Morning everyone. Anthony Albanese will put “practical policies” such as expanding paid work experience in healthcare professions at the heart of Labor’s offering when he makes his keynote speech to Labor’s national conference today.Plus: military personnel and emergency services are learning very old-school navigation techniques in case of cyber-attacks on satellite communications, we have a quiz on how well you understand the concerns of the Reserve Bank, and we look at the unexpected challenges of life drawing with a greyhound.AustraliaADF personnel are learning analog skills in case new technology fails. Photograph: Dino Fracchia/Alamy
Flare up | Australia’s emergency services and military personnel are being trained to read paper maps, navigate without GPS support and sail by the stars in case something knocks out the nation’s space capabilities.
‘Practical policies’ | Students in 10 fields including physiotherapy, speech pathology and clinical psychology will receive financial assistance to complete mandatory placements under a major expansion of the federal government’s paid work experience program. The announcement will come at Labor’s national conference today as part of the government’s plans to set out “practical policies”.
