Sunday, August 2, 2015

Environment-Liverpool Planes and Mining Licenses

TEDxDubbo - Fiona Simson - Fuel vs Food, a Personal Passion

Listen (and take notes) to Fiona Samson's Ted Talk about the situation in the Liverpool plains regarding mining.  She believes that the current legislation favours mining over agriculture, water and food and is passionate about mining not being allowed if it poses a threat to agricultural areas or to valuable natural resources.  

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Vicarious Trauma

Our last 2014 post was on the dilemmas facing interpreters in the course of their practice. Coincidentally 2015 starts with a very similar topic, vicarious trauma. Listen to this episode of The Law Report, ABC Radio National.

SBS had this piece on the same topic in this audio:
Trauma takes toll on interpreters

And SBS TV also talked about it:
Interpreters scarred by traumatic assignments