Moonee Valley council's 'Mamma's Kitchen' is giving women from Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan the chance to use their cooking skills in paid work, and it's helping to build confidence and experience.
Australians trust government — and say they prioritise improving healthcare and addressing poverty — more than before the pandemic. Yet they are still worried, with many young people choosing financial stability over career development.
From the grandiose to the incremental, missions offer a powerful policy tool for getting things done. What makes them work?
Reputation can't be left to the comms team, argues Michelle Bryne, head of strategic communications at the Victorian Essential Services Commission. Remember that every interaction with stakeholders impacts their view, and rethink those hundred-page reports.
Homeless hotel programs have given many the security to make positive changes in their lives. Victoria hopes to make these changes permanent.
Some of the changes forced onto Victoria's prison system by the pandemic have led to better services that will endure into the future, says Corrections Victoria Acting Commissioner Larissa Strong. Advocates hope the experience will lead to deeper shifts.
You wouldn't roll out a vaccine without testing it first, and behavioural interventions should be no different. Professors Steve Reicher and David Halpern recently reflected on the pandemic's lessons for government.
The UK government has done a terrible job of managing the pandemic. Clearer strategic direction and improved relationships between advisors and ministers could have helped.
Environment minister Sussan Ley refused outright 39 freedom of information requests in the last financial year, while granting just one in full and three in part, new analysis by the Australian Conservation Foundation has found.
Before the recession we were on a collision course with environmental disaster. The recovery provides a rare opportunity to do things differently; to rebuild a better economy that can support living standards without irretrievably damaging the environment. The closer we get to irreversible climate change, the harder that will become. Doughnut economics, a concept principally […]
The end of coal-fired generation in Australia is inevitable. Zero marginal cost, zero emissions energy is now a reality. Wind and solar are cheaper sources of new electricity than coal in most cases, putting significant pressure on the profitability of the inflexible, ageing coal generators. The only questions are when coal-fired power stations will close […]
For many of us, one of the upsides of 2020 was being freed from the grind of the daily commute. For the 40% of the workforce able to “telecommute”, COVID-19 social distancing measures saved us an average of about an hour a day – and much more for those of us living in the outer […]
A collaborative craft malting facility for brewers, distillers and bakers and the development of new bio and geothermal renewable energy sources are just a few of the new pilot projects about to get underway in Gippsland, as the region charts a new path beyond coal-fired power generation. Located in the east of the Australian state […]
Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout will now begin in mid- to late February. Vaccination will commence with workers dealing with international arrivals or quarantine facilities, frontline health workers and those living in aged care or with a disability. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government “optimistically” aims to vaccinate 80,000 Australians a week, and four million […]
Incredibly, a whole year has passed since the first emergence of COVID-19. What looked like a temporary inconvenience at first is turning into a permanent fixture that might forever change life as we knew it before 2020. But how long will people continue to comply with the measures necessary to overcome the virus as complacency […]
