Melbourne-born, Asia-passionate. Travel addict, sports nut and lover of random facts. This is a personal account and all views are mine and mine alone.
2023 was a painful period of rebuilding and uncertainty. Hats off to all the @GeelongCats fans for sticking tough through difficult times #AFL#GeelongStrong
“[A] concept that’s important to our region, using a language of our region.”
Does Australia’s first Indonesian/Malay-speaking foreign minister have a word for the 2023 ACICIS #BahasaSesh Challenge? You bet she does.
Thanks @SenatorWong
A Texan has become an unlikely star of Australian rules football, considered one of the world’s roughest sports. 60 Minutes’ @jon_wertheim reports, Sunday. https://t.co/mEN4CWeXMW
As a country, we've spent so long telling Aboriginal Australians how it's going to be.
Telling them what's best for them.
And it hasn't worked.
The Voice is an offer to change that.
This is a heartbreaking lack of leadership. Inexcusable to call it a "divisive Canberra Voice" - the Uluru Statement from the Heart (that put forward the Voice to Parliament) is the result of years of consultation by First Nations people with Firsts Nations people right across the country.
#whylearnIndo
One of the world's biggest democracies and economies, right on our doorstep. Australia must do far more to understand Indonesia. It starts in our schools.
@acicisCD@Menlu_RI I hope Bu encourages her government to invest in an Indonesian language centre in Australia and across the world of the calibre of the Goethe Institut or Alliance Francaise.
@anjsharmaaa The Voice is for all Australians. By providing Indigenous Australians a constitutionally-embedded voice it makes us a better nation. Of course this process must be led by Indigenous communities @anjsharmaaa but if the naysayers (white and non white) give rise to a NO we all lose.
News: Kerri Hartland has been appointed as the new Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service. She is the first woman to take the position.