by Rosie Martin | May 26, 2020 | Blog, Kindness, Speech Pathology
During April and May of 2020, I have been gathering my thoughts about the coronavirus pandemic. I have gathered them to make sense of them. For myself. But also, as a speech pathologist, for young people with whom I and my colleagues work. For them, too. I have...
by Rosie Martin | Dec 21, 2019 | Blog, Social Justice
Do you remember The Man from Snowy River? Or more specifically the blog I wrote about a paper I gave at the 2019 Australian and New Zealand Supreme and High Court Judges’ Conference? The presentation at that conference has led to the great privilege and opportunity to...
by Rosie Martin | May 16, 2019 | Blog
Mossy Willow Farm is a thriving market garden on the southern coast of Victoria. It uses regenerative, no-till practices and feeds more than 500 people a week. Building nutrient-rich soil is central to Mossy Willow’s methodology, which in turn creates an abundance of...
by Rosie Martin | Apr 7, 2019 | Blog, Kindness, Social Justice
I love reading. My pile of reading climbs up and up, not so as to overwhelm me with doubt and despair about my inaction, but to remind me that there is so much to read and I must act whenever and wherever possible. So one of the places I was reading this week...
by Rosie Martin | Feb 16, 2019 | Blog, Kindness, Social Justice, Speech Pathology
Last month I spoke about a lot of f^*king horses – not a usual mental image to associate with Banjo Paterson’s The Man from Snowy River! To quickly recap: when you don’t know or haven’t learnt the rules of communication, things become difficult. For both you and...
by Rosie Martin | Jan 25, 2019 | Blog, Social Justice
I am sitting on my couch reflecting on this time and this day, two years ago. As the 2017 Tasmanian Australian of the Year, I was standing alongside 31 other Australians who had lived their work. Scientists, artists, chefs, and so on. Each, like me, feeling a sense of...
