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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · 12d

#ClimateChange is scary! This Halloween, vanquish fossil fuel monsters and boogie with us in #Braidwood - FREE!

#RisingTide film about blockading the world’s largest coal port in #Newcastle.

#LiveMusic:
Mia Marcelle
Sunbeam Sound Machine
Clancy Walker

RSVP:
www.risingtide.org.au/film/braidwood

Walbunja Country / BRAIDWOOD — Rising Tide

Join us for the Shoalhaven launch of Turning the Ship! Turning the Ship tells the story of the passion and drive of Rising Tide and the extraordinary 2024 People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest...

www.risingtide.org.au

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · Sep 22

“Some of the most important events in our lives occur in liminal spaces. In the gap between more significant, named spaces, we make discoveries and experience epiphanies.”

Please read this marvellous mediation by @emmadavidson.bsky.social

greenagenda.org.au/2025/09/fore...

Forever in the space between us - Green Agenda

As Voyager 1 nears its end, Emma Davidson reflects on what its journey, along with Pluto and its moon Charon, reveal about the beauty and power of symbiosis. In her essay, Emma shows how relationships...

greenagenda.org.au

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Donna Benjamin @kattekrab.bsky.social · Aug 1

Huzzah!
Everything Open is heading to the University of Canberra 21-23 January 2026 Call for sessions and sponsors is out now!

2026.everythingopen.au

Help us get the conversation started!

#EverythingOpen

@linuxaustralia.bsky.social
@everythingopen.au

Everything Open 2026 | Canberra, Australia

2026.everythingopen.au

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Jul 3

If you never have to think about whether you can afford to see the GP now or if you should wait til after next payday, then this story will be of no interest to you whatsoever.

region.com.au/medicare-nee...

Medicare needs some mid-life changes to truly be the core of our public health system | Region Canberra

The advent of Medicare in 1984 was supposed to enable free healthcare for every Australian and make it easier to…

region.com.au

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Jun 23

David Shoebridge is right when he says that the impact of war is always inflicted on ordinary people.

We have a choice to make.
I choose people.
I choose peace.

#RadicalLove #HopePunk

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IDEATE @ideatecommunity.bsky.social · Jun 5

Today we launched the IDEATE program: universities and tech industry leaders working together to improve inclusion, diversity and equity in Australian technology education.
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Daniel Nadasi (Google AU), David Liebowitz (PentenAmio), Emma Davidson (IDEATE Program Director), Penny Kyburz (ANU, IDEATE Steering Committee Chair), Sally-Ann Williams (Cicada Innovations, IDEATE Steering Committee member), Antony Hosking (ANU).
Standing in front of an Aboriginal flag that is overlaid with words in Ngunnawal and English.

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Matt Grudnoff @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social · Mar 27

If you let first home owners access their super to buy a house, this will act like a super charged first home buyer grants. Pushing up house prices and stripping people’s super accounts.

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Mar 25

Me watching the Budget and seeing Chalmers still hasn’t got dental or mental health in Medicare
*cries in French*
#Budget #auspol #mh #dental #Medicare

Anne Hathaway crying in the scene from Les Mis where she sings “I Dreamed a Dream”

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Mar 20

Do you reckon it’s ok that classrooms are over 30°C in summer? Yeah, me neither.
Sign this Greens-sponsored petition to get proper air con into Canberra High School:
epetitions.parliament.act.gov.au/details/e-pe...

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Mar 19

Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue AC CBE DSG is a name that is inscribed in history, and we are all grateful for her work.
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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Mar 19

In her speech, Governor-General Sam Mostyn referenced the ANU motto “first to know the nature of things”:
“It is the nature of universities to seek transformation through understanding.”
Also loved hearing the GG quote Mikaela Jade 🫶🏾

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Mar 19

It was a wonderful moment to be part of the recognition of her life and her work. Her niece, Deb Andrews, spoke beautifully of the achievement her aunt was most proud of: becoming the first Aboriginal nurse in 1954.

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Mar 19

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“If you want the world to be different, you have to actively make it different.”

This is what ANU Vice-Chancellor, Genevieve Bell, said today as the Lowitja O’Donoghue Cultural Centre was officially named.

#Canberra #ANU #FirstNations

Deb Andrews speaking at the lectern with a large portrait of her aunt on the wall behind her.

Paul Girrawah House standing at the lectern to welcome everyone to country.

Genevieve Bell standing at the lectern. There are Australian, Aboriginal, and Torres Strat Islander flags behind her.

Governor General Sam Mostyn standing at the lectern, wearing a red suit. In the portrait of Lowitja O’Donoghue projected onto the wall behind her, Lowitja is wearing a red coat.

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Mar 3

On Tuesday 4 March at 3pm, Laura Nuttall MLA will call on parliament to get fossil fuel sponsorships out of our schools. Come to the ACT Legislative Assembly public gallery for this historic debate.

Image of child writing in a work book with text overlay:
The ACT Assembly will vote on a Greens motion to keep fossil fuels out of classrooms
Tuesday March 4
3:00pm
ACT Legislative Assembly

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Feb 19

Had a great time at the @greens.org.au launch for ACT Federal candidates Isabel Mudford, Sam Carter, and Dani Hungerford for Reps, and Christina Hobbs and Jo Rocke for Senate.

The antidote to despair about the state of the world is action to make it better. #auspol

greens.org.au/act/candidates

Isabel speaking into a microphone next to Sam and Christina. They are smiling.

Isabel speaking into a microphone. She is wearing a brightly coloured shirt. On the wall behind her are candidate posters for Isabel Mudford and Dani Hunterford.

Sam Carter (in wheelchair) smiling and looking at camera. Standing next to him are Dani, who is watching something out of frame to the left, and Isabel who is looking at her phone.

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Feb 19

Had some very much needed belly laughs thanks to Christine Ryan tonight. Very relatable jokes about renting and gardening and stupid Facebook marketplace.

She’s playing a bajillion comedy festivals. Replace a night of doomscrolling with a night of joy.
#HopePunk
chrisryancomedy.com/

Chris Ryan leaning forward and speaking into a microphone. She’s wearing bright green pants and a dark blue top, and she’s standing with her feet a little bit apart like she’s a nice tall A shape. This probably gives her good stability to reduce the risk of falling over laughing, which some of us felt like doing while listening to her.

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Feb 15

Again from Belco Bowl Jam yesterday
#skateboarding #skating #canberra

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Feb 15

Belco Bowl Jam yesterday. Vert ramp is on today.

#skateboarding #skating #canberra

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Feb 1

Trans and gender diverse people are more likely than most to need mental health support at some time in their lives.

There are guidelines to help GPs in providing gender affirming mental health care.

Because we all want people to feel safe to be themselves.

www.act.gov.au/__data/asset...

Drawing of to people standing next to each other in pink tops and blue pants or skirts. A blue, pink and white flag is below them.

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · Jan 20

As the Whitlams said...

@emmadavidson.bsky.social #EverythingOpen

Presentation slide showing results of 2024 study into NSW gambling expenditure and increases in crime

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Ash Barber (she/her) @ashthelibrarian.bsky.social · Jan 20

“We are a society that is paying for its inability to understand mental illness in its hospitals and prisions” Oof! 🔥 @emmadavidson.bsky.social on Open justice w/in a justice reinvestment f/work at @everythingopen.au “Better managing trauma & mental abuse can reduce existence in soc just system”

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Jan 26

This is your intermittent reminder that social media networks are not entitled to your attention. It’s ok to take a break for a snack and a nap, and to touch grass and see sky.

Blue sky visible through the branches of a yellowbox tree

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Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · Dec 24

In the lead up to @everythingopen.au in January in #Adelaide #Tarntanya, I've put together a Starter Pack of all the Speakers I could find, and folks I know who have attended in the past.

Let me know if I've missed anyone, and please do share!

#EO2025

go.bsky.app/BvdJoqG

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Dec 24

Thank you! So many good sessions at this conf, I can’t wait!

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Emma Davidson @emmadavidson.bsky.social · Dec 24

If you’re in Canberra and need crisis support services, these places are open even on public holidays:

Domestic Violence Crisis Service: https://dvcs.org.au/ 02 62 800 900
Safe Haven for mental health support: https://stride.com.au/mental-health-services/ Open 3pm-10pm at 56 Lathlain St Belconnen, no appointment or Medicare card needed
Lifeline: 13 11 14
Beyond Blue: 1300 22 46 36
Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800

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