Posted in Local News, tagged announcement, attract, attractions, award, award winning, business, businesses, businesses and visitors, bustling, city, concerts, create, encourage, events, exciting City, existing attractions, festivals, FREMANTLE, Fremantle and Perth, granted., Hillarys, Hillarys Marina, improve, in Joondalup, in Joondalup City, Joondalup, Joondalup Mayor, Joondalup Resort, later, local, local Joondalup businesses, marina, mayor, North West region, parliament, perth, perth wa, Pickard, place, precinct, resort, status, the Joondalup City, this year., tourism, Tourism Precinct, tourism precinct status, trading hours, Troy, Troy Pickard, variety, venue in WA., vibrant, visit, visit Perth, visited, visitors, WA, welcomed, Winning on July 20, 2009|
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Joondalup Mayor Troy Pickard has welcomed the announcement in Parliament that the Joondalup City will be granted tourism precinct status later this year.
The announcement was a fantastic result for the City of Joondalup. Becoming a tourism precinct will allow trading hours similar to those in Fremantle and Perth for local Joondalup businesses.
As a tourism precinct it will allow the City to improve on existing attractions like the award winning Joondalup resort and Hillarys Marina the second most visited tourism venue in WA.
It will create a more exciting City and will encourage and attract a variety of businesses and visitors to the North West region of Perth.
Becoming a tourism precinct will complement the large number of events, concerts and festivals held in Joondalup City and will help assist Joondalup to become an even more vibrant and bustling place to visit.
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Intending visa applicants should move quickly if they wish to avoid the significant increases in Australian Visa Application Charges that come into effect on the 1st of July, 2009.
The Federal Budget was handed down last month, and included in the various Budget papers is reference to increases of 20% in VACs applicable to visas granted under the skilled migration program and the family program.
For example, the main VAC for general skilled visas is presently A$2,105. Intending skilled migrants can therefore anticipate a saving of more than $400 if they can submit a valid visa application before the end of this month (June 2009).
Cost savings of a similar sum are likely to be available to applicants for Spouse visas, Remaining Relative visas, and Business Skills visas.
It should also be noted that the requirements for the lodgment of valid visa applications are generally limited to the submission of the relevant visa application form, payment of the Visa Application Charge, and any other DIAC form as is applicable to the visa that is being applied for – plus a skills assessment classification letter where one is applying for an offshore general skilled visa.
In other words, other documentation in support of the application can be submitted later – and (we suggest) should be if a saving of more than A$400 is available.
If you are intending to move to Australia and would like to lodge your visa application quickly in an effort to save money please contact us. Go Matilda has many years of experience assisting with Australian visa applications, and can prepare application paperwork quickly in an effort to lodge a valid application so that you lock into this year’s Visa Application Charges.
Source : www.gomatilda.com
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Posted in ALL news, Political News, tagged 7pm, 7pm closing time, 8pm, 8pm closing, 9pm, accepting, ALL news, Assembly MPs, backbenchers, big supermarkets, both sides, brink, canvassing, caucus, caving, caving in, Chamber, chief, closing, closing time., coles, Colin Barnett, Commerce, crucial blow, delayed, deliver, deny, determined, discuss, election, extension, fear, government, Government’s, hours, including, increase, Industry, interest groups, issue, James Pearson, Labor, last year, later, legislation, Liberal, Liberal backbenchers, Liberals, logical, lower prices, market share, meeting, more choice, MPs, Mr Barnett, nationals, parliament, party’s, pointless, politicians, prefer, preference, Premier, pressure, problem, public, rely, retail industry, shadow Cabinet, shopping, shopping hours, shops, significant, sitting, small businesses, softening, spokeswoman, stand up to, the unions, time, under pressure, Upper House, urged, vested, vote, WA producers, want 9pm, week, weeknight, weeknight shopping hours, West Australian, WEST Australians, Woolworths, worried on June 7, 2009|
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Colin Barnett is on the brink of caving in to worried Liberal backbenchers and accepting an 8pm closing for weeknight shopping rather than the 9pm time he took to the election last year.
The Premier has been softening the public up for an 8pm closing time in recent days and again said yesterday that it was an acceptable alternative.
The West Australian understands that most Liberals don’t want 9pm and would prefer a 7pm closing time but are prepared to accept 8pm to save the Premier the embarrassment of being rolled by his own party.
Mr Barnett has been canvassing his MPs one-on-one in recent days and knows that 9pm is beyond his reach.
The Nationals say they will not support changes to shopping hours, which they fear would deliver a crucial blow to WA producers because it would increase the market share of big supermarkets
The Government will rely on Labor to get legislation on later weeknight shopping hours through Parliament but the ALP took a position of 7pm to the election and is not guaranteed to support a later closing time. A Labor spokeswoman said yesterday that shadow Cabinet and caucus would discuss the party’s position once the Government’s preference was known.
Cabinet discussed the shopping hours issue last Monday and Mr Barnett is expected to take his preferred position to the party room on Tuesday, but the Upper House is not sitting, and the meeting will be only for Assembly MPs, meaning that a vote on the issue will probably be delayed a week.
Mr Barnett said yesterday that most people in the retail industry, including the unions, favoured a 9pm closing time from Monday to Friday to bring all weeknights into line with existing late-night shopping.
“That’s a position I think is logical, however a number of people are saying 8pm might be better. I don’t think there’s a big difference between the two,” he said.
“To simply extend it to 7pm would be pointless.
“So, 8pm, yeah that’s OK, 9pm might be better but at least either of those would be a significant extension to weeknight shopping.”
But backbenchers are under pressure from small businesses to wind back the closing time, believing that the later hour is supported only by Coles and Woolworths.
Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief James Pearson urged politicians from both sides to “stand up to vested interest groups, which are determined to deny West Australians more choice and lower prices when they shop”.
ROBERT TAYLOR, PETER KERR and AMANDA BANKS
Source www.thewest.com.au
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Posted in Local News, tagged $236, $236 million, $470, $470 million, 350 job opportunities, 600 passengers, additional, announce, approximately, attract, bus services, business, business sectors, central, central open, city, city precinct, commence, commencing, commercial, committing, concluded, connect, construction, contribution, cost, create, creatings, development, each day, employment, entertainment., estimated, Federal, federal government, formally, government, greatest transformation, important, include, integration, jobs, kevin, kevin rudd, later, link, Local News, million, network, northbridge, Northbridge Link project., opportunities, perth, Prime Minister, project, public, public transport network, rail, residential, result, rudd, sectors, sitework, space area, start, Tendering, Transform, transformation, transport, transpot, underground, water, waterfront, year, years time, yesterday on May 23, 2009|
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was in Perth yesterday to formally announce the federal government committing $236 million for the Northbridge Link project. 
The underground construction is estimated to cost about $470 million, with the sitework set to start later this year.
The construction will be commencing in approximately a years time.
The transformation of the the city precinct will include commercial, residential and entertainment opportunities, which would transform the city.
Added will be a waterfront development which will be the greatest transformation of the city of Perth.
This will connect the city with Northbridge and will result in a better integration of rail and bus services.
Mr Rudd said the project would create about 350 job opportunities for the construction and business sectors and attract an additional 600 passengers on the public transport network each day.
Tendering will be concluded later this year and construction due to commence next year.
This is an important contribution to employment as well.
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