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Can't wait to go to The Winter Sessions this weekend at The Vault in Shepparton! Get along, it'll be pretty cool!!! 😎❄️
21/05/2026

Can't wait to go to The Winter Sessions this weekend at The Vault in Shepparton!
Get along, it'll be pretty cool!!! 😎❄️

I'm gearing up for this Sunday's beginner Basket Weaving workshop. Who's joining us?Make sure to get a ticket so I can b...
19/04/2026

I'm gearing up for this Sunday's beginner Basket Weaving workshop. Who's joining us?
Make sure to get a ticket so I can buy your kit in time! (PS. Don't you love how these raffia colours match my dress!? 🩷💛🩵🧡)

Get your tickets here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1CgoTkURPu/

UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who reached out to support these workshops going ahead! I have booked the Numurkah Uniting...
18/03/2026

UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who reached out to support these workshops going ahead! I have booked the Numurkah Uniting Church for all of the workshops in my events.
I'm looking forward to meeting you all ☺️
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Hi everyone!

We have a problem!

I’m looking to run craft workshops in Numurkah, as there has been a lot of interest, but I can't seem to find a venue!

I’m hoping to keep these workshops low-cost and accessible, so I’m specifically looking for a space that:
• Can be used free of charge
• Is accessible for people of all abilities

Unfortunately, the library, learning centre/community house, and senior citizens centre have been ruled out.

My goal is to bring fun, creative activities to the area so people don’t have to travel far or pay high fees to participate. At the same time, I do need to cover the cost of materials I will provide, so I’m trying to find a balance that keeps things affordable without running at a loss.

The only time I can run them is on Sundays, from 11am - 2pm.

If anyone has suggestions, connections, or ideas, I’d really appreciate it!

It would be a huge shame to have to cancel everything simply because venue hire fees would make it unaffordable.

Thanks so much 💛

So, it’s the 16 Days of Activism, a global campaign running from 25 November to 10 December that raises awareness about ...
25/11/2025

So, it’s the 16 Days of Activism, a global campaign running from 25 November to 10 December that raises awareness about gender-based violence.

You’ll likely see a wave of social media posts, morning teas, and community walks over the next couple of weeks - all intended to shine a light on violence against women.

But the hard truth? Awareness alone doesn’t create change.
It hasn’t yet, and it won’t now.

This issue is complex, but not because we don’t know how to address it. We absolutely do. Expert recommendations have been handed to local, state, and federal governments for years.

The problem is that they’re not enacted. Systems aren’t resourced. Prevention isn’t prioritised. And campaigns like this are often used as a way for institutions to look like they’re “doing the work” while avoiding the structural changes that would actually keep women and girls safe.

Awareness raising has value, but awareness without action is performance.

If you want to see real change in your community, it will take collective pressure, not just sharing posts or venting to friends.

It looks like gathering your people.
It looks like writing, calling, emailing, meeting.
It looks like pushing your council, state MPs, and federal representatives to act on the recommendations they already have, and to stop shifting responsibility back onto women and girls to keep themselves safe.

Change doesn’t happen because we talk about violence.
Change happens when communities organise, show up, and apply sustained pressure to the systems that hold the power to transform the conditions that enable violence.

I'm asking you to do far more than raise awareness. Demand action.

25/11/2025

Day two of 'What you didn't consider'...

Being the only Blackfulla in the room is not a coincidence — it’s a system pattern. A pattern that organisations rarely acknowledge, because the burden isn’t carried by them.

When you are the only one:
- You’re not just participating in the meeting — you’re scanning the room for danger,
- anticipating the next ignorant comment,
- bracing for the moment all eyes swing your way because something “Indigenous” has been mentioned.
- You’re calculating whether speaking up will cost you,
- whether silence will be misunderstood,
- whether honesty will be punished.

This isn’t overthinking. It’s survival. Most people in the room won’t notice any of this because they’ve never had to. This is why cultural safety isn’t a warm concept; it’s a protective factor. It’s why voice and agency matter. It’s why Indigenous representation is not a “nice-to-have.”

It’s why one Indigenous person cannot be expected to carry the cultural load of an entire organisation, team or room. If your workplace has “just one,” you do not have diversity — you have a risk.

A cultural safety risk.
A wellbeing risk.
A retention risk.
A human risk.
..And the burden doesn’t belong to the person in the minority. It belongs to the system that created the conditions for them to be alone in the first place.

25/11/2025

A number of experiences over the past week and a half have led me to begin creating the “What you didn’t consider” pack. This week, one card each day will be shared.

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There’s a pattern I keep seeing across organisations, no matter the industry, size, or sector.

People genuinely believe they’re doing the right thing, yet the cultural harm keeps happening.
Not because they’re malicious, but because they’re unprepared for the realities Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples live with every day.

Most organisations don’t anticipate:
• the racism that explodes the moment they make a public Indigenous-focused post
• the cultural grief triggered when an Aboriginal flag is removed or moved “for practical reasons”
• the trauma responses that show up silently in meetings — the freeze, the fawn, the hypervigilance
• the emotional load carried home long after a workplace incident
• the pressure placed on the one Indigenous staff member to carry every cultural expectation
• the microaggressions that aren’t “small” to the person who absorbs them
• the systems that accidentally repeat colonial patterns because no one recognised them as such

These are blind spots — the things that sit completely outside the dominant cultural lens and if we don’t name them, organisations will continue to cause harm while believing they’re doing “good work.” So I’ve been developing something to surface the “you didn’t consider this” layer — the unseen, unnamed risks that shape cultural safety long before any policy, training or RAP milestone.

Not to shame. Not to blame, but to tell the truth because cultural safety isn’t created through intention. It’s created through awareness, responsibility and a willingness to see what has always been visible to us — but invisible to the system.

More on this soon, but each day this week I'll share a different focus. For now, it’s time to make the unseen, seen.


28/08/2025

I started Women of the Murray because I saw something that didn’t sit right with me. Too often, it felt like women were looking at each other as competition, measuring, comparing, and questioning who was doing better, who looked like they had it all together.But that was never what I wanted for my...

25/08/2025

This week at all NCN Health campuses Pad and Tampon vending machines will be installed.
Nathalia - Pathology Unisex Toilet
Cobram - Urgent Care Accessible Toilet
Numurkah - Main Reception All Abilities Unisex Toilet (Behind Main Reception)
They will be installed throughout the week, and once ready to use Free for the public.

26/05/2025

Workplaces weren’t designed with everyone in mind. But they can be. 🤔

Join us for a free one-day event exploring how neuroinclusion and accessibility can strengthen teams, drive innovation, and create environments where all kinds of minds can thrive.

If you’re a business owner, manager, HR professional, community group leader, support service provider, or educator, this event is designed for you.

Hosted by headspace Shepparton in partnership with Two Point Zero Australia.

📅 Event Details
Date: Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: The Woolshed @ Emerald Bank (7719 Goulburn Valley Hwy, Kialla VIC 3631)
Lunch and afternoon tea provided
Cost: FREE

What you will gain:

✔️ Gain a deep understanding of neurodiversity and the rich range of neurodivergent experiences in today’s workplaces
✔️ Discover why building neuroinclusive workplaces is critical for business success and innovation
✔️ Learn how to overcome common challenges and create environments where neurodivergent employees feel valued and can thrive
✔️ Hear powerful, real-world stories from local employers and neurodivergent individuals
✔️ Be inspired by a keynote address from a leading neuroinclusion expert
✔️ Participate in an interactive workshop where you’ll gain practical, actionable strategies and see how accessibility benefits everyone
Whether you’re a business owner, manager, HR professional, educator, service provider, or community leader — this event is for you.

🎟️ Reserve your spot now:
👉 https://info.directioneering.com/tpzheadspace

Let’s work together to build workplaces that work for everyone.

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