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Disability workers are facing longer days with less pay

  • Written by: Fiona Macdonald, Senior Research Fellow in Work & Employment Relations, RMIT University
Disability workers are facing longer days with less payThe study found that the disability support workers regularly spent unpaid time on two types of work activities.www.shutterstock.com

Disability support workers are being significantly underpaid as some core tasks and activities do not get counted as work, our research finds.

We investigated disability support workers’ working time patterns and...

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Babylon Berlin and why our fascination with 1920s Germany reveals the anxieties of our times

  • Written by: Peter Tregear, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne
Babylon Berlin and why our fascination with 1920s Germany reveals the anxieties of our timesBablyon Berlin recreates the wild nightlife of 1929 in Germany. Screenshot from Youtube

It is curious fact that certain times and places seem to have a particular hold on our popular historical imagination. Such is the case with Germany’s capital city, Berlin, during the short-lived Weimar Republic, recently recreated for TV in the critically...

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Public housing ban on people with drug records likely to do more harm than good, research tell us

  • Written by: Kev Dertadian, Lecturer in Criminology, Western Sydney University

The New South Wales government plans to ban people with a history of drug offences from living in social housing in parts of inner-city Sydney. The desire to provide an environment that helps people who are trying to minimise their drug use and stay away from drug markets is understandable. The reality is there is no evidence that this is what the...

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Why we made iWitnessed, an app to collect evidence

  • Written by: Helen M. Paterson, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, University of Sydney
Why we made iWitnessed, an app to collect evidenceThere's been an accident - but witness accounts will stray and lose accuracy over time. from www.shutterstock.com

Eyewitness evidence can be critical to investigations and trials. However, research shows that eyewitness memory can be inaccurate and vulnerable to distortion depending on what happens next – for example, inaccurate information...

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