Uniken

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University of New South Wales. Public Affairs Unit
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Kensington, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales, [1975]-2015
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1981, no. 16 (2 Oct., 1981)
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UNIKEN  

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES  

Safety on campus  

page  

Industry links urged  

page  

No. 16 of 1981  

October  

$1.9M in ARGC grants  

Figures just released by the Australian Research Grants Committee (ARGC) of the  

Department of Science and Technology show that UNSW staff will receive total of  

$1,945,191 for 141 research projects in 1982. Of these projects, 43 are new.  

Last year, the ARGC allocated $1,696,304 for 154 projects.  

Nationally, total of $17.98 million  

has been given by the ARGC for 1,347 pro-  

jects. This compares with $l6 million for  

1,452 projects in 1981.  

The total value of ARGC grants to  

UNSW for 1982 is 14.7 per cent higher  

than for 1981 while new grants have in-  

creased in total value by 21.3 per cent.  

The value of continuing grants has increas-  

ed by 12 per cent.  

complete list of grants will be  

published in the next issue of UNIKEN.  

Details of the research categories  

receiving grants in UNSW are as follows:  

Commonwealth visitors to NIDA  

Three NIDA plays  

NIDA is presenting three plays in  

October. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's  

Nest, directed by Terence Clarke, will be at  

the NIDA theatre from 21—31 October.  

Admission is $5 adults, $3 for students and  

pensioners. Two Shakespearian plays, both  

free, will be staged at the Jane St Theatre  

Pericles, directed by Mike Morris, from  

20—22 October, and AH's Well That Ends  

Well, directed by Rex Cramphorn, from  

27—29 October. For further information,  

telephone Michael Cloyd on 663 3815.  

Changing job patterns  

Social welfare researchers at UNSW  

have warned that in the midst of society  

of expensive apartments and executive  

perks, Australia is creating class 'of  

people cut off from the benefits of life  

most of us expect to enjoy.  

These, they say, are the people who  

either have no jobs or, if they do, have  

no hold on the job, no security of employ-  

ment and no prospect of advancement.  

We may not yet be approaching the  

'two nations' of Disraeli's England where  

rich and poor inhabited different worlds.  

But according to Adam Jamrozik and  

Marilyn Hoey, of the Social Welfare  

Research Centre, during the 1970 it  

became harder for low income earners to  

make 'social wage wage sufficient to  

meet the cost of goods and services which  

are essential for an acceptable minimum  

functioning in contemporary society'.  

In their paper Workforce in Transition  

Implications for Welfare, they say wage  

earners at the lower end of the scale have  

suffered doubly, losing purchasing power  

through the decrease of real wages, and job  

security because of unemployment and the  

trend to part-time and casual employment.  

Using the Consumer Price Index as  

yardstick, the researchers show that  

someone on the minimum male wage, let  

alone one-income family on the poverty  

line, cannot afford to pay for essentials like  

food, clothing and housing.  

And what of the changes in the  

employment pattern that have contributed  

to unemployment and lack of job security?  

During the 19705, part-time work  

increased by almost 80 per cent (to make  

up 16 per cent of jobs in 1980), with half  

the new jobs created being part-time ones.  

The change meant lower wages and less job  

security for the workers and cheaper,  

more flexible workforce for employ-  

ers, they say.  

At time when the teenage unem-  

ployment rate was 18 per cent (August  

1980), the researchers point out that some  

100,000 in that age group still at school  

were working in part-time or casual jobs.  

This contradiction they suggest is the  

result of changes in the pattern of em-  

ployment and drop in full-time jobs for  

young people.  

Simultaneously, more women, espe-  

cially in the 35—44 age group, were enter-  

ing the workforce. For many women job  

outside the home has become an economic  

necessity, but Mr Jamrozik and Ms Hoey  

say it may be, too, that employers prefer  

women for some jobs as cheaper, more  

compliant labour.  

While more women took jobs, more  

men, particularly those over the age of 55,  

left the workforce early. There was an  

increase in invalid pensions and sickness  

benefits paid to men in this age group over  

the decade, which the researchers say may  

mean 'a shift of responsibility for income  

maintenance on to the social welfare  

sector'.  

The issue of whether the State should  

increase expenditure on income mainte-  

nance, and even supplement low wages,  

they say, should be looked at in the  

context of society that taxes wages  

income, not wealth, and where the cost of  

capital to the community has not been  

properly analyzed.  

'ln modern industrial society, there  

may not be any free lunches', they say,  

'but neither can there be "free" healthy,  

adequately fed, housed and trained work-  

force'.  

NIDA teacher Keith Bain puts third year class through its paces, watched by group of visiting  

Commonwealth Arts Organization representatives, some of whom are also delegates to the Common-  

wealth Heads of Government Meeting in Melbourne. They are (left to right): Mr Mustapha Kamal Syed  

(General Manager of Bangladesh Television), his father Mr Syed Zillur Rahman (Director-General of  

Bangladesh's Shilpakala Academy, an arts organization), Mr Henry Tayali (an artist and Chairman of  

Zambia's National Art Foundation) and Mr Frank Pilgrim (Cultural Officer for the Caribbean Com-  

munity Secretariat in Guyana). Apart from Mr Syed, the men are in Australia to attend meeting of  

the Commonwealth Arts Organization in Brisbane which is planning an arts festival in that city to  

coincide with next year's Commonwealth Games.  

Marilyn Hoey and Adam Jamrozik  

Pictures this page: Public Affairs Unit  

No.  

Value  

Humanities Economics  

16  

156,450  

Social Sciences  

 

76,059  

Physical Sciences  

16  

237,631  

Chemical Sciences  

23  

336,794  

Biological Sciences  

17  

260,348  

(plant animal biology)  

Biological Sciences  

21  

247,370  

(molecular biology  

cell metabolism)  

Earth Sciences  

13  

145.575  

Engineering Applied  

Sciences  

30  

484,964  

Total  

141  

1,945,191  

The breakdown  

of ARGC grants  

between all universities is as follows:  

University  

No.  

Value  

New South Wales  

Sydney  

152  

2,542,718  

New South Wales  

141  

1,945,191  

Macquarie  

71  

755,851  

Newcastle  

44  

600,294  

New England  

33  

391,016  

Wollongong  

20  

193,652  

Victoria  

Melbourne  

125  

1,605,051  

Monash  

108  

1,591,707  

La Trobe  

76  

817,367  

Deakin  

14  

138,857  

Queensland  

Queensland  

99  

1,185,914  

James Cook  

28  

248,443  

Griffith  

23  

347,113  

South Australia  

Adelaide  

107  

1,550,198  

Flinders  

62  

905,021  

Western Australia  

Western Australia  

74  

1.200,583  

Murdoch  

16  

160,842  

Tasmania  

Tasmania  

35  

348,159  

ACT  

ANU  

52  

787,885  

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