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EBSCOhost: Guest worker scheme may be better Pacific solution for both Australia and r... - 0 views

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    The governments in the Pacific Islands have been urging Canberra to begin a guest labour scheme that would allow unskilled workers to come to Australia for a few months each year in jobs like fruit picking.
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EBSCOhost: India to run joint naval exercises with Australia - 0 views

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    ABC News transcript: Australia and India have agreed to increase military cooperation and will run a joint military exercise next year
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Free trade agreement with Japan in the offing - 0 views

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    Australian Financial Review article: Although China has turned exporters' heads in recent years, Japan is still a critical trading partner. Indeed, it's likely an Economic Partnership Agreement will be signed with Japan before one is signed with China, if reports in the Japanese media are to believed. It is understood agreement with Japan on how agricultural subsidies will be handled is near, which should pave the way to an EPA - more commonly called a free trade agreement - in the very near future.
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Classroom Antarctica - 0 views

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    Designed as a teaching resource for years 5-8. Useful as an overview of information and links to more detail. Covers topics: Continent, Living, Working, Climate, Nature.
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ACOG strives to improve maternal health worldwide - ACOG - 1 views

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    ACOG's Office of Global Women's Health has expanded its efforts greatly in the last few years, as it aims to improve maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide and develop and support critical ob-gyn training.
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Stronger roots: Growing resilient forests in Samoa | UNDP - 1 views

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    Since 2011 UNDP is leading an intervention on the integration of climate change risk and resilience in forestry management in Samoa (ICCRIFS). Financed by a grant from the Global Environment Facility through the Least Developed Country Fund, with co-financing by the Government of Samoa, the 4-year, US$4.9 m project was implemented across the island to raise climate awareness, improve livelihoods and increase reforestation.
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New opportunities for women artisans in Upper Egypt | UNDP - 1 views

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    he Egypt Network for Integrated Development (ENID) is a five-year initiative that links literacy education with vocational training to generate new income, improve food security and enhance basic and public services for the marginalized communities and people of Upper Egypt.
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Wanted: pupils to campaign for education for all | Education | The Guardian - 0 views

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    This a crucial year for GCE. Its campaigns include the UN millennium development goal of securing a primary education for every child by 2015. The organisation's UK young ambassadors will travel to Bangladesh with the charity ActionAid to see the work that has been done and - with 57m children around the world still not in school - the barriers that remain.
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Vietnam: Economic growth and poverty reduction | Global development | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Twenty years ago, Vietnam was one of the poorest countries in the world. But the opening up of its markets has led to a reduction in poverty levels. As part of its Development Progress project, the Overseas Development Institute looks at how this has been achieved
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Ten million childhood disabilities prevented in campaign to end polio - UNICEF | Press ... - 0 views

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    Every day, a thousand or so children have been protected from disability during a 26-year global effort to eradicate polio.  
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Video | This is my sister: early marriage in Ghana | Global development | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Zulie shares the story of her 14-year-old sister, Afisha, whose father promised her in marriage to an older man when he could no longer afford to send her to school
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Health in Indian slums: inside Mumbai's busiest public hospital | Guardian Sustainable ... - 1 views

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    This is a feature article on a doctor who worked for 25 years in Mumbai's busiest public hospital. She was especially troubled by the high mortality rate of sick infants, which led her to take radical steps to improve hygiene at the hospital.
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Twenty years after independence, Timor-Leste continues its epic struggle - 0 views

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    "On August 30, Timor-Leste will celebrate the referendum that gave it independence from Indonesia. For the people of this small island, it has been a long battle - one that continues today. "
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East Timor, Australia and Indonesia: A Tortured Triangle - ClickView (2000) - 0 views

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    "This program uses rarely seen archival footage from a variety of sources to show the changing relationships between the three countries over a 30-year period" TEACHER RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO ACCOMPANY VIDEO.
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Call To Arms: The Liberation of East Timor -... - ClickView - 0 views

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    "The liberation of East Timor pushed Australia and Indonesia to the brink of confrontation, but diplomacy and a peacekeeping mission led to the birth of a nation. 20 years on we talk to those involved"
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Birds of a feather flock together to save unique wetlands - National - 0 views

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    Mr Mellor, now a conservationist, is back in Sydney to swap notes with Australian experts on how to create, preserve and protect the world's disappearing wetlands against development and water demand.
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Sydney Harbour's toxic legacy shows value of green safety net - 0 views

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    The story of dioxin contamination of Sydney Harbour shows us the great value of the green safety net of environmental law.
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http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35014/newsDate/10-Feb-2006/story.htm - 0 views

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    The NSW government will spend A$5.8 million buying back fishing licences and compensating some 40 fishermen, some of whom have seen generations of their families haul harbour fish and prawns to sell to seafood restaurants which dot the shoreline.
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