Elizabeth Brennan

@ag_dots founder | Non-Executive Director | #foodsecurity | Chronic volunteer | she/her

[Elizabeth Brennan @amoeaba]

So, it's been 6.5 years since I've written in my blog. Much has changed since then. But my love of PNG has not.

https://t.co/OrR4Gb3GIJ

[Elizabeth Brennan @amoeaba]

@Oscarthefarmer *hat tip* Thanks for joining me in the front seat, @Oscarthefarmer. And shout out to excellent road trip buddy, @WheatWatcher. 🚙

[Elizabeth Brennan @amoeaba]

@NationalFarmers @stationmum101 Robust discussion welcome! Will see what industry vision we can paint with the colourful language. 🎨🌱

[Ben McTaggart @bentags]

With everything that's going on at the moment, I think it's a timely reminder that we really should all be aspiring to World Peas.

I'll see myself out 🎤

[Elizabeth Brennan @amoeaba]

@IamFarmerRenee @therealbiztang No, but I want one!

[Maddison McNeil @Mads_mcneil_]

Great day to learn about Monitoring and Evaluation! Thanks to @GGA_WA and #SWWAhub members for joining us for module 4 - it’s been our pleasure! Dial in for Faciltation next Thursday - https://t.co/yJZt0rOOaO

[Elizabeth Brennan @amoeaba]

Regardless about how you feel about trans people competing in sport (or anything) the backlash about Breanna Gill is NOT ok. I can’t imagine what their journey has been, justifying their existence, courageously being the precedent.

Choose kindness, folks. https://t.co/8PT3pq7c0Q

[Ted O'Connor @TedOConnor4]

I spent a week in Halls Creek not long ago where there’s some amazing people tackling the sort of inter-generational trauma and social dysfunction many Australians would struggle to imagine. https://t.co/wU9spK5Yw6

[Elizabeth Brennan @amoeaba]

@bentags cc: Perhaps @ulurustatement could explain how The Voice will be different and/or add to the NIAA @indigenous_gov?

[Elizabeth Brennan @amoeaba]

"Yesterday’s breakthrough is today’s environmental crisis, like an infuriating game of environmental and public health Whac-A-Mole."

Amen to this. Is creating meat in a petri dish *really* solving food systems challenges? Or is it guise for virtue signalling and $ making?

[Elizabeth Brennan @amoeaba]

Other bits I enjoyed.

Māori word for autism is Takiwātanga, “in their own time and space”.

The invitation to reframe:
'Developed' and 'Developing'
'First World' and 'Third World'
'Global North' and 'Global South'
'West' and 'East'

as 'Majority World' and 'Minority World'.

[Elizabeth Brennan @amoeaba]

This wordy birdy loves language. As such, devoured this @agcconnect's Offshoot edition. https://t.co/ede727E9C1

English emphasises individualism nouns and possessive pronouns like 'mine' and 'yours', as distinct from many indigenous languages that prioritise relationality.

[Clint Jasper @clint_jasper]

This is a really awful way to 'consult' with Basin communities. The Dept should know being as open and transparent about the process as possibe would be a good starting point. Quote from the Sefton review:

[Maria @dortsmaria]

What a way to respond to a flood crisis. @Wesfarmers

Confirmed - @Coles, the only major supermarket in the East Kimberley - has chosen not to participate in the distribution of air delivery of food supplies.
Relief has switched to confusion and massive disappointment.

[Elizabeth Brennan @amoeaba]

I don’t want purple cupcakes for #IWD2023, I want a bot that calls out gender pay gaps in hypocritical purple-washing companies.

Now that’s really embracing the (correct) @UN_Women theme, ‘DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality’.

@RRRNetwork @techcouncil_aus

[Gender Pay Gap Bot @PayGapApp]

@ChuckoDirect At NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK:
Women's median hourly pay is 36.5% lower than men's
Women's median bonus pay is 52.8% lower than men's

Percentage of women in each pay quarter:
Upper: 20.3%
Upper middle: 22.1%
Lower middle: 38.2%
Lower: 56.5%

[Elizabeth Brennan @amoeaba]

"It gave them food security for the first time." @KathrynThorbur1 of Nulungu Research Institute at @NotreDameAUS Broome on the impact of doubling welfare for remote communities during COVID.

And imagine now. No food on shelves and limited financial capacity anyway.

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Food security has been a problem in the Kimberley and in Kununurra last decade before the pandemic, during the pandemic, before the floods, after the first Kimberley floods, and before the second Kimberley floods, and since

Pandemic 2020 -> https://t.co/e4JTXxtNWx @ABCaustralia

[Maria @dortsmaria]

A relief for Kununurra - cut off completely by road - to receive a Government Airdrop of food supply. @Coles - Is it true that you have declined to accept an air food supply? (Pics of Kununurra Coles shelves to follow….) @Melissa4Durack @divinadanna76

[Elizabeth Brennan @amoeaba]

Epic shout out to @FoodbankAus WA and MG Corp for organising food relief for vulnerable community members in the wake of this food security failure.

And I say failure because this is a system breakdown. If it was a disaster, it would be unexpected. Climate change is expected.

[Elizabeth Brennan @amoeaba]

After weeks of living off cabbage, iceberg lettuce and strawberries (thanks SA farmers!) our diets might consist of more than coleslaw and jam.

@DefenceAust apparently flying a Hercules load of food to us this week. Excited for the big plane or tucker more? 🤔

[ABC News @abcnews]

Australian Defence Force to help end food shortage in flooded East Kimberley https://t.co/FAyyPEtPkS

[Elizabeth Brennan @amoeaba]

@Middleton_Says @agvocate_au @stationmum101 @roseycatherine @CarlyJBrooks @gabriellechan @telford_julia @AEMGartmann @IamFarmerRenee @jane4sale @SalernoLaw @UN But not wearing checkered shirts or trendy tweed jackets.