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VCOSS Live

@VCOSSlive

Live tweeting select social advocacy, policy and sector events. Want to use our service? Call VCOSS on 9235 1000

 Melbourne, Australia
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Joined July 2011
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VCOSS@VCOSS4 Aug 2019
Homelessness Week, which starts today, isn’t about statistics or data. It’s about people. Real people like David. A THREAD. #HW2019
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Emma King@EmmaKingVic3 Apr 2019
Fantastic to have @LukeDonnellan @GabbyWilliamsMP at the Community Services Industry Symposium today. Your leadership partnering with us to support and launch the Community Services Industry Plan is greatly appreciated! Looking forward to continuing to work with you @VCOSS
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Skills Minister Gayle Tierney announcing $1 million for VCOSS, RMIT and ourselves to help train the disability workforce of the future. #NDIS #skills #SpringSt #VicVotes
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VCOSS@VCOSS6 Sep 2018
The Residential Tenancies Bill has passed the Victorian Parliament—giving renters the support, protection and dignity. 🏠 #RentingMadeFair! ✅ – at Melbourne, Victoria
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.@WAFA_Comms can’t wait to share the most positive panel of EM leaders discussion at what has been a watershed and empowering conference #DiversityinDisaster @MFB_NEWS @whinwomen @WHGNE
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@WHGNE @whinwomen @VCOSSlive Oh so much information ! #DiversityinDisaster @CFA_Members ‘Community is not a communities vaccination there is a need for partners’ we are after all 1 community. #RespectACommunitiesResponsibility
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Malou@maloueudela18 Apr 2018
Down to the last plenary session of the #DiversityInDisaster Conference focuses on concrete actions to commit diversity and inclusivity in Australian Emergency Services and Organisations. Thank you, #AAS #AustraliaAwards for the opportunity to be here.
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The Brass, positioning the commitment to diversity and inclusion in their agencies, in the last session of a great conference #DiversityinDisaster @somalley3 @WHEATLEY_ @VCOSSlive – at East Melbourne, Melbourne
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Tracie Lund tells #diversityindisaster conference about the impacts of the #Hazelwood #coal mine fire - the industrial #disaster that lasted 45 days - on the local community, their health, & their life expectancy, & how the community works together to protect their own interests
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When I went out to the fire field I was told ‘your boss was just here’. In fact I was his boss. Louise Scott @DELWP_Vic #DiversityInDisaster @whinwomen @ResilientMelb @VCOSS
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Wonderful to hear @farm_strong from Climate and Health Alliance at #DiversityInDisaster conf! @VCOSS
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Jack Plant@J_Planty18 Apr 2018
"It doesn't matter how well we respond, if we get 'recovery' wrong that is what people will remember". #DiversityinDisaster @VCOSSlive
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#DiversityinDisaster lots of talk about the @second_disaster , second trauma what happens to people is often worse than the hazard impact
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We’ve heard a personal story of triumph over homelessness and addiction, facilitating participatory tools for marginalised people and their capabilities in communities in the Philippines and onto preparedness and financial capacity. #DiversityInDisaster @somalley3 @WHEATLEY_
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Replying to @PWD_DRR
Thank you to the #DiversityInDisaster conference organisers for inviting me to present my exciting work on person-centred emergency preparedness. Looking forward to following up on future collaborations discussed with colleagues @USydFHS
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Brindisi@brindisi18 Apr 2018
#DomesticVilence is a horrible crime wrapped up in the tendrils of a disaster surrounded in the fog of emergency. @evonnephd #DiversityinDisaster teapawt.net/evonnephd/status/98645…
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Just learnt that disasters increase family violence, and vulnerability of women/children. One quote from Dr Debra Parkinson’s Black Saturday research: “he drove off in the only car, and said I hope you die in the bushfire” - #DiversityInDisaster academia.edu/25646199/The_hi…
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"Please evacuate this way" or "please don't go that way"? My Arabic is more ordinary than my Tetum but being directed by a uniformed officer in a different language was confronting. #DiversityinDisaster – at East Melbourne, Melbourne
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Communities cannot lead recovery when they don't have capacity to make decisions. A space for local government to collaborate with and engage communities #DiversityinDisaster @PWD_DRR
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Brave and proud Indigenous man Jason Russell talking about his incredible life experiences - composer, community leader, parent, firefighter, rose grower, and being homeless and addicted to ICE - to the #DiversityinDisaster conference - and what it takes to get back on your feet
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#DiversityinDisaster @amalamo what if women can’t evacuate. Perhaps rediplan is the key, developing a personal support network. We have used it for forced marriages
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