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Nicholas Bromfield

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Academic. Political scientist researching public policy / admin & occasionally foreign policy via auspol + comparative analyses. Settler living on unceded Dharug country.

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · Apr 27

🚨 What can be learned at the intersection of crisis management & administrative burdens? is out now and open access! 🚨

Written with the v much missed @gemcarey.bsky.social.

For folks researching crisis management, admin burden, disability & the NDIS.

Short 🧵 with link 👇

What Can Be Learned at the Intersection of Crisis Management and Administrative Burdens? Evidence From a Systematic Review of the Governance of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme During COVID-19 by Nicholas Bromfield and Gemma Carey in Social Policy and Administration

The abstract for the paper, reading: 'Crisis management is a field that evaluates and solves crisis and disaster responses. Whilst the effectiveness of the ideal-type parameters of crisis management and administration has been well examined, crisis responses create administrative burdens, particularly for marginalised groups, that must be navigated. This paper brings together the administrative burden and crisis response literature, presenting a systematic review of research into Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) during COVID-19 to answer: What burdens emerged during the COVID-19 response for people with a disability? Why did these burdens arise? Were they potentially avoidable? And who was harmed by these burdens? We find that NDIS workers and participants experienced considerable administrative burdens during the implementation of the Australian pandemic response and co-produced the limited successes found in NDIS COVID-19 measures. Consequently, we argue that a crisis equity agenda should anticipate multiplied burdens for marginalised populations, plan to mitigate them and prioritise and assist the most disadvantaged in navigating stressed policy systems during a crisis response.'

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 1d

I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh for sure! 😊

Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 1d

And done ✅

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh damn, that reminds me to follow up on getting back to the battery guy for our place 🙃

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 1d

Exhausted?

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 1d

So I submitted the complete manuscript of my new book to the publisher. Hope it'll be out in the world late next year. It's about why Australia's role as an overseas coloniser was strikingly obvious to all and sundry till the 1970s, then was abruptly (and conveniently) forgotten.

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 3d

Yet again listening to the shitty compressed mp3 version of Hum's You'd Prefer an Astronaut that I downloaded half a lifetime ago because it's not available via streaming in Australia 🫠

Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 4d

Gotta love correcting the grammatical and citation errors introduced into your proofs 😒

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 4d

One month to go! Our new edited volume, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, will be published by @manchesterup.bsky.social in November.

Tell you institutional library to pre-order a hardback edition now.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 5d

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 5d

See the thing is I really dislike both these teams

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 5d

NRL GF pulled pork sandwich. As a neutral, I hope both teams lose

Pulled pork sandwich, grilled corn, slaw and oven chippies

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 6d

Aesthetically, spiritually, and practically I want whatever the exact opposite of these AI tradwife times is. Analogue queer goth? DIY polyamorous fisherman? I need to figure this out

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 6d

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 6d

Pulled pork and a chilli on the go in the smoker too

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 6d

Dog days 🐶

Barrel the Australasian Bosdog lays on the path in the sun amongst the weeds and uncut grass

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 6d

Keep telling yourself that if you must 🤣

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 6d

I mean
www.randwick.nsw.gov.au/facilities-a...

McIver's Ladies Baths - Randwick City Council

www.randwick.nsw.gov.au

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 8d

But not in Vic, NT, Tas, or WA ofc 🙃

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NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social · 9d

📰BREAKING📰

SafeWork NSW has stepped in to force Macquarie University to make work health and safety improvements to their consultation on proposed workplace changes.

Thanks to NTEU members at MQ who spoke out about the harm of workplace changes to staff mental health and wellbeing.

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 10d

Until you get further SW around Campbelltown ofc

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 10d

V true, a frequently correct observation mate

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 10d

White, but often (usually?) of southern European descent. Big Greek community for instance

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 10d

They all get a bit much ay

Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 10d

Putting on the 2020 Emma Ruth Rundle / Thou collab and having a beer to celebrate a paper acceptance (while completing the readings for my casual teaching gig 🙃)

Emma Ruth Rundle / Thou | May Our Chambers Be Full