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Archive for June 4th, 2009

WOODVALE Senior High School will receive $2.2 million of Federal Government funds to build a new covered, four-court basketball facility.
Woodvale principal Paul Leech said the school’s four existing basketball courts would be resurfaced with a synthetic surface and covered with a roof.
“At the moment we only have one small gym, so many of our gym [...]

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Cocaine Energy Drink launched in Australia

A CONTROVERSIAL energy drink called ‘Cocaine’ and billed overseas as being more than three times stronger than Red Bull has gone on sale in Australia.
While the drink does not contain any actual cocaine, the US and UK versions have 280mg of caffeine for every 250ml can – a concentration that is illegal in Australia and [...]

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In a welcome move, the Australian Government has said it will legislate to extend the validity period of subclass 410 Retirement visas to 10 years, and remove the working restriction on these visas.
Subclass 410 Retirement visas ceased to be available to new applicants at the end of June 2005, but there are nevertheless some 8,700 [...]

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More than 40% of Australian employers are struggling to fill positions, according to Manpower’s Fourth Annual Talent Shortage Survey.
Engineers, technicians and machine operators were all in the top 10 list of jobs that employers are having difficult filling.
Nearly 11,500 Australian employers were interviewed as part of the global survey.
“Despite high levels of unemployment in many [...]

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WESTERN Australia has the fastest growing population in Australia, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
WA’s population growth rate has hit 3.1 per cent for the year ending December 2008 – well ahead of every other state or territory.   
Next was Queensland, growing at 2.5 per cent, Northern Territory, 2.0 per cent, Victoria, 1.9 [...]

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