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Australia’s high population growth starts to slow
Preliminary estimates of Australia’s annual population growth rate slowed to 2.0% over 2009, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Rhe preliminary annual growth rate peaked at 2.2% [...]
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Moving Chifley forward with Ed Husic (0)
Chifley voters have a clear choice on August 21. And my choice is Labor. I will go for Ed Husic, Federal Labor candidate for Chifley. Mr Husic is committed to the priorities of better healthcare along with increased support for training and education. “In only its first term, Federal Labor moved quickly to achieve things [...]
Political Polls – How Reliable Are They? (0)
“I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is [...]
Priest runs for Chifley (0)
Venus Priest grew up in Iligan City, Lanao del Norte, Philippines. Because of her passion to help people, she enrolled and finished a Bachelor of Science Course in Nursing, and practiced privately for a number of years. Arriving in Australia in 1995, she attained an Advanced diploma in Accounting with Western Sydney TAFE. She further [...]
Is Labor Party on its way out? (1)
The freefall of Kevin Rudd in the opinion poll from the 70′s to 30′s satisfaction rate and Labor’s primary vote at 35 while Liberal, 40 got all the knives out from Labor’s factional warlords in an unparalleled political assassination. In a matter of hours, Australia has a new Prime Minister, a female, Julia Gillard. The [...]
Filipino recipes in multicultural Australia (2)
The ‘The Healthy and Tasty Challenge Cookbook’ contains recipes submitted by five Filipino cooks in a competition. The competition was conducted by the NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service [MHCS] and involved the Chinese, Filipino, Italian, Samoan and Sri Lankan [Sinhalese and Tamil] communities. Over two hundred recipes [...]
Where art thou, Pepe? (1)
During my younger years, I had my favourite “things” such as Maths, Drama, Journalism, Debating and Dancing. I could ace my Trigo exam without even studying but unfortunately History was my waterloo. I couldn’t see the logic of studying the past when I was a very active child always looking forward to the future. But [...]
Tutubing Pinoy (6)
Batang si Rizal / nanghuli ng tutubi / inipit and pakpak / kinausap ang sarili , May pag-asa pa ba / ang patria adorada? / lumuha ang kulisap / na may luntiang mata..[...]
Still searching for our own identity (3)
Ako ay Pilipino.But what does it mean to be a Filipino? What values do I uphold? What am I known for? What do I contribute to society? Am I really proud to be a Filipino? It’s weird but when I ask people these questions, I get answers such as “I am Filipino because I love [...]
Ignoring the answer to our prayers (6)
Ignoring someone is arguably the worst kind of criticism. For three decades since my arrival in Sydney, the Filipino community had clamoured, nay, prayed, for someone with the courage and the credentials to represent Filipino-Australians in the political arena. About two years ago, our prayers were answered: Jess Diaz, a member of the NSW Bar, [...]
Making a difference in politics (1)
Whatever happens in the Philippines reflect on overseas Filipinos. A progressive and developed Philippines with good, transparent and corrupt-free government raises our esteem, otherwise, we are looked upon as mirrors of its third-world status.
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