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Rudd Govt continues to support Landcare facilitators - The Hon Tony Burke MP - Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
The Rudd Government is continuing its strong commitment to a national network of Landcare facilitators, with applications now open for further funding support. In June last year, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Tony Burke announced a national network of facilitators to support community Landcare, following extensive discussions with local Landcare groups and a number of MPs. Mr Burke said the Government recognised the critical role of Landcare facilitators and wanted to ensure ...
Source: Australian Government

The health benefits of flexible working hours
Topics such as asthma, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, depression. A recent review by researchers for the Cochrane Collaboration may highlight the potential health benefits associated with current trends towards more flexible working in the UK and Europe. The Cochrane Systematic Review included ten studies involving a total of 16,603 and examined a variety of forms of flexible working.
Source: Australian Government

Improving poor people?s access to financial services
PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE. The Australian aid program has been spending an average of $10 million a year since 2004 to improve poor people's access to financial services and this will increase to up to $20 million a year by 2012-13. Australia will assist formal and informal financial institutions to offer quality, affordable and fair financial services to the poor, including through microfinance and new technologies such as mobile phone banking.
Source: Australian Government

2010 Community Heritage Grants now open
The National Library of Australia is calling for applications for the 2010 Community Heritage Grants. Applications for grants for collection management training workshops for staff and volunteers from community organisations to improve their skills when working with heritage collections are also welcome. The 2010 Community Heritage Grants Program is funded by the Australian Government through the National Library of Australia the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts the ...
Source: Australian Government

DIAC Newsroom ? Media_releases ? Latest VIC-WA compliance operations locate 19
Immigration operations in two states today have resulted in the location of 19 illegal workers in the agriculture and construction industries. On the Victorian border, immigration compliance officers located 14 illegal workers in the Mildura area, just five weeks after detaining 10 others in the region. On February 2 and 3 in Mildura, immigration compliance officers, acting on information about illegal workers in the horticultural and hospitality industries, located 10 people of interest at ...
Source: Australian Government

Microsoft Word - Pacific Adventurer IAT report released - FINAL.doc
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10 March 2010 PACIFIC ADVENTURER INCIDENT ANALYSIS TEAM REPORT RELEASED AMSA has today released the report of the Incident Analysis Team (IAT) into the response to the oil spill from the Pacific Adventurer off the coast of Queensland in March 2009. The Incident Analysis Team was established by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) and Maritime Safety Queensland (MSQ) under the auspices of the National Plan to Combat Pollution of the Sea by Oil and Other Noxious ...
Source: Australian Government

Minister for Housing and Minister for the Status of Women | Boost for rural women's voice
Boost for rural women's voice. The NRWC provides a voice for over 250,000 women in rural and regional areas, as well as their families, communities and associated networks. The NRWC will make sure the voices of women in rural and regional Australia are heard.
Source: Australian Government

Minister for Families, Housing, Community ...
'Rock solid' Abbott tells families to wait until 2013 for paid parental leave. Mr Abbott today also made a 'rock solid commitment' on paid parental leave that will send a shiver up the spine of Australian families. Now Tony Abbott is threatening to wreck Australia's first national paid parental leave scheme.
Source: Australian Government

Department of Health &Ageing -Government on Track to Close the Gap on Infant Mortality
Research that helps map the progress of improving Indigenous child mortality and health and sets targets was launched today by an expert Indigenous health advisory body. The National Indigenous Health Equality Council (NIHEC) has completed two reports: the Child Mortality Targets: Recommendations and Analysis and National Target Setting Instrument. 'In turn, they will provide the basis for aggregate data and projections to targets which can be used by the States, Territories and the Australian ...
Source: Australian Government

Bringing space technology to Australian mining (Media Release)
Scientists involved in CSIRO's Minerals Down Under Flagship are transferring technologies developed for space exploration and mining on the Moon and Mars, into new applications for the Australian mining industry.
Source: Australian Government