Articles tagged ‘Employment’.

New funding for bushfire affected communities
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 45% more likely to lose their jobs than women
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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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Training package for business
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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Maryborough Struggle Town
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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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On Andrew Carnegie
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 to introduce fire fighter compo law
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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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Helping the unemployed
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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From the CI archives: Would it help if people really cared?
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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Community grants awarded
Mayor Janet Cropley congratulates a representative from the Chewton Domain Society
Last year Council approved grant funding of $149,272 to 73 community groups across the Shire through its annual Strengthening Our Community Grants Sch...
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The ground’s broken for wind!
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There’s a joke there somewhere, but there was plenty of reason to celebrate last week as the turf was turned for the Hepburn community’s n...
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The end of the age of testosterone?
By Andrew McKenna It’s goodbye shipbuilding, real estate, coal, steelworks, machinery, and hello social work, teaching, psychology and healing arts....
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Castlemaine Independent’s great!
‘Castlemaine Independent’s great! I made it my homepage!’ (A quote like that couldn’t be let go. Arabella wins ... I don’t know, a free subscription? Any suggestions?
Castlemaine Independent’s great!...
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Would it help if people really cared?
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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