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Inviting Perth based professionals and expats to my podcast!𫶠Iâm currently looking to connect with Perth based specialists and storytellers who work closely with visa holders in Australia and would love to share real, practical insight through my podcast Just Call Me Bridget. Iâve lived in Australia for over 6 years and have been through multiple visas, FIFO and offshore work, farm work, and the ups and downs that come with building a life far from home. Through the podcast, I want to bring together voices that genuinely help people at different stages of their journey, not theory, but lived and professional experience. Iâm especially keen to speak with: ⢠Migration agents and visa specialists ⢠Recruiters working with international talent and FIFO roles ⢠Accountants and financial advisors experienced with visa holders ⢠Employers or business owners who hire on different visas ⢠People who have transitioned from temporary visas to PR ⢠Anyone with a powerful, honest Australian story that could help others feel less lost or alone ⢠Anyone who came to Australia on a visa and have built up a business or a career in here The conversations are relaxed, long form, and focused on clarity, lessons learned, and practical takeaways. No scripts, no sales pitch, just real talk. If this sounds like you, or someone you know, feel free to comment, tag them, or send me a message. Iâd love to connect and see if itâs a good fit. 𫶠https://www.youtube.com/@JustCallMeBridgetPodcast/videos Thank you!
I need to tell you about the night I realised that "free will" is the most violent word in medicine. Body Integrity Dysphoria sits in a strange ontological space. It is neurologicalâaberrant body mapping, cortical misalignmentâbut because the patient desires alteration rather than restoration, medicine reinterprets pathology as choice. Once choice enters the frame, care exits it. I knew this intellectually. I learned it viscerally when a South Australian public hospital sent me home with sepsis and bacteremia from a necrotic ankle wound. Nurses had called an ambulance. The hospital discharged me. When I asked what would happen if I took a meat cleaver to the limb my neurology had convinced me was foreign, I was told no public hospital would sew the stump. I had free will. That would simply be how I chose to exercise it. Consider that architecture. "Free will" used not as ethics but as administrative absolution. It transforms duty of care into a courtesy for the deserving, and agony into a consumer decision. That night I burned at 41 degrees. My body twisted and howled for hours as pain flared through every nerve. Alone. And I could only wonder how this level of torture could possibly be legal. How is it ethical to leave a person suffering not because no treatment exists, but because someone decided they were not worth treating? This is not a trauma narrative. It is an argument. Systematic dismissal, labels, stigma, gaslighting and humiliation in healthcareâthe place sick people cannot avoidâcan make a person who loves life choose to die in the fever heat at home rather than be laughed at one more time. I have the documentation. I have the intellect. I have a story so evidenced across SA institutions it reads like bureaucratic fictionâexcept every page is signed. What I lack is a platform. I am begging anyone with a voice to lend me theirs. Not for pity. For witness. I want the construction of "undeserving" patientsâthrough diagnostic laziness, psychiatric labelling, and the weaponisation of "free will"âto be named and made illegal. This is why I am launching #CareforCare: a little bit of momentum that asks that the act of caring for patients be protected, resourced, and enforced by law. Because a system that punishes the sick for being sick is not broken. It is brutal by design. If you are a journalist, politician, lawyer, academic, or advocate: I need you. Comment. Message me. Tag someone. Help me make this loud enough that lawmakers are forced to listen. This has been building for years. I cannot carry it alone. #CareForCare #SouthAustralia #SAHealth #HealthReform #DisabilityRights #BID #StructuralViolence #LivedExperience #MedicalEthics #Advocacy #Healthcare #MentalHealthAwareness #PatientAdvocacy #HumanRights #Australia #ChronicIllness #InvisibleDisability #HealthEquity #PatientVoice #Change #Reform #DisabilityTwitter #MedTwitter
Looking to speak to parents/teens about the under-16 social media ban - This American Life Hi everyone. I'm an Australian podcast producer, now based in the US, where I work for This American Life. I'm working on a story about Australia's under-16 social media restrictions, and I've been reading some of the really interesting discussion in this subreddit â including this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1pyg6zm/so\_how\_is\_the\_social\_media\_ban\_going/ I'm particularly interested in what's actually happening on the ground: how the restrictions are working (or not working), what parents are seeing, and the different ways young people are getting around them â including experiences with age verification. I'm hoping to speak with parents of under-16s, and with young people themselves through their parents. If you'd be willing to chat, please send me a DM me here or email me at [email redacted]. I'm happy to explain more about the story and the interview process before you decide whether you'd like to participate. Thanks! Ruby Schwartz
https://t.co/pnDZbywNTK is running industry & market analysis for a report on the current state of EAM in APAC/ANZ, we'd love your input, Comments, Questions or Quotes, we'd love to hear from you (DM at any time) Q: Which EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) platform are you using?
Looking for interviewees about campus ghost stories đť Hi everyone! Weâre a group of students making a short non-fiction film about haunted stories and urban legends around campus. Weâre looking for students whoâd be happy to do a short on-camera interview (around 5â10 mins). You donât need to have personally seen a ghost đ Weâd love to hear from you if you: have heard any creepy stories about UniMelb know any campus urban legends have heard about the underground tunnel rumours have had a weird experience somewhere on campus The interview will be filmed on campus and will be pretty casual. Weâll provide a consent form before filming. Free bubble tea as a thank-you đ§ If youâre interested, comment below or DM me! Also feel free to send me any stories even if you donât want to be interviewed!
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