Articles tagged ‘Employment’.
By Andrew McKenna A year and a bit ago a V/Line train left Southern Cross Station and travelled 800 metres down the wrong track towards an oncoming pa...
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If you want a quick redistribution of wealth from the poor to rich, vote Liberal. They always used to come out late on election nights because they ...
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At 7 pm tomorrow, Wednesday 27 February at their club rooms at Camp Reserve in Castlemaine, the Castlemaine Football and Netball Club will sign a memo...
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Dear CI The Maryborough Highland Society “purchased” 65 poker machine entitlements in an early 2010 auction arranged by the Brumby governm...
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Tonight MASG will hold a Community Meeting in the Baringhup Hall to explain the MACWind project and to field questions regarding the possible developm...
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By Andrew McKenna The rail service from Castlemaine to Melbourne is getting worse. Slower. This is not news, everyone who commutes knows this. Last ye...
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Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11 December 2012 There’...
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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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CI is hot! and we reopened comments. Ring those bells! And blow those whistles! Thirteen thousand visits to the site every week! In October, CI...
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By Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky Imagine a world in which most people worked only 15 hours a week. They would be paid as much as, or even more...
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State government cuts to the Social Housing Advocacy and Support Program (SHASP), Victoria’s most successful homelessness prevention initiative,...
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We’ve just got CI’s feed to Facebook and Twitter sorted out again, so you can keep up on CI with feeds of every story to these platforms. ...
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The classifieds software we use recently had an upgrade with significant structural change. Since then we have had a number of people who couldn’...
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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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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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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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Is Fukushima’s Doomsday Machine About to Blow? By Mike Whitney April 19, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Mounting troubles...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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