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TIPPING POINTS

14.8.20 & 15.8.20

DIRRUM FESTIVAL #CBR20

TIPPING POINTS

Tipping Points. Everywhere, there are tipping points. Some need arresting. Others need starting, and some a push and tipping over: truth telling, earth caring, life protecting. It’s about recognition, democracy, freedom and freedoms.

SPEAKERS

SPEAKERS

VIDEOS

VIDEOS

Richard Browning | I Just Want to Make a Difference | Dirrum Festival #CBR20
10:28

Richard Browning | I Just Want to Make a Difference | Dirrum Festival #CBR20

Richard Browning speaks of his new book, I Just Want to Make a Difference: A Journey in Social Change Making. About the author: Originally a physiotherapist, now priest, Richard has always been a professional child. His chief work has been as father of three boys now men. His best work as school chaplain has been around a culture of engagement: Christian faith as movement towards greater humanity, not religiosity, and service as a means to discover and express humanity, not power. Apart from delighting in his role as priest/ pastor/storyteller/liturgist/coach/mentor among students, Richard’s most rewarding work pivots around Radford College’s values and ethos and how it might best honour God and serve the common good. - - - #dirrumfestivalCBR 2020 Tipping Points | 14-15 August 2020 Tipping Points. Everywhere tipping points. Some need arresting. Others need starting, and some a push and tipping over: truth telling, earth caring, life protecting. It’s about recognition, democracy, freedom and freedoms. For more information about #dirrumfestivalCBR 2020, visit https://dirrumfestival.org/cbr20 - - - #dirrumfestival is an artefact of Dirrum Dirrum, a movement encouraging young people’s engagement in service to the common good. Dirrum Dirrum is a way of seeing others and ourselves bound in respectful relationship, standing in a wide circle of compassionate engagement. It acknowledges a common ground and is an active choice for life beyond the smallness of self-interest. Dirrum Dirrum is the sound of red in Ngunnawal language: the colour of blood and earth. For more information about Dirrum Dirrum, visit https://dirrumdirrum.org/about - - -
Brooke Prentis | Common Grace & The Australian Dream | Dirrum Festival #CBR20
16:58

Brooke Prentis | Common Grace & The Australian Dream | Dirrum Festival #CBR20

Brooke Prentis is an Aboriginal Christian leader and speaker. She is a proud Wakka Wakka women who has been heavily involved with the organisation of Common Grace. Common Grace is Christian organisation aimed at working for justice and seeking to speak and live more graciously. She started out as Common Grace’s spokesperson and is currently the CEO of the organisation. The Australian Dream: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/australian-dream We Can't Breathe: https://youtu.be/M4f47RB1XwM - - - #dirrumfestivalCBR 2020 Tipping Points | 14-15 August 2020 Tipping Points. Everywhere tipping points. Some need arresting. Others need starting, and some a push and tipping over: truth telling, earth caring, life protecting. It’s about recognition, democracy, freedom and freedoms. For more information about #dirrumfestivalCBR 2020, visit https://dirrumfestival.org/cbr20 - - - #dirrumfestival is an artefact of Dirrum Dirrum, a movement encouraging young people’s engagement in service to the common good. Dirrum Dirrum is a way of seeing others and ourselves bound in respectful relationship, standing in a wide circle of compassionate engagement. It acknowledges a common ground and is an active choice for life beyond the smallness of self-interest. Dirrum Dirrum is the sound of red in Ngunnawal language: the colour of blood and earth. For more information about Dirrum Dirrum, visit https://dirrumdirrum.org/about - - - 0:00 Introduction 0:35 Brooke Prentis: Common Grace & The Australian Dream - - -
Bernard Collaery | Time for Reform | Dirrum Festival #CBR20
31:53

Bernard Collaery | Time for Reform | Dirrum Festival #CBR20

Bernard Collaery describes the Australia he grew up in and the values he has identified with, loves and has faithfully served. What is Witness K guilty of? What is his legal representation guilty of? Why did Australia betray such a vulnerable, emerging and impoverished nation and for what? Profit? Collaery asks, 'where is the helium, why was it given away for free?' Why must the trial proceed behind closed doors? Collaery argues that our values and the instruments that safeguard civil society are under threat. This talk is extremely challenging: "Time for Reform". Collaery is an Australian solicitor and barrister who specialises in litigation in high-profile personal injury cases. Recently, he represented a witness in a case brought by the Timor-Leste Government against the Australian Government for the bugging of Timor-Leste cabinets during Timor Sea oil negotiations. Throughout his career as a solicitor, advocate, and politician, Bernard has been a fearless advocate for human rights. - - - #dirrumfestivalCBR 2020 Tipping Points | 14-15 August 2020 Tipping Points. Everywhere tipping points. Some need arresting. Others need starting, and some a push and tipping over: truth telling, earth caring, life protecting. It’s about recognition, democracy, freedom and freedoms. For more information about #dirrumfestivalCBR 2020, visit https://dirrumfestival.org/cbr20 - - - #dirrumfestival is an artefact of Dirrum Dirrum, a movement encouraging young people’s engagement in service to the common good. Dirrum Dirrum is a way of seeing others and ourselves bound in respectful relationship, standing in a wide circle of compassionate engagement. It acknowledges a common ground and is an active choice for life beyond the smallness of self-interest. Dirrum Dirrum is the sound of red in Ngunnawal language: the colour of blood and earth. For more information about Dirrum Dirrum, visit https://dirrumdirrum.org/about - - - 0:00 Introduction 2:35 Bernard Collaery: Time for Reform - - -

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DIRRUM CHALLENGE

Dirrum Challenge is about searching for the sweet spot - where your interests, skills and heart meet a need within the community. All people from the community, regardless of age or background, are encouraged to use their their passions to inspire a movement of change. The concept of Dirrum Challenge is best summarised by the idea of “Think Globally, Act Locally”.

DIRRUM CHALLENGE

ZOE MALONE'S DIRRUM CHALLENGE

One of our Dirrum Challenges for 2020 was Zoe’s challenge to pick-up rubbish and create a fundraising challenge called The Climate Challenge. It is a great way to harness the energy and inspiration you find at Dirrum, and turn it into tangible action! 

The Climate Challenge is a 15-day challenge from 27th September - 11th October, where participants pick up rubbish for a certain amount of time per day, each representing an environmental statistic! Over the 15 days, you or your team will spend 414 minutes picking up rubbish which is the amount of Carbon Dioxide (ppm) in the atmosphere as of June 2020, a massive increase from the 280 ppm at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (Buis 2019).


As you pick up rubbish around your neighbourhood, friends, family and neighbours can sponsor your efforts to improve the local environment. The funds raised go towards the Climate Council, a not-for-profit, science-based, independent voice on Climate Change in Australia. The Climate Council ask the hard-questions, produce highly researched and impactful reports, promote climate solutions, get climate change into the media, and call out misinformation.

 

We’ve found as you start picking up rubbish, you’ll start to notice it more and more and become aware of the issues of littering and dumping. By planting the seed in people’s mind as you set an example it makes everyone more attuned to the issues we face and create in environmentalism, even in our own backyard.

Register to make a difference at their website www.theclimatechallenge.info or check out the instagram @theclimatechallenge 

Buis, A 2019, ‘The Atmosphere: Getting a Handle on Carbon Dioxide’, Sizing Up Humanity’s Impacts on Earth’s Changing Atmosphere: A Five-Part Series, vol. 2, 9 October, viewed 14 August 2020, <https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2915/the-atmosphere-getting-a-handle-on-carbon-dioxide/>.’

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