Struth

Grooming happens when a person in a position of power tries to declare a reality that isn’t real but that the subservient victim has no power to correct. The reality is always about keeping the victim powerless and the groomer safe.

When people speak about something being off. Or the ick factor. Or something creepy, it is usually about this kind of thing. A reality that feels icky but it is hard to speak about.

That is why it is so important to say that Jeremy Rockcliff and liberal did not win this election. We look at his primary vote and see that he is liked. Groomers usually are well liked too. They have grown power over years and that power and status makes the people being conned doubt themselves.

Obviously I am not accusing Jeremy of anything illegal, but this is a teaching moment for Tasmanians.

Tasmania is undergoing a cultural shift around sexual predators. Starting with Grace Tame finding a way to speak about it publicly and without nicety.

But it was Katherine Morgan Wicks who may have made the cultural change possible. We already trusted her straight, unflappable disclosure of covid facts through the pandemic and then she told us about James Griffin offending over years as a nurse at the Launceston General Hospital. And she was so authentic and on behalf of the infrastructure that let tjose children down we felt her take responsibility and commit to make it right. Lets call that the anti ick factor. That moment where the child’s reality becomes THE reality. It feels so good becuse it is true.

Struth hey. Struth is such a good word. Its a shortened version of “Gods honest truth”

And slowly but surely conversations have unfolded where perpertrators take their rightful place in the poo and victims are realeased from the ick. Paul Reynolds killed himself before his victims got that but the independent inquiry commissioned when Donna Adams bravely said, “Leave no stone unturned’ has begun the path to restore dignity. If you felt like the AFL team was tangled in the political debate this might be why. Reynolds groomed and abused children as part of the power reality he created as a police officer heavily involved in football and basketball in the state. I found the report in a link from the sussex university article on Tasmania’s elite cartel, where it said that Tasmania’s elite cartel corruption remains socially demoralising and costly. https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/centre-for-the-study-of-corruption/2025/05/07/elite-cartel-corruption-in-tasmania-the-nature-of-the-game/

Costly to the Tasmanian people of course, not to the people in power.

Now at the start of last year Katherine Morgan Wicks was made Secretary to the Premier. While that sounds hopeful it apparently means she is head of the public cervice. Struth hey! ❤️

We have a woman with integrity and a real ability to be straight with ick head of the Tasmanian public service, Tasmania’s largest employer.

Cultural change is happening in Tasmania but we all need to start calling a spade a spade. We all need to call out lies and deceipt. Even the little ones.

But lets start with our new government. I already feel the ick coming from whatever the premier has written for the independents to comply with in his monopoly government and I haven’t read it yet.

No more ick Tassie!