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"Boy Erased" new trailer, before release this Friday
David and I can't afford going to the movies, but this is released on Friday in the US and Nov 8th here in Australia. Perhaps the loc...
Marriage equality despite Turnbull
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A "proud HIV+ gay man"
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Rachel Maddow goes through and shows how the anti-gay laws now in Russia came from the US, complete with people travelling over there to dru...
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Once again I would like to recognise that this is all because Turnbull has no spine and wouldn't allow a free parliamentary vote. Tha...
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Big headlines from New Zealand today about a convicted rapist who was married in a maximum security jail to his former lawyer. Correct...
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Senator Dean Smith Gay Western Australian senator Dean Smith will introduce his marriage equality bill into parliament this Thursday, t...
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Care vandalised in Canberra for having rainbow flag The United Nations Human Rights Committee has castigated Australia (among other thin...
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The gov is still trying to pass shit from the 2014 budget. Some may not realise this with the repackaging as the "omnibus bill"...
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The usual shit today. Hard getting up, blood out of nose, got through work, blah blah fuckin blah. Home after it all. Horrible day it w...
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This is the book David and I were interviewed for, being part of the twenty people in the book. The first lot is back from the printers...
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A brief history for those overseas, Labor and the Greens have been calling for a royal commission into Australia's banks for 18 mon...
About me
After 30 years of very physical full time work in the printing industry our print dept was outsourced and we all lost our jobs. As I'd gotten HIV beforehand and was having trouble attending and doing work I discussed with my HIV doctor whether I should apply for the Australian Disability Support Pension. He agreed,and I became a DSP pensioner under the new Gillard rules of adherence that now sees 75% of DSP applicants rejected.
Have been diagnosed with PTSD, severe depression, chronic kidney failure, and of course HIV. I'd become suicidal in 2009 after 3 extreme life events in a row; My best friend killed herself in the US (I don't make friends easily BTW), my teenage/young adult daughter had me charged by the police with a minor problem, and I was diagnosed with HIV. All in three weeks.
Some say god won't give you more than you can bear, my reply is "Well what happened to me?" If not for the HIV support here in Australia and me being able to have access to it I'd likely be dead by now. Unbearable pain often causes suicide, no matter physical or mental.
Today I've not worked since being made redundant. I remain with episodes of depression and panic attacks, sometimes severe. I may be fine and happy to leave the house, at times I'm paralised in bed, secure and safe and not willing to face the world.
Have been diagnosed with PTSD, severe depression, chronic kidney failure, and of course HIV. I'd become suicidal in 2009 after 3 extreme life events in a row; My best friend killed herself in the US (I don't make friends easily BTW), my teenage/young adult daughter had me charged by the police with a minor problem, and I was diagnosed with HIV. All in three weeks.
Some say god won't give you more than you can bear, my reply is "Well what happened to me?" If not for the HIV support here in Australia and me being able to have access to it I'd likely be dead by now. Unbearable pain often causes suicide, no matter physical or mental.
Today I've not worked since being made redundant. I remain with episodes of depression and panic attacks, sometimes severe. I may be fine and happy to leave the house, at times I'm paralised in bed, secure and safe and not willing to face the world.
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- "How did you get it?" - an invasion of privacy, in...
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- "Hands of love" - Miley Cyrus
- I nearly died in hospital special Christmas edition
- A Warning: Tenofovir and Naproxen
- When I got Shingles
- Helpful Ways to Stay Healthy with HIV - Guest post
- Telling your family that you're HIV positive - guest post
Assorted Links
- - ACON
- - Ambassadors & Bridge Builders International
- - Dave's blog: Life living with HIV
- - Guide to Australian HIV Laws and Policies
- - Know the Risk: HIV transmission
- - National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS
- - National LGBTI Health Alliance
- - Newly Diagnosed?
- - Positive Life NSW
- - Positive Living Centre
- - Project X, WA info and support for gay men
- - Right Wing Watch
- - Rob's blog: Surviving AIDS, PML....and Me
- - Suicide.....Read this first
- - Thinking Positive
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- The Naked Barber - The Feed
- Welfare Bills now before the senate
- Industrial scale climate action needed
- Miners protest 457 visa rule changes - Perth
- Australia's fucked up week in politics - Angry Aussie
- Be alert. Not a ladder :)
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- US bombed vacant buildings - Syrian air strikes
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- Spring Magpie attack! - me
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- Whining Pyne's travel rort to Europe
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- Muslims targeted - Australia
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- "Coal has no future in worlds energy mix" - UN
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- Lismore climate action rally :)
- Climate change is non-partisan - Abby Grant
- Howard's "Conspiracy to mass murder" - Andrew Wilk...
- Andrews lied about NZ dole wait period
- New Abbott fridge magnet :)
- "Scientists" for hire - US
- Rockefellers switching to clean energy investments
- Justice minister grilled on terrorist raid "theatre"
- Virtual Collective Consciousness - the new interne...
- Doodling terrorist!
- Morrison's Muslim bashing for votes - 2011
- Terrorists spotted!
- 30,000 march for climate change - Melbourne
- Suicide the leading cause of death in Australia
- 9/11 never before seen pictures
- PUP Lambie nailed on national telly - ignorance ex...
- Lying false flag media - interview
- "Beheadings could happen here" - Abbott
- Palmer says no to all welfare cuts, again
- The grim outlook for Australian coal
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- Terror alert 2005! - Howard distracts from IR changes
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- Abbott's terror dial! - Mandy Nolan's soapbox :)
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- China announces carbon trading scheme by 2016
- Australia's terror threat level raised!
- Public frustration with the system - US
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