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EDUCATION

Degrees of separation: Closing gender gaps in higher ed
- Erica Cervini
- 02 May 2024
In 1883, Bella Guerin became the first woman to earn a degree in Australia, a milestone for women in higher education. Today, women make up a majority of university students and staff, yet disparities in pay and representation persist.
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AUSTRALIA

Private gain, public pain? The real cost of consulting in government
- David James
- 13 September 2023
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Investigations into KMPG's ties with Australia's Defence department highlight broader concerns about consulting firms' murky dealings with government. As corporate-public boundaries blur, accountability suffers, with ethical pursuits sidelined by power and profit drives.
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AUSTRALIA

Local councils helping lift the unemployed
- El Gibbs
- 30 November 2017
3 Comments
A group of people living on income support has been working with local councils across Adelaide to ask them to advocate on their behalf. As Newstart payments remain pitifully low, councils are caught up in these issues because they run community services that support the unemployed.
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RELIGION

Child protection, compliance and conversion
- John Honner
- 07 September 2017
5 Comments
In the Christian gospels the child is the exemplar, par excellence, of what God's world is meant to look like. In social policy, on the other hand, the child tends to be portrayed as a powerless innocent. In recent years, the Catholic Church has failed the standards of both gospel and society: on the one hand by discounting the importance of children and not listening to children, and on the other hand by not having appropriate practices and policies to ensure the safety of children.
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AUSTRALIA

The emptiness of reform rhetoric in Australian politics
- Jeff Sparrow
- 08 September 2015
5 Comments
The recent National Reform Summit was lauded as an attempt to 'rediscover the art of reform that in the past generation helped to drive high living standards and made Australia the envy among smart nations'. Yet the urgency with which Australian pundits demand 'reform' corresponds with a peculiar opacity about what the term actually means, with its past association with the socialist movement but more recent appropriation as a neoliberal mantra.
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AUSTRALIA

Rudd's great big mining myth
- John Ralph
- 15 June 2010
35 Comments
The Government's theoretical model does not stand up to scrutiny in the real world. Collecting higher taxes from the mining industry to disburse for other worthwhile purposes may be perceived as contributing to the 'common good'. In fact, the reverse could be true.
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AUSTRALIA

How to measure corporate social responsibility
- John Sweeney
- 12 June 2006
15 Comments
Corporate social responsibility is not the same as ethical behaviour, but it is an important component of such action. It is therefore important to measure companies’ social responsibility and work out how their performance can be improved.
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Keywords: Kpmg

Degrees of separation: Closing gender gaps in higher ed

Private gain, public pain? The real cost of consulting in government

Local councils helping lift the unemployed

Child protection, compliance and conversion

The emptiness of reform rhetoric in Australian politics

Rudd's great big mining myth

How to measure corporate social responsibility