What a way to celebrate Australia Day… we have those who desecrate & disrespect our flag & those who denigrate & disrespect our Australian of the Year.
I truly can’t believe the online attacks on Katherine Bennell-Pegg who is an outstanding choice for Australian of the Year & an inspirational Aussie & woman.
Katherine is our first astronaut to ever train under our Australian flag, who beat 22500 world-wide applicants to do so, which requires skills like a bachelor of applied science majoring in physics, and engineering with honours in aerobatic space engineering.
These are also the sort of qualifications you need to join the only other 100 women worldwide who have ever qualified & flown as astronauts.
The fact she hasn’t yet been into space is on Labor. Just after Katherine stated her astronaut training in 2023 the Albanese Labor government gutted the Australian space agency established by Liberal Governments, axed the $1.2 billion National Space Mission for Earth Observation program, the Spaceports program, the Australian Technology into Orbit program and a sub-program of the Moon to Mars program.
Well done to Mary Madigan & @newscomauhq for calling the attacks on Katherine out 👏👏👏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺