Tag: trauma
Respect@Work Forum – 7 July 2022
The Respect@Work Council Forum was held on Thursday 7 July.
The Respect@Work Council was established in response to a key recommendation of the Australian Human...
By naming ‘Pennhurst’, Stranger Things uses disability trauma for entertainment. Dark tourism and asylum tours do too
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The Netflix sci-fi horror series Stranger Things is vividly soaked in 1980s nostalgia, famously catapulting Kate Bush’s 1985 song Running up that Hill to the top of...
Health-care workers share our trauma during the coronavirus pandemic – on top of their own
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Health-care staff are trained to deal with whatever comes through the hospital doors. But COVID-19 is a completely different ballgame.
During this pandemic, health-care...
Wild Butterfly film review: Claire Murray’s story gives a human face to trauma, drug use and blame culture
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Who deserves our compassion and medical care? Does a person who has used drugs deserve a liver transplant … and then a second?...
A small collection of poems
A friend told me recently I should write poetry. I found these poems tucked away in my files. Some are nearly twenty years old!...
Me and Bettina Arndt – in conversation with Ann Creber Monday May 15
I’m pleased to announce I’ll be on Ann Creber’s The Good Life, this Monday May 15th, in conversation with Bettina Arndt on the topic of...