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Affirmotive

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 419 430 534

Address: The Elan 1 Kings Cross Road Darlinghurst 2010 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.sexaddictionaustralia.com.au/

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25.01.2022 It’s like a dance. And we have to give each being space to dance their dance. Everything is dancing; even the molecules inside the cells are dancing. But we mak...e our lives so heavy. We have these incredibly heavy burdens we carry with us like rocks in a big rucksack. We think that carrying this big heavy rucksack is our security; we think it grounds us. We don’t realize the freedom, the lightness of just dropping it off, letting it go. That doesn’t mean giving up relationships; it doesn’t mean giving up one’s profession, or one’s family,or one’s home. It has nothing to do with that; it’s not an external change. It’s an internal change. It’s a change from holding on tightly to holding very lightly. ~ Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo [Image: Rob Howarth]

25.01.2022 TRANSMEN are FATHERS too. To all the dads out there regardless of gender, Happy Fathers Day. #TransDad... #FathersDay2020 See more

25.01.2022 Another dimension of human sexuality.

24.01.2022 I love this quote.

24.01.2022 INTERPERSONAL NEUROBIOLOGY OF SYSTEMIC RACISM. FREE VIDEO. This conversation between two mental health experts is a must-see for all therapists, counselors, so...cial workers, pastors and educators. Covers the impacts of daily traumatic mind mapping in black lives and offers new solutions. https://crucible4points.com/interpersonal-neurobiology-of-/ See more

22.01.2022 Were spending a whole lot of time at home right now, and unfortunately not everyone has the luxury of non-stop sourdough baking and cute hangs. Dealing with fa...mily or a living situation thats unsupportive of your LGBTQIA+ identity can be really, really tough. Weve created some resources though, for dealing with supportive family during self-isolation. Check out our tips here, or read the full article: https://bit.ly/3acjSrT

16.01.2022 We're spending a whole lot of time at home right now, and unfortunately not everyone has the luxury of non-stop sourdough baking and cute hangs. Dealing with fa...mily or a living situation that's unsupportive of your LGBTQIA+ identity can be really, really tough. We've created some resources though, for dealing with supportive family during self-isolation. Check out our tips here, or read the full article: https://bit.ly/3acjSrT

14.01.2022 A very interesting program on managing the concerns with Covid-19 in the context of Yoga. A webinar with the Sarvasumana Association in India. We talked about mind, breath spirit, genetics and the art of Yoga. Excellent! (a little shy with showing their faces :) )

13.01.2022 "It is safer, to have sex with an HIV positive person who is on treatment, than it is just to have any random hook-up."

13.01.2022 Happy International Nurses Day to the nurses of NSW Health! Thank you for your skill, compassion and professionalism, today and every day. Check out this video for a message from Jacqui Cross, Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer and to see some of our exceptional nurses in action

12.01.2022 The new, more advanced Cervical Screening Test has replaced the Pap test. It detects HPV a common infection that can sometimes lead to cervical cancer. Is ...it time to catch up with your Cervical Screening Test this National Cervical Cancer Awareness Week? #timetocatchup #embracetheawkward #ACCF

12.01.2022 TRANSMEN are FATHERS too. To all the dads out there regardless of gender, Happy Father's Day. #TransDad... #FathersDay2020 See more

08.01.2022 I was honored to be invited by South Pacific Private to a memorable lunch with Christopher Kennedy Lawford, nephew of John F Kennedy and son of actor Peter Lawf...ord, CEO of the Global Recovery Initiative, the United Nations first Goodwill Ambassador for Drug Treatment and Care Issues, and works with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). Christopher delivered a powerful speech on the importance to change social stigma surrounding addiction and to improve prevention and treatment of addictions. See more

07.01.2022 Rest in Power Jack. Jack was one of the greatest inspirations for the formation of the Alliance. Building power across diversity, from Kellys Bush to the world.... *** We have just heard the news that the great Jack Mundey has passed away in Concord Hospital at the age of 90. Jack was one of the last of the leadership of the NSW Builders Labourers Federation that, from the 1960s through to the early 1970s, amongst many other achievements, played a huge role in saving much of the very character and urban heritage of this great city from utter destruction under the hammer of corrupt governments, gangsters, and short term market forces. Jack made innumerable contributions to the struggle for industrial, social, environmental, and economic justice in this country. His legacy, and the legacy of all of those countless union heroes that he represented, endures, and he will be remembered for centuries by the people of Sydney. REST IN POWER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jack Mundey Defender of the working class By Ingeborg van Teeseling on January 6th, 2017 When Australian writer Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973, the government was quick to also make him Australian of the Year. White, who was famously cranky and unpredictable, used his acceptance speech to tell the powers-that-be that the prize should have gone to somebody else. The person White had in mind was Jack Mundey, an Australian Maverick, an exceptional Australian, as the writer said. Patrick White was normally a great hater of people, but Jack Mundey was a man he admired. He even wrote a play, Big Toys, that centred around a character based on Mundey, and thought that Australia could do a lot worse than choose Mundey for PM. So I think Patrick White wouldnt mind if I nominated Jack Mundey as Australian Maverick Number Three. It was the early 1970s when Jack Mundey (1929, Atherton Tablelands) became a household name: hero to some, public enemy number one to others. Mundey had been elected secretary of the NSW Builders Labourers Federation in 1968. Earlier that decade, the union had been in collusion with the builders, as Mundey would later say. Working conditions were appalling and dangerous. In 1962 alone, 14 men died in building industry accidents, but neither the employers nor the union did much about it. Militant workers like Mundey, who tried to change this, were blacklisted on job, and in 1963, Mundey was sacked 17 times for trying to organise the men. But because there was a building boom going on, every man was needed and strikes were a powerful tool. During the 1960s, Mundey and some of his colleagues first cleaned up the union and then advocated to the members that broader community actions were needed to help out other working people in need. Soon the BLF was mobilising against the Vietnam War and openly supporting the Indigenous stockmen who had walked off the job in the Northern Territory, asking for land rights. In the early seventies, the union took up the feminist cause. When female students of Sydney University were forbidden to set up a course on womens rights, they asked the union to support them by stopping building work that was taking place on campus. It was interesting, Mundey would later say, an all male union taking up a womens cause, but the members voted to help out and the university capitulated within days. A week later, Macquarie University, that had kicked out a student because he was gay, would get the same treatment. With the same result. Then came 1971, with the tour of the all-white South African rugby team the Springboks. There were protests everywhere in the country, but Mundeys union colleague Bob Pringle contributed to the merriment by cutting the goal posts down with a hacksaw in the middle of the night. He was arrested and ordered to pay a hefty fine. Mundey himself also made the trip to the cop shop often: I have to look up my ASIO security file [to see how many times]. Then came the first step in a process that would make Jack Mundey famous inside and outside Australia. For years, a group of women had been trying to save Kellys Bush, the last remaining bushland on the Parramatta River. Although there was an Aboriginal midden on the site and it had been recognised as environmentally and historically valuable, the Askin government, almost as corrupt as Bjelke-Petersen in Queensland, wanted to turn the 12 acres over to developers. The women had tried everything in their power, but failed. Then they asked the BLF for help. Mundey put a black ban on the job, rebranding it a Green Ban, as a symbol that this action was for broader environmental and community reasons. Askin himself was furious: Who [do] they think they are? They are mere labourers. But the union won and this opened the floodgates. Within three years, 5000 million dollars worth of development would be stopped by the members of the BLF. Citizens all over Australia turned to the union for help. In total 43 Green Bans were invoked in Sydney, 25 in Melbourne, four in Perth, three in Adelaide, two in Brisbane, two in Hobart and one in Birmingham in the UK. This last one was because of a coincidence: Spike Milligan, the comedian, was visiting his mother in Sydney in 1973 when he realised what Mundey was achieving in Australia. Back home, he took that knowledge to help save the Birmingham Post Office. It would be Mundeys furthest Green Ban, but not its most influential. Without the Green Bans, the Rocks would have been bulldozed, Centennial Park turned into a giant sports stadium, a good part of the Botanic Gardens made into a car park and the best parts of Kings Cross demolished. Obviously, there was a price to pay. Especially in the case of Kings Cross, Mundey was threatened by people calling to tell him they would cut your kids throat and bomb your car. For a brief period, the secretary of the action group disappeared and Mundey had to go to the media to tell the abductors that if anybody were killed, there wouldnt be anything built in the Cross ever. Although this worked, it could not prevent the murder of Juanita Nielsen, an independent journalist and publisher, who had taken up the cause of the Green Bans and had to pay for that with her life. Mundey himself was roughed up a few times, but because he had been a rugby league player for Parramatta in his young years, and a schoolboy boxer before that, people were usually careful before they took him on. Mundeys tenure in the BLF ended in late 1974. Employers had tried everything to get rid of him: bribes, threats, spreading false stories in the newspapers. But nothing had worked. Then the Master Builders Association made a deal with the Federal union leadership and managed to de-register the NSW Branch and expel Mundey. They also saw to it that he never got to work in the industry again. Mundey, undeterred, went on a world tour to spread the Green Ban gospel, giving talks and teaching activists how to counter even the most conservative and authoritarian of governments. In 1978, when Neville Wran took over NSW, his government introduced quite a number of the improvements Mundey and his union had been advocating for: a Land and Environment Court, which enabled citizens to fight (with legal aid) both governments and developers. Wran also brought in the NSW Heritage Act, and Tom Uren, Whitlams Minister for Urban Development, saved Glebe and Woolloomooloo for posterity. In 2007, part of Argyle Street in the Rocks was renamed Jack Mundey Place, in recognition of the unionists efforts. But Jack Mundey isnt done yet. At 87, he is still involved in the battle to save the Sirius Apartments. He also keeps a close eye on the developments at Barangaroo. With thanks to Alex Pademelon Johnson

03.01.2022 This is one of the oldest mandala like images in the world, possibly created around 50 000 years ago with the Kimberly Foundation Australia dating project still... testing to confirm dates ... it is painted in ochre on the ceiling at Cyclone Cave, in the Kimberley, Australia. Robyn Mungulu, senior guide stands here and shares the sacred site. Image: Colin Murty See more