Erin McAuliffe

Working in public policy + design // PhD @ PoliMi // 🇦🇺 in 🇮🇹, prev 🇸🇬 // she/her // Same handle everywhere

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

@Shiv_who_burns @bugsandfishes If you wanted to be fancy…

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

@Shiv_who_burns @BradfemlyWalsh When I went on a small group tour of the Forum a few years back, the young American couple left 30 mins into the 3 hrs because ... they had booked another tour they had to rush off to. But the Insta box got ticked, I guess?

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

Sadly, I can't join the 'look at the degree on that chick' trend because every pic of me defending my PhD has me pulling a weird face and/or wildly gesticulating in a blur, while full of the lurgy and sweating in a heatwave.

And alas we don't do robes or jaunty doctoral hats.

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

Oggi è un anniversario importante: 5 anni fa, sono arrivata in Italia per iniziare il mio PhD. Due giorni prima del secondo lockdown. Due mesi prima della scadenza della Brexit. E ora inizia la burocrazia per la mia carta di soggiorno permanente... 🍾

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

When I worked at APH I supported hearings around the country of the Senate Select Ctee on Housing Affordability. In 2008. Coming up on two decades of can kicking.

https://t.co/t4Rbkn3UuQ

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

I put forward a motion to parliament today calling on the Senate to recognise Australia's housing crisis as a matter of public urgency.

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

@Shiv_who_burns Yesterday I had to get my electric throw blanket out. Dire.

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

People thinking Australians will be offended that someone was talking shit about Kevin Rudd

See: ALP 2007-13

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

@giulio_mattioli When I tried to explain to my colleagues here that there’s no residenza anagrafica and no CdI in the Anglo countries 🤯

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

https://t.co/cHIXkuvmfX So, hiring for 'experience operating in and exploiting legal grey areas' and 'must have ability to create new public policy problems' then.

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

Tinkering with making a Wix website and being offered this AI 'help'. 'Change tone to enthusiastic'? Nothing could be more of a giveaway that I didn't write it, lads.

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

From a quick look online, there's no sense of what 'Progress' is (I could guess at their politics), but interesting to see a clear link from simulator/game to a specific call to action. And important, as always, to remember that design can be used as a means towards many ends.

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

An interesting thing to note about the Nick, 30 ans 'game' (https://t.co/TIFk6S0JJ2) is that it tries to move the player into political action. My PhD research looked at the bridge from design activism to policy change - something that rarely went beyond general movement vibes.

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

@giulio_mattioli It's a similar situation with graduated licensing schemes.

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

I have finally given in and called the 'pinguino' into service so I can do some work rather than just melt into a headachey puddle.

It still feel it shouldn't be this hot when one lives 45 mins from Switzerland / are host city of the Winter Olympics.

RIP my electricity bill.

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

@Shiv_who_burns Cuneiform is a friend’s day job, weirdly enough.

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

@Shiv_who_burns I had one last week and it was thumbs up from me

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

I did ✨a thing✨.

Grazie a tutti, più tardi avrò cose più intellettuali da dire, ma ora ho voglia di fare un pisolino.

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

In my final weeks as a PhD student in design, and after 15 years of working in the field, I've finally had to bite the bullet and learn how to use* InDesign.

(*poorly, slowly, swearily)

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

Even in govt service automation, we build in lag so people feel that their case was 'considered' by a real person. How will knowing no-one will actually read your submission affect people's willingness to engage? I'll AI write it, you AI read it, and we'll all miss the point.

[Erin McAuliffe @erincmca]

I worked in teams handling ministerial corro and ctee inquiry subs. We'd often get personal and heartbreaking subs to respond to with something more than a form letter. The idea of people's efforts just being 'read' and summarised by AI is disquieting. Why should anyone bother?

[giulio quaggiotto @gquaggiotto]

[Sigh] AI tool ‘Consult’ used for first time to analyse public responses in government consultation https://t.co/nkcJuKtY9a