vale Patrica Elsie <3 to all who love her
new #drone laws in australia 💫 interview with CASA’s Peter Gibson
For @Lifeline’s “Out of the Shadows Walk” …rising to the light. #dji #phantom4 #drone
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Join us Saturday September 10, 2016 and help others to walk out of the dark shadows of depression & PTSD – full info here
16 years ago I survived… today I work to help others find light in the deep darkness.
#mentalhealth #suicide prevention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw1i6cVaegw&feature=share
Audio x 3 – Conversation with @jessradio on domestic violence, also ALP & Greens candidates for #canning
Jess’s article in the Guardian
below are chats with the Greens and ALP candidates for the crucial #Canning by-election, the Liberal candidate’s office failed to reply to interview request.
Vanessa Rauland Greens
Mathew Keogh ALP
The #Youth of today: long chat with @haweywey & @jeffeffendi on new App to #amplify diverse young voices
Amplify empowers young people of diverse backgrounds to amplify their voices through a Humans of New York meets Instagram-like app.
The team and the issues:
What problem would Amplify solve, and for whom?
Bad news stories outweigh good news stories in the media by up to 17 to 1. There are social implications of negative narratives being the norm and shaping the conversations we have and how we see our world. In particular, negative mass media plays a significant role in the marginalisation of certain groups within communities. It also has detrimental effects on an individual’s identity, sense of belonging, and to community cohesion. Young people who feel targeted and marginalised by negative narrative relating to their identity are more vulnerable to a range of at risk behaviors.
We spoke with a focus group of young people from culturally diverse backgrounds and learnt that a major contributing factor to the disempowerment of young people, particularly those from already marginalised groups, is that they feel they lack a voice to challenge the mainstream media’s obsession with negativity. They have no means to challenge negative narratives and representations, but they are keen for opportunities to express their own stories.
How would Amplify solve that problem?
‘Amplify’ counteracts the impacts of negative representations in the media that divide communities and disempowers young people, particularly those from marginalised communities. Amplify aims to provide young people with an online space and community in which they can engage and share newsworthy stories that are excluded in mainstream media. It provides young people with an online space and community in which they not only belong, but can own their stories.
We will enable young people to ‘amplify’ their voices, by creating a mobile app to showcase the positive stories and real opinions of young people. We will enlist “Amplifiers” to collect and present these stories and views. “Amplifiers” will be young journalists, photographers, artists, designers, bloggers and satirists, who will use community networks to engage young people and give them a voice.
These positive stories will be easily accessible and highly relevant for the end user to engage with. The app will ask users to input their areas of interest and location, so that the stories they receive on their feed will highlight community change-makers and homegrown solutions that deeply resonate with them. Stories posted by our Amplifiers will use a Humans of New York-like lens to break barriers and humanise young Australians from diverse backgrounds.
Amplify is a project for people from all backgrounds but with a particular emphasis on giving a voice to marginalised young people. Young Australians who do not see themselves, their communities or their identities reflected accurately in day-to-day public narratives, whether film, news, or in public discussions. Amplify aims to encourage young people to connect with one another through the sharing of stories and experiences. Amplify will promote learning through interpersonal interactions and avoid one-sided forms of communication that reinforce stereotypes and do not encourage consideration of marginalised and alternative points of view.
Who is in the team behind Amplify?
Ilona is the team’s holistic strategist. She is the founder of Ignite Mentoring, a WA youth-run charity that supports high school students from low socioeconomic backgrounds and champions the social inclusion of marginalised youth. She studied Law and Economics at The University of Western Australia and will start the Teach For Australia program next year.
Haweya develops Amplify’s messaging and makes sure that the app is true to its social inclusion roots. She is a Research Analyst at a Perth think tank, and a UWA undergraduate. Haweya previously participated as Global Voices delegate to World Bank and IMF meetings in Washington and has deep interests in community development.
Jeffrey is the team’s creative thinker and designer. He’s the founder of DrawHistory, a creative agency that connects businesses with nonprofits to work on solving the world’s toughest issues together. Jeffrey is also a passionate advocate of social inclusion in youth communities, acting as UNICEF Australia’s Youth Ambassador in 2014-15.
Jess has extensive experience as a campaign organiser, having worked with WA Labor and Australian Council of Trade Unions. You can often find her rallying people to a cause, and that’s exactly where she fits in at Amplify – getting young people on board.
Mary is our resident marketer and knows where our target demographics are. She is a marketing graduate from Curtin University and has helped grassroots community organisations with fundraising efforts.
#Perth ANTI DEPORTATION ACTION PERTH tonight #refugees #law
MEDIA RELEASE
REFUGEE RIGHTS ACTION NETWORK SAYS NO DEPORTATIONS TO WAR ZONES
WE CALL FOR PEOPLE OF CONSCIENCE TO STAND UP TO PREVENT THE FORCED RETURN OF A VULNERABLE ASYLUM SEEKER TO AFGHANISTAN
There is to be a decision TODAY at 4.30pm in the Perth Magistrates Court on the forced return of a young man to the war zone that is Kabul. An urgent injunction against that deportation was sought yesterday and Judge Lucev will hand down his decision today. If he refuses the injunction this young man will be deported TONIGHT to what is now an active war zone.
If the injunction is refused Refugee Rights Action Network members, along with other concerned citizens, intend to flyer passengers on flights destined for Kabul. TONIGHT from 9.30pm we will be asking these passengers to show support for a young man they don’t know; a frightened young man who knows that Kabul is not a safe place for him due to his ethnicity and religion. We will be asking these passengers to do for him what they would do for a son, a grandson, a brother, a friend. We will be asking them to stand up and refuse to sit down until this young man is removed from the plane.
We will be explaining to passengers that ongoing Taliban attacks in Kabul have increased the risks to ethnic and religious minority groups in Afghanistan. The Australian government when assessing refugee claims by asylum seekers from Afghanistan admit that some regional areas are extremely dangerous for Hazara and Tajik minority Shia Muslims. They state that Kabul is safe and determine that regardless of where in Afghanistan a person comes from that person can be resettled in Kabul. This is UNTRUE.
Recent events show this is not the case. On 21st June the Taliban launched an attack on Afghanistan’s parliament, killing five innocent people. On 30th June a suicide car bomb attack on the Kabul airport road killed two civilians and injured 26 others. On 7th July there was another suicide car bomb attack in which civilians were injured and in a separate incident a building was occupied by armed gunmen. RRAN considers that these ongoing attacks by terrorist groups have turned Kabul into an ACTIVE WAR ZONE and calls on the Australian Government to halt forced deportations to Afghanistan.
The threat of imminent deportation looms over other asylum seekers doomed by our flawed processing regime. The new "Fast Track" system will increase the number of vulnerable people for whom Australia refuses to provide protection despite our obligations under International Laws. The use of outdated country information and the refusal of the Government to take new developments into account will lead to more people deported to danger and possible death.
Action Details:
Place: Perth International Airport
Date: Tuesday 14th July 2015
Time: from 9.30pm
For further information contact
Sally Thompson: (Refugee Rights Action Network)
#health Emotional Labour ruining lives and costing the nation billions
Monday 13th July 2015
“Emotional Labour” ruining lives and
costing the nation billions – research
A type of workplace stress known as ‘emotional labour’ is taking its toll on the health of workers such as nurses, police and customer service employees. It is also costing the nation billions of dollars a year in lost productivity, according to researchers at the University of Sydney Business School.
The researchers in School’s Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies, say that workers in jobs that involve high levels of emotional labour are absent, require treatment for stress related disorders and change jobs more frequently than other workers.
Emotional labour, explained Dr Helena Nguyen, is the emotional effort some employees must make when interacting with customers, clients or patients. “For example, there is an expectation that nurses show care and empathy when they are interacting with patients.”
High levels of emotional labour, adds Dr Anya Johnson, “leaves the worker suffering from stress, the feeling that they need to take days off work and often the feeling that they are not being effective at work. This can be very detrimental to their well-being.”
Employee absenteeism and ‘presenteeism’ or being at work but not fully functioning, is costing Australian businesses an estimated 12 billion dollars a year.
“In general, absenteeism indicates a drop in wellbeing as workers become demotivated, disengaged and burnt out. In particular, it has been identified as a key long term consequence of emotional labour in areas such as sales, management, health care and law enforcement.” Dr Johnson and Dr Nguyen say in a report on their 10 year study.
“For organisations it means replacing employees who are not well and also dealing with people who are off on stress leave, which can often be very expensive,” said Dr Johnson. “For the economy, it means that people are not staying in their professions, it means that people are moving in and out of professions. The sustainability of the workforce become compromised.”
The report says workers typically deal with emotional labour in one of two ways.
The first is to put on a “happy face” or outwardly display an emotion that matches requirements while privately feeling something very different. The second response is to try to actually feel the appropriate emotion.
Nurses who put on a happy face reported lower job satisfaction, poorer task performance, more often declared an intention to leave a job and talked of being burnt out.
The report by Dr Johnson and Dr Nguyen says their study has important implications for health care managers, “as there are significant costs associated with emotional labour as it drains limited resources and impairs employee well-being”.
“Developing opportunities and support to help nurses and other employees in high stress positions to manage their emotional labour are needed,” the researchers conclude.
Contact:
Trevor Watson
MEDIA RELEASE – Emotional Labour, ruining lives and costing the nation billions.docx
#AJretrial hears defence summation thursday, hear @PeterGreste on being called to appear #freeAJstaff
As #freeAJstaff trial continues, freed colleague @PeterGreste tells me of plans to face #Egypt court by video #Journalism
see also http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-22/peter-greste-still-in-danger-of-egypt-terror-conviction/6491212
Fear and loathing in #UK election and corporate media – audio @PeterJukes & @peacepiper
Sarah & 12yo son Ethan with me on @6PR at #ANZAC Cove ahead for the Dawn Service.
pic: @harrytclarke
Australia sex workers show #facesofprostitution & call for #rightsnotrescue – audio w @ScarlettAlliance’s Janelle, pls share
#Indigenous tent Embassy near #Perth CBD will continue despite eviction by police – yarn with Herbert Bropho
Facebook for Embassy
https://www.facebook.com/NyoongarTentEmbassy
Pictures from Simone Van Hatten with @SenatorLudlam at bottom left supporting a fair go for #Indigenous mobs – @Simone
#UNHCR’s @MelissaRFleming audio on @refugees #stateless people “not lecturing” australia PM
Melissa Fleming @melissarfleming
27 States prevent mothers from passing on their nationality to their children. They become stateless: ibelong.unhcr.org #IWD2015
UN Refugee Agency @Refugees
Why don’t these 10 million people belong? youtube.com/watch?v=jNo6Ji… #statelessness #ibelong #Beijing20
#Perth great events this week for #refugees -> friend @Kikei talks w me about #art installation you can be part of
Interview with my Friend and colleague Marziyah Mohammedali on #socialjustice and #art for #refugees 
Please share this audio interview and let people know of the Perth events this week :o)
Full info on this week’s events (10 – 14 March) here http://www.ecu.edu.au/news/latest-news/2015/03/refugees-social-justice-through-art
Short Video of Marziyah speaking on Islamaphobia: https://vimeo.com/109048187
<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/109048187″>Marziya Mohammedali Islamophobia and the War on Civil Liberties</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/cadtphotography”>CADT Photography</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>every australian to be affected by planned #metadata #law – pls share 12 min. audio @LIVPresident #auspol
#Perth police strip search nursing mother & 7 other clerics during #lovemakesaway sit in at office of @JUlieBishopMHR
#Perth police strip search nursing mother & 7 other clerics during #lovemakesaway sit in at office of @JUlieBishopMHR
#UK VIP Sex abuse Scandal & #NewsCorp hacking/corruption trials, yes there’s a link @PeterJukes w me earlier today
@PeterJukes & @perthtones discuss the unprecedented scandals involving the #UK Govt, Police and Media
How to order Peter’s book, breaking news on thew scandals and more info on Peter’s site http://peterjukes.com/
#TPP’s effects in #australia @TrishHepworth EO Australian Digital Alliance #auspol
#TPP’s effects in #australia @TrishHepworth EO Australian Digital Alliance #auspol
TPP Protests November 7-8, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade agreement being negotiated between Australia, the US and 10 other Pacific Rim countries. But the agenda is being driven by the US on behalf of its major pharmaceutical, media and other corporations, which want to reduce our rights to affordable medicines, internet freedom, local culture, labour rights and the environment.
TPP officials and Ministers met in Canberra and Sydney recently, and faced protest rallies and critical media coverage. TPP Trade Ministers will meet again in November to try to finalise the main points of the deal. We are joining others around the world to say no to trading off our rights.
Sydney:11 am, Saturday November 8 on the seaward side of East Circular Quay, past Portobello Cafe, South of the Opera House.
Melbourne: 11 am, Saturday 8 November, State Library of Victoria, Swanston St.
Hobart: 12 noon, Saturday 8 November,Tasmanian Parliament lawns.
Perth: TPP protest picnic , Saturday, 12 noon Saw Avenue picnic area, Kings Park
https://www.facebook.com/events/314890555380394/
Adelaide: 2:45 pm, Friday 7 November 2014, outside GM Holden, Cnr Philip Highway and Oldham Road, Elizabeth.
How involved was Murdoch in News of the World stories? Some evidence from Piers Morgan
There’s some contradictory evidence from the Leveson Inquiry and the Phone Hacking trial about just how much Rupert Murdoch was interested in his best selling Sunday Tabloid. Before Lord Justice Leveson in 2012, the chair of News Corp said the Sun was his major UK interest and he rarely concerned himself with NOTW, but earlier this year both Brooks and Coulson at the phone hacking trial gave evidence of weekly calls from Murodch, throughout their editorships.
This snippet, from Piers Morgan‘s autobiography, shows that – at least on one occasion – Murdoch knew more than his editors. Concerned about a Princess Diana ‘phone pest’ story (allegedly sourced illegally through a police file) the then editor is reassured first by his news editor, Alex Marunchak, and then by Murdoch himself, that the story would stand up.
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@jarrodmckenna on #faith & social justice #LoveMakesAWay #Refugees #Religion
follow the hashtags for coming events, follow @jarrodmckenna on twitter and like https://www.facebook.com/jarrod.mckenna?fref=ts
Fear & loathing in Perth – cowards hassling Muslim women will not be tolerated #terroraustralis #auspol
Early October 2014 the fear and loathing was palpable… my friend & colleague Marziya MohammedAli told me about the verbal and physical abuse that’s flowed from politics and some media politics coverage of “Terror Australis.”
Marziya is doing PostGrad work at ECU, and has been a Lectureer, Tutor, Researcher and Project manager at ECU.
Click here for Marziya’s excellent photography covering protests and community events here in Perth.
Click here for related stories from abc
Skateboarders speak up for Muslim Women under attack…
great yarn with actor & community builder @Farmer_Kylie on sacred things #Indigenous #Australia
Please also enjoy:
A talk with Len Collard on when Rottnest was part of the mainland… living memory.
(People’s Ocean Knowledge Trail of Cockburn Sound & Districts)
Wanju Wanju Kaartdijin Noongar – Welcome to Noongar Knowledge
Nidja Beeliar Boodjar Noonookurt Nyininy:
A Nyungar interpretive history of the use of boodjar (country) in the vicinity of
Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/multimedia/nyungar/
Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/multimedia/nyungar/
Most excellent TV series http://www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/
audio #OccupyCentral to #Libya, #journalism to #socialmedia radio talk @perthtones @karun777 & Caroline Smith
audio from #OccupyCentral to #Libya, #journalism to #socialmedia radio talk @perthtones @karun777 & Caroline Smith
Great interview with @endarken on #nzpol #Greenwald #GCSB #occupy #snowden
great Interview with @MillerMENA on #Ukraine and #Sytria #ISIL via Perth radio @6pr
great Interview with @MillerMENA on #Ukraine and #Sytria #ISIL via Perth radio @6pr
#auspol W.A. needs a corruption inquiry #ICAC -> 43 Conflicts of Interest for Just Two EPA Board Members
Robin Chapple MLC
Member for the Mining and Pastoral Region
MEDIA RELEASE
43 Conflicts of Interest for Just Two EPA Board Members
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Greens Member for the Mining and Pastoral Region, Robin Chapple MLC, is seeking clarification from the government on how many projects had a conflict of interest when they were approved by the EPA.
‘I call on the state government to clarify if it is 25 or 43 projects that are at risk from the bungled EPA approvals process,’ said Mr Chapple.
‘I have correspondence from the Environment Minister which shows 43 projects with a conflict of interest and that is just for two of the EPA Board Members!
‘The Barnett Government clearly has a track record of deliberately misleading the public in this farcical process.
‘The public has a right to know the truth, he added.
For more information please contact Robin Chapple on 9486 8255.
2012-09-12 EPA Questions Denis Glennon and Chris Whittakers conflicts of interest.pdf
#Uranium mine abandoned but what about taxpayer subsidies to #mining Co #Australia #wapol #auspol
Robin Chapple MLC
Member for the Mining and Pastoral Region
MEDIA RELEASE
Uranium miner Areva quizzed over Royalties for Regions payment
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Greens Member for Mining and Pastoral Region, Robin Chapple MLC has quizzed the State Government over its funding support of a subsidiary of French uranium miner Areva, for its North Canning Project.
Earlier this week, Areva Resources Australia announced that it would move to abandon the Kimberley uranium project because it is not technically feasible.
“Did they get Royalties for Regions funding? Was it utilised or if not, was it returned? If not, why not?” Mr Chapple said.
“I am gobsmacked at the constant allocations of funding being poured into the pockets of those already at the very top of the super-rich mining pyramid. It’s an inequity of the highest order.
“The Royalties for Regions Scheme should be taking from the exploitative, extractive industries and supporting true regional development. We should be funding future industries, affordable housing and community infrastructure that will ensure sustainability beyond this limited mining boom. Why are we using these precious funds to facilitate unsustainable mining practices?
“It’s obvious that the State is struggling to provide affordable housing, energy infrastructure, good public transport options, community and health services, let alone take care of our fragile environment.
“Whichever way we look at it, we cannot justify this expenditure,” Mr Chapple said.
For more information please contact Robin Chapple on
9486 8255
All the best
Robin Chapple MLC
Member for the Mining and Pastoral Region
PO Box 94, West Perth WA 6872
41 Havelock Street, West Perth. WA 6005
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