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Kiri Parr

@kiriparr.bsky.social
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I’m into mega projects and how to deliver them better. I am also known for doodling in meetings and wearing interesting brooches.

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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Left on a seat on a train in Sydney. Salmon, milk, mayo and Fanta!
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
They don’t. It’s an open area of law. Legal advice will follow the clients interests - better to put no poach clauses in. Just in case. Shakespeare said something about how to handle the lawyers.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
We're building two things on Indigenous land for the Games 2032. Jack and Shit. Jack just left town. #qldpol nit.com.au/02-07-2025/1...
nit.com.au
Queensland government warns it will override Indigenous heritage laws for Victoria Park stadium
Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie has declared the Queensland Government will push ahead with its $3.8 billion Olympic stadium at Victoria Park, even if agreement cannot be reached with Indigenous communi...
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Bath time in Brisbane’s CBD. Wouldn’t they make a wonderful Olympic Mascot?
Two ibises washing themselves in a fountain.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Such an excellent book with some beautifully powerful moments.
Photo of a blue book with red font and two birds in black.  Title is the Eagle and the Crow by Jim Field.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
In a historic climate ruling, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has confirmed that governments have legal obligations to protect people – both now and in the future – from the worsening impacts of the climate crisis.”
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Chris Rudge has a peer reviewed article out which reveals an estimated 15,000 social security recipients were wrongfully convicted of criminal offences between 1991 and 2011 in a scandal he is calling ‘the omissions affair’. This was the precursor to Robodebt welfare.substack.com/p/the-unexam...
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The unexamined precursor to Robodebt
How a long-forgotten episode involving the wrongful conviction of 15,000 Australians for unproven welfare offences prompted the creation of the Robodebt scheme
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
@dieworkwear.bsky.social can you explain yoke depth design. Is it just design or is there a functional component? Triggered by watching a 2010s show where the man’s shirt had a very narrow yoke.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Today’s doodle.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Is there a proper noun for these monstrous adaptor creatures you randomly build at hotels to get power from their country A plug to your country B plug?
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Todays home made mega fort project for some visiting kids. On time, on budget and exceeded expectations!
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Current megaproject reading. 2 key factors that got it off the ground: a great technical idea, and a time when federal government held particular sway to deliver such projects.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Enjoy this short piece I have written on what we have learnt from past stadium megaprojects. www.linkedin.com/pulse/stadiu...
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Stadium Megaprojects
Debate about whether Brisbane should build a brand-new stadium for the 2032 Brisbane Olympic games is on once again, this time as part of the State’s incoming Government’s 100 Day review, which kicked...
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Next big project to read about.
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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The world’s blind eye to the nightmare problem of nuclear waste disposal. theaimn.net/the-worlds-b...
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The world's blind eye to the nightmare problem of nuclear waste disposal
There are two questions about nuclear wastes that are never asked by the "experts", let alone answered by them.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
You can see them on display at Musee Ariana in Geneva.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
These plates were made by Paul Scott in 2012 and illustrate the nuclear power stations still in operation in Switzerland.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
In the context of our local nuclear debate, do we get a set of decorative plates as well? Better than steak knives.
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Australian Renewable Energy News @solardirectory.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Researchers have unveiled a new Sn(II)-perovskite oxide material that could revolutionise #hydrogen production. #renewables #FlindersUniversity www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/01/07/s...
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South Australian solar discovery could transform hydrogen production
An international study led by Flinders University in Adelaide has advanced nano-scale chemistry to further develop sustainable and efficient generation of hydrogen from water using solar power.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
But he wasn’t a genius at mega project delivery. We struggle to value this skill in the glare of the Sun reflecting off those tiles.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01... How will this damming report change the future of this stadium??
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Review finds Hobart stadium costs to 'exceed $1 billion'
A leading independent economist tasked with reviewing Tasmania's proposal to build an AFL stadium on Hobart's waterfront finds the project is "already displaying the hallmarks of mismanagement" and is...
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Thank goodness process safety has come a long way since the 1960s.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
This podcast is a disturbing summary of the US’s first nuclear accident. Seems time to start learning lessons.
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America’s First Nuclear Accident in 1961 | Episode 1
Podcast Episode · Doomsday: History's Most Dangerous Podcast · 10/11/2020 · 37m
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Trevor being cheeky on this NYE.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
When is the right time to take down the giant blow up Santa? Just asking for a neighbour.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
From p38:
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Case name is Productivity Partners v ACCC and involved the removal of safeguards in college enrolment processes to reduce the risk of unsuitable persons enrolling.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
What is ‘deliberate’ has been legally hard to establish - as a general rule only catching out blatant examples. Last year’s High Court decision against Productivity Partners however may help with cases involving systems that by their very nature lead to underpayments.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Sometimes I stop reading a book so I don’t have to read what comes next, to remember a character as they are. It took me a few stops and starts but very glad I got to the end of this one.
Photo of book cover of Dusk by Robbie Arnott.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Is that a hand knitted cardi though??
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12... We are watching in real time all the text book reasons why mega projects go over budget and over time. The academic term is the ‘political sublime’.
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Coalition's nuclear costs effectively comparing apples and elephants
In the world of comparing apples and oranges, the Coalition's claim that its nuclear plan would be hundreds of billions cheaper than Labor's looks to have come from comparing apples and elephants.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Thanks @squigglyrick.bsky.social for the phrase ‘semantic drift’. In my world of mega projects, the shift has been from the ‘break/fail moment’ ( ie that point when a project has gone so bad it needs to be reorganised) to a polite ‘contract reset’.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Me too. I can’t hold attention in audio format. I’m ok with more business/ realistic prose.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Didn’t mind reading this series. One of the better by this author. I struggle to listen to fantasy.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Credit to www.etsy.com/au/shop/milo...
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milorito - Etsy
Shop items by milorito located in Sydney, Australia.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
My son commissioned this picture of our family dog Harriet from a real artist.
Picture of a Hungarian Vizsla curled up into a ball.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
My test of old age is if I can still clamber up and over 3 seats whilst others are sleeping, all Is OK😀
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Always the window seat. Quite a view this afternoon above Brisbane.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
On this measure Brisbane Metro is not a success.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The point is not the overrun but how bad that overrun is by comparison to the average overrun.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
For context, the average cost overrun for rapid bus transit projects is 40%.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The cost overun on Brisbane Metro is tracking at 60% www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
abc.net.au
Brisbane's 'cheaper' alternative to rail faces delays and expensive cost blowouts
The Brisbane Metro buses were meant to be a cheaper alternative to a subway. However, it has now cost $1.55 billion, more than the original plan it replaced, and the bendy buses won't be on the road u...
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It can be worth noting that nuclear fusion, not just fission, is in play in these markets.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Got to hand feed this little cutie pie today.
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Picked up my signed copy at Avid Reader on Friday ☺️
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Kiri Parr @kiriparr.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We will need to pay attention to the enshittification cycle as coined by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy First they meet users needs, then they meet business needs and finally they only care about return to shareholders.
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