Away from razoo - working/travelling - until 2008.
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Bachelor of Arts (Psych/Politics)
Currently completing a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism)

In Australia, I work for the Department of Human Services. (a Gov't Dept incorporating service provision in the areas of Disability, Child Protection, Juvenille Justice, Youth and Children's services and Forensic Respite facilities.....I work in the Intellectual Disability services sector)

In Vietnam, I work in a School/Clinic in Ben Tre. (South Vietnam)

Co-founded “Chỗ an toàn” Shelter in Hanoi in 2003. (amalgamated with Tương lai Foundation in 2007)

Active member of:
Australian Labor Party
Australian Fabian Society
Amnesty International

Meeting them every day :)

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Dr. Maya Angelou

Kindness in word creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao-tzu

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
- Samuel Johnson

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Loyalty above all else - except honour.
- my Dad :)

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, loving, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
- Dr. Maya Angelou

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
- Napoleon Hill

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
- Cicero

"The Prophet" - particularly on 'Love' and 'Reason & Passion'.
- Kahlil Gibran

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. - Marcus Aurelius

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. What is easy is seldom excellent.
- Samuel Johnson

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best......" and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
- Winnie the Pooh on Anticipation :)

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
- Benjamin Disraeli (House of Commons, 1845)

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
- Henry David Thoreau

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue; a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Baruch Spinoza

There is a utilitarian case for free expression. It recognizes that the freedom to speak must also be insisted on for the person who thinks differently, because it is pointless to support only free speech for people who agree with you. It is not only unprincipled to want that, but also self-defeating. For your own sake, you need to know how other people think.
- Christopher Hitchens