Tickle is a man or a woman. So how exactly did the Australian federal court arrive at their decision? By what definition of &#8220;woman&#8221; does Roxane Tickle qualify? If you pull up the decision, not surprisingly, you won&#8217;t find an answer to that question. Instead, you&#8217;ll find what appears to be the first major court decision that officially defines &#8220;woman&#8221; to mean &#8220;whatever the court says it means.&#8221; 
From the court&#8217;s ruling: 
<blockquote>Sex is not confined to being a biological concept referring to whether a person at birth had male or female physical traits, nor confined to being a binary concept, limited to the male or female sex, but rather takes a broader ordinary meaning, informed by its use, including in State and Territory legislation.</blockquote>
I should pause here and let you know what you probably already assumed: the court just claimed that there are more sexes besides male and female, but never at any point names what those other sexes are. This is very common. In fact, out all of the people who tell us that there are more than two sexes, precisely none of them have ever told us what the other sexes are. Just trust me, bro. There are other sexes. Now stop asking questions.
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The court continues: 
<blockquote>&#8230;The determination of the sex of a person may take into account a range of factors, including biological and physical characteristics, legal recognition and how they present themselves and are recognised socially.</blockquote>
In other words, according to the Federal Court in Australia, &#8220;legislation&#8221; and &#8220;legal recognition&#8221; determines your sex now, along with other &#8220;factors&#8221; — including what other people think you are and how you present yourself. If you&#8217;re &#8220;recognized socially&#8221; as a woman, then you&#8217;re probably a woman. Of course, the problem is that if the definition of woman is: “Someone who is socially recognized as a woman,” we still have no idea what a woman is. Socially recognized as what exactly? What is that thing?
And why does social recognition matter? As far as I can tell, the court never polled all of Australia for its opinion on whether Roxanne Tickle qualifies as a woman. They apparently didn&#8217;t ask anyone, in fact. So really the court never determined that Tickle was &#8220;recognized socially&#8221; as a woman. That factor didn&#8217;t come into play. In truth, what the court is saying is that Roxanne Tickle is a woman because the court says so. They&#8217;re not conducting any social analysis of how people perceive this person, not that an analysis like that would be relevant anyway.
Specifically, the court said that back in 1984, Australia&#8217;s parliament passed a law called the &#8220;Sex Discrimination Act,&#8221; which protected women from discrimination. But the law never explicitly defined the word &#8220;woman&#8221; because everyone knew what it meant at the time. So now, a few decades later, the court unilaterally says that you&#8217;re a &#8220;woman&#8221; if the court says you&#8217;re one, after weighing a few factors that the court invented. They just kind of read that into the law. The court decides what a woman is. Although the court still cannot say what a woman is.
In effect, Australians are being commanded by their court system to ignore their common sense, which is informed by their knowledge of basic human biology. They&#8217;re being asked to ignore their own laws as well. And instead, they&#8217;re commanded to obey the ad hoc wisdom of the federal court system. A woman is anyone the court says is a woman. That’s all. End of story. This decision is going to be appealed to Australia&#8217;s highest court, but at the moment that&#8217;s the precedent that has just been set.
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We don&#8217;t have any kind of &#8220;landmark&#8221; case like this in the United States, at least not yet. But courts in this country are still proceeding on the same principle. This is a case that The Daily Mail first reported on last month, although it&#8217;s just starting to get attention now. A family in Maryland lost custody of their 16-year-old autistic son because they refused to pretend that he was really a girl. Apparently, the teenager went through difficult breakup with his girlfriend and attempted suicide in November 2021. He told his friends at the time that he was &#8220;LGBT&#8221; but still used masculine pronouns, as far as anyone knew.
But instead of treating this teenager as a deeply confused individual suffering from grief over a breakup and probably other mental health problems as well, Children&#8217;s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. reportedly determined that the boy suffered from &#8220;gender dysphoria&#8221; and was really a girl. It&#8217;s not clear how they came to that conclusion, or how much the hospital influenced that diagnosis. Then, according to the Daily Mail, the hospital, &#8220;used its emergency policies to keep the boy in its units and reported the parents to child protection services.&#8221; This went on for more than a month, at which point the child was then forced into foster care with a single mother who reportedly has a previous criminal record for assault. Then in July of 2022, the boy attempted suicide again — and this time the hospital took him back as a &#8220;girl.&#8221;
Now the boy&#8217;s parents are suing Children&#8217;s National Hospital, and the legal battle is apparently still underway. It&#8217;s been going on for two years. The child is now 19. (There&#8217;s conflicting information about whether this lawsuit is still active. The hospital told The Daily Mail it&#8217;s been withdrawn by the parents, but the parents deny that. The court filings in this case are sealed because it involves a minor but reportedly, the Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals is now handling it.)
As it stands, the lawsuit focuses extensively on the hospital&#8217;s &#8220;non-gendered&#8221; chaplain, Lavender Kelley, who&#8217;s supposedly overseeing their child&#8217;s care. In fact, Kelley is reportedly responsible for finding the child his first foster home. Who is Lavender Kelley exactly? <a href="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/24/19/87721587-13668663-Pictured_above_is_hospital_Chaplain_Lavender_Kelley_who_is_belie-a-11_1721847266889.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here&#8217;s a photo</a>:
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Surprising absolutely no one, Kelley is a gender ideologue and an LGBT activist. The Daily Mail reports that Lavender Kelly posted on Facebook in 2022 that children should be &#8220;transitioned&#8221; without their parent&#8217;s consent if necessary. You might be wondering what a children&#8217;s hospital would employ someone like this, who&#8217;s clearly focused more on activism than medicine. But as we know, many children&#8217;s hospitals — including Children&#8217;s National — are activist operations now. This is the same hospital that recently told Libs of TikTok on the phone that they perform “gender affirming hysterectomies” on 16-year-olds and “younger kids.” They openly admitted to removing the uteruses of confused children in order to affirm their supposed gender identity. That&#8217;s an act of barbarism that even so-called &#8220;trans healthcare providers&#8221; typically shy away from, at least in public. It&#8217;s too much, even for them. But it&#8217;s not too much for Children&#8217;s National and their &#8220;non-gender&#8221; chaplain. This is the kind of hospital that apparently gets to decide whether the government can take your child.
The only way horror stories like this happen is if courts allow them to happen, unilaterally. There&#8217;s no law in this country that allows hospitals to take your son away because the hospital says your son is really a girl, just like there&#8217;s no law in Australia that says a woman is anyone who says they&#8217;re a woman. But courts increasingly have no problem inventing new laws to this effect, and then enforcing them. Rather than answering the question &#8220;What is a woman?,&#8221; the judicial system is punishing people who actually have a working definition. It&#8217;s taking their kids away, in some cases, to very little fanfare. 
As I said, that story in Maryland broke last month, and it&#8217;s only now getting some degree of attention. What that means is that, as easy as it may be to hope that Australia&#8217;s completely unscientific and arbitrary understanding of gender won&#8217;t be adopted by judges in this country, the truth is that in at least one case so far, it already has been.

A Court Finally Answered The ‘What Is A Woman?’ Question — And They Got It Wrong

A Court Finally Answered The 'What Is A Woman?' Question — And They Got It Wrong