Tech and virtue signalling donât mix
Industry leaders that refuse to engage with Christian Porter should be careful about playing politics. Technology companies need to be trusted, expert, and impartial to do business with government.
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The technology leaders who complain about the appointment of Christian Porter to the industry portfolio should be more reticent in playing politics.
When I was an adviser to an opposition ministerial spokesman, we got politically useful information sent to us by a Canberra bureaucrat.
The public servantâs apparent motivation was to ingratiate himself and ultimately get a promotion in the event a new government was elected, which looked likely.
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The Reserve Bank, its operations and its key policy objective of holding inflation between 2 and 3 per cent would be the focus of a review under a Labor government amid warnings the institution is being left behind by overseas central banks.
Oppositions and critics often call for reviews of particular policies, but demanding a review of a cornerstone of economic policy such as the Reserve Bank is highly unusual.
But in a sign of how much economic policy is in flux in the wake of both the global financial crisis and the coronavirus recession, the step by Labor to promise its own review of the bank is one that has some support within the government and the broader economic community.
COVID-19 isolation has negative impact on families with dementia, study shows
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Ian and Claire White celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary while Australia was in lockdown.
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The cognitive abilities of people with dementia declined during lockdown
The deterioration occurred in a short window of time
The couple met working on Kangaroo Island and were engaged two weeks later, marrying five months after that. When you know, you know, Claire laughs.
Last year, Ian and Claire celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
Global pandemic notwithstanding, Ian and Claire weren t able to mark the golden milestone the way they d always imagined.
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How a health check-up helped one woman break a cycle of domestic violence
By Dong Xing
Pre and postnatal check-ups with nurses helped these women detect domestic violence relationships.
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, she didn t know what the next 10 years would hold. When it first started, I did not regard it as domestic violence at all, Hua said. I thought everyone s marriage was like this.
WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence and abuse that readers may find distressing.
It wasn t until after the birth of her first child that Hua said she realised what she was experiencing in her relationship was wrong.