October 31, 2025

Revisiting Fiji's remote islands

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In 2017 my daughter and I volunteered to support a team to build a playground on a remote island in Fiji. Here is the video we made about th...
October 28, 2025

Cultivating Collaborative Practice to Sustain and Retain Early Childhood Educators

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Congratulations Belinda on the acceptance of your article from you PhD Downey, B., Gibbs, L., Letts, W., & McLeod, S. (2025). Cultivatin...
October 21, 2025

Friends from across the Western Pacific at WHO RCM 76

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 During WHO RCM76 we met and made many friends. Here are some: Dr Mark Jacobs, WHO, WPRO (12 Pacific nations in WPRO and 21 Pacific Nations)...

Beautiful Fiji

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What an honour to visit beautiful Fiji for the WHO meeting. Beautiful people and beautiful islands and oceans. During this week we have been...

76th session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee for the Western Pacific held in Nadi, Fiji - 20 to 24 October 2025

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This week I attended the seventy-sixth session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee for the Western Pacific held from 20 to 2...
October 17, 2025

Children Draw Health Global Online Galleries

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 The Children Draw Health Global Online Galleries are now on Charles Sturt University's YouTube channel  What makes you healthy: https:/...

Collaborations with ACU

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A/Prof Jane McCormack and I meet on a semi-regular basis to share and collaborate between Australian Catholic University and Charles Sturt U...

Scoping review: Perspectives of children with disabilities about healthcare

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Today we met to discuss the scoping review we are undertaking to consider the perspectives of children with disabilities about healthcare 57...

Visitors to The Treehouse

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Lots of people like to pop in and visit The Treehouse. Today I hosted two visitors who used to work at the CSU Library. They were visiting P...
October 16, 2025

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and World Children's Day

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Today A/Prof Tamara Cumming, Dr Carolyn Gregoric and I met with Lilium Burrow and team from the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Here are the p...
October 15, 2025

National Children’s Week (18-26 October)

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The ABC has selected the work of A/Prof Kathy Cologon to profile for National Children’s Week (18-26 October). Congratulations Kathy! Nation...
October 14, 2025

CVC team meeting

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What an amazing team we have at CVC. Each Tuesday team meeting is a celebration of achievements, joint planning and problem solving, and sup...
October 13, 2025

Preparing for presenting the Children Draw Health research at the World Health Organization meeting next week

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 Dr Carolyn Gregoric, Dr Belinda Downey and I have been doing a lot of work to prepare for presenting the Children Draw Health research at t...
October 10, 2025

Invited presentation to the Canadian Speech and Stuttering Institute

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 This morning Dr Kate Margetson, Dr Helen L. Blake and I were invited to present a 3-hour live session to the Canadian Speech and Stuttering...