Gaps

• A South Sea Islander/Scottish Indian woman, Bandler played a lead role in the 1967 referendum campaign.
• She described wearing white day gloves when campaigning and speaking to non-Indigenous audiences:
  I used to wear short white gloves.
• They were acceptable to the white community I came in contact with when I was campaigning for black women’s rights.
• It is a far cry from the overt – and often casual – ways fashion is being used in the 2023 referendum campaign.

Subtle style

• First Nations women, and particularly older women were often the voice of the 1967 referendum, and appearances were important.
• Older women wore their Sunday best: dresses with hats, skirts with jacket sets or casual pencil skirts with dressy turtlenecks, and small and subtle jewellery.

The iconic badges

• Jackie Huggins (Bidjara and Birri Gubba Juru) remembers, as an 11-year-old, handing out badges to promote the campaign.
• In the late 1800s, some First Nations people wore temperance badges as a pledge of abstinence from alcohol.
• Returned & Services League and Mothers Mourners badges were significant for First Nations people who served or lost family members in war.
• Other badges worn by the 1960s First Nations rights groups featured boomerang shapes and circular Aboriginal rights designs.

Referendum fashion today

• Fashion is again playing a role in the 2023 referendum.
• Today, clothes are brighter and more casual.
• First Nations designers and artists have shaped textiles and fashion over the decades.
• The fashions of the 2023 referendum are very different from 1967.

• In 2020, calls to defund the police echoed a longstanding argument in critical criminology in favour of police abolition.
• Academics who forgo working with police are losing out on opportunities for critical data access and effective knowledge mobilization.
• Researchers who seek to understand and evaluate policing practice need access to large-scale, timely and highly sensitive data on police operations.

Intimate partner violence

• Intimate partner violence is one priority area that has seen the benefits of police-academic partnership.
• Studies showed that arrest reduced subsequent violence, but the impact varied according to an individual’s history of violence and other risk factors.
• We have been part of such partnerships over the course of our respective careers, from the creation of the first actuarial risk assessment tool for intimate partner violence to the testing of that tool in routine police practice.

Coercive control

• Recognition of non-physically violent but coercive and controlling forms of abuse has grown rapidly in recent years, especially with the increase in coercive control incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Coercive control involves repeated, systematic acts of isolation, intimidation and violation that undermine the partner and trap them in the abusive relationship.
• Keira’s Law, which passed the Senate on Aug. 17, 2023, is set to mandate coercive control training for judges.

How best to address coercive control?

• Police-academic partnerships can help answer crucial questions, including how police officers investigate coercive control, what the most effectual training methods are and whether policies are effective and equitable when implemented.
• The CELIA IPV project for intimate partner violence research is studying how police can recognize and respond to non-physical, coercive and controlling behaviours.

Evidence-based policing

• We’ll also examine risk-assessment approaches for people engaging in intimate partner violence across diverse gender and sexual identities, extending our partnerships and enhancing the potential for improving evidence-based policing whenever officers respond to a domestic call.
• Police-academic partnerships are not just about the academic search for knowledge, and not just about the evaluation of policing practice.

• And many did – concluding not only that the indictment was well-written but engaging.
• I study the ethics of using narrative and rhetoric in legal persuasion.
• Instead, they wrote what in legal circles is called a “speaking” indictment.

Show, don’t tell

• But doing so might not only be boring but also leave readers with their own stock sense of what a “residence” is.
• True, Mar-a-Lago does have a “storage room” where many boxes were put.
• These images not only keep readers engaged by breaking up the text but also reinforce the Department of Justice’s written allegations.
• And because viewers assume images to be true without reflection, including this photographic evidence as visual allegations is especially effective.
• Readers could infer what’s going on: Trump ordered that the boxes be moved and did so to conceal their contents.

‘It’s only one side’

• The public would be left with just Trump’s claims about what the case was about.
• Instead, an indictment full of persuasive storytelling techniques might frame the public’s first, and sometimes only, impressions.
• While admiring the writing of Smith and his team here, readers should also be aware: It’s only one side of the story.

• She is first told it’s nothing to worry about, then, a year later, that it’s “just normal aging.” Until finally, the penny drops: “It’s Alzheimer’s.
• Dementia remains largely underdetected, even in high-income countries such as Canada where rates of undetected cases exceed 60 per cent.
• Research has shown that people with mild changes in cognition are at a greater risk of developing dementia later in life.
• Despite this, protocols for early detection are not standard in the medical community, in part because significant gaps remain in our understanding of dementia.

Dementia and an aging population

• In my research, I use advanced brain MRI methods to characterize brain health in older adults who are at high risk of developing dementia.
• The goal is to identify new biomarkers of early pathology, which could lead to improved detection methods in the future.
• The proportion of senior Canadians is growing in our population.
• Dementia is strongly associated with aging, so the number of Canadians diagnosed with dementia — including Alzheimer’s — is expected to rise considerably in the next few decades, reaching an expected 1.7 million Canadians by 2050.

Lifestyle and brain health

• By making dementia risk assessment a part of routine medical visits for older adults, those who are most at risk could be identified and counselled on how to maintain brain health and cognition.
• At-risk individuals likely need those interventions the most (potentially a combination of pharmaceutical and lifestyle interventions), but anyone can benefit from adopting healthy lifestyle habits, which are known to protect from diseases not only of the brain, but also of the heart and other organs.
• Some evidence also suggests that a Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes high consumption of plants (especially leafy greens) while reducing saturated fats and meat intake, is also beneficial for brain health.

Barriers to healthy lifestyles

• Policy changes could address these inequalities not only by promoting healthy lifestyles, but also by taking action to improve the circumstances in which people of these communities live.
• Examples include improving access to sport centres or prevention clinics for people with lower incomes and designing cities that are conducive to active lifestyles.
• Governments need to evaluate and address the barriers that prevent people from specific groups from adopting healthy lifestyle habits.