Musical Escapism

Rosie Williams is now a composer & musician from Sydney, Australia. In her youth, Rosie was a state champion trumpet player who, for a brief time learned privately from Dick Montz, the Director of Jazz Studies at the Conservatorium of Music. Rosie has a BA in Sociology from UNE, is a published journalist, researcher, programmer & policy advocate whose policy submissions have been referenced in Parliamentary Reports.

Rosie became a prolific composer of neo-classical and smooth jazz during the lockdowns, composing, mix/mastering and releasing over fifty instrumental tracks.

You can download every score for free, listen to the released versions and play along with recently released trumpet covers and originals at MusicalEscapism.com - my online database of compositions. Rosie currently plays, trumpet, flugelhorn, flute and piano.

You can also find background information on selected topics and tracks at the MusicalEscapism blog.

Rosie is a full stack developer, coding in MySQL, PHP, CSS, Javascript & HTML who handcodes from scratch.

Prior to my efforts in music, I built and ran data projects focused on government spending, accountability and transparency. My very first programming project BudgetAus, was the subject of media attention on Budget Day 2013. BudgetAus ran off the first ever complete line item dataset of the federal budget which I created myself, the schema of which the government went on to mirror when they began publishing the same dataset in 2014.

The Ausgov.info domain was launched at the Linux Australia Conference in 2018 and has hosted projects using spending and revenue, charities, donations, tenders, grants, pecuniary interests and corporate tax transparency datasets.

I have been published by or referenced, interviewed and worked with media including those listed in the media tab. My writing provided expert commentary across a wide range of issues including ethics and human rights in the use of data, privacy, income inequality, housing and welfare policy.

I was also on the policy team for Electronic Frontiers Australia attending Australia’s inaugural E-safety conference. I was instrumental in setting up the Online Safety Working Group and Data Ethics Working Group and recruiting other members to the policy team. I also represented the EFA at the policy drafting event for the Enhancing Online Safety (Nonconsensual Sharing of Intimate Images) Bill 2017.

My submissions have been referenced in the Final Reports for these Inquiries. My research has even been mentioned by name (along with others) on the floor of Parliament as a reason to hold a Parliamentary Inquiry.

Garry Brooke

FORMER DIRECTOR of the [Federal Budget] APPROPRIATIONS MANAGEMENT TEAM for the DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE

I've worked with Rosie Williams on budget data transparency since November 2013. Rosie has developed her project into the best government data transparency initiative I know... continually updated and improved to make underlying data intelligible and to focus on key aspects for analysis. My interest has particularly been on the transparency of federal budget data.

Bill McLennan

FORMER HEAD of the AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS & FORMER CHAIRMAN of the UNITED NATIONS STATISTICAL COMMISSION

I was impressed by [Rosie's] #Censusfail submission (85) to this (Inquiry) Committee. It very clearly showed some good analysis that would have helped the ABS to run a better Census if it had done such research before developing the Census proposal. It also saved me from explaining the current thrust in government with the Government Data Linkage Project, and its likely links to the Census (37).

Scott Ludlam

FORMER SENATOR, THE AUSTRALIAN GREENS

We could hear from digital rights organisations like the Privacy Foundation, Digital Rights Watch and Electronic Frontiers Australia and from specialist researchers like Rosie Williams and Asher Wolf, who have led the debate online. [Hansard]

MichaelWest

The Sydney Morning Herald

Innovation Australia

The New Daily

Independent Australia

ABC PM Radio with Mark Colvin

International Budget Partnership

Online Opinion

Contact me at rosie@musicalescapism.com if you need to clarify licencing terms or if you've used one of my scores and I'll write about it in my music blog.

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