Host, BIG IDEAS. Host/founder, Science Friction (2017-23) & All in the Mind (2002-12).Host, Life Matters(2012-16) @RadioNational Ex @WFSJ VP, @KSJatMIT. AUDIO
Dec 10, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
ATAR results are out. Your marks are not the only thing that determines your future. Many paths to thriving.
Imagine if govts invested properly in local high schools like Finland does?
Data from My School website is always mind blowing
A tale of 2 schools in one area.
The top ATAR scores are reported to be from
Haileybury College, Keysborough, Vic
$6,829 per student Federal funding
$966 per student State funding
$37, 900 (up to) parent fees.
Net income nearly $132million ($30,654 per student)
Jan 14, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Vitally important new #LongCOVID immunological study from Australian team and cohort of patients in @Nature...
"We identified a set of analytes (IFN-β, PTX3, IFN-γ, IFN-λ2/3 and IL-6) that highly associated with LC at month 8, indicating that components of the acute inflammatory response and activation of fibroblast or epithelial cells, T cells and myeloid cells are associated with LC."
Jan 12, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
3rd year of a pandemic.
Limited tender condition:
"Extreme urgency or events unforeseen"....
"Hospitals rely on accurate case numbers to anticipate likely surges in presentations a week or two later."
"The UK system gives health authorities a fuller picture of testing in the community, as people are asked to enter their results whether they are positive or not."
Aug 29, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Have you been treated unfairly at work?
The ABC is investigating unfair work practices & wants to hear from YOU
(correspondence will be kept confidential)
您在澳大利亚工作时受到过不公平的待遇吗？
Pernahkah Anda diperlakukan tak adil di tempat kerja? abc.net.au/news/2021-08-2…
Whether an apprentice, trainee or intern, an employee, contractor, manager or business owner, whatever industry you work in.
We want to hear from people from all over Australia & from all cultural backgrounds... Australian citizens, permanent residents, visa holders.
Australia's medical leadership (Australian Medical Association) reps with a public statement on behalf of their membership & patients.
"Climate change is a health emergency based on scientific evidence"..."any number of extreme threats to health have been managed" #NCESummit2020
"Where do we start?"
"...with an evidence base".
"This is hard and unglamorous work but its exactly what health communities" have done
"We are Drs telling you climate change is a health emergency based on science"
"It is about health & survival"
~ Aust Med Assoc #NCESummit2020
