posts on leadership
Sometimes tiny efforts are enough to create a ripple effect. When a few of us saw how people were avoiding Chinese restaurants because of coronavirus, we wanted to do something to help people understand the minimal risk of eating out. At a meeting with Jenny Mikakos, Minister for Health and Ambulance Services and Dr Brett[…]
When I joined the Australian Labor Party in 2004, I was quickly labelled as a “stack” by people within the ALP because of my Chinese ethnicity. Fast-forward to 2018: I am disappointed to see nothing has changed. While branch stacking remains a major problem, it is concerning when some in the party persist in assuming[…]
The 2016 federal election is seen by many as an election where the highest number of women candidates stood for the two major parties: 59 for the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and 44 for the Coalition. While this is excellent progress, we need to ask ourselves how many women are elected in safe seats. A[…]
有很多人問我怎樣才能融入澳大利亞主流社會，為什麼有時候有升職機會的時候總不是自己？
Vale Joan Kirner, our 42nd premier who recently sadly died from cancer at the age of 76. She was also Victoria’s first and only female premier. Joan Kirner became an activist after becoming concerned with large classroom sizes, which motivated her to be politically active. One of her legacy was overseeing the introduction of the[…]
It was a typical hot summer’s day in Melbourne and a middle-aged South Korean man had just packed up a stall, finishing his volunteer work at one of the city’s many popular community events. He was an inconspicuous man who was quiet and whose English was poor, so no one took much notice of him.[…]