@EmmmKat

Senior lead at @thirdstory (formerly @innovation_unit ANZ), cut flower grower, chicken hoarder

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Joined August 2012
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Eeek we are now @thirdstoryorg! I’ll miss being part of the Innovation Unit team but really great to have a way of talking about our experience and commitment that feels more like ‘us’ in this part of the world 🧡 thirdstory.org
ThirdStory@thirdstoryorg23 Mar 2025
🌱 Introducing ThirdStory - formerly Innovation Unit Australia New Zealand 🌱 We are so thrilled to announce that as of 24th March 2025, our IU ANZ team is now called ThirdStory! More about this change & our new way of talking about our experience here: thirdstory.org/thoughts-insi…

A new chapter: Innovation Unit ANZ becomes ThirdStory — ThirdStory

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Appreciated this reflection on whether schools are genuinely inclusive for all students and their families
Tim Linehan@timlinehan8 Jul 2024
This is how narratives are made. New research says children who ‘are not school-ready’ are twice as likely to be persistently absent. The author says “School is where children develop & flourish, academically, emotionally, socially, and physically.” 🧵1/16 tinyurl.com/762kc6an

Early childhood problems linked to school absenteeism

Children who are not considered “school ready” are more than twice as likely to become persistently absent at some point in their education, according to a new study led by the University of Leeds.

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WCS CEO Annabelle Daniel OAM was quoted on @abcnews about the Law Enforcement Commission Report on police responses to #DFV in NSW, and parallels in some cases with the recent WA murders. Read here: abc.net.au/news/2024-06-06/n… #EndDV #Believevictimsurvivors
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"Weak as piss": that's how robodebt victim Michael Griffin describes the NACC decision not to investigate the scandal. My analysis on another blow in the search for accountability. theguardian.com/australia-ne…

Robodebt was illegal but were its officials corrupt? This decision means now we won’t know

The National Anti-Corruption Commission won’t investigate six individuals referred by the royal commission. It’s yet another blow for victims

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Many convos happening right now about what it takes to support people experiencing DFV and end violence for good. But what do people working in the sector think about what helps and what hinders? @Innovation_Unit asked & can now share what we learned: innovationunit.org/thoughts/…
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Every day I regret having a LinkedIn account
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The requirement to have left the household where violence is occurring is truly bonkers given current housing crisis. Victim survivors often need the payment IN ORDER to leave or make plans to get out. We fail so many women with these bureaucratic hoops
jeremy poxon@JeremyPoxon1 May 2024
And you've rejected over half the people who've applied for this payment!!!! you cannot be serious, amanda
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The payment is helpful but in some places in Aus, especially regional and rural, there is literally nowhere to go. No housing available, no room in refuges, no temporary accom, no services that have enough funding to practically help. Women are stuck and need holistic support
Josh Butler@JoshButler1 May 2024
🚨some major outcomes from national cabinet on men's violence: - $5000 federal "leaving violence" payment to help people leave DV relationship - plan to ban deepfake pornography - "counter-influencing campaign" against violent and misogynistic content online (more)
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I went to write a list of what we actually need but this stuff is so known by the DFV sector already, they have been asking for the same things for years. We have a National Plan! DFV is a systemic issue, not just a point-in-time ‘I don’t have money to leave’ issue
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Replying to @EmmmKat @LukeBartolo1
I think it leads us away from constructivist approaches to teaching and learning, reduces teacher & student agency, & constrains learning by focusing on one thing at a time. Richer learning environments enable students to learn at greater depth through well designed activities.
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Replying to @Telstra
@Telstra in Tyalgum/Murwillumbah our tower has been down for 5 days now, many of us don’t even have SOS connection and didn’t get any warning about work happening. Last msg I got said work would be done by 8th. What’s going on? People’s businesses and health are at risk
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A local woman experiencing DFV hasn’t been able to speak to a service helping her leave an abusive relationship, someone else had their payments cut off my centrelink but can’t phone them to sort it out, and elderly people can’t get through to their carers. What’s being done?
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"What does he mean, there were no trees in the UK?" You pull up satellite imagery to reassure yourself that there are in fact trees in England. You pause, staring at the map. Why is it all a pale shade of farmland greenery? Where are all the trees?! Let's look...
Overeducated Gibbon@MostlyMonkey12 Jan 2024
Replying to @bryancsk
Similar story in the UK. Timber for shipbuilding had begun to be tough to acquire
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Day 2 at #GELPTokyo23. Today is focused on leadership of transformation at all levels: personal, professional & political. Today Minister @Diallo_Rabain & Education Reform Unit lead, Lisa DeSilva, will share the Bermudian perspective on the leadership challenges & opportunities.
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Replying to @FedExHelp
@FedExHelp I’m trying to ship boxes from UK to BDA but your platform won’t accept my HS code - which I’ve confirmed is correct with BDA customs & your own HS code tool! Your customer service rep said ‘we don’t have anything to do with HS codes’ - so no idea how to resolve this?!
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This is the code you confirmed, which is also as per Ministry of Finance customs list. But your online booking platform tells me it’s invalid for the destination country - if you can let me know the issue please that would be great, thank you
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"This is personal. This transcends individuals. It has been a long time coming. We must see change. If not for us now, then for the children who won't have a say in this referendum" - Daniel Morrison from @wungening on the Voice to Parliament. nit.com.au/03-05-2023/5816/w… #NRW2023

We must see self-determination if we want to see change

My name is Daniel Morrison. My bloodlines flow from the Noongar, Yamitji, and Giga clans of WesternAustralia.I am the CEO of Wungening Aboriginal Corporation. We are an Aboriginal Community Control...

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Your annual reminder that most flowers you’ll find for Mother’s Day are imported and devitalised with glyphosate at their point of origin. We should celebrate the day in March like the UK, so many more Australian grown flowers would be in season then 🌹
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If you're not in a position to lift people out of poverty, then how are you in a position to fund stage 3 tax cuts and increase defence spending? You made a choice to give welfare through tax cuts to high income earners, and made the choice to push people into deeper poverty.
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