Cultural Competence in Council

This morning I conducted a training session on ‘Muslim Community Awareness and Cultural Competence’ for the City of Darebin executive. This was a robust and in depth analysis of the communal demographics, psycho social issues residents experience and the consequences...

Identity & Belonging 2020

This week I spoke at MacKillop College to their year 11 Cohort, navigating ‘Identity 2020’. My co-panelists included the fabulous Jane Gilmore and Nevo Zisin – between the three of us we traversed issues of gender, sexuality and race. Kudos to Jo Parker for...

Coming of Age Exhibition

Today I had the opportunity to participate in an upcoming exhibition for the Immigration Museum, called ‘Coming of Age’. Without giving away too much, it will celebrate stories of identity formation and ‘becoming an adult’ for Victorians from a diverse range of...

First ABC ‘The Drum’ Appearance of 2020

On my first ‘ABC The Drum’ of 2020, feeding in from Melbourne. Tonight: talking about what’s being done to prepare for job transitions in coal regions? What have other countries done to make the move away from mining. Has the coronavirus killed the cruise industry?...