Greater Hamilton is a regional town with a population of 17,000 in South West Victoria around 295km from Melbourne city.   In 2015, local schools, government and community agencies partnered to responds to growing levels of youth crystal methamphetamine use by developing an innovative preventive drug education model which would be introduced into school curriculums in… Read more

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller As I complete the final blog entry Henry Miller’s words rightly capture the nature of my IDRP journey. As following the motivations of the (dis)-located self I initially began the IDRP journey intending to learn more about decolonial development… Read more

“There are so many borders / dividing people / but ‘through each border there / passes a bridge. – the bridge of the everyday.” – Gina Valdés In this blog entry I reflect on my interactions and learnings with the ‘cultural other’ when I entered Hamilton from 22nd to 27th April to collect data for… Read more