Consultants don’t advise, they find ‘evidence’ to justify policy positions. They’re also not subject to FOI requests and don’t have to follow the same codes that public servants do. Governments love consultants because they usually don’t actually want good evidence-based advice, they just want to tick the box that says they did ‘research’.
I say this as a phd student who wants to go into academia but will probably end up working for one of these consultants because the government would rather give them money than fund actual research.
I know it’s not even close there yet. It can tell you to kill yourself or to kill a president. But what about when I finish school in like 7 years? Who would pay for a therapist or a psychologist when you can ask for help a floating head on your computer?...
Psychotherapy is about building a working relationship. Transference is a big part of this relationship. I don’t feel like I’d be able to build the same kind of therapeutic relationship with an AI that I would with another human. That doesn’t mean AI can’t be a therapeutic tool. I can see how it could be beneficial with things like positive affirmations and disrupting negative thinking patterns. But this wouldn’t be a substitute for psychotherapy, just a tool for enhancing it.
I am prepared to toast myself a bit here but if you asked this 3 or 4 years ago you would have been flammed alive, now 90% of the comments are backing it. So why has attitudes to immigration changed ?
I love that generational inequality can be measured in this way. It would be great to see how different policy changes in the last 50 - 60 years correlate across generation groups.
Lol I’m a phd candidate at that university. I think they’re doing this to look woke. This is a thing universities do to try and hide the fact that they are super conservative institutions.
It’s a bit more complex than this. Most lecturers are qualified, they’re just on insecure casual contracts. Try delivering high equality education knowing you’re on a contract that may or may not be extended. There’s also a gtowing pressure to pass students. This comes from both management and the students themselves. A lot of students feel like they’ve purchased the right to a passing grade. I no longer give students positive feedback because if I do they’ll think it means I should have given them a higher grade.
The merit required for most academic roles is almost inhumanely high. You generally need a phd, publications, conference presentations, extensive teaching experience, and evidence of professional service (peer reviewing, committee memberships etc - often unpaid). In the more practical based degrees (which is where I teach) the hiring criteria may be more focused on industry experience. So these fields may have some non-phd qualified lecturers. Many unit coordinators also do get their phd students to do tutoring (some even lecturing) but this has always been the case and you’ve got to learn to teach somehow.
Relentless cost-of-living pressure, rising interest rates, uncertainty about the direction of the economy and growing concern about inequality has undermined Australia’s sense of social cohesion, according to authoritative new research....
This pretty much tracks with my experience over the last few years. People just seem to be more tense and inconsiderate on average. And it feels like this started to get worse just after the first round of lockdowns.
Journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, authors of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “His Name Is George Floyd,” are still unclear why they were told they couldn’t read from their book or talk about systemic racism to a room full of high school students in Memphis....
He’s always been a fascist. What’s the media’s excuse for giving him so much attention when it was clear from the moment he rolled down that escalator. Also, find me a narcissistic politician that isn’t a fascist?
They were a product of the lnp government whose whole selling point is essentially “we’re bringing down your taxes”. You can see it for example in how they always campaign around the narrative that Labor are coming for your money. Death taxes - the Bill Australia can’t afford etc. That and ‘stop the boats’. It’s very effective I guess, who doesn’t want to pay less taxes? Most people don’t really understand the complexities of why paying tax is good for economic equity and how we all benefit from properly funded services.
Australia is now into its next COVID wave. We’ve seen hints of this for a while. Case numbers and indicators of severe disease began rising in Victoria in August. But it has taken several months for a consistent pattern to emerge across Australia....
Get vaxed, wear a mask in crowded spaces, if you have symptoms do a test and isolate if you can if positive. Just because these things aren’t mandatory anymore doesn’t mean they’re not helpful in preventing the spread of disease. And not just covid either.
I mean, come on. I know by now that Sky News, a broadcaster that doesn’t deserve the ‘News’ moniker and that will happily platform actual fascists if it serves their agenda, never tires of taking cheap shots at the ABC, with the declared objective to undermine its credibility. I know that Bronwyn Bishop has gone full...
A national Newspoll, conducted October 30 to November 3 from a sample of 1,220 people, gave Labor a 52–48% lead over the Coalition, a two-point gain for the Coalition since the final Newspoll before the October 14 Voice referendum. This is Labor’s narrowest lead in Newspoll since the 2022 federal election....
The predictable labor strategy is to shoot themselves in the foot with a leadership spill and then just manage to squeeze over the line for a second term.
Punters are switching off the Melbourne Cup, with a majority of Australians reporting they have little or no interest in what was once “the race that stops the nation”....
This shit is barbaric. The whole sport / industry is. I used to know a guy that rescues former race horses and his stories were brutal. The way these horses are trained leaves them with permanent and painful impairments. If humans want to consentually ride the shit out of each other for sport, then whatever who gives a shit. Whack a public holiday on it and call it a culturally significant event. Just leave the horses out of it.
This article is based on an Australian consumer study. So it might be just us that’s saying yeah nah fuck this while the rest of the world is still willing to pay.
He also suspended the racial discrimination act to implement the NT intervention which saw the army called in to police Aboriginal communities. This also saw the implementation of income quarantining measures aimed specifically at Indigenous Australians, which would serve as the foundation for cashless welfare card policies moving forward.
Report critical of big four consultancies was censored by Australian government agency, academic claims (www.theguardian.com)
I want to study psychology but won't AI make it redundant in a couple of years?
I know it’s not even close there yet. It can tell you to kill yourself or to kill a president. But what about when I finish school in like 7 years? Who would pay for a therapist or a psychologist when you can ask for help a floating head on your computer?...
Have our attitudes towards immigration changed ? (beehaw.org)
I am prepared to toast myself a bit here but if you asked this 3 or 4 years ago you would have been flammed alive, now 90% of the comments are backing it. So why has attitudes to immigration changed ?
'Hairdressers, dentists and dining out': The price rises that told the RBA it needed to raise rates again (www.abc.net.au)
Younger people now even cutting back on essentials, as older Australians spend up on cruises and restaurants (www.abc.net.au)
Number of Australians enrolled in bachelor degrees falls by 12% in less than a decade (www.theguardian.com)
Social cohesion lowest on record as Australia reels from cost of living, inequality concerns and voice debate (www.theguardian.com)
Relentless cost-of-living pressure, rising interest rates, uncertainty about the direction of the economy and growing concern about inequality has undermined Australia’s sense of social cohesion, according to authoritative new research....
Authors of George Floyd book were told not to talk about systemic racism at Tenn. school event (www.nbcnews.com)
Journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, authors of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “His Name Is George Floyd,” are still unclear why they were told they couldn’t read from their book or talk about systemic racism to a room full of high school students in Memphis....
Trust in science down; trends worst in minorities, Republicans (arstechnica.com)
When Trump tells you he’s an authoritarian, believe him (www.vox.com)
'Stand your butt up': Fistfight nearly breaks out during Senate hearing until Bernie Sanders steps in (www.nbcnews.com)
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a former MMA fighter, had challenged the president of the Teamsters union, Sean O’Brien, but Sanders shut them both down.
We could make most Australians richer and still save billions – it’s not too late to fix the Stage 3 tax cuts (theconversation.com)
The Albanese government is about to have to make a really important decision....
We're in a new COVID wave. What can we expect this time? (theconversation.com)
Australia is now into its next COVID wave. We’ve seen hints of this for a while. Case numbers and indicators of severe disease began rising in Victoria in August. But it has taken several months for a consistent pattern to emerge across Australia....
Streaming costs are rising, and there are more platforms than ever to choose between. Some people are going back to piracy (www.abc.net.au)
ABC to complain after Bronwyn Bishop tells Sky the public broadcaster is ‘aligning’ itself with Nazi policies (www.theguardian.com)
I mean, come on. I know by now that Sky News, a broadcaster that doesn’t deserve the ‘News’ moniker and that will happily platform actual fascists if it serves their agenda, never tires of taking cheap shots at the ABC, with the declared objective to undermine its credibility. I know that Bronwyn Bishop has gone full...
Former Middle School Teacher Accused of Sexually Abusing Boy in Classroom, Giving Him Alcohol: Police (people.com)
Police say a former student came forward claiming that when he was 14, Melissa Curtis, 31, sexually abused him
Albanese and Labor slump to worst position in Newspoll since 2022 election (theconversation.com)
A national Newspoll, conducted October 30 to November 3 from a sample of 1,220 people, gave Labor a 52–48% lead over the Coalition, a two-point gain for the Coalition since the final Newspoll before the October 14 Voice referendum. This is Labor’s narrowest lead in Newspoll since the 2022 federal election....
Melbourne Cup: most Australians have little or no interest in ‘race that stops the nation’, Essential poll finds (www.theguardian.com)
Punters are switching off the Melbourne Cup, with a majority of Australians reporting they have little or no interest in what was once “the race that stops the nation”....
Aussie households are spending less on streaming services, annual report reveals (www.abc.net.au)
John Howard says he ‘always had trouble’ with the concept of multiculturalism (www.theguardian.com)