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Prevention Best Medicine for Aged Care
Liam Kinkead | September 14, 2009Australia’s health system is under the microscope; and the new “yourHealth” reforms being rolled out by the Federal Government are in the public forum for debate.
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A Tsunami of Silence
Open Forum | September 14, 2009Hello everybody and welcome to your audition for the seven o’clock news.
Here’s our first applicant; Omar from Sudan.
So Omar, what’s your story?
Hunger you say?
No, I’m sorry, hunger is getting so very old, but please come back and try again if anything of greater news value should happen to you.
So thank you for coming Omar, and of course good luck with your starving, HIV-positive, homeless, refugee family.
NEXT!
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Little Reporting for Queers
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GFC Breeding Ground for Xenophobia
Magdalena Rojas Infante | September 14, 2009Spanish newspaper El Mundo claims that one in every six members of the Parliament is either xenophobic or Europhobic.
In the June 4-7 elections of the European Parliament the Social Democrats experienced a severe downfall, whilst extremist right-wing parties made their way into European Union politics. The Social Democrats lost in respect to the 2004 elections in all but four of the twenty seven member states of the EU; Malta, Romania, Greece and Sweden.
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Sinophobic One-Liners
Wang Hui | September 14, 2009Since August, relatives and friends back in China have shown growing concerns about my family and I as we are now temporarily living in Sydney.
Even an uncle who lives in a remote county in the under-developed Shaanxi Province asked me to go back to China earlier. “China-Australia relationship is very lousy now, so you guys won’t be safe there,” he told me over the phone.
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Sanctions No Help to Suu Kyi
Richa Sharma | September 13, 2009As it sentenced the country’s representative of resistance, Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months additional detention, Burma’s military junta displayed no disposition to discuss democracy.
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The Dangers of Karzai’s Re-election
Tomas Valasek | September 11, 2009The final result of the Afghan election may not be known until the end of September, but it looks as if President Hamid Karzai will have done well enough to avoid a second round of voting. This is causing dismay in some western capitals, where some senior figures now view Karzai as a key obstacle to Afghanistan’s reconstruction. If he stays in power, people in many European countries are likely to become increasingly disenchanted with the ‘mission impossible’ that their soldiers are undertaking, and that would increase the probability of European forces being withdrawn.
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Business Planning – It’s a lot more than strategy
yardley | September 10, 2009Boards are responsible for strategy and management for operations. Business planning develops the strategy and ensures it is well executed. Each choice sets up future possibilities and closes off others. This is about making the best choices. This is about changing behaviour.
Why is Planning Important?
Planning is a thought experiment saving the energy and resources of actually doing it. Planning is learning to be ready and able to meet any opportunity. It is not about specific anticipated future opportunities.
A Learning Process
At Acumentum we had three strategies:
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What Future Mental Health Services?
Gavin Mooney | September 10, 2009I was very fortunate to be involved in running a survey of the participants at the The Mental Health Services Conference (TheMHS), which was held recently in Perth.
TheMHS is an unusual conference in that it brings together a wide array of players on the mental health stage; mental health service consumers, carers, health care professionals, administrators, academics, government bureaucrats – the whole spectrum of interests in mental health.
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Diplomacy of Opportunism
Sikni Hamka | September 10, 2009The relationship between Iraq and Australia is set to reach new heights over the years to come. Australia’s contribution in the form of foreign aid and assistance has been handsomely rewarded with lucrative contracts and potential leverage in future negotiations with Iraq.
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Why Standards are Good Business
patrickcallioni | September 10, 2009What if I said to you that we have a an opportunity to develop a viable, sustainable export business that is green, clean and creates job opportunities for knowledge workers in Australia; and it does not require significant amounts of capital, private or public, to get going?
I assume most of you would say, why are we not doing it, right now? That would be a very good question, to which there is an answer. Here is that answer.
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Giving Feedback to a Toxic Person
mitchkusy_elizabethholloway | September 10, 2009If you’ve ever worked in an organisation of any kind, you’ve probably experienced what we call a “toxic personality.”
Based on our research of over 400 leaders, we learned that a whopping 94% have had to wrestle with this problem. In this blog, we’d like to address one of the prevalent myths about toxic personalities — that you should give them feedback.
Some popular suggestions for feedback are ideas such as; letting them know how their behaviour is ruining their career, telling them that the promotion they so desperately want is about to be non-existent, or sharing how their behavior is affecting others.
Ever tried having one of those conversations?
