Frank, Sense & Myrrh: A Christmas Portrait with a twist

Thank you author and writer extraordinaire, Maxine Beneba Clarke (The Hate Race, Foreign Soil) for this candid portrait, for The Saturday Paper.  Over coffee and cheese pies we covered all things festive, fearful and forward thinking. With a salute to good bling,...

Netting Cultural Perspectives- a Sporting Chance

A terrific session this morning at Netball Australia, talking ‘Cultural Perspectives’. My talk followed an inspiring presentation from Ali Tucker. Congrats to @netballaust for making inroads with new and established diverse communities – bridging...

Deaths in Custody – A Criminal Act

Today in Coburg, I met with Larry- an indigenous man educating the community about the travesty of Aboriginal deaths in custody. This government’s failure to protect almost 400 aboriginal persons who have died in custody since the inquiry launched over 25 years...

Next Gen Vic- letting new leaders lead

At the ECCV ‘Next Generation Vic’ Conference in Ballarat this morning. Delivering a keynote on the future of multiculturalism for youth, women and new communities. Snapshot: leadership must succession plan now, handing over reigns to more than capable...

Unpacking the Implicit

Today I emceed the City of Casey’s Divisional Conference on ‘Strategies to Combat Unconscious Bias’ -an amazingly put together conference. Canvassing implicit bias from cultural and religious, LGBTQI and indigenous perspectives – this was a...

Panel Nation: Speaking Truths

This morning in Parramatta, at the National Multicultural Women’s Conference 2016, Influencing Change: Vision & Impact, I was awestruck to share a panel with these indomitable, brilliant women;  Dr Jackie Huggins AM (Nat Congress of Australia’s...