Vic State Election

[Pies4shaw]

[David]

^ Fair points! I guess it's really the legislative council where they've struggled most, and that's more a result of group ticket arrangements than any significant collapse in their actual legislative council vote. Hard for them to take too much joy from this election, still, as even a small increase in votes may suggest a substantial loss of momentum.

[stui magpie]

It sounds so anachronistic in 2018 to ask questions like: I hope they have the ability to do their job as though men automatically have the ability to do their jobs...

This is absolutely correct.
However, when you implement quotas such questions are always going to be asked.
Say a primary school is hiring 4 teachers and they get 200 female and 6 male applicants. If the principal hires 2 women and 2 men, people are naturally going to ask if those men were really amongst the best applicants.

I agree with Tannin's response, however just as an aside, RMIT recently interviewed for a number of Vice Chancellor Research Fellows. The idea is they get a 4 year fixed term contract to undertake research and are assigned to a school or college that supports their specialty with the aim, after the contract, they move into teaching with research being a side gig. They advertised those roles as for females only with the intent of boosting female numbers in STEM areas.

The also advertised for post doctoral research fellows which were open to anyone but with a stated agenda that if 2 candidates were rated equal, the female would get the gig over the male.

I sat in on some of the interviews, fair and thorough process that I understood very little of.

[HAL]

Tell me a story. I can see where you are coming from.

[K]

...
I agree with Tannin's response, however just as an aside, RMIT recently interviewed for a number of Vice Chancellor Research Fellows. The idea is they get a 4 year fixed term contract to undertake research and are assigned to a school or college that supports their specialty with the aim, after the contract, they move into teaching with research being a side gig. They advertised those roles as for females only with the intent of boosting female numbers in STEM areas.

The also advertised for post doctoral research fellows which were open to anyone but with a stated agenda that if 2 candidates were rated equal, the female would get the gig over the male.
...

Move into teaching at that assigned school or college? At high-school level, I assume.

[stui magpie]

Sorry, University speak.

The University is the whole shebang.

The teaching areas are organisationally (not geographically) divided into colleges which are groupings of like subjects. Colleges are (in this example):

Science, engineering, health
Business
Design and social context

Within the colleges, again organisationally, it's divided into schools.

This is about organisational management, not physical schools

You have a deputy pro vice chancellor heading up a college and a dean for a school.

I'm still getting my head around it

[K]

Ah, yes; that makes sense.

[Pies4shaw]

[watt price tully]

We should know the final results of the Victorian Lower house by Saturday night or Sunday.

[thesoretoothsayer]

A guide to seats still in play:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-27/ ... d/10557358

In Bayswater we've already started singing The Internationale and lining dissidents up against the wall.

[Culprit]

Michael Kroger has email all State Liberal Members that they have sold 104 Exhibition Street. This is after saying they shouldn't. Sold the farm.

[Pies4shaw]

[Culprit]

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/vict ... 50j96.html


Liberals 'terminally on the nose' as Guy warns of federal wipeout

[Pies4shaw]

Kroger has quit.

[watt price tully]

Kroger has quit.

Bummer