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National Disability Insurance Scheme: what we are doing to support you
1 Sep 2025

National Disability Insurance Scheme: what we are doing to support you

In this episode, we bring you highlights from our 2 September 2025 webinar, National Disability Insurance Scheme, what we are doing to support you,...
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Health through the widest lens, Part 2: Kim Hobbs and award winning teamwork
5 Dec 2023

Health through the widest lens, Part 2: Kim Hobbs and award winning teamwork

Last month we brought you a repeat of our earlier conversation with Rosalie Pockett AM.  Just as we were planning to re-broadcast the follow up...
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Social Workers Improving Healthcare: Part 1 Rosalie Pockett AM and Health Inequity
31 Oct 2023

Social Workers Improving Healthcare: Part 1 Rosalie Pockett AM and Health Inequity

This month we bring you an encore release of our conversation with Rosalie Pocket AM who has spent years overturning the inequities and injustices...
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Digital inclusion, community development and social justice
2 May 2023

Digital inclusion, community development and social justice

When a technology company invited a social worker to join their digital literacy project, it was because they hoped her social work skills would be...
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Mental Health and Human Rights: From a communal underwear cupboard to Allyship
1 Nov 2022

Mental Health and Human Rights: From a communal underwear cupboard to Allyship

When Anne-Maree Newbold OAM commenced her career, the residents of the large stand-alone psychiatric hospital in which she worked slept in...
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Still Plenty to Fight For
5 Jul 2022

Still Plenty to Fight For

The work and life of Max Cornwell OAM have been guided by a humanistic impulse; a preference for the democratic and emancipatory. He joined the...
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Leaving no one behind
6 Apr 2022

Leaving no one behind

What kind of world do we want? The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals describe one vision of a world which respects rights, shares prosperity and...
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Orienteers, Pilgrims, Explorers
7 Dec 2021

Orienteers, Pilgrims, Explorers

Dr Ann O’Neill AM has survived the unimaginable. In fact she has done more than survive: Ann has used her experience as the basis for further...
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Imelda, Michael and his Fairweather Friends
5 Oct 2021

Imelda, Michael and his Fairweather Friends

Imelda Dodds was in her first job as a social worker when she came across Michael who needed to be protected from his ‘fair-weather friends’. At that...
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Public Disaster and Private Trauma
1 Feb 2021

Public Disaster and Private Trauma

Like many people we at the AASW watched the January 2020 bushfires with horror. In late January 2020, host Angela Scarfe contacted a member, Jo, who...
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