Having a Canadian husband, my favourite book is "How to be a Canadian" (though you really have to be Canadian to get some of the "in" jokes). With the launch of the new Australia movie this month, it would be interesting to see what would you would need to...
Introduction As in other western industrialised countries the proportion of older Australians is rising. While structural ageing is not yet as pronounced as it is in Europe, this changing demographic profile has significant labour market implications. Population projections indicate that over the next 25 years around seven million...
Introduction To obviate the financial losses that would otherwise accompany leaving work in old age, most countries have developed retirement income systems. These systems employ a limited range of governmental, quasi-governmental and private mechanisms which, through institutionalizing 'stable' sources of income support in later life, seek to protect...
1. Introduction * Studies of Australian poverty have concentrated on comparing people's incomes adjusted to allow for differences in family needs with poverty lines in order to discover how many people are poor the poverty rate, who is affected by it the structure of poverty and how it...
The papers in this Special Issue of The Australian Journal of Social Issues were originally presented at the 10th Australian Social Policy Conference ASPC, held at the University of New South Wales in July 2007. The theme of the conference was Social Policy Through the Life Course: Building Community Capacity...
An Australian hiker is recovering in the intensive care unit of the Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) after being rescued from a remote mountain range in Papua New Guinea last August 8. Debra Paver, a lawyer from Melbourne, had been hiking the Kokoda Trail in the...
Generex Biotechnology Corporation (Nasdaq:GNBT), Worcester, Mass., a leader in drug delivery for metabolic diseases through the inner lining of the mouth, has received a new patent in Australia. The Australian Patent Office has granted the Company a patent titled Micellar Pharmaceutical Compositions for Buccal and Pulmonary Application. The...
Your mission Don't waste a single second doing cardio "overtime" in the name of fat loss. This calorie-torching plan takes just 20 minutes but outperforms workouts that last twice as long. Its secret: alternating high-intensity intervals with easier recovery periods. In a recent Australian study, women who did...
AUSTRALIA -- ** -- Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham; rated PG-13 (violence, gore, slurs, profanity, brief sex, vulgarity); Carmike 12 and Ritz; Century Sandy and South Salt Lake; Cinemark Jordan Landing; Megaplex District, Gateway and Jordan Commons "Australia" only covers about two years in that continent's...
COLLEGE FOOTBALL Texas A&M at Texas, ESPN, 6 p.m. GOLF Australian Masters, GOLF, 7:30 a.m. Mission Hills World Cup, GOLF, 1 p.m. MEN'S BASKETBALL Siena vs. Tennessee, ESPN2, 10 a.m. ...
SYDNEY, Australia -- Mining giant Rio Tinto Group on Wednesday sought to allay concerns about its debt levels, a day after bigger rival BHP Billiton abandoned a takeover bid for that reason, sending Rio's share price plummeting. Rio Tinto Chairman Paul Skinner said the company's management had...
InterOil Corporation (TSX: IOL) (NYSE-A: IOC) (AMEX: IOC) (POMSoX:IOC), a Canadian company with operations in Papua New Guinea, announced today that Mr. Roger Lewis has been appointed to the Board of directors. Mr. Lewis has also been appointed to serve on the Board's Audit Committee. Mr. Lewis is an Australian...
* Taped event (Times may be earlier for DIRECTV and DISH customers.) ^ Simulcast in HD TV/Radio Today TV Radio College Old Spice Classic: Siena vs. Tennessee^ 11 a.m. ESPN2 basketball 76 Classic: Saint Mary's vs. UTEP 11 a.m. ESPNU Old...
Football in brief EVERTON The Australian midfielder Tim Cahill below has indicated that he is likely to leave the club when his contract expires to finish his career in his native land. Cahill, who turns 29 next month, signed a new deal last year which runs...
AUSTRALIA -- ** -- Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham; rated PG-13 (violence, gore, slurs, profanity, brief sex, vulgarity); Carmike 12 and Ritz; Century Sandy and South Salt Lake; Cinemark Jordan Landing; Megaplex District, Gateway and Jordan Commons "Australia" only covers about two years in that continent's...
DOR BioPharma, Inc. DOR or the Company (OTCBB: DORB), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing products to treatthe life-threatening side effects of cancer treatments and seriousgastrointestinal diseases, and vaccines against certain bioterrorismagents, announced today that the Therapeutics Goods Administration TGA ofAustralia has designated orBec® as an Orphan Drug for the...
Hard Times 11AM & 5AM BBC RADIO 7 Kenneth Cranham stars in Doug Lucie's adaptation of Charles Dickens's state-of-the-nation novel, which opens with Mr Gradgrind lecturing his children about the hard facts of life. Happy Feet 11.30AM RADIO...
Kenny 10.45AM & 6.15PM SKY MOVIES INDIE (Clayton Jacobson, 2006) You might expect an Australian mock- documentary right about a man who installs portable toilets to be scatological. Actually, this very funny, heartfelt tribute to the working man is a moving human drama with...
Byline: By IAN LAYBOURN Sports Correspondent AUSTRALIA coach Ricky Stuart is to be formally investigated following an allegation that he abused referee Ashley Klein and leading British official Stuart Cummings the morning after the Kangaroos' shock World Cup final defeat. Cummings, the Rugby Football League's match...
Byline: Denis Kilcommons A DAFT Australian with more money than sense has reputedly put in an offer of pounds 1m for the three bedroomed terraced house in Leytonstone, north-east London, where David Beckham lived as a baby. Similar houses in the area sell for pounds 250,000....
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