I've decided to have a go at Substack! 'A bit better' is a newsletter about trying to improve the world a bit, while distracting ourselves from the garbage fire on an as-needs basis. open.substack.com/pub/abitbetter…
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Ashlee Betteridge
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Ashlee Betteridge
@ashbetteridge
Aid & development consultant (comms, research, project mgmt). Particularly interested in PNG, Indonesia and Timor-Leste. She/her. Living on Ngunnawal land.
Canberra, Australia Katılım Temmuz 2007
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if it feels like there has been less news coming out of Gaza today, consider that Israel has totally cut internet access today, no electricity, no food, no aid, international journalists and UN workers slain in cold blood, a blackout of information is the point
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@Tito_Ambyo I finished school in 2003, a unit in HSC Modern History on the Indochina war (Vietnam and Cambodia) was the deepest we got into SE Asia. I knew barely anything about Indonesia when I took a job in Jakarta! Learned so much, couldn't believe I hadn't learned more at school.
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What do Australians learn about Asia at school? My gf started reading We Have Tired of Violence and she broke down crying after 1st chapter. And she said she didn’t know about what happened in Indonesia in 1998. She went to a good school+uni, intelligent and generally informed.
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@chill_AID Shiv is very Thinking and Working Politically.
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For those in the #Succession and aid bubbles:
1. Shiv Roy has very good adaptative management skills.
2. Her two dopey siblings are logframe bros.
3. I may regret this post next week.
GIF
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@AubreyBelford @OCCRP @ABCaustralia So great to see these partnerships and these important stories being deeply investigated.
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Special shout-out to Inside PNG, who partnered with @OCCRP and @ABCaustralia on our latest story. Our Pacific investigative journalism network is getting bigger and more formidable by the week.
insidepng.com/png-prime-mini…
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@em_wynne In NSW it is not on the ballot but you have to put them on all your campaign materials like posters and flyers (unless you have an office, which most local councillors do not).
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Didn't know that in the UK the home addresses of candidates in council elections are printed on the ballot
baby bones 🦴@scaredofbones
'(Address in Liverpool)' lmaaaao
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@GordonPeake They were excellent! A future in podcasts for them (or governance, who knows?)
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@DrKate_Miller @GidMK Yep and the hype around these drugs is not considering possible long term effects, not adequately discussing the severity of side effects, nor considering (in my experience) that they are pretty much an injectable eating disorder.
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It's definitely true that people's attitudes towards effective weight loss medication is bizarrely judgmental
No one got mad when semaglutide was just effective long-term for diabetes
Stuart Ritchie@StuartJRitchie
How many anti-semaglutide articles has the Guardian published now? More than a dozen I think, attacking it from every spurious angle possible. It’s always weird to be reminded that your reasoning (to me it seems obviously a positive thing) is wildly different from someone else’s:
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@heathermurphy @chill_AID @dfat It reminds me of 'Survivor' (the TV show not the Destiny's Child song) -- Outlive, Outplay, Outlast, Out-Compete
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@evcricket Yes I ran a 600+ person paid conference using Eventbrite. Works well and takes a lot of hassle out of it especially on refunds. Just be aware you get paid out after the event as a lump sum. If you don't have a GST exemption you'll also need to have that in your pricing.
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Anyone ever run training or training something with some $ involved through Eventbrite? If I sold some tickets at $500 a throw or whatever will that work fine?
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@niltiac @kerryn_baker Yeah I don't have kids and I mostly work from home. Talking about my own preferences here!! Even referred to myself in the singular, never purported to speak for all non-morning people...
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@RabeeTourky @MarkDando4 Is this from APS as a whole though or just APS in ACT? Isn't only about a third of the APS in Canberra?
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@RabeeTourky @MarkDando4 Didn't the defined benefit super end for new PS employees nearly 20 years ago? No Millennials would be on this. The median age is 35 and less than half the workforce are even in public service. So this is not typical for Canberra.
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@DrDemography Even putting the housing crisis aside, imagine being in any other business, and not expecting or anticipating to be in the red sometimes? The entitlement is just.... wow.
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‘a landlord who has multiple mortgages on his 12 properties says his property portfolio has also become unaffordable and wants to share the reality and consequences of the recent rate rises and how they are squeezing landlords.’
Sell some of your excess homes, Steve.
Michelle Arrow@MichelleArrow1
Won’t someone think of the landlords?! 9news.com.au/national/austr…
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@Tom_Swann Unfortunately for me I am not disabled enough for a pass but completely unable to ride a bike or walk for more than 200-300m without needing to rest. Not lazy, but I just get to miss out on everything.
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@DrDemography @Sue_Webeck 🥂 to being the wrong kind of woman from another wrong kind.
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@Sue_Webeck Still haven’t been invited to participate in a IWD event, other than morning tea attendance. Decades and nothing. I guess I’m the wrong kind of woman.
But you. I can’t imagine anyone that embodies IWD than you. Love your work xx
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The one event I had booked in for IWD was postponed. I declined many but one because they asked if someone more “visually aligned with IWD” was available so today we are celebrating with lunch for the team and continuing to do the work we do every day to create change. #IWD2023
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@janine_hendry ‘Ofa Guttenbeil-Likiliki, working for the rights of women and girls in Tonga for 18 years and calling out colonial approaches to development.
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