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After Bondi Beach: Anti-Semitism is a threat to Australia’s diverse democracy
The beach lies less than four miles from the heart of Sydney. In that half-mile crescent of gold, the city’s restless energy dissipates. A crowd gathers there on Sunday evening for a minute of silence to mark one week since the Bondi Beach terror attack, when two gunmen targeted Jews celebrating Hanukkah. A 10-year-old girl and a Holocaust survivor were among the 15 people killed. One week on, there is a visible security presence, with armed police in riot gear, body scanners and cordoned-off zones.
Charlie Kirk's assassination is a test of US democracy and of our public character
Kirk was a polarising figure, a Trump supporter and an advocate of gun rights. He often relished confrontation, staging his “Prove me wrong” debates under a tent in the heart of university campuses. To many, his politics were abrasive or even offensive. But that shouldn’t be the point. The point is, he presented himself for argument, asking to be met with words, and he did so respectfully. And universities, if they stand for anything, should be the safest spaces for such behaviour.
Healing polarisation must start with the common good: In conversation with Dr Jerry Nockles
This Eureka Street Plus article, typically exclusive to subscribers, has been developed in partnership with Catholic Social Services Australia. We're pleased to share it with all Eureka Street readers. Political polarisation has consistently been a feature of democracies. But over the last ten years, particularly in the United States, cultural and political divides have grown noticeably more severe, more durable, and more personal as the contest of ideas has given way to a contest of identities.
Should childcare be profitable?
At our local daycare, the staff changed so often that in the end, I stopped learning their names. Like many other Australian parents, I’ve entrusted young children to daycare centres over the years while juggling work and family. I’ve stood in rooms decorated with finger paintings, blocks, plastic fruit, nodding politely through handovers with educators I knew would probably be gone within the month.
The quiet collapse of Australia's social safety net: In conversation with David Gilchrist
Now based at the University of Western Australia, he has just released what may be the most comprehensive and sobering account yet of the economic pressures facing Australia’s nonprofit social service providers. The report, Real Costs, Real Impacts, draws on 21 years of data observations from seven large nonprofit providers — together employing more than 3000 staff and serving tens of thousands of Australians.
Brushes with the badlands
‘Underworld figure shot in our basement carpark at 10.30 this morning,’ My sister wrote to the family WhatsApp thread. ‘Cops everywhere. All ok. Just thankful I wasn’t down there like I planned to be. (Was going to drive to the gym at 10.15, glad I was lazy!).’ She lives in Preston, where Sam ‘the Punisher’ Abdulrahim was murdered under the fluorescents of an underground carpark while walking to his car with his girlfriend, who presumably lives in the same block as my sister.
Reflecting on the year that was
SUPPORT RESPECTFUL CONVERSATIONS IN A TIME OF DIVISION We need no reminding of the depth of the division that exists in our Australian community. It's there every time we go online, turn on the TV, open the newspaper. Our politics is focused on point-scoring, personalities, and name-calling across party lines. The media, for the most part, don't help, driven by the 24-hour news cycle and the pursuit of advertising dollars into a frenzy of click-bait and shallow sensationalism.
A house divided: In conversation with Alan Kohler
In Australia, the dream of homeownership is slipping further out of reach for many. As house prices soar, nearly half the nation finds itself locked out of the property market.
'Tisn't the season to be jolly
As 2024 hurtles to its end, the urge to forecast what lies ahead is as tempting as it is tenuous. It is idle to wonder if 2025 will plunge us into a major global conflict when we cannot even be sure about the next upheaval to come out of the Middle East, or whether the United States will face a constitutional crisis that makes the events of January 6 seem restrained. What we can say is that, despite centuries of the most astonishing technological advances, human nature remains unchanged.
Best of 2023: The heat will kill you first
No matter where you are, you’ve been noticing the heat. Globally, killer heat waves are becoming longer, hotter, and more frequent. In Europe alone, the heatwaves of 2022 claimed over 60,000 lives. Jeff Goodell has been a voice of authority and urgency on climate issues for over two decades. As a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, Goodell has written four books on energy and climate.
Best of 2023: Tim Winton's wild nature
DH: As Australia’s most beloved author, your name conjures up images of ocean surf and wild, remote beaches. Your love of rural Australia — the people, the wildlife, the water and the land — has resonated through your work and through audiences for four decades. You said Ningaloo is a place that ‘exhilarates you like no other’. Readers may know your conservation work there twenty-odd years ago.
Why the choice revolution let us down: In conversation with Mark Considine
David Halliday: You wrote The Careless State in 2022, a searing indictment of privatisation and deregulation of Australian social policy. For those unfamiliar, what’s the current state of affairs when it comes to social services? Mark Considine: It depends on which service we’re talking about. Up until the 1980s, governments supported social services either by direct delivery, or by providing various kinds of funding to churches and other nonprofit organisations.
What should we make of the social media ban?
In the 17th century, Eton College boys faced a peculiar mandate: every morning, over breakfast, they were compelled to smoke a pipe of tobacco. This was a supposed safeguard, with tobacco smoke mistakenly believed to ward off the ‘miasmas’ thought to spread plague. And any teens rebelling against this regimen — whether through refusal or insufficient puffing — were met with a sound whipping.
Google’s monopoly money
INTERNATIONAL
Uncertainty in a time of conviction
INTERNATIONAL
Building constitutional bridges: In conversation with Frank Brennan
David Halliday: In this conversation I'd like to discuss how you feel about the future of Indigenous recognition in this country, the process of finishing the bridge, so to speak. I’d love to get your sense of what happened exactly and what’s next. But before we go into that, I think it's important to look at where we've been. You’re one of Australia’s most prominent advocates for Indigenous rights.
Trump, convicted
INTERNATIONAL
What's the harm in a bit of porn?
As of January 2023, porn sites are getting more visitors than Amazon, Twitter and Netflix combined, with somewhere between 46-74 per cent of men and 16-41 per cent of women watching porn regularly (although some estimates go as high as 91.5 per cent and 60 per cent respectively). Porn is sometimes described as a supernormal stimulus, taking our brain’s natural desire for intimacy and providing us with an exaggerated hyper-real version, thus altering what our brains perceive to be normal.
Budget balancing act fails working poor
People sleeping rough beneath the Reserve Bank strikes me as the perfect image to segue into a quick word on the budget. Last week’s federal budget, presented by Treasurer Jim Chalmers, comes at a time when Australia faces the dual challenges of high inflation and a weakening economy. Chalmers explained that the budget aimed to provide cost of living relief on the one hand and while energising a weak economy without further fuelling inflation. At first blush, it sounds reasonable, right?
What's the deal with Unfrosted?
Director and co-writer Jerry Seinfeld stars as Bob Cabana, an Ideas Man at Kellogg’s, stationed in Battle Creek, Michigan, the epicentre of the breakfast cereal wars of 1963. As Kellogg’s defends its turf against their secretive and scheming rivals Post, they’re blindsided by Post’s latest creation, a fruit-filled breakfast pastry. In response, Kellogg’s enlists Melissa McCarthy, a NASA scientist, to fast-track their own fruit pastry before Post can get their product on shelves.
An old problem, a new conversation
AUSTRALIA
Making sense of Taylor Swift
ARTS AND CULTURE
When the wheels come off
AUSTRALIA
Eureka Street person of the year 2023
Michael McVeigh, Head of publishing and digital content at Jesuit Communications, publishers of Eureka Street. Pope Francis Pope Francis turned 87 on 17 December, and most would forgive him for retreating a little from public life. However, there was no slowing down in 2023. Despite ongoing struggles with health, the Pope continued to be a source of hope for millions and a beacon of peace in a time of increasing conflict.
A Christmas Carol and the making of a miser
But we should pause and ask: why another Christmas Carol and why now? It seems like every other year there’s a new adaptation, and in sheer pathos, few seem able to match Michael Caine displaying his acting chops alongside Kermit. It’s a story we all know backwards and its tropes (grumpy old man spars with the supernatural and attains some much-needed redemption at Christmas) have spawned a thousand variants.
The balance of compassion
AUSTRALIA
Some things change, some things stay the same
Bain Attwood’s recent biography on Cooper reveals a close friendship between the two men. Bound by their Christian faith, the losses they experienced in WW1, and their nearby residences in Melbourne’s west, Cooper saw Arthur as a ‘firm friend and counsellor’ and fondly nicknamed him ‘the white blackfella’ — a title that Burdeu wore with immense pride. In 1936, Cooper introduced Burdeu to the Australian Aborigines’ League, which he and Doug Nicholls had founded a year earlier.
On housing bubbles
AUSTRALIA
The cost of automated welfare
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Tim Winton's wild nature
Arguably Australia's most celebrated novelist, the name Tim Winton conjures up images of ocean surf and wild remote beaches. Winton has spent decades exploring the mysteries of the natural world in the pages of his novels and has become a leading voice in the conservation movement, particularly around Ningaloo in WA. Now with the release of his three-part documentary Ningaloo Nyinggulu on ABC, Winton invites readers to explore the remote parts of the country that have inspired his work.
The end of the dream job
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Chocolate's bitter truth
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Ukraine, one year on
When 200,000 pairs of Russian boots stepped over the Ukraine border last February, the attack was intended to subjugate the entire country in a three-day blitzkrieg. Ukraine defied expectations fending off the initial attack, despite having a much smaller military, economy, and population. That a European nuclear power could launch a major war of conquest against a neighbour was almost unthinkable. That a comparably tiny army could fend them off was almost unimaginable, and yet here we are.
Eureka Street person of the year
As the year 2022 draws to a close, the editorial team at Eureka Street has been reflecting on the individuals who have made a significant impact on the world and embody the values that we hold dear. From leading figures in politics and activism, to pioneers in the arts and sciences, the choices for our person of the year were numerous and varied. Here, we share our personal picks for the people we believe have had a significant influence in 2022 and why they embody the ideals of Eureka Street.
Education as a building block for community integration
By David Halliday, MD at Halliday Fraser Munro COMMUNITY plays a major role in all our lives, as has been emphasised during these uncertain times.And in an expanding town, such as Inverurie, connections within the community can make all the difference to people’s mental and physical wellbeing.
Click and collect services are filling a vital gap in the retail sector
Retailers are forming joint ventures and planning more physical space for collection points, says David Halliday The retail sector has faced many challenges in recent years as shopping habits change and more people move online. Covid-19 has put unprecedented pressure on bricks and mortar shops, as has been illustrated by a range of significant deals. These include online fashion retailer Asos buying the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands that had belonged to the failed Arcadia group.
What Is The Geometry Of Spacetime? - What Kinds Of Inner-Products/Metrics?
We ended the second article in this series with the audacious claim that we have obtained the METRIC.1 Quite frankly, I expected to hear a howl of protest to my brazen assertion that we had actually gotten so far. We certainly hadn't obtained anything quite like the usual matrix or tensor form of a metric, or even a "line element", nor had we seen how this has any relationship to the usual "strangeness" of the Special Theory of Relativity.
Cyber and Data Protection in a Crisis: A UK Perspective | Insight | Baker McKenzie
It doubtless goes without saying that home working increases potential cyber security risks. This is especially the case when users are being permitted to use their own devices (BYOD) and use public networks for access. The UK NCSC has issued best practice guidance on home working which focuses on management of security at several levels Authentication: any enablement of remote access exposes systems to credential driven security risks.
Sullivan lays out challenges facing Church
Published: 28 February 2020 “Taking the side of impoverished and disenfranchised people is not an option for Gospel-inspired organisations. It is a mainstay of the mission,” according to Francis Sullivan. Source: Melbourne Catholic. By David Halliday, Melbourne Catholic Mr Sullivan is the former chief executive officer of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council and Catholic Health Australia.
Halliday: The LGBT policy reversal is commendable by the LDS Church
I would like to echo and add to the thoughts former state senator Jim Dabakis made in his April 4, 2019, Facebook post, “I believe the LDS church’s policy change to be a good and commendable decision.” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced this week a reversal of a previous 2015 policy, which prohibited the baptism of children of LGBTQ+ couples.
UK — Equifax fine: lessons learned | Lexology
On 19 September the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued Equifax Ltd (Equifax) with a GBP 500,000 fine, the highest issued to date, for failing to protect the personal information of up to 15 million UK citizens during a cyber attack in 2017. The incident, which occurred between 13 May and 30 July 2017 in the US, affected 146 million customers globally.
Five Fast Tips For The Millennial Investor
As interest rates drag their feet and with the property ladder falling short for so many, more millennials are rightly looking at other ways to grow their money. The sooner we can put The Wolf of Wall Street behind us, the better. Forget the yachts, the mansions, the Quaalude- fuelled debauchery. While it seems fun from afar – hell, no doubt it was for Jordan Belfort – the reality is that reaching those sorts of riches from stock trading remains, for the most part, fixed in celluloid fantasy.
How To Build Success (And Profit) Through Compassion
Nice guys, we have good news – your days of finishing last are numbered. Take a seat as we all talk about our feelings. Traditionally, it’s always paid to be a professional arsehole. After all, the corporate jungle can be brutal, with enough egos and backstabbing to make federal politics seem like a sorority pillow fight. Navigating through the rich history of work, compassion’s long been peripheral. To be frank – it’s never really been necessary.
Your Next Career Move: The Motivation You Need To Leave Your Job
Jobs are no longer for live – but exactly how long is too long in a company before changing lanes? And what motivation do you need to quit and move on to keep things fresh? We’re here to help. To develop a career portfolio, changing jobs used to be considered the exception. Now, it’s become the rule, one where staying in a single gig for too long is more hindrance than help.
How To Save Like A Boss
We chat to personal finance guru and author, Erin Lowry, on how to avert a cash-flow crisis and actually stash some dosh. Yes, Scrooge McDuck would have broken his neck. Still, even if we never wanted to dive headfirst into a towering vat of cold, hard cash, the idea of accumulating some savings is appealing. Because we all want to create a buffer – some dollars that allow for some fun down the track (hi there Euro tour 2018) or which can be put towards a larger purchase.
Why A Mid-Year Career Review Is Essential
Now’s the best time to execute a professional health check and make sure you’re still on course. Stick with us on this – it’s Aussie actor (and one-time CK bulge) Travis Fimmel’s maiden voyage aboard Vikings. His enterprising Norsemen suddenly decide to check their course with a floating sundial contraption under the watchful gaze of Fimmel’s baby blues.
Culture Clash: How To Fix A Toxic Workplace
Working with negative, manipulative, self-absorbed and mistakenly superior types heavy on bitchy, pithy commentary? Make changes, and fast, Because a toxic workplace costs not only millions, but the best employees. A positive office atmosphere is about more than the odd after-work drinks. Those things are fun, don’t get us wrong, but company culture is helping or hurting your bottom line more than most realise.
The 5 Business Apps You Should Have On Your Phone
Technology that will help you keep organised, stay focused and manage your schedule. Apps can help you with basically any aspect of your life these days, but with so many available it's hard to know the best of the bunch. From iOS to Andorid these are the apps you need to succeed – or at least make it through the day - as tested by the GQ team. To-do lists have a tendency to be long and cluttered.
10 Before 10: The Ultimate Morning Routine To Supercharge Your Day
How to win the day before the clock hits double figures. Unless you’re four years old, early mornings probably aren’t your friend. For many, the idea of getting out of bed super early is about as pleasant a prospect as an all-inclusive, back-to-back movie marathon of Adam Sandler’s entire oeuvre. To combat this widespread morning malaise of drudgery and snooze-button-hitting, Hal Elrod – author of bestselling book, The Miracle Morning – has crafted the ideal early routine.
Combined ingestion of protein and carbohydrate improves protein balance during ultra-endurance exercise
ARTICLES Abstract The aims of this study were to compare different tracer methods to assess whole body protein turnover during 6 h of prolonged endurance exercise when carbohydrate was ingested throughout the exercise period and to investigate whether addition of protein can improve protein balance.
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