This afternoon I spent two and a half hours in one of those wonderfully rambling meetings that sometimes happen in research centres, meetings which – even if convened with specific intentions – wander off to cover a whole range of… Continue Reading →
A couple of weeks ago I saw Inside Out, the new Pixar/Disney animated film. It was wonderful – funny, moving, intellectually stimulating, emotionally rich and visually beautiful. Today I came across Disney again, in a report noting that Anna and Elsa… Continue Reading →
On Thursday 23 July I attended New directions in making history at the State Library of Victoria, part of the Making public histories seminar series. After the presentations the discussion was opened up to the floor. The first contribution (which was taken… Continue Reading →
Today the news is filled with stories about the Australian Human Rights Commission’s report The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention (2014) and the Government’s reaction to its findings. Of the 800 or so children currently in mandatory closed… Continue Reading →
Last week I attended an all day training session with colleagues on trauma-informed practice, run by Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA). As some readers will know, for a little over three years I have been involved in the National Find… Continue Reading →
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