Articles tagged ‘Employment’.

Community wind power forums well attended
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Wednesday night’s Community Wind Forum in Castlemaine Town Hall marked the last of six held across Mount Alexander Shire in the past three weeks...
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Call for systemic welfare reform as budget fails unemployed
Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert says that unemployed Australians have been overlooked in the Federal budget. “The budget is good news for w...
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Making farming sexier
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The average age of Australian farmers is 57, and the ABC reports on an agricultural researcher who says young people would be more keen to work in rur...
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‘It will be the end’
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Is Fukushima’s Doomsday Machine About to Blow? By Mike Whitney April 19, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Mounting troubles...
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Just when you thought satire was dead …
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By Andrew McKenna The Coalition has called on the Government to distribute Queen Elizabeth’s official portrait in her Diamond Jubilee year. Damn...
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Food bowl to dust bowl?
Despondent Riverland citrus growers are bulldozing their crops because juice orange prices are so low the fruit isn’t worth picking. Independent Sen...
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How Australia Made Its Own Luck – And Could Now Throw It All Away
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By Peter Hartcher Book Launch – The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck – And Could Now Throw It All Away by Peter Hartcher Austra...
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The Occupy Castlemaine Free Shop
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By Ben Laycock Come to the Free Shop every week at The Wesley Hill Market for a truly unique shopping experience. At our shop absolutely everything is...
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Weekend read: the mining industry’s big lie
By Dr Richard Dennis, the Executive Director of The Australia Institute, a Canberra-based think tank. The New York Times recently asked its online re...
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New Hiut Jeans are getting a Welsh town back to work
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Warning: this is one of those feel-good stories–and a very good one at that. The town of Cardigan, in Wales, was the centre of jean-making for y...
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Showcasing local sustainable houses
The EconoSpace is the brainchild of Irish architect and central Victoria resident, Peter Cowman. The passive solar ‘EconoSpace’ is an abbreviation of the words ‘economical space’. It is a small eco-building which can be constructed without a building permit in the average backyard.
Mount Alexander Sustainability Group (MASG) and Council are proud to be jointly hosting a sustainable house tour in Castlemaine on Saturday 25 Februar...
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Super rort for wealthy
By Dr Richard Denniss Imagine if you had $30 billion sitting in front of you. And imagine that you had been told to use it to boost the retirement inc...
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What’s Inside the New “Austerity Measures”
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A Death Sentence for Greece By Mike Whitney ICH “We are facing destruction. Our country, our home, has become ripe for burning. The centre of Athens...
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Wanted
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Part time advertising representative for Castlemaine Independent. Someone with a bright personality, a ‘people person’. A crucial part of the posi...
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Valentines Day CI competition – an outbreak of lerve
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It’s Valentines Day on Tuesday and CI is offering a great new competition! It’s called: An outbreak of lerve. (All right, it’s a bit...
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Castlemaine Independent readership hits 2,000 a day
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That’s right. You’re in a large company. Over the past few weeks our readership has been rising rapidly, and the last couple of days we...
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Workshops about ‘changes’ to business waste collection
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From a Council press release: Mt Alexander Shire Council has provided a commercial waste collection service to approximately 350 commercial properties...
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Don’t pass the buck, Mr Baillieu
The Greens said yesterday that the Baillieu Government is using hollow excuses for inaction on pokies and if they are serious about pokies reform the...
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I have a gambling problem … it’s my government
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By Andrew McKenna In Australia we are suffering from a massive failure of public policy. The decision made today at the VCGR is a symptom of a deep il...
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Two!
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It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
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Council’s withdrawal of commercial waste collection – an already sealed decision?
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For the Council and beyond This is a letter of objection in regards to the “Council’s withdrawal of commercial waste collection, effective fro...
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Close to fisticuffs at pool meeting
The Mayor was busy addressing the concerns of the residents.
Photos and story by CI photographer Matt Wobbly The Mt Alexander Shire Souncil held their Aquatic Centre information session at the Town Hall yesterda...
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Reasoned debate on windfarms welcomed
Dear CI, I am an enthusiast of renewable energy. Regardless of all the ongoing debate about climate change, with the end in sight for fossil fuels, ou...
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At the VCGR – Maryborough Highlanders Vs the Castlemaine Community
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By Chris Hosking The Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation conducts hearings to grant licenses – or not grant them – to applicants seeking ...
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Holiday reading: Finding jobs is hard yakka for Somalis
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By Ralph Johnstone First published on the Multicultural Media Exchange MELBOURNE — Somali immigrants Abdulkadir Shire and Ali-nur Duale, like ma...
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Pokies addiction blamed for young mum’s death
Coroner blames pokies addiction for Katherine Natt's death (ABC News)
From ABC Adelaide A young mother-of-two killed herself because she could not cope with her poker machine addiction, the South Australian coroner has f...
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Council thumbs down to MHS pokies proposal
Last week Council voted to not support the application by the Maryborough Highland Society for new gaming premises approval at the old Goods Shed in K...
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National Go Home On Time Day
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Rally against pokies!
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  Read the complete archive of poker machine stories by clicking the problem gambler at left  ...
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Loan to Kiva
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CI has been loaning money to workers in poor countries through an organisation called Kiva. Verónica Natividad from Ecuador is our sixteenth loan. V...
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Juliet Schor, Plenitude and the new economy
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Juliet Schor is currently working on issues of environmental sustainability and their relation to Americans’ lifestyles and the economy, and the eme...
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Blade Electric Vehicles partnership to create 350 new high-tech jobs
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A new joint venture between Blade Electric Vehicles, DLG Battery Limited and IRES Asia Pacific Pty Ltd is bringing 100 new hi-tech jobs to Castlemain...
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Equal pay still on the agenda after all these years
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Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, said last week that Equal Pay Day was extremely important given that, in 2011, a significant pay...
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Is independent media important to you?
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Is independent media important to you? At Castlemaine Independent we offer an independent, free news service. It’s free to subscribe and we want...
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It’s a blight
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A protest sign in the Adelaide Hills where apple growers are rallying against apple imports they say could bring fire blight in to Australia. They cla...
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