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		<title>Apprentices In Australia Help Rebuild Flood Affected Queensland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Minister for Skills and Jobs, Senator Chris Evans, today met young Queensland apprentices involved in flood recovery work with the support of the Australian Government. “The Gillard Government’s investment in the $83 million Queensland Natural Disasters Jobs and Skills Package is making a real difference to the disaster recovery efforts. “Apprentices are now employed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia Releases Report On Economic Importance Of Tourism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economic Importance of Tourism in Australia’s Regions report released today by the Federal Minister for Tourism, Martin Ferguson highlights the nation’s top twenty tourism regions. The report by Tourism Research Australia shows the visitor expenditure as a percentage of overall output in Australia’s top 20 tourism regions. “Tourism is the lifeblood of many regional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia Fines Japan Airlines $5.5 Million For Price Fixing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Court in Melbourne today ordered a $5.5 million penalty against Japan Airlines International Co Ltd (JAL) for breaching the price fixing provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman, Graeme Samuel said this matter represents the seventh international airline to settle the ACCC&#8217;s air cargo proceedings. &#8220;This outcome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia Outlines December 2010 Quarterly Superannuation Statistics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) today released its December 2010 Quarterly Superannuation Performance publication. Total assets over the 12 months to 31 December 2010 rose by $94.1 billion (7.7 per cent) to a total of $1.32 trillion, which includes a rise of $37.7 billion (3.0 per cent) during the December quarter. During the December [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helen Conway To Lead Australia Equal Opportunity For Women In The Workplace Agency</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minister for the Status of Women, Kate Ellis has today announced the appointment of Ms Helen Conway as the new Director of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA). “After an extensive competitive selection process, which attracted many impressive candidates, I am delighted to announce that Ms Conway has accepted the role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia Outlines Low Unemployment Across The Regions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Minister for Regional Australia, Simon Crean, today welcomed a report on low unemployment in the regions by a leading investment bank saying it was further proof that economic growth had spread across the country. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has just released a report &#8216;A different perspective on the &#8220;two-speed&#8221; economy&#8217; which found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia To Deliver Better Free To Air TV For Regional Queensland</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, said the Government was committed to delivering improved free-to-air television services for people living in regional Queensland as part of the digital switchover. “The digital switchover late this year will offer regional Queenslanders access to the same number of free to air channels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia Invests $12 Million To Strengthen Queensland Tourism Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Queensland tourism industry will receive an additional $2 million in post-flood and cyclone tourism funding bringing the joint Federal and State recovery package to a total of $12 million. Federal Tourism Minister, Martin Ferguson, and Queensland Minister for Tourism, Manufacturing and Small Business, Jan Jarratt, said the additional $2 million package followed the joint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia Launches Biggest Health Survey Ever Conducted</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the next few days, the ABS will commence the first Australian Health Survey (AHS), the biggest health survey ever conducted in Australia. The AHS builds on previous health surveys allowing comparisons of health information over time such as obesity, smoking, health conditions and how we manage our health. The AHS will collect new information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia Gives Taxpayers $500 Standard Income Tax Deduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian taxpayers will be able to claim a $500 standard income tax deduction, without receipts, instead of going to the hassle of using receipts to claim work-related expenses and the cost of managing their tax affairs. Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has released a discussion paper outlining the proposed standard deduction for individual taxpayers, which was [...]]]></description>
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