Month: November 2016
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Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year
After much discussion, debate, and research, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2016 is post-truth – an adjective defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’. Why was this chosen? The concept of post-truth has been in…
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Health Ageing and Aged Care: An Introduction
Healthy Ageing and Aged Care takes an inter-disciplinary approach to supporting older people within the community and in care. It represents current Australian and New Zealand policies and practices and takes a holistic view of the older person, and emphasises the positive aspects of the ageing process, maintaining that people age in healthy ways and…
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Australian Foreign Policy and the New International Disorder
Australia’s foreign policy elites could be forgiven for thinking that they live in especially challenging times. The current international order appears to throw up a number of problems that not only defy easy resolution but also threaten to overturn many of the ideas and principles that have underpinned policy-making in Australia for many decades. To…
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Oxford Word of the Month: November – Melbourne Cup field
noun: 1. a very large and open field of applicants for a job, contract, etc. 2. a pool of highly-qualified competitors. THE STORY BEHIND THE WORD OF THE MONTH The Melbourne Cup is Australia’s most famous horse race, run annually on the first Tuesday in November at the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne. The large amount…