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Journalist, editor, including at Croakey https://t.co/uaovvPzEVp She/her.
Mar 15, 2023 23 tweets 12 min read
Tuning in to this seminar now with @MichaelMarmot cc @CroakeyNews "Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that make them sick?" @MichaelMarmot's underlying question. Health care is vital (been driven in UK to brink of collapse) but "my concern is with the conditions that make people sick". cc @baumfran @SharonFrielOz
Mar 7, 2023 12 tweets 8 min read
Wominjenka. Welcome to Country at #FreeAssange event in Naarm/Melbourne Hearing at #AnythingtoSay #FreeAssange about the courage of whistleblowers like #ChelseaManning #EdwardSnowden and in Australia, Bernard Collaery, David McBride (who is here) and Richard Boyle.
Mar 4, 2023 30 tweets 13 min read
Set to (online) attend The Belmarsh Tribunal hosted by @ProgIntl: with @Stella_Assange @yanisvaroufakis @MaryKostakidis @bobjcarr @BridgetArcherMP @suigenerisjen & others calling for release of Julian Assange cc @CroakeyNews Image FYI from @ProgIntl: Belmarsh Tribunal is inspired by the Russell-Sartre Tribunals of the Vietnam War, brings together a range of expert witnesses — lawyers, journalists, MPs, union officials, whistleblowers and human rights defenders — to press for Assange's release
Sep 14, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
Vic COVID update, announcing mental health response - Merlino says COVID impacts coming on top of 'broken' mental health system (which prompted the Royal Commission), been looking how to find more capacity, to support a workforce that "already stretched, already fatigued". $22.1m additional health support package - $13m for 20 pop up community health services (8 in regional Vic) from the end of this month, will be a 1300 hotline number TBA - deliver 90 clinicians, 93k hours of care (counselling, wellbeing checks, referrals), to reduce ED impact.
Sep 9, 2021 19 tweets 11 min read
Set to hear @kesleeman at #21OPCC #COVID19 Image Coming up in @kesleeman presentation at #21OPCC - "Doctors desert the dying." Prompted Cicely Saunders to launch the modern hospice movement in the UK Image
Apr 8, 2021 23 tweets 12 min read
Set to join #reportinggenderedviolence #trauma webinar: 'Enough is Enough-Reporting on Gender Violence for Journalists' with @samanthamaiden @NourHaydar
@PercyKaren @CaitlinAithne @OurWatchAus @dartian1 Being introduced by @dartian1 (who is guesting at @WePublicHealth this week), acknowledging that we live and work on the unceded lands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Oct 23, 2019 7 tweets 16 min read
Great wrap from @MelissaSweetDr of movement for #ClimateAction on many spheres, in absence of national l'ship. Story includes clips from #ClimateFairness forum that I covered for @VCOSS on Monday - RTing some interesting interviews in this thread croakey.org/globally-natio… @MelissaSweetDr @VCOSS "Do you need more action from govt: fed, state & local?" "Yes, yes & yes." Jo Brown from @SGGPCP on efforts to integrate climate change action in regional communities by & for local services #ClimateFairness @vcoss @DELWP_Vic pscp.tv/w/1ZkKzApYONRxv