Shortly after purchasing our tickets, the #bbwf2014 sold out!
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After carefully poring over the program we decided on which panels to attend:
Indigenous literacy; crime fiction; writing true crime; Indigenous leadership; ex-Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser in conversation with Kerry O'Brien; a report card from five writer's and their roadtrip; and to finish the day we worked out how to arrive early to secure a good seat for what we knew would be a packed out session with a lively ensemble of media heavy weights.
Coming down the ridge with my sis @kirstiecongress for @bbwritersfest 11c :D pic.twitter.com/JkWvQstABm
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 1, 2014
Destination Literacy panel:
'Community kids are entitled to the pursuit of excellence'. - @chrissarra
#bbwf2014 pic.twitter.com/cEVs3cW82B
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 1, 2014
'Did the crime choose you?'
Destined. @Tara_Moss Catharsis. @pmnewton Agony & ecstacy. @MatthewCondon2
#bbwf2014 pic.twitter.com/Ej4g58vixt
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
The Nature of Corruption panel.
'It has ground me down to hear some of these stories.' @MatthewCondon2
#bbwf2014 pic.twitter.com/ozShwADJz8
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
'Corruption is evil, nasty and its cruel. It's not glamourous.' @pmnewton
#bbwf2014 pic.twitter.com/Vd8voQ7mTJ
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
Q: How to expose corruption?
We need more investigative journalists, and to support the whistle blowers. @Tara_Moss pic.twitter.com/7YHUue3dI2
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
Artists' responsibility to say, 'How beautiful...we have the right to have beautiful things.' Wesley Enoch #bbwf2014 pic.twitter.com/rGL6eu4IQD
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
Toxic low expectation was the reality. @chrissarra knew another reality was possible because he had touched it, in his childhood. #bbwf2014
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
A council of elders is based on consultation - not a bureacratic model. Tony Birch on leadership. #bbwf2014 pic.twitter.com/TP0x4Dd56w
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
Beyond Victims:
'Leader' is a bit of a misnomer. It is more about a 'rise to take responsibility, to do something'.
Wesley Enoch #bbwf2014
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
On bureaucracies:
'The problem isn't the structure, it's individuals within the structure.' @chrissarra #bbwf2014
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
Flawed Indigenous reviews: reduce rewards & increase penalties.
People's opinions rather than evidence based policy. Wesley Enoch #bbwf2014
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
The Forrest Review – ‘Creating Parity’ is
here
Welfare’s share of total
spending has fallen over the past decade and Australians are less
welfare-dependent, not more.
Read more here
[The Guardian Aus 4 August]
Suggested models have historical underpinning, ie aggressive strategies that included reducing rations.
Tony Birch #bbwf2014
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
Expectations on Indigenous leadership:
Needing to be exceptional, when we are a reflection of our Indigenous past. Wesley Enoch #bbwf2014
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
Q: How to deal with attacks on skin colour?
'Doesn't matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee.' @chrissarra #bbwf2014
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
Writing true crime drains you, unlike fiction which energises you.
- Poe Ballantine #bbwf2014
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
Kerry O'Brien, "There's a gulf between us, Malcolm...it wasn't always that way."
#bbwf2014 @MalcolmFraser12 pic.twitter.com/Rtlf5zy9PJ
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
#bbwf2014 supporting the @IndigenousLF A festival volunteer models a collection cannister. pic.twitter.com/FxC4OQ0v04
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
#bbwf2014 State of the State:
Christopher Warren, Terry Hayes, @Kate_McClymont @MikeCarlton01 David Marr Insightful! pic.twitter.com/Jhi6hHStMN
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
My sis @kirstiecongress and I in the audience for @MalcolmFraser12 in conversation with Kerry O'Brien. #bbwf2014 pic.twitter.com/1pPUIPMHmu
— Siv Parker (@SivParker) August 2, 2014
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