Lecturer at Sustainability and Urban Planning, RMIT University, teaching and researching cities, diversity, migration, housing and the migrant home.
Naarm, Victoria
Joined February 2018
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Migration and Urban Transitions in Australia by @levin_iris et al. is out now! This book offers a critical reflection on the ways in which migration has shaped Australia’s cities, especially over the past twenty years bit.ly/3sXnIS0
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Lift Rent Assistance, or that will happen to many, many people
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Amazing insights from @urbanfrogger @HollyKirk
and @kyliesoanes on practical actions urban practitioners can take to protect nature in urban environments and plan for both the human and 'more-than-human' inhabitants of our cities citiespeoplelove.co/article/… via @citiespeoplelove
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What property auctions would be like if the auctioneer called it how it actually is. By 7.30 satirist @markhumphries and his co-writer @evanwilliams. #abc730
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New release! This month in Cities People Love we look at what we can achieve when we think about the city and nature as inseparable. With content from experts including @HurleyJoe @_ficus @sbekessy @urbanfrogger (and more), you'd be mad to miss it! See citiespeoplelove.co
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Today I realised I forgot to submit my last timesheet because it was due on the same day uni mgmt announced they want to cut my school, which will likely see departments and jobs disappear 🙃
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Diaspora Jews in solidarity w/ Palestine, we have a responsibility to challenge our community's role in what is happening. It's easy to separate ourselves from those we feel are failing the moment, & much harder to take on the responsibility of our relationships. But we gotta try
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There is one rental tenure that is rent controlled... public housing
“Tenants are really screwed here.”
Respected finance journalist, Alan Kohler, telling it how it is on @QandA last week!
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Good evening everyone. While the Treasurer makes his budget speech, I thought it would be useful to translate what he actually means. Join me below 👇
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The most rapid increases occur between tenancies, not during them. Australia chooses to run a short-term renting experience, with the median stay around 18 months. This has to be addressed as well, or we will just drive up eviction-as-rent-increases.
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Jail time and fines for Australians wanting to come home? Seriously? I’m horrified that the Morrison government thinks this is an acceptable response to the humanitarian crisis in India.
This is a terrible and dangerous precedent. And needs to be called out.
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As my community is in deep mourning, I’m sitting in a bloody reconciliation week meeting at the uni and I’m so done with white people.......why must reconciliation be all tea and biscuits for these people, I’m sooo done
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At my boarding gate for this @Qantas flight to Sydney, a white, male uniformed employee is doing bad impressions of foreign traveller accents and mannerisms for the amusement of his colleagues. When they say Spirit of Australia, I didn’t realise they meant blatant racism.
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I continue to feel concerned that the conversation about interventions to prevent sexual assault is being framed around consent education. My perpetrators have known what consent was - they just didn't care about mine. This narrative is offensive to many survivors. /1
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Police today confirmed they are treating the death of a woman whose body was found in a furniture chest on the Gold Coast as a murder-suicide.
This means that this week alone, three women have died in acts of violence committed by men. One of them was a nine-month-old baby girl.
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In Aust. Ms Dhu died in custody for unpaid fines. A victim of Dom violence. Asked for medical assistance didn’t receive it. Mr Ward a respected elder, blew over the limit. Put in a police van & transported 4hrs without A/C. Was literally cooked alive, no charges 1/8
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White progressive australians do not seem to make the link between them, the systems they support & benefit from & 'the system getting it right' finally in the USA with Derek Chauvin. dont we have the same racist systems here!?!?!!
