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[*] Career Study of South Australian Medical, Dental and Physiotherapy Graduates
Saturday, 3 February 2007
This study examines and quantifies the employment experience (or career paths) of medical practitioners, dentists and physiotherapists who graduated from South Australian universities from 1961 to 2003. In particular, the study compares the employment experience of these health professionals from different graduate cohorts, for each profession and separately for male and female graduates to identify the impact of changes in career paths on health workforce policy. [ View]
[*] Safety in the Public Sector 2007-2010 Strategy
Thursday, 1 February 2007
The "Safety in the Public Sector 2007-2010" strategy provides an across government framework for sustainable safety performance that promotes safety as a means of improving business performance and reducing the human social and financial cost of injury and associated impacts on service performance. [ View]
Learnings from the Mental Health Liaison Project
Friday, 26 January 2007
The Mental Health Liaison Project (MHLP) commenced in April 2005 with the purpose of trialling a multi-disciplinary approach that would provide assessment and a `fast track' referral for parents experiencing mental health difficulties, with the aim of assisting the arents to care safely for their children. [ View]
[*] Running on Empty: The Risk of Continuing to Dither While the Empty Light is Flashing
Thursday, 25 January 2007
In this Issues Paper, Professor Peter Cullen argues that we need to take urgent action to address growing water shortages. A range of climatic data indicates that the Australian climate has been drying over the past decade. Rainfall over recent years in much of South Eastern Australia, Adelaide and Perth has been below average, while rainfall in large areas of south eastern Australia are currently at record lows. [ View]
[*] Dr Tim Flannery: Climate change and the environment.
Tuesday, 19 August 2008, 5:45 pm
The inaugural Sprigg Lecture series commemorates the life of Dr Reg Sprigg a South Australian geologist who discovered the world's oldest (560 million years) fossil animals in the Flinders Ranges in 1946. Today these are internationally recognised as the Ediacara fossils that characterize the newly defined Ediacaran Period on the geological timescale. [ View]
[*] Corporate governance & accountability in the boardroom: lessons from the top
Monday, 19 May 2008
Remarkably little is known about the insider workings of private, public and nonprofit sector boardrooms. Yet they have a profound impact on corporate performance and accountability. This presentation addresses corporate governance research at the board of directors' level of the organisation, drawing on latest international research and practice, as well as Professor Parker's own research from within boardroom deliberations. Directors' roles and responsibilities for strategic management, organisational control and internal boardroom governance processes will all be examined with a view to highlighting implications for future practice in the overall boardroom corporate governance function. [ View]
[*] Work well or marry well: gender regime under Chinese market reform
Friday, 23 May 2008
By analysing what is behind a Chinese popular saying 'marry well rather than work well', this presentation will explore changes to the gender regime in China. Women are not benefiting from market reform as much as men and many achievements of the socialist women's movement have been lost. Women's attitudes to paid and unpaid work and their choices for marriage are not determined by their own will. Prevailing norms and values and institutions interact to affect their decisions. When more and more Chinese woman agree to marry well rather than work well, this signals an urgent issue regarding gender equality. [ View]
News & Opinion Search Results
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[*] Labor's federal dilemma
Thursday, 25 January 2007
Australia's federal system of government has always been somewhat problematic for the Australian Labor Party. On the one hand the party's essentially centralist ideology has meant that path to the "light on the hill" has always been seen to be leading via a national government. This direction is reflected historically in the party's platform which until the 1970s called for the powers of the states to be limited to what the Commonwealth might decide to delegate to them. [ View]
[*] Back to school tips for bullying
Monday, 22 January 2007
School supplies, backpacks and new clothes aren't the only things students will need for the new school year - skills to handle bullying are just as important, according to UniSA researchers [ View]
[*] Breakthrough for heroin addiction treatment
Monday, 22 January 2007
University of Adelaide researchers have made a breakthrough in the treatment of heroin addiction which could improve treatment success rates for millions of heroin users around the world. [ View]
Key SA role in $135m seafood CRC
Friday, 12 January 2007
New opportunities for seafood innovation in SA are expected to flow from the establishment of Australia's largest co-operative research centre - the $135 million Australian Seafood CRC. [ View]
[*] Good news for infertile couples
Friday, 12 January 2007
The development of a new reproductive technique could help thousands of infertile couples conceive, thanks to a $90,500 grant awarded to the University of Adelaide by the National Health and Medical Research Council. [ View]
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