You can watch the speech here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nIt\u2019s a strange experience, hearing your work reflected back like that, especially in a setting like Parliament.<\/p>\n
Because most of what actually creates change doesn\u2019t happen there. It happens in the in-between.
The conversations that go nowhere before they go somewhere. The slow work of building trust.
The constant back and forth between what government is trying to do and what communities actually need.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s where I\u2019ve spent a lot of time.<\/p>\n
At Palliative Care Tasmania, the job was never just about raising awareness. It was about shifting behaviour, strengthening the sector and making sure good ideas didn\u2019t just sit in strategy documents, they turned into funded, practical outcomes.
\nSome of that looked like large-scale campaigns. Some of it looked like programs like Learning Through Loss, quietly building grief literacy across schools and communities. A lot of it looked like sitting around tables with people who didn\u2019t always agree, working out how to move forward anyway.<\/p>\n
None of it is done alone. The impact over those years came from clinicians, community organisations, educators, advocates, government partners and people with lived experience who were willing to lean in and do the work together.<\/p>\n
So the acknowledgement matters. Not in a personal sense, but in what it says more broadly. That palliative care is being taken seriously. That conversations people used to avoid are now happening more openly. That the sector has shifted, and will keep shifting.<\/p>\n
For me, it\u2019s also a line in the sand.<\/p>\n
As I think about what comes next, I know I want to stay close to this kind of work. The messy, interesting, high-stakes space where strategy, influence and delivery all intersect, work where you\u2019re not just talking about change, you\u2019re responsible for making it happen.<\/p>\n
Because that\u2019s the part I\u2019ve always been drawn to.<\/p>\n
And if the past few years have shown anything, it\u2019s that when you get the mix right, you can move things that don\u2019t look like they\u2019re going to move.<\/p>\n
Every now and then, someone notices.<\/p>\n
But the real value is in the shift itself. And if you\u2019re trying to move something that feels stuck, that\u2019s the work I now spend my time on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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