Crows partner with local advertising and business service company - Adelaide Crows

Adelaide is reaping the benefits of combining with local advertising and business service company We Create Print Deliver.

Beyond the work the agency did for the Club – including printing the Club’s Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan, a Sir Doug Nicholls Round canvas print, a wall print for the Club and the game day banner in Round 12 – players like Ben Davis are now taking advantage of the leading business.

Marketing executive and Eastern Arrernte man Pat Caruso founded We Create Print Deliver following a highly regarded career in high-end advertising.

“Working alongside businesses like the Crows who are making these changes internally makes me feel like being Indigenous is something I should be proud of,” Caruso said.

“When I was growing up, a lot of people didn’t realise I was Indigenous, and they would say things that I really internalised and made me feel ashamed of my culture.

“Now, it is one of the strengths of my business that it opens the door for us to show our skill set, partner with other Indigenous and non-Indigenous business and allow us to grow to the point where we can support programs and create opportunities others within the community to work towards closing the gap.”

Davis visits the business regularly and works on one of the spare desks alongside Caruso.

“He is able to work on projects under my guidance and I teach him things I have learned about how to run a business, like managing clients, invoicing, and managing his workflow,” Caruso said.

“If I can assist him and others by teaching them how to manage and run a business in this space, they can then build a sustainable career and then go on to teach others.”

“If I can assist him and others by teaching them how to manage and run a business in this space, they can then build a sustainable career and then go on to teach others.”

Adelaide’s Second Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) includes a focus on continuing to support economic participation for local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses and community organisations through procurement opportunities.

We Create Print Deliver recently awarded NAIDOC SA 2021 Business of the Year Award.  

Adelaide Football Club Indigenous Programs Manager Jeremy Johncock said the Club would continue to use We Create Print Deliver and other Aboriginal businesses alike in its commitment to creating more Aboriginal procurement opportunities across its business.

“Research tells us Aboriginal businesses are more likely to employ Aboriginal people,” Johncock said.

“Procuring goods and services through these businesses is a way for organisations to reduce the employment gap of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, so although we may not have the capacity to employ directly in the current climate, we are contributing indirectly through procurement.

“It’s a win for everyone.

“Pat is a great ambassador in the community, and we have been really impressed with the work that he and We Create Print Deliver have done for the Club this year.”

The Adelaide Football Club is committed to being an active participant in Australia’s reconciliation journey.

The Club’s Second Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan can be found here: https://resources.afc.com.au/aflc-adel/document/2021/02/25/4fdc1f8c-3dcc-4a00-a9cb-79380b49f3d9/INTR0501-2021-2022-RAP-Report-FA-Web-.pdf

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Victoria reports 176 new local coronavirus cases and revises AstraZeneca dose interval - SBS News

Victoria has reported 176 new local cases of COVID-19, as authorities announce the wait time between AstraZeneca vaccine doses has been reduced from 12 to six weeks.

The new caseload represents the state's highest daily jump in cases this year.

Of the new infections reported in the 24 hours to midnight on Wednesday, only 83 were linked to previous cases.

State-run hubs administered 33,720 vaccine doses in the same reporting period.

Health Minister Martin Foley said on Thursday that combined with figures from GPs, pharmacies, and Commonwealth facilities, more than five million vaccine doses have now been given in Victoria.

He said that means the state is "more than halfway" to its 'one million vaccines in five weeks' target.

"Vaccines continue to be our way out of this pandemic and the way to gradual reducing of these restrictions," Mr Foley told reporters in Melbourne.

Deputy Chief Health Officer Ben Cowie also announced on Thursday that the dosage interval for AstraZeneca vaccine had been revised from down to six weeks in all of Victoria's state-run services in response to the Delta outbreak.

"That matches the dosage interval for the Pfizer vaccine, so it would be six weeks for AstraZeneca, and for Pfizer, going forward," he said.

"This change, and the additional supply of Pfizer vaccine, from the Commonwealth, when it arrives in Victoria, will help us to reach our vaccination targets faster, but more importantly they will really contribute to our response to community transmission downward pressure on cases and contribute to protecting our health system as we look after all Victorians."

Acting Chief Health Officer Professor Ben Cowie speaks to the media during a press conference in Melbourne, Friday, August 20, 2021.

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Professor Cowie said younger people continue to be impacted most by the state's outbreak.

"Three-quarters of our active cases are aged under 40 years."

"There are a few reasons for that, but one of them clearly is the higher levels of vaccination in older age groups, and that really emphasises the urgent need to get vaccination to every eligible Victorian we possibly can, as soon as those become available."

The Victorian government confirmed on Wednesday that almost all of the current coronavirus restrictions will remain in place until 70 per cent of the state's eligible residents have received at least one vaccine dose - estimated to be on or around 23 September.

A closed playground is seen in Flagstaff Gardens in Melbourne, Tuesday, August 17, 2021.

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But playgrounds will reopen from 11.59pm on Thursday for children under 12, plus the supervision of just one parent or guardian who must wear a mask at all times

In-home care, such as babysitters, will also be expanded to school-aged children, but only if both parents are authorised workers.

Meanwhile, Victoria's chief psychiatrist has urged parents to regularly talk to their children about how they are coping with the state's sixth lockdown.

Dr Neil Coventry said it was a particularly challenging period for children and teenagers, who have spent much of the past 18 months learning from home.

"The thing I would most like to stress is we need to talk to our kids about how they're coping. Please, please, please, reach out to your kids," he said.

"Don't be anxious and afraid to have conversations about how your kids are hoping, how are they feeling at the moment, what are their challenges and their confusions about what's going on." 

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NSW records 1,288 new local cases of COVID-19 as first vaccine dose rate hits 70 per cent - SBS News

The state's death toll since 16 June, when the Delta outbreak began, is now 107.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Thursday morning NSW had now seen 70 per cent of residents get their first vaccine dose.

NSW recorded 1,288 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.

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"It has been a difficult couple of months and the fact that people have heard the messages we have been giving and coming forward to get vaccinated and hitting that 70 per cent first dose is an outstanding achievement," she told reporters in Sydney.

She said as a result of this everyone who lives in a local government area of concern will be able to exercise for an unlimited amount of time from 5am on Friday.

The curfews there, however, will remain in place.

NSW Health said it administered 45,665 COVID-19 vaccines in the 24 hours to 8pm Wednesday.

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Meanwhile, the western NSW town of Dubbo remains the epicentre of the state's regional COVID-19 outbreak.

Deputy Premier John Barilaro said 18 of the 23 new cases in the Western LHD were in Dubbo, which is "the heart and centre" of the virus.

More than two-thirds of COVID-19 cases in the region are in the Indigenous community.

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There were also four more cases in Orange and one in Brewarrina. In the far west, there were five new cases - four in Wilcannia and one in Broken Hill.

There are also concerns about the Illawarra region, where numbers are rising with 22 new cases - 15 in the Wollongong local government area and seven in the Shellharbour LGA.

“I call out to those communities to get tested,” Mr Barilaro said.

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Queensland records one new local COVID-19 case involving another truck driver - SBS News

Queensland has recorded a new locally-acquired case of COVID-19 in a truck driver and placed an entire family in hotel quarantine, with some of them unwell after they were believed to have returned from Melbourne.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the truckie, who lives at Windaroo, was picked among 10,433 coronavirus tests in the 24 hours to 6.30am on Thursday.

The man, who is currently in NSW, was infectious in the community around Logan and the Gold Coast between 28 August and 1 September.

"We are contacting him to find where he has been in Queensland," Ms Palaszczuk told parliament on Friday.

"This is an addition to the truck driver reported yesterday."

Health Minister Yvette D'Ath said authorities have also placed an entire Gold Coast family of five into hotel quarantine after the children told their classmates they had been to Melbourne.

She said early indications are the family returned to the state undetected via an inland route without going into hotel quarantine.

Ms D'Ath said it's a difficult situation because some family members are unwell with symptoms, but they're not cooperating with health authorities and contact tracers.

"Some of the family members who are unwell, but we don't know if it's COVID we have to treat it as if it is," she told parliament.

"And so, the school is working with us on that and we really do hope the family do cooperate with us because it's in the best interest of everyone, including their own health, because we really want to make sure if they've gotten COVID that we are able to treat them."

Queensland has already been on alert after another truckie tested positive in NSW after being infectious while in the Sunshine State last week.

Authorities sent an alert on Thursday morning saying that driver had also visited a third service station at Bundamba, near Ipswich, also on 26 August.

He later tested positive when he returned to NSW and Queensland authorities are trying to track down anyone who may have come into contact with him.

The case comes as Queensland's border is still shut to the southern state for all but essential workers who have had at least one vaccine.

Ms Palaszczuk says domestic hotel quarantine will reopen for Queenslanders stranded instate from Saturday.

The program, which was paused due to capacity strain last week, will only be open for 50 families initially.

The premier told parliament on Thursday that she wanted to see more modelling on the impact of opening on 0- to 12-year-olds before she made any commitment to easing border restrictions.

"I want to know what is going to happen to the children of this state," she said.

"It is a fundamental question that is omitted from any modelling."

Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.

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Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, who said the Doherty Institute modelling indicated more children would get COVID-19 but wouldn't have serious symptoms, urged premiers not to delay opening up.

"My message to the premiers and the chief ministers is very clear: Do not delay the inevitable. You have to learn to live with COVID. COVID may come to your state within a week, it might be a month, it might be a little bit after that. But the reality is we can't eliminate the virus," he told Nine's Today program on Friday.

"There's only one pathway out ... that's to get people vaccinated."

Queensland's vaccination coverage is the second-lowest in the nation after Western Australia.

Just under 52 per cent of eligible Queenslanders have had one vaccine and 32.28 per cent are fully vaccinated.

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Victoria reports 176 new local coronavirus cases - its biggest daily jump this year - SBS News

Victoria has reported 176 new local cases of COVID-19 a day after Premier Daniel Andrews announced the state's plan out of lockdown.

It is the state's highest daily jump in cases this year.

Of the new infections reported in the 24 hours to midnight on Wednesday, only 83 were linked to previous cases.

State-run hubs administered 33,720 vaccine doses in the same reporting period.

Mr Andrews confirmed on Wednesday that almost all of Victoria's current coronavirus restrictions will remain in place until 70 per cent of the state's eligible residents have received at least one vaccine dose.

The state government expects Victoria to reach that target around 23 September and has conceded efforts to bring cases down to zero have failed.

But playgrounds will reopen from 11.59pm on Thursday for children under 12, plus the supervision of just one parent or guardian who must wear a mask at all times

In-home care, such as babysitters, will also be expanded to school-aged children, but only if both parents are authorised workers.

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Local government as a data-driven community platform - GCN.com

Local government as a data-driven community platform

• By Stephanie Kanowitz
• Sep 01, 2021

Data, technology and customer experience (CX) are among the trends shaping the future of local governments, a new report shows.

“The Future of Local Government” by KPMG International states that because the public interacts with local governments the most, those agencies are best poised to make a for constituents and businesses.

“It is anticipated that game-changing technology will be central to forging local government organizations that are digitally enabled, data-driven and effectively serving the remarkably diverse array of stakeholders they serve across their localities and communities,” the report states. “Technology, smart data use and emerging automation can transform local authorities organization-wide to fully integrated front, middle and back offices and transform core processes and workforces, enhancing self-service accessibility, response times, performance and operational efficiency.”

Using data to drive decision- and policymaking is becoming increasingly crucial. Historically, government data has been stored across an array of sources, databases, systems and departments; one in four local officials surveyed by Forrester Consulting said public datasets housed in multiple databases and lines of business systems are a significant obstacle to executing new customer-focused strategies.

“Bringing disparate data sources together to tap into the immense power of analytics and data-based business insights will play a critical role in reshaping local government for a new era,” the report states.

More important than just unifying data, however, is protecting it. Local officials working toward a digital customer-centric service model must establish a trusted identity management ecosystem. “Smart data integration and secure management of trusted digital identities” is key to “enabling governments to serve their communities and stakeholders,” the report adds.

Use of modern technologies is another trend, and it relates back to data. Seventy-six percent of survey respondents said their organization has a good or excellent data and analytics strategy, while 65% said their agency is good or excellent with data governance, but only 38% said their organization is good or excellent at data collection, enrichment and transfer.

Data factors into another trend: CX in general and personalized services in particular. Forrester’s survey found that 51% of respondents believe their CX meets expectations, while 36% believe they occasionally or consistently exceed them.

Lafayette, La., is one example of a city providing personalized CX related to services. As part of its Smart City program, it has launched a 311 portal to encourage and respond to public requests, a traffic-monitoring system to alleviate congested roadways and a blockchain application to manage maintenance and safety of the city’s vehicles, according to the report.

Another example is the use of a database by residents of localities in India’s Tamil Nadu state to access government services rather than going to an office in person. Blockchain secures the exchange of information.

Respondents said that the three main obstacles to executing a CX strategy are data privacy and security (36%), the lack of qualified workers (33%) and a lack of real-time understanding of demand across channels and programs (31%). Still, almost half -- 48% -- said they plan to somewhat or significantly increase their investment in digitally enabled technology architecture, and 54% will invest in insight-driven strategies and actions, according to the report.

“Smart data integration and secure management of trusted digital identities -- combined with newly integrated teams and processes -- will play a significant role in enabling governments to serve their communities and stakeholders,” the report states.

For the report, KPMG commissioned Forrester to conduct research and interviewed government leaders in global economies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Saudi Arabia and others.

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Stephanie Kanowitz is a freelance writer based in northern Virginia.

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