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We cannot assume ‘doing good’ is enough

September 27, 2018

As the Royal Commission into Banking heads into another month and we hear and read more stories of the behaviour that seemed to dominate the industry, we have to wonder where the next time bomb is?

Having already had one’s faith questioned after the Royal Commission int...

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Knowing what customers want and need is so important

September 9, 2018

Knowing what customers want and need is so important, yet everywhere you look there is evidence that this isn’t being heeded. Take the recent political events for example; irrespective of what side of politics you stand, almost every voter was appalled or at least disa...

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I Want to Give Back

May 1, 2017

Ex bankers, high profile politicians and the business elite are eyeing off Australia’s social care sector as a soft landing place for their last pre-retirement job.

I’ve had a chat to a few new entrants and they all say one thing “I want to give back”. I don’t buy it. “...

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Volunteers are the New Black

April 10, 2017

The drivers of reform across Australia’s health and social care sector are pushing a sector to change not only how it does things, but also how it thinks about things.

The “professionalisation” of Australia’s care saw the growing demarcation of work and power between cl...

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Sandwich Generation new Social Care Customer

March 23, 2017

You’ve done the sports drop off and now have less than 2 hours to maneuver through Sydney’s Saturday morning traffic to pick up your 80 year old mum who needs to go grocery shopping. Of course she said she didn’t need a service when the hospital social worker was plann...

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WHAT WE LEARNED IN 2016

December 16, 2016

We are lucky to have a “balcony view” of the sector. We can see how organisations are behaving. How government shifts in policy and funding are impacting and how customers are choosing. We have had a bit of a stop and think about what we have seen this year and have co...

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What can a social work student offer to teams?

November 29, 2016

Leading up to a placement there is a focus drawn towards the learning opportunities each organisation or agency can provide to a student. Which allows students to formulate their own individual learning goals ensuring that the most is made of each placement. However, u...

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Active Listening

November 11, 2016

How many of us feel that when we have a conversation, we never really hear what the other person is saying? Or feel that we ourselves are not being heard? So many of us fall into the pattern of talking at each other, waiting for the other person to finish talking so we...

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The Impact of Depression on the Client Carer Relationship

October 17, 2016

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Kate Holland- Selling

Depression is so often a term thrown around, it has somehow crept its way into our everyday vernacular yet it still remains so stigmatised in our society. We so flippantly throw around the term but yet do we ever stop to think about what it actually means for a number...

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Valuing Differences

October 12, 2016

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Katie Cheers

Throughout the years my understanding of disability has changed significantly and while the term “disability” encompasses so many different and diverse circumstances for people, it is usually encompassed by similar attitudes and resistance held by the wider community a...

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We cannot assume ‘doing good’ is enough

September 27, 2018

Knowing what customers want and need is so important

September 9, 2018

I Want to Give Back

May 1, 2017

Volunteers are the New Black

April 10, 2017

Sandwich Generation new Social Care Customer

March 23, 2017

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