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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.
Categories: Australian Policy
The Australian IT News: Western Power says no redundancies
WESTERN Power has almost completed its technology outsourcing strategy.
Categories: Aggregated Australian Health IT News
Western Power says no redundancies
WESTERN Power has almost completed its technology outsourcing strategy.
Categories: Australian IT Sites
Government funds 200 traineeships for Indigenous students
Minister for Employment Participation Mark Arbib today launched the 2010 Aboriginal School Based Traineeship Program, which will see 200 Indigenous high school students work with businesses across Australia.
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Categories: Australian Policy
Launch of new ASIO website and recruitment campaign
Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, today launched the new Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) website and recruitment campaign for new Intelligence Officers. ASIO is Australia's security intelligence service whose main role is to gather information and produce intelligence in order to protect Australia's national security.
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Categories: Australian Policy
Top 100 builder backs Nation Building's plans in Tasmania - Defence Housing Australia
You are here: Top 100 builder backs Nation Building's plans in Tasmania. Ben Wilson, the General Manager of Wilson Homes in Tasmania was very proud that their company was included in the Housing Industry Association (HIA) top 100 builders in Australia over the last three years. The company has also recently been awarded a major Federal Government project through Defence Housing Australia (DHA) and the Nation Building-Economic Stimulus Plan (NB-ESP).
Categories: Australian Policy
Airservices Australia - Media Releases
Air traffic controllers will hit the pits today for the Clipsal 500 Adelaide to ensure safe skies over the exciting event. A portable air traffic control tower has been installed trackside by Airservices technicians to ensure the safe operation of the aerial side of the four-day event. Staffed by Airservices controllers from the Adelaide Airport control tower, the event tower will manage hundreds of helicopter movements and high-speed flying displays by the RAAF Roulettes and an FA-18 Hornet.
Categories: Australian Policy
Government accepts independent advice on Bundarra EC application - The Hon Tony Burke MP - Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
The Australian Government has today accepted independent advice from the National Rural Advisory Council (NRAC) on its assessment of an Exceptional Circumstances (EC) application for the Bundarra area of NSW. The NSW Government had lodged an application for Exceptional Circumstances to be declared for the region. The application was referred to the NRAC for assessment.
Categories: Australian Policy
Thousands to attend St Pat's parade (AAP)
Tens of thousands of people are expected to turn out for Brisbane's annual St Patrick's Day parade on Saturday.
Categories: Australian Policy
Roxon says $15b pharmacy agreement close (AAP)
Health Minister Nicola Roxon says the government is a step closer to a $15 billion agreement to deliver cheaper medicines and improve access to pharmacies.
Categories: Australian Policy
Rudd's 60pc reform may just be for starters
If the states don't like the hospital deal, there is always the option of a full federal takeover
Categories: Australian Policy
Find a cure for the Fevola virus
FIRST Carlton and the AFL, now the footballer's ills have spread to cricket.
Categories: Australian Policy
Abbott's scheme is perfectly Liberal
BIG-BUSINESS funded parental leave is in keeping with the opposition's principles.
Categories: Australian Policy
Sinister role of union revealed, but little else
THERE is still no answer as to how Mulrunji Doomadgee died in a cell in the Palm Island police station.
Categories: Australian Policy
Bad-time stories
REMEMBER the once-upon-a-time time? When children were scared by fairy stories about giants up beanstalks and old crones with gingerbread cottages?
Categories: Australian Policy
Abbott plays a decisive card
THE Opposition Leader has taken aggression to the point of recklessness.
Categories: Australian Policy
'We feel the pain of Balibo killings'
INDONESIA'S Foreign MinisterMarty Natalegawa speaks exclusively.
Categories: Australian Policy
Changing world to ease age angst
WAYNE Swan has discovered a bullish counterweight to the burden of Australia's ageing population.
Categories: Australian Policy
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