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- Medical Health Aged Care
- 25/11/2024
- 11:21
Vision screening vital: new research find vision decline predicts cognitive decline
Researchers fromNeuRA found vision deterioration significantly predicted multi-domain cognitive decline. This research highlights the importance of regular eye tests and maintaining good vision to…
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- Medical Health Aged Care
- 25/11/2024
- 11:18
Vision screening vital: new research find vision decline predicts cognitive decline
Researchers fromNeuRA found vision deterioration significantly predicted multi-domain cognitive decline. This research highlights the importance of regular eye tests and maintaining good vision to…
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- Government VIC, Legal
- 25/11/2024
- 11:13
‘Best-practice’ legal services helping to reduce family violence risk in Victoria
An evaluation of the legal services set up to support Victoria’s first five specialist family violence courts demonstrates the important role holistic legal assistance plays in addressing gender-based violence in Australia. The state government provides specific funding for a trauma-informed and collaborative model of legal services at the Shepparton, Ballarat, Moorabbin, Frankston and Heidelberg specialist family violence courts. The services are provided by Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) and community legal centres who hope to extend the model to all specialist family violence courts across the state. A final evaluation by the Centre for Innovative Justice (CIJ) has found the legal…
- General News
- 25/11/2024
- 11:08
Qube Ports abuses intractable bargaining laws while making light of DV during EBA negotiations
The MUA has been locked in a stalled bargaining process with a major, ASX listed port operator, Qube Ports, since April 2024. The Union…
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- Environment
- 25/11/2024
- 10:47
ADCO FINED FOR CURL CURL CREEK POLLUTION
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has fined Forest High School contractor ADCO Constructions the maximum penalty of $30,000 for discharging sediment-laden water into the local stormwater system, which flows into Curl Curl Creek. EPA officers inspected the Allambie Heights construction site on 22 June 2024 following complaints from the community, where they observed brown, sediment-laden water running from the premises. NSW EPA Executive Director of Operations Jason Gordon said sediment discharge could cause considerable harm to aquatic life and that ADCO Constructions had previously been warned of the need to improve sediment management at the site. “Curl Curl Creek…
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- Government NSW
- 25/11/2024
- 10:28
CHILD POVERTY COSTS HUNTER VALLEY $2.3 BILLION A YEAR
Monday, 25 November 2024 The economic cost of child poverty in the Hunter Valley region is $2.3 billion a year, according to landmark research commissioned by peak social services body NCOSS. The report titled Lasting Impacts: The Economic Costs of Child Poverty in NSW calculated for the first time the impact of failing to invest in our children. About 15.6 per cent of children in the Hunter Valley region live in poverty and the economic impact equates to more than $7,600 per person. NCOSS chief executive Cara Varian said the total cost of childhood poverty in NSW is $60 billion,…
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- Environment
- 25/11/2024
- 10:28
Oxfam reaction to Australia’s pledge to the fund for Loss and Damage at COP29
Oxfam Australia has called the new global climate finance goal smoke and mirrors, responding to the COP29 climate finance agreement, in which wealthy countries agreed to mobilise USD$300 billion per year by 2035 to support low-income countries cope with climate change impacts and switch to renewable energy. Oxfam Australia Policy and Advocacy Lead, Josie Lee, Policy and Advocacy said: “There will be no new money in this climate finance goal. Like the last goal, it allows wealthy countries who have caused the climate crisis to achieve the goal through rebadged aid budgets and non-concessional loans. It’s a shameful failure to…
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- Government NSW
- 25/11/2024
- 10:25
CHILD POVERTY COSTS FAR WEST & ORANA $1.2 BILLION A YEAR
Monday, 25 November 2024 The economic cost of child poverty in Far West and Orana is $1.2 billion a year, according to landmark research commissioned by peak social services body NCOSS. The report titled Lasting Impacts: The Economic Costs of Child Poverty in NSW calculated for the first time the impact of failing to invest in our children. More than 21 per cent of children in Far West and Orana live in poverty and the economic impact equates to more than $10,000 per person. NCOSS chief executive Cara Varian said the total cost of childhood poverty in NSW is $60…
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- Government Federal, Government NSW
- 25/11/2024
- 10:23
CHILD POVERTY COSTS ILLAWARRA $2 BILLION A YEAR
Monday, 25 November 2024 The economic cost of child poverty in theIllawarra region is $2 billion a year, according to landmark research commissioned by peak social services body NCOSS. The report titled Lasting Impacts: The Economic Costs of Child Poverty in NSW calculated for the first time the impact of failing to invest in our children. About 13.5 per cent of children in the Illawarra region live in poverty and the economic impact equates to more than $6,100 per person. NCOSS chief executive Cara Varian said the total cost of childhood poverty in NSW is $60 billion, eclipsing the annual…
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