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Nurses and midwives in New South Wales will stage a 24-hour strike from 7.30am this morning amid anger over the state government’s decision to grant NSW police a 40% pay deal. Members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association are calling on the Minns government to address the wage disparity that has left the state’s nurses and midwives the lowest paid in the country. The NSW health minister, Ryan Park, said he was “disappointed” about the strike. More coming up.

Our Watch’s concern is with the representation of certain people, particularly women, rather than porn itself.

It’s the frequent viewing of violent porn, that is sexist and derogatory, [and] associated with a greater likelihood of men and boys holding attitudes that can lead to violence against women.

The line between IRL [in real life] and online is very blurry, so we can’t just say certain types of porn are bad… we’ve actually got to take proactive actions across the rest of a young person’s life so they can critique it.

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