Prof Marc Tennant AM
@marctennant.bsky.social
#Academic/Commentator: #PublicHealth Equity #Reform #Biology #Computing #PopulationModelling #GIS #Dental
My words. My thoughts.
My words. My thoughts.
This is the same in aged care - national standards are disconnected from reality. I would argue that national standards be it child care , hospitals, aged care, are a failed regulatory model. They have been captured by business.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Secret rating system kept parents in dark about safety fears at NSW childcare centre
Case in which parents were not told centre was in the ‘very high risk’ cohort illustrates a glaring safety gap, critics argue
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is the same in aged care - national standards are disconnected from reality. I would argue that national standards be it child care , hospitals, aged care, are a failed regulatory model. They have been captured by business.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
When is a recall not a recall? When it is fixed overnight with a software update?? Maybe the law needs to redefine some of these parameters???
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Thousands of Tesla SUVs recalled in Australia over software fault that ‘can increase risk of injury’
All 2025 Tesla Model Y variants affected by issue that risks window closing on body parts ‘with excessive force’
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
When is a recall not a recall? When it is fixed overnight with a software update?? Maybe the law needs to redefine some of these parameters???
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Love visiting a building that the same designers as one I was part of designed. All the parallels. Makes me want to go to more.
September 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Love visiting a building that the same designers as one I was part of designed. All the parallels. Makes me want to go to more.
I dont promote things. I know the maker of this shorts reel on youtube. www.youtube.com/@Forkenife_
Lockie you are a genius!!! Great video's!!! Make more mate!
Lockie you are a genius!!! Great video's!!! Make more mate!
Forkenife
You’ve Had Eggs Before, but Never Like This….
Recipes and More 👇
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August 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I dont promote things. I know the maker of this shorts reel on youtube. www.youtube.com/@Forkenife_
Lockie you are a genius!!! Great video's!!! Make more mate!
Lockie you are a genius!!! Great video's!!! Make more mate!
SHocking news in Australia. Three police shot - 2 dead. Awful. still searching high country for Culprit.. An awful days events.
August 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
SHocking news in Australia. Three police shot - 2 dead. Awful. still searching high country for Culprit.. An awful days events.
WOW - what a very interesting risk associated with brain monitoring. The risk of reading inner speaking.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues
Words you’ll never speak still cause activity in the brain’s speech centers.
arstechnica.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
WOW - what a very interesting risk associated with brain monitoring. The risk of reading inner speaking.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Dont leave it to familes to have to break the law to show mistreatment of elders. Stop forcing people to be criminals when all they want is proper care provided with care. Start a CCTV trial just the same as in childcare!
August 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Dont leave it to familes to have to break the law to show mistreatment of elders. Stop forcing people to be criminals when all they want is proper care provided with care. Start a CCTV trial just the same as in childcare!
Can the same CCTV trail be run in aged care! Its the SAME. Highly vulnerable people and to much history of abuse. Get a trial going at the same time.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
National childcare worker register, CCTV trial and mobile phone ban declared in major Australian safety reform
Jason Clare says CCTV trial at 300 centres to begin later this year and improved training regime rolled out in 2026
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Can the same CCTV trail be run in aged care! Its the SAME. Highly vulnerable people and to much history of abuse. Get a trial going at the same time.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Yep - twice in 2 weeks now... What have I done?
1. Two-factor authentication - ON.
2. Password safe - ON.
3. Massive random password.
Just do modern basics.
1. Two-factor authentication - ON.
2. Password safe - ON.
3. Massive random password.
Just do modern basics.
August 19, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Yep - twice in 2 weeks now... What have I done?
1. Two-factor authentication - ON.
2. Password safe - ON.
3. Massive random password.
Just do modern basics.
1. Two-factor authentication - ON.
2. Password safe - ON.
3. Massive random password.
Just do modern basics.
Today I rode my bike behind an electric bus for first time. No diesel fumes no black smoke. All I heard was sound of tires on the road. How far we have come in one generation.
August 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Today I rode my bike behind an electric bus for first time. No diesel fumes no black smoke. All I heard was sound of tires on the road. How far we have come in one generation.
Woops - (try again with arrow this time)
July 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Woops - (try again with arrow this time)
And if you get to the essence of why the government was finally brought kicking and screaming to the fact there was a problem. It was a movie! Thank goodness for creative arts - they make a difference!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Inquiry says at least 13 people took their life as a result of UK's Post Office scandal
The inquiry also finds that hundreds of people were wrongly prosecuted and convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting due to incorrect data in an information technology system.
www.abc.net.au
July 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
And if you get to the essence of why the government was finally brought kicking and screaming to the fact there was a problem. It was a movie! Thank goodness for creative arts - they make a difference!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Substitute the word childcare for agecare and reprint - ITS THE SAME!!
Its a TOTAL MISTAKE for profit and care to be in the same sentance.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Its a TOTAL MISTAKE for profit and care to be in the same sentance.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Profit comes before safety inside Australia's childcare centres
For those like me who have been investigating childcare for almost a year now, the news was horrifying but not a surprise.
www.abc.net.au
July 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Substitute the word childcare for agecare and reprint - ITS THE SAME!!
Its a TOTAL MISTAKE for profit and care to be in the same sentance.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Its a TOTAL MISTAKE for profit and care to be in the same sentance.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Reposted by Prof Marc Tennant AM
Absolutely needs to be, too many horror stories that could have been prevented with this.
July 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Absolutely needs to be, too many horror stories that could have been prevented with this.
Reposted by Prof Marc Tennant AM
Agree 100%
These measures must be brought in immediately.
These measures must be brought in immediately.
Aged care should get the same. CCTV - global mandate. Protect our young and our elders - and people at risk. Yes, needs really controlled viewing (not left to organisations/businesses).
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
July 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Agree 100%
These measures must be brought in immediately.
These measures must be brought in immediately.
Aged care should get the same. CCTV - global mandate. Protect our young and our elders - and people at risk. Yes, needs really controlled viewing (not left to organisations/businesses).
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
July 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Aged care should get the same. CCTV - global mandate. Protect our young and our elders - and people at risk. Yes, needs really controlled viewing (not left to organisations/businesses).
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Lets not forget AI also has amazing opportunity to add great good to the world too.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/m...
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/m...
MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours
Removable transparent films apply digital restorations directly to damaged artwork.
arstechnica.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Lets not forget AI also has amazing opportunity to add great good to the world too.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/m...
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/m...
I never thought the day would come on a POTUS birthday I would be seeing a massed military parade with the leadership hidden behind 2inch thick bullet proof glass. This is not what I ever expected in the USA.
June 15, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I never thought the day would come on a POTUS birthday I would be seeing a massed military parade with the leadership hidden behind 2inch thick bullet proof glass. This is not what I ever expected in the USA.
I am migrane person, less as I get older. I found double strength coffee, two pandadol and a LONG shower with hot water on neck and head was a winner. Interesting in other tricks.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
McMigraine: Does the TikTok migraine cola and fries 'cure' really work?
Migraines are one of the most complex neurological disorders. What is the science behind the latest hack?
www.bbc.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I am migrane person, less as I get older. I found double strength coffee, two pandadol and a LONG shower with hot water on neck and head was a winner. Interesting in other tricks.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
So having to wear N95 many hours every day. Always preload on two glasses of water before hours of wearing masks.
May 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
So having to wear N95 many hours every day. Always preload on two glasses of water before hours of wearing masks.
No words from me... :(
May 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
No words from me... :(
A really moving meeting. Indigenous health. @uwanews
May 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
A really moving meeting. Indigenous health. @uwanews
Seriously - its reconciliation week. What on earth? Show kindness. It was Sorry Day on Monday - please, coucillor, go and read the stores.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Move to end Welcome to Country protocols at council rejected
A motion calling on a Tasmanian council to dispense with Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country protocols at events has been rejected — but the "damage has been done", the mayor says.
www.abc.net.au
May 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Seriously - its reconciliation week. What on earth? Show kindness. It was Sorry Day on Monday - please, coucillor, go and read the stores.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Oh my.
If I were a Tesla shareholder, what would I think right now!!!!???
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
If I were a Tesla shareholder, what would I think right now!!!!???
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Anti-Musk sentiment runs high in Australian city as 95% of submissions oppose land sale to Tesla
Council in Adelaide censors strong language in some of the nearly 1,000 submissions that called for proposal to be struck down
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Oh my.
If I were a Tesla shareholder, what would I think right now!!!!???
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
If I were a Tesla shareholder, what would I think right now!!!!???
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
What a stain on our history. I am glad we are folowing the national steps. Reconciliation includes saying sorry for the past. Sorry.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
WA government announces redress scheme for Stolen Generations
Survivors of the Stolen Generations in Western Australia will be compensated through a state government redress scheme, the state government announces.
www.abc.net.au
May 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
What a stain on our history. I am glad we are folowing the national steps. Reconciliation includes saying sorry for the past. Sorry.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...