The Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett has officially launched a $100 million research centre in Perth, which has been set up to help Australia win a massive radio astronomy project. Western Australia and South Africa are the front runners to secure the $2.5 billion Square Kilometre Array project, with the decision expected in 2012. To [...]
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‘Shame’ vests for WA offenders
Posted in Local News, Political News, tagged 10 and 240 hours, abused, administration, adopted, Adult criminals, adult offenders, appalled, Australia, Australian Lawyers Alliance, ‘Shame’ vests, “a joke”., “Repay WA”, back to court, bright yellow, Britain, Casuarina Prison, Christian Porter, claimed, cleaning, clothes for charity., community, community service, community work, confidence, Corrective Services, Corrective Services Minister, courts, designed, donated, forced, gardening., Government campaign, hauled, Heather Harker, high-visibility vests, humiliate offenders, increase, inmates, jurisdiction, justice, justice deputy commissioner, juvenile, Juveniles, Karl O’Callaghan, kitchen duties, maintenance, offenders, outdoor community work, perception, Police Commissioner, printed, providing, public, punishment, punishments, reassurance, recycling, repairs, sentenced, sentencing, sorting, State Government, statistics, suggested, taunted, the community, the public, today, Tom Percy, tougher, vests, vests emblazoned, WA, WA offenders, WA president, WA’s completion rate, wear, wear the vests, working outside, worstperforming on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Adult criminals sentenced to outdoor community work will from today wear bright yellow vests emblazoned with “Repay WA” as part of a Government campaign to increase public confidence in community service as a punishment. Corrective Services Minister Christian Porter claimed community work had not been used as a sentencing option as often as it [...]
Universal dental care for Australians
Posted in Political News, tagged access, Australia, Australians, basic, commission, Commonwealth, dental care, dental health care, dental services, Denticare, Denticare Australia, dentist, dentists, federal government, fund, Health, hospitals, Medicare, medicare levy, new, outpatient, primary health care, problems, public dental, recommending, reforms, responsibility, services, suggested, taxable income, Universal, universal scheme on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Australians will have access to universal dental health care under reforms suggested by a federal government health commission. The commonwealth will take over responsibility for all primary health care outside of hospitals and fund all outpatient services in hospitals. The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission has stopped short of calling for a full federal [...]
Rudd signs deal to help jobless
Posted in Jobs and careers, Political News, tagged (COAG), access, aged over 25., agreed, agreement, Anna Bligh, approach, Australia, Canberra, COAG's, conference, consequence.", Council of Australian Governments, criticism, Darwin, deal, development, Economic, employment agency, enter, federal government's, global recession, government, government-subsidised, hard, important, intensive, intervention, Job Services, Job Services Australia, jobless, kevin rudd, Labor, labour market, matches, Mr Rudd, new, new scheme, path, people, Premier, prepare, Prime Minister, provider, qualification, Queensland, recovery, registered, represents, retrenched, rudd, Rudd Government, serious, signed, skills, skills shortage, skills-first, state's, support, territories, training places., unemployed, united the states, vocational training., Workers, world, young Australians on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A PLAN to help up to 124,000 retrenched workers has united the states but drawn criticism in Canberra. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed a deal with the states and territories to give intensive help to unemployed people aged over 25. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) conference in Darwin agreed to give the jobless access [...]
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