Neighbourhood Watch

Kelly Enright talked to Nicole Wedding from Radio Adelaide about the latest in Australian News: 

An Australian Academy of Science report has found the climate science workforce needs to grow by 77 employees over the next four years, as Australia has a critical shortage of climate scientists, leaving it at serious risk of not delivering essential climate and weather services to groups like farmers, coastal communities and international organisations.

A Landmark Survey by the Human Rights Commission has found that more than half of all Australian university students were sexually harassed on at least one occasion last year. And the report found women experienced harassment and assaults at disproportionately higher rates than men.

The latest NAPLAN results show students' performance has only improved marginally since tests that were introduced a decade ago. Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham said, "The writing results are really a worry and I'll be talking to state and territory ministers about how we can turn that around."