Isabel Dunstan

Currently on Dja Dja Warrung country, central Victoria. Writing, reading, parenting. @chathamhouse @UNDP @PlanAustralia

[PEN Melbourne @PENMelbourne]

Today is the Day of the Imprisoned Writer. Today we stand with Cuban musician and activist known by the name Maykel Osorbo. He was arbitrarily detained on 18 May 2021 while at home and was subjected to enforced disappearance for 14 days. Take Action
@pen_int
#MaykelOsorbo

[Isabel Dunstan @Isabeldunstan]

Powerful words from Chris McKenzie, Arnold Zable, Shokoofeh Azar, Hidayet Ceylan, Jackie Mansourian, Anna Takluem and Chris Lwin. Dedicated to Turkish writer Nedim Türfent who has spent years in solitary confinement.

[Isabel Dunstan @Isabeldunstan]

On this International Day of the Imprisoned Writer we gathered at the @wheelercentre for an in-person event (the first in years for some of us in locked down Melbourne) @PENMelbourne

[The Big Issue Australia @thebigissue]

Wanna go for a ride? These folks do—and us too! @IsabelDunstan talks to treadly lovers across the country and find out why more and more people are getting on their bikes. Only in our new edition 🚴

[Isabel Dunstan @Isabeldunstan]

For the latest @thebigissue I interview a climate warrior, born-again adventurer, bike shop owner, and @BicycleNetwork to understand what's pedaling the pandemic's big bike boom in Australia. Fetch a copy from your fave vendor (or subscribe <3) https://t.co/oGjTK1cgPO

[The Big Issue Australia @thebigissue]

They’re fun, they keep you fit, they’re good for the planet and they make you feel free: they’re #bikes, and they’re booming! In our new edition, we get inside the cycling revolution! 🚴

Get on ya bike and cycle over to see your vendor. Our new edition is a wheelie great read!

[The Big Issue Australia @thebigissue]

They’re fun, they keep you fit, they’re good for the planet and they make you feel free: they’re #bikes, and they’re booming! In our new edition, we get inside the cycling revolution! 🚴

Get on ya bike and cycle over to see your vendor. Our new edition is a wheelie great read!

[Isabel Dunstan @Isabeldunstan]

@firagayatri That tempeh goreng tho 🤤

[PEN Melbourne @PENMelbourne]

Join PEN's International Womens Day with our guest speaker @clairegcoleman and to honor women writers in unjustly imprisoned for their work speaking truth to power. Weds 10 March 6.30 Kath Syme Centre
251 Faraday St Carlton. Book: https://t.co/fNHz5gWHUd
Please RT

[PEN Melbourne @PENMelbourne]

It's a great Journal...PEN Melbourne's new Journal, with editors @breaacton and @Isabeldunstan - thanks to all contributors. Your support of @PENMelbourne is crucial to our work for #FreedomofExpression. JOIN US https://t.co/iKQeg6YZ4A

[Isabel Dunstan @Isabeldunstan]

Thanks to PEN Mel President @cmckenzie16 and the inspiring @PENMelbourne comittee, our guiding light 🌃

[Isabel Dunstan @Isabeldunstan]

It was an honour to co-edit the latest @PENMelbourne Journal with @breaacton. It features writing by @MelbaMarginson @Sophiemcneill @beneltham @clairegcoleman Ronnie Scott @JosephineSci🖋️ on freedom of expression, arts in lockdown and writers in prison 🖋️ https://t.co/t0aad8rkYX

[PEN Melbourne @PENMelbourne]

PEN MELBOURNE JOURNAL – OUT NOW!
https://t.co/LzRd1iA3vm https://t.co/qHppYnaPjb

[Bill Hayton @bill_hayton]

Other generations may have stormed beaches and reached for the sky but for us, here, now, the defence of liberal democracy and the free and open rules-based international order demands the drinking of a lot of Australian wine.

[Natasha Stott Despoja @NStottDespoja]

Australia has won a #CEDAW seat! My heartfelt thanks to many, especially @MarisePayne for championing this bid & to wonderful civil society. I thank Member States for their votes. I pledge to serve with independence, diligence & compassion. It’s an honor to follow Elizabeth Evatt

[Isabel Dunstan @Isabeldunstan]

imo the real winner of 2020 is our baby, now two weeks old... The happy next chapter following my story for @thebigissue #620 😍

[The Big Issue Australia @thebigissue]

“Over video call, I tell him the baby can hear us from inside the womb now. Jakarta is three hours behind – on nights when I struggle to sleep, I’m thankful he’s still awake,” writes @isabeldunstan on leaving her home, and her husband, when the pandemic struck.

📷 Jessica Singh

[amanda hodge @hodgeamanda]

In a hushed courtroom, with only litigants, lawyers, and 3 other journalists present, a judge convicted Philippine journalist Maria Ressa for an article she didn’t write, edit, or supervise, of a crime that hadn’t even existed when the story was published https://t.co/0fWN1qK1wg

[Isabel Dunstan @Isabeldunstan]

How auspicious that the day @krithikavaragur's book arrived in the post is the very day she launched it online with @NUSingapore! Congrats, my friend.

[Richard N. Haass @RichardHaass]

The WHO is a flawed agency. two things tho. It is only what the major powers, including the US, allow it to be. It navigates a world of sovereign states. And second, its failings do not explain our own poor performance on testing, PPE, or slowness to require social distancing.

[Isabel Dunstan @Isabeldunstan]

@imerincook Did it have sauce in it?

[Shaffira @firagayatri]

(((Meghan Markle and her husband))) 👀😂👍