by Rosie Martin | Jan 27, 2021 | Blog, Kindness, Social Justice
How’s that Grace Tame, eh! What a stunner. Amazing Tasmanian Grace – you little beauty! Did you see Our Australian of the Year pack her punches up on that podium? You go, our woman of strength and power! You change this world! You take paternalistic domination and...
by Rosie Martin | Jan 26, 2021 | Blog, Social Justice
I’m writing this on 26th January. I’m working. As usual. I actually don’t want this public holiday on this date. So I’m very happy to be at work. And because I own my own business it is easy for me to make choices to conscientiously object to the date. That said,...
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 | 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...
