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UpRising

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HSC study and wellbeing planner
Due to poor study and organising methods, the lack of time management skills can impact the students performance during HSC periods and result in their psychological state being vulnerable to high stress levels and possibly mental health issues. This major project will focus on designing an effective study and wellbeing planner that aims to improve young people’s management skills, productivity, awareness of their mental health and overall performance in their daily life. It will contain easy plan layouts, advice for HSC and general study guides to ensure students gain the right knowledge and skills. 
6 April 2022 by Angela1

Governance

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Citizens Assemblies/Juries are being used to resolve challenging issues – why can’t we?
99 citizens from all over Denmark have spent four months discussing possible solutions to address climate issues in a citizens' assembly. On 10 February 2022, the randomly selected participants presented concrete recommendations and four key messages to the Danish Parliament for ambitious action. Having held a successful "citizens assembly" on climate change the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has proposed the use of a "citizens' convention" to resolve assisted dying laws in France
6 April 2022 by Glenn Barnes

Governance

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Ireland continues to use Citizens Assemblies to achieve breakthroughs on tough policy issues
Invitations to 34,000 randomly selected people in Ireland have gone out, asking them to take part in Citizens' Assemblies on the mayoralty of Dublin, and on biodiversity. Ireland is also making preparations to hold a citizens' assembly on drug use early next year.
6 April 2022 by Glenn Barnes

Governance

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A Royal Commission into affordable and safe housing
Lack of housing to meet the broader community’s needs; houses vulnerable to flooding and bushfires; an ever-escalating cost spiral!   Australian governments’ housing policies (federal, state and local) badly fail the community.   As with other systemic failures, we need a Royal Commission to investigate and recommend how we should go about fixing this unacceptable situation.
5 April 2022 by Glenn Barnes

Governance

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A Royal Commission into Australian Defence Policy, Procurement and Preparedness
We regularly hear piecemeal announcements on Australian defence procurement and the planned location of facilities. These look to be more politically driven than as part of a coherent strategy.   Both sides of politics have badly let the community down on Defence. Our military structure, posture and equipment are more suited to the last century than today. Our procurement record is littered with poor choices based on political bias and defence department overreach. We have wasted enormous amounts of money on the procurement of ineffective equipment and cancelled programs.   A Royal Commission is required to sort out the mess!
5 April 2022 by Glenn Barnes

Inclusion

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Marvel's Eternals Wins Outstanding Film At The 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards
We've talked about the Marvel film 'Eternals' a few times already on IdeaSpies, and today we add another post about that movie thanks to their Outstanding Film win at the GLAAD.The GLAAD Media Awards are given by GLAAD (an American non-governmental media monitoring organisation) to recognise branches of the media for their representations of the LGBTQ community.Read more at: https://www.filmibeat.com/hollywood/news/2022/marvel-s-eternals-wins-outstanding-film-at-the-33rd-annual-glaad-media-awards-332486.html
4 April 2022 by Marcus Gordon