Social workers enticed Down Under
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Scotland's social workers are being encouraged to consider a new life in Australia in a new recruitment drive.
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Parenting experts are to help families in areas beset by anti-social behaviour under a new government scheme.
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A growing number of people are taking âvirtuous vacationsâ where they spend time working for nonprofit groups.
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HIV carriers in China may have a chance to become civil servants under a new health standard for recruitment. The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Health are now seeking
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A beach program for Australiaâs Muslims is challenging the perception of the blond, blue-eyed and sun-bronzed lifeguard.
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By PAUL RESTUCCIA  The media are filled with stories of jobs being shifted overseas - from software programmers to call-center representatives, from insurance claim adjusters to X-ray technologists.
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Older women and migrant families boost births.
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The company has been rebuffed in Australia as it tries to grow.
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The global wealth boom has created a new breed of billionaire in once-destitute countries, and a number of them are using their wealth to push for social changes.
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Australian coal miners are being taught to explore their wives and understand menopause in order to have a healthy sex life, which in turn will make them happy, productive workers.
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A program is helping assess the value of academic and counseling support services for low-income people who  show potential to work in high-growth jobs.
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"The Complete Stories" (Pantheon Books, 528 pages, $27.50), by David Malouf: Australia is often a backpacker's destination of choice when otherwise lost. Its Ayers Rock and glittering Sydney are so far away and seasonally upside down that it must be the place to find a sense of purpose in the unsure time between adolescence and age.
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Pope Benedict XVI has called on Australians to address the social divisions that have left hundreds of thousands of Aborigines living in dire poverty.
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By Debby Abe, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 12--A church and social service agency that assists recovering addicts, the homeless and other needy people plans to move from Parkland to a residential neighborhood on Tacoma's East Side, triggering an outcry from prospective neighbors.
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Aborigine Jackie Huggins remembers when she was regarded as part of Australia's native wildlife.
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Australia attracted the largest number of immigrants for a decade in the past financial year and is among the top three countries in resettling asylum seekers, despite its tough refugee policies, new data showed.
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Sydney: Even as Australians in the length and breadth of this vast continent celebrated Christmas yesterday with characteristic gusto, Ricky Pontingâs world champion team observed it quietly at a Melbourne restaurant with partners and families