MJE Consultancy

27/07/2023

Lucy joined in on the team today

11/07/2023

Beautifully put 👏👏👏👏

12/05/2023

"Campfire Contemplation" - 📸Sally Sullivan
NTCA & Elders Photo Competition Entry 2023

18/04/2023

This horse-drawn equipment was used to cut stocks of wheat that would later be threshed. The wheat is separated from the stock and the stock was used either for bedding or feed. Bill Miller is pictured here on the equipment. With him are hired hands, brought in to help with the crops. The 160-acre farm is on the Forest or Bernier Donation Land Claim. Bill was married to Mary Fox Miller and the couple had one child, Mary Lou. Mary Lou married Fred Teitzel and that couple had two children — Fred and Arlene. Forest, where the land is located, once had its own post office and store owned by the Trodahls and its own two-room school house. Dairy farming was key to life in Forest.

Information and photo originally submitted by Bill Teitzel for Our Hometowns.

16/11/2022

While finishing his medical degree at the University of London in the mid-90s, Dr. Sam Parnia watched as doctors attempted to revive a man in cardiac arrest. As he stood there, Dr. Parnia wondered whether the patient could hear the medical staff as they worked to revive him. Dr. Parnia asked himself, “What is life? When does it really end?”
Dr. Parnia, an intensive care physician, who is also an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at NYU Langone Health, as well as the organization’s director of critical care and resuscitation research, decided, right there in the hospital, that he was going to figure out the answer himself.
He thought the research might take a year or two. “Here we are 25 years later, and I’m still doing it,” Dr. Parnia told Medical News Today.
On November 6, Dr. Parnia presented “AWAreness during REsuscitation II: A multi-center study of consciousness and awareness in cardiac arrest” at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2022Trusted Source in Chicago.
Dr. Parnia, who served as lead investigator of the study, explained that he and the other researchers undertook this research in an attempt to scientifically explore something that health professionals have discussed anecdotally for decades: The similar stories people revived by cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) often tell about the time when their hearts stopped.
“So when we designed this study, we wanted to not only have brain monitoring systems, but also to have a system to look for possible unconscious learningTrusted Source,” Dr. Parnia explained.
Of 567 subjects, Only 53, or fewer than 10% of the participants, lived to be discharged from the hospital.
Of those 53, 25 were unable to be interviewed by researchers due to poor health. The remaining 28 participants were interviewed 2 to 4 weeks after cardiac arrest depending on their recovery.

First, researchers gave survivors an Abbreviated Mental Test Score to assess deficits in their brains’ abilities to function. Patients who scored higher than six, indicating they likely did not have moderate cognitive impairment, underwent stage 1 interviews, which included questions about their memories of the time when they underwent CPR.

Reports of transcendent experiences
Of the 28 participants interviewed, 11 — or 39% — reported having memories during cardiac arrest. Two of the 28 participants could hear the medical staff working while receiving CPR. One participant recalled seeing the medical staff working and could feel someone rubbing his chest.
Using the near-death scale, six participants had transcendent experiences. Three participants reported dream-like experiences, which included a singing fisherman.
Six of the 28 participants interviewed remembered the experience of dying. These recollections included one person who heard a deceased grandmother telling her to return to her body.
“We characterize the testimonies that people had and were able to identify that there is a unique recalled experience of death that is different to other experiences that people may have in the hospital or elsewhere,” Dr. Parnia said, “and that these are not hallucinations, they are not illusions, they are not delusions, they are real experiences that emerge when you die.”
From the 126 cardiac survivors who provided self-reports about their experiences, five themes emerged. Some participants recalled feeling the impact of CPR on their bodies or hearing the medical team talk. Others recalled activities in the intensive care unit following CPR.
Other self-reports detailed an experience of death. Some individuals perceived they were heading to a destination. Others underwent an evaluation of their lives.
These included realizations about how their actions impacted others. Some perceived they were returning to a place described as home. Some of the self-reported recollections included participants reporting frightening memories.
Biomarkers of clinical consciousness
Of the 28 participants interviewed, not one described seeing the image depicted on the tablet when they received CPR or remembered hearing the auditory stimuli. When provided with 10 photos to examine, no participants identified the displayed image. Only one of the 28 participants chose the fruits named when the participants received CPR.
Fifty-three participants had interpretable EEG data. Researchers discovered spikes of brain activity, including so-called gamma, delta, theta, alpha, and beta waves emerging up to 60 minutes into CPR.
Some of these brain waves normally occur when people are conscious and performing functions like memory retrieval and thinking. According to the researchers, this is the first time such biomarkers of consciousness have been identified during CPR for cardiac arrest.
“We found the brain electrical markers of heightened […] lucid consciousness, the same markers as you get in people who are having memory retrievals who are having […] high order cognitive processes, except that this was occurring when the brain had shut down and would suddenly appear as a surge.”

Survivors may need psychological support
Dr. Lance Becker, chair of emergency medicine at Northwell Health in New York and professor at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in Manhasset, NY, who was not involved in the study, pointed out that Dr. Parnia measured brain waves and brain oxygen of the participants.
“So he was super scientific-y, but he’s also pretty out of the box,” Dr. Becker told MNT.
As a medical student, Dr. Becker said he was taught that people who were in cardiac arrest were unconscious.
Dr. Parnia, Dr. Becker argued, did not believe everything he was taught. Instead, he questioned whether the patients receiving CPR had awareness of what was happening in the room despite the fact that the patients showed no signs of consciousness. “He is a pioneer,” Dr. Becker said.
For Dr. Tom Aufderheide, professor of emergency medicine and director of the Resuscitation Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin, who was also not involved in the study, the presentation prompted him to give thought to how to respond to patients experiencing cardiac arrest.
“There needs to be a wider recognition of patient cognitive experiences during cardiac arrest among treating physicians and healthcare providers with [the] incorporation of this reality into the compassionate care of our patients,” he told MNT.
Dr. Becker said the study may change how he deals with patients who have survived cardiac arrest.
“It taught me that we need to talk to patients afterward,” he told MNT. “And kind of see how they’re feeling about surviving the cardiac arrest. Dr. Parnia has identified that many of those patients have some very positive things [to report following cardiac arrest] […] but, on the other hand, some of the patients had negative experiences: anxiety and depression afterward.”

A new study working with cardiac arrest survivors delves into the issue of near-death experiences, asking how lucid people really are on the brink of death.

16/10/2022

Beautiful Brumby photos
Lets hope the Australian Heritage Brumbies are not destroyed and lost to future generations through the single minded extinction agenda that is pushed by a deceitful and poorly informed group who are a powerful funded lobby group with a strong negative influence on state governments in Victoria ad NSW that has achieved passing laws to gun down pregnant mares and leave them suffering long slow deaths so their bodies become food for the feral pigs that continue to destroy our national parks and state forests

03/10/2022

29/09/2022

Flood water is impacting many communities, Wee Waa with its great levy bank provides people with protection from household damage, but the unseen damage is the financial cost to casual workers and small business that lose income. For many people, the weekly pay is spent quickly and this disruption causes real financial hardship. I have highlighted this aspect of flood disaster response to both the Minister and Narrabri Shire Council. The disaster declaration needs to be made at a level that allows income support, please contact me if you are in this situation across any flood affected area.

29/09/2022

Robert Sutton says I see a lot of posts about people worrying they are to old to ride.
Worrying about broken bones and injuries. I believe if you love to ride or just love your horse keep them and ride them till they put you in the rest home or they bury you.
This is a picture of my wife's last ride on her little mustang called Elvis.
At this stage her brain cancer had robbed her of her ability to walk. She suffered from black outs and seizures.
The surgeries had caused her to lose sight in one eye and made verbal communication difficult at best.
I had to lead the horse because she had to hold one to the horn with both hands to be able to stay in the saddle.
She passed away a few weeks after this picture.
I caught a lot of grief from people saying I endangered her life. But she wanted that one last ride.
That smile she gave me made it all worthwhile.

12/09/2022

Vincent Namatjira

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“Queen Elizabeth met my great-grandfather Albert Namatjira in 1954 and she awarded him the Queen"s Coronation medal.

This connection between my family history and the British Royal family is the reason why I've made so many paintings of the Queen and the royal family.

When I heard the news today I was pretty shocked - I've been reflecting on the fact that the Queen lived to 96, while my great-grandfather passed away when he was only 57.

Personally I'd like to see Indigenous leaders and heroes past and present have the same level of recognition and respect that the royal family does.

I might retire from painting the Queen, let her rest in peace the poor thing ... but I'll definitely be busy painting King Charles!”
Vincent Namatjira
Artwork: Elizabeth and Vincent (On Country), 2021, Acrylic on linen, 122 x 152cm

12/09/2022

12/09/2022

08/09/2022

Bright Library | Until 10 Oct

05/09/2022

It’s Desert Mob week!

Art centres are currently packing cars and gearing up for the long road trips into town for the official opening of the 31st Desert Mob!

Together with art centres we invite you to listen and share in the artist voices and stories through performance and song, while exploring the hundreds of new works from emerging and established artists.

Join us this Thursday from 5:30pm at Araluen Arts Centre |
Welcome by Bobby West Tjupurrula, director and shareholder

Tinkerbee Dancers

Central Australia Aboriginal Women’s Choir

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Pictured: Anangu inma led by Rene Kulitja at 2021 Desert Mob opening. Photo by Emma Murray, courtesy

05/09/2022

'My name is Izac and I am raising money for Muscular Dystrophy in honour of my Dad and Uncle who suffer from the Emery-Dreifuss form of MD. I hope that one day the Muscular Dystrophy Scientists can find a cure for people living with Muscular Dystrophy. Last year I raised $1,042 but this year I am determined to raise $10,000.' Izac is only 8 years old and has taken upon himself to participate in National Superhero Week and raise funds and awareness for muscular dystrophy. People who know him say, ‘Izac has a MASSIVE heart is always looking for ways to help people.’ Donate to Izac’s fundraising page: https://www.superheroweek.org.au/izac-campbell

05/09/2022

So what is Physical Disability Australia all about?

PDA is a national peak Disability Peoples Organisation (DPO) run by people with physical disability for people with physical disability.

Founded in 1995, PDA is made up of members from all Australian states and territories and works to ensure that all Australians living with physical disability are given a voice, support, community and are enabled to realise their full potential.

Part of our role in this commitment is ensuring that we and our members are kept up to date with Australian disability news, happenings, policies, legislation, opportunities, events and issues affecting our country’s disability community.

Knowledge is power and at the forefront of the way that we operate as an organisation. Keeping in the loop allows us to react quickly, effectively and powerfully to ensure that disability is not left out of the conversation on issues that affect our members and all Australians living with disability. PDA helps you stay aware of matters that affect you.

PDA also works to build and foster a community that supports and brings together people. We provide a welcoming sense of belonging, acceptance and support to our Members. This is made possible through events such as our online Social Hours, Youth Network HangOuts and our webinars, presentations and meetups.

Did you know that you can SIGN UP FOR FREE PDA MEMBERSHIP? It’s quick and easy. Just head to www.pda.org.au/membership/

You can also keep up to date with us on our socials.

* Like and Follow PDA’s Main page (https://www.facebook.com/physicaldisabilityau/)

* Join PDA’s Facebook group - Physical Disability Australia Discussion Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/physicaldisabilityaustralia)

* Join PDA’s Facebook Youth Network group - for PDA Members aged 18 to 30 years (https://www.facebook.com/groups/pdayouthnetwork)

* Follow PDA’s Instagram pages - Main (https://www.instagram.com/physical_disability_australia/) and PDA Youth Network (https://www.instagram.com/pda_youth_network/)

* Follow PDA on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/1767242/)

* Follow PDA on Twitter (https://twitter.com/pda_au/)

* Subscribe to the PDA YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMyTzhTbs2oLH-WZR18zX2Q)

You can also join our online catch-ups:
* Social Hours (first Monday at 6pm AEST every month) via Zoom by registering at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqc--qqjkjG903J2KoieI9ASVSig7b4mxr
* PDA Youth Network HangOut (third Thursday at 7pm AEST each month) by registering at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrc-GqrDwpHdWVcSOD2mVq4XbwP9P2ZOv4)

We hope that you’ll make the most of PDA and look forward to saying “hi”.

💕 Team PDA

05/09/2022

MD funding

'My name is Izac and I am raising money for Muscular Dystrophy in honour of my Dad and Uncle who suffer from the Emery-Dreifuss form of MD. I hope that one day the Muscular Dystrophy Scientists can find a cure for people living with Muscular Dystrophy. Last year I raised $1,042 but this year I am determined to raise $10,000.' Izac is only 8 years old and has taken upon himself to participate in National Superhero Week and raise funds and awareness for muscular dystrophy. People who know him say, ‘Izac has a MASSIVE heart is always looking for ways to help people.’ Donate to Izac’s fundraising page: https://www.superheroweek.org.au/izac-campbell

02/09/2022

We need to have the opportunity to get out there and have a crack.”
Mr Alcott said unconscious bias, negative stigma and a lack of understanding of people with disabilities were holding employers and workers back.
He said discrimination within workplaces must also be addressed.
“We all need to work together, government and corporate, to make sure workplaces are safe for people with disability,” Mr Alcott told the summit.

People living with a disability are the answer to workforce shortages across the nation, Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott says.

30/08/2022

26/08/2022

TJATU WITULYA (STRONG TOGETHER) opens this Saturday at the APY Gallery in Sydney at 2pm

Come say hello to Yankunytjatjara artists Rosalind Tjanyari and Priscilla Singer from Iwantja Arts]

Pricilla Singer and Rosalind Tjanyari who will be sharing stories about their work, community, and extraordinary Art Centre Iwantja Arts] in their artists talk starting at 2.30 pm.

IWANTJA ARTS GROUP EXHIBITION
SATURDAY 27 AUG 2pm - 4pm
45 BURTON ST, DARLINGHURST

Tjatu Witulya is an exciting exhibition featuring new work from female early career artists from Iwantja Arts, including large-scale collaborative works.

This collection of works highlights the strength of these women as they come together not only in their studio, but also in their community.
Featuring works from Iwantja Studio artists Priscilla Singer, Rosalind Tjanyari, Emily Cullinan, Raylene Walatinna, Julie Yatjitja, and Daisy Barney. 🖤💛❤️

Don’t miss this special exhibition
Pictured Rosalind Tjanyari with artwork Ngura Wiru – Good Country, 152 x 198cm Acrylic on linen, 2022

26/08/2022

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has laid out the terms of an inquiry into Scott Morrison's secret self-appointment to administer several ministries throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Key points:
A former High Court justice will lead the inquiry into Scott Morrison's secret power grab
Former High Court justice Virginia Bell will lead the inquiry, which will examine how the appointments were made and the implications arising from them.
Ms Bell served as a High Court justice for 12 years, before retiring last year.
"We need to have a quick and appropriate inquiry, which is not about the politics but how this happened," Mr Albanese said.
The Prime Minister said the inquiry would make recommendations to government on any changes to provide greater transparency and accountability 'to ensure this can never happen again".
The inquiry will consider the circumstances of Mr Morrison's actions, and any implications they may have
The report and recommendations will be provided by November 25

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sets out the terms of an inquiry into Scott Morrison's secret power grab of several ministries.

25/08/2022

Malcolm Turnbull says it is what he doesn’t know about Scott Morrison’s power grab that remains the most troubling.
Mr Turnbull’s queries raise the possibility that officials or public servants still serving at the highest levels may have played a role in Mr Morrison’s secret cabinet takeover, or advised it.
“We can accept that Morrison failed; we can say that he was a control freak; he was obsessed with secrecy; he had these character or personality flaws,”

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says it is what he doesn't know about Scott Morrison’s power grab that remain the most troubling.

20/08/2022

18/08/2022

18/08/2022

We finally heard from former prime minister Scott Morrison yesterday about why he secretly took on five ministerial portfolios while also doing the top job. But at the end of his hour-long press conference, many questions remained.
We also heard he had a “wonderful” conversation with former treasurer Josh Frydenberg, whose portfolio he’d sworn himself into in May 2021 without telling him. As Michelle Grattan writes, the conversation may not have been quite so wonderful for Frydenberg, who may have been wondering “what if”. Specifically, what if these revelations had come out before the election? And what if, as a result, there had been a move on Morrison?
But even leaving aside the hypotheticals, Grattan says that much of what Morrison had to say yesterday simply doesn’t bear scrutiny. And he seemed unable to grasp why people were so upset about it.
As Frank Bongiorno and Emily Millane write, the defence that what Morrison did was not illegal misses the point. The Westminster system, on which our democracy is based, is premised on accountability and adherence to conventions. Those conventions are enforced by their usage, and eroded by their disregard. This means, the authors write, they “cannot simply be set aside without serious and detrimental effects on the way we are governed”.
The situation has been described in various ways, including as “the sort of tin-pot activity that we would ridicule if it was in a non-democratic country” by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese; “sinister” by former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull; and “unusual, unorthodox and strange” by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
It is intolerable for there to be secret ministers. Parliament must act to prevent this ever happening again.
The Constitution gives the governor-general power to appoint ministers. If you read the text of the Constitution without knowing anything else, you would get the impression the governor-general has broad discretion in appointing ministers.
In practice, that power is limited by unwritten constitutional conventions. One of the most important conventions is that the person who commands the confidence of the House of Representatives should be appointed prime minister. This is usually the leader of the party (or parties in coalition) that has a majority of seats. In turn, the prime minister advises the governor-general on who should be appointed to other ministries.
The governor-general’s power to appoint ministers is also limited by legislation. The Ministers of State Act 1952 limits the number of people who can be appointed as ministers. A maximum of 30 people can be appointed as ministers and a maximum of 12 people can be appointed as parliamentary secretaries or assistant ministers.
The Constitution says executive power is exercised by the governor-general. In practice, of course, executive power is really exercised by the prime minister and other ministers. Australia’s Westminster system of government is premised on ministerial accountability to parliament.
Ministerial accountability to parliament can only work effectively if parliament knows who the ministers are and which ministers are responsible for what. A number of politicians and commentators have pointed out that, in secretly appointing himself to several ministries, Morrison misled cabinet and parliament over an extended period of time.

Legislation must be created to ensure that Scott Morrison’s secretive ministerial power grab never happens again

16/08/2022

National Superhero Week : Make a donation today to support National Superhero Week

16/08/2022

11/08/2022

Walk in solidarity and help save lives.

11/08/2022

10/08/2022

Most would know this but it’s good to have empirical evidence to support individual knowledge

Why do people with in Australia have a 43% higher rate of & than the nondisabled? Read our article exploring the phenomenon - with disability: Australian insights through a social ecology lens https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13215906.2022.2092888 #.YuNX6n1CjL0.twitter
Tweet: Prof Simon Darcy

30/07/2022

Ash Barty has married ­longtime partner Garry ­Kissick in a secret setting a world away from the glaring spotlight of the tennis world she once dominated.

28/07/2022

Today our government will legislate for 10 days paid domestic and family violence leave.

I will also be personally joining the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Council on family, domestic and sexual violence to discuss our commitment to end violence against Indigenous women and children.

In the first week of sittings, this is a government that acts and shows the national leadership needed to back women and families and help end violence in our communities.

We will deliver some long overdue change.

21/07/2022

Check out this great entry in the 2022 NTCA and Elders photo competition.

21/07/2022

20/07/2022

Join trailblazer and disability activist Judy Heumann, who is considered the mother of the disability rights movement, in a conversation about her books Being Heumann and Rolling Warrior. Judy’s bravery, persistence, and signature rebellious streak speaks to every person fighting to belong and fighting for social justice. In this young readers’ edition of her acclaimed memoir, Being Heumann, Judy shares her journey of battling for equal access in an unequal world—from fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” because of her wheelchair, to suing the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her disability. Learn about Judy and her work and have an opportunity to hear questions from Girl Scouts and answers from Judy Heumann.

Save for the date for Judy Heumann in Conversation with PBS Books on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 5pm ET | 2pm PT.