Aussies stressed for time
AUSTRALIANS are among the world’s worst for managing our time and health and families are suffering as a result.
Time management is one of the key issues plaguing our top academic minds and they say more needs to be done to help us regain control over our time.
Australia is ranked eight on the list of OECD countries for long work hours and those undertaking caring duties for children or elderly parents are being slammed both ways with paid and non-paid work taking up most of their day.
A total of 13.2 per cent of Australian employees work 50 or more hours a week in paid employment and 43 per cent are working 40 or more hours in paid employment a week according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Employed women with children are working 74 hours a week in paid and unpaid work or caring duties, compared to employed men with children who are working 72.5 hours.
Without a better way forward to manage our time the nation is at risk of major burnout, according to experts.
Lyndall Strazdins, director of population health at the Australian National University, said Australian parents in particular were spending more time on work and care than many other countries.
“It is very hard and more people are seeking to combine major time demands and their health is suffering as a result,” Dr Strazdins said.
She said the time was now for looking at ways we can address time stress from a wholeof-government and societal approach. TWO of the Northern Territory seafood industry’s most influential women have received national recognition for their hand in building one of the NT’s treasures.
The Humpty Doo Barramundi Farm’s Julii Tyson and Carmel’s Seafood Market’s Carmel Ball (formerly the Darwin Seafood Market) have been inducted on to the Women’s Industry Network Seafood Community Honour Roll as part of the WINSC’s 20-year anniversary.
Ms Tyson has had more than 23-years’ experience in the industry after she and her husband Bob Richards purchased their farm in 1994.
“When I joined WINSC, it was very much focused on wild fishers,” she said.
“Over the years WINSC members have had the opportunity to support each other and find synergies with different aspects of the industry.”
These days, the farm delivers up to 60 tonnes of saltwater barramundi across Australia each week.