Category: Opinion

Village Voice brings you the latest news so you can stay up to date about the things that matter to locals. Our featured articles give you a snapshot of what you’ll find in our paper and showcase the most talked-about topics of the month.

General Articles

Government makes aged care change after industry outcry

The Australian Government has finally bowed to public pressure and made a much-needed change to the Support at Home Program.

Development

Bleijie dismisses concerns over Olympics

As the deputy premier dismisses Olympic concerns as being from NIMBYs, Newstead’s urban transformation continues and Mike O’Connor finds lessons in an abandoned waterfront road.

Education

Weighing up AI’s impacts at work and school

AI is a tool, a very powerful and useful tool. We need to teach and learn how to use it appropriately and ethically.

Education

Supporting children with screen time

Concerns arise when children’s screen time begins to replace activities that are essential for wellbeing and healthy development.

Arts and Culture

Art exhibition tackles AI questions

Beth Leach is part of a group exhibition, ‘Two Painters and a Potter’, at the Macleay Island Arts Complex, alongside the work of Therese King and Paula Bowie.

General Articles

Home care – the shift from human-centric aged care to algorithm-led

The barometer of how well an aged care system is working is found in the lived experience of those needing or receiving care – not how well the government thinks it’s working.

Opinion

“Juggernaut” to pave priceless inner-city parkland

We are facing the loss of an important cultural parkland, along with increased congestion around our major hospital. Just when high rise apartment living is doubling our population, we stand to lose the essential green infrastructure higher density requires.