This was a good yarn I enjoyed having yesterday with Yindjibarndi Elder Tootsie Daniel, Ngarluma woman Camilia Samson and Ballardong Noongar man Desmond Blurton. Have a listen if you feel like it.

"Aboriginal people have shared advice for Premier Mark McGowan ahead of the youth justice crisis talks he is holding in Perth today."

As Des says, the world is looking at what Western Australia does next. I hope we're able to start treating children with compassion and care.

https://www.ngaardamedia.com.au/news/aboriginal-people-demand-change-ahead-of-youth-justice-crisis-talks

#WesternAustralia #auspol #YouthJustice #FirstNationsJustice

This was a good yarn I enjoyed having yesterday with Yindjibarndi Elder Tootsie Daniel, Ngarluma woman Camilia Samson and Ballardong Noongar man Desmond Blurton. Have a listen if you feel like it.

"Aboriginal people have shared advice for Premier Mark McGowan ahead of the youth justice crisis talks he is holding in Perth today."

As Des says, the world is looking at what Western Australia does next. I hope we're able to start treating children with compassion and care.

https://www.ngaardamedia.com.au/news/aboriginal-people-demand-change-ahead-of-youth-justice-crisis-talks

#WesternAustralia #auspol #YouthJustice #FirstNationsJustice

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#introduction time -

I'm Gerard Mazza, a #writer and #activist from Western Australia

I worked for 5 years as a high school English teacher, which I found enlivening and frustrating in fairly equal measure, eventually becoming fed up with the way we do education. I'm interested in #SelfDirectedEducation and finding ways to encourage authentic learning that avoid coercion and hierarchy

In 2019, inspired by the upswell of climate activism happening around the world, I decided to quit work and do climate stuff full time, with a focus on #DirectAction

For the last year or so, a lot of my focus has been on working with different people and groups to try to stop the fossil fuel expansion and destruction of cultural heritage that Woodside and others plan at Murujuga, the Burrup Peninsula (See my article here to learn what that's all about: https://greens.org.au/magazine/what-you-need-know-about-burrup-hub)

I recently relocated near Murujuga in Karratha, Western Australia on Ngarluma Country. I've spent most of my life on Wadandi Noongar country (Bunbury) and Whadjuk Noongar country (Perth)

I also recently started working part time at Ngaarda Media, a First Nations media hub in Ieramagadu/Roebourne - helping to tell stories for and with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community

I've always enjoyed reading and writing. This year I've started publishing some freelance work

I'm interested in conversations about:
- #FirstNationsJustice and #CulturalHeritage
- Strategies and tactics in climate activism
- #ClimateJustice and intersectionality
- #ClimateEmotions
- Doomerism, hope, and all the spaces in between
- New paradigms for #education

I also love pop music and have been burning the new Taylor Swift album into my brain with repeated listens this past week or so