Independence Ball caps Canberra’s Kalayaan celebration
Philippine Embassy Charge d’ Affaires Mary Anne A. Padua and other officers and staff of the Philippine Embassy joined the annual Independence Day Ball organised by the Filipino Community Council of the Australian Capital Region [...]
With exactly one year to go until the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS’) Census of Population and Housing on 9 August 2011, planning is well underway for the largest peace time logistical exercise in Australia [...]
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With Australia’s population growth rate now twice the global average, even surpassing that of countries with fast growing populations including the Philippines, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd over the weekend created a Population Ministry [...]
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Trade Minister Simon Crean announced yesterday the commencement of Australia’s largest free trade agreement, the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA). The historic agreement will span 12 economies with over 600 million people and a combined GDP of $3.1 trillion [...]
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Australia’s population increased by 2.1% for the year ending March 2009 according to statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday. The last time Australia saw higher growth rates was in the 1950′s and 1960′s as a result of post war migration and high birth rates [...]
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The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) recently announced the passage in Senate of the Migration Amendment (Abolishing Detention Debt) Bill 2009. The Bill abolishes the system of imposing charges on immigration detainees and waives all existing debts for current and former detainees [...]
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Almost 60 new Australian citizens added to the spectacle of Floriade today in a ceremony which started a week of celebrations across the nation for Australian Citizenship Day 2008. Governor-General Ms Quentin Bryce AC participated in the Canberra ceremony in which people from Ethiopia, India, the Philippines and United Kingdom were among those who became citizens, joining more than 2500 people in the ACT who embraced Australian citizenship in 2007-08 [...]
Australia’s 40,976 registered not-for-profit organisations received $74.5 billion in 2006-07, according to figures released recently by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Registered not-for-profit organisations are [...]
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