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An opportunity to experience what it's like to feel trapped

A Felt Experience and Empathy Lab at the UNSW Galleries offers an opportunity to experience constraint, entrapment and depression through the traditional indigenous story of The Man in the Log via virtual reality. It's an innovative, Aboriginal-led project that helps understanding of mental health issues. It also warns that you should not go into a hollow log in case you get stuck! www.npywc.org.au/news/uti-kulintjaku-and-smiling-mind-guided-meditations-launched

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16th November 2019 by lynnwood 0 Comments

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Wellbeing

A festival of dangerous ideas

The Festival of Dangerous Ideas is Australia's original big thinking festival, bringing leading thinkers and culture creators from around the world to explore life's most problematic and divisive issues.https://festivalofdangerousideas.com

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14th November 2019 by IdeaSpies 0 Comments

(2 vote(s), average 5 out of 5)

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Animal- free testing of cosmetics now possible

A piece of skin about the size of a thumbnail can be printed in less than a minute, according to scientists in Singapore - a game-changing step for the future of non-animal testing for cosmetics and other products. www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/singapore-scientists-produce-vitro-human-skin-191113144758952.html

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14th November 2019 by lynnwood 1 Comments

(3 vote(s), average 5 out of 5)

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Historic equal pay deal for women in sport

Australia’s women’s and men’s national soccer teams will earn the same pay as part of a history-making new pay structure. And all commercial revenues associated with both teams will be split evenly. The Matildas have secured an equal 24% split of national team revenue generation with the Socceroos. The NSW Government is supporting the bid to host the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2023.https://thewomensgame.com/news/the-pay-deal-that-stopped-a-nation-the-incredible-world-reaction-to-matildas-equal-pay-533652

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10th November 2019 by IdeaSpies 2 Comments

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