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From awareness to action: how Mastercard is making inclusion everyone’s business
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One in 40 Australians are autistic. Yet most businesses still don’t know where to start when it comes to inclusion. Julie Nestor, Mastercard’s Executive Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Asia Pacific, is working to change that—and she's doing it from the ground up, with community at the centre. “If you never start, it never happens.”
This is the story of how Acceptance Matters is moving from awareness to action. READ
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Bright signals
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People who access the NDIS fare better in the workforce and feel healthier within four years of entering the scheme, a new report finds. The finding is based on data that tracks the same individuals over more than a decade. READ
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Bestselling author of Fire Country, Victor Steffensen, has a new book available for preorder. The Knowledge: Learning from ancestral wisdom to save our challenging global environment. PREORDER
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Discover unexpected and original creative content. EXPLORE
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Essie’s top 5 links
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Brutalist architecture flabbergasts me. Its intensity, density and uniqueness create a feeling of push and pull in me. And yet, when used in urban planning with the idea of community, living, work and culture all in one, the outcome can be outstandingly calming, as seen in The Barbican, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon.
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The story that became the film Strictly Ballroom started as a choreographed dance created by Baz Luhrmann and other students while he was at NIDA. On the Song Exploder podcast, he speaks about its evolution from a concept, to a dance, to a widely beloved film. Listening to it made me appreciate the endless possibilities of an idea.
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I am always on the hunt for unique colour combinations, and nature is always the greatest resource. This week, it’s NASA images of Jupiter. Just have a look. Marvellous!
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After listening to The Opinions podcast episode, Did Wokeness Leave Us Worse Off?, I found myself fascinated by the evolution of language and how a word can mean one thing to one generation and almost the opposite to the next. So what language bridges the gap, and what creates a greater divide?
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It was a much needed reminder that the most powerful design is often doing far more than looking good. Sanda Zahirovic’s piece made me think again about design as something active—something that helps make new ways of seeing and operating possible.
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Community news
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17 May is the International Day Against LGBTQIA+ Discrimination! Go rainbow with us to create safer workplaces, schools, and communities. LEARN MORE
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We're a proud partner of Small Giants Academy's next forum, exploring a topic we love to talk about: Trust in the age of AI. How do we build and sustain trust? Trust in our institutions. Trust in one another. Trust in what it means to be human. Join us and explore what this defining era means for self and belonging, equality and democracy, the future of work, and more—always with a focus on shaping a hopeful future for humanity. 5–7 May, Naarm. REGISTER
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Team news
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Georgie, Candice and Juliet from our team are hosting a Melbourne Design Week event on 16 May. The format is speed dating for creatives. Short, rotating rounds where you'll talk to someone who solves problems differently. Learn something new, get inspired or make some new design friends. TICKETS
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We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we live and work. We pay our respects to Elders both past and present, and recognise and respect their abiding connection to this land, its waterways and community. First Nations Peoples have nurtured this land for more than 65,000 years and continue to do so today. Sovereignty was never ceded.
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