Matiu is the founder of One Good Street, a community organising non-profit focussed on supporting the aged and lonely in our communities.
Matiu is also a nurse practitioner, and provisional PHD candidate at Deakin University, with a focus on infectious disease, and sexual & reproductive health. Matiu has also been working & nursing on the frontlines of Victoria's COVID-19 response since the beginning of the pandemic.
We talked about the silver linings offered by the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the deep value of ageing-in-place, with a strong support network around us.Here's some of the resources we discussed:
Website - Letter to my pre-COVID self
Podcast - Malcom Gladwell - Revisionist History
Music - Max Richter - Sleep
Book - Alvin E Roth - Who gets what and why?
Article - Designed to scale - Participatory CityWe sell beautiful bamboo toothbrushes that do a helpful thing! We donate half our profits to help fund health and hygiene programs in remote communities around Australia via Red Dust