Brenna Dempsey
@brennadempsey.bsky.social
Higher Education professional, unionist, social media graduate, writer, governance nerd.
She/Her
Living and working on Boon Wurrung land.
She/Her
Living and working on Boon Wurrung land.
A good collection in the 100, some surprises. Can't wait to see what makes the 101-200 list! #hottest100 #hottest100aus
July 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A good collection in the 100, some surprises. Can't wait to see what makes the 101-200 list! #hottest100 #hottest100aus
Hear me talk about the recent @nteumonash.bsky.social court case win and speak on behalf of the branch at the RAFFWU rally on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social Stick Together pca.st/7ifs270u
Aldi Sacks HSR / NTEU & CPSU Members Voice Victories
pca.st
July 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Hear me talk about the recent @nteumonash.bsky.social court case win and speak on behalf of the branch at the RAFFWU rally on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social Stick Together pca.st/7ifs270u
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The work we are doing at SWM is making waves 🌊
@roycerk2.bsky.social has done some amazing journalism on the details of the Monash’s partnership with Woodside.
Getting into @crikey.com.au and @drilledmedia.bsky.social, and being shared by @australiainstitute.org.au, shows our movement’s power ✊🏼
@roycerk2.bsky.social has done some amazing journalism on the details of the Monash’s partnership with Woodside.
Getting into @crikey.com.au and @drilledmedia.bsky.social, and being shared by @australiainstitute.org.au, shows our movement’s power ✊🏼
Students and staff at Monash are pushing the university to end its partnership with huge gas company Woodside.
The Woodside Building for Technology and Design is a “grim example of greenwashing at its best”
@roycerk2.bsky.social in @crikey.com.au #auspol #climate
The Woodside Building for Technology and Design is a “grim example of greenwashing at its best”
@roycerk2.bsky.social in @crikey.com.au #auspol #climate
Inside the fight to get Monash University to divorce fossil fuels for good
As Monash's partnership with Woodside comes up for renewal, the university is facing pressure from students and staff to ditch the company for good.
www.crikey.com.au
June 19, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The work we are doing at SWM is making waves 🌊
@roycerk2.bsky.social has done some amazing journalism on the details of the Monash’s partnership with Woodside.
Getting into @crikey.com.au and @drilledmedia.bsky.social, and being shared by @australiainstitute.org.au, shows our movement’s power ✊🏼
@roycerk2.bsky.social has done some amazing journalism on the details of the Monash’s partnership with Woodside.
Getting into @crikey.com.au and @drilledmedia.bsky.social, and being shared by @australiainstitute.org.au, shows our movement’s power ✊🏼
Reposted by Brenna Dempsey
Solidarity with the AEU members rallying against the Victorian Labor government’s decision to cut $2.4 billion from public schools in the State.
June 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Solidarity with the AEU members rallying against the Victorian Labor government’s decision to cut $2.4 billion from public schools in the State.
Reposted by Brenna Dempsey
Exclusive: A leaked report of the KPMG-led restructure plan for UTS shows it is based on a performance metric not permitted by labour contracts, writes Rick Morton.
Exclusive: KPMG’s secret university restructure
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
May 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Exclusive: A leaked report of the KPMG-led restructure plan for UTS shows it is based on a performance metric not permitted by labour contracts, writes Rick Morton.
Colm Tóibín: From Brooklyn
to Long Island with Jason Steger. Hilarious, insightful, and oh so enjoyable. #melbournewritersfestival
to Long Island with Jason Steger. Hilarious, insightful, and oh so enjoyable. #melbournewritersfestival
May 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Colm Tóibín: From Brooklyn
to Long Island with Jason Steger. Hilarious, insightful, and oh so enjoyable. #melbournewritersfestival
to Long Island with Jason Steger. Hilarious, insightful, and oh so enjoyable. #melbournewritersfestival
Hannah Kent with Richard Fidler. This conversation and Hannah's stories of her time in Iceland and the inspiration for Burial Rights (one of my all-time favourite books) took me right back to my time in Iceland in 2017. It is a truly incredible and magical place. #melbournewritersfestival
May 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Hannah Kent with Richard Fidler. This conversation and Hannah's stories of her time in Iceland and the inspiration for Burial Rights (one of my all-time favourite books) took me right back to my time in Iceland in 2017. It is a truly incredible and magical place. #melbournewritersfestival
Black Magic Women. Anita Heiss, Amy McQuire and Alice Skye with Nardi Simpson. A moving, beautiful, informative and magical evening full of deeply personal stories and insights from these incredible women and those who shaped them. #melbournewritersfestival
May 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Black Magic Women. Anita Heiss, Amy McQuire and Alice Skye with Nardi Simpson. A moving, beautiful, informative and magical evening full of deeply personal stories and insights from these incredible women and those who shaped them. #melbournewritersfestival
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May 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Tradition and Innovation: 65,000 years of Indigenous Art. Marcia Langton, Judith Ryan, Brook Garru Andrew, and Jessica Neath with Daniel Browning. Such great insights and discussions especially around the curatorship of Indigenous works.
#melbournewritersfestival
#melbournewritersfestival
May 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Tradition and Innovation: 65,000 years of Indigenous Art. Marcia Langton, Judith Ryan, Brook Garru Andrew, and Jessica Neath with Daniel Browning. Such great insights and discussions especially around the curatorship of Indigenous works.
#melbournewritersfestival
#melbournewritersfestival
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Working arrangements in Australian universities remain precarious despite recent IR changes - as casual academics & @nteunion.bsky.social reps Emily Foley & Tony Williams explain on the latest episode of the podcast
“They just sort of institutionally ghost you”
whatnowwhatnext.buzzsprout.com
“They just sort of institutionally ghost you”
whatnowwhatnext.buzzsprout.com
What now? What next? Insights into Australia's tertiary education sector
Claire Field talks with leaders and experts from within the Australian tertiary education sector and across the global ed-tech sector
whatnowwhatnext.buzzsprout.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Working arrangements in Australian universities remain precarious despite recent IR changes - as casual academics & @nteunion.bsky.social reps Emily Foley & Tony Williams explain on the latest episode of the podcast
“They just sort of institutionally ghost you”
whatnowwhatnext.buzzsprout.com
“They just sort of institutionally ghost you”
whatnowwhatnext.buzzsprout.com
An online grocery ordering saga:
Tried to order from Coles online today while boycotting Woolies. Went to log into my account and was told it was 'inactive', and to call.
Tried to order from Coles online today while boycotting Woolies. Went to log into my account and was told it was 'inactive', and to call.
December 6, 2024 at 12:57 AM
An online grocery ordering saga:
Tried to order from Coles online today while boycotting Woolies. Went to log into my account and was told it was 'inactive', and to call.
Tried to order from Coles online today while boycotting Woolies. Went to log into my account and was told it was 'inactive', and to call.
Reposted by Brenna Dempsey
Ken McAlpine is called for evidence now. He provides a clarification to one aspect of his evidence that he described as "too Jane Austen" in that it was not a truth universally acknowledged, rather a truth that is well understood and accepted.
December 4, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Ken McAlpine is called for evidence now. He provides a clarification to one aspect of his evidence that he described as "too Jane Austen" in that it was not a truth universally acknowledged, rather a truth that is well understood and accepted.
Reposted by Brenna Dempsey
We're in court now. Just waiting for proceedings to commence.
December 3, 2024 at 11:11 PM
We're in court now. Just waiting for proceedings to commence.
This isn't the "cure" it's being labeled as. For those that it helps this is great news, but it is only a symptom management medicine. theconversation.com/what-is-visa...
December 3, 2024 at 9:48 AM
This isn't the "cure" it's being labeled as. For those that it helps this is great news, but it is only a symptom management medicine. theconversation.com/what-is-visa...
We'll be live "tweeting" from @nteumonash.bsky.social
Monash University faces the Federal Court in Melbourne tomorrow for a wage theft prosecution. A group of casual teachers owed backpay will be gathering at the Federal Court forecourt, 305 William St, from 8am Wed 4 Dec, to demand wage justice. You're welcome to join us
December 3, 2024 at 9:15 AM
We'll be live "tweeting" from @nteumonash.bsky.social
Okay but I would definitely buy one
Do you have any 'hard-to-buy-for public servants' in your life? We have* the perfect Xmas present. This gift will help public servants think about Gina Rinehart as much as she thinks about their potted plants.
* We don't have any. Sorry. It's a joke
* We don't have any. Sorry. It's a joke
December 3, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Okay but I would definitely buy one
Reflections on the day:
"Third space workers bring the best of both academic and professional worlds."
"We are great at adapting and changing and innovating which will be key in the current territory education climate."
This event has allowed me to feel less alone in my thirdspaceness. #3ss
"Third space workers bring the best of both academic and professional worlds."
"We are great at adapting and changing and innovating which will be key in the current territory education climate."
This event has allowed me to feel less alone in my thirdspaceness. #3ss
December 1, 2024 at 5:13 AM
Reflections on the day:
"Third space workers bring the best of both academic and professional worlds."
"We are great at adapting and changing and innovating which will be key in the current territory education climate."
This event has allowed me to feel less alone in my thirdspaceness. #3ss
"Third space workers bring the best of both academic and professional worlds."
"We are great at adapting and changing and innovating which will be key in the current territory education climate."
This event has allowed me to feel less alone in my thirdspaceness. #3ss
How can we foster wellbeing, relationships and community in the 3s?
Health and safety - psychosocial hazards, building solidarity through recognising common issues - talking to each other, finding ongoing meaning in our work and around us.
#thirdspacesymposium #3ss
Health and safety - psychosocial hazards, building solidarity through recognising common issues - talking to each other, finding ongoing meaning in our work and around us.
#thirdspacesymposium #3ss
December 1, 2024 at 5:05 AM
How can we foster wellbeing, relationships and community in the 3s?
Health and safety - psychosocial hazards, building solidarity through recognising common issues - talking to each other, finding ongoing meaning in our work and around us.
#thirdspacesymposium #3ss
Health and safety - psychosocial hazards, building solidarity through recognising common issues - talking to each other, finding ongoing meaning in our work and around us.
#thirdspacesymposium #3ss
Pluralistic ignorance: the general feeling that you're the only person who has ever gone through what you're going through. A great opportunity for educating and organising and collective action. #thirdspacesymposium #3ss
December 1, 2024 at 4:48 AM
Pluralistic ignorance: the general feeling that you're the only person who has ever gone through what you're going through. A great opportunity for educating and organising and collective action. #thirdspacesymposium #3ss
What approaches and action can we take to help manage the challenges faced by the third space?
"You have to have a clear plan and understand how to appeal to the boss's greed, vanity and fear." It's important to challenge existing structures and leaders.
#thirdspacesymposiun #3ss
"You have to have a clear plan and understand how to appeal to the boss's greed, vanity and fear." It's important to challenge existing structures and leaders.
#thirdspacesymposiun #3ss
December 1, 2024 at 4:35 AM
What approaches and action can we take to help manage the challenges faced by the third space?
"You have to have a clear plan and understand how to appeal to the boss's greed, vanity and fear." It's important to challenge existing structures and leaders.
#thirdspacesymposiun #3ss
"You have to have a clear plan and understand how to appeal to the boss's greed, vanity and fear." It's important to challenge existing structures and leaders.
#thirdspacesymposiun #3ss
@oliviainwood.com "how can (young) people find long-term work and belonging in the university?"
Exactly! I've fallen into the education space and I love it but who knows where my career will go. #3ss #thirdspacesymposium
Exactly! I've fallen into the education space and I love it but who knows where my career will go. #3ss #thirdspacesymposium
December 1, 2024 at 3:18 AM
@oliviainwood.com "how can (young) people find long-term work and belonging in the university?"
Exactly! I've fallen into the education space and I love it but who knows where my career will go. #3ss #thirdspacesymposium
Exactly! I've fallen into the education space and I love it but who knows where my career will go. #3ss #thirdspacesymposium
