Tag: Jobseeker
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Let’s not stop now: responses to COVID and multiple disasters must put people first
Terry Slevin While the government has had its fair share of problems in the past month, it’s taken credit – and deservedly so – for the way it’s managed the economy and supported the people, businesses and organisations most heavily impacted by the pandemic over the past year or so.…
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The Public Health need to ‘Raise the Rate’
Dr Ingrid Johnston Having a healthy population is good for the country. Being unwell reduces productivity and increases costs to the health system. As health costs spiral with an ageing population, making public policy decisions that will inevitably and unnecessarily add to those costs is a bad option. But we…
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Getting to the causes: Mental health and making real productivity gains post COVID
For many of us, forced to work at home or to not work at all, the COVID-19 crisis has driven home the importance of mental health and how work interacts with our sense of wellbeing.