Tasneem’s Blog Archive
Tas In Tassie – The Apple Isle proves Bitter-Sweet
Was Apple-Isle bound to check out the #artsmarty scene in Tasmania today. This included a visit to Hobart's controversial Museum of Old and New Art, MONA. I spent some time capturing stills of MONA's interior and exterior landscape. In summary, the...
Hurdles & Highlights
Today I gave a keynote presentation to a student conference for the course for 'Working & Managing in International Contexts' as part of the Bachelor of Arts International Studies, RMIT. I spoke to a cohort of switched on students about my trajectory into...
Desmond Tutu Reconciliation Award 2016
Delighted to attend the Desmond Tutu Reconciliation Fellowship award ceremony held at the Melbourne Town Hall. The award was presented by Dame Quentin Bryce to June Oscar for her tireless work within the Australian indigenous communities in the Kimberleys. Much of her...
Toot Toot: A train wreck on the Campaign trail for 2016
Excerpts from my piece on the election scorecard, via Crikey: "In an appalling show of wedge politics writ large, the equating of ‘illiterate and innumerate’ refugees with stealing Australian jobs (yet who languish on welfare?) was pronounced by Dutton, then endorsed...
Transforming Leaders through the ‘Other’ Lens
A pleasure to present with Karen Jackson today at the Department of Justice training session on ' Transformational Leadership'. Along with Mary Crooks from the Victorian Women's Trust, we covered the white saviour complex, cultural hegemony of male privilege and the...
‘Crossing Borders’to #LetThemStay
On Wednesday 27th April, I participated in a 'Crossing Borders' panel event before an audience of University of Melbourne students. Crossing Borders is an international network of students whose mission it is to remove barriers to healthcare for refugees,...
Stepping Up to a Land of the Long White Cloud Conference
l was privileged to be invited to deliver a keynote address at the Islamic Women's Council of New Zealand's annual conference. I spoke to this years theme of #SteppingUpAndSteppingOut. Specifically, I shared my Australian story lessons about obstacles in...
The Drum roll..
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Golden Key Honour Roll
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Ending Violence Across Borders
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