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You probably don’t realise, but every decision you make has an impact on the environment. From what you choose to eat for dinner to how you commute to work, everything we do will affect the earth in one way or another. For some, focusing on sustainability is second nature, but for others, it’s an area that needs some work. At the end of the day, we all want to be friends of the earth, but how do we actually go about it?
We are taught from a young age that periods are a private, if not shameful, issue. But with women’s labour force participation on the rise, these old attitudes have to change if our workplaces are to be productive and inclusive.
Australia is emerging as a global leader on menstrual and reproductive health leave, but the policy is hotly contested. A research team at the University.
10 things you need to know this morning in Australia Jack Derwin
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Yet another company has been found out rorting Australian asylum seeker contracts for millions of dollars in profit, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Multinational Applus Wokman won a $121 million contract to resettle asylum seekers. It then paid local workers just $8 an hour to do the work but charged Australian taxpayers as if they were being paid $75, in an act likened to stealing from both countries. A quick reminder, we spent $1 million per head to lock people up there rather than resettle them here. One of many reasons costs on Manus Island blew out to over $1 million per head to effectively house people in tents or worse.
The Future Super team at the 2019 climate strike. Source: supplied.
More than 380 business leaders, including the heads of Atlassian and Canva, are again supporting their staff to walk out this afternoon to join students on the School Strike 4 Climate.
The businesses are getting behind the Not Business as Usual movement, spearheaded by green super fund Future Super, and its founder and chief Simon Sheikh.
According to Sheikh, the support is indicative of a shifting culture in the tech sector, and the changing expectations of employees.
Today’s action follows a similar strike in September 2019, intended to alert the federal government to the concerns of young people around climate change.