Tourism
May 10, 2006
NSW wins travel stoush International students will be ‘heartened’ by the win in a recent legal battle in NSW, reported by The Age. The Administrative Decisions Tribunal in Sydney found the state’s 20,000 overseas students were being discriminated against by […]
May 9, 2006
AND lateral thinking needed to address staff exodus from the industry It is vital that all restaurant and catering businesses (R&C), small, medium and large, gain an understanding of the changes and how they can benefit from them says R&C’s […]
May 4, 2006
Bottoms up to waste water! Gavin King in the Northern Territory News wrote recently that Yulara residents and tourists will be the first in Australia to drink recycled waste water as part of a $1.3 million project. Effluent will be […]
May 4, 2006
ATEC will continue to lobby government for a working holiday scheme for the US A special bulletin from ‘The Bite’ today heralds Visa changes to the Working Holiday Maker Scheme which means being able to work for 6 months instead […]
May 3, 2006
Q: When is a flash city hotel Not a flash city hotel? A: When it’s hosting a ‘Connecting Up’ Conference and the people are the ‘having a go’ variety from the community, not-for-profit, volunteer sector from all around Oz? – […]
April 30, 2006
Can ‘people power’ work in the cane toad war? In Greening Australia‘s ‘Exchange eBulletin’ – always a good read – I learned this fortnight that cane toads were introduced as long ago as 1935, and that for the past eight […]
April 29, 2006
Brisbane’s Corporate Community Network (BCCN) is on a mission to link up communities with the corporate world. I see in the 6 March ProBono e-newsletter, that BCCN is a new informal network of people who work in community engagement, representing […]
April 28, 2006
The Fitzroy Learning Network (FLN) – like all Neighbourhood Houses – is doing great things again. “Belonging in Australia” This collaborative project involving Yarra City Council, The Brotherhood of St Laurence and other local agencies, has just started. It will […]
April 27, 2006
Great excitement amongst local & interstate ornithologists The Australian Painted Snipe is a striking bird; males have greenish backs and wings with chestnut spots and females have a dark maroon head and throat with fine barring on their wings. It […]
April 25, 2006
Independent eighty year olds look after each other Tess, recently a widow, is two months shy of 88. Her neighbour to the left, John, lost his wife just a few years ago. He is also eighty-odd. Across the road lives […]
April 23, 2006
Wish I could go here there & everywhere! In response to a Survey into barriers confronting tourists with disabilities, the Access for All Alliance suggests we follow Europe and establish a One-Stop Shop for Accessible Tourists in Europe (OSSATE). In […]
April 21, 2006
A nice shopping companion – though not one to be provided by our duopoly! Following our articles on food labelling someone has asked us to provide a groceries shopping list that would eliminate confusion and frustration when reading food labels […]