Well it looks like I’m about to lose my job right at the same time that my rent is getting increased 🫠
For those who don’t know, I’m Elly, a queer and neurodivergent accessibility and front-of-the-front-end development specialist with a strong passion for design.
I’m looking for part-time (4days/week) remote work. I’m currently based in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). I’m also looking for an inclusive and ethical workplace.
For the last 4 years, the Tasmanian Museum of Old and New Art has been running an installation called The Ladies Lounge. Only people who identify as ladies are allowed to enter. In the lounge, they can sit in luxury and look at famous artworks by Picasso etc, which are not available elsewhere in the museum. They are served champagne and pampered by male butlers. It was meant as a comment on exclusionary men's clubs (which still exist in Australia and elsewhere).
Some dude got upset about it and sued the gallery for entry at the anti-discrimination tribunal. The artist, Kirsha Kaechele, said she was "absolutely delighted" that the exhibit had been taken to court. “The men are experiencing Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the artwork,” she said.
She then turned the tribunal hearing into part of the art as well, by having a group of women observing the hearing dress like her and mimic her every move. They did not disrupt the hearing, and at the end of proceedings they exited the tribunal to the song Simply Irresistible.
Kaechele argued in her defence the Ladies Lounge was a “a response to the lived experience of women forbidden from entering certain spaces throughout history” and promoted equal opportunity.
The tribunal found against the gallery and is ordering them to allow men to enter the exhibit. MONA is removing the exhibit instead.
Protesters blockaded the world’s largest coal port for 30 hours over the failure of government to act on climate change, preventing more than half a million tonnes of coal from leaving the port of Newcastle.
“Pancakes were being made, tea drunk, #dolphins swam nearby and people watched the sunset and sunrise. Those involved say it was a magical experience.”
Rising Tide local organiser Alexa Stuart
Protesters spent the night on the water, rostered in two-hour shifts.
Hi #australia. I'm thinking of starting a small business making braille business cards, braille menus for cafes and the like. Braille is expensive, and the big organisations will charge a lot. If you need anything brailled, as a way to bring in new customers, please feel free to reach out. Please boost to spread this everywhere.
Right-wing Australian billionaire and money-bag climate change denier Gina Reinhart apparently doesn't want people to see her portrait by the Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira in the National Gallery.
Wombats have such powerful butts they can crush skulls with them ... But mostly they just potter about munching grass and making burrows that keep the land healthy and provide refuge for other animals when they need it.
It is established fact that Australian soldiers in Afghanistan committed war crimes. Today, the man whose courageous act of whistleblowing brought these crimes to light has been sentenced to almost 6 years in gaol.
This is a dark day in Australian history. Democracy needs people to stand up when they see wrongdoing being committed by powerful people. We should be thanking and celebrating David McBride, not imprisoning him.
Having people vote on whether or not to grant other people full human rights is as absurd and as revolting as it gets. This is where “the tyranny of the majority” prevails every time, and why democracy in itself is not enough for justice. #AboriginalRights#Australia#LastRT
I’m completely frustrated by my inability to find someone to employ. Seriously, there’s got to be SOMEBODY willing to come to Blacktown to teach voice and piano at my music school. Surely?
Australia should prepare for “megadroughts” that last more than 20 years and will worsen due to human-induced global heating, new research has found. Megadroughts are exceptionally severe periods of below average rainfall that last decades. Climate modelling by the Australian National University, published in the journal of...
Today, like many other West Australian teachers, I'm not going to work this morning.
It's interesting that our industrial action is represented in the media as about pay. We're not striking over salary - we're striking because the system is broken.
My son has had no Phys Ed teacher all year. He's had a procession of relief teachers which, for a special needs child, is extremely distressing. He attends an inner city public school, but staffing shortages are statewide.
Speaking of special needs students, I'd like to look after my own without having to skip lunch to ensure their needs are met.
I'd like the Education Department to give me a personal device so I can do my job
(more efficiently). If I want a laptop, I have to lease one.
I'd like an acknowledgement of how teaching has recently become more difficult and demanding, especially during #COVID19, when we kept schools open and tried to keep students safe.
I enforced the mask mandate far more often than a rank-and-file police officer. I've probably been threatened and assaulted more times than many police officers too. And the statewide mobile phone ban? Guess who enforces that every single day.
So many of my colleagues have left teaching: re-trained or resigned due to burnout and stress. Who suffers? The students.
It's not about the pay. We're tired, and we need support. We're underfunded and under-resourced. We need to improve conditions for students. We need to fix the system.
I've taken the plunge and joined Mastodon. I'm from #Australia, a #union activist, #steamtrain driver, politically active, love #Cricket, follow the #Carlton Blues in the #AFL, and sing in a #choir. Plus lots more.
Saw on the local news the other day how #SalvationArmy was struggling for donations during the pandemic and all I said was “Good.”
#Reminder this upcoming holiday season to not give any money to the Salvation Army, but don’t harass the collectors because they’re often people who are desperate, receiving help from SA, and their next meal/place to sleep depends on them ringing the damn bells and asking for donations.
Idk about you but I’ll never forgive them for denying homeless trans women shelter in winter, leaving them out in the bitter cold. This is before I knew anything else about them.
We live under the flight path of wildlife traveling between native forests in #CoastalNSW. At midsummer, these creatures are all very busy feeding on, pollinating, propagating (through excreting seeds), and regenerating not only the great native forests, but many private gardens.
Why not give your local native birds and wildlife a gift for #2024 by planning now to plant edible native flowers, shrubs and trees wherever you live. Or find a Bush Regeneration group to work with on local public lands.
Before long, #Biodiversity Value will become a measurable contribution to the value of both public and privately owned land, including yours. It’s the beautiful gift you give to yourself, your children’s children, our wildlife, and the planet.
'Forested Escarpment' (2023) -- the Illawarra Coastal Mountains Slope Steadily Downwards Towards the Sea... Covered in the Mighty Eucalyptus, Royal National Park, NSW, Australia
GP Doctor's visit.
Perfusion test.
Visit to ED.
Admitted to ED.
ECG.
Blood tests.
CT Scan.
Heart surgery - failed.
Two nights in hospital - close obs.
Ambulance transport to airport.
Ambulance flight 250 km to Sydney.
Ambulance transport airport to hospital.
Admitted to hospital.
Blood tests.
ECG.
CT scan.
Heart surgery - failed.
ECG.
MRI.
Transferred to High Dependency.
24/7 monitoring and observations for 5 days.
Heart surgery - cancelled.
24/7 monitoring for 7 days.
Heart surgery - successful.
24/7 monitoring for 3 days.
Discharged home.
Doctor's follow up visit.
Heart Specialist's follow up visit.
8-week/3-days-a-week Rehabilitation process set up.
MRI.
𝗧𝗢𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗦𝗧 (Including all drugs and other tests not mentioned): $0. Nothing. Nada. Nix.
“We will not be intimidated, especially when we are trying to stop a genocide,” he told the house.
“Any time police officers resort to the use of force against non-violent protesters, they violate these principles and undermine the consent and respect necessary for the police to do their job.”
Australia should prepare for 20-year megadroughts as the climate crisis worsens, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Australia should prepare for “megadroughts” that last more than 20 years and will worsen due to human-induced global heating, new research has found. Megadroughts are exceptionally severe periods of below average rainfall that last decades. Climate modelling by the Australian National University, published in the journal of...