Cultural Safety subject to wide reinterpretation. Its entry into institutional life has seen it turned it into a concept that allows it to be appropriated by the very powers that dominate the culture wars. Critique of Israel’s genocide in Palestine and gestures of solidarity with the Palestinian people have been repressed or censored using Cultural Safety as justification.
https://overland.org.au/2026/02/on-the-misuse-of-cultural-safety/
#Colonialism #CulturalSafety #healthworkers #midwives #nurses #Palestine #Solidarity

Since its original formulation and application in the health sector in Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1980s, Cultural Safety has been subject to wide reinterpretation. Its entry into institutional life more broadly has seen it turned it into a concept that allows it to be appropriated by the very powers that dominate the culture wars.
Industrial disputes & news - 4 February 2026
Victorian #teachers; Tasmanian public sector; Victorian public #healthcareworkers; Harry Hartog & Berkelouw Books; UWU elections; SA #nurses & #midwives; Dynelec; Crown Sydney; SA public sector & more
(Thanks Sarah Missen)
https://disputesreport.substack.com/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-4-february
Industrial disputes & news - 28 January 2026
SA #nurses and #midwives; Vic public #healthcareworkers; Tasmanian public sector workers; TasRail; #CFMEU resignation; Keolis Downer; Certis Security; Dynelec; Vic #teachers; Forensicare; and Healthscope
Thanks Sarah Missen
https://disputesreport.substack.com/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-28-january
Establish legal limits on midwives' working hours
https://www.change.org/p/establish-legal-limits-on-midwives-working-hours
Industrial disputes & news - 17 December 2025
SA public sector workers; Tassie #teachers; Harry Hartog & Berkelouw Books; #KeolisDowner; SA #nurses & #midwives; #AmbulanceVictoria; #FreoCranes; #MSS; #Bechtel; #Healthscope; #VAHPA; #DHLExpress & more
(Thanks Sarah Missen)
https://disputesreport.substack.com/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-17-december
Industrial disputes & news
- 5 November 2025
#InfraBuild #GenesisCare University of Newcastle; Keolis Downer; #CDC; Curtin Uni; QLD #teachers City of Salisbury; #DHLExpress #Bloomfield SA #nurses #Midwives #VRC #Cocacola #HealthScope and more
(THANKS SARAH MISSEN)
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-5-november?
#P4F 📌 Newsletter #44 - Oktober 2025
https://www.parentsforfuture.de/system/files/2025-10/2025-10-Newsletter-44.pdf
+ Forscher warnen: unfassbare drei Grad mehr bis 2050 möglich – deutsche #Küstenregionen aufgeben? "#Solarcamp for Future"!
+ Bündnispartner vorgestellt: #Midwives for Future
+ Klimafieber-Zeitstrahl
+ #Klimaaktivismus Singapur
+ #Wärmewende braucht #Gasausstieg! Aktion: Bürgermeister*in per Mail befragen
+ Gleichstellung in der #sozialökologischenTransformation
+ Lesermeinung: Carbon Capture and Storage (#CCS)
+ #Grandparents Podcast