OK … I admit I am a bit of a fan of Alfie Boe. I think it was inevitable. When you play the lead in a Baz Luhrmann production of La Boheme (Alfie Boe played Rodolofo in Baz Luhrman’s La Bohème on Broadway and won a Tony for his performances) … and then with effortless grace [...]
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Answer: Australia – And we still call ourselves the ‘lucky country’. Yes lucky if you are not touched by disbaility. Otherwise you are regulated by government, the health services industry and health insurance as second class citizens.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme will change all of this and provide people with [...]
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Yesterday I attended the ‘Make it Real’ NDIS 2012 Rally at the Allphones Arena Sydney. It was wonderful to see so many with people with disabilities, their carers , professionals and other memers of the community come together and clearly say with one voice ‘NDIS – Make it real’.
IMHO helping people with [...]
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Today I was reading an interesting article over at MamaMia about Pedophiles and Privacy … Do Pedophiles have a right to Privacy? I think it is a wel written article and raises some interesting questions for the community to discuss and something that needs to be revisited.
So what’s the issue? Current legislation allows for [...]
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Late last year Sydney got is first Costco Megastore/Supermarket. While I looked at the website and investigated what was involved I was not tempted at the time to go and join … and wait in the long queues. SO no things are alittle more quiet I thought it would be worth having a look BUT … [...]
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100 years ago today of one of the world’s worst peace-time maritime diaster occurred. At 11:40pm the Titanic collided with an iceberg in the middle of the in the north Atlantic Ocean four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. At 2:20am on Monday 15 April, two hours and forty minutes after she had hit the iceberg, the world’s largest liner [...]
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I am a big fan of Social Media. Social Media has many advantages and have enabled and empowered people to do amazing them (think the Arab Spring). Social Media gives to individual great power to communicate widely and quickly to the world in ways that would have been impossible when I was a teenager (and that wasn’t really that long ago … [...]
Continue Reading →Following on reports of recruiters and companies recruiting staff requesting access to social media accounts including passwords (SMH). I have sat on both side of this one … I have worked in recruitment recruited for positions for myself and of course been on the recruitment roundabout … but I am really not a fan. If you are open and public [...]
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The annual observance of World Autism Awareness Day should spur global action to combat the “unacceptable” discrimination, abuse and isolation that people with the disorder and their loved ones face, according to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
“Autism is not limited to a single region or a country; it is a worldwide challenge that requires global action,” [...]
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Daylight saving ends in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory tonight (well really early tomorrow morning at 3:00 am) when clocks will be put back one hour.
This means in practice when for example it would have been 11am under Daylight Savings it would be 10am under Standard Time.
Change Your Clock Change Your Smoke [...]
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Today I was reading MamaMia on a post about feminism and it really got me thinking. The main point of the post was about women not identifying themselves as feminists and the problems associated with that.
As self-described “strident feminist” and my hero Caitlin Moran says in her book How to be a Woman:
“We need to reclaim the [...]
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Today I found a interesting survey completed in from a UK support and advocacy charity called Contact a Family called Forgotten Familes. According to their research families in the UK with disabled children felt excluded from society due to a shortage of services and negative attitudes. Sounds familiar …
Key Findings
Families with disabled children have the same hopes and [...]
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New Years time is great time of the year … where many things seem possible and there is such hope for the new year. It made me think of one of my all time favourite quotes … Happy New Year!!
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the [...]
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