I hope there are many reviews by community members of the new book Timeless On The Silk Road by Heather Ellis. For one thing it would mean that people are reading, which is always a good sign. And, for some more than others, it’s an opportunity to reflect on someone else’s life experience of HIV. […]

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As part of coursework for COMM1107 Assessment 01: Online Stakeholder Engagement According to my professional network on LinkedIn, Skills & Endorsement for social media number 50, well above other areas of professional expertise, such as Marketing/Advertising (38) and Public Relations (33). This doesn’t mean I am claiming to be an expert and I’m very grateful […]

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Last night was the opening of the Brunswick Beethoven Festival. A series of 12 chamber music concerts featuring local and international artists the Festival spans the rest of this week and after a 9 day break, returns February 19 – 25. Now in its 12th year, the festival is curated by organ maestro and classical […]

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  We Were There is the powerful new theatre work which focuses on the women of the HIV/AIDS response. A brave project from talented theatre makers Dirk Hoult & Gavin Roach, We Were There transports us back to the scary, fragmented beginnings of the emerging epidemic through to now, not quite triumphed over the virus, […]

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It’s been 40 years since the police and paddy-wagon brigade turned up to restore ‘civil order’ and incarcate the elders of our community. Over its many years of good health (not to mention the few scary years when we thought we might lose you), Mardi Gras remains a beacon for LGBTIQ+ community to gather and […]

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Picture dated 17 September 2015, ASHM conference. 64 likes, 1 share Comment from Sebastian Zagarella: You look happy in my bubble of undetectable white 🙂 As a gay man, I am unashamedly obsessed by this pesky, dangerous and intrusive virus. From the moment I wake until I go to bed at night, it’s not there […]

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Bringing communities together through song: the centenary of the birth of poet and hymnodist James McAuley (1917-1976) Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 2 pm ($25). A Concert hosted by St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 585 Toorak Road, Toorak. The hymns of James ‘Jim’ McAuley (12 October 1917- 15 October 1976) are sung throughout  the Western Christian world. […]

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The World Premiere of S_T_I_G_M_A on 27 September is the next exciting installation from the Victorian artistic establishment’s contribution to the conversation about HIV. Following on from James Welsby’s impactful work ‘HEX: a gen Y interpretation of the AIDS crisis’ and Phillip Adams ‘Live With It: We all have HIV’, both dance/theatre works dating from […]

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It’s time to go home. And I am looking forward to getting back home to see how my orchids are faring and wave a special hello and subsequent cuppa with Linda, my neighbor. Last night, as Pacific Islander friends were adorning us with shell-necklaces and gifts for the journey , I was told repeatedly that […]

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Talanoa means getting together, talking, exchanging material gifts and gifts of the mind. Last week there was a lot of Talanoa. With groups, colleagues, new friends and with nature. Professionally, it was a milestone week with a heap of action packed into every day. But firstly… To darling Basti: I’m so relieved that you are […]

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