Malmsbury beekeeping program giving young men in youth justice a second chance - ABC News
Claire Moore's bees are usually busy collecting honey at her farm in central Victoria, but for the past 10 weeks more than 20,000 of them have been at the Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre. Key points: A new beekeeping program is hoping to aid the rehabilitation of men in the youth justice systemThe five-week program teaches students the fundamentals of commercial beekeepingThe program aims to help youths gain full-time employment once they are on parole
‘It could feed the world’: amaranth, a health trend 8,000 years old that survived colonization
Just over 10 years ago, a small group of Indigenous Guatemalan farmers visited Beata Tsosie-Peña’s stucco home in northern New Mexico. In the arid heat, the visitors, mostly Maya Achì women from the forested Guatemalan town of Rabinal, showed Tsosie-Peña how to plant the offering they had brought with them: amaranth seeds. Back then, Tsosie-Peña had just recently come interested in environmental justice amid frustration at the ecological challenges facing her native Santa Clara Pueblo – an Indigenous North American community just outside the New Mexico town of Española, which is downwind from the nuclear facilities that built the atomic bomb. Tsosie-Peña had begun studying permaculture and other Indigenous agricultural techniques. Today, she coordinates the environmental health and justice program at Tewa Women United, where she maintains a hillside public garden that’s home to the descendants of those first amaranth seeds she was given more than a decade ago. A ‘superweed’
Documentary Honeyland follows bees and two female keepers practising a dying art in North Macedonian mountains
Posted about 6 hours agoTue 3 Mar 2020, 8:01pm This poignant and beautifully observed feature-length debut from Ljubo Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska is a timely non-fiction fable set deep in the mountains of North Macedonia. There, in a stone and mud hut with no running water or electricity, resides Hatidze Muratova — the last female wild beekeeper in Europe, remarkably sprightly in her middle age (and still in possession of a shy, girlish smile that showcases a jutting front tooth) — and her elderly mother, Nazife. Sharing an isolated existence both bucolic and exceptionally harsh, they are like women out of time. The arrival of an itinerant family via a trundling caravan brings excitement and, shortly thereafter, conflict to Hatidze's hitherto quiet life, however. Their presence relieves her loneliness but ultimately disrupts the environmental equilibrium that is essential to the well-being of her bees and their honey — her livelihood.
Wave of delayed grief likely as pandemic ebbs, says expert
As pandemic restrictions have eased in the past few months, many of those who have lost a loved one to COVID-19 are experiencing the pain all over again, University of Alberta researcher Donna Wilson believes. “We are seeing delayed grieving a great deal more because of COVID,” said Wilson, a professor with the U of A's Faculty of Nursing who studies aging, death and grief. With the pandemic’s many deaths reduced to lists of anonymous statistics and people unable to visit their loved ones’ deathbeds or hold funerals, Wilson said, grief will be freshly triggered now that people return to more normal lives and start to grapple with their experiences. “For the last 18 months we haven’t had the normal grieving rituals which help us manage our grief. Grief is still there and at some point it has to come out. Another major concern is that anyone who had an important loved one die of COVID experienced a sudden loss, and those unexpected deaths are often the hardest.”
VET FEE-HELP unfair debt wiped under redress scheme after vocational college collapses
Updated about an hour agoSun 15 Dec 2019, 11:23pm Bianca Hackett always wanted to study child care. But just months after signing up for a diploma, her training college collapsed. Key points:
‘Our humour gets very dark, very fast’: The Last Leg presenters on busting disability taboos
“Our catchphrase was, ‘What are they going to do, sack us?’” says Adam Hills. “We were only meant to be on air for 10 days, so we were happy to push boundaries. Little did we suspect we’d still be here nine years later.” The Last Leg started life as a Paralympics spin-off to highlight Channel 4’s coverage of the 2012 London games.
Three new members of the Order of Australia share their advice for finding purpose in a career
When does a career become a calling? And how do you find the right path that will lead to purpose in your profession? Well, some of the nation's highest achievers — and new members of the Order of Australia — have already worked it out and they want to share their secrets. The Queen's Birthday Honours list has recognised 1,190 Australians this year, including a renowned geophysicist, a domestic violence activist and a wildlife conservationist. 'I've never applied for a job': Emeritus Professor Kurt Lambeck AC
The Lost Mariner: A Beautiful Animated Short Film About Memory, Inspired by Oliver Sacks
By Maria Popova “My work, my life, is all with the sick — but the sick and their sickness drives me to thoughts which, perhaps, I might otherwise not have,” Oliver Sacks (July 9, 1933–August 10, 2015) wrote in his 1985 classic The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (public library) — perhaps the most influential treatise on the perplexities of memory, which solidified Dr. Sacks as the Dante of medicine and the clinical case study as his high poetic form. “Constantly my patients drive me to question, and constantly my questions drive me to patients,” he wrote. One of those patients was Jimmie G. — a “charming, intelligent, memoryless” man admitted into New York City’s Home for the Aged with only an unfeeling transfer note stating, “Helpless, demented, confused and disoriented.”
Indigenous workforce in beef industry nearly halves over short period
Poor support for training pathways and a need for family-friendly jobs in the beef industry have been blamed for a decline in Indigenous representation in the workforce. Key points: A recent report showed just 2.8 per cent of beef industry workers are IndigenousBetter training and support are identified as critical to building careersAn elder says big property owners should foster their local communities
Coca-Cola tweaks brand with magical new logo - and it's genius
It isn't every day that we see a company as big as Coca-Cola tweak its brand, but the soft drink giant has just revealed its magical new logo. Featuring a fresh wrap-around logo called the 'Hug' and a new tagline, this design is genius. Coca-Cola has been running the fizzy drink game for decades now, and its logo has become an icon of modern culture. But the famous logo that we all know and love has just had an ingenious makeover – and we love it. If you are hoping to design your own clever logo, make sure you check out our 15 golden rules on logo design. The new logo features the traditional Coca-Cola logo but is slightly wrapped around what we can only presume is an invisible Coke bottle.
Entrepreneurs push for schools to provide better job-skills preparation
Posted about 5 hours agoMon 8 Jul 2019, 10:22pm Investors are calling on educators to include entrepreneurial skills in all schooling to prepare children for the future 'gig-based' economy. Key points: Steve Baxter says a cultural change is needed to accept entrepreneurshipMoves are underway to incorporate entrepreneurial skills in the school curriculumThe search is on for a successful model for entrepreneurial education Proponents of entrepreneurialism say it teaches soft skills such as collaboration and public speaking and should be a mandatory component of the secondary school curriculum.
China’s noisy ‘dancing grannies’ silenced by device that disables speakers
Across China’s public parks and squares, in the early hours of the morning or late in the afternoon, the grannies gather. The gangs, made up mostly of middle-aged and older women who went through the Cultural Revolution, take to a corner of a local park or sporting ground and dance in unison to Chinese music. Loud music. The tradition has led to alarming standoffs, with the blaring music frequently blamed for disturbing the peace in often high-density residential areas. But many are too scared to confront the women.
George Town program tackling youth unemployment in Tasmania's north
When 26-year-old Sean Wendes left school, he struggled to find work in George Town, where he grew up, and ended up spending years feeling lost and alone. Key points: George Town has a youth unemployment rate of 28.8 per centSome young people change their address on job applications to increase their employment prospectsA new group has formed to improve employment and other opportunities in the town "I'd spent most of my life at school and I really wasn't sure what I was supposed to do next," he said. "[At school] we really only had a few conversations about entering the workforce and I felt uncomfortable and I didn't feel like I had the skills I needed. "It's really, really tough, it's very easy to get despondent and give up — I wanted to give up many times."
