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• Social workers pessimistic about 2010

  
  Mad World — Authority: 115
  We run a regular poll on the Community Care homepage , asking readers about their opinion on various topical social care issues. Our most recent poll asked readers if they felt more optimistic about social care now than at the start of 2009 and the results are striking.
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• Looking Back – 2009

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 121
  I was wondering how to finish the year off and mark it. So I looked at last year’s posts for inspiration to see how I marked the end of the last year. I ran a couple of posts – one looking back on the year in my first ‘proper’ year of blogging and another post looking at changes that had taken place ...
  5 days ago

• Toad Busters banned from gassing pests

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A group fighting to keep cane toads out of Western Australias Kimberley says it is being stopped from using carbon dioxide to gas the pests because bureaucrats have told them it is too cruel. Kimberley Toad Busters has labelled the Department of Environment and Conservations (DEC) refusal to sanction the use of ...
  6 days ago

• Australia’s bid for FIFA World Cup gets a boost

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Melbourne, Dec 25 (IANS) Australia’s hope to bid for the 2018 and the 2022 FIFA World Cup received a boost with the government saying that it will control the key elements of the bid and establishing a taskforce to sort out problems that have dogged Australia’s push to host the largest event in world [...]
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Government 2.0 Report

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 138
  The final report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce, headed by Nicholas Gruen is now available "Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0". The report is only available in PDF (1.6 MB) and Microsoft RTF (4.9 MB) formats. At 157 pages this is a very large report. An easy to download and read HTML version of the report will ...
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• Gov 2.0 Taskforce report published

  
  DavePress — Authority: 481
  The final report from Australia’s Government 2.0 Taskforce has been published . I’ve not had the chance to read it yet, but the summary points sound sane enough: Government 2.0 or the use of the new collaborative tools and approaches of Web 2.0 offers an unprecedented opportunity to achieve more open, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  2 weeks ago

• Recommendations of GST Task Force’ 17th December 2009

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 157
  A recent report by Finance Commission taskforce has clarified many issues related to implementation of GST in India. Though there are many new matters which were considered in this report, but there some variations were observed as of the matters... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• CA parks agency settles lesbian harassment suit

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 143
  (San Diego) The California Department of Parks and Recreation is forming a task force to address equality issues for its women and gay employees . Parks officials said Thursday the move is part of a settlement with a lesbian park ranger who filed a harassment lawsuit in San Diego County . Jennifer ...
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• OPEN LETTER: To The Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor, The City of New York (Domestic Violence Victim)

  
  Family Court Crisis-Abusers Getting Custody..!! — Authority: 144
  Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] Family Lawless Court Whores . Permalink   [I am posting this open letter per request of the writer] December 7th, 2009 The Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor, The City of New York Office of the Mayor New York, NY 10007 Dear Mayor ...
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• OPEN LETTER: To The Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor, The City of New York (Domestic Violence Victim)

  
  Battered Women, Battered Children, Custody Abuse — Authority: 450
  Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] Family Lawless Court Whores . Permalink   [I am posting this open letter per request of the writer] December 7th, 2009 The Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor, The City of New York Office of the Mayor New York, NY 10007 Dear Mayor ...
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• Finance commission recommend five GST exemptions, ONE GST rate of 12% and implementation from October 2010

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 157
  The Thirteenth Finance Commission’s taskforce on the proposed goods and services tax (GST) has recommended a 5 per cent central GST and 7 per cent state GST on all goods and services, except five specific categories. It has proposed a zero rate for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
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• FCC digs into broadband controversies

  
  The Gadget News — Authority: 163
  A task force that is shaping a national plan to provide ubiquitous high-speed Internet access tackles the USF, wireless spectrum, and cable set-top boxes. Read the original: FCC digs into broadband controversies
  2 weeks ago

• Capital market taskforce pushes asset sales scam

  
  The Standard — Authority: 570
  Another government-appointed taskforce of rightwing, market ideologues (this time appointed by Labour , the fools) has reported and, surprise, surprise, their report is a rightwing prescription without any supporting argument that it would be good for the country. The headline recommendation of the Capital Market ...
  3 weeks ago

• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
  3 weeks ago

• The right prescription?

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 544
  Brian Fallow responded to the report of the 2025 Taskforce’s first report with a column headlined: Old precription unlikely to fix new ills. Taskforce chair, Don Brash, wrote an op-ed in response which the Herald delcined to publish because “the debate is moving on”. Just how far a debate moves in a day is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Guest Post – Is New Zealand really Doomed by Distance?

  
  Whale Oil Beef Hooked | Gotcha! — Authority: 145
  Brian Fallow is one of New Zealand’s best economic journalists. But his article on 10 December dismissing the report of the 2025 Taskforce as “1980s thinking”, under the headline “Old prescription unlikely to fix new ills”, misses the boat completely and demonstrates that he is out of touch with ...
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• Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce releases report on government transparency

  
  JoeTrippi.com — Authority: 127
  Earlier this week, the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce issued a very interesting report on opening up government to increase transparency and deepen democratic participation. They found Australia is a bit behind the US and UK but I think we all have a ways to go. From a column in Financial Review : The ...
  3 weeks ago

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