Articles tagged ‘Employment’.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Read the complete archive of poker machine stories by clicking the problem gambler at left ...
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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 is currently working on issues of environmental sustainability and their relation to Americans’ lifestyles and the economy, and the eme...
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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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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? At Castlemaine Independent we offer an independent, free news service. It’s free to subscribe and we want...
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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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The Victorian Government has allocated $750,000 for a two-year grants program as part of the Community Leadership and Capacity Building Program. The p...
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Men are more than 40 per cent more likely to lose their jobs ‘involuntarily’ than women, thanks to the types of jobs they choose and the industrie...
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With a new financial year ahead, businesses and not-for-profit organisations in central Victoria are invited to participate in a heavily subsidised pr...
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By Chris Hosking Last week the Age published a story about Maryborough. The headline was ‘Come in Number 79, Your Time is Up’. There are 79 munici...
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Natalia, Some things you might consider about Andrew Carnegie: He spent his early years in a one roomed cottage. His first jobs were all menial. He ro...
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Greens MP and employment and workplace relations spokesperson Adam Bandt will introduce a new bill into Federal Parliament to support firefighters w...
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By Phil Bachmann* Tracy is almost 40 years old and has always been unemployed. The remarkable thing about that is that there is almost nothing wrong...
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Small Business Victoria’s Mobile Business Centre will be in Castlemaine on Thursday 30 June from 10am–4pm. The centre will be set up next to the M...
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By Andrew McKenna “It’s not a free pass. It’s not free money. It’s made to seem like a nice easy free ride.” If you’re unemployed in Castl...
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