@amoeaba

@ag_dots founder | Non-Executive Director | #foodsecurity | Chronic volunteer | she/her

 Kununurra, Miriwoong country
about.me/amoeaba
Joined January 2012
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So, it's been 6.5 years since I've written in my blog. Much has changed since then. But my love of PNG has not. rait-meri.blogspot.com – at Perth, Western Australia
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Ben McTaggart@bentags15 Jul 2024
With everything that's going on at the moment, I think it's a timely reminder that we really should all be aspiring to World Peas. I'll see myself out 🎤
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Maddison McNeil@Mads_mcneil_15 Jun 2023
Great day to learn about Monitoring and Evaluation! Thanks to @GGA_WA and #SWWAhub members for joining us for module 4 - it’s been our pleasure! Dial in for Faciltation next Thursday - gga.org.au/activity/ea-train…
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Regardless about how you feel about trans people competing in sport (or anything) the backlash about Breanna Gill is NOT ok. I can’t imagine what their journey has been, justifying their existence, courageously being the precedent. Choose kindness, folks. smh.com.au/sport/golf/it-s-r… – at Kununurra, Western Australia

Trans golfer faces death threats after winning Australian Women’s Classic

Transgender professional golfer Breanna Gill was subjected to death threats and anti-trans abuse after she won her first professional title on Sunday.

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Ted O'Connor@TedOConnor48 Apr 2023
I spent a week in Halls Creek not long ago where there’s some amazing people tackling the sort of inter-generational trauma and social dysfunction many Australians would struggle to imagine. abc.net.au/news/2023-04-09/h…

The sounds of children skylarking echo around Halls Creek at night. There are glimmers of hope for...

School attendance and youth crime are at crisis point in Halls Creek. But as community leaders strive for solutions, there are glimmers of hope for this troubled town.

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"Yesterday’s breakthrough is today’s environmental crisis, like an infuriating game of environmental and public health Whac-A-Mole." Amen to this. Is creating meat in a petri dish *really* solving food systems challenges? Or is it guise for virtue signalling and $ making?
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This wordy birdy loves language. As such, devoured this @agcconnect's Offshoot edition. agrowingculture.substack.com… English emphasises individualism nouns and possessive pronouns like 'mine' and 'yours', as distinct from many indigenous languages that prioritise relationality.
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Other bits I enjoyed. Māori word for autism is Takiwātanga, “in their own time and space”. The invitation to reframe: 'Developed' and 'Developing' 'First World' and 'Third World' 'Global North' and 'Global South' 'West' and 'East' as 'Majority World' and 'Minority World'.
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Clint@clint_jasper9 Mar 2023
This is a really awful way to 'consult' with Basin communities. The Dept should know being as open and transparent about the process as possibe would be a good starting point. Quote from the Sefton review:
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Maria@dortsmaria9 Mar 2023
What a way to respond to a flood crisis. @Wesfarmers Confirmed - @Coles, the only major supermarket in the East Kimberley - has chosen not to participate in the distribution of air delivery of food supplies. Relief has switched to confusion and massive disappointment. – at Kununurra, Western Australia
Maria@dortsmaria8 Mar 2023
A relief for Kununurra - cut off completely by road - to receive a Government Airdrop of food supply. @Coles - Is it true that you have declined to accept an air food supply? (Pics of Kununurra Coles shelves to follow….) @Melissa4Durack @divinadanna76
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I don’t want purple cupcakes for #IWD2023, I want a bot that calls out gender pay gaps in hypocritical purple-washing companies. Now that’s really embracing the (correct) @UN_Women theme, ‘DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality’. @RRRNetwork @techcouncil_aus
Gender Pay Gap Bot@PayGapApp7 Mar 2023
Replying to @ChuckoDirect
At NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK: Women's median hourly pay is 36.5% lower than men's Women's median bonus pay is 52.8% lower than men's Percentage of women in each pay quarter: Upper: 20.3% Upper middle: 22.1% Lower middle: 38.2% Lower: 56.5%
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"It gave them food security for the first time." @KathrynThorbur1 of Nulungu Research Institute at @NotreDameAUS Broome on the impact of doubling welfare for remote communities during COVID. And imagine now. No food on shelves and limited financial capacity anyway.
Prof Ray Wills@ProfRayWills6 Mar 2023
Food security has been a problem in the Kimberley and in Kununurra last decade before the pandemic, during the pandemic, before the floods, after the first Kimberley floods, and before the second Kimberley floods, and since Pandemic 2020 -> abc.net.au/news/2021-11-01/k… @ABCaustralia

How were the nation's most remote residents affected by pandemic rules?

Firsthand accounts help researchers unpack the impact multiple pandemic policies had on First Nations people in far north Australia. 

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Maria@dortsmaria8 Mar 2023
A relief for Kununurra - cut off completely by road - to receive a Government Airdrop of food supply. @Coles - Is it true that you have declined to accept an air food supply? (Pics of Kununurra Coles shelves to follow….) @Melissa4Durack @divinadanna76
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After weeks of living off cabbage, iceberg lettuce and strawberries (thanks SA farmers!) our diets might consist of more than coleslaw and jam. @DefenceAust apparently flying a Hercules load of food to us this week. Excited for the big plane or tucker more? 🤔
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@abcnews8 Mar 2023
Australian Defence Force to help end food shortage in flooded East Kimberley abc.net.au/news/2023-03-08/d…

Australian Defence Force to help end food shortage in East Kimberley region cut off by NT floods

Roads closed by flooding in the NT have prevented fresh food deliveries to the region for days, leaving locals to "get what you can, and hope for the best".

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Epic shout out to @FoodbankAus WA and MG Corp for organising food relief for vulnerable community members in the wake of this food security failure. And I say failure because this is a system breakdown. If it was a disaster, it would be unexpected. Climate change is expected.
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girly&wordly@Brieyonce27 Feb 2023
Allow me to introduce you to the most ridiculous yet amazing thing you will see this week.
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“Rather than ag tech for tech’s sake, what is good, optimised?” Guy Royal of indigenous VC @MauiToa challenging the @evokeAG audience to consider what problem we’re seeking to solve with tech, when more ≠ better. More might exacerbate unbalanced systems.
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Hunger affects nearly 10% of the global population - that’s 811 million (!) people. I understand that growing food on the moon enables us to understand new ways of growing things, but sheesh - is moon food really the answer, or even the question? @evokeAG #evokeAG – at Adelaide, South Australia
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“We know that with one action or idea, big things can grow” newly appointed @AgriFuturesAU Chair @Indigocathy calling all to collective action in the @evokeAG opening address, from consultancy to corporate to farmers. – at Adelaide, South Australia
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Epic yarn on @abcperth Panel this AM with host @smith_damian and fellow panelist @zrfk! We spoke all things Cabinet reshuffle and leadership beyond politics. NB to self: Refrain from saying ‘bloody’ (or at least twice in one segment) in future. Hope Aunty wasn’t too upset! 😬😆 – at Perth, Western Australia
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