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what Virgin Australia staff can learn from ex-Ansett workers

  • Written by: Helena Steel, Lecturer HRM, PhD Candidate - Job loss, career adaptability & HRM interventions, Swinburne University of Technology

As the COVID-19 economic crisis crimps travel and hurts airlines worldwide, Virgin Australia has been placed under external administrators. The Queensland government has put a $200m bid on it (a move derided by several federal ministers) but what’s clear is this is a period of enormous uncertainty for Virgin’s 10,000-strong Australian...

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Forget work-life balance – it's all about integration in the age of COVID-19

  • Written by: Melissa A. Wheeler, Senior lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology
Forget work-life balance – it's all about integration in the age of COVID-19Shutterstock

It wasn’t the usual end to our staff meeting.

This time, the head of our university department wrapped up the video conference by inviting her nine-year-old son to come and say hello to about a hundred colleagues.

It was an acknowledgement of the changes we have all adopted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The responses required to...

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International film archives are streaming up a storm during lockdown. Australia's movie trove isn't even online

  • Written by: Victoria Duckett, Senior Lecturer in Screen, Deakin University
International film archives are streaming up a storm during lockdown. Australia's movie trove isn't even onlineBFI

Cineteca Milano is renowned for its silent film holdings. With a collection of more than 35,000 Italian and international films dating back to the 1890s, it was both coincidental and fortuitous that, in December 2019, the archive began digitalisation.

Part of a national digitalisation program, the Cineteca decided rather than merely deposit...

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Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia

  • Written by: Scott Hocknull, Senior Curator of Geosciences, Queensland Museum, and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient AustraliaLife and death in tropical Australia, 40,000 years ago. Giant reptiles ruled northern Australia during the Pleistocene with mega-marsupials as their prey. Image Credit: R. Bargiel, V. Konstantinov, A. Atuchin & S. Hocknull (2020). Queensland Museum

When people first arrived in what is now Queensland, they would have found the land inhabited by...

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  2. Self-employed Australians' hours have fallen 32% since coronavirus hit – double the impact on all employees
  3. Just how hot will it get this century? Latest climate models suggest it could be worse than we thought
  4. Supermarkets claim to have our health at heart. But their marketing tactics push junk foods
  5. The trade-offs 'smart city' apps like COVIDSafe ask us to make go well beyond privacy
  6. The 'hospital in the home' revolution has been stalled by COVID-19. But it's still a good idea
  7. Experts are back in fashion – now more than ever we need to question them
  8. Trust in quality news outlets strong during coronavirus pandemic
  9. The government will spend $48 million to safeguard mental health. Extending JobKeeper would safeguard it even more
  10. Yes, we need a global coronavirus inquiry, but not for petty political point-scoring
  11. The costs of the shutdown are overestimated -- they're outweighed by its $1 trillion benefit
  12. Two refs are better than one, so why does the NRL want to drop one?
  13. The positives and negatives of mass testing for coronavirus
  14. 70% of people surveyed said they'd download a coronavirus app. Only 44% did. Why the gap?
  15. why astronomy matters in times of crisis
  16. reasons to get with online choirs
  17. Michelle Grattan on the climb down the mountain, unemployment and Jobkeeper, as well as Anthony Albanese's 'vision statement'
  18. More than 70% of academics at some universities are casuals. They're losing work and are cut out of JobKeeper
  19. 'Best of' sport lists are filling the live sport vacuum, but women take the sidelines once again
  20. New Zealand's COVID-19 budget delivers on one crisis, but largely leaves climate change for another day
  21. voices from the bush – how lockdown affects remote Indigenous communities differently
  22. new research to map violence in the forgotten conflict in West Papua
  23. Yes, carbon emissions fell during COVID-19. But it's the shift away from coal that really matters
  24. rules are also signals, which is why easing social distancing is such a problem
  25. 92% of Australians don't know the difference between viral and bacterial infections
  26. it doesn't end when housing aid projects finish
  27. Most young people who do VET after school are in full-time work by the age of 25
  28. Descending the COVID mountain could be hazardous for Scott Morrison
  29. Australia has dug itself into a hole in its relationship with China. It's time to find a way out
  30. New Zealand's pandemic budget is all about saving and creating jobs. Now the hard work begins
  31. New Zealand’s ‘catch up, patch up’ health budget misses the chance for a national overhaul
  32. Why can't we use antibody tests for diagnosing COVID-19 yet?
  33. 9 reasons you should be worried about the closure of BuzzFeed News in Australia
  34. here's how teachers feel about going back to the classroom
  35. Will New Zealand's $50 billion budget boost Jacinda Ardern's chance of being re-elected?
  36. What'll happen when the money's snatched back? Our looming coronavirus support cliff
  37. Were it not for JobKeeper, unemployment would be 11.7%, up from 5.2% in one month. Here's how the numbers pan out
  38. We know racism and recessions go together. Australia must prepare to stop a racism spike here.
  39. Is isolation a feeling?
  40. lock up your pet, it's a killing machine
  41. what opioid misuse costs Australia in a year
  42. We need to plan for life after JobKeeper now. We need to make it portable
  43. Pandemic dents Australians' views of both China and the United States
  44. Young people were already struggling before the pandemic. Here are 7 ways to help them navigate a changed world
  45. Why coronavirus must not stop Australia creating denser cities
  46. even in a pandemic, mixed emotions are more common than negative ones
  47. Miss hugs? Touch forms bonds and boosts immune systems. Here’s how to cope without it during coronavirus
  48. How to tweak JobKeeper, if we must
  49. Google and Facebook pay way less tax in New Zealand than in Australia – and we're paying the price
  50. How to stay calm and manage those family tensions during the coronavirus lockdown

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