Centre for Work + Life media
Media releases
26 June 2008: UniSA helps to build the global picture on work and life
28 May 2008 (Word 53 kb): Time to act on paid maternity leave: pay mothers the same as reservists
29 February 2008: Research opens the door to skills education for low earners
16 November 2007: Money can't buy you family life...
22 October 2007: Young workers 'in the dark' about workplace rights
18 September 2007: WorkChoices: a mood for change?
13 August 2007: Report shows working women lose out under WorkChoices
24 July 2007: SA verdict on WorkChoices overwhelmingly negative
27 June 2007: Australian workers feel the work–life squeeze
10 April 2007: A new index to work–life balance
7 March 2007: HREOC report confirms we can do better to support Australian working families: expert says
26 February 2007: X + Y = answers on home, work and community
29 January 2007 (Word 70 kb): ALP takes a step in the right direction with new focus on early childhood education
8 December 2006: Academic critical of work and family report
11 October 2006: Clare Burton Memorial Lecture 2006
15 March 2006: Work and life on UniSA’s research agenda
Interviews
PipWilliams, 'Talkback: Appreciation, more please!', LifeMatters, Radio National, 6 June 2008.
Barbara Pocock on 9 am with David and Kim, discussing the 2020 summit, April 2008, including the PM's proposal for combined services for children and parents. (Link to video. Click on 'Search' at top of right-hand menu then type in 'Pocock'.)
Barbara Pocock, International Women's Day panel discussion with Marian Baird, Sharan Burrow, Geraldine Doogue, Dale Spender and Tanya Plibersek, topic: 'Working women 100 years on: where have we been; where are we now; and, where are we going?', 11 March 2008. (Scroll down to 'Watch the panel discussion ...) Organised by the Australian Government Office for Women.
Barbara
Pocock, ABC Radio Conversation Hour, conversation with Richard Fidler, 21
September 2007.
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brief summary from the ABC Queensland site.
Women in low paid work under WorkChoices. Dr Jude Elton, CWL, and Dr Alison Preston, Director, Women in Social and Economic Research, Curtin University, were interviewed by Richard Aedy, Life Matters, ABC Radio National, 13 August 2007.
Media reports
Time to pay maternity leave, The Advertiser, 9 April 2008.
SA must introduce state-based paid maternity leave and other work–life
balance provisions to attract and retain skilled workers.
Dads find ways to work around long hours, Sydney Morning Herald,
31 January 2008
Long work hours are not the main reason many fathers spend little time with
their children.
Workers' time is just as important as money, The Australian, 26
October 2007
Working hours
are a lively topic in many Australian households, but you would never guess
it from the election offerings so far...
Hockey smear 'attack on freedom', The Australian, 24 October 2007
Personal criticism of a researcher by Workplace Relations Minister Joe
Hockey was 'extremely silly' and an attach on academic freedom...
Pressures, not just hours, infecting family life, The Australian,
12 July 2007
Getting the right work–life balance is not just about simply cutting down
work hours in favour of family time or recreation.
Call for two weeks' paternity leave, The Australian, 9 July 2007
All dads should be paid two weeks' paternity leave to improve wellbeing and
work productivity.
Part-time work worst for mums, The Australian, 27 June 2007
Women who return to work part-time after having children have more
difficulty juggling career and family...
Lives on hold in a casual affair, The Australian, 9 June 2007
Unemployment figures are at a 32-year low, but Australia has the highest
level of unemployment in the OECD.
A year of childcare 'disrupts', The Australian, 27 March 2007
Spending a year of more in a long-daycare centre increases the likelihood
that a child will be disruptive at school.
Rudd brings learning into play, The Australian, 30 January 2007
An election battle looms over preschool education...
David McKnight: Invisible hand crushing social heart, The Australian,
5 January 2007
The Coalition's industrial relations laws have pushed the family barbecue to
the verge of extinction.
Long hours don't work for families, The Australian, 15 November
2006
The clash between the workforce and the workplace is emerging as one of the
most important concerns of contemporary Australia.
Growth at the expense of care, The Australian, 1 November 2006
Australia is a very rich country, but an increasingly unequal society.
Cut to the bone: working poor on the rise, The Australian, 10
April 2006
Even before they and their workmates were sacked by Cowra Abattoir last
week, Vicki and Terry Rawiri supplemented their earnings with casual jobs...
Catherine Armitage: Nurture the neighbours, The Australian, 4
March 2006
The decline of social capital has lots of causes ... but the overwhelming
cause is the lack of time...