Attacks on Australian university jobs deepen but union boasts it is “stronger”
Over recent weeks, a “second wave” of job cuts and course closures has hit university workers and students around Australia, on top of the unprecedented destruction of tens of thousands of jobs, especially casual positions, in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite widespread hostility to the assault, reflected in protest rallies by staff and students at many campuses, the attacks are continually deepening, assisted by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), which is isolating each struggle and opposing any national industrial action to halt the assault.
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Parenting in a Pandemic: Lives in the Balance Survey Reveals Depth of Emotional Struggle for Parents of Kids with Behavioral Challenges
December 16, 2020 GMT
PORTLAND, Maine (BUSINESS WIRE) Dec 16, 2020
The non-profit Lives in the Balance today released findings from its “Parenting in a Pandemic” Survey revealing that parents of children with behavioral issues have been faring much worse than parents as a whole over the past nine months. Lives in the Balance, based in Portland, Maine, is an organization committed to helping kids with concerning behaviors, and their caregivers, in ways that are compassionate, non-punitive, collaborative, and effective, whether during a pandemic or otherwise.
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China s Communist Party accused of influencing Australia s Chinese-language media
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Australian media outlets on WeChat face tighter controls and censorship.
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Australia s media has faced persistent efforts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to influence and censor content, according to a new report from an Australian think tank.
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Chinese social media platform WeChat has accelerated CCP influence and censorship in Australia, the report found
It found a number of Chinese-language media organisations in Australia had direct links to Chinese state media
The report urges the Federal Government to better protect news media from foreign influence
As per the findings, 59 per cent of the participants, who wore pyjamas at least one day a week, admitted their mental health deteriorated while working from home versus 26 per cent who did not wear pyjamas while working from home.
“While we cannot determine whether wearing pyjamas was the cause or consequence of mental health deterioration, appreciation of the effect of clothing on cognition and mental health is growing, as observed in hospital patients: Encouraging patients to wear normal day clothes can reduce the severity of depression,” the study mentioned.
“The simple advice to get changed before beginning work in the morning might partially protect against the effects of COVID-19 restrictions on mental health, and would be less expensive than the ‘fashionable’ sleep or loungewear gaining popularity as working from home becomes the norm,” it further mentioned.