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Marlee Bower

@MarleeBower

Researcher @ Matilda Centre USYD. Researching mental health, loneliness, homelessness + housing, prison, social inclusion. Views my own.
Sydney, New South Wales Joined June 2016
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Marlee Bower @MarleeBower
Check out this ABC story on my latest study, showing where you live affects your mental health during the pandemic with ⁦@BuckleCaitlin⁩ ⁦@BrainsOnNature⁩ ⁦@AmarinaDB ⁦@Peterfizz⁩ ⁦@MTeesson⁩ ⁦@TheMatilda_USyd⁩ abc.net.au/news/2021-08-1…
www.abc.net.au Where Carol lives, houses are so close together 'you can hear everything'. During lockdown, it took... New research suggests noisy, dark, and problem-plagued homes lead to significantly increased mental health impacts during lockdown.
Marlee Bower @MarleeBower
“The attempt to cancel Sarah Schwartz transcends any one individual. It is a fundamental threat to free speech and liberal democracy. Social cohesion is impossible in a liberal democracy unless we embrace the right to disagree with one another.” smh.com.au/national/when-…
www.smh.com.au When cancel culture goes this far, our democracy is in peril An Australian human rights lawyer is the latest victim of a campaign to shut down Jewish people who dare to criticise Israel.
Marlee Bower @MarleeBower
“ In the history of News Corp holy wars … rarely has there been one with less basis in reality than that being conducted against Human Rights Law Centre legal director and Jewish Council of Australia executive officer Sarah Schwartz” - great article!
Crikey @crikey_news Jan 29, 2025
Opinion | Sarah Schwartz pointed out that Peter Dutton is exploiting Jews for political purposes. News Corp and the right now want to destroy her for it, writes @bernardKeane. crikey.com.au/2025/01/29/sar…
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Marlee Bower @MarleeBower
“I don’t believe that Trump and the far right could care less about the threat these groups pose to actual Jewish people, because they’re not really interested in us, they’re interested in the avatars they have created to replace us.” Brilliant
Sarah Schwartz @Sarah__Schwartz Jan 28, 2025
My article today in @GuardianAus about how Peter Dutton’s use of the Jewish community as political footballs, to spread bigotry, makes all of us less safe.

Murdoch can’t force me to stop calling out Dutton and the LNP for fueling racism!

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Marlee Bower @MarleeBower
In a time of major social divisions, social connection is vital. Really proud of this report, based on @TheMatilda_USyd @MTeesson collab with the @UCLPolicyLab - and incredible minds @soniajohnson @PeterFonagy @globalhlthtwit @EndLonelinessUK @mds49 @LocalTrust and many others!
The Matilda Centre @TheMatilda_USyd Nov 13, 2024
NEW | We are proud to share a new report to prioritise social connection in UK and Australian policy. Together, @UCLPolicyLab and @TheMatilda_USYD reflected on the best available academic and community evidence.
Our findings: bit.ly/40NICop
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