Read my full tribute to Dr Maudie Palmer AO here:
estheranatolitis.net/2025/12/11/d...
The print version was edited and abridged without my consent. Photography by Bronwyn Kidd.

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Rest in power and brilliance, magnificent woman.

* Bronwyn Kidd
www.bronwynkidd.com/maudi-palmer

Nobody ever said “no” to Maudie Palmer. The world is all the better for it.
My tribute to Dr Maudie Palmer will be published in print in tomorrow’s The Age. Photography by Bronwyn Kids www.theage.com.au/culture/art-...

Here’s the artists’ statement on the City of Mount Gambier website – easy to reference. Let’s see @theguardian.com @australia.theguardian.com take the lead on mandating the naming of artists when their work is being discussed. An important step forward.

www.mountgambier.sa.gov.au/discover/art...

And that story from last week: "the inaugural chair and a founding backer… personally advocating against Brisbane’s Tattersall’s Club admitting women… Advance [campaigns] against the 2050 net zero emissions targets, and recently backed hardline anti-immigration…" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Museums play a powerful role in educating children as well as the general public. Their cultural authority and integrity should never be for sale.

“Above all, we need to jettison the current economic focus on education, and re-embrace the idea that higher learning is a fundamental public good—and should be funded as such.” Here’s his recent book Broken
Universities, Politics and the Public Good publishing.monash.edu/product/brok...