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Author's note: In May 2021, a seven-year-old child died of an infection while waiting for medical care at the Perth Children's Hospital. Subsequently, her parents pushed for an investigation. As a result of the Chavittupara family's pressure on the McGowan Government, a report was delivered that observed a 'cascade of missed opportunities' leading to the death. The report listed eleven recommendations, including a clear pathway for parents to escalate concerns to staff and a review of cultural awareness for staff. 
 

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  • Epigraph: Something universal in this way you become. -Aditi Machado, 'Then' 2019

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    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 66 no. 2 November 2021 23572116 2021 periodical issue 'Change is a rhetoric. Some of this is cheap or jargonistic: change processes, forces of change, fife-changing, changing hands, hearts, minds, spots, seas_ Some is more deliberate: the discourse of social change, policies of reform altering standards and conventions, climate change spoken of in terms of climate crisis—language used definitively to convey imperatives of action. But change phrasing is used (ironically) by conservative forces as regularly as those seeking something of revolution. With the uncertainties of global pandemic, growing awareness of ecological catastrophe and newly reimagined nationalisms, this is perhaps a realm of language ripe for creative attention. ' (Catherine Noske , Josephine Taylor and Daniel Juckes : Editorial introduction)
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