@mattbrettltu.bsky.social
Post and follow things I find interesting: higher ed; policy; disability; TV; football. Also active on Substack: "Accessible Quality" @ http://mattbrett.substack.com Aim to do so with good humour and relentless positivity.
Image of assess fest panelists on alternative credentials / learner profiles
Assess Fest - cool panel sharing insights on how alternative credentials/learner profiles are being operationalised in school systems and in university entry
06.11.2025 00:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Australia we have a problem
Great work by Tom Tanuki to highlight nationally coordinated capture of the marches for Australia by national
socialists (language warning)
youtu.be/GLRoFdeI_5Y?...
This first parliamentary speech from Basem Abdo is something else…. Bright future and high impact ahead
m.youtube.com/watch?v=W6kW...
Shoes of ANU
ANU cuts are impacting an innumerable amount of people. Here are just some of their stories. www.shoesofanu.com
21.07.2025 07:40 — 👍 31 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 2The next installment of Australian Story’s profiling of Ange Postecoglou in 2035 will celebrate Socceroo’s 2034 World Cup win
03.06.2025 22:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did a tiny bit for this Ange doc from my kitchen table
An Australian Story - The ABC
youtu.be/ZcwipICG8q4?...
She matters … Stop killing women
#hosierlane
The latest episode of Origin Story on Mars was just fucking brilliant
@iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social really excelled themselves with this one … best so far of what is a most excellent podcast
www.patreon.com/posts/mars-n...
Such a good article
At This Humble Used Car Lot, Tariffs Are Beginning to Sting www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/u...
Photo of a democracy sausage
Had to go to three polling places today before I could find one with a democracy sausage
Life your game Australia
#MESA (Make Elections Sausagey Again)
The galactic bangers they play at Chandrilan weddings are out of this world
#Andor
The way the dance scene was shot and layered with other plot developments incredible
youtu.be/6E7gfpGql7w
Wasp nest with nest hexagonal holes
Hexagonal basalt columns
Rock
Life imitates rock
13.04.2025 05:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image of pink tractor at a tractor pull competition - with caption - Super Size Me - get rid of the caps for a bigger and better Australia
My latest post on substack/accessible quality
Super Size Me ... including everyone you wanted to know about Quambatook but were afraid to ask
mattbrett.substack.com/p/super-size...
A great track from a classic album
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ioud...
Nice weather for ducks!
Yes … copy right issues on voice in the song
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_We...
Time to dust off 2018 defence analysis wrt Trump v1.0 which quotes 1968 committee
‘should a serious breakdown in the international order appear likely to develop, Australia might wish to reconsider the possibility of a requirement for a nuclear capacity’
www.aspistrategist.org.au/should-austr...
This review of Homicide Life on the Streets Black & Blue (S2E2) nails it
“The music stops just as someone answers the phone and says Homicide. And despite everything, you want to clap and say bravo. After all, that’s what you do when you witness a work of art”
davidbmorris.medium.com/homicide-rew...
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Delighted to be co-author on open access paper on 'the house of cards' metaphor we used to characterise experiences of higher ed students
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thx for having me! @ rola ajjowi; @crawfordnic.bsky.social @ Margaret Bearman; @molliedollin.bsky.social @drjot.bsky.social
New post from me at Accessible Quality on University Snakes and Ladders - with a touch of confessional scholarship
mattbrett.substack.com/p/university...
Image of kangaroos in foreground of University of Sunshine Coast building
I ❤️ visiting the University of Sunshine Coast
09.01.2025 02:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Korea V NZ at Sunshine Coast stadium - northern end with big screen and light tower
Southern end of sunshine coast stadium - Korea v NZ
Watching my first ever game of Lacrosse at 2025 Women’s Asia Pacific Championship
Really entertaining sport - fast - technical - tactical
Can see the sports precinct is gonna be awesome come olympics in 2032
#APWLC25 | #Lacrosse
Nothing quite like a windy day at LHR with Big Jet TV live streaming
01.01.2025 08:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I see @seamas.bsky.social got in early with his assessment of AI yesterday.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/
Pearly gates cartoon
Had to happen
20.12.2024 21:44 — 👍 213 🔁 44 💬 10 📌 1Contexto was right up my alley today - it still took me 60 guesses
contexto.me
Slide of JSA engagement indicators including LinkedIn followers and likes
- JSA engagement profile
(Which make me think I have a non-trivial proportion of a major govt agency engagement in terms of followers/mentions etc)
JSA segmentation of skills gaps by category (training gap, suitability gap, retention gap)
- interesting segmentation of skills gaps
04.12.2024 02:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
JSA data showing improved labour market outcomes for gender, disability, Indigenous persons
Make that 10,819 JSA mentions
Following yesterday’s Jobs and Skills Australia Roadshow
- some positive news in labour market outcomes on equity criteria
From David Pope in Canberra Times
29.11.2024 10:34 — 👍 18 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
Deaf Festival 2024 today - fulfilling my need to connect with the Deaf community
Lovely to see kids I interpreted for back in the 90 as thriving adults with their own kids
My mum still lays it on a nice thick telling all and sundry how I ended up with a PhD
www.expression.com.au/news-and-eve...
