April 7, 2006

Employer-sponsored visas growing in popularity

Is the federal government’s guest worker visa program growing faster than its ability to manage it? Employers are taking advantage of a migration category with unlimited intakes – in December 2005 the intake had increased 35% on the average monthly […]
April 5, 2006

‘Magnificent Seven’ graduate at Wadeye

If life wasn’t meant to be easy was it meant to be this hard? At Wadeye – formerly Port Keats in the Territory’s remote south west – a record seven Indigenous girls from the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart […]
April 2, 2006

More tourists less widespread benefit

Food for thought! What with Tourism Australia’s ‘bloody hell’ advertisement and lots of talk about skills shortages – have you tried employing a chef lately? – there has been quite a bit written about tourism over the past few months. […]
April 2, 2006

Greenwashing the gullible?

Until January I had not heard the term ‘greenwash’ – what about you?? While chasing up info on green power, I came across the term term “greenwash” on a website called www.ecoshout.org. I found this site very interesting and certainly […]