Pasifika

Australian rugby has reached its lowest point. How did it get here?

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Monday, September 25, 2023
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This represents Australia’s worst result in a World Cup match and its biggest-ever losing margin to Wales.

Key Points: 
  • This represents Australia’s worst result in a World Cup match and its biggest-ever losing margin to Wales.
  • And it will almost certainly end Australia’s 2023 World Cup campaign at the group stage for the first time.

Sport Management 101: Investing in grassroots and junior development

    • The AFL understands this investment in the grassroots level is not only vital to producing the next batch of superstar players, but also key to ensuring the sport remains embedded within local communities.
    • Rugby Australia has not valued this necessity, with World Cup results illustrating the deleterious impact of falling behind competitors when it comes to grassroots investment.
    • We discovered the code’s professionalisation in the mid-1990s resulted in a drastic shift in how the organisation spent its money.
    • A clear implication from the analysis was a significant divestment from grassroots development in the past 20 years.
    • In 2001, 13.76% of Rugby Australia expenditure (A$7.06 million) related to community rugby.

Fighting a losing battle for talent

    • Read more:
      Are the Wallabies' struggles a sign of rugby union's decline in Australia?
    • This is particularly the case for Pasifika rugby players, for whom maximising professional incomes is tied to familial and cultural priorities.
    • The salary caps (the total value a team can spend on player salaries) of the codes are instructive.
    • Poor Wallaby performances will only drive up the cost of buying established talent.

Where to next for rugby union in Australia?

    • Rugby Australia is in an increasingly perilous market position, with declining on-field performance only adding to a vicious spiral of downward pressures.
    • It was announced in recent days that Rugby Australia has disengaged from private equity discussions on account of disappointing valuations.
    • In 1996, rugby union’s overall revenue ($21 million) was a quarter of the AFL’s ($85 million).
    • Rugby Australia’s semi-professional women’s rugby program is now firmly behind both other national rugby unions, as well as the many vibrant domestic women’s leagues such as the Women’s Big Bash League, AFLW and NRLW.

Inherited Podcast Centers Youth Stories on the Devastating Impact of Wildfires, Climate Resilience in Indigenous Communities, the Lasting Effects of Hurricane Maria, and More in Season 3

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Wednesday, July 19, 2023
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Oakland, CA, July 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Inherited , the critically acclaimed youth climate movement storytelling podcast, is back for Season 3.

Key Points: 
  • Oakland, CA, July 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Inherited , the critically acclaimed youth climate movement storytelling podcast, is back for Season 3.
  • Produced by YR Media and distributed by Critical Frequency , Inherited explores personal stories from young people all over the world who are grappling with the effects of climate change.
  • (Lagos, Nigeria)
    “Emma”: Emma Schulman, 19, explores the effects of climate-fueled wildfires in Colorado on already-susceptible domestic violence survivors.
  • Learn more about the podcast here and follow along on social media:

NZ's statistics on deaths and illness at work are sobering -- yet, health and safety training courses are under threat

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Monday, July 10, 2023
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An estimated 10,000 people – men, women and sometimes children – have died from occupational ill health or workplace fatalities since 2010.

Key Points: 
  • An estimated 10,000 people – men, women and sometimes children – have died from occupational ill health or workplace fatalities since 2010.
  • Yet the country’s only postgraduate course in work health and safety is under review as part of a wider cost-cutting exercise at universities.
  • Currently, universities are considering a NZ$128 million government bailout, but the future of this educational programme remains uncertain.

Cost to economy and society

    • The total cost to the economy of work-related ill health and deaths was NZ$6.725 billion between 2015, when the new act came into force, and 2022.
    • This does not include personal costs to whānau and societal costs from such harm.
    • International Labour Organisation (ILO) data from 2022 allow comparison between countries that use a risk-management framework.

Designing safer workplaces

    • This means we need to be able to design workplaces that are safe and protect the health of the workforce.
    • The role of the practitioner within organisations is also to embed health and safety within day-to-day operations and to get buy-in from workers for healthier and safer ways of working.
    • If New Zealand wants to improve its health and safety record, taking away education opportunities is not the way to do this.

Did 'wokeness' cancel Police Ten 7? New research suggests racial stereotyping was the real culprit

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Thursday, June 1, 2023
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The show’s former host Graham Bell, who described suspects variously as “creeps, halfwits, low-lifes, mongrels and lunatics”, claimed “wokeness killed Police Ten 7”.

Key Points: 
  • The show’s former host Graham Bell, who described suspects variously as “creeps, halfwits, low-lifes, mongrels and lunatics”, claimed “wokeness killed Police Ten 7”.
  • In 2021, Auckland Councillor Efeso Collins was threatened after tweeting that the show should be scrapped because it “feeds on racial stereotypes”.
  • The controversy inspired us to analyse Police Ten 7 more closely and measure its treatment of Māori, Pasifika and European suspects – as well as police officers.

Framing the ‘bad guys’

    • Among other data, we recorded the range of alleged offences and the airtime spent on each suspect.
    • We then compared our data with 2020 police data on types of crime and ethnicity (including ethnicity of officers).

Suspect airtime

    • We also looked at the airtime Police Ten 7 gave different suspects, compared to how often police dealt with them according to the data.
    • Of the total airtime spent on suspects, 62% was spent on Māori or Pasifika, compared to 53% of total police proceedings in 2020.
    • In comparison, the portion of airtime spent on European suspects (38%) more closely reflected how often police proceeded against Europeans in 2020 (36%).

Types of crime

    • Over the 12 episodes sampled, 100% of those suspected of violent crime (homicide, sexual assault, endangering persons, property damage) were Polynesian.
    • By contrast, police statistics show Māori and Pasifika made up 43% of traffic offence suspects, compared to only 6% on Police Ten 7.
    • Police data show Europeans made up 34% of suspects for violent crime.

Others and ourselves

    • Consequently, news and entertainment programmes help shape views of the criminal justice system and those involved in it.
    • After all, the media shape not only how we see others, but also how we see ourselves.
    • Any future New Zealand reality TV crime or police show would need to be mindful of these pitfalls and effects.

In Memoriam: Pacific Islanders in Communication Mourns the Passing of Beloved Executive Director, Leanne Ferrer

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Thursday, September 23, 2021
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In a recent interview, Leanne said, "It is most critical to keep supporting content creators in telling Pacific Islander stories.

Key Points: 
  • In a recent interview, Leanne said, "It is most critical to keep supporting content creators in telling Pacific Islander stories.
  • "As the leader of Pacific Islanders in Communication, Leanne Ka'iulani Ferrer was an outspoken advocate for the representation of Pacific Islanders in public media.
  • "AmDoc mourns the loss of Leanne Ferrer, executive director of PIC and fearless champion for Pasifika stories on screen.
  • For more information about Pacific Islanders in Communications and Pacific Heartbeat, visit http://www.piccom.org and follow us on social media: Twitter: @PICpacific | facebook.com/piccom | Instagram: @picpacific

Pasifika Transmissions Presents: Mariquita "Micki" Davis And The Åcho' Atupat

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Friday, May 28, 2021
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Mariquita "Micki" Davis is a CHamoru multimedia artist and educator living in Los Angeles.

Key Points: 
  • Mariquita "Micki" Davis is a CHamoru multimedia artist and educator living in Los Angeles.
  • Micki will share works and story inspired by her time spent with the cho' atupat, a CHamoru slingstone that temporarily resides at PIEAM.
  • "Once it all fully clicked, I got this huge feeling of intimidation, not unlike some of the other Pasifika Transmissions artists.
  • To view previous Transmissions, please visit the Pasifika Transmissions' Facebook page.