Rick Morton
Senior Reporter at The Saturday Paper
Senior Reporter: The Saturday Paper. Author: One Hundred Years of Dirt & On Money (Hachette) out now. Country kid from QLD. [email protected]
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6 days ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Rick Morton
A full parliamentary term after promising to end income control, the “suffocating” and “humiliating” policy continues for almost 30,000 people – despite being overwhelmingly rejected in unpublished submissions to the latest consultation over the future of the scheme.
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1 week ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Rick Morton
When the New South Wales government’s Ministry of Health ordered letters be sent to every working doctor in the state threatening them with potential professional standards investigations if they went on strike, it was enough to push the anaesthetics department at one hospital over the line. Previously undecided, they were ready to walk out for better pay and conditions. “There is no ‘right’ to take industrial action when orders against industrial action have been issued.
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2 weeks ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Rick Morton
Critical services prescribed by the child sexual abuse royal commission almost a decade ago have been further delayed following a bungled tender process that has resulted in confusion, concern and a damaging unreleased audit report. New national services for victims and survivors were recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in its 2017 final report.
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3 weeks ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Rick Morton
Two years ago, the Australian government baulked at the cost of joining the European Union’s $163 billion research and innovation fund, Horizon Europe. The decision concerned researchers at the time but is now seen as a grave mistake, with the Trump administration making the United States an unreliable partner for universities and science agencies.
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1 month ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Rick Morton
News It’s business as usual in the university sector, where exorbitant executive pay, insecure jobs and exploitation of academic staff continue unabated. By Rick Morton. SHARE Copy Link Bluesky Facebook X LinkedIn When Professor John Dewar was appointed as interim vice-chancellor of the University of Wollongong by its council in June last year, he was still a partner at the advisory firm KordaMentha, which specialises in restructuring failed businesses.
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“They were unsure whether the conversation we had was real or a dream... so wanted to make sure the advice was correct.” Doctors worked to the brink of human capacity but NSW Govt says the strike is unsafe, not the dangerous workloads every other day. https://t.co/mi9Et9LYMZ
Real weird areas going on at Attorney-General's Dept as procurement for critical services for child sex abuse victim-survivors and non-offending family of perpetrators are delayed again and again. Damning audit is on the way, ethical conduct in spotlight. https://t.co/g9o5dHmZ6g
One day I will write about something that isn't utterly, totally depressing. But it is not this day. University management, where logic and learning go to die. https://t.co/LMelSTWoFP
