Monthly Archives: August 2016

Australia, the land of opportunity, the lucky country, the land of workaholics. I’m one of the lucky ones. I got out of the corporate land ten years ago when I realised I wasn’t cut out for it. It made me … Continue reading →

A new snapshot of Australia’s youth – their education, health and wellbeing, employment opportunities and political participation – shows some troubling results for SA and nationally. IT’S a truism that the future of a nation is its young people, so … Continue reading →

Australian technology entrepreneur Anthony Goldbloom has a warning for accountants, lawyers and radiologists: your jobs will be taken over by machines. In a TED talk launched online last week and quickly viewed by 350,000 people, the founder of San Francisco-based … Continue reading →

Australian workers are putting their jobs before their health and wellbeing, research shows. Fifty-four per cent of full-time employees surveyed cited their job as a barrier to exercise, according to research commissioned by the Cerebral Palsy Alliance. This is particularly concerning … Continue reading →

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday during the General Audience said God is telling everyone to “Rise up,” and that the Holy Door of the Jubilee is the door where the pain of humanity and the compassion of God meet. … Continue reading →

You may know someone like this at work: optimistic and resilient, they appear to bounce through challenges drawing on an internal strength that helps them work through problems they encounter at work. Always hopeful and positive about the future, they … Continue reading →

Young Catholics pledge to put the Pope’s ecology Encyclical into practice at the first World Youth Day since its release. Photo credits: Bogusz Bilewski.   What a week it was. Catholic World Youth Day – actually a six-day festival taking … Continue reading →

Youth unemployment is one of the great tragedies of our time. Young people emerge from study in the expectation of becoming self-reliant, only to have their aspirations thwarted and to face continuing reliance on others. There is obviously a cost … Continue reading →

Up to 4.6 million jobs may be at risk if Australia does not prepare its workforce for the digital future, a discussion paper has warned. The paper, Economy in Transition – Startups, innovation and a workforce for the future, was released on Thursday by StartupAUS, … Continue reading →

Misel Burford has friends who take the census as a bit of a joke. But she’s working on them. “If you don’t share your views and if you don’t share your information with the government, how is the government supposed … Continue reading →