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By Grahame McCulloch. The need to ensure that investment is ethical and sustainable, with a particular focus on environmental standards, labour standards and human rights. This involves a mix of negative screening (e.g. companies which invest in tobacco, armaments, alcohol, uranium, animal testing, gambling and fossil fuels, or which breach human rights, labour or environmental standards) and positive investment measures (e.g. renewable energy, energy efficiency, mass public transport, sustainable agriculture and public housing). More...
By Celeste Liddle. The first meeting of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy Committee for 2016 was held on the 16th of February via teleconference. Following a call for expressions of interest to fill the vacant NSW representative position, Jennifer Flood from the Western Sydney University was appointed on a casual basis for the rest of the term of office. More...
By Terri Macdonald. Analysis of the 2015 university employer reports to the Workplace Gender Equity Agency (WGEA) has revealed a sector that has become dangerously reliant on insecure employment. It also revealed the reluctance of many university managements to report accurately on their staffing numbers, with some appearing to misreport data to the point where some people might conclude that they are deliberately misleading the Agency and the public in their reports. More...
By Michael Evans. Brussels is slowly recovering from the horrific attacks of 22 March. The current death toll is 31, with 300 people injured of whom 70 critically. We re-opened our office today determined not to allow acts of terrorism to disturb our daily operations, or to change our ways of life and work. We are relieved that all EI staff remained unharmed. But the attacks on our city have affected all of us. Some of us have friends among the victims or know people who were injured. More...
By Michael Evans. Australian universities should be spaces where hysteria around terrorism makes way for discussion and debate, however unpopular, said Queensland civil rights lawyer Terry O’Gorman when presenting the fifth annual NTEU Lecture at Griffith University in November 2015. More...
By Paul Clifton. The ‘net has been full of debate about the presumed passing of Twitter for several months now – not only in the geek sheets, but also in mainstream hardcopy magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Statesman, and even on Aunty ABC Radio’s Life Matters (where the most level-headed commentary came from QUT’s Prof Jean Burgess). More...
By Paul Clifton. The scientific community was shocked by the February announcement that hundreds of CSIRO positions will be axed. The cuts follow a steady erosion of the public science body, with over 200 redundancies a year in recent times. More...
By Paul Clifton. I have a friend, let’s call her Helen.
Helen recently completed a PhD and is now in the post-post-post doc stage of the academic wilderness. Helen is not a scientist, so her academic life now consists entirely of three-month sessional contracts and guest lectures (most of which are unpaid). If you have done this for any stretch of time you will know it’s not a great way to make a living. The November to February non-teaching months are particularly hard. Just when everyone else is out shopping, your wallet is empty. More...
By Paul Clifton. It was our very own version of Undercover Boss – but we’re still awaiting the promotions or financial rewards that accrue to the deceived employees in the reality TV series. More...
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