Dr Lynda Lawson

gender gemstones Madagascar Togo Aneho

[Dr Lynda Lawson @LyndaMerilynLaw]

Real Ghana Gold: so many good stories are not told - here @AustraliaAwards ASM scholars see gold produced without mercury and cyanide, good progressive rehabilitation, women employed and a lovely school built for community - shame the process for certification is too long.

[Dr Lynda Lawson @LyndaMerilynLaw]

@derridalicious Waffles

[Dr Lynda Lawson @LyndaMerilynLaw]

@JaneSchaible What is the title of your thesis and can I read it ?

[Dr Lynda Lawson @LyndaMerilynLaw]

Tonight was our 12th Francophone Africa forum- it was led by Malagasy experts for African miners. Delve Exchange is about knowledge exchange for miners by miners full stop.

[AGTA @agta_gems]

Known for their incredible Sapphires, find this unheated 1.10 ct. Madagascan padparadscha Sapphire from Sheahan Stephen Sapphires!
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#AGTADailyGem #AGTA #AGTAMember #Gemstone

[Daniel Franks @_DanielFranks]

We have been working with partners in the region for the past seven years to support a transition to sustainable sources of aggregate. Will the majour infrastructure funders step up and join us in this work?

[Daniel Franks @_DanielFranks]

We drove for more than a kilometre up through the mined river channel. They plan to mine for a further two kilometres upstream.

[Daniel Franks @_DanielFranks]

Excavators are working in what was a freshwater river.

[Daniel Franks @_DanielFranks]

Now the river is a muddy mess and plumes of sediment and turbid water travel downstream through villages who rely on clean water for their livelihoods.

[Daniel Franks @_DanielFranks]

This is probably the largest river gravel extraction site in the Pacific. International development partners have stepped up their funding of Pacific Infrastructure & this site is the source of some of their aggregate. Either the safeguards are missing or they don't work.

[Anthony Albanese @AlboMP]

The NDIS changes lives, but the system needs reform. Labor will put people back at the centre of the NDIS.

[Dr Lynda Lawson @LyndaMerilynLaw]

Jagger to help save local koala population https://t.co/VUAOGwUEqg via @uq_news

[HometoBilo @HometoBilo]

If you can't get through to Mr Morrison's office, please call:

1. Immigration Minister Alex Hawke on [phone]
2. Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews on [phone]
3. Your government MP - tap https://t.co/mUDqbm9DfD to find the right number in seconds.

#HometoBilo

[Georgie Dent @georgiedent]

'On the current trend, *NEITHER OUR DAUGHTERS NOR FIVE GENERATIONS OF THEIR OFFSPRING* will live to see the gender pay gap closed. The pandemic has exacerbated gendered disadvantage by adding 36 years to reach gender pay parity (now at 136 years).'

[Sophia Takuva @sophietakuva]

#AMI2022 providing mining-affected communities from across the African continent with a safe space to dialogue and seek solutions to their concerns with the mining sector.

This #AMI2022 will be a hybrid/blended event~physical & online participation

@PWYPZIM
@ZELA_Infor
@PWYPZIM

[Dr Lynda Lawson @LyndaMerilynLaw]

@_DanielFranks @SMI_UQ @aidan_davy @Profiainstewart @UNEPIRP @DrChrisHackney @Mettebendixen08 @VinceBeiser Very proud to learn more about this work

[Daniel Franks @_DanielFranks]

Public Launch | Ore-sand: a potential new solution to reduce mine tailings by making sand
More info: https://t.co/YaqiGbenAX
Register here: https://t.co/pTtT3njvkT

[Simon Marks @MarksSimon]

THREAD 1: Confidential docs show the UN is investigating allegations that Russian mercenaries working for Wagner Group fighting alongside Malian soldiers have committed human-rights abuses in Mali.
https://t.co/nvHcubH9jX

[Chris Minns @ChrisMinnsMP]

This is Janelle Saffin - she was forced to swim for her life through Lismore's floods.

She's also the State Member of Parliament for Lismore.

After having lost her home, she's now straight back to work fighting for her community.

[Dr Lynda Lawson @LyndaMerilynLaw]

@KofmanMichael #

[Dr Lynda Lawson @LyndaMerilynLaw]

‘They fill me with emotion’ … Benin celebrates the return of its looted treasure https://t.co/TMEVEJDJ09