The “GIG ECONOMY” = EXPLOITATION
Why is it called the gig economy and what does the gig economy mean for you? The rapid growth in
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Economics & Business
‘This will change lives’: $5.3 billion social-housing
After decades of under-investment, the number of households on the social-housing waiting list in Victoria had ballooned to 48,529 as of September 30, the equivalent of more than 100,000 people.
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Social housing could power our economic recovery
Daniel Ziffer A coalition of anti-poverty groups, unions, construction industry bodies and the multibillion-dollar heft of the industry super sector
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Australia risks $3.7 trillion in lost GDP by 2070 unless it acts on climate change
Matt Johnson Property and personal finance reporter @matte_johnson Australia risks yearly economic losses on par with the pandemic by 2050
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AI Software that Monitors Clamp Performance
From this and historical data, the AI calculates a health score for the clamp. The AI also calculated feature relevance—i.e., how much influence each sensor signal had on any anomalous event. The relevance was then used to classify the probable cause of the anomaly.
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How to adapt and thrive in times of crisis
New insights on how agility and curiosity are helping organizations weather the storm of 2020 2020 has marked the greatest
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ROBOTICS ADOPTION MATTERS
HOW DO WE COMPARE INTERNATIONALLY, AND DOES THAT NEED TO CHANGE? Recently-released figures show no improvement in Australian purchases of
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1500 Australians registered for farm work – not one of them got a job
EXCLUSIVE Cait Kelly – The NewDaily A recruitment company set up at the start of the pandemic to find Australians
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Congratulations to all Australians who signed petition!
Our democracy depends on diverse sources of reliable, accurate and independent news. But media ownership is becoming more concentrated alongside new business models that encourage deliberately polarising and politically manipulated news.
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Internet of Things and Australia
The Internet of Things (IoT) is already all around us. Online devices have become essential in industries from manufacturing and healthcare to
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Business group ‘perplexed’ by JobMaker scheme
Josh Butler Political Editor The government’s signature jobs policy is “perplexing”, “lacking in detail” and prone to rorting, Australia’s peak
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More calls to clean up fruit picking
The farmworkers’ union has come out swinging, claiming growers’ preference is to employ cheap, easily exploitable foreign workers over locals, a practice the union says will continue if the industry is not “cleaned up”.
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An experiment to inform about universal basic income
As income inequality and economic upheaval take center stage, is a guaranteed minimum income worth considering? Results from a two-year
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The Recession Is Over So Let’s Thank Josh Frydenberg…
The Liberals are good economic managers in the same way that the company using child workers in a third world country can argue how much they’re doing for the local economy in that country and how they’ve helped so many avoid homelessness by letting them sleep on the factory floor after they’ve finished their 18 hour shift.
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The Sound of Safety
I think sometimes the word ‘safety’ get’s so abused and overstated that it becomes the ‘killjoy’ word. Unless of course you are a ‘zero harm advisor’ and you have totally killed off the word, rendering it useless.
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