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Join us for a live panel event that discusses how to keep people living with diabetes healthier for longer.

Type 2 diabetes is the fastest growing chronic condition in Australia and one of the biggest challenges confronting Australia’s health system.

With much already known about how to care for and improve the lives of people living with diabetes, how can we create new, tangible and long-lasting solutions that predict, prevent and reduce the risk of diabetes related complications, improve quality of life and lift the burden on healthcare systems? And how do we ensure new treatments and technologies are available to everyone who needs them, regardless of where they live or their cultural background.

From new diagnostic tools and therapeutics to life-changing lifestyle programs, innovative digital interventions, and a dedicated Diabetes Virtual Emergency Department, join us for a conversation as we explore a future of diabetes prevention and care that seeks to keep people happier, healthier, and out of hospital for longer

This is a live panel event featuring Professor Elif Ekinci (Director ACADI and Head, Department of Medicine, Melbourne Medical School), Ray Kelly (Exercise Physiologist and proud Gamilaroi man), Michael Smith OAM (CEO, Inside PR and Former Editor of The Age) and Simone Patterson (Nurse Practitioner, Credentialled Diabetes Educator). Joined by panel moderator, Natasha Mitchell (ABC Journalist).

This is a hybrid event. Online audiences can watch livestream from 6pm - 7:15pm (AEST). For in-person attendees, light refreshments will be provided in the foyer from 7:15pm – 8pm, with the chance to engage directly with ideas explored in the discussion.

This webinar is the fifth in the Australian Centre’s 2024 Critical Public Conversations series: Sovereignty and Solidarity: Redefining belonging in so-called Australia.

Join Suvendrini Perera & Joseph Pugliese in conversation as they discuss questions of race, geographies of state violence and countermaps of resistance in (so-called) Australia and across the globe.

The Deathscapes Project identifies how the governance apparatuses of the settler state—including its systems of law, criminal justice and the prison-industrial-detention complex—operate to produce death for its racially targeted subjects as a system-outcome of its everyday operations.

In this talk, Suvendrini Perera & Joseph Pugliese offer a scattered itinerary of settler colonialism, its long duration, wide reach and transnational deathscapes, alongside their excavations of adjacent terms.

We invite audience members to familiarise themselves with the Deathscapes website ahead of the talk, if possible. It can be accessed via the NLA archive at: https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20201103065140/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/173410/20201103-1648/www.deathscapes.org/case-studies/index.html

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If you have any support requirements in order to participate fully, please let us know via aust-centre@unimelb.edu.au.

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