Food Standards Australia New Zealand
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) regulates food safety. This organisation collaborates with the New Zealand government and Commonwealth, State and Territory governments of Australia to devise food safety standards. Food Standards ... [... more]
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David Malouf
David Malouf is the author of ten novels and six volumes of poetry. His novel The Great World was awarded both the prestigious Commonwealth Prize and the Prix Femina Estranger. Remembering Babylon was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He has ... [... more]
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Home and Community Care (HACC)
Home and Community Care (HACC) is a joint Commonwealth/ State Government program which provides services to support frail elderly people, younger people with disabilities living at home or in the community and their carers. Services provided may ... [... more]
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Aged care - helping people at home
Older people who wish to live at home can access services from the Australian Commonwealth and State Governments. These include rails to help prevent falls, nursing services and personal alarms. Frail older people - or their carers - can contact ... [... more]
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Births in Victoria 2003-2004
Births in Victoria are recorded by the Victorian Perinatal Data Collection Unit (VPDCU), which maintains a database on perinatal (birth) outcomes and birth defects. The Commonwealth government collates data from all states on births. Until 1978, ... [... more]
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Vikram Chandra
Vikram Chandra is the author of the novel Red Earth and Pouring Rain (Commonwealth Writers' Prize; David Higham Prize), and the short story collection Love and Longing in Bombay (Commonwealth Writers' Prize; New York Times Notable Book). Born in ... [... more]
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Rural health services - support available
A Multi Purpose Service (MPS) is a joint State and Commonwealth program which assists rural communities to deliver a broad range of services, according to community need. The Multi Purpose Services (MPS) program is a joint State and Commonwealth ... [... more]
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Peter Carey
Peter Carey is the author of nine novels, and has twice received the Booker Prize. His other honors include the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Born in Australia, he now lives in New York City. Michael "Butcher& [... more]
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Alan Jeffreys
Between December 1941 and May 1942, the British Empire suffered a series of humiliating defeats in the Far East. Three years later the Japanese were defeated by British and Commonwealth forces at Kohima and Imphal and in the battles for Burma. ... [... more]
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Marina Warner
Marina Warner is a novelist, cultural historian and critic. Her fiction includes Indigo, The Lost Father (winner of a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), as well as a collection of stories, Mermaids in the Basement. ... [... more]
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Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Sacks has been Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth since 1991 and has received honorary degrees from universities around the world. He is the award-winning author of a dozen previous ... [... more]
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Kate Turner
National Geographic welcomes you to Australia, the only country that's also a continent: Australia's landscape varies from endless sun-baked horizons to dense tropical rainforest to chilly southern beaches.The Commonwealth of Australia is a ... [... more]
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