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19 novembre 2018

NTEU Lecture 2018: Australia’s brutal past (Advocate 25 03)

This year marks the anniversary of two of the best known frontier massacres in Australia: the180th anniversary of the Myall Creek massacre of 1838, and the 90th anniversary of the Coniston massacre of 1928. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Flexible crystals wins top science prize (Advocate 25 03)

I don’t think I knew what I wanted to do when I grew up, Michael. Going into university I couldn’t decide between going into something arts focused like law or something science based like medicine. So I chose a very general first degree, and studied history, chemistry and German. I had to decide between history and chemistry going into Honours, and I figured I had more to learn from a year of researching chemistry in terms of research skills than I did from doing another year of history, where I had already learnt a lot of skills about research. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Achieving the impossible (Advocate 25 03)

I have been a case worker for the NTEU for some years now and I have become increasingly distressed at the situations our members bring to me and the experiences they share with me. One case led me to write a play, which we later animated, entitled Achieve The Impossible: True-Tales From A Modern University. More...

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19 novembre 2018

NTEU takes on the future of the sector (Advocate 25 03)

You can tell when a conference or forum has resonated with the speakers and participants. That is when it is hard to end the session, hard to gather people together after a breakout or tea break, and when they don’t want the event to finish. Better still are spontaneous proposals from participants to make lists and discussion groups, and establish ‘communities of interest’ about the whole conference or particular themes and topics. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Technology and Trust (Advocate 25 03)

It works in much the same way as Siri on Apple’s HomePod, Google’s Home Hub, and Amazon’s Echo, so one can use it to ask for weather or sports updates, and to control smart devices in the home, such as Samsung’s smart fridge. However, Portal adds a camera and a screen, thus adding sight and touch to sound for more immersion to build trust in the technology. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Tam U listed as one of the Top Ten Rural Universities Less Than Twenty Years Old (Advocate 25 03)

Spring was in the air when I made my annual trek to New England to meet the ever-optimistic Cal D’Aria. It is more than a decade since Cal transformed the sleepy little Tamworth Hairdressing College into Tam U. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Chewing on the FAT (Advocate 25 03)

One of the weapons I have deployed against overwork in 2018 is an app called ‘Timing’. Timing watches everything I do on my laptop and categorises it. It also gives me the option to enter in non-computer work, such as meetings. You can set the ‘productivity score’ for each kind of task, enabling you to gauge whether your time has been well spent. Even better, it has a useful, interactive, dashboard view that lets you view your working rhythms, day by day, or a range of other time series. I have included a screen shot of my hours worked since I installed the app early in the year, which shows how this (sadly Mac only) software displays the data. More...

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19 novembre 2018

The Dismissal & the fight to release the secret ‘Palace letters’ (Advocate 25 03)

The dismissal of the Whitlam Government by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, on 11 November 1975 was an unprecedented, divisive and disruptive use of the Governor-General’s putative ‘reserve powers’. Kerr’s actions in removing an elected government which retained its parliamentary majority and the confidence of the House of Representatives, remains one of the most contentious episodes in our political history. More...

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19 novembre 2018

Hard conversations about prejudice (Advocate 25 03)

Our actions in life are bounded by values that we hold personally, but also societal values that we agree collectively to live by. These values change and evolve over time, and there are periods when some can be brought to the fore more than others. More...

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19 novembre 2018

NTEU 2018 elections completed (Advocate 25 03)

Leadership change and renewal was the framework for the now completed 2018 NTEU elections. More...

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