ACOSS CEO Cassandra Goldie will hold a press conference at 2pm in Sydney on the Robodebt Royal Commission Report
Who: Dr Cassandra Goldie
Where: Prince Alfred Park, Corner of Cleveland Street and Chalmers St, Sydney
When: 2pm, Friday 7 July
Charlie Moore: 0452 606 171
The National Tertiary Education Union has urged the federal government to end the damaging decline in research funding - a cornerstone recommendation of a new report into the sector. While backing key funding recommendations, the NTEU is strongly opposed to proposals that would allow universities to separate teaching from research. The Strategic Examination of Research and Development report, released on Tuesday, is under consideration by the federal government. "Australia's research capacity is being hollowed out by a decade of real decline in competitive grant funding," NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes said. "The government now has a clear roadmap to…
MEDIA ALERT 15 Australian Charities To Hold Press Conference Announcing Joint Appeal on Middle East Emergency 17 March, 2026 The following information is not for publication but just for news planning purposes: Australia’s leading charities will tomorrow announce a joint appeal aimed at raising millions of dollars in aid for people in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and the West Bank who are facing an escalating humanitarian crisis in the wake of the military action launched in the region in early March. According to The International Organisation for Migration, in Lebanon alone almost one million people have been forced to flee their…
Key Facts: Safe Work Australia proposes reducing workplace exposure standard for respirable crystalline silica from 0.05 mg/m³ to 0.025 mg/m³ CCAA warns new proposed limit cannot be reliably measured or enforced in real-world industrial environments Estimated compliance costs for mining and quarrying sector could exceed $18.5 billion over 10 years Current standards in Canada and New Zealand (0.025 mg/m³) are guidance values rather than enforceable regulatory limits CCAA recommends focusing on practical measures like engineering controls, dust monitoring, and respiratory protection instead of further reducing limits Cement Concrete & Aggregates Australia (CCAA) says protecting workers from respirable crystalline silica exposure…
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