Executive Director, Resilient Lismore - leading grassroots recovery in Lismore. Councillor, Lismore City Council. Community leader across multiple disasters.
Lismore
Joined March 2012
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I am so honoured to be a finalist in the NSW Women of the Year award & to be here to represent the incredible work being done by my amazing team at Resilient Lismore. You can have a look at our important work at resilientlismore.org.au @womennsw #WOTYA #WOTYA2023 #embraceequity
Day 2 at #adrc22 I’m speaking at the recovery forum tomorrow but am around to connect earlier if you are leaving today and would like a Lismore update from the community perspective #lismore #nswfloods
As #climatechange escalates we must prioritise place-based community-led preparedness. The community will always respond and will always be frontline responders for on-ground recovery. We must be resourced to do so #floodinquiry #nswfloods
Where is recognition of critical role of community-led initiatives in recovery. It’s longer and more complex than response. Community must be included, valued and recognised as key participatory stakeholders. We must focus on community-led recovery #floodinquiry #nswfloods
Disappointed with ambivalent reference to #climatechange. These events will increase in frequency and intensity & we need a strong adaptation response that recognises that #floodinquiry #nswfloods
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Community still waiting for any detail about buyback, land swaps, relocation. People urgently need certainty, choice and direction. #floodinquiry #nswfloods
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Good news that the NSW SES are getting a boost in funding. Here in Lismore we want a refocus on local knowledge; prioritisation of community engagement with big increase in staff; & reimagined volunteering structures to allow for surge & community response. @NSWSES @stephcookemp
Uncomfortable and unjust 😡#WeAreCIC2020
"Wealth inequality is more pronounced than income inequality. If wealth inequality was a ladder, Gina Rinehart would be 10km off the ground." @danielleiwood of @GrattanInst kicks off day two with some uncomfortable truths about #Inequality in Australia #WeAreCIC2020
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🏠🏡🏠getting further and further out of reach
"The dream of home ownership is slipping away for the young and poor. Home ownership among young people has fallen like a stone. Is it because young people are buying avocado on toast? It’s a firm no." @danielleiwood @GrattanInst #WeAreCIC2020
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Lived experiences and direct storytelling always cuts right through to the heart of the matter. Thanks @JoDodds6 for leveraging your community stories and taking meaningful action with Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action #WeAreCIC2020
Hearing a harrowing story from @JoDodds6 surviving the 2018 bushfires in Tathra, urging us to take climate change seriously. "Do not wait until the fire is at your door until you do something to bring change." Content warning: bushfires youtube.com/watch?v=-PcYHKHN… #WeAreCIC2020
Accelerating Climate Change will bring Disaster upon Disaster increasing exponentially, how will our communities remain resilient with these compounding impacts? @hilarybambrick presenting the indisputable facts #WeAreCIC2020 @OurCommunityAU
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Strong start to the Communities in Control Conference today with @FionaKerr82 plenty more inspiring stuff and critical content to come as with 2021 just around the corner #WeAreCIC2020
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13,000 hectares of forest to be opened up for logging in the Lismore electorate and buffers reduced to 5m from our head waters - totally unacceptable @ThomasGeorgeMP #nswpol
Good to hear almost every speaker today talk about disaster resilience, after our experience with floods in 2017 cannot emphasise enough how important it is to be ready. Keen to see funding for preparedness not just mitigation #LGNSW2018 @LGNSW
local govt funding is at pre 96 levels <0.5% of federal revenue. Need to return levels to >1% @KevinHoganMP #LGNSW2018 #allpoliticsislocal
Honoured to accept our award for @LismoreCouncil community engagement last night - the Farming the Sun model was developed in partnership with @adamblakester from Starfish Initiatives and we are keen to share it! farmingthesun.net/lismore/bu…… @CPP_Au #CPPSummit2018 @CPP_Au
"People are sick of government strategy documents they want action. It is time to get on with it, time to stop talking, time to do." @ShaneRattenbury telling the story of ACT action to address vehicle emissions #CPPSummit2018 @CPP_Au
Devastating scenes of Tathra fires. Climate change = more disasters. Great to hear their story of action, resilience and taking (renewable) power into their own hands from Dr Matthew Nott - Clean Energy for Eternity #CPPsummit2018 #DisasterRecovery
