Monthly Archives: March 2022

The Victorian Government’s skills Reconnect Program will feature at the Community Colleges Australia National ACE Summit on 5 April. The Reconnect Program assists participants to overcome multiple barriers preventing them from engaging in education, training and employment and provides support for further study or employment, providing the supported pathways many learners need to succeed...

The COVID-19 pandemic is not over. Two years ago – 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. As of Monday, 14 March 2022, there were 26,063 new COVID-19 cases in Australia, a widely accepted understatement, due to lower testing rates Read more

Noted science fiction writer, Kim Stanley Robinson (author of the acclaimed Ministry of the Future, pictured), is a great fan of conferences and summits, and researches his novels partly by attending scientific conferences, according to the New Yorker. One example: “In 2010, at a meeting of glaciologists,...

A new report from the ACOSS/UNSW Sydney Poverty and Inequality Partnership shows that during the first ‘Alpha’ wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Australia halved poverty and significantly reduced income inequality, thanks to a raft of Commonwealth Government crisis support payments introduced to help people survive the first lockdown. It also highlights that over the...