Real News January Week 4 2022
ABORIGINAL PEOPLES
Aboriginal students are being kicked out of school at three times the rate of their classmates in a ‘school-to-prison pipeline’, damning new research reveals.
Claire G. Coleman: It’s January already. Here I am, writing yet another opinion piece about the 26th day of this month, the day on which the nation celebrates the invasion and genocide imposed on my people and my sacred Noongar Country and all other Aboriginal people and our lands.
Linda Burney: If we were choosing a day to unify us as a country, would we choose the moment the Union Jack was first planted on this land? I don’t think we would.
Sean Kelly: For true reconciliation, difficult discussions about Indigenous dispossession and disadvantage can no longer be
Keenan Smith: Our lands were taken, our people massacred, and the effects of colonisation are still felt. It will always be Invasion Day until past promises are fulfilled and honoured.
Brianne Yarran: A small red tin shed is a reminder of trauma endured by my family but also how resilient, strong and moorditj they have always been.
Heidi Norman and Anne Maree Payne: In early January, the prime minister and minister for Indigenous Australians announced their government would build a National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Precinct. The precinct will be known as “Ngurra”, a word meaning home, a place of belonging, inclusion.
Teagan Goolmeer et al: Indigenous people across Australia place tremendous cultural and customary value on many species and ecological communities. The very presence of a plant or animal species can trigger an Indigenous person to recall and share knowledge. This is crucial to maintaining culture and managing Country.
ABORTION
Family of Agnieszka T say they want to ‘save other women in Poland from a similar fate’, as case met with anger over restrictive termination laws
Lawrence Strout: The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will not be handed down until late spring or early summer 2022, when the court typically issues verdicts.
ASYLUM SEEKERS
A group of Australian religious leaders this morning launched a campaign in Melbourne called #SetThemFree, which urges Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese to work together to release asylum seekers in detention.
Mehdi: I came to this country at fifteen looking for help. How does keeping me locked up help to heal the trauma I have experienced?
CHARITY AND WELFARE
David Crosbie: Two years of continually pushing through has left many charities running on empty, but the work is far from over.
CHILD ABUSE
Ex-pontiff blames 'editorial oversight' for previous statement he was absent from 1980 meeting over suspected paedophile priest.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
The campaign to raise the age of criminal responsibility across Australia is gaining momentum, but what is currently happening and what does this all mean for human rights and Indigenous rights?
Over half of Australian prisoners return to jail within two years, creating a “churn” of increasing sentences, court delays and driving 50 per cent the cost of the prison system according to the Productivity Commission.
DEATH AND DYING
Jennifer Oriel: Resentment at the aged was revealed to us in the pandemic with hashtags like Boomer Remover. With euthanasia laws on the march, we need to remember that every life is worth cherishing.
Natasha Sholl: In an effort to help – and to protect themselves – people try to shrink the loss with empty platitudes. But that can make grief even more painful
Chris Harrison: There are so many clichés around death. There was nothing unique about mine, apart from the fact I came back from it.
DISABILITY
Disability advocate, athlete, Paralympian and philanthropist?Dylan Alcott has made history in becoming the first Australian of the Year with a visible disability. Here's his powerful acceptance speech in full.
Customised wheelchairs and mobility products that were once only available to elite athletes are becoming more accessible to people with disabilities with increased awareness accelerating a growing market, according to wheelchair basketball star Matt McShane.
Fi Peel: The NDIS continues to embed structural stigma into its service delivery. Meanwhile, the Coalition ignores those floundering in the messes that ill-considered public policy maintains.
George Taleporos: As we listen to the new Australian of the Year, don’t forget there are many other stories that might not be quite as heartwarming but that represent the daily reality of disability
DIVERSE SEXUALITY
A recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers finds them particularly vulnerable to exchanging sex for money, housing, goods and services
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
New support and education programs are being rolled out in South Australia to help people break free of abusive relationships.
DRUGS
A groundbreaking study has shown the time needed for a residential rehabilitation program to have an effect has significantly dropped.
Adolescents and young adults with substance use disorders (SUD) may have unrecognized traits consistent with autism spectrum disorder
Preety Pratima Srivastava: Smoking is prevalent in lower socio-economic groups whose characteristics (such as lower IQ and poorer motivation on average) are correlated with lower academic scores and more behavioural issues in children.?
FAMILY
Showing up, offering a helping hand and other small acts of kindness go a long way.
FINANCE AND INEQUALITY
Age editorial: As the Prime Minister prepares to face voters in just a few months, he might care to reflect on how that good old Australian hip-pocket nerve is faring.
领英推荐
Greg Jericho: The Coalition’s stage one cuts may have helped you but stage three will be massively directed towards high income earners
Matt Wade: Economic growth is not translating to equivalent progress in quality of life across the whole population, wellness research reveals.
GAMBLING
Daryl Watson was cooking dinner at his Adelaide Hills home when he heard a?strange sound coming from his son's iPad: It was an advertisement promoting an adult gambling game.
It sparked a massive split in the NSW Cabinet, but the proposal for a cashless gaming card may still be in play as the state ponders the fight against money laundering in pokie rooms.
The state government is reconsidering a promise to force pokies players at Crown to commit to maximum losses amid feasibility fears.
HOUSING AND HOMELESS
Almost half of people seeking help for homelessness in NSW in past year did not get it, report finds
Unmet requests for accommodation in the state rose from 37.2% to 48.2% over five years and a growing number are also being turned away in Queensland
Callum Foote: Are retirement villages a rip-off? Retirees could be up to a million dollars worse off if they moved into a retirement village than if they remained at home, according to new analysis.
Ross Elliott: To reflect on how long we've known about the problems and done nothing about it, is downright depressing.
Oliver Frankel:?This is the latest monthly digest of articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material about housing stress/affordability and homelessness.
IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURALISM
Luke Slattery: I don’t know where the caricature of Australia as a racist and xenophobic nation came from but it certainly persists, despite ample evidence to the contrary.
INTERNATIONAL AID
Outside the Western Union branch in Honiara, the queues grew in the heat of the afternoon sun. Anxious relatives wired cash to locals who urgently sought to buy provisions before the lockdown started at 6pm on Tuesday evening (Solomon Islands Time).
MIND
Mental resiliency could be harder to rebuild than a house or business in places that have experienced multiple disasters, study suggests.
NATURE
Barbara Ehrenreich: Covid-19 is a sharp reminder that our species could do with a bit of humility about its place in the natural order
PRIVACY
Submissions from the IAB, OAIC, IGEA and CPRC highlights concerns around consumer consent fatigue, legitimate reasons for data collection and finding the balance between privacy control and digital innovation
RELIGION
With 600 million followers, the evangelical born-again Christian movement is deep-pocketed and tech-savvy - and it has big ambitions to reform the society in which we live.
In this latest installment of their Jewish-Christian dialogue, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and Hebrew scholar Dr Irene Lancaster discuss their different perspectives of Jesus' teachings in the Sermon on the Mount and how a Jewish audience might have understood them.
David Robertson: The Christianity Jayne Ozanne is teaching and the Christianity represented by Peter Lynas and the Evangelical Alliance are two different religions.
Samuel L Perry: Christian nationalism is the leading predictor that white Americans are more dogmatic.
SUSTAINABILITY
Environmental concerns are leading home cooks to embrace other methods of keeping food fresh, from brown paper bags to reusable beeswax wraps.
It is unlikely that a cancer-causing chemical inside your car, TDCIPP, can be dusted or wiped way, according to new research.
7.8 billion people produce a lot of waste, but governments, entrepreneurs and NGOs are developing a host of technologies that work with nature to transform a dirty problem into a suite of elegant sustainable solutions.
A small but growing group of researchers and physicians working to quantify the environmental impact of healthcare—and to reduce that impact without compromising patient care.
First Latin American e-waste report covers 13 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
Jessica Danaher and Lisa Newman: Insects are sustainable, nutritious and delicious. They’re eaten by more than two billion people worldwide, mostly in the tropics, and have been a staple in Indigenous Australians’ diets for tens of thousands of years.
TRANSPARENCY
A J Brown: In a worrying sign, Australia has plummeted in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index – the world’s most widely cited ranking of how clean or corrupt every country’s public sector is believed to be.
Political influence that would be considered corrupt and illegal overseas is “business as usual” in Australia, a new report has found.
WORK
Helen Pitt: Many companies and countries are actively trialling a four-day working week. Surely it’s time for Australia to give it a go, too.
Benjamin Clark: The pandemic has shown us more clearly than ever that we're all working too hard. But reducing work hours has its pros and cons.
WHAT’S MORE
More than 10 anti-Semitic incidents occurred around the world every day on average last year, according to the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency.
Sarah Russell: Failure to protect Federal aged care residents has left 389 elderly Australians dead this year alone, and 40% of private nursing homes locked down.?