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Care policies
Labor came to government promising to fix badly broken aged care and disability support systems and set early childhood education and care (ECEC) on a path to being an affordable and universal service. Critical workforce shortages, driven by low pay and poor-quality jobs, plagued all three systems, while a myriad of other problems also demanded system- wide reforms. In the first 18 months the new government made some very significant regulatory changes and substantially increased investment in some crucial areas. Responsible ministers also set in train important policy reviews and reforms that are intended to set directions for the sustainability of Australia's care systems into the future, in a context of rapid and significant growth in demand. However, to date, nothing in the new directions being set by the government suggest there will be any lessening of reliance on the market models for care provision that have enabled Australia's public care systems to become dominated by private providers that wield significant power and frequently operate to undermine the public interest.
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Top 10 worst killer animals you wouldn't want to meet
This volume examines ten of the most dangerous animals in the world.
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Joining the dots to reimagine community resilience: Empowering young people
Historically, disaster response management for children and young people, people from linguistically diverse cultural backgrounds and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have been shaped by a vulnerability and risk discourse, informed by trauma-informed and risk mitigation strategies. These are vital, but the vulnerability discourse has moved into other areas of disaster prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and resilience. Vulnerability has been linked to pre-existing, socially produced inequalities and power structures. This has worked to homogenise, marginalise and diminish the capability of community members in resilience efforts. The United Nations 'Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015- 2030' [Sendai Framework] calls for governments and relevant stakeholders to 'advocate for resilient communities and an inclusive and all-of-society disaster risk management' (UNDRR 2015, p.23). This includes the meaningful engagement of people who are marginalised from resilience building. The Sendai Framework makes a specific argument for engaging children and young people, declaring they are agents of change who should be given the space to contribute to disaster risk reduction. The aim of this paper is to consider how the Sendai Framework has influenced the inclusion of young people in disaster resilience and to introduce emerging evidence of how young people are joining the dots to reimagine community resilience.
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You wouldn't want to live without dentists!
Today, going to the dentist is usually a safe and painless experience. In past centuries, that wasn't always the case. Read and learn how lucky we are to live in modern times.
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Role of Aeromonas hydrophila in CRGV in dogs
Biobest Laboratories, with funding from the New Forest Dog Owners group, is well on the way to validating a serology test for recovered suspected cases, as well as having a protocol for specific culture of lesion swabs to detect this organism, with molecular diagnostic back-up for final identification.
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Labour policies
There was little public focus on potential industrial relations reform during the lead-up to the 2022 Federal election. The ALP advanced relatively incremental commitments on labour policy matters, including promises to act on gender inequity and job insecurity, introduce minimum standards for 'employee-like' workers such as gig workers, and ensure same pay for labour hire workers (Australian Labor Party 2022). These commitments were less specific and less far-reaching than the ambitious industrial relations platform the ALP took to the 2019 election - which the party entered well ahead in the polls, but then lost. Many party strategists concluded from that experience that the ALP should adopt a 'small target' approach in future elections; and this thinking was evident in the party's modest industrial relations platform (and on other key issues, such as tax policy).
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