-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.

“Immunization is at stake, peace is at stake, health is at stake. Honesty is at stake. Truth is at stake. So I think we have a common cause.” - Mike Ryan, outgoing WHO Director Emergency Response Division. healthpolicy-watch.news/mike-ryan-st...

April 3, 2025 ballots open for the Queensland Nurses & Midwives’ Union (QNMU) state branch elections. I’ve nominated to contest the State Secretary position. We are at a critical point in our union’s forward path. Presence - Action - Future Check us out on all socials (not X) & web for more

If the reports are correct, Trump will release from these reservoirs, 32,000 acre-ft (~10 billion gals) will be lost. Some will evaporate, some will seep into groundwater. Farmers who had rights to that water are now unlikely to have physical or legal access to it. sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...

$1️⃣ 1 billion people Within hours of the US withdrawing from the WHO, WHO staffers had put together the $1 dollar 1 World 🌍 campaign. The WHO is required to safeguard the world’s health, track disease, drive global vaccination and advance primary healthcare to areas of need. Donate ⬇️ $1 today 🫶🏻

“Make good trouble.” ~ John Lewis

Please please please watch this. Please.

Our Russian Blue rescue cat - King 👑 of “his” renovation castle 🪚🏚️

Update from Dr Tedros, the Director-General of WHO. Thank you to all my friends, colleagues, and everyone who has wished me well during the ordeal in the past few days. I'm especially grateful to the colleagues and airport staff, who were selfless as they tried to protect me. #Yemen

This remains, and I say this advisedly, one of the best exchanges I have ever seen on social media

Today was putrid … just putrid 🥵 I said I wouldn’t look, but then I did … because the putridity was never ending. Humidity =73% 😳🥵 What a time to be… renovating❗️ power minimal & defs no air con 😳😳🤦🏻‍♀️

Any time we see another CEO pony up a million for Trump’s inauguration, remember this headline.

Economics of Coalition’s nuclear modelling are worth nothing If someone says the opposition’s financial case shows that nuclear is cheaper than firmed renewables, all other things equal, then that person is lying. #auspol #Renewables. www.afr.com/policy/energ...

My summer reading list 📚 I’m very much a non-fiction gal so have gone out on a limb with 3 highly acclaimed fiction reads. It’s never a library visit without me digging through the John Le Carre section to find a gem I haven’t yet read. My fav author never fails me ✨ 🎄📚

When the CM use the word “we”…🙄 I cringe 😩 I’m never sorry that the poor folk at the CM feel betrayed by Tory politicians … I’m more annoyed that they seek to express some collective sentiment like we’ve all forgotten the destruction right wing outlets caused during the ‘23 referendum 😥

Oops. Shit hits the fan. They paid these two sleazebags a truckload to sell radio porn in Melbourne. They died like a dog in a ditch and advertising revenue has tanked. AND THEY HAVE NO WAY OUT. Hilarious. www.smh.com.au/business/com...

Dutton 🤦🏻‍♀️

Multiple news & advocacy groups have been reporting on the recent decision by the Taliban to ban women from schools of health, particularly nursing & midwifery. As a RN my heart is enormously heavy 💔. In a country where women’s access to healthcare & edu’n is tenuous, this is a targeted attack🇦🇫

Amazon had $15B in profits last quarter. Its stock recently hit a record high. Don't tell us a company that's paid its CEO over $106M in three years can't afford to treat its workers fairly. That's why thousands of Amazon workers are striking in 20+ countries on Cyber Monday.

The meme I didn't know I needed

Tex 🎸 The Cruel Sea Canberra - random Thursday night Next up - Cold Chisel👏🏻 Seems I missed the camp chair memo … and I’m confused about whether I’m at a deck chair cinema event or rock concert 😳 Anyhow. Fun will be had. Promise ✨

S•H•A•M•E Qld LNP Always Was Always Will Be ❤️🖤💛💚💙🤍

I’ve joined the Bluesky 🦋 cat club … I understand we may now not be compatible. 😬 Your loss, I suppose 😁

Only biological males with cakey orange foundation and 34 felony convictions may use this bathroom.

Home 🏡 is (sadly) where the death is 💔😢 UN Women’s recent femicide report finds 60% of women killed by lethal violence within the family. These numbers rise in some countries but, in others, data is lacking considerably. Without adequate data, Governments are not compelled to act 😢

Trump is slipping farther and farther below 50%. He now leads by only 1.6%—and his vote advantage is under 2.5M. One of the narrower victories of the last 100 years of American politics, and any journalist or politico using the term mandate probably needs to retire from their profession immediately.

Despite the gains ACTU Secretary Sally McManus has noted ⬇️⬇️, women are now effectively working for free until the end of the year 😢 How is this still ok? 😩🚺 anmj.org.au/australian-w....

If you haven’t read Chris Masters stellar book, “Jonestown: The Power and the Myth of Alan Jones” do yourself a favour and grab a copy. The book Alan tried to stop is compelling as it is meticulous in detail. Allen & Unwin still have copies. No doubt your local library does too.

The world’s worst humanitarian crisis in recent times is happening on our doorstep - it gets barely any air time. Over 100 attacks on health workers Hospitals decimated 3.6m children malnourished 4m women & girls at daily threat of gender-based violence 25m in need of humanitarian aid 💔🇸🇩

I recently read the HBR article: “How Carewashing alienates employees”, co-authored by Cynthia Mathieu et al (2024). An appraisal of how care is manipulated in workplaces & then multiplies. Their findings are important touchstones for employees, leaders & future leaders. hbr.org/2024/06/how-...

"In my day, kids used to get vaccinated"

8. #GNLI #ICN I know my impact can be stronger - our public & global policy requires it more than ever. This is the path I now chose to walk. ✨

7. This commitment talks about looking outside our nursing silo(s) and applying a global lens to our work, because when we think about all the work we do everyday in our local areas what we are doing is building those blocks for global advocacy & activism. Continued …

6. To start this work I made a commitment to our #WHO western pacific region (WPRO) at our closing event in front of Ambassadors and country representatives: “As a nurse leader, I commit to be an ally & an advocate for the protection of all our island homes across the western pacific region”.

5. As nurses, we must be leading and collaborating on more public policy than we currently do. This is my aim as I leave Geneva and continue on this year’s #GNLI program. Continued …

4. Nursing remains the only health profession whose work touches almost every aspect of a person’s life through its continuum. Being an RN has afforded me this privilege, but it has been a consequence of our residency week that I feel our reach is even further than our local silos envisage. …

3. If we only look at the narrow fields that nursing works within day in day out we forget the real power and impact our training, skills and critical thinking can have for global health & social development, including holistic public & global policy. Continued ….

2. The annual “Geneva week” residency is 7 days of intense policy, strategy and leadership mentoring to position the program’s 30 nurse leaders to “Think globally - Act locally”. Continued …

1. Recently I had the opportunity to spend a week in residence in Geneva as part of the #ICN Global Nurse Leadership Institute (#GNLI) Scholars program. A week shared with 30 amazing global nurse leaders & lead by Diana Mason Patsy Yates. Continued …