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Candice Evans to lead the team in Consumer Protection’s Geraldton office Her experience in helping tenants will be useful in new role Consumer Protection’s presence in the region increases ability to deal with local issues Consumer Protection has appointed a new senior regional officer to service the region which covers Geraldton and an area as far as Carnarvon, the northern Wheatbelt around Moora and remote communities such as Wiluna to the east. Candice Evans has previously worked at the ...

Bouyden McKenzie takes up position in Consumer Protection’s Kalgoorlie office His experience in supporting and educating the community useful in new role Department’s presence in the region increases ability to deal with local issues Consumer Protection has appointed a new senior regional officer in Kalgoorlie to service the Goldfields region which covers an area as far as Northam, Esperance and remote communities north of Leonora and Laverton. Bouyden McKenzie previously worked for the Cit...

Date Time Swinburne supports remote communities to develop trade skills In remote Northern Territory communities where ongoing employment can be hard to come by, Swinburne has partnered with Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation (ALPA) to provide more than 1,200 locals with accredited training to develop the skills of local Indigenous people, leading to sustainable and meaningful employment. A growing project The program launched in 2014 as a three-month pilot called ‘Doors to Jobs’. ...

Budget 2021 is the Government of Canada's plan to finish the fight against COVID-19 and ensure a robust economic recovery that is sustainable and...

The Hon Greg Hunt MP Minister for Health and Aged Care Increasing numbers of doctors are training to become GPs in regional, rural and remote areas, which will deliver significant benefits to patients and communities in the bush. The Australian Government’s 2021 Australian General Practice Training (AGPT) Program selection process has seen the largest number of acceptances – 1,434 doctors – in several years, more than 100 additional doctors...

Date Time Hunter left out of regional and rural health inquiry Hunter based health lawyer and Australian Lawyers’ Alliance (ALA) NSW spokesperson on health, Catherine Henry, is disappointed that the parliamentary inquiry brought on by the crisis in regional and rural health will not hold a hearing in the Hunter. The first of 12 community hearings for the Upper House inquiry into “Health outcomes and access to health and hospital services in rural, regional and remote NSW” start today (Apr...

New Delhi: The Clean Energy in Rural and Remote Communities (CERRC) program supports projects across Canada to reduce the reliance of rural and remote communities on fossil fuel for heat and power. This program also supports community-level capacity

The United Nations The global COVID-19 pandemic could provide “opportunities” to improve health care in Papua New Guinea (PNG) after the crisis is over, according to the United Nations’ most senior official in the southwestern Pacific Ocean nation. UN Resident Coordinator Gianluca Rampolla believes that the public health communications and system strengthening, undertaken during the outbreak of the virus in PNG, will help to put the “local health system on a better platform to combat fu...

Date Time National Cabinet announces changes to COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy The National Cabinet met on Thursday 22 April to discuss changes to Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine strategy. They have agreed the imperative to get Australians vaccinated as soon as possible, and are recalibrating the vaccine delivery plan to account for recent medical advice on the use of AstraZeneca vaccines. One of the main adjustments to the plan involves limiting access to the Pfizer vaccine. The Pfizer vaccine will ...

Subject: Human Rights Watch Amicus Curiae on abuses against human rights defenders José Miguel Vivanco, on behalf of Human Rights Watch, located at 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor, New York, United States, presents this amicus brief to the Honorable Constitutional Court of Colombia in the case T8018193, 11001310304520200002500 concerning ongoing abuses against human rights defenders and social leaders in Colombia. We respectfully state: Purpose and Summary of this Submission Human Rights Watch re...