return pinks. No because it says you return d3 slain horrors Yeah, so like they whenever it uses that verbiage you have to return a thing that existed in the unit to begin with Yeah, that's unfortunate Um, but that being said what that would mean is that like let's assume you lost some wounds out of all eight units Every round Okay, just don't assume that just for for for for giggles Let's assume you lost some wounds out of all eight of your pinkies every round You would be on average with the ability there adding 50 wounds per hero phase to your army It's it's grave sides on steroids Untested by the drug commission. Correct. It's good luck It's only zoning that one out. Yeah, it's an average of 50 wounds getting added to your army every round That's pretty decent as things go. Yeah And I love that this is the one that we didn't look at Right because it's just like because in the end it's two this one would be really scary It's funny how the things in a battalion that can really matter if that was like three units of horrors instead of eight It would suddenly be like whoa This thing got way more interesting ironically the ability that setting the bar that much higher in the base buy-in Makes it Not as appealing as a good choice, right? Because you could see people taking this kind of thing as a component Of a different army as like part of a two drop where they use this and one of the other similar hosts for a 2000 pointer Yes So there you go All right, the other shout-out I want to give real quick is there's a lot of abilities in this army That's summon chaos fun.  I agree And even without the broken stuff like even if all the crazy has been dialed back There's just so many really good tools in this army. I agree to Suggest to to give you everything you need to always have an answer to a problem. Yep My personal hope is some of this gets corrected in the FAQ Let's make the proper changes. We know that this is a problem. We've gotten lots of feedback Come on. Let's just go ahead and dial it back now before people get too deep into it Because the problem is if we don't do it now, we're going to do it in the ghp And then people are going to be committed to armies and you're really going to burn Right. We know this is a problem fix it now. This army has good bones. It's a strong foundation It's highly competitive without that broken stuff. Just get it fixed now So my advice is for people to put their feedback into the community team. Yep to get that feedback changed. Yep Yeah, that's the reality It's so good Yeah, I you know, I hope that uh, but I've never let me say this Um, I wish I've never wanted to not be right But this is one of those instances when we called the prediction show on Zeench and KO that I just wish I'd been wrong I understand I still think I'm gonna be right because I said Zeench will be more powerful at first been the long run KO will Prove to be more powerful. I just need the really long run Like after all the inevitable nerfs that'll happen the fourth book Well, like you're you're you're ish year and a half from now ghp 2021. Look for that. Look for the tide to turn All I'm saying it's happening. Hang in there KO. That's right. Hang in there guys Or float in there as it were get on your boats and float Float away from me float away. All right So that's it. That's each it's a lot of fun. I do like this book I'm excited honestly just to be what this may be excited for even though a lot of stuff is demon heavy Is just to get out. I have a whole slaves to darkness Zeench army I want to run them under the Zeench allegiance and start bringing in some demon stuff here and there Um, which I think is cool. Like that's actually what I'm most excited for You know, I've been so uh, I didn't sell all my things. I actually have nine sky sharks But I haven't sold yet. Oh like the the oh really? All right. Well, hit me up. I'll take your sky sharks. I need more sharks actually So there we go. All right for all of you. What do you think of the book? Do you think this is going to be broken? What do you predict is going to happen at can con? Will Zeench take can con that is the question will Zeench take lbo the one tournament report We already had where the new Zeench was on there Uh, it took second third and fourth Hmm And the tournament from last weekend Was that the ogre's came first? Yes ogre's came first and then it was like two three four two three four was Zeench Uh, and then I remember what fifth was but yeah two three four was all Zeench. So Yeah, you know That's the world we live in Yeah, this is this is a long game. This is You know, it's new that cuts both ways. That means your opponents don't know it But it means players don't necessarily have it on the there as well. I'm going to be interesting to see we've got This is a big weekend. We've got More than 400 people. Yeah, right. Yeah, uh, I just want to give a shout scott to of aos at lbo Best of luck my dude. You always run an amazing tournament. Everybody's going to alo to lbo Please do give scott a hug buy the man a drink something take good care of him If you're coming to can con say hi to me, I'll be there We're going to be doing the reporting all weekend. I'm really helping rob. I am super thrilled to be down here Thank you to anthony for having me over here. My man. This has been great. Thanks for thanks for hosting me I feel like i'm legit now You don't need me for legit and hey, we didn't we didn't cut out. So I didn't have to cost you change. There was no cut outs That's a that's a real win with this show. That's for sure I'm sorry that tom sound is a little wonky and we couldn't get it fixed any better than that But uh, thank you all for sticking with us when you did if I could summarize what tom said basically he created all the lists And uh, whatever happens at lv on can con is because he had created that list already right also He called it. He was right. There you go. That's that's tom's final thoughts See there you go, he agrees. All right, it's all of you who are out there watching Thank you very much everybody. We certainly appreciate it as always. We'll see you next wednesday Bye. Bye. Gotta get my mouse over here now


Hey guys, how are you today? So I just have another idea for making acrylic skins This one that I did the other day is nail polish I Know right. I know I'm crazy. I know and but it's so pretty. So this is a old non-stick craft sheet. I have that's Obviously well-loved and a bit past it. It's inside of a cookie sheet and Literally what I did is I took some nail polishes that I have here in the craft room specifically for doing this kind of thing with They're mostly from the dollar store and things like that. I literally poured them out on here and then I Move them around while they were wet with a toothpick and let it dry. I covered the whole thing with Collage paws you could use Elmer's glue Mod Podge whatever you have a pretty thick coat Let that dry completely. You can still tell this is not completely dry. It's been there's just so much thickness here Plus you've got this nail polish Which is very chemically, you know, I Want to say acetone base, but that's not the right word. It's not the right chemical and it probably doesn't mix well with the Elmer's glue. I will tell you that I tried something else before this and it really really didn't work In fact, I had the lift off The craziness that came up from that with ended up with lifting it off with packing tape I used Like an acrylic varnish and it is finally dry and I got I did get this interesting pattern Which I can use as a skin or as an element of collage and artwork But it took forever to dry and there was some sort of weird chemical reaction between the nail polish and the acrylic Varnish, but I did get it to dry. I didn't get it to lift Then next time I used the collage polish and I worked much better. So then I had the idea okay What if I tried this with an acrylic pour and made a skin that would be really interesting if I could do that and You would get those interesting. Hopefully cells and and textures. So we're going to zoom out a little bit I'm going to mix up some paint and we're going to do an acrylic pour on here Hopefully I don't make too much to have it spill underneath because that's a bad thing and We're going to let it dry for a couple days and we'll come back and see what it looks like that would be a fun acrylic skin All right, I'll be back. Let me get my stuff together So We're going to just set this empty one aside for a minute I have two colors of metallic paint here and this is just a little bit of paint poured out in these little containers I'm going to add some pouring medium Because we're going to be thinning down the paint. So before we do that We want to add some binders to the paint so that over time the paint doesn't break down and crack and all of that stuff So the first thing we're going to do is add the pouring medium Mix it in really well until it's not lumpy scrape the sides scrape the bottom Make sure you've got it all mixed in we have such a little amount of paint it shouldn't take very long Then I'm going to add some flow trawl Which is from the hardware store. It's a product made to increase the flow of latex paint I'm going to add a little bit of that in It does a similar thing to the pouring medium But a little bit differently and it is something else you can add to the paint to Help it like flow and be and move without Breaking down the properties of the paint and Breaking down the binders. I'm not a chemist. So I don't understand. I just know that if when I use it it works All right, so it makes mix that in really well Then you really want to have the paint runny and if you can see I Don't know if you can see But that's not it just it kind of clumps off the palette knife So that doesn't work. We really want it to flow in a stream off the palette knife So next this is just water tap water nothing special. I'm going to add a few drops at a time mixing it in scraping the sides scraping the bottom until we get something that runs off and The only thing I can tell you about doing this is you just have to practice and see what works for you use craft paint use something Inexpensive while you're practicing and figuring out what works for you. I have some black and white. That's already mixed up on the side It should be okay. It needs to be shaken, but it should be all right the flow trawl and the Pouring medium will also increase the drying time of your paint So that means it's going to take a lot longer to dry than it normally would Which in this case while you're manipulating manipulating your paint is what you want That's better It'd be a little too thin now, but we're going to go with it I think I just splattered myself with paint because you know, it's what we do, right? So let's do this one Now my black and white do not have any silicone Oil in them at all if you are familiar with watching acrylic pour videos Some people do them with with some people do them without Sorry somebody called the house phone, which is weird. All right, so that's just about good so we are going to add a Drop of silicone oil to these. This is treadmill oil Just going to put one drop because it's not very much paint. I'm only going to add it to the metallics Then I'm going to mix again mix this one in All of these Additives to the paint will aid in the kind of reaction between the colors to help you form cells and Interesting patterns in the paint. Okay, so here's my white This is just pouring medium flow trawl acrylic paint and water It's been sitting for a little bit, so We want to shake it up really well. Okay Should be good. This is the black some of the metallic some white.  Basically, you're putting all the colors in one cup. I'm going to zoom you in And you already see kind of what's happening inside that cup Turquoise copper white Turquoise and some more white Now I am pretty sure that's a way too much paint So I'm going to grab a little mini canvas Need a couple of little These little triangle feet things you get them at Sorry, I need to zoom out. You get these at the hardware store in the paint department and we're gonna sell Gonna put some white around This will help ensure that the edges get covered So as I'm pouring this to cover the canvas what I want to do is Deliberately drip it onto the whoa Actually look what happened. I like that so deliberately drip it onto the non-stick craft sheet Okay, I'm going to stop there because that is really pretty and it's already forming cells Here and here I'm going to zoom you in a minute after I wash my hands and We have this accidental intentional Skin here on the non-stick craft sheet right here That's going to make something really interesting that will be able to peel it off So rather than do these pours on Paper if I do them on the non-stick craft sheet then I have something I can use in a future project I may need to cover them again with collage posh before I peel them off to thicken them I love this circle right here that came Love that so much. I can't even tell you. Let me clean my hands and I'll be right back See that I was just gonna pour some paint to get a skin and because we ended up with too much paint I got a little canvas out of it and how cute is that I Realized for some of you you may be going I don't get it. I Think you have to have a love of abstract painting to really like acrylic pours I'm not going to do lots of acrylic pouring tutorials on this channel because there are a million of them out there And there's a million artists out there who do them really really well I'll try to link a few of their channels in the description below for those of you who are interested But that being said it is fun to do and I like the idea of having this leftover paint from a pour That's been poured on this acrylic craft sheet that I can use as an embellishment in another Project probably a journal page I'm going to be doing one of those pretty soon with these after they're dry If you're interested in seeing what I do with them on a journal page Follow me on social media all of my social media links my Facebook groups I'm part of my website everything else is in my link tree link the link tree link is in the description below We'll click it. You'll get all the links. You'll get the whole list of every place that I am on the internet So I hope you give it a try look around your studio. See what you have old nail polish acrylic paint You know think about how you can make your own unique embellishments a little bits and pieces and things that you can use in a page Here's one. Let me zoom out a bit Oops, that's the wrong way Here's the one I did just today with bits and pieces that I have the had the word dream some paint some writing a Little bit of doodling and a sticker I had from a friend KP over at rubber moon And so you don't have to have super complicated things to make a really interesting journal pages. That's an old leaf from a walk Some old pieces of paper a little bit of stenciling and some washi tape So I want to make some of these acrylic skins and nail polish skins to use on pages like that I can't wait to give it a try. I hope you do too. Let me know what you come up with if you have questions comments or concerns Put them down in below underneath the video. I'd love to see them And that's it for today. Check out those link tree links. Check out my Etsy shop If you want to support the free content on this channel, you can go peruse my wish list or my tip jar and All of that is very much appreciated That's it for today The most important thing is to go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And I'll see you later. Bye guys


Thank you for joining us here for International Women's Day as we honour the legacy of the late the honourable Susan Ryan. I'm really happy to see that we managed to coordinate the venue with its purple seating with International Women's Day and Feminist Colours. My name is Michelle Ryan, I'm the director of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership here at the ANU and I'm so pleased to be co-emceeing this event with my colleague Fiona Jenkins, who's the convener of the ANU Gender Institute. Before we begin, I want to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we meet today. We are in the Cambry precinct here and the name Cambry was gifted to ANU by our Indigenous community and I celebrate and pay tribute to their elders past and present and all Indigenous people joining us tonight. I also want to acknowledge that this land always was and always will be Aboriginal land. To kick off proceedings, please join me in welcoming the Vice-Chancellor to the ANU, Professor Brian Schmidt to say a few words. Thank you Michelle and thank you everyone for coming out on this raining evening. Michelle, thank you for your acknowledgement and I too would like to celebrate the first Australians on whose traditional lands and airwaves we are meeting tonight and I pay my respects to elders past and present. Tonight, ANU is honoured to host the first ever annual Susan Ryan oration, our flagship event for International Women's Day in memory of one of the university's greatest pioneers for equality, the late Honourable Susan Ryan. Before I start, I'd like to ask each of you to imagine the world. For some of us remember the world, we lived in before Susan's work to quote Susan herself. It was not unlawful to sack women who married or became pregnant or just because they were women. Maternity leave was scarcely available. Women could not get home loans. Girls' education was restricted and fewer girls got into higher education. Much of our community thought all of this was just okay. Thanks to Susan, the Australia we live in today has moved well beyond just allowing women to work, have access to parental leave or to get tertiary education. We are now a society that demands structural changes to ensure that every woman and girl is given every opportunity to succeed and lead. Susan's pioneering work in bringing about anti-discrimination and equal opportunity legislation whilst also blazing a trail as first female senator for the ACT and being the first female to hold a cabinet role in the Hawke government, those are just a few of the reasons we continue to honor her legacy. She has left a remarkable mark on our world and I can say on our university as well. She is an active member of our alumni community who generously gave her time to share her knowledge and her views. Tonight I am so pleased that Samantha Maiden will deliver the inaugural oration. This continues Susan's legacy and drives the important conversations which she helped ignite. Samantha is herself a trailblazer. As a distinguished journalist operating the hallowed halls of the Australian Parliament, Samantha consistently and superbly holds to account our most powerful figures and amplifies the voices of ordinary and extraordinary Australians through her consummate reporting. It is great to have you with us here Sam and I'm very keen to hear what you have to say as it's always interesting and always provocative. I have no doubt you would have made Susan proud as our first orator for her oration. I must now take a moment to thank Rory Sutton, Susan Ryan partner and it was always a pleasure to welcome you back to our campus Rory. It's especially important tonight as we honor Susan's memory together and the indelible mark that she left here at A&U. I also extend a warm welcome to many of Susan's friends and family here in the front row who have joined us tonight and throughout the audience. Thank you all for being with us on this really important occasion. Tonight Rory would like to say a few words so everyone please join me in welcoming Rory to the lectern. Thank you very much Vice Chancellor. I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the Nangamal people of this land and pay my respect to their elders past, present and emerging. I'm here on behalf of Susan's family, siblings Judith, Terry and Carly together with her nephew Tim and his wife Susan, my partner Edna and Susan's adopted add-ons Mark Rowan and Mark and Rowan rather plus her close friends Danelle Wheeler and Derek Abbott. In particular I want to thank the A&U and Vice Chancellor Schmidt for establishing this oration in Susan's name to coincide with the International Women's Day. Education was a priority for Susan and it was at this university that her affinity with literature and the arts was more broadly fostered. The other day I was walking up William Street in Sydney I fear to mention that name but anyway Sydney when I encountered a serendipitous moment emblazoned on a somewhat dubious shopfront was the quotation, if you want to achieve greatness then stop asking for permission and that seems to be a great motto for today. It is a quote that resonates with me and says so much about Susan. From her earliest days at her convent school in Maruba when she refused to play with dolls to defying Mother Liguri over a maths exercise Susan always had a strong sense of self. Indeed it was Mother Liguri who exclaimed Susan you're not merely bold as brass you are brass personified. Notwithstanding her innate rebellious inclination something to do with her Irish background I think Susan regressed to be head of head girl at her school a leadership pattern reflected throughout her life and it was her Catholic upbringing that entrenched her desire for justice and equal rights for everybody. Apart from family as I mentioned her great passion was for education. As she saw it education is key to equality for all and is one of the best investments that a country can make for itself. Imposition rather of fee structures such as Hex portended the end perhaps of her parliamentary career but she kept on going pursuing careers in publishing, superannuation and as the first age discrimination commissioner with the Human Rights Commission. She fought also vain gloriously perhaps for a Human Rights Bill and an Australian Republic. What I remember most about Susan as a public figure is her generosity always she made it clear that her achievements were team achievements. Her political strength was based on persistence she acknowledged that her 1984 Discrimination Act had its flaws but created a platform for advances in the future. The all-or-nothing philosophy was anathema to her. For Susan it was always about just keep on going. Again thank you Vice Chancellor for this initiative in honouring a remarkable and beautiful human being Susan Ryan. Finally I have to say there can be no one better than Samantha our Golden Walkley Award winner for 2022 to launch this oration thank you. Thank you so much Rory for being here tonight and for your kind words and thank you Vice Chancellor for introducing us and now on to our inaugural speaker Samantha Maiden. As a political editor for news.com.au and as a veteran press gallery journalist Samantha has been at the forefront of breaking news for more than 20 years. She's been awarded Kennedy Awards and Walkleys for her work and just over a week ago won the 2021 Gold Walkley Award for her coverage of Open Secret the Brittany Higgins story that rocked Canberra and our nation and you can still feel the reverberations from that work. Samantha has carved out a stellar career and reputation having worked at the Australian and news called Sunday Papers but her career began in South Australia where she edited Adelaide University student newspaper in 1992 and covered state politics something to note for any budding journalists, student journalists in the room. She's also an author with her first book Party Animals published in 2020 and many of us know her from her insightful and thought-provoking commentary and analysis on ABC insiders and the project as well and we can't let this one go. She states that one of her career highlights includes being called a Mad Witch by Peter Dutton. So please join me in welcoming Samantha Maiden to give the inaugural Susan Ryan oration. Thank you that was quite the rap. I should add there was actually an expletive Prince of the Mad Witch but we'll leave that out because this is a family show. Look I would also like to acknowledge our traditional owners and pay my respects to leaders emerging past and present. Look I'd like to begin tonight by telling a story about Susan Ryan that I really enjoy and I suspect that she really enjoyed it as well because she was still telling it quite recently to journalists and others right up to her untimely passing. It's a story that takes place in Canberra after this missile about not quite 50 years ago but around about the year 1975. Many many Australian expats are outraged by what has occurred. They want to come back and help and do whatever they can to help the Labor Party avenge this outrage and one of those people is Germaine Greer. Germaine Greer wants to know what she can do to help. So she comes back and depending on who tells the story she either just asks Susan Ryan what she can do or is pestering the Labor Party about what she can do to assist. Finally a job is found for Germaine Greer. That job is baby sitting Susan Ryan's children. Now the baby sitting was more than one off because my understanding is that she actually moved into their house at Aranda. Can you imagine? What an au pair. Extraordinary situation. And on one blessed day Susan Ryan goes out to campaign. There's some sort of suggestion it was some sort of our graspy event and returns home to find her beloved daughter Justine having a absolute winging with Germaine Greer in the family kitchen. They are at war. They've had a huge fight over how to bake a cake. And Justine has apparently pulled out a white wings box which is how she baked cakes. Germaine being quite the domestic goddess has expressed a view that this is outrageous, disgusting.  Let me tell you how to bake a cake, young lady. And it's a proceed to give her a long lecture on how to cream the butter. But I should add because I spoke to Justine today in the preparation of telling this story to get the facts right. She said that Germaine Greer's cake sucked as well. And this was one of the reasons why Germaine was so incredibly cranky. Now I don't pretend that this ridiculous story that I've just told you is particularly revelry in any way. But I do believe that the juxtaposition of Justine going head to head with one of Australia's best known feminists over how to bake a cake is a glorious and beautiful story. And it's a lovely juxtaposition with what I think is one of Susan Ryan's greatest qualities that I observe as someone who is, you know, I'm basically the generation that's old enough to be her daughter. I was born in 1972. I think, you know, six or eight years after her daughter is the incredible modernity of Susan Ryan. You know, if you think about what Susan Ryan, her speeches, what she achieved, her general outlook, it's hard to find anything where you think, Well, that's incredibly old fashioned. I don't know if you've noticed that. But if you look at, you know, all of the ideas she had and the way she approached things, she seemed to approach things in such a practical way. And her ideas just seemed to me to be so clean and almost timeless. It was almost as if she was someone from another time in the future who was accidentally dropped into that period of time.  Now, as Rory points out, she was prepared to start and build. She wasn't someone who said, If I don't get everything I want, you know, I'll stop right there. Thank you very much. But I think it is fascinating to think of the things that she achieved, some of which in an incredible short period of time. I mean, one of her other massive achievements was lifting school retention rates for students in Australia. This was something that obviously didn't just affect women, although it was very helpful for women. In an incredibly short period of time, she managed to get Australia away from this idea that everyone left school in year 10 to really increasing people to sticking around for year 11 and year 12. Education was obviously very important to her. She was the first person in her family to graduate from university. And I always like the fact that I should add, I know that there may be some people here forgive me now that are wincing with horror at the idea of a journalist giving their speech in relation to Susan Ryne. But I should just point out that as her memoir reveals, she did actually flirt with the idea of becoming a journalist. And she even spent some rather boring by the sounds of it time in the Daily Telegraph Library, where she was cutting out stories and research. But apparently the women there basically said, don't stick around here because if you stick around here, she was quite keen on becoming a journalist apparently. You'll end up writing the social pages or you'll be stuck here in the library cutting things out. And so, of course, she moved on. Look, I don't know the answer. There'd probably be people in this audience that have a better idea than mine about why her ideas were so modern and where her feminism came from. Reading her speeches and reading her book, I do have my own sneaking suspicion if some of this may be the fault of the nuns. So she did obviously attend a Catholic school and, you know, there is that streak of matriarchal society that runs through Catholic communities in a certain way, right? I mean, like, obviously, the Catholic Church has been capable of some things in terms of the prosecution of the rights of women, but perhaps aren't as modern as Susan Ryan would have liked. But nevertheless, there is a real tradition of having really strong, powerful women. And I think what comes out of her book is that even though there was obviously some nuns that she had some good old run-ins with in the style of Germaine Greer and the great white wings cake packet debacle, there were also women that encouraged her to, you know, think in a very incisive and thorough way. And there's another great story in her book, if you get a chance to read it, of one of the nuns flying into an absolute rage about the royal family because they weren't Catholic. And then someday, I don't know if it was a picture of Prince Charles or what it was, but someone brought this into show and tell. And the nun apparently theatrically just tore this photograph to pieces and said, don't bring any more pictures of these royals into my classroom because she didn't want any more of that nonsense. Now, in terms of like having a look at Susan Ryan's career in politics, one of the other things that I found joyful and entertaining was just the sort of matter of factness that she went about entering into a very male dominated environment. And she obviously had actually quite a got of fun with some of these blokes that were kind of dinosaurs in their own ways. And one of the stories that I always quite enjoyed was her interactions with with Mick Young, who she obviously had a great relationship with, who Mick Young also used to constantly for women in the Labor Party is boilers. It's not very nice. But this became some sort of running joke between them.  But I just wanted to read, if I may, a little bit from her book, which I found quite enjoyable, that when she indeed, I think it was in December, 1977, put a name forward for the front bench. When they did the vote, there were actually two women that ended up on the board in the first vote. And after the first count of the ballot, Jean Mills's name was up on the blackboard as well as mine. Not two boilers yelled Mick in tones of horror. Now he was, of course, joking. Everybody laughed at this. But subsequently, this became a bit of a running joke to the point where everyone, according to Susan Ryan, including herself, referred to themselves as the boilers. Mick acknowledged that there were young boilers as old ones, and then would ask the boilers what their opinions were. What do the boilers think about this new means test? Where would the boilers line up on this? He would inquire. A top boiler was a reference to incredible party worker Sussie Carlton. And her own daughter Justine was referred to as a knockout of a young boiler. Now look, of course, there would be many people these days would be completely horrified by this, but it seems to me fairly obvious that Mick Young was actually a huge supporter and an encourager of Susan Ryan's Susan, Ryan's, Ambitious. Then, of course, we come to the 1984 Sex Discrimination Act. Those of you who have enjoyed, I don't know how many of you have watched it, probably a few, I suspect, Annabelle Crabb's documentary, Misrepresented, will remember the fantastic story that is told in there about the abject horror at the idea that the sex discrimination reform agenda would lead to truck drivers leaving their wives. There was a great deal of concern that there would need to be co-drivers sleeping in the cab, the men would be tempted, and this would be a terrible state of affairs. I also enjoyed the fact that the sex discrimination bill was no longer referred to in that matter in many instances. It was simply shortened to Susan's sex bill, which sounds like something that you would want to vote for, but I don't know if it was really that helpful. Now, look, this speech is not about me, but I thought I'd tell you a little bit about myself so you knew a little bit about where I'm coming from and how the ideas of Susan Ryan have, you know, played a role in my own upbringing, in my own university, career, and all the rest of it. So I'm from Adelaide originally. I was born in 1972, when of course the Whitlam government was elected, and there's an absolutely chilling and quite creepy story that's told in my family that at the age of three, when presumably I couldn't read, but I must have been able to hear conversations on the bus, that on the day after the dismissal, on the days following, there were all these, you know, headlines saying, you know, goff out and Fraser in, and I apparently sitting on the bus in Adelaide said to my mother, does that mean Mr Fraser's the Prime Minister now, which prompted some woman quite rightly to turn around on the bus and say, that's a very unusual child? Because, and you could say it was my first political news report at the age of three, not a very good one. Like, I think I just had big flappy ears and I was listening to people on the bus, but nonetheless, quite entertaining. So I went to university in Adelaide. I grew up with all of the stories of the fact that women of my mother's generation had to give up their work when they were married, or certainly when they were pregnant. And so I do remember hearing the story of my mother and my mother's friends. She worked as a bank teller and at that stage, I'm not sure if the rules have changed slightly. Like it seemed to me that she did keep working after she got married, but as soon as you were pregnant, you absolutely had to go. And so there was a lot of, I suppose just getting a bit fatter and fatter and fatter and then trying to sort of leave it as long as you could before you actually confirmed what was going on. And it's extraordinary to think about the fact that those things were happening, you know, even in the early 1970s and the late 1960s, because I think most of the people in this room, like fine wine or a certain vintage and so nothing, this will come as a terrible shock to you. But I think that there is a younger generation of women and men who would find that quite extraordinary and quite amazing. So I attended university in Adelaide and that was really my first interaction and exposure to feminism and a proper dose of activism. Now, one of the things that I always remember, and I've actually thought about in recent years is that early on in my career, well my studies I suppose I should say more accurately, there were two things that occurred. One was that I was friends with a lady called Amy Barrett who was the women's officer at Adelaide University. And she was raising concerns that during orientation week, we had these things called O-Week camps. I don't know if they still have them anymore. And there was this sort of running issue where there'd be a lot of alcohol and a lot of fooling around.  But it became really apparent that the O-Week leaders who were largely men were using these O-Week camps as a bit of a sexual happy hunting ground. And Amy Barrett came up with the idea that perhaps was it really so unreasonable that was it a crazy idea that we as terms of the Student Services and Student Union owed these young students some duty of care and that there should be a rule that basically the O-Week leaders should, can they keep their hands to themselves for four days? Well, this caused like an incredible outrage. We were like the fun police, right? We were told that this was so outrageous. I mean, today it seems completely normal, but I still remember this gross outrage at this suggestion. And I remember saying to some of these boys because they were boys at that time, I remember saying, look, if it's the love of your life, I mean, I don't think they're really necessarily looking for the love of your life, but I said, look, can't you just wait like four days? Like, I mean, you can go and take them to the uni afterwards, but they were thoroughly horrified and outraged by this. Nonetheless, our reform was enacted. Now, the other thing that happened around the same time was that I was unwittingly involved in branch stacking of a women on campus group. I didn't mean to. It was a complete accident. I'll explain how it occurred. So during that orientation week period, there was a group on campus, the main women's group called Women on Campus. We had the best rooms in the cloisters. It was down in the basement. We had like a kitchen and a whole region study. It was like an entire bunker, a ladies' bunker. It was really good. And during our week, it was suggested to me that some of the older women were kind of bored at sitting on the desk where you sign people up. So I was dispatched to go sit there. Now, I just had no agenda whatsoever other than I thought that I should smile at people and try and get people to join up, right? Because they were paying, I don't know if it was 50 cents or a dollar.  And at the end of it, we had hundreds of new members, which I'm not sure if they completely agreed with, but it was fine. Like, we didn't expect everyone to turn up. But as a result of this, it was foisted upon me that I should become the convener of Women on Campus, which I was properly horrified by, but to some extent, but agreed to do. And the interesting thing about that, I'll come back to this later, is that one of the women that we were involved with at Women on Campus was actually Kate Thornton, who some of you will know was the woman who came forward with the allegations in relation to the former attorney general, Christian Porter, that obviously he denies. So she was actually one of our contemporaries at university, as was a whole group of women that will come as no surprise to you these days, Penny Wong, Natasha Stott-Dispoyer, Jay Weatherall, who became the South Australian Premier, Christopher Pine and so on. And it was during this period that there was another gentleman that came to our attention, who later became the treasurer in South Australia, and his name was Jack Snelling. And he came to our attention during Oweek because he decided that in the interest of prosecuting his beliefs in terms of pro-life and anti-abortion, that he should roam the cloisters of parliament, of not parliament house, I should say, Adelaide University, with replica fetuses. And look, there's always a bit of a debate, obviously, about protests and the right to protest. And obviously I do support the right to protest, but a lot of the women who were on campus at the time also had the concern that female students, male journalists, male students as well, had the right to be able to go about their business and go around Oweek without having this literally shoved in their faces. So anyway, four art crimes against humanity for raising this idea. Amy Barrett, who I referred to earlier, the women's officer, was invited to appear on a program that was quite a popular program in Adelaide at the time, a bit of late night listening. It was the Father John Fleming show. And the Father John Fleming show was run by this Anglican priest who later became Catholic. There are a few of those. And basically, Amy sort of decided that she was gonna go on, but she was gonna debate this gentleman called Jack Snelling, who 20 years later became the South Australian Treasurer, who was the one running around university with the babies. And she sort of said, well, this is two against one, right? Like, I need to bring a friend. So she said, can you come in and hang out with me and debate Father John Fleming? And I went, oh, God, okay. So I went on the Father John Fleming show and the charming end to this story is that, henceforth, we were described in Festival of Light Literature, which was a conservative organization at Adelaide at the time, not as pro-choice, not even as pro-abortion. We were referred to as abortionists. Now, look, I just wanna say that if there's any ladies in the audience tonight that have any gynecological questions, I will absolutely do my best to answer them. But I just wanna make it very clear that I don't have a medical practicing certificate, despite what you may have read in the Festival of Light Literature at the time. Look, the other reason why I'm here obviously tonight and the reason why I told that story was to kind of give you a bit of an arc of the story of how I became involved in the Brittany Higgins story, which is obviously one of the reasons that I was asked to attend and give this speech tonight. I think what's really fascinating is to think about the fact that without Susan Ryan and without the Sex Discrimination Act, we wouldn't have a sex discrimination commissioner, we wouldn't have a Kate Jenkins, we wouldn't have a Jenkins report that was commissioned and then called about Parliament House. And of course the treatment of women, it goes much more broadly than Parliament House. But I think the reason why Brittany Higgins story was such a lightning rod for debate was that there really was this concern about if that can happen to that person allegedly in that forum, what on earth is going on and why weren't a greater protections put in place to help that person after that accusation was made. I need to say as I say in every instance of this that a man has been charged in relation to this matter, he has pleaded not guilty and obviously I don't want to say anything tonight that would interfere with that process, justice needs to take place and we'll see that unfolding over the coming months. The only thing that I would say is this, which is I think it is going to be very confronting for a lot of Australians and I'm not sure if people are ready for this in the sense that for many, many years we have become used to the idea that sexual assault trials are run in a manner in which the alleged victim is almost a ghostly figure, right? Anonymous, not known, you don't know their face. Now that is absolutely their right but it is also dehumanizing, right? Like they're kind of this person that you almost can't see as flesh and blood and that is one of the long-term aspects of the fact that we still see in some ways rape and sexual assault crimes as something that is to be hidden or something that is to be shamed in some way. Now I still think that people who are the victims or the alleged victims of these crime have absolutely the right to anonymity but it has been really fascinating to see this new generation of women, whether it's Grace Tame or Brittany Higgins or the sexual consent work that Chanel Contos has done, really sort of throwing that cloak off and saying I want to be able to speak my truth and discuss what happened to me and there's a lot of challenges that arise for that in terms of the justice system and how to manage that and we're going to see that played out in real terms in real time during the trial. The final thing I would like to say is a couple of things in that space. The first is that I think there probably would even still be some people in this room that would be surprised to learn all those years after Susan Ryan introduced the Sex Discrimination Act that it didn't apply into MPs and why is that? Well, I write about that in my new book which hopefully might be out later this year, we'll see. But a lot of it relates to parliamentary privilege and so people traditionally think of parliamentary privilege is about the right to basically defame people, get up in parliament and say things without the risk of defamation action. But parliamentary privilege, of course, also extends to the right of MPs to go about their business without being threatened or sort of stopped from speaking their mind and going about their business and so there'd been this traditional idea that oh, you couldn't possibly allow staff or people to make allegations of that nature about MPs because people might blackmail them or people might use it to threaten them or to bring them down and of course all of that is entirely possible. What it meant was that there was just this group of political staffers that had far less industrial rights than most normal people would in most normal workplaces and that is something that is also being exposed and prosecuted by women like Rachelle Miller who is the woman who came out and said that she had had an extramarital affair with Alan Tudge. She's a good example of how the system is very tough on women that come out and make those allegations. She's had a really rough time. She had that report come out recently where she didn't participate in and the leaking of further texts to newspapers that actually weren't even part of that report to basically paint her as a bit of a disgruntled lover but I think that she really deserves respect for the fact that this was a conversation that she helped start and this was also a conversation that inspired interestingly enough Brittany Higgins to come forward because even though Rachelle Miller was not making any allegation of sexual harassment, watching the way she was bad-mouthed when she came out on that Four Corners program and revealed what had happened to her and the fact that she felt that she was sort of managed out of the system and managed out of a job when she came forward with those allegations. I think really radicalised Brittany Higgins in a way. Today is of course International Women's Day and in the last couple of days there's been quite a high profile campaign released that features the very well-known faces of Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame and Chanel Contos and in the last 24 hours there's been quite a strong critique of that from the journalist and activist Nina Finnell who said that she doesn't think... It made her embarrassed about feminism in this country, not criticising those women specifically but making the point that feminism should be more about... You know, not just about women in power suits as she described it, you know, Instagram filters, the hierarchy of survivors and victims, as she put it, that can sometimes elevate people that are regarded as inverted commas, good victims. Like, this is a really rough discussion to have because obviously all of the women involved in that have experienced trauma. But I think it is worth having that discussion as well and I'd welcome any questions in relation to that. It's also a reminder, though, of just the note that I'd want to finish on, which is this, which is that the stories of Grace Tame and the stories of Brittany Higgins' alleged rape are very inspiring to a lot of women because they have shown incredible bravery and courage and they've decided to speak out. But I don't think you should ever underestimate that the huge burden that places on those women, the fact that it is very traumatic to speak out, I think that sometimes a younger generation can see it in almost a very airbrushed way.  And I think as we go on, we've got to find better ways of achieving change than putting that burden on those women as powerful as those stories are. It's hard to resist them because they look at what's happened in the last year. They have driven incredible change, but I don't think that you can underestimate the burden that it places on those women. And so we've got to find ways, I think, to support those women more. Thank you. I hope that that was informative or useful or provided some avenue for questions. And if I've said anything that offends you or you think is horrific, please stand up and let me know. Thank you. That was a wonderful talk. Well, it's up to you. I can just stand here. Stay here? Okay, cool. All right. Hello, everybody. I'm Fiona Jenkins. I'm the convener of the A&E Gender Institute. And we're now going to move to the Q&A part of the evening where you get to ask Samantha anything you like, pretty much. So if you want to ask a question, please come down to the front. There's a microphone there. And while you're thinking about your question and coming down, I'd like to begin with a question. Samantha, I was wondering, when you were breaking these stories around Parliament House and what happened to Brittany Higgins and so forth, did you have a strong sense that the time was right for those stories? And how do you have a sort of sense of the time being one in which that's going to be heard in a way that's powerful and doesn't just become a kind of backlash against the individual involved? Just have this for now. We'll sort that out. Oh, that's my fault. Can't take me anywhere. Look, I'd love to say that there was like some huge strategy in relation to the Brittany Higgins story, but there wasn't. There was a lot of work that went into it. I mean, she basically came to, started talking to me in early January of 2021. And I sat down and did a very long interview, about two and a half hours at my house in O'Connor, just around the corner from here, in mid January. And then I basically said to work, and you can't underestimate what a big deal this was for me to say to work, because I work obviously for a digital news site where you often write multiple stories a day. I basically said, look, I really need to take a week off to go through and completely do this transcript. And there's a lot of potential angles here to pursue. So they were really supportive about that, and that was really good. But like we just thought it was an important story. And I remember the most, the biggest memory I have of those early days was her sort of saying to me, do you think anyone's gonna care? Like, will anyone pay any attention to this? Like, will it be a fissure? And so it was quite shocked. Like it was like being in the middle of a cyclone when it all went off. And part of that was to do with, you know, there was all these new revelations and we found out things about them cleaning the room and this long list of who knew what and when and this idea of did they have a don't ask, don't tell culture and why the prime minister wasn't even told about it over the three days that we were negotiating with his office for answers. And it just sort of blew up. But I mean, I think at the end of the day the reason why it blew up was because women were like, had this white hot anger. And for some reason that story kind of just ignited the flame. Yeah, no, it's really such a powerful story. And can I ask you to just address briefly as well the questions around the sort of trauma that's carried then by people who bring those stories forward. How do you engage with that as a journalist again? How do you do that responsibly? Well, I took up smoking. And I hadn't, I hadn't really, I had smoked a little when I was writing my first book, but I went out during the first week and I thought, gee, I'd love to buy a packet of cigarettes. So I got a packet of Marlborough ice blast and I start, I just smoked a lot and drank a lot of Diet Coke. So real, really sort of positive, healthy things. And look, I've sort of tried, I'm usually pretty good.  And so when I'm into it, you know, I go hard, but like this year I've sort of thought I need to stop smoking. But who knows, I might go past the server on the way home. We've got a question. Sorry, that is really bad and I don't recommend that. But yeah, just being honest. Katarina. Hi, Samantha. I was just wondering as one of the most senior women in the press gallery, whether you had any reflections on your time there, working with other senior journalists and your approach to the vitriol that is sometimes thrown at you in the cyber world, in your reporting and the commentary that you get from, yeah, from trolling and things like that. Look, I'm so glad you asked because you've just reminded me that there was this funny story I was gonna tell that I forgot to tell when I was speaking and now I'm gonna subject you to it. So, look, in the broad, look, it's really hard to explain because maybe it's not hard to explain if you're female, but it's not like I've ever felt like discriminated against, but then that's kind of a lie, but I'll come to that. But what I always felt, and a lot of this was sort of internalized when I got to the press gallery, was first of all, I thought, right, you've gotta learn to shout at press conferences, right? Because you've got all these men and they're all yelling and different Prime Ministers have different approaches, like Morrison is very controlling and he, can you imagine?  And he's like, no, no question for you over here. And like at the end of it, sometimes you actually just wanna gently kill him. But basically, when Howard was the Prime Minister, and that's when I kind of arrived during the Howard years, you had to learn, first of all, Howard was like, you didn't ask a dumb, if you asked a dumb question, he would like, murder you on the straight with a look. But you had to learn to shout. So anyway, so I learned to like, right? And you've gotta learn to like, like keep going, right? Like, so if other people are shouting and you just keep going and you've gotta like, thunder over them, right? And that's what you have to do. Well, that's what I thought you have to do.   And what does she think she can ask all the goddamn questions? So I don't know, there was a bit of that. But the funny story I was gonna tell was that, so when, it's the only time that I remember sort of feeling pretty kind of like, bruised was after the birth of my first child because I told work that I was coming back to work relatively quickly because it was an election year, it was 2007. And everybody reacted with complete horror, right? Like, and also sort of laughter, right? Like kind of like, oh, you have had a baby before. Like, you won't be back. And I was sort of in the end, had to sort of say to people, I'm not sure if you understand, like my partner's taking a year off, I'm taking four months off. And if I don't come back to work when I say I'm coming back to work, I will be homeless, I won't have an income. But anyway, no one would really believe me and they didn't take me seriously. And then as soon as I came back to work, it was completely obvious that I'd been gently kind of shoved into the weeds. And one of the things that happened that I always remember, which was this absolutely lovely guy who was the chief of staff and he was the nicest man. And unfortunately, Christine Wallace is gonna probably know who I'm talking about. But anyway, he was so lovely. And he basically, when I first got back to work in the first week, he said, oh, God, you know, like you're coming back to work very quickly. He goes, I hope you're breastfeeding. And I said, yeah, I am, but like, oh my God, how bad would I feel if I wasn't? But the punchline to this story was that despite the enthusiasm for some of the blokes in my, you know, the press gallery to check that I was breastfeeding, there wasn't much kind of regard for how this would be practically achieved. Now, at the time there was nowhere to like breastfeed or express milk or whatever. And so, and you kind of internalize the idea that this needs to be hidden, right? And so, sorry, you should sit down. I'm sorry, I'm going on and on and on. And so, but basically what happened was I went to see the nurses at Parliament House. And I said, is there somewhere that I could like strap myself to an electric, what a mental image, breast pump, right?  You can go out there.  And so they can't see me, but then they could probably hear this, vroom, vroom, you know, but then I can hear them all lunchtime going, yeah, what about this and that and expletives flying. And then what would happen like clockwork about 15 minutes is the very nice man who wanted to check if I was breastfeeding would call and he would say, Samantha, where are you?   And the really weird thing was that for some reason, because I internalized this whole idea that like, they were really dark on me coming back, that I didn't feel able to say, well, I've got my tit in a breast front pump mate and I'm pumping milk, isn't that what you wanted? Well, it's happening. So, you know, I didn't feel able to say that. So anyway, that's what I said. But on the social media stuff, look, I know this is not a very popular view and it probably reflects very poorly on me, but I could not give a shit what people think about me on the internet, right?  And I'm like, thank you for identifying yourself, you're blocked. And then I just never think about it again. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, Samantha. Thanks very much for a fantastic presentation. Thank you. I suspect that you and I had children at the childcare center at Parliament House at the same time. I hope my child did never bite yours. I do not have any memories of that. Give them hand and foot disease or something. I would like you to look into your crystal ball, gay crystal ball, please, and think about whether what's happened in the last year is likely to have any impact on this year's federal election. So do you think that as a consequence of a massive march, two massive marches, all of the media coverage of Brittany Higgins' Grace Time, all of the allegations, all of the 28 recommendations of Kate Jenkins, that's going to have an impact in terms of how Parliament will change and whether voters will think about that when they go to cast their ballot? Well, in terms of whether it's changed Parliament like it already has, right? Like, so there's been legal changes and there's now independent complaints mechanisms. So there's no doubt it's changed that. And that's important. But I mean, it's also one workplace and it's a workplace largely populated by highly educated, fairly affluent, well-off men and women. I'm not saying all of them are, but to a large extent they are. I think the interesting thing with the election campaign is this. There's obviously like a fairly large, rusted-on of people that are kind of Scott Morrison haters, right? They're never going to change their vote. They clutched onto that because they think it's evidence that he is malfeasant in some way. And that's not going to affect the election campaign. I think the more interesting thing that could affect the election campaign is this kind of golden thread that runs through the criticism of Scott Morrison, whether it's in relation to Hawaii and the bushfires or the matter of Brittany Higgins or the vaccine rollout. And that pertains to competency, right? So in the case of the bushfires, there was this idea of like the boss pissing off in a crisis, right?  Like what is your deal? And then he says things like, I don't hold a hose, sort of suggesting that, you know, he can't make much of a difference. And so in that instance, I think some people would go, what are you doing that job for, right? Like, why aren't you out here? No one's asking you to hold a hose. People are asking you to run an emergency management response to this matter. Now, in the case of Brittany Higgins, again, I stress, you know, these allegations are before the courts and it will be decided in that forum. But I think there was a lot of questions and concerns about how that matter was handled, right? After the allegation was made.  So once again, it goes to a question of competency. And I think there was a bit of annoyance with some of his kind of, you know, daggy dad responses to various things that people thought were a bit tone deaf. And then obviously the example of the vaccine roll out once again that people thought that that lacked competency. So that's where I think that it will have an impact. I mean, like we did a story today on polling in the seats of independence where there was a much higher proportion of women that were backing female independence and that there were a much higher proportion of women who thought the government wasn't very good on these issues. But once again, you know, I think there's four or five high profile independence running a bit surprised if more than, you know, one to three got up, maybe only one. So we'll see. Hey, great lecturer, it's fantastic. Oh, hello, I know you from Twitter. Twitter, a great place to network. I have two questions. One, you're talking about different prime ministers and how they, I guess, treated the press conference. I'm wondering, did you notice any difference in the toxicity of parliament house depending on the prime minister or in the press gallery depending on the prime minister? And my second question is, I mean, I've been researching sexism in politics for nearly a decade now. So my whole adult life. And I was quite shocked at what happened last year. Were you shocked? Were people in the press gallery shocked? Oh, you mean when the parliament minister got up and sort of made this allegation that I'd been chasing people around in toilets without saying my name? I was like, what? Is that what you're talking about? No, in terms of 2021, the so-called reckoning and quote marks. So I've got PTSD. I thought you were talking about something else.  Like both in the press gallery, but also just in parliament house? Well, I think it's a bit darker than that. I think we thought it was normal. Oh, God. So, yeah, like, I think that there were things that weren't great, but I think we kind of accepted a lot of them. I know that's probably not the answer you're looking for. No, it's heavy. But yeah, like, I mean, I had observed, you know, like, you gotta remember that there was a group of labor women that came out and they had a Facebook group and talked about the treatment of women in labor ranks, right? And it's sort of fascinating that it's the liberal party women that have come out in broken ranks and spoken out. There's not as many labor women that have done that. And I think there's a variety of reasons for that. One is I think that the labor party, not always, but can be a bit better looking after people after they manage the amount of jobs at parliament house. The liberal party is, you know, they'll find them a job, you know, because sometimes people moved out of political offices through no real fault of their own, right? Like the MP just, this goes to the lack of industrial rights. The MP just decides that they don't want that person or there's a factional shift or they get rid of them. I'm not saying this always happens, but the labor party is a lot smarter at saying, well, we'll find you a job in a union or we'll look after you. And so you're still kind of in the system, if that makes sense. And there's obviously good things and bad things about that because it can be silencing as well. But I think that the liberal party tended to just throw these women on the scrap heap a bit more. And so they basically decided they didn't have anything to lose and they would just kind of speak out. But like I had observed myself, and I do write a little bit about this in my book, that, you know, I thought there was a real period during the Rudd-Gillard years, which were obviously incredibly stressful and like hung parliament and all the rest of it and multiple leadership challenges and just emotional disturbance and people, just a lot of drama, right? That I think they're, I'm not saying across the board everywhere, but there was I think a culture of a lot of casual sex, right? Where sometimes that's fine, right? Like it's consensual, there's no problem with it. But I felt, and the women did write about this in the Facebook groups, I felt there was an era, there was a certain period in time where I felt like some women were really kind of being treated like sexual meat in the labor party, right? Like that, there was just a really gross culture and I suppose, you know, like some people are allowed to, you know, if they're working in those environments, right? Like where else are they gonna meet someone to some extent? But I think that if you get to a point where there's just lots of kind of sexual interaction between these people that are working in this hot house environment and then sometimes those, sometimes men and maybe sometimes women too, but sometimes men are being quite sort of dismissive of these women afterwards and sort of, you hear stories about men having sex with women who were labor staffers and then just like not even looking at them when they walked past in the hallway, right? And, you know, that's relatively, that's like 10 years ago. So, yeah, I think there's some stuff that went on that was a little unhealthy. I mean, I don't wanna sound like a prude or anything, right? Like, but I just kind of, I don't think it was always a very good environment for those women. Thanks. One last question. Good evening, Samantha. My connection to you is... This is terrifying. No, it's not, honestly. This afternoon, I picked my, I took my grandson to a music lesson and I said, oh, I've gotta get home, I've gotta go to the ANU to listen to Samantha Maiden and he said, oh, her son's in my science class, I think it is, at high school. So that's a bit of an obscure connection, isn't it? But what I wanna say is, and ask about is I attended that, I've been to a lot of, in my lifetime, I've attended a lot of protests and I went to that March one and I was getting ready to go and a friend who I go to the football with and have never really talked much about politics with, she said, are you going to the protest? I'll meet you down at the bus stop near the ANU and we'll go in and we got on the bus and then there was this really frail lady on the bus and she tentatively asked, were we going to the protest? And I said yes and she didn't know where to get off. I said, look, I'll take you there, I know where to get off and how to walk up. And we got there fairly early and my question is, and I haven't heard any comments about the number of older ethnic women who were at that protest. Did anyone observe that? Yeah, I went to that protest to cover it obviously as a journalist and look, I didn't necessarily notice large numbers of older ethnic women but what I did notice was incredible generational spread. So there were children there, there were teenagers, there were women in their 20s, their 30s, their 40s and there was a huge contingent of more senior women. And yeah, I wish that I fully understood why that story exploded in the way that it did. But I still don't really understand, right? Because the awful thing about it is what Brittany Higgins actually spoke about in her speech at that rally where she talked about the banality of it, right? That she talked about the fact that this actually happens all the time. That's the truth of it. Now, I think that has some connection clearly with the fact that so many women came out, right? But it was just a very powerful experience and it felt like there was something quite sort of electric and it felt like you were in the middle of some sort of natural weather pattern, right? Like it really did feel quite incredible and I still don't really have the answer for why that story in that moment at that time, obviously it had something to do with the fact of the building and what should occurred. But I think that it did have a huge impact that sort of transcended politics. I think most of the time, people don't really pay attention to politics, but for whatever reason, women got really angry and women you wouldn't expect got on that bus with you or got on that tram and went to the rally. Well, from my own experience, I would suggest that I could name how many, I wouldn't name, that there'd be so many people in my life who I could never have told on and it seemed like that Brittany Higgins was that mouthpiece for our generation where you just couldn't say, the ramifications for saying anything were just too great. Yeah. You just sucked it up. Yeah. That's how I feel about it. Yeah, that's really interesting and I think that it was the bravery of her in doing that that was just, it's not inspiring, it was like a release, right? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Great, it was an amazing opportunity to start to talk about things in a much more collective way. Which I think was really good, but again, as I said earlier, I think that it's also a huge burden to put on the shoulders of a couple of women, yeah. Yeah. Thank you so much, Samantha. Thank you. Please go and if you'd like to. No, I'm sorry about that too. No, no, do stay up here because we want to thank you. We want to thank you. I don't know about that. Don't disappear, don't disappear. I've been jabbering on for long enough. No, I want to thank first of all, hang on. Thank you so much for that very powerful aeration and all the wonderful stories that you told and just a sense of your incredible journey. I mean, I think you present it, you're obviously an incredibly strong person, but some of the things you've done have been very brave and very challenging, I think. And that's an amazing kind of persistence that I think we really need to recognize and honor in women who really push the boundaries of the worlds that we inhabit and really change cultures in that way. I also want to thank our Vice Chancellor and Susan Ryan's family for their vision in inaugurating this annual aeration and everyone who's been involved in organizing it. Thank you. It's been a wonderful discussion and evening and thank you, Michelle, for opening our proceedings tonight. I just want to conclude with some of my own reflections on what we've just heard and just the extraordinary debt that we owe to Susan Ryan and the fight that she had to get the Sex Discrimination Act through federal parliament in the early 1980s, which really was the beginning of a kind of cultural war that we've kept returning to this evening because it sort of end a world in which things were normalized, as you put it. You know, routine sexual harassment was deemed to be the price that women had to pay in order to simply enjoy the privilege of being at work, which was deemed to be a male domain and the strength of those kinds of norms and the kind of violence that attached to policing them is really, you know, in many ways, what we're still living through, what we're still fighting. Even at the same time, as it's very hard for this generation to even understand a world when a woman could be legally sacked for being pregnant or being married or just for being a woman. I mean, that seems eons away and yet this kind of culture war that we're within still continues. And I just want to recall Susan Ryan's leadership and her fighting spirit working beside many leading lights of her generation. We thank her for that first round, as it were, of the fight. And I want to thank you, Samantha, for your role, along with others of your generation and this up-and-coming generation who are so willing to have the courage to speak out and report and open these battle lines up again and recognize that the fight isn't over. This is often, you know, a very tough battle and one of the things that Susan Ryan said was that my skin never grew thick enough. But nonetheless, she persisted. She continued with the fight. And I think persistence, as you have mentioned and has been mentioned by Rory as well this evening, is a feminist lesson. There are practices that we only learn through persisting in the company, hopefully of some allies, in sharing stories, in listening to uncomfortable truths, in holding the powerful accountable. And all of those things, I think we thank you very much for Samantha in your work. Of course, sometimes an avalanche comes along and clears some of the path. And I think Susan Ryan, obviously, as you said, did not act alone. She was working in an alliance with all these very powerful feminists who brought huge cultural change to Australia in the 70s and 80s. And perhaps we're seeing something similar happen today with that, you know, as you said, a kind of the climate of the Women's March for Justice, which is such a powerful expression of women's anger at what has been happening. And indeed, just here on ANU, forms of abuse and violence that were seen as normal, that were passed over and ignored just a few years ago are now being reported, are being spoken about, are being acknowledged and people are held accountable for what they've done. So although all of these incidents are very disturbing and I mark what you say about the trauma there and so important to remember and recognize that, we also should acknowledge the institutional change that comes with a willingness to listen and to hear these stories. And we are hopeful that the kind of cultural change that we have seen come about will keep moving things along, will keep us moving in the right directions. So on behalf of us all, I would like to thank Samantha very warmly for her inspiring words this evening and the challenge to take further action that I think she has put to all of us. Please join with me in showing our appreciation.


Hey guys, it's Nathan, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It is Monday, so that means market outlook time, FIFA 21, Serie A team in the season style. Of course we got Serie A team in the season going on this week inside of FIFA 21. We got the upgrade packs, but it was a pretty quiet Sunday yesterday and I want to talk about why that maybe was and if that's going to continue throughout the week this week. So hopefully we see some more good content this week. SBC wise, big names, SBCs, we hope to see them. But of course today we have the brand new AirDivisi and CSL Tots squad or maybe squads being released and I'll talk about that as well as talk about the SBC fodder market because since we didn't have a lot of content yesterday some of that stuff dropped off and so did these Serie A Tots cards with squad battery rewards and with the weekend league extension is that going to impact the market a little bit this week like today on Monday and into the week a little bit I will talk about that as well. But first thing is first you guys remember the SBC that came out yesterday it was that mobile card 94 rated and with the upgrade packs, right? The upgrade packs again are going to be the storyline this week so far because of course you have a chance to pack Ronaldo, right? Everybody's going to do their best to try to pack that Ronaldo this week. Now right now the upgrade packs this week are very interesting. I don't know why EA did this but for the lower tier upgrade it is a player pick which we did call this 80 plus Serie A player only player pick but it requires nine rares which is very interesting because the Serie or sorry the La Liga pack I think only required like four rares into this SBC so the fact that this is requiring nine rares is crazy so right now if you want to pack blues I mean I'm only doing the Serie A upgrade because that is purely for packing blues it's harder to craft this week unless you're doing like bronze pack method the bronze upgrade silver upgrade you know stuff like that because you're not going to be getting as much as many players to craft with out of these premium upgrades but honestly if you're just looking for blues this week the Serie A player pick pack is the way to go I did 10 of them today on my account and I packed Berardi and Quadrado so you know what 10 players I spent maybe like 220,000 coins and I packed Quadrado who's about 200k so semi decent value got a couple other decent rated fodder cards in the club to maybe craft an SBC that comes out later this week so just kind of wanted to put that out there it's it's not the most efficient crafting this week unless you're literally just trying to get blues and that would be the Serie A upgrade is really good for that and these are pretty cracked right so people are going to be sending their coins into them and of course since Ronaldo is in this team Lukaku people want to pack Kessy, Theo Hernandez, Insignia all pretty good cards you know rares right now I believe like 1.3, 1.4, maybe even 1.5k because people are interested in doing this and that's going to hopefully bring a little bit of hype to the game this week but we really need the SBC content again with players and stuff to fill out this week and make it be pretty sick because we had only a mobile and these upgrade packs yesterday literally there was not other content there was no icon moments players there were no 85 plus Serie A packs released and if that is not going to be coming out this week that's going to make this week feel like it's long it's going to drag and it's not going to be as hype so hopefully we do get some of that content later on this week I mean today on Monday I think there's potential for an icon upgrade pack we had the 92 plus prime icon SBC pack code added last week I think that is a pack that could be coming out today on Monday and maybe they're going to delay the icons and put those out today too who knows I'm curious to see what comes out today on Monday for content since they didn't do that much yesterday on Sunday so I'm very curious to see what happens there but again with the weekend league being extended 24 hours on both consoles right now so as I'm recording this we had about one day left to play the rest of your week in the games myself usually stopping at 11 wins I might even go for 14 this week got the extra time right so I think that might be a lot of people I think that might also you know hinder some of the weekend league sell-off as you see a lot of these cards dropping in price that might hinder their price drops a little bit and maybe not make them fall all the way so fast like usually Sunday nights you see a big dip in a lot of these cards now a lot of stuff is down like this push guys is 740,000 coins he is down this best like 400k that is down so I'm definitely watching some of these cards this Viera was like under 1.6 mil earlier today he's back to like 1.7 but I'm definitely watching some of these cards and especially the Syria team the season card since we had squad battle rewards tonight these cards have definitely dropped down in price specifically some of your really rare ones like a mertens right mertens is 1.03 right now on them on the market he was 1.2 million coins still a very very rare card so I'm kind of interested in some of these cards that are the high tier ones that have dropped off so much same thing with tail Hernandez if there really is not that much content until we have the guaranteed sbcs and especially if people are still playing weakling today on Monday you might see these guys you know bounce back up a little bit right a little bit like insignia was down at 300,000 coins flat and he's back up to like 315 I believe I wouldn't expect huge rises though I really wouldn't expect a huge rise in a lot of these since a lot of that weakling demand has passed and is over and gone with but if you're trying to trade with this week these Tots Tots cards are going to fluctuate right they're going to move around on the market and so are icons right icons are a place right now where I think that you might be able to get involved with just some daily fluctuation trading I think that's kind of like the best bang for your buck trading method and trading place at the moment are the icons because they're still fluctuating people are still using them to link all of their different Tots cards together from all the different leagues that they have had that we have had over the past couple of weeks now also since the content this week is not that hype or yet is not that hype I think that's going to make people turn towards some of the league one special cards at all you think about our maybe some of these other league one cards that are very popular in the game gold and bop a gold name are who are expected to get team of the season items people are going to start to buy those up as investments because they want things to do on FIFA and when there's nothing to do people that like to invest are going to try to make some coins and invest right and you're going to see more of an incentive to do that even though there's player picks that are out people are going to be really more hyped for the next two weeks with the loud sorry league one and ultimate team in the season so I think that's why you're seeing this movement right here on the market now of course since we didn't have insane content on Sunday this is the index 84 dropped off heavily 84s were like down at like 6.7 6.8 K at the start of squad battle rewards and they have shot up since then I don't know if this is like a leak somebody investing or anything like that but I do think that this is part of that market rise where people are saying hey I don't have too much to do right now in FIFA we're probably going to get more SBCs during this week we've seen fodder move a lot in the past couple of weeks and it's been lowest on the weekend then rising throughout the week so it makes sense I guess to invest in this stuff tonight but it looks like a lot of people are getting involved in this so I'd be very careful same thing with 86s you see it drop off basically since squad battle rewards time frame so I mean if you did a club stock I don't think you're worried right if you club stock some of these 86 rated cards at like 20k the 85s and like the 12k range and the 84s at 7k 7.5k I don't think you're worried right I think you're just waiting for more SBCs to come out this week and hopefully even today again we do have a loading screen right now for the air divisi and CSL Chinese super league team of the season coming out today so these are some of the most two of the most hyped up secondary league team of the season squads to be released on this game and they're going to be released today now hopefully hopefully EA sports releases two separate teams now I'm not going to sit here today and tell you that it's guaranteed they do release that I think it's very possible that the way they're doing things this year they might actually combine which is definitely not what we want but they might end up combining for a one squad of 11 players between the CSL and the air divisi which I do think would be definitely not as hype as before so I think we're hoping that if EA would put out two sides of two sides of 11 we'd have 11 11 and 15 so 37 players in packs is what everybody's hoping for that'd be really cool but we'll see what EA has planned today now also with that coming out today on Monday I would expect 100% for there to be some sort of SPC for a player from one of those two leagues last week with the League of Knows we had the PK SPC so that is something that we're kind of keeping on and watching now how much is this Tagli Fico because I know a lot of people are eyeing up this left back Tagli Fico hardies right around 100,000 coins people are eyeing this card up because of course the IAX links of people thinking that a couple IAX Tots cards could be coming out air divisi links for a card like this I think that Tagli Fico and that Paulinho both those cards I looked up could potentially be invested in a little bit already they're both rising in price but it's all going to depend on how hyped the cards are from those two secondary leagues that do come out today now again talking about later on what's going to happen throughout the week this week on Tuesday we should we should see the guaranteed now I don't know if they're going to do a combined guaranteed if they do a combined CSL or air divisi player or if they do two separate SPCs I think that if they make it one squad combining the two leagues it would be a guaranteed of either or because I'm pretty sure the PAC codes says and let me check this right now this might actually answer my question to myself right now I believe the PAC code actually says guaranteed CSL or yes guaranteed air divisi or CSL Tots player so that would be the SPC we'd see on Tuesday and then on Wednesday most likely we would see the guaranteed Serie A PAC now I don't know if they're going to do a guaranteed Serie A PAC on Tuesday and Wednesday drop a double guaranteed like they did last week I still feel like that was some sort of a mistake by EA I don't know but I don't know if we're going to see that again this week I don't think I would count on that I guess it's a possibility if you're somebody who's investing in fodder then yes you won it but that is going to be coming most likely on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week alongside the upgrade PACs maybe that 92 plus prime icon and then any other player SPCs that we still could get later on this week so it just feels like another week of teaming season to be completely honest with you of course Ronaldo is in PACs but I feel like this squad has just less hype all around I know we've been talking about a deep that a decent amount on the weekend and I'm not trying to talk about it even more but it just it's just that's that's just how it is that's just how it is with the Serie A and we're starting to feel it's starting to feel a little bit repetitive right we're getting in that repetitive motion where every single week on Tuesday and Wednesday we know it's coming out we know it's coming out on Sundays and EA is mixing it up a little bit this week by not dropping as much content but still is starting to feel a little repetitive so hopefully with the CSL and the air to visit coming out today that maybe breaks up the the feeling of repetitiveness wow look at how much supply of merchants has under 1.05 that's actually pretty crazy so Syria actually supplied the market a decent amount with these cards now one tip I'll give you guys if you're trying to trade with any of these cards the rarity is huge rarity is huge for anything on the market right now because that's what's going to make cards fluctuate I mean just one card that I saw that was really rare today was the Sanay foot birthday version of his car now I know it's Bundesliga was last week not a lot of hype for this guy he was 400k whereas he right now oh my goodness Sanay is back to 440,000 coins 438 433 so boom you probably could have caught a snipe from this guy under 400 and now selling him at like 440 to 450 boom W right there so rare cards on this game are going to be the best things to trade with this week and probably fodder if the SBC content continues to go people are going to be hitting the player pickpacks and you're going to see this stuff go up now let me check some of my gold rares to actually see are these down at all after squad matter rewards no way man 1.5k for gold rares people are hammering these player picks my my recommendation would be I would not do too many of these right now because they're going to be more expensive right now then they will be later on the week for sure a hundred percent so cool it with the player picks if you want to take a couple days off if you really want to I guess if you just kind of come on for the guaranteed pack and check out the SBC's every day I totally understand that and I totally understand where you might be coming from with that but if you guys are looking to trade on the market open bids out of packs cards think about like the fred SBC as well some of your Manchester United links like Shaw, Wanbisaka a couple of those man you players that there's going to be some hype around that as well this week as that game is being played and those SBC's are still out for I think a day or so how much is Wanbisaka right now he is 414 so if I saw this guy like 400k flat I would start to get interested I might even like Luke Shaw a little bit better because he seems to be a little bit more not necessarily rare but Luke Shaw like 170 I think or something like that 170,000 coins 180 let's see where he's at right now he is 178k so just kind of chilling around there but maybe going up a little bit later on this week the thing is with Syria is that it's hard to link because a lot of the nationalities are varying all over the place it's not like you have a ton of French nationalities it's not like you have a ton of you know I don't know like Italian there's only two Italians in the entire Totsquat right three Berardi, Don Ruma and Insigni that's it right there's really not a whole there's not a lot of uniform it's not easy to get green links especially with this nine goal in you know you have Mertens you have Lukaku and that's kind of it so unless they drop some big-time player SBC's that are very very linkable maybe a Dibala or UVay players but you know UVay just barely uh scooched into the Champions League spot yesterday after a crazy Super Sunday of football so I don't know it's going to be interesting to see what they come out with content-wise this week and where they try to draw the hype I will say this though every SBC we've had this week in Mobile nine goal in and lasano they've all been good value 115k for a mobile and then lasano and nine goal in are both cheaper in SBC form than they would be on the market so in my opinion that's kind of a W but I think the biggest question that we're left with after yesterday on Sunday and heading into this week is why is EA seemingly taking a step back right because we didn't have icon moments SBC's we didn't have an icon upgrade pack we didn't even have like an 85 plus player pick or an 83 plus times five for the Serie A so EA why are you taking a step back with Serie A what's the deal and I hopefully hopefully they kind of turn it around this week but I really wonder if they're kind of letting the game breathe a little bit just a little bit and pulling it back for this week before hitting it hard next week again for League one and Ultimate Team this season which would be fine with us I guess but some people of course Serie A fans would not be a huge fan of that part happening in the game they want of course to have the hype stuff going on for their favorite league but that's kind of all that I'm thinking about right now and that's kind of where my thought process is for this game this week now I want to say one thing these Serie A Tots cards if we look historically back to last year I'm not going to show you the prices but I've been doing a lot of research earlier this week these cards do not maintain their value they seem very cheap already but if you looked at a lot of the graphs last year Lautaro Martinez actually I'll pull this one up because we're going to look at it right now because this is a crazy drop-off Lautaro Martinez's 96 rated FIFA 20 Tots SF card 1.7 mil right it's dropping all week comes out rewards he's 1.3 mil so he drops 400k and then a huge drop-off with the start of league one team of the season the week after that just because there's so much hyper league one probably going to be some big-time players because he's coming out next week for that I see a lot of the same thing happening with the Serie A Tots cards a couple of them might rebound a little bit like Lukaku maybe Mertens some of the more rare ones maybe Theo Hernandez being an end game left back with the French links maybe even Quadrado being a very usable the best Serie A right back in the game unless we get an SBC this week for a better card you know these cards are probably not going to rebound that much and they're only going to drop lower even a guy like Ronaldo right we have this guy's going to be back in ultimate Tots in two weeks he people are going to know that right and then what you're going to have next week two with league one is people starting to sell some Tots cards from older teams so Bundesliga Premier League La Liga they're going to start to sell some of the cards that they think could be an ultimate Tots maybe a D young maybe a Veran maybe a Messi they're going to start to sell those off and you're see you're going to see those prices drop off maybe next week heading into ultimate Tots as people are fearing those prices dropping so if you have any of these Tots cards from older teams tradable in your squad I would honestly if they're going to get into ultimate I'd be careful with them and maybe even look to get them out on this weekend if they do rise up a little bit at all because a lot of these guys are going to enter back into packs and of course more supply means more dropping prices on this market so that's kind of what's going on this weekend FIFA man honestly it's just another week of team in the season and I'm curious to see if EA picks it up at all after a slower day on Sunday hopefully the air divisi and the CSL high squads are hyped today because that could bring some extra boost to the game as well the only problem is we don't have a really a good way to pack them last week a lot of us packed the league in Norse players because we had the 81 plus player pick you do have the 81 plus upgrade pack that is out 81 plus double but you know what the packs aren't it this year it's it's all about the picks right the picks are what are OP so I don't know if you guys are doing any of these but I'm sure they're just kind of okay and as per normal not as hyped as the player picks like these cereal upgrades are going to be but that's kind of the market I look for this week my dudes if you did enjoy it smash them thumbs up on it comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new it's been Nathan for to count I will catch you guys later peace out