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Addressing the mental wellbeing crisis in Australia’s legal profession: The need for structural and cultural change
Get PDFThe 2009 Courting the Blues report revealed significant mental wellbeing concerns within Australia’s legal profession. Addressing these concerns is vital for individual lawyers and the broader legal profession, with consequences for public trust, professional standards, and occupational health and safety. However, efforts to address the mental wellbeing crisis often prioritise resilience-building of individual legal professionals over structural and cultural change to the profession. This prioritisation is evident within the legal admissions process, resilience education programs, and counselling initiatives. This essay argues that addressing poor mental wellbeing among lawyers requires the legal profession to divert its focus from individual resilience-building initiatives towards resolving systemic structural and cultural issues. In doing so, it argues that positive structural and cultural settings benefit individual wellbeing, reduce stigmatisation of mental illness, facilitate better access to support, and promote long-term, sustainable change. While more expensive, time-intensive, and resource-intensive than resilience-building strategies, addressing the structural and cultural causes of poor mental wellbeing is a crucial investment for Australia’s legal profession.
Was Heifetz the greatest virtuoso? A meta-analysis of Heifetz as a performer
Get PDFContemporary classical performance is characterised by unprecedentedly high standards. International fame is achieved by only a select few, yet records of the twentieth-century violinist Jascha Heifetz remain synonymous with technical perfection among numerous critics and elite violinists. Over his career, Heifetz’s extraordinary technique saw him acclaimed as being ‘the greatest violin virtuoso since Paganini’. But what places Heifetz—in the eyes of many rival luminaries, international-level soloists, and high-calibre critics—on a pedestal above the rest? This essay offers a meta-analytical insight into Heifetz’s musical profile based on unmediated critiques, newspaper articles, and biographical accounts. While undeniably a proficient violinist, his technical superiority becomes less obvious in the context of modern mass audio communication and heightened violinistic competition. It is Heifetz’s career as a pioneer of audio recording—further characterised by his idiosyncratic stage demeanour and unusual technical prowess—that propelled his enduring legacy. The emergence and proliferation of recorded discs secured Heifetz’s indelible mark on the classical music industry, and it is through similarly novel innovations that an adept violinist today may expand the avenues for virtuosic artistry
Variable responses of alpine grassland plant species to drought in Kosciuszko National Park
Get PDFUnderstanding how plant species in alpine Australia will respond to climate change is vital for the future management of these ecosystems. Plant and leaf traits can provide key insights into how an individual is responding to environmental stresses such as reduced water availability. By assessing traits across species and functional groups, a picture can begin to develop about whole community responses to drought stress. This study recorded a variety of traits for six alpine plant species across three functional groups to understand how plant stress responses may influence shifts in community composition in the Australian Alps. The results of this study varied greatly between species and functional groups, highlighting the need for further longer-term studies to provide a more comprehensive understanding of species-specific responses
Bounded Neofunctionalism : Assessing European Integration in the Context of the European Court of Justice
Get PDFHow Can Building Memorial Museums Help Divided Societies Secure a Lasting Peace in the Aftermath of Genocide?
Get PDFDo dieback-affected Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. niphophila have fewer roots colonised by ectomycorrhizae than healthy trees? Ectomycorrhizae in dieback-affected Eucalyptus pauciflora spp. niphophila
No full textEucalyptus dieback is a severe phenomenon impacting the health of Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. niphophila (snow gum) in Kosciuszko National Park. Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) colonies within the feeder roots of species such as E. pauciflora subsp. niphophila can greatly improve tree health in light of dieback stress. We investigated if there was greater ECM presence in healthy E. pauciflora subsp. niphophila than in those suffering from severe dieback. Feeder root samples were compared between healthy E. pauciflora subsp. niphophila stands in Perisher Valley and dieback-affected E. pauciflora subsp. niphophila stands 500 m from Perisher Valley. Across the sites, 42.92% of healthy feeder roots from 13 trees were colonised by ECM, compared to 32.77% of dieback-affected feeder roots in 13 trees. However, this difference was not statistically significant. Interestingly, a post hoc observation noted dieback trees had fewer available feeder roots. Although this study was unable to demonstrate if fewer available feeder roots were a cause or effect of dieback, it was unsurprising that fewer roots sustain trees in poorer health condition, such as those affected by dieback. These novel findings stress the need for further research into the causes of widespread dieback in E. pauciflora subsp. niphophila, including a microbiome study to classify ECM samples as a function of fungal diversity and a more robust analysis of root counts to better understand the dieback phenomena
