Australia's issue of violence against women has made it to the The New York Times. Great to see lived experience advocate Tara Schultz quoted - although a sad indictment that her reflection is of no improvement for young women and children since her own childhood.
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'This same tension is underpinning the debate about social media – a debate from which young people appear to have been excluded.' - Dr Kathryn Daley

Dr Kathryn Daley newmatilda RMIT Research “what about all the teens with abusive families where social media is their only way of reaching out for support and help?”

Social media isn't a utopia, but there is an ethical problem with the proposal to ban under 16s from using it. My take on it is out today in newmatilda

RMIT Research

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My first birth was an obstructed labour, but baby & I both survived because safe emergency caesareans are available in Australian maternity hospitals - virtually eradicating fistula here. The statistics below are horrifying and illuminate the shocking global health disparities

Budget Response from the National Advocacy Group on Women on Temporary Visas Experiencing Violence: we reiterate existing calls for migration system reform to enhance women's safety from violence.
#auspol #enoughisenough
Full response here👇 awava.org.au/2024/05/17/med…

Extremely disturbing details of residential care in this story, none of which will surprise any who have had contact with the system. But I am truly surprised at the Premier's suggestion that state residential care is not failing children and young ppl.

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I REALLY don't advise committing to writing anything while you're on maternity leave. But if you do, ensure the editor/s are generous with extensions ... my latest, available here->
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Graduation Day RMIT University🎓 Congratulations to Dr Emily Hanscamp 👏 🥳🌟 👩🏼‍🎓

Co-supervised with my wonderful colleagues Prof Suellen Murray and A/Prof Ronnie Egan.

I have been asked to speak at the launch of Judith Bessant's next book 🤯, and Raewyn Connell is one of the other speakers 🤩, and what if I faint from being starstruck?

The budget couldn’t include every ‘good idea’ but not boosting JobSeeker and the Youth Allowance were obvious misses theconversation.com/the-budget-cou… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

A university is not just a place of formal classroom-based learning. It’s a place where young people learn how to develop critical thinking, how to articulate their politics, and of course, how to organise. These are life skills. Let students keep calling the world to account.

An Acting Provost anthromorohizing 'the university' to pretend someone else is taking the 'regrettable actions' ... is peak academic careerism. Trumped perhaps by the actual Provost who isn't around when leadership is required.

This + ending the pipeline of women into prisons in the first place

I'm not sure how this placement payment is going to work. How do we decide whether students 'need' to work more than 15 hours a week? 70% of working students work 15 hours or more a week. education.gov.au/about-departme…

In case you’re wondering, there is another $58m allocated in #Budget2024 for the Office of the Special Investigator, investigating alleged Australian war crimes. Wonder what they do all day..

Let's try and give everyone something and actually give no one anything. #Budget2024