Not the Only One

We are proud to launch the Practical Diversity and Inclusion Fellowship in its initial trial phase with our first Fellow, Dushime Mudahera Richard. Richard is living in Uganda as a Congolese refugee, and he aims to share his experiences so that he can highlight the challenges refugees face in getting an education and finding jobs. He is dedicated, enthusiastic and has worked in multiple open source projects and also in running RSE Asia Australia 2023 and RSEAA24. His goal is to make sure pe...

Just announced this morning: $1.8 million civil penalty applied by the Federal Court of Australia over the breaches of the NDIS Practice Standards and Code of Conduct that led to the death of Kyah Lucas. RIP Kyah. The Orders are the first thing published on the Court’s website: the reasons for decision will be uploaded here as soon as I can access them on the Federal Court’s website. Every provider should read the decision and Statement of Agreed Facts as this tragic case is rich in lessons f...

Yep, all it took for me was one single experience of riding in a car that was pulled over with a Black man driving. Boom, the feeble lightbulb in my head flashed on. Same with watching a female programmer join an all-male team. 💡 It's a painful realization, which I suppose feeds the power to deny and sit in the cognitive dissonance.

Take the shoe people. They like war. It brings business with abnormal profits. They made huge profits on sales abroad to our allies. Perhaps, like the munitions manufacturers and armament makers, they also sold to the enemy. For a dollar is a dollar whether it comes from Germany or from France. But they did well by Uncle Sam too. For instance, they sold Uncle Sam 35,000,000 pairs of hobnailed service shoes. There were 4,000,000 soldiers. Eight pairs, and more, to a soldier. My regimen...

Paul Keating Redfern Speech (1992) “We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion.” #FirstNations https://t.co/M49HX6YuWV

Footage of an ACT Policing officer telling an Aboriginal teenager he "wouldn't have the guts" to "neck" himself has been condemned by the Territory's Indigenous children's commissioner, calling it a "deliberate incitement to an Aboriginal child to end his life". I am again, horrifid at the treatment of Aboriginal children and young people subject to care and “protection” and the criminal justice shstem.

And with a fear of suffering racist abuse, James was also relieved to see other England players miss penalties in the quarter-final tie against Sweden after her own spot-kick was saved.

The same people who lost their minds over Obama putting his feet on the Oval Office desk are totally fine with Trump bulldozing the White House.