Real News July Week 3 2022
ABORIGINAL PEOPLES
Productivity Commissions calls for mandatory labelling of inauthentic products to warn consumers and protect income of Indigenous artists
Ian Bowie:Some years ago, I wrote a piece asking, ‘How many Aboriginal Australians are there? My beef at that time was that the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) wasn’t collecting census data about ‘Indigenous’ people in ways that met the High Court’s criteria to be regarded as an Aboriginal (and presumably Torres Strait Islander) person.?
ABORTION
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is not considering a policy that would require public hospitals to provide abortion services to receive federal funding.
ASYLUM SEEKERS
Jamal Barnes: As one of its first acts in government, the newly elected Labor government turned back a boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers trying to enter Australia.
CHARITY AND WELFARE
Politician Fiona Patten of the Reason Party, Reverend Michael Jensen and federal charities minister Andrew Leigh discuss whether religions should lose their tax-exempt status.
Major charities report?Australians are not reducing donations, despite a cost of living crunch, but the need for support services is rising.?
Many were surprised when the new employment minister, Tony Burke, announced it was “too late” to end mutual obligations.?
CHILD ABUSE
The number of South Australian families in the child protection system has grown since COVID-19 began, putting pressure on already stretched services, according to an expert in vulnerable families.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Gerry Georgatos: Imprisonment and punishment do not lead to more harmonious and prosperous societies.
DEATH AND DYING
In a dark storage room beneath Canberra's Norwood Park Crematorium sits row after row of plastic boxes — each with a silent story to tell.
Experts hope to advance research in what could be the ‘holy grail’ for their patients’ biggest challenge
DISABILITY
A lack of suitable housing for people with disabilities in outback Queensland is forcing some locals to uproot their lives and move to larger communities.
DIVERSE SEXUALITY
The law will work as a legal supplement to an existing law from 2013 that bans the "promotion of non-traditional sexual relations to minors."
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
As women's safety ministers from across the country meet today, a key?focus will be on a new, national plan to end violence against women.?But there's a strong call for us to have a much more inclusive conversation about the impact of domestic violence.
DRUGS
States that legalized recreational marijuana saw a subsequent increase in traffic crashes and fatalities, according to new research in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
FAMILY
PwC expects more than 80% of households will be paying for streaming services by end 2022
Grandparents are overwhelmingly happy to step in and look after their grandkids to free up their children to work or study, a new report shows
Young women and girls’ time spent in unpaid household work contributes to the gender pay gap, according to new research from the Universities of East Anglia (UEA), Birmingham and Brunel.
Tracy Moore: Co-parenting after a split can often feel like a cosmic test of patience. After all, if it were so easy to get along, you’d still be together.
FINANCE AND INEQUALITY
Rising profits levels among the Australian corporate sector have been identified as one of the key causes for increasing inflation levels across the country, a new report has shown.
Household wealth is distributed unequally, the report found, with the top one per cent of Australians holding 50 times more wealth than the lower 60 per cent of the population.
Alan Austin: Australia should join other countries in repaying government debt accumulated during the global financial crisis and the COVID pandemic.
Peter Martin: From October, Australia will start routinely quantifying the benefits as well as costs of federal spending. And it's already shaping up as the new treasurer's most important legacy
GAMBLING
Ian Correia says he has contributed at least $1 million to the $66 billion Victorians have blown on the pokies in the 30 years since they arrived in the state.
领英推荐
Government’s call for evidence has unveiled a link between loot boxes and gambling harms, as well as wider mental health, financial and problem-gaming harms
Jon Faine: There is a conveyor belt running from pokies to prison, as any visit to Melbourne Magistrates Court will attest. Yet nothing ever changes.
HOUSING AND HOMELESS
Mark Steinert: Rising rents and a lack of affordable housing is a growing trend that is impacting the way business and society functions.
IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURALISM
Migrants and refugees in Australia face significant challenges, such as language barriers, when it comes to accessing healthcare, multicultural advocates say.
Christopher Gross: Now picture this, as a leader, not only do you have to adapt to an ever-evolving world but you're also tasked with the responsibility of helping others to do the same.
Kieran Pender: Recent High Court decisions are testing who can be considered citizens, and who the federal government can exclude from Australia?
INTERNATIONAL AID
There are calls for urgent action after Australia?dropped?to 41 out of 50 countries and organisations in the?Aid Transparency Index, revealing a "worrying trend" that has the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade?close to hitting the bottom of the list, alongside Saudi Arabia and China.
Scott Prasser: It has made Australia the largest donor to Ukraine outside of the European-based NATO alliance of which we are not a part. It's a country over 10,000 kilometres away.
MIND
Brain function, especially in children, is often evaluated by intelligence tests resulting in an Intelligence Quotient or “IQ.” IQ scores, after having increased for most of the 20th?century, have been going down since the mid-1990s.
Around one in seven Australian adults take antidepressants daily, but a review finds no evidence they are treating an underlying cause of depression.
Experts in psychology and behavioral economics tend to believe that we’re our own worst enemy when it comes to sticking with intentions to eat better, exercise more and spend less time staring at our cellphones.
For the first time in more than a decade, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is released vital data into how many Australians are dealing with mental health issues... and how many are getting help.
NATURE
River flows in WA’s South West region have fallen 70 per cent in 50 years and for previously widespread species like Carter’s freshwater mussel, time is running out.
Even as American politicians uselessly quibble over whether climate change is real (it is) and how humanity should address it, the natural world does not need humanity to humansplain to them that the Earth is becoming uninhabitable.
The IUCN also announced that sturgeon are in rapid decline, while tiger populations are stabilizing.
Emma Johnston et al: Climate change is exacerbating pressures on every Australian ecosystem and Australia now has more foreign plant species than native, according to the highly anticipated State of the Environment Report released today.
PRIVACY
The biggest benchmarking data set to date for a machine learning technique designed with data privacy in mind has been released open source by researchers at the University of Michigan.
RELIGION
It’s not just doomsday bunkers and goat’s blood. Cults are all around the world, including in Australia. What are the red flags and how do cult leaders operate?
Irene Lancaster: The experience of Moses and Elijah in choosing their successors could teach us a thing or two for our present times.
Rupen Das: As the numbers living in poverty continue to soar globally amid the cost of living crisis, the Church must go further when reaching out to the poor and ensure that we introduce them to Jesus in a way that they can relate to.
Amy Laura Hall How conservatives made social welfare the province of private faith.
Jeffrey Salkin: What happened recently at the Western Wall is an outrage. Orthodox leaders must speak out. Loudly.
SUSTAINABILITY
Whether you are looking to save money to offset the rising cost of living, or keen to do your bit to slow climate change, keeping an eye on energy consumption in your home, cutting back where possible and developing new energy-efficient habits, can have a big impact. Here are five areas to focus your efforts.
TRANSPARENCY
Andrew Wilkie: With the guidance and backing of a whistleblower protection commissioner, the next generation of Australian whistleblowers will not have to pay the price so many others have paid for speaking up.
WORK
Some say working from home at the end of the week has “become institutionalised” and there’s really no turning back.
Rachel Clun: A move to flexible work has gotten more women into jobs, but there are still barriers that stop Australian women reaching their full work potential.