For the briefest moment I debated telling her. According to new age, respectful parenting advice, if you are to successfully raise a promising global citizen, you must treat your child as an independent adult. Never shield them from the truth, no matter the severity or, in this case, the obscenity. Stupid, I replied. Stupid is one of the worst words you can call someone and no one should ever call you stupid. You should never use that word. Ivy Smith, 2, of Christchurch who went viral on TikTok when her mother Sophie Smith captured her saying there was a f ing goat in their garden. Picture: TikTok/ivyandsophiesmith
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Union chants echoed down Goondoon Street as hundreds took part in Gladstone’s Labour Day parade on Monday.
Members from Australian and Central Queensland unions like the CFMEU, AMWU and United Workers Union took part. Marchers young and old took to the streets of Gladstone as part of the Labour Day celebration for 2021.
The march concluded at the Gladstone Ports Corporation’s marina parklands where a free Labour Day event took place.
Gladstone Mayor and new Australian Labor Party candidate for Flynn Matt Burnett took to the stage and addressed the hundreds in attendance about mining, manufacturing and agriculture.
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Federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese has named a mine worker as the partyâs candidate for the seat of Dawson in a highly strategic move months out from the federal election.
Former state election candidate and father-of-three Shane Hamilton will contest Dawson for Labor after he failed to unseat Mirani MP Stephen Andrew at last yearâs state election.
The party is eyeing to pick up the seat after Dawson MP George Christensen announced his shock retirement last month, with Mackay Mayor Greg Williamson quoted as saying the decision meant the seat was in play for both major parties.
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Nine years after Kasey Balchin and her dad Andrew made the front page of the Daily Mercury for taking part in Mackay’s Labour Day march, the teen was back again on Monday proudly flying the flag for the Electrical Trades Union.
But this year, the family tradition of the Labour Day march ahead without her dad.
“I mainly march for my dad. I love marching and singing out all the war cries,” Kasey said.
“Today is one of my special days. Me and my dad have been doing this march for years now.
“I remember when I was four years old, I also got my picture in the Daily Mercury back then.
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At age 24, Linda-Ann Northey experienced sexual harassment in the workplace when she was faced with making a choice no woman should ever have to make.
The Mackay Women’s Services executive opened up about the incident – which was the catalyst for her first activism campaign – during the 2021 Mackay Labour Day march.
“In a relatively small organisation, I was the sixth woman in two years threatened with the sack if I didn’t sleep with the state service manager,” the Services Union member said.
“I chose to leave my job rather than think about complying with such a threat.”