greetings and salutations
Operating as usual
Look where denial has gotten us.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/597kpd/new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050
The climate change analysis was written by a former fossil fuel executive and backed by the former chief of Australia's military.
You need this music in your life ❤️🎼
'Spectrum Two' EP is out now! https://williamelm.bandcamp.com/album/spectrum-two
Spectrum Two is the second part of an ep trilogy, exploring William's connection to gender, sexuality, autism, heritage, and technology.
Go listen and buy for as little as $1 http://bit.ly/2o2oBam
Artwork by pumpkinmook
Children ARE the future
Just days after surviving a mass shooting, a team of teens are trying to start a revolution from their parents’ living rooms.
Arts Access Victoria
Sneak peak of our project interviewing artists in their creative space! Cat McGauran interviews artist Larissa MacFarlane today in her fabulous space! Stay tuned for more...
Women's Agenda
A warning to politicians! Young women are participating and they're not going anywhere.
They're also currently being ripped off. And will demand more.
Nobody Complained When The Grand Final Had A Song About A Bloke Killing His Girlfriend
But apparently, people loving each other is "too political".
Do the skull one Eddie
HAMLET for Shakespeare’s 400th starring HRH the Prince of Wales (Prince Charles), Dame Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sir Ian McKellen, Tim Minchin, Paapa Essiedu, David Tennant and other # stars — “To Be Or Not To Be” that is the question! Quite brilliant… shared for my Chinese friends w...
news.com.au
Whether you're in the NO camp or you want to see marriage equality in Australia, you need to know how changing the law will affect relationships and families in the country.
Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved The World,' Dies At 77
Petrov was on overnight duty in 1983 when computers indicated the U.S. had launched a nuclear strike against his country. He had only a few nerve-jangling minutes to act.
'I never thought it would be me': Zoe Coombs Marr's emotional reaction to the postal vote
Every q***r grows up with a fear of rejection, and this vote/survey/mudslinging match has managed to tap right into that. Here we are, back in the schoolyard, feeling worthless, fearing for our safety.
Bring on the Cultural Vandalism
Last night, while coughing and sneezing all over my keyboard, I got this together. I then collapsed in my bed safe in the knowledge that my cultural vandalism quota was achieved for another day.
This policeman deserved better. He stood up against evil & it cost him his career.
Now 44 years after he was forced to resign because he cared more for children than his professional future, he has been vindicated in the very office where his career was destroyed.
Tina Fay *mic drop*
Or in this case *cake fork drop*
Tina Fey weighs in on the events in Charlottesville.
a very flimsy house of cards
Who would have thought I had so much in common with Joyce and Ludlam, eh? But there are a lot of uniquely great things about dual Australian-New Zealandness that I fret you have missed
This is unacceptable & British Airways need to get their s**t together
German band Die Roten Punkte have been left stranded on the opening night of their Edinburgh Fringe run after British Airways lost their musical equipment. The duo, consisting of brother and sister Otto and Astrid Rot, travelled with the airline from Winnipeg to Edinburgh but discovered on arrival t...
No, You Can't Use My Photos On Your Brand's Instagram For Free
My name is Max Dubler, and I am a professional photographer who has been working full time in downhill skateboarding for the last several years. I am a wel
This is Australia as 100 people
If Australia were just 100 people, what would it look like? New census data gives us an opportunity to find out.
Here is an articulate explanation from Kiruna Stamell as to why the NDIS is important and how it will benefit everyone.
Please watch, learn, share.
http://www.smh.com.au/video/video-news/video-national-news/qa-disability-advocates-ndis-crash-course-20170605-4ush9.html
Actor and dancer Kiruna Stamell explained why the National Disability Insurance Scheme was important on ABC's Q&A program.
This is important. Really important, so read this next sentence twice: Something that was considered entirely pathological and in dire need of correction when done by disabled people is now perfectly acceptable because it is being done by non-disabled people.
Autism news and resources: from autistic people, professionals, and parents
Read, learn & share. People's entitlement to continue using derogatory disability slurs is unacceptable & must stop. You cannot claim to be inclusive if you use these words or stand by while others use them.
I'm tired of influential people using disability slurs as insults. As long as these people continue to use them, the average person in the workplace or schoolyard or street will think it's OK, too.
Anne McDonald Centre
Hi everyone. I'm reminded that it's been a while since I posted anything here. The good news is that that's because we've been busy with our assessment project, started a year ago.
What we're doing is re-assessing people with little or no speech who have previously been assessed as significantly cognitively impaired after being given IQ tests such as the WISC and WAIS that require fluent speech and good hand skills.
For the re-assessments we have used tests such as the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and Raven's Progressive Matrices that require no speech. They are multiple choice tests that only require independent pointing skills to choose between 4 to 8 options. We already work on developing these skills so our students can use communication aids, so using them to undertake tests was not a big jump. Indeed most of the students have enjoyed doing the tests, possibly because they were pleasantly surprised to find an assessment that they could actually do.
The results have been unexpectedly good. Of the 65 children and adults re-assessed to date, all of whom had been labelled as IQ 50 or less previously, 64 have scored in the average range or better. Nearly all the assessments have been videoed in whole or in part for future research. Most of the students re-assessed have autism.
More detail on the first 25 re-assessments can be found on the Victorian Parliamentary website:
http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/committees/fcdc/inquiries/58th/Autism/Submissions/S148_Anne_McDonald_Centre.pdf
As a result, currently the state education department is discussing changes in the procedures for cognitive assessment of children with little or no speech.
We are of course looking at publishing the outcomes more widely, as they have important implications for thousands of students around the world.
If you would like more information please email us at:
[email protected]. We are very interested in hearing from agencies who would like to replicate this work.
Rosemary Crossley
He has a point.
I got metaphorically spanked a couple of days ago. Folks have been talking about the Fearless Girl statue ever since it was dropped in Manhattan’s Financial District some five weeks ago. …
You know when bands talk about the bands that influenced them?
Yeah... 😔❤️
Clarke, one of Australia's best-known satirists, died while hiking in the Grampians National Park in Victoria.
Terror in all its forms.
More than 50 tomahawk missiles have been launched against Syria, according to US-based NBC News.
So young, and not innocent
Radio interview for New Scum Tour
This show keep our AD company company through many hours production/admin work. And still her fav!
Twenty years after we started, I see that our series gave flesh (and horns) to the demons we all face in life: teenage Buffy’s storylines transcended age or gender
Women ROCK!
Since history tends to sideline the central role so many women played in the major social movements of the 20th century, here’s a little herstory lesson about five women warriors whose incarceration during World War II inspired them to fight back–some more widely known than others, all supremely tal...
The Q-Society Australia's own middle class N***s.
In the wake of their controversial fundraising dinners, the Q Society explain their roots and their paranoid vision of Australia’s future.
We have arrived, woman has no right to control her own body. That it is the property of men.
If you thought the days of having to fight for equal rights are over, you would be dead wrong. The state of
Why I Don't Like White Women
As an unapologetically black, q***r and cash poor femme, I can only speak definitively on my own experiences.
Trumps 'silence' around the recent and continued anti-Semitic acts in the United States makes him complicit.
We have to just come out with it, those of us who are American Jews in the media. It's time we made Trump bathe in his own bats**t.
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Jebus help us all.
Julius Evola was a darling of Italian Fascists and has caught on in the far-right circles Stephen K. Bannon nurtured at Breitbart News and harnessed for President Trump.
So when will people finally acknowledge that people's fears has allowed the current US American Administration to impinge on the worlds rights & freedoms?
A community newspaper's payment to enter a feel-good story about a family of Syrian refugees in an awards competition prompted PayPal to freeze the account of a national media organization after flagging the suspicious transaction, The Canadian Press has learned.
Melbourne, VIC
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