Tasneem’s Blog Archive
Where Are You Really From?
There is a sweet irony in the recent slew of disgraced Australian MP’s who it turns out have been acting outside of a constitution they purport to represent. Albeit unknowingly. Surely though, the checks and balances they legislate for exist for a reason; bureaucracy...
I Am Not Your Negro
Feeling at once enraged and in awe of the formidable mind, that is James Baldwin. Thinker, disrupter and truth teller, Baldwin’s stand on calling out the vice of white power in historical and present day oppression of Black Americans, was uncompromising. This film...
High Tea with Healing Ambition
Was honoured that the Cyril Dharmawardana Foundation Inc. (CDF) invited me to guest present at their Annual High Tea event at the Brighton Town Hall Gardens The Melbourne based CDF is a charity established to assist cancer patients both locally and overseas, ....
Black Lives Matter making inroads in Australian Activism
These are some of the highlights from today’s event during which participants had an opportunity to meet with the#BlackLivesMatter* founders and share experiences and learnings from their fight for racial equality. This event enabled people of colour, young and...
50 Years of Structural Racism in Australia- Are we Learning from or Losing the battle?
Superb keynote from Fed Race Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Tim Southpommasane, at Alfred Deakin Institute Conference on ‘50 Year’s of naming institutional racism: realising racial equity or intensifying injustices?’ He deftly conveyed how structural racism as a...
Sky High Heroes
Thrilled to visit the HEMS2 facility in Traralgon, as part of the #AmbulanceVic board tour to a regional site. The breadth of clinical and technical expertise demanded of the air ambulance personnel was phenomenal. The risks they take so that the rest of us...
Empowerment through Engagement
Enjoyed a beautiful High Tea this afternoon as part of the AAIS ‘Mind, Body & Soul event’. I was delighted to present to the crowd on the topic of ‘Empowering Women’, harnessing our strength, compassion and intelligence. Congratulations to Amina Ymer, Selima Ymer...
A Panel for all Reasons
Courtesy of Gerard Mansour, Commissioner for Seniors, Victoria:"Honoured to have shared the stage today with Australia’s leading voices on race, gender, sexuality, disability and LGBTIQ rights at the 2017 ACOSS National Conference. Understanding how different types of...
Making Inroads into Strategic Change
Today I delivered a keynote address to an inaugural VIcRoadsLeadership Forum. I discussed the moral and fiscal imperatives of culturally diverse strategies of inclusion in management, upon a context of systemic discrimination impacting minorities. I may or...
A Diverse Emergency
Today I had the opportunity to deliver a keynote address to the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine, before a cohort of Emergency Medicine physicians. I spoke to the issue of Diversity in Leadership, as a productivity and moral imperative in a climate of...