#HEAL2022 taking place amid ongoing climate emergency events in Australia, and news that NSW floods have become most expensive natural disaster on record with $5.5b in claims & many areas now 'uninsurable' abc.net.au/news/2022-11-2…
The time has come, says @DrVMatthews in our #HEAL2022 preview, for transformational change in environmental, planetary and human health, and to “dismantle power systems that enable colonial and capitalist systems of inequality”. croakey.org/with-storm-clo…
Please note, #HEAL2022 seeking to "walk the talk" on climate action/sustainability -- and is FREE to attend, online or in real life in capitals across Australia. healnetwork.org.au/heal-conferenc…
. @AlisonSBarrett and I (@mariemcinerney) will be aiming to pop in and out of most/all regional sessions at #HEAL2022 - I'm starting at the NT session, now being opened by @MenziesResearch Director Prof. Alan Cass from Larrakia Nation land
Cass talks about forming a @HEALenviron Community of Practice in the NT, to do research that directly addresses key priorities in climate change, to be "very much part of the solution". Today will look at shared priorities and how to address....#HEAL2022
We are watching/hearing Welcome to Country at #HEAL2022 from Dr Payi Linda Ford (and her grandddaughter) from @CDUni, part of @HEALenviron
#HEAL2022 Welcome to Country from Litchfield National Park , the traditional lands of, among others, Marrathiel, Marranunggu, Werat, Warray and Koongurrukun peoples.
A TLDR thread on the press conference today held by Health Minister Mark Butler and CMO Prof Paul Kelly #COVID19#COVIDAU
COVID case numbers going up around the country, including in aged care
This surge is not any single subvariant of Omicron but a mix of subvariants, including BA4 BA5 XBB and BQ1
The Minister accepted advice from ATAGI that the Omicron vaccine from Pfizer be added to the booster (not primary) doses available for people aged 18 and over.
. @DavidCampbell73 says was on air last week, could feel anxiety levels rise. His instinct, with 20+ years on stage, is to mask it, make more jokes, keep talking during commercial breaks so crew can't tell: "keep juggling"......#RethinkAddiction
This experience in the past would have been an excuse to drink for @DavidCampbell73, who says addiction, abuse, trauma and poverty were issues in his family background. "We were chaos." #RethinkAddiction
Have you ever wavered? Heather Pickard said she chose a 'non expert response' to people in distress, to stay working in/with a community she received her own support from: she didn't want to be a client anymore, she wanted to be the CEO #RethinkAddiction
Mental health reform in Vic: Pickard says thinking around lived/living experience workforces "fills my heart with absolute joy". But it's a valuable part of the picture, not everything. We need to ensure reform is balanced, sustainable, compassionate, real #RethinkAddiction