Last year human relations think tank Reventure (A Future that Works) published a report on how the loneliness “epidemic” is impacting workplaces in Australia. Now, in the middle of another epidemic that is shaking economies and the world of work, feeling isolated in a huge, open plan office seems the least of a worker’s worries. MercatorNet asked Reventure’s managing director, Dr Lindsay McMillian, […]
No voluntary organisation in the world does more work in the fields of education, healthcare, poverty relief, etc. than the Catholic Church, led in many cases by the Church’s religious orders. Amidst all the criticism of the Church, this basic fact is often forgotten. Cara, a research body at Georgetown University in the US, compiles the […]
Only someone completely out of touch with reality could declare, as Simon Harris did, that cutting payments to people with disabilities is about equity. Yet that’s exactly what Minister Harris said when he axed the training grant those who attend rehabilitative training (RT). His clinching argument was that not everyone with disabilities received the payment […]