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Devastated #Manus
Now after the fifth anniversary of exile the refugees incarcerated on the island sink further into mental despair and physical surrender. Here is my latest piece.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news…
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Laura Tingle is the only person on the planet that can really agitate and confound Scott Morrison with simple direct questions in the public interest. On behalf of us all: thank you Laura @latingle 🙏🏽❤️
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Joel Cauchi is the face of Australia’s unchecked rampant male violence against women that is at catastrophic levels and NOTHING is being done to stop these men, to protect women and children and to re-educate men and the community. This is peak patriarchy. Horrific, heartbreaking
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Elders shouldn’t have to sell their family home to get a place in an aged care facility. These $500,000 so-called bonds are theft. Regulate this, stop this. Stop neoliberalism. Aged care should be free @AlboMP @markdreyfusQCMP @JEChalmers @Mark_Butler_MP @AnikaWells @gedkearney
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My neighbours cat who is desperately lonely when they go away for weeks on end. It’s been heavily raining and she came to the front door today, rather than the back. She’s hugging the carpet and purring.
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Is anyone going to say it? Sydney to Hobart yacht race epitomizes white male privilege. Why don’t you yachtsman do something with real courage and USEFULNESS: why don’t you race to Manus & Nauru and pick up the innocent people suffering from Australian torture for 6 years?
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Steven Miles. What did I miss?
Did Steven Miles eat a baby live on stage or something?
The hope of a progressive future shat on by cowboys, bigots and morons in Queensland.
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FUCK! Just received an eviction notice. This place is the only place I’ve had a lease in 6 years of homelessness - and now they’re evicting me.
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I assisted Julian Burnside with the letter writing program to asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru in 2014-2015. On the eve of Christmas break - ALL the Nauru letters sent over a whole year were returned to chambers unopened. I received them.I was in tears. theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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I’m finding this quite extraordinary. Fiona Brown was ‘director of operations’ for PM Scott Morrison. She was sent from the PMO to Minister Linda Reynolds office, Australian Dept of Defence. Now having panic attacks about attending the Federal Court
#BruceLehrmann #Lehrmann
So Miss Higgins, an alleged rape victim, had to endure the full public gaze as every aspect of her ordeal was dissected in Court. However a public servant who apparently did everything to support BH should be protected in a private conference room? #BruceLehrmann
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So I’ve got a casual job now. Centrelink reduce my payments so I’m still in grinding poverty. I’m not better off - I am actually worse off because I have to buy work clothes, pay transport/petrol costs, 2 hour commute. On 3 shifts a week, total 10 hours = 6 hours travel. Tired.
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Where are the other fucking independents? Where are the teals? Unforgivable! @zalisteggall @KyleaTink @Mon4Kooyong @SophieScamps @spenderallegra @helenhainesindi @dai_le
#BREAKING 🚨 The House of Representatives has voted 5-80 against a motion from the Greens to recognise a Palestinian state
Only independent Andrew Wilkie voted with the Greens, with Labor and the Coalition voting against recognition
#6NewsAU | 6newsau.com
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These people are secular racist, white supremacist, fascist Zionists. They do not represent Jews. If they were honest, they’d call themselves AZA: Australian Zionist Association.
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One of the loneliest and saddest days in the year is Mother’s Day, for me.
Shout out to women who wanted children but didn’t have children - for whatever reason ♥️
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Brittany and her dad.
“Why didn’t you tell him?” These court room men are monsters. They’ve NO IDEA! 😭 🤬 #BruceLehrmann
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I think Llewellyn is stressed but holds it together. He’s highly intelligent, a skilled journalist and is a fighter. This is male to male combat in words and contextual framing. It’s very interesting to watch.
Authentic witness. Doing his best for BH
#BruceLehrmann #Lehrmann
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Kangaroo family grief on their last moments together. 😢💔He is trying to help her. Photographer captures moment male kangaroo cradles his dying female companion with their young joey by their sides theguardian.com/world/2016/j…
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Tell me. What has to happen before Australians have a revolution against the fascistic Australian government? What would it take? #AFPraid #ABC #Gulags #ArbitraryDetention #Poverty #WaterSecurity #Neoliberalism #Ecocide #ClimateEmergency #Surveillance #Fascism #PoliceState
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Voting is personal. If you voted Labor 1, then you voted against me and my needs to be safe and live with dignity - as Labor policies impact me directly in a negative way, as they impact millions of other vulnerable Australians. So fuck you. Taking no prisoners today.
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Tim Gurner avoiding “pain in the economy” while also saying “we need pain in the economy … workers are arrogant” and complaining about boomers not downsizing while he himself is like a one man plague of greed and narcissim
Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude." afr.com/politics/federal/alb…
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I’d like a permanent home. Why is that impossible in Australia? Why is it that a woman not having a home is not a concern of urgency for any government in Australia?
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I wonder whether Western Sydney University @westernsydneyu will keep Pru Goward on as “Professor of Social Interventions and Policy” after this. Or do they agree with her? 🤔
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Witness: Brittany’s mother
“I wanted to know why anyone hadn’t helped her”
#BruceLehrmann #Lehrmann
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I’ve witnessed this house has sitting empty for 3 years. Who knows how long. In a homelessness and housing crisis. This house needs to be requisitioned by government.#Homelessness #HousingAffordability #Poverty #Australia #ALP #AustralianLandlordsParty
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“I had his correct email address. I didn’t need to send out smoke signals and paper aeroplanes”
LMAO
Witness: Angus Llewellyn, Producer, The Project
Cross-examiner: Mr Richardson
#Lehrmann #BruceLehrmann
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Oh come on Sarah Ferguson, what this rubbish! How ridiculous and disrespectful. We want to hear about policies and leadership from Marin Sanna - she’s extraordinary.
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Christopher Payne, Defence dept liaison officer.
With BH in DLO room. She had tears in her eyes.
“Did he rape you?”
“I couldn’t have consented. It would have been like fucking a log”
“A twenty year old woman saying those words is very confronting.”
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So wealthy people put solar panels in their homes and their electricity bills are near zero while poor people who rent pay exorbitant rates to keep corporations viable and profitable?! The more wealthy put solar, the more the poor pay for electricity?! Seems to me what’s going on
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That’s a Golda Meir quote that’s deeply rooted in Israeli brain infected minds of being the victims and the only victim in history. What the great @gideonle says about this
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🥰 🌷🌈🕊🍃 Love to you Kiera. And here is a message from @iamtabithabrown on TikTok for you
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“I’m a dad, I should be strong”
“I love my daughter”
Mathew Higgins, Brittany’s father.
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If you could choose any person who is not a politician as prime minister of Australia: who would it be?
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The fantastic Greens candidate for Gellibrand, Ponraj Krishna Pandi, dropped around yesterday and placed a corflute on my front fence. Overnight someone cut it down and stole it. I'm so angry. So today, we’ve replaced it with a bigger sign. #VoteGreens1
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What female isn’t? Honestly. No surprise. Just assume every female and you’d get the picture
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“Every innocent life matters”Haven’t seen you commenting for all the over 40,000 Palestinians murdered in cold blood by the brutal occupying apartheid ISRAEL and Zionist terrorists. You refuse to recognise Palestine and yet here is the problem stated clearly by Mustafa Barghouti
It is devastating to learn that six Israeli hostages have been killed by Hamas. Australians offer our deepest sympathies to their loved ones and all those who grieve their loss. Every innocent life matters.
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That’s incredible footage of Lisa Wilkinsons interview with Brittany Higgins. Authentic, highly moving, disturbing and alarming. I recognise and acknowledge Brittany Higgins’s highly genuine presentation. The footage is a remarkable veracious document #BruceLehrmann #Lehrmann
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Prof Marcia Langton AO “You know when you’re being told the truth, because the truth burns”
“Truth is very much an Aboriginal value, and a Torres Strait Islander value”
“That’s why the Uluṟu Statement from the Heart calls for a Voice, Makarrata and Truth Telling”
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Every woman understands Brittany and what she says and how she responded. These court men are disgusting. It’s like being female is under interrogation by the patriarchy #BruceLehrmann
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Pure evil. What the fuck are you doing @SenatorWong @AlboMP ? Complicity in the most evil of crimes and still in relationship with criminal Israel.
American gunman says: ‘here they come’ in a sadistic tone as 100s of starving ppl run for aid: Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is a firing squad
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Witness: Jesse Wotton
“Over reaction” women are always accused of that, by men.
No recollection of phone grab
Men denying the intention, meaning and impact of their behaviour and languaging on women
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Here is a real photo, not a photoshop 🥴
What's going on with Adam Bandt??
Why does he so often side with the Thug?
Surely Greens voters are turned off by this strategy.
#LNPNeverAgain
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The amount of money from Centrelink would be livable if it was every week - not every fortnight. Nothing like looking at the calendar hoping payment is this week while already knowing there’s no more money coming in for another 9 days. Sigh
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“She didn’t want to talk about it and she was very withdrawn”
“I couldn’t recognise my daughter.
“She was absolutely quiet and withdrawn… very sad, very withdrawn”
Witness: Mathew Higgins, Brittany’s father
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Why is everyone having a permanent home, plenty of nutritious food on their table and a livable income not a priority of any government in Australia?
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Owner wants property back - apparently owner is not sure what they want to do with it. Agent acknowledged my good tenancy, care of property and prompt rent payments (actually always 7-14 days early payment of rent!). The privileged luxury of not knowing what to do with a spare🏡
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“Are you accusing me of lying under oath?”
Major Irvine questions Whybrow.
On the heels of Whybrow’s question “is that also women’s intuition”?
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Bruce Lehrmann left a TOP SECRET document on the desk.
Christopher Payne informed Fiona Brown. He competed a security incident report. There were people not appropriately cleared within that suite.
#BruceLehrmann #Lehrmann
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Senator Linda Reynolds “she actively avoided me…she wouldn’t talk to me”. BH was suicidal when she went to WA. Didn’t know anyone there and all the staff were Bruce Lehrmann’s friends. FMD just horrific! #BruceLehrmann
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Wonderful essay on purposefully kind governance written by @HelenClarkNZ on @jacindaardern “Whereas the world’s right-wing populists stigmatize and stereotype marginalized people, Ardern has established kindness as a key principle for government policy”
. foreignpolicy.com/gt-essay/t…
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Fucking neighbours. Just had a toxic woman come to my door and ask me why I park where I do. According to her, all the spots near her house (owner) is for her and her family (4 or 5 cars). So fucking rude. Never in my life in Melbs. Entitlement of home owners is now 💯 insane.
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The beauty, the spirit, the passion, the courage, the strength, the resilience, the determination, the together-ness, the love... of Iraqi women and men... is simply breathtaking ❤️🇮🇶✌🏽Homeland is yours. You are the homeland #Iraq #IraqProtests #IraqiRevolution #Homeland
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“Why didn’t anyone call her an ambulance?”
Witness: Brittany’s mother
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Sanction Israel now @AlboMP !! Stop talking and act. Stop appeasing Israel. End Israel’s impunity. Dismantle and demilitarise Israel. Stop your complicity with the most evil regime.
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When the day comes that Israel’s monstrous genocidal crimes against the indigenous peoples of Palestine - the Palestinian people, are brought before @IntlCrimCourt - you and your cabinet ministry will be on the list for complicity in war crimes, torture, mass murder
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Just lost 5 min of my life reading this crap. Bashing a global young peoples movement because what? Greta at age 16 has rallied over 4 million people worldwide in ONE YEAR. You will never achieve what she has already, never. Get with the program old man or accept irrelevance
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The Jenkins review sparked by Higgins's rape allegations, found there was a "boys club" culture of "bullying, sexual harassment and sexual assault". 1 in 3 staff working in parliamentary offices had experienced sexual harassment amp.abc.net.au/article/10081…
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Statement of Morrison’s political advisor Andrew Carswell re meetings
“It confirmed what Miss Higgins was saying was right”
“The Prime Minister addressed it in Parliament”
Witness: Angus Llewellyn, Producer, The Project
Cross-examiner: Mr Richardson
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Gideon Levy would shred Jillian Segal.
I noticed Jillian Segal and her cohorts, constantly reference something called "legitimate" or "acceptable" criticism of Israel.
Could Ms Segal or her colleagues please define exactly what "legitimate" or "acceptable" criticism of Israel is?
Supply examples. Define it for us.
If you demand to legislate it, then you should be able to very clearly define it - what is it?
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Do I pay for food
Or do I pay the rent
Do I pay for a coat
Or do I pay the rent
Do I pay for dentist
Or do I pay the rent
Do I pay for prescription lenses
Or do I pay the rent
Do I pay for car repair
Or do I pay the rent
Australia?
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‘I'm making a TV program not a police document’
I’m appreciating Llewellyn’s challenging of the cross-examiners choice of words in forming leading questions
Barristers meet their match in vocabulary
Witness: Angus Llewellyn, Producer, The Project
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I know people want to help but please don’t give homelessness advice. I went in through the void system: on “crisis” list for 4 years. I’m registered but they took me off crisis list for renting a room. There is NO SUPPORT and NO HOUSING. You are on your own! I’ve lived it.
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Finish the sentence: “If boys and men got periods every month, bled for days with pain and discomfort …..
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“I felt ganged-up-on by Bruce” NH re BH phone grab by BL and Nicky’s defence of BH resulting in BL accusing her of being a feminist (as if it was a bad thing) at the Kingston.
“Banter” Whybrow
Nicky Hamer left and resigned same night after talk with her dad
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Tell these fuckers what you think of them. There’s no email.
We understand that our decision not to pursue the referrals from the Robodebt Royal Commission will be difficult for victims, their families and friends. We encourage anyone experiencing distress to seek support - nacc.gov.au/reporting-and-in…
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You’ve got to be kidding. The Zionists and Israeli foreign nationals and dual nationals are complaining that our government aren’t doing enough as obedient Israeli proxies?
What about Palestinians? You shameless people.
Video: Gideon Levy, Israeli journalist
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Lol that’s not proof of anything. Green light independent UN investigators and the international criminal court to go in.
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I have a serious back injury and must not move house again, says doctor. I have no money to move house. I physically cannot pack and can’t afford to pay anyone to pack for me. Every time it costs around $5000 to move (without help with packing). This is a mega disaster for me
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Dr Carmen Lawrence damns @AlboMP
“This is the most polluting fossil fuel project approved in Australia in a decade - more polluting than any project approved under coal-loving Scott Morrison”
“Visionary Labor prime ministers have stood up… to protect Australia’s environment”
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“She felt grossed out because she could smell what had happened to her”
Federal Agent Katie Thelning
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You cannot separate organized religion of from patriarchy. Doctrine is about social control and power over - and has nothing to do with spirituality. People need to do the work. That is: men need to do the work. That work starts with listening and respecting women in all arenas
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And for every female - not just one instance of sexual abuse - think multiple instances from child to adult. Countless instances, grave and less grave but all impactful and cumulative harm. Where is the context & time that we do not expect abuse? Nowhere ever. Patriarchy MO
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People I thought were pals on Twitter have stopped following me because of my rightful anger with Labor. I assume that they read my personal posts and the crowdfund on my bio. Cruel poverty, years homeless, constant spectre of rooflessness, injuries. Capacity for solidarity?
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90 days before my lease ends. Legally 90 days notice is all a landlord needs to give to take possession of property - without reason. I can’t find a place in 3 months. Same situ 2016: was pushed into homelessness. No law to protect us from eviction when there’s nowhere to go
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Just immediately spot-buy homes, requisition empty land-banked houses, end negative gearing, end foreign ownership and regulate housing - IN THE FIRST INSTANCE. We don’t have a housing stock shortage. We have financialisation of housing as commodity. It’s a NATIONAL EMERGENCY
If we want to build more homes, we need to train more tradies.
We've created 300,000 fee-free TAFE places to help people study without worrying about the cost.
So whether it's painting or flooring, bricklaying or carpentry, there's fee-free courses available across Australia.
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First time I’ve seen video of BH interview on the Project.
Completely authentic.
Anyone who has ever worked in an office and in a big organisation will recognise the machinations of power and impersonal mechanistic HR risk management tactics.
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In a very short time on jobseeker, you will burn through all your life’s savings just to keep mind and body together and keep your home. After Ausgov have pauperised you, you will become homeless. They will tell you it’s your fault and continue to abuse you and leave you for dead
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The false assumptions and judgements being thrown around about BH, her mother and her father, are odious. And this type of unsafe and dangerous finger pointing is reminding me of the Lindy Chamberlain case. So just stop it. #Lehrmann #BruceLehrmann
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3 Australian cities - three - in the top 10 of the WHOLE WIDE WORLD 🌏 for catastrophic homelessness!!! Shame on @AlboMP @AustralianLabor
Dear Australia
We are in the top 3 in the world for Homelessness - Adelaide and Sydney #auspol #homeless #aukus
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This failure of audio recording of Fiona Brown’s statements is really really bad #BruceLehrmann #Lehrman
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I’ve met around 4 women around 60, who have children in their 30’s, and are experiencing homelessness who’ve all said they refuse to ask their children if they can stay with them as they don’t wish to be a burden on their children. The odiousness of @AustralianLabor
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