The right to choose

It's not often that I get political in my blog. Which is not to say I'm not a political beast, I just tend to save my rants for when I'm stomping around the kitchen/office/street.

However, my friend Sally (who is excitedly expecting her first off-spring in April 2010) drew my attention to the amendments to the midwives and nurse practitioners legislation. Which from July 2010 will prevent parents-to-be from choosing to be solely looked after by a mid-wife and thus give birth in their own homes.

These amendments - lobbied for strongly by the Australian Medical Association - require midwives to have a “collaborative arrangement” in place at all times with an obstetrician or GP obstetrician.

This will affect home birth consumers’ ability to claim from Medicare for prenatal care under the new legislation. It will also affect the way midwives will have to practice in the future if they were able to access the government’s insurance scheme.

You can read more about it on Sally's blog.

And submissions can be made to the senate committee until the 11th of December.

For me, personally, this attacks the fabric of the thing I believe in most:

The right to choose.

The right to choose to give birth at home, or in a hospital. The right to look at what I want to look at on the internet, or not look at (as the case may be). The right to choose to abort.

If I was to have a baby I'm not sure yet where or under what circumstances I would choose to birth.

What I do know is that I am completely, utterly and unapologetically pro-choice.

ONO PROJECT 2

I made an art.


Image by Aaron Horsley.

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Stills from our winning Super8 Comp film (from last year).

i dreamed we were afloat/sending postcards from ships

The first roll of film from my Trip 35:

I'm more excited than a bag full of puppies

In partnership with MONA and Kickstart Arts Inc

ONO PROJECT 2

featuring LIGHTNING BOLT (USA) and 20 ARTISTS IN ONE DERELICT BUILDING

ONO Project is a Hobart based collective focused on repurposing disused urban space for ground breaking art and sound events.

On the 26th of November artists will inhabit and re-activate an empty building near you.

Artists include, CHRONOX, Sally Rees, Matt Warren, Evil Goat, Scot Cotterell, Jacob Leary, Andrew Harper, Emma-Jean Gilmour, Pip Stafford, Kate Kelly, Nicole O’Loughlin, Froth Industries, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Tristan Stowards and more.

Details of the venue will be available via email, SMS, Facebook and word-of-mouth in the week leading up to the event.

To register to receive the address please email onoproject@gmail.com
Or go to http://moorillaevents.wufoo.com/forms/free-event-registration/

About Lightning Bolt

After 15 years of waiting, and praying, Lightning Bolt are finally touring Australia!

Hailing from Rhode Island, USA, Lightning Bolt is a noise rock duo consisting of bassist Brian Gibson and drummer Brian Chippendale. Last we left this amplified tribe of two on 2005s Hypermagic Mountain, Lightning Bolt were tossing thousand of years worth of musical history into a wood chipper and coming up with some chewy chainsaw taffy. The new album, Earthly Delights, embarks on a musical journey that will take you to places both divine and sublime.

Lightning Bolt are presented by Heathen Skulls and Street Press Australia.

Supported by the Premier's Arts Partnership Fund.

MORE INFO TO COME

New home

It looks very calm and relaxing. Which my life really isn't at the moment!

Goat/Lover

Secretly, I liked the beard.