Garth Hamilton storms out of question time after outburst – as it happened
But she gets a layer of misogyny and a layer of sort of violent, sexualised comments on top of it as well that I don’t get. One example the commission was shown was attacking Purcell for getting “knocked up” by a “Nazi cunt”.Burns said the Online Safety Act and the social media platforms needed better ways to deal with the attacks: double quotation markInstagram knows when I was looking for a new high chair for my six-month-old. They can do a better job of … making it a bit safer online.
- ▪But she gets a layer of misogyny and a layer of sort of violent, sexualised comments on top of it as well that I don’t get.
- ▪One example the commission was shown was attacking Purcell for getting “knocked up” by a “Nazi cunt”.Burns said the Online Safety Act and the social media platforms needed better ways to deal with the attacks: double quotation markInstagram
- ▪They can do a better job of … making it a bit safer online.
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21.58 EDT‘She gets a layer of misogyny,’ Burns tells inquiryTory ShepherdJosh Burns, who is Jewish, told the royal commission into antisemitism earlier of his guilt that his partner, Victorian Animal Justice Party MP Georgie Purcell, has copped misogyny on top of antisemitism.He told the inquiry about the impact of antisemitism on his staff after his office was vandalised, and that there had been more than 1,000 phone calls and 10,000 abusive social media messages.And he said “probably one of the hardest things” was to have someone you love get abused”: double quotation mark[She gets] the same questioning of her loyalty and the same attribution of blame that I get. But she gets a layer of misogyny and a layer of sort of violent, sexualised comments on top of it as well that I don’t get.
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