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Totally Renewable Yackandandah
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June 10, 2015. WHEN Frank Burfitt was planning the new Men’s Shed at Yackandandah, he struck a problem its electricity supply. It required a costly new connection from the road, traversing the hospital grounds. So they did something that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago: bypass the network altogether. We did it cheaper than connecting to the grid, Burfitt, a retired electrical engineer, explains. In central Victoria and Uralla. In northern NSW. Newstead was recently awarded. A $200,000 gr...
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Features
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The agents of racism. March 22, 2016. On racial profiling, hard-won police reforms, and why the. Was so wrong about the riots. IT was mid-2013, and I was about to sit in on a multicultural training session for new Victoria Police recruits. I was writing a feature for. It had taken me several months of asking and some good fortune to get inside the academy, which is located in an old seminary on top of Wheelers Hill. For the brief time remaining, the recruits responded to scenario cards. In the first ...
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Community development
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June 10, 2015. WHEN Frank Burfitt was planning the new Men’s Shed at Yackandandah, he struck a problem its electricity supply. It required a costly new connection from the road, traversing the hospital grounds. So they did something that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago: bypass the network altogether. We did it cheaper than connecting to the grid, Burfitt, a retired electrical engineer, explains. In central Victoria and Uralla. In northern NSW. Newstead was recently awarded. A $200,000 gr...
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The Age
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Victoria Police ban racial profiling. September 26, 2015. TEN years ago, Daniel Haile-Michael and his teenage friends felt nervous walking the streets of Flemington: they were scared of being harassed by the police. And then they sued them, for racial discrimination. Now, in a groundbreaking reform Victoria Police has become the first police force in Australia to officially define and prohibit racial profiling by its officers. Ms Tamar Hopkins, from the Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Centre, w...
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