Even yet more amaziing facts about the University of Newcastle!

DO YOU KNOW THAT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE

Academics from health disciplines

have to comply with professional Codes of Ethics.

 At the University of Newcastle some of these academics 

(medicine, social work, psychology, speech pathology) 

"forget" that "do no harm" 

also applies to the way they treat students and colleagues.

POWER AND PROMOTION RATHER THAN CODE OF ETHICS

UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE

NOT MORE AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE???????

DO YOU KNOW THAT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE

An academic who complained of being bullied
was banned from entering her discipline's building on campus
for over three years. 

The uni surveyed the staff
(most of them had had no contact with the academic anyway)
to find out if they would be comfortable
 if this academic entered the building.

IS THIS NORMAL?

UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE

YET MORE AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE

DO YOU KNOW THAT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE

 If academics plagiarize and publish student's work as their own,
they are counselled about their misconduct and then promoted.

UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE

MORE AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE

DO YOU KNOW THAT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE

 An academic complained of bullying and
was removed from all academic duties
but remained on a Senior Lecturer's salary for over three and a half years!

UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE

DO YOU KNOW THAT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE

 you can be refused access to your office

 and your research data 

for two and a half months?

NO REASON GIVEN

 NO ACTION TAKEN

UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE!

Be alert and be very alarmed!

Fairfax Press reports that

"A law to help employees achieve a better work-life balance could pass Parliament with the Coalition's support – but only if new powers to tackle bullying are removed....

Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten described the new stance as a backflip by a party ''choosing to play politics rather than to protect vulnerable workers''."

In another report, Fairfax states that 

"Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten accused the opposition of backflipping on its conditional support for the bullying measures and said it showed the Coalition had been shedding ''crocodile tears'' over the plight of vulnerable workers."

"Spreading rumours is bullying: new Safe Work Australia code" (Herald Sun)

Safe Work Australia has expanded the concept of "workplace bullying" to include gossip and malicious rumours spread by bullies and co-workers.

Safe Work Australia also states that
"There may not be obvious signs of bullying at the workplace but this does not mean it is not occurring,'' it states.

The spreading of gossip and rumours may be difficult to prove but can be clearly observed by the behaviour by previous colleagues/fellow students. e.g. being shunned by colleagues, being unable to obtain employment, being ostracised by academics from other universities.

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 In our survey of 195 staff and students at the University of Newcastle, 33% of respondents reported that they were the target of gossip and rumours.

This means that 64 people currently or previously involved with the University of Newcastle had been subjected to this type of bullying.