Nyamal woman, MPsych/PhD Clin Psych; 2018 Aust of the Yr (WA);3 xMarathoner, Founder Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health E:[email protected]
Perth, Western Australia
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THE WAIT IS OVER. 🎸🔥
We are thrilled to announce that Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett & Martin Rotsey will be joining us in Sydney to perform acoustically at our 2026 Westerman Jilya Institute Indigenous Child Suicide Prevention Fundraising Gala.
This legendary Australian band has spent decades using music to spark conversations, inspire action and stand up for what matters. To have Peter and Martin performing at our Gala in support of Indigenous child suicide prevention is an incredible honour.
✨ This is our biggest Gala yet.
✨ Our first-ever Gala in Sydney.
✨ An unforgettable evening of impact, purpose and world-class entertainment.
🎟️ Tickets are already selling fast on pre-sale — YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS!
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Help us create a future where every Indigenous child has an equal opportunity to thrive.
For corporate sponsorship enquiries, please contact:
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Dr Tracy Westerman AM retweeted
Not ONE person in the entire government has stood up to Trump like Abdul. Not one.
Abdul El-Sayed absolutely destroys Donald Trump.
Q: You recently called President Trump the dumbest effing guy who ever was president.
AES: True.
Q: You've also said Democrats should drop the decorum and treat the president as the unserious fool that he is.
AES: True.
Q: Why are you taking that approach?
AES: Because he's a bully alongside being a narcissist. And the only way you deal with bullies is to stand up to them. Bullies don't bully you because they necessarily care for the thing you have. They bully you because they like to bully you because it makes them feel strong. And the way you take on a bully is to bully back. Because then they learn that this does not make them feel strong. It makes them feel weak and they don't like to feel weak. So they back off. And the more you let a bully get away with bullying, the more they signal to everybody else that this person cannot be stood up to. And so I think it's important for us to stand up to him.
Dr Tracy Westerman AM retweeted
To those Christians saying "Quran rejects the Bible"
Have you actually READ the Quran?
The Quran doesn't reject the Bible. It CONFIRMS it. It mentions Jesus, Moses, Mary, Abraham, Noah, David, Solomon, John, Zachariah, more than 25 prophets of the Bible by name, with honour.
The Quran says: We sent down the Torah and the Gospel as guidance.
The difference is this: The Quran is UNCHANGED. One book. One text. Memorized by millions, word for word, for 1400+ years.
The Bible itself has versions , King James, NIV, Catholic, Protestant , books added, books removed, verses changed. Even Christian scholars admit it.
So don't tell us the Quran rejects the Bible. The Quran PRESERVES what the Bible was meant to be.
And now the hypocrisy:
Abdul El-Sayed says he will swear on the Quran and suddenly it's a "problem"?
Didn't Trump take oath on the Bible? Didn't stop him from visiting Epestein Island did it. How is that working out for you guys?
An oath on a holy book doesn't make you holy. Your actions do.
A man swearing on the Quran to serve the people honestly is far more American than a man swearing on the Bible and then serving only himself.
The book doesn't matter. The character does.
And Abdul El-Sayed has character.
#Quran #AbdulElSayed
Dr Tracy Westerman AM retweeted
What major tests like PISA and NAPLAN get wrong about Indigenous students - theconversation.com/what-maj… by Peter Anderson, Angela Baeza Pena, @BronFredericks & Levon Ellen Blue in the @ConversaEDU, 17 September 2026. #EducationMatters #Education #Education #NAPLAN #EducationEquity
Dr Tracy Westerman AM retweeted
In America right now, Black activists are saying something that has stopped me in my tracks:
“for a lot of people, it feels dangerous to hope”.
They’ve earned that caution. And yet last week they dared to hope anyway, and they made history. In Mississippi, deep in the old South, Scott Colom became the state’s first Black US senator since the 1870s. Georgia elected the first Black woman governor in American history. Michigan elected the first Muslim to the US Senate. New Mexico elected the first Native American woman governor. States that had never had a Black governor now have one.
And here we are watching the rise of One Nation: fearing the trajectory we have watched in the US, while quietly telling ourselves “only in America; that would never happen in Australia” and I know I’m not alone in what I’m feeling. Australia has never been perfect. The fair go has never been equally given. But for most of my life, I believed we were moving forward, slowly, sometimes painfully, but forward. Now, for the first time, it feels like we are going backwards. And that is why so many people are genuinely afraid.
I believed in this country with everything I have. I was a kid from the remote Pilbara. Neither of my parents went past Year 3 and my mum wasn’t even a citizen of her own country as an Aboriginal woman. I did most of my university subjects by distance education, but I dared to hope I could become a psychologist. Nobody could tell me it was impossible, because this country had told me that if you work hard and put your head down, the things you dream about will come.
Lately that hope has started to feel misplaced. Not because the dream was wrong, but because I’m watching a country that seems less sure it wants to keep that promise to everyone.
But hope was never the soft option. Hope is what got that kid from the Pilbara to where I am today. It’s what America just showed the world. The people who change history aren’t the ones who stopped being afraid. They’re the ones who hoped anyway.
For the kid in a remote town who has never seen anyone like them make it. For the migrant family who bet everything they had on this country so their children could have more. For the young person afraid to tell anyone who they really are. For everyone who started with no advantage and dared to dream big anyway.
So yes, it feels dangerous to hope right now. Hope anyway.
In America right now, Black activists are saying something that has stopped me in my tracks:
“for a lot of people, it feels dangerous to hope”.
They’ve earned that caution. And yet last week they dared to hope anyway, and they made history. In Mississippi, deep in the old South, Scott Colom became the state’s first Black US senator since the 1870s. Georgia elected the first Black woman governor in American history. Michigan elected the first Muslim to the US Senate. New Mexico elected the first Native American woman governor. States that had never had a Black governor now have one.
And here we are watching the rise of One Nation: fearing the trajectory we have watched in the US, while quietly telling ourselves “only in America; that would never happen in Australia” and I know I’m not alone in what I’m feeling. Australia has never been perfect. The fair go has never been equally given. But for most of my life, I believed we were moving forward, slowly, sometimes painfully, but forward. Now, for the first time, it feels like we are going backwards. And that is why so many people are genuinely afraid.
I believed in this country with everything I have. I was a kid from the remote Pilbara. Neither of my parents went past Year 3 and my mum wasn’t even a citizen of her own country as an Aboriginal woman. I did most of my university subjects by distance education, but I dared to hope I could become a psychologist. Nobody could tell me it was impossible, because this country had told me that if you work hard and put your head down, the things you dream about will come.
Lately that hope has started to feel misplaced. Not because the dream was wrong, but because I’m watching a country that seems less sure it wants to keep that promise to everyone.
But hope was never the soft option. Hope is what got that kid from the Pilbara to where I am today. It’s what America just showed the world. The people who change history aren’t the ones who stopped being afraid. They’re the ones who hoped anyway.
For the kid in a remote town who has never seen anyone like them make it. For the migrant family who bet everything they had on this country so their children could have more. For the young person afraid to tell anyone who they really are. For everyone who started with no advantage and dared to dream big anyway.
So yes, it feels dangerous to hope right now. Hope anyway.
Dr Tracy Westerman AM retweeted
🔥Talarico SHUT DOWN Fox host with 3 sentences:
“We don’t accept cheating in our politics.
We don’t accept cheating in our relationships.
We shouldn’t accept cheating in our elections.”
Dr Tracy Westerman AM retweeted
This decision does not reflect the values of the Kew community. Treaty, climate action, and gender equity are all values this community holds, yet Jess Wilson wants to preference One Nation to win seats.
Dr Tracy Westerman AM retweeted
If you vote One Nation you should get One Nation Policies ie no socialism, no unemployment checks, no medicare card, no anti discrimination protections, no minimum wage, no free education and no old age pension.
Dr Tracy Westerman AM retweeted
I do not understand why a woman would ever vote for Hanson. She would turn back the clock on decades of progress for women's rights. Her main support base is angry, middle aged and senior men.
Dear people of Victoria. Please do not vote for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation candidates. Her political base comprises white supremacists, neo-Nazis, antisemites, racist dog whistlers, Islamophobes. She is now trying to be all things to all people. In power she will broker uncontrolling guns, work choices2.0, horror cuts to services. abc.net.au/news/2026-11-10/v…
Dr Tracy Westerman AM retweeted
Dear people of Victoria. Please do not vote for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation candidates. Her political base comprises white supremacists, neo-Nazis, antisemites, racist dog whistlers, Islamophobes. She is now trying to be all things to all people. In power she will broker uncontrolling guns, work choices2.0, horror cuts to services. abc.net.au/news/2026-11-10/v…
Dr Tracy Westerman AM retweeted
Genuinely has to be one of the smartest, insightful politicians I have ever heard speak. Defy anyone to listen to this man and not be impressed by him.
He’s absolutely brilliant
Dr Tracy Westerman AM retweeted
COLLINS: What do you say to the 11 Democrats who didn't show up to vote tonight?
EL-SAYED: You should show up and do your job
Dr Tracy Westerman AM retweeted
One Nation sets a low bar.
Jess WIlson's Liberals have put them second.
🤖 Made with AI
Dr Tracy Westerman AM retweeted
This is disgusting.
A coked-up looking Donald Trump Jr. suggested Russell Brand was convicted because he became a conservative. Brand was sentenced Monday in London to 10 and a half years in prison for rape and sexual assault.
Dr Tracy Westerman AM retweeted
JUST NOW: Joe Biden breaks down in tears as he surprises his son Hunter Biden in Dublin, who is receiving a student award at Trinity College.
Hunter was awarded the Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution for Public Discourse.
Love this!
