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Tourism Rudd, take a holiday: Australian tourism industry seeks PM's help Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should do more to help Australia's struggling tourism industry through the international financial crisis and he should start by taking a holiday, tourism officials say. Operators have been hit this year by a strong Australian dollar, spiralling fuel prices, bad weather and fierce competition from cheaper and closer overseas destinations, which has limited growth from overseas markets.
Top Travel Tip Omeo Bright Bus Across Victorian Highlands This is one bus worth waiting for..The view from the top is all part of the service on the Omeo to Bright bus. Driver Rod O'Connell says some of the scenery is "on a par with anything that you might find on the Great Ocean Road".
Australian Migrant Stories Multiculturalism is an integral part of the nations fabric, with 23% of the population born overseas. The migrants made Australia their home for a variety of reasons. But as they age, they sometimes face a unique set of problems not encountered by the Australia born, including isolation, language difficulties and an inability to access essential health, transport and social services.
Australia 2009 Economic Outlook No end in sight to the world economic maelstrom. China, the world's factory, is now in trouble and the news out of the US gets gloomier by the day. At home, we haven't seen it in the figures yet, but industrial production has slowed sharply in recent months and businesses have swtiched to cost-cutting mode. The new year will herald job losses and a further test for consumer confidence. If consumers can hold their nerve, the economy should have suffiicent momentum to avoid a recession - just! But if consumers panic there is a real chance of a more protracted downturn in activity and employment.
Boom states now face the toughest problems AUSTRALIA may continue to run a two-speed economy, but it will be the resource states that run slow as Queensland and Western Australia supplant NSW as the Rudd Government's biggest economic headache.
Australian Government tightens skilled migration THE global economic crisis has forced the Federal Government to tighten its skilled migration program. Skilled migration program tightened, economic crisis forces rethink and skills shortage fast-tracking. Immigration Minister Chris Evans said engineers, medical, IT and construction trade professionals on a new "critical skills list" would be favoured. "There were concerns that the permanent skilled migration program was not delivering the right skills to the right areas."
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Tourism Rudd, take a holiday: Australian tourism industry seeks PM's help Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should do more to help Australia's struggling tourism industry through the international financial crisis and he should start by taking a holiday, tourism officials say. Operators have been hit this year by a strong Australian dollar, spiralling fuel prices, bad weather and fierce competition from cheaper and closer overseas destinations, which has limited growth from overseas markets.
Top Travel Tip Omeo Bright Bus Across Victorian Highlands This is one bus worth waiting for..The view from the top is all part of the service on the Omeo to Bright bus. Driver Rod O'Connell says some of the scenery is "on a par with anything that you might find on the Great Ocean Road".
Australian Migrant Stories Multiculturalism is an integral part of the nations fabric, with 23% of the population born overseas. The migrants made Australia their home for a variety of reasons. But as they age, they sometimes face a unique set of problems not encountered by the Australia born, including isolation, language difficulties and an inability to access essential health, transport and social services.
Australia 2009 Economic Outlook No end in sight to the world economic maelstrom. China, the world's factory, is now in trouble and the news out of the US gets gloomier by the day. At home, we haven't seen it in the figures yet, but industrial production has slowed sharply in recent months and businesses have swtiched to cost-cutting mode. The new year will herald job losses and a further test for consumer confidence. If consumers can hold their nerve, the economy should have suffiicent momentum to avoid a recession - just! But if consumers panic there is a real chance of a more protracted downturn in activity and employment.
Boom states now face the toughest problems AUSTRALIA may continue to run a two-speed economy, but it will be the resource states that run slow as Queensland and Western Australia supplant NSW as the Rudd Government's biggest economic headache.
Australian Government tightens skilled migration THE global economic crisis has forced the Federal Government to tighten its skilled migration program. Skilled migration program tightened, economic crisis forces rethink and skills shortage fast-tracking. Immigration Minister Chris Evans said engineers, medical, IT and construction trade professionals on a new "critical skills list" would be favoured. "There were concerns that the permanent skilled migration program was not delivering the right skills to the right areas."
Other Australian related travel, tourism, study, migration and living info see AIEC Australian International Education Centre
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