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Orzecznictwo sądów australijskich

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Podaje za Starym Wiarusem:
Orzecznictwo High Court of Australia (i wszystkich innych sądów australijskich)
znajdziesz pod www.austlii.edu.au

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witajcie

nie chce zakladac osobnego watka wiec skorzystam z tego temu ktory jest zw z
australia.
mieszkam obecnie we wloszech wraz mezem-wlochem i dzieckiem 2 lata.
wymyslilismy sobie by pojechac na rok max na 2 lata do australii. mamy
niesamowita ochote zmienic cos w zyciu, mamy ochote zobaczyc swiat wiec
istnieje tylko taka opcja- przeprowadzka.

w zwiazku z czym chcielibysmy wejsc w kontakt z ludzmi ktorzy byli lub sa w au,
sydney melbrourne. przegladamy caly czas strony zwiazane z au, ale szczerze
liczymy tez na wasze doswiadczenia. proponuje kontakt przez skype. w ten sposob
obie strony nie beda tracic zbyt duzo czasu.

mam nadzieje ze ktos zadzwoni do nas.

lub przesle wiadomosc.


jestem dyspozycyjna od 5 30 rano i o 14 do 17 wg czasu europejskiego. jezli
ktos nie moze w tych godzinach to prosze o wiadomosc na skype to sie umowimy,
tak zeby bylo wygodnie.
pozdrawiam serd. z slonecznej italii.


ps. nasz skype:

marafioti3383

Australijska druzyna pilkarska - dzieci imigrantow

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Ciekawy artykul na temat pilki noznej w Australii i wplywu imigrantow na rozwoj tego sportu z 31 maja tego roku.
Calosc tekstu ponizej:
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Australia's World XI

Football helped sustain new migrants in a strange land, with a strange tongue,
and even stranger sporting codes, writes Steve Meacham.

GERMAN-born Doris Schwarzer still remembers a conversation she had with her
butcher in western Sydney in the 1980s. He asked what sport her son Mark
played. When she told him soccer - as the game was then called - he
said: "Soccer is for softies. A real man plays football."

By "football", of course, he meant rugby league, or possibly rugby union. And
by "real man", he meant a true-blue Australian. "That was the attitude back
then," says Schwarzer, whose honeymoon was the four-week voyage from Bremen
with her husband, Hans, in 1968. "He probably still thinks it."

Perhaps. But it's likely that same butcher would want to wish her son well.
After all, the saves Mark Schwarzer made as goalkeeper in the penalty shoot-out
against Uruguay last November ensured Australia will be represented at the
World Cup, a sporting carnival arguably even greater than the Olympics.

But it's not just Schwarzer. The 2006 Socceroos are a living embodiment of what
we now call multiculturalism. Look at the surnames of the 23 players named last
week in the squad to go to Germany. Among them Aloisi, Bresciano, Covic, Kalac,
Lazaridis, Popovic, Skoko, Sterjovski, Viduka. True, there are no Asian names,
but surely that is only a matter of time?

As Les Murray - the undisputed voice of Australian football now that his friend
and colleague Johnny Warren is dead - explains: "This Socceroo outfit, by and
large, are the children of migrants, the people who came here in the '50s, '60s
and '70s. And without those migrants, and the way they replanted the seeds of
football in this country, this team would not exist."

Herald football correspondent Michael Cockerill put it beautifully in a column
he wrote that night in November when Australia qualified. "In a multicultural
nation in a fractured world, the Socceroos can bring together the sum of their
parts: Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican. German, Lebanese, Polynesian,
Croatian, Italian, Melanesian, Greek. It is a rich tapestry but last night
they - and we - were one thing only. Australian."

Murray, a refugee whose Hungarian parents fled here after the Soviet crackdown
in 1956, is well qualified to talk about the way football helped sustain new
migrants who found themselves in a strange land, with a strange tongue, and
even stranger sporting codes. As an 11-year-old, living in a refugee camp in
Wagga Wagga, Murray remembers being amazed he'd come to a country that wasn't
in love with the 11-man game that had dominated his childhood: "I didn't know
such a place even existed." Later, when he learnt English, he found himself in
playground arguments with "kids who thought rugby league was the most popular
game in the world".

Murray's reflections on migration and football are among those used in a new
exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum, funded by the NSW Migration Heritage
Centre. The curator, Anni Turnbull, decided to interview the parents of five
Socceroos because, "having curated several sports exhibitions, I realised how
poorly represented soccer has been in our cultural institutions and, frankly,
our media".

The World Cup dream: stories of Australia's soccer mums and dads opens (at the
museum and online) on Monday.

The players Turnbull chose represent the broad spectrum of the modern sport.
Four were the children of migrants - Schwarzer, Vince Grella, Jason Culina and
Ahmad Elrich (who was not included in the World Cup squad, to the
disappointment of his Lebanese-born parents). Scott Chipperfield has Australian-
born parents but was included because his distant forebears came from Britain.

"We are a country of migrants," says Turnbull. "We're here because of migration
policy, including British migration." Football has been played competitively in
Australia since 1880, but it never really took root as a mainstream spectator
sport until postwar migrants began arriving from Europe. There were many false
dawns - most notably when the Socceroos qualified for the World Cup for the
first time in 1974. But, in the title of Warren's autobiography, most native-
born Australians dismissed the people who played the game as "wogs, poofs and
sheilas".

For Branko Culina, Jason's father and a former professional player, playing
football was part assimilation, part survival. He arrived in Melbourne as an 11-
year-old from Croatia. "I can still vividly remember the day we arrived. It was
a Sunday. We went to our uncle's house in Brunswick and in the afternoon we
went to our first football match, Melbourne Croatia versus George Cross.
Football was part of the Australian experience from day one."

Culina has a theory that the Croatian expatriate community in Australia was
bound together by two factors: God and the round ball. "Croatians were a very
close-knit community when we got here. They probably still are, but not to the
same extent. Soccer - or football as we now call it - and the church kept the
community together."

Croatia was then part of communist Yugoslavia. "In those days if you said you
were from Croatia, people said 'Where?'," Culina says. "Most Croatians left
Yugoslavia because they wanted a better lifestyle and because they wanted
freedom. When they arrived here they found they were able to stay in touch with
each other through soccer and the church."

Did they use their Croatian sports clubs to retain their own culture or to ease
their way into mainstream Australian society? "A bit of both," he says. The
soccer clubs were a way "of keeping an identity, but also searching for an
identity, for acceptance".

Up to seven players of Croatian ancestry were in the running for the Socceroo
squad. Another three were born here, but have opted to play for Croatia, adding
spice to the fact that Australia and Croatia have been drawn to play each other.

"We've got friends and relatives, both here and in Croatia, who are looking
forward with great anticipation to this game," Culina says. "But there are no
divided loyalties. Our loyalties are with Australia and with our son."

Antonio and Maria Grella will also be proudly wearing Socceroo jerseys in
Germany as they watch "Vincenzo", the most famous of their three football-
playing sons. "There will be no Grellas in Australia," says Maria. The entire
family is heading to the World Cup, for their first-ever holiday together.

Neither Antonio nor Maria spoke English when they arrived as children from
Italy in the 1960s. Most of their social life centred around the strong Italian
expatriate community in Melbourne's Richmond. And football was a major plank of
that community.

Even as an 11-year-old Vince's dream was to play for Australia, not Italy -
even though fulfilling that dream meant having to leave Australia.

Maria, in particular, remembers the anguish when Vince left Canberra Cosmos as
an 18-year-old to test his talent in Italy's ultra-competitive Serie A league,
initially for Empoli. "It was hard for us, and hard for him. He was very
lonely." But now that he plays for Parma, one of Italy's best clubs, both
parents feel the family sacrifice was worth it.

Murray has a theory that the migrants who relied on football the most were
those who found it hardest to fit into mainstream Australia. "Different ethnic
clubs disappeared at varying speeds. The earliest clubs to die were the Dutch
clubs and the German clubs because they

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Australia's World XI - dokonczenie artykulu

Murray has a theory that the migrants who relied on football the most were
those who found it hardest to fit into mainstream Australia. "Different ethnic
clubs disappeared at varying speeds. The earliest clubs to die were the Dutch
clubs and the German clubs because they assimilated quicker. The Hungarian
clubs also disappeared quite quickly.

"The Croatians had a political axe to grind. Their clubs were a political
statement against the nasty regime in Belgrade. Once Croatia became
independent, interest in following that club largely fell away."

But he recalls with affection his early years in Australia. "That weekend break
of a couple of hours watching a team called Budapest was a nice relief from the
hostilities. Because you were there with your own mob, who spoke the same
language, ate the same food. So it was being back in your homeland for a brief
period.

"That's why migrants formed football clubs around the country. They simply had
to."

A HINT OF TUSSLES TO COME
DALE CHIPPERFIELD was surprised to find a couple of Swiss backpackers had made
a special detour to see Wollongong a couple of years ago. They were fans of FC
Basle on a world trip, and they were desperate to visit the childhood stamping
ground of their midfield star.

Though he has been capped almost 50 times, Chipperfield's son, Scott, has
hardly been a household name in Australia - a situation that is likely to
change over the next few weeks.

Yet it speaks volumes for the Socceroo diaspora that a lad who learned his
skills in the Illawarra, driving a school bus every morning before training as
a way of supplementing his semi-professional income, should be feted in Europe
and largely ignored in his homeland.

His mother, who lives at Corrimal, will be travelling to Germany to watch her
son in action - and to catch up with her two-year-old grandson, Liam.

"Scott bought Liam a soccer ball before he was even born," says Chipperfield.
But there is one problem she sees on the horizon.

Liam has a Swiss-born mother, Stefanie, and, as Chipperfield says, that
means "Liam can play for either Switzerland or Australia. We'll have to see who
wins out."

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A good website about tourism in Australia. The season for tourists from abroad
is about to begin because it is Przedwiosnie. usps tracking Rafa still not too hot,
soon start to bloom flowers field in Western Australia

Australia dla grotolazow

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Australia dla grotolazow i turystow - strona internetowa Australian
Speleological Federation: www.caves.org.au/ oraz Sydney University
Speleological Society: ee.usyd.edu.au/suss/

Duza lista australijskich jaskin jest w angielskojezycznej Wikipedii (w polskiej wersji nie ma informacji o tutejszych jaskiniach)

Przyklady: Jaskinie Jenolan najstarszymi otwartymi jaskiniami swiata - tekst artykulu ponizej

Inne systemy jaskiniowe w Nowej Poludniowej Walii to Abercrombie, Borenore i
Wombeyan - wiecej informacji w tym linku oraz Wellington Caves

W Poludniowej Australii - jaskinie Naracoorte

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Joy echoes at discovery that Jenolan Caves are world's oldest
Deborah Smith Science Editor
July 26, 2006

THE Jenolan Caves in the Blue Mountains have been dated at 340 million years
old, making them the oldest known open caves in the world.

In a five-year study, a team of Australian scientists tested clay from caves
regularly visited by tourists, such as the Orient Cave and Temple of Baal Cave,
to determine their ancient origins.

Team member, ArmstrongOsborne, of the University of Sydney, said it had been
thought for many years that the limestone caves were only a few thousand years
old.

Then, about six years ago, geologists estimated they could have formed as long
as 100 million years ago.

The new finding was a shock.

"The dates we got are much older than anticipated. It is quite dramatic," Dr
Osborne said.

The second oldest known open cave is in the Guadelupe Mountains in New Mexico,
US, which is 65 million years old. Most other famous caves, such as Postojna
Cave in Slovenia, are thought to be only about 5 million years old, he said.

For the study, CSIRO scientists, led by Dr Horst Zwingmann, used a method they
had developed to help oil exploration companies find oil deposits. By testing
minerals in mud samples from the floors of the caves at Jenolan, they were able
to show that the clay had formed in the distant past from ash blown in from a
nearby volcano.

Dr Osborne said 340 million years was a long time, even in geological
terms. "To put it in context, the Blue Mountains began to form 100 million
years ago; dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago and Tasmania was
joined to the mainland as recently as 10,000 years ago."

He said the discovery, published in the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences,
could assist in a push for Jenolan Caves to gain world heritage listing in
their own right, not just as part of the Blue Mountains listing.

"They deserve it. They are one of the world's most complicated cave systems,"
he said.

Most ancient caves around the world have filled up with rock, and are no longer
accessible, Dr Osborne said.

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Obecny rzad przedstawil propozycje testow dla nowych emigrantow. Oprocz testu z
angielskiego, ktory jest uzywany od lat, usps tracking mieliby zdawac test ze znajomosci
australijskich obyczajow o demokracji (podobny do amerykanskiego testu na Green
Card). Kielbasa wyborcza?

Travel Australia!

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Dobra strona internetowa o turystyce w Australii. Sezon na turystow z zagranicy
wlasnie sie zaczyna bo jest przedwiosnie. Rafa wciaz jeszcze nie za goraca,
niedlugo zaczna kwitnac pola kwiatow w Zachodniej Australii, plaze sydnejskie
zapelnia sie turystami, ktorzy rusza tez na poludnie, na szlaki w tasmanskiej
dziczy. Australia zaprasza: www.smh.com.au/travel/australia/
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Propozycja testow dla nowych imigrantow

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Obecny rzad przedstawil propozycje testow dla nowych emigrantow. Oprocz testu z
angielskiego, ktory jest uzywany od lat, mieliby zdawac test ze znajomosci
australijskich obyczajow o demokracji (podobny do amerykanskiego testu na Green
Card). Kielbasa wyborcza? Na razie odezwaly sie glosy protestu ze spolecznosci
muzulmanskich.

www.smh.com.au/news/national/migrants-face-english-test-quiz/2006/09/17/1158431585587.html

www.smh.com.au/news/national/loyaltys-fine-language-will-fail-you/2006/09/17/1158431585620.html

Pelny tekst pierwszego artykulu ponizej:
Try this quiz - English only
Stephanie Peatling, Barney Zwartz and Adele Horin
September 18, 2006

PEOPLE wanting to become Australian citizens will have to pass an English test
and another 45-minute quiz of up to 30 questions testing knowledge on
everything from the judiciary to indigenous people.

Potential citizens could also be asked to sign a pledge of commitment as part
of the Howard Government's toughening of citizenship requirements. The pledge
could include expressions of loyalty to the nation, its laws and system of
government.

But Islamic leaders yesterday accused the Government of preparing to use
Muslims and the Australian values debate as "the new Tampa" to win next year's
federal election.

Andrew Robb, the parliamentary secretary for immigration and multicultural
affairs, said citizenship was a privilege that "gives us our identity".

"It tells us who we are [and] where we fit in the world. It is a unifying force
in Australia and if we give it away like confetti it is not valued."

Hass Dellal, the executive director of the Australian Multicultural Foundation,
said as long as it was clear the test applied to all migrants, and not just
Muslims, it could lead to a better understanding of Australia, and give
migrants more time to learn English.

But at a weekend conference in Sydney, the first nationwide gathering of imams,
several Islamic leaders who did not want to be named described the Government's
moves on citizenship as "the new Tampa", a reference to the uproar over boat
people that preceded the 2001 election.

Publicly, the leaders criticised Mr Robb's speech to the conference, in which
he urged Islamic clerics to conduct more services in English to warn young
people about terrorism.

Dr Ameer Ali, the chairman of the Muslim Reference Group that advises the
Federal Government, said most imams were already giving sermons in English with
translations into local languages.

One leader, Yasser Soliman, said it was the reference group, of which he is a
member, that had made the sermon proposals to the Government. The Government
had accepted the ideas and agreed that Muslims would not be isolated as "the
problem".

Now the results of a partnership of goodwill were being used as ammunition
against Muslims, making the community suspicious of Muslims and Muslims
suspicious of the Government.

"It looks to Muslims as though the Government engineered the conference so it
could tell Muslims to shape up or ship out," Mr Soliman said.

"The reality is we agree what needs to be done. What we are really asking is
that we be positioned as fellow Australians who may have problems we have to
deal with and are trying to deal with, rather than as a foreign people who are
not integrated, not fellow Australians."

The group of more than 100 imams announced that they would establish a new
national board to tackle issues facing the Muslim community, including
terrorism.

Mr Robb said the new citizenship measures were not aimed at people from any
particular country. "This is not an anti-terrorism initiative," he told Channel
Nine.

"It is an initiative to give the broader Australian community comfort in a very
globalised world where we've got so many people moving around the world," he
said.

Most people wanting to become citizens already have to show a basic
understanding of English during an interview in which they are asked simple
questions, such as how long they have lived here and how many children they
have.

Residency requirements have already been sharpened. People will now have to
wait at least four years instead of two before being able to apply for
citizenship.

But the Government argues a formal citizenship test will provide a "real
incentive to learn English and to understand the Australian way of life",
according to its discussion paper.

While Mr Robb stressed that the language test would not require a university
level of understanding of English, the new version is likely to include both
written and oral sections, with separate components on listening and reading.
People under 18 and over 60 would be exempted from the language requirements,
as would people with disabilities. Failing the test would not have any impact
on a person's existing visa status.

Viewers last night saw the first in a series of government ads on the values of
citizenship.

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Zartem: jak bardzo jestes australijski?

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Are you Aussie enough?
September 18, 2006

Australia is yet to devise its own citizenship test, but John Howard says fair
dinkum immigrants will have no problem passing it. See how you fare with the
Herald's ridgy-didge quiz.

1: Which of the following is NOT an Aussie value?
A: Telling jokes that involve New Zealanders and sheep, or Asians and homework.
B: Ignoring Warnie's off-field transgressions because he is the Sheik.
C: Living in England and claiming Steve Irwin was being reckless.
D: Rubbishing Australia's parliaments and politicians.

2. What is Australia's official language?
A: Yes.
B: Que?
C: I am very happy to be in Australia.
D: English

3: What does "girt" mean?
A: Sorry, could you repeat that in English?
B: Encircled.
C: Confused.
D: Destroyed, as in "Mark Latham girt my camera".

4: What is the significance of April 25, 1915?
A: Phar Lap won the Melbourne Cup.
B: The Anzacs landed at Gallipoli.
C: John Howard became Prime Minister.
D: Greg Norman choked at the Masters.

5: Who is Australia's head of state?
A: Alan Jones.
B: George Bush
C: Tony Abbott.
D: Queen Elizabeth.

6: What is the significance of the number 99.94?
A: It was Don Bradman's Test batting average.
B: Interest rates were this high under Labor.
C: John Howard will retire at this age.
D: Pi (without sauce).

7: Which of the following is an Australian native?
A: Russell Crowe.
B: Mel Gibson.
C: Jackie Kelly.
D: The red-bellied black snake.

8: Which of the following was an unbridled success?
A: Naomi Robson's mission to rescue Wa-Wa from cannibals.
B: The Joh-for-Canberra campaign.
C: The Leyland P76.
D: The 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Answers:1,C; 2,D; 3,B; 4,B; 5,D; 6,A; 7,D; 8,D:

Rate your Aussieness:

8: Welcome, cobber, want a beer?

6-7: No worries.

4-5: Near enough.

3-4: That'll do.

0-2: At least you had a go. Come on in.

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luiza-w-ogrodzie napisała:

> Obecny rzad przedstawil propozycje testow dla nowych emigrantow. Oprocz testu
z
>
> angielskiego, ktory jest uzywany od lat, mieliby zdawac test ze znajomosci
> australijskich obyczajow o demokracji (podobny do amerykanskiego testu na
Green
>
> Card). Kielbasa wyborcza? Na razie odezwaly sie glosy protestu ze
spolecznosci
> muzulmanskich.

Mala poprawka. Niema czegos takiego jak test na "zielona karte" w USA. Jest
test na obywatelstwo i to napewno mialas na mysli.
Swoja droga test ten a wlasciwie egzamin bo zdaje sie go przed oficerem
emigracyjnym jest banalnie prosty a ta podstawowa wiedza z historii,
konstytucji i obecnych struktur wladzy USA bardzo sie przydaje w zyciu. Male a
cieszy.
Dziwie sie, ze mozna to oprotestowac.

Wiosenny dlugi weekend

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W Sydney dzis zaczyna sie dlugi weekend i dwutygodniowe wiosenne wakacje
szkolne. Wyjezdzam poza miasto, za kilka godzin zamykam komputerowy kramik.
Wroce na forum w poniedzialek po polnocy (czasu polskiego).

Dla tych, ktorzy zostaja w miescie polecam w ten weekend: trzydniowy festiwal latynoski w Darling Harbour (najwiekszy w Australii, fantastyczny, pelen energii), dla
milosnikow ogrodow trwa Tulip Festival w pobliskim Bowral , jesli lubicie muzyke
elektroniczna idzcie na wystep londynskiego zespolu Coldcut w Moore Park, a
jesli wolicie jazz, na plazowym deptaku w Manly jest coroczny Manly Jazz Festival . W Melbourne w finalowym meczu rugby AFL bedzie gral sydnejski
zespol Sydney Swans, wiec czesc Sydnejczykow spedzi nieco czasu przed
telewizorami, ale wiekszosc ludzi bedzie na dworze, bo pogoda ma byc piekna,
slonecznie, ale nie za goraco. Parki beda pelne piknikujacych, na wodzie zaroi
sie od lodek, motorowek, kajakow i jachtow a na niebie bedzie widac male
akrobatyczne samoloty klubowe. Restauracje i teatry zapelnia sie kolorowym,
wiosennym tlumem.

A ja nie bede na zadnej z tych imprez gdyz caly weekend bede przemierzac masyw Budawangs w Morton National Park . Pomacham w Wasza strone z The Castle... moze zdaze w drodze
powrotnej zajrzec do Bowral, obejrzec tulipany.

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Co sie stalo z "Cyberexpressem" ? przestal istniec ?.

Co sie stalo z "Cyberexpressem"?

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dr.wal2 napisał:

> Co sie stalo z "Cyberexpressem" ? przestal istniec ?.

Nie wiem, nigdy nie mialam z tym magazynem do czynienia. Moze Pawel z Melbourne
wie?

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Co sie dzieje w Sydney: roczne kalendarium

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Co sie dzieje w Sydney: roczne kalendarium plus linki do Sydney "24 godziny na
dobe, siedem dni w tygodniu"
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STYCZEN:

Sydney Festival - trzytygodniowy festiwal sztuki: przedstawienia teatralne,
operowe, filmy, festyny, wystawy www.sydneyfestival.org.au

Australia Day (26 stycznia) - obchody rocznica powstania federacji
australijskiej: festyny, wyscig promow i inne atrakcje
www.australiaday.com.au/
Big Day Out (24 stycznia) - wielki koncert rockowy www.bigdayout.com/


LUTY:
Poczatek roku szkolnego, upal, wszyscy siedza na sydnejskich plazach...
www.discoversydney.com.au/sydney/beach.html
sydney.i4u.com.au/sydney-parks-gardens/index.htm

MARZEC:

Royal Easter Show czyli tutejsze Dozynki, od kilku lat odbywajace sie na
terenach sydnejskiej Olimpiady 2000 www.eastershow.com.au/


KWIECIEN:

Ironfest w Lithgow www.ironfest.com.au/

Prywatne jesienne ogrody otwarte dla publicznosci, niektore z nich w ramach
Australia's Open Garden Scheme: www.opengarden.org.au/


MAJ:

Middle Eastern Festival - festiwal tanca brzucha (przelom kwietnia/maja) w
dzielnicy Newtown www.sydmedfest.com/


CZERWIEC:
poczatek sezonu narciarskiego www.ski.com.au/

LIPIEC:

Christmas in July, czyli swietowanie gwiazdki zima!
www.bluemts.com.au/yulefest/

SIERPIEN:

City to Surf, najwiekszy publiczny bieg w Australii trasa z City na plaze
city2surf.sunherald.com.au/?

WRZESIEN:

Sustainable House Day - weekend, w czasie ktorego otwarte sa w Sydney i
okolicach domy ekologicznie samowystarczalne (lub z zainstalowanymi
urzadzeniami zmniejszajacymi zuzycie wody i energii)
www.solarhouseday.com.au/ oraz www.sustainablehouse.com.au/

Festival of the Winds - z calego swiata zjezdzaja sie pasjonaci budowy latawcow
zeby je puszczac na plazy Bondi www.aks.org.au/aks_files/fotw.htm


PAZDZIERNIK:
wiele imprez odbywa sie w czasie dlugiego weekendu (Labour Day - pierwszy
weekend pazdziernika)

Prywatne wiosenne ogrody otwarte dla publicznosci, niektore z nich w ramach
Australia's Open Garden Scheme: www.opengarden.org.au/ albo festiwal
tulipanow w pobliskim Bowral: www.tuliptime.net.au/

Manly Jazz Festival: www.manly.nsw.gov.au/Manly-Jazz-Festival-.html

Latin Festival w Darling Harbour


LISTOPAD:

Melbourne Cup, czyli najwieksze wyscigi konne w Australii. Mimo ze sam wyscig
odbywa sie w Melbourne, cala Australia tego dnia baluje a po miescie chodza
ludzie wystrojeni jak na wyscigi.
www.melbournecup.com/cpa/htm/htm_mcc_home.asp?page_id=2
Sculpture by the Sea: plenerowa wystawa rzezby na wybrzezu od plazy Tamarama do
Bondi www.sculpturebythesea.com/


GRUDZIEN:

Carols in the Domain (w tym roku 16 grudnia) - spiewanie koled na otwartym
powietrzu, na lace w centrum miasta, niedaleko Krolewskiego Ogrodu Botanicznego
www.carolsinthedomain.com/entry.html
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race (26 grudnia) slynne regaty z Sydney do stolicy
Tasmanii, Hobart rolexsydneyhobart.com/editorial.asp?key=527

Noworoczne fajerwerki w sydnejskim porcie www.sydneynewyearseve.com.au/
_________________
Sydney 24 godziny na dobe, siedem dni w tygodniu: www.sydney247.com.au/
Mozna szukac tu filmow, koncertow, wystepow teatralnych i wystaw, restauracji,
informacji o pogodzie... inna dobra strona to www.citysearch.com.au

Informacja o muzyce glownie mlodziezowej: wystepy, festiwale muzyczne, trasy
koncertowe triplej.yourevents.com.au/index.cfm?
checked=true&tsp=201006124745

Co sie dzieje z jazzie: www.jazzscene.com.au/gigguide_nsw.htm

Pozdrawiam i zapraszam do mojego ulubionego miasta
Luiza-w-Ogrodzie
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Australia-uzyteczne linki

Luizo, czy byla juz kuchnia?

[peerelski]

jesli nie to oczekuje pochwaly, oto link:

fooddownunder.com/
a jest tam tez przepis na potrawe w stylu Poszepszynski Family: maka, cukier,
sol i... piwo:

fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=12348
Yummo!! no to co? zapraszasz na degustacje?

Ranking krajow wg stylu zycia - Australia nr 2

[luiza-w-ogrodzie]

W ogloszonym ostatnio przez amerykanski magazyn "International Living" rankingu krajow wg stylu zycia Australia jest nr 2 po
Francji.

W ocenianiu krajow w tym rankingu bierze sie pod uwage koszt zycia, kulture i
wypoczynek, ekonomie, srodowisko, wolnosc, zdrowie i dlugosc zycia,
infrastrukture, bezpieczenstwo i ryzyko oraz klimat.

Dlaczego Australia? Ma dobry klimat (89 punktow),
zrelaksowany styl zycia, glownie na swiezym powietrzu, niski koszt zycia (73
punkty), wysoki kurs dolara, mocna ekonomia (89 punktow - Australia jest
czescia APEC), stabilny rzad... itd itp

Pozdrawiam
Luiza-w-Ogrodzie
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Australia-uzyteczne linki

[zorbathegreek]

Kto wybral kryteria oceny i kto przydzielil wagi do poszczegolnych kryteriow?
Bowiem ja moge latwo zrobic ranking wedlug stylu zycia, gdzie Polska zajmie
bardzo latwo pierwsze miejsce, bowiem:
- w Polsce dobrze jest znany jezyk polski
- Polska ma silna i stabilna walute (kurs AUD ciagle spada wzgledem PLN)
- Polska ma najsmaczniejsz a przy tym tanie wody mineralne i czyste powietrze,
nawet w duzych miastach
- Polska ma bardzo bogate zycie kulturalne
- Polska ma najlepsze teatry wystawiajace sztuki po polsku
- Polska jest relatywnie tania (dobry obiad mozna tu zjesc za mniej niz AUD10
od lebka, dla porownania taki sam obiad w Australii to minimum AUD25)
- Polska jest czescia UE i czlonkiem NATO
itp. itd.
Pozdr.

Zasilki dla samotnych rodzicow

[luiza-w-ogrodzie]

W Australii regularne zasilki dla rodzicow, w tym samotnych, sa federalne i
skladaja sie z dwoch czesci: Parenting Payment i Family Tax Benefit (parts A &
B). Po urodzeniu dziecka dostaje sie tez jednorazowe "becikowe" zwane tu
Maternity Payment ($4100) i zasilek na szczepienia Maternity Immunisation
Allowance ($227).

Wysokosc zasilkow zalezy od statusu malzenskiego i materialnego osoby
opiekujacej sie dzieckiem oraz od wieku dziecka. Pelna lista zasilkow jest na
stronie Centerlinku.

Parenting Payment obecnie wynosi maksymalnie $512.10 co
dwa tygodnie (samotna osoba z dzieckiem)

Family Tax benefit (part A & B)

Maximum Rate of Family Tax Benefit A:
For Each Child Per Fortnight Per Year
Under 13 years $140.84 $4317.95
13-15 years $179.76 $5332.65
16 - 17 years $45.36 $1828.65
18 - 24 years $61.04 $2237.45

Maximum Rate of Family Tax Benefit B
Age of Youngest Child Per Fortnight Per Year Per Year with supplement
Under 5 years $120.96 $3153.60 $3467.50
5 - 15 years (or 16 - 18 years if a full-time student) $84.28 $2197.30 $2511

Jak z tego widac, maksymalnie __co dwa tygodnie__ samotny rodzic z 1 dzieckiem
moze dostac $812 dolarow samych zasilkow (ponad 21 tysiecy dolarow rocznie):
Parenting Payment $512.10 + FTB (A) $179.76 + FTB (B) $120.96

Oprocz tego dla samotnych rodzicow istnieja obnizki/doplaty na pewne uslugi:
Child Care Benefit ktory pokrywa czesc kosztow
licencjonowanych przedszkoli i swietlic szkolnych.
Concession and Health Care Cards karta znizkowa uzywana
dla uzyskania znizek w przychodniach, aptekach, kosztach edukacji i transportu.
Znizki zaleza od wladz stanowych.
Rent Assistance czyli doplata do czynszu, np dla samotnej
osoby z dzieckiem maksymalnie $121.24 co dwa tygodnie.
Pensioner Education Supplement pokrywajacy czesc kosztow
zwiazanych z edukacja

O ile te zasilki pozwalaja na bardzo skromne zycie w najdrozszym miescie
Australii (Sydney) gdzie czynsze sa najwyzsze, w innych miastach wystarczaja na
wiecej.

Lata temu dzieki tym zasilkom moglam spokojnie uczyc sie angielskiego,
wychowujac dzieci i mieszkajac w wynajetym mieszkaniu a potem moglam zdobyc
lokalne wyksztalcenie, co pomoglo mi w znalezieniu pracy.

Pozdrawiam
Luiza-w-Ogrodzie
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Australia-uzyteczne linki

[peerelski]

Na fot.10 pokazano typowy australijski most przez rzeke
www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2007/06/15/1181414520330.html?slideshow=true

[peerelski]

Households owe a staggering $160 for every $100 of disposable income, up from
about $50 in the early 1990s.
w sytuacjach finansowo krytycznych aby splacic naglace dlugi Australijczyk
siega, po uzyskaniu pozwolenia, po pieniadze zgromadzone na jego funduszu
emerytalnym.. za kilkanascie lat zabraknie tu pod mostami miejsca do spania
www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/16/1181414613140.html

Australia - rekordowo niskie bezrobocie

[luiza-w-ogrodzie]

Rekordowo niskie bezrobocie - przewidywania ze spadnie ponizej 4%, czyli
najnizej od 33 lat: www.smh.com.au/news/business/the-bad-news-is-its-
jobs-galore/2007/07/09/1183833431858.html

Dla chetnych na przyjazd na wize studencka (mozna pracowac 20 godzin w tygodniu)
polecam Sydney: "The head of Restaurant & Catering Australia, John Hart, said
Sydney restaurants in particular were feeling the staff squeeze. "Every
restaurant, on average, could employ another person if they fronted up to the
door," he said."

Pozdrawiam
Luiza-w-Ogrodzie
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Australia-uzyteczne linki

[kuba.peerelski]

to dzieki tym ktorzy sa zmuszeni pracowac na pol etatu, choc chcieliby na pelny
etat... no i dzieki temu tez ze np. bezrobotny maz pracujacej zony nie ma prawa
do zasilku (sprobowaliby taki system wprowadzic np. w Niemczech!)... ale i
tak ten aktualny, oficjalny, naciagniety przez liberalow wskaznik bezrobocia w
Australii wciaz jest wyzszy od najwyzszego jaki kiedykolwiek notowano w Japonii

Emigranci: mniejsze bezrobocie niz przecietne

[luiza-w-ogrodzie]

Emigrancji szukaja i znajduja prace, przyczyniajac sie do 1/3
wzrostu zatrudnienia.

W roku finansowym 2005-06 (liczy sie od 1 lipca 2005 do 30 czerwca
2006) Australia wydala ponad 180 tys. wiz stalego pobytu, z czego
wiecej niz polowa to byly wizy w kategorii "skilled migrant". 1/4
wiz otrzymali czlonkowie rodzin Australijczykow, 24 tys. zostalo
wydanych dla osadnikow z Nowej Zelandii i 14 tys. ze wzgledow
humanitarnych - dla uchodzcow.

caly artykul ponizej:
-----------------
Reserve destroys the myth of migrants on dole

Jessica Irvine Economics Correspondent
September 21, 2007

THE stereotype of the dole-bludging immigrant is a myth, research by
the Reserve Bank has found.

Drawing on unpublished figures from the Bureau of Statistics, the
bank's researchers found workforce participation among immigrants
who arrived between 2001 and 2005 was higher than for the total
population.

The proportion in or looking for work in July this year was 68.2 per
cent, compared to 65 per cent for the population as a whole.

A strong economy, increased skilled migration and the fact that
immigrants were more likely to be of working age were behind the
result, the bank said.

"With immigrants relatively more concentrated in the prime working-
age group, it may not be surprising that they have participation
rates above the national average," a paper released yesterday said.

Immigrant unemployment had also fallen dramatically over the past
two decades, the bank found, from above 30 per cent during the 1991
recession, to roughly 7 per cent last year.

The longer someone had been in Australia, the further this fell. For
migrants who arrived between 2001 and 2005 their jobless rate in
July this year was almost the same as the national rate, 4.9 per
cent compared to 4.3 per cent. For more recent arrivals, in 2006 or
2007, it was still higher at 13.1 per cent.

"While in the year after arrival the immigrant unemployment rate is
consistently higher than the national unemployment rate, in recent
years this gap has narrowed significantly," the Reserve Bank said.

Immigrants accounted for almost a third of all jobs growth between
2001 and 2006.

In an economy close to full employment, migrant workers and
increased participation by older and younger workers have helped
keep pressure off wages and inflation - the trigger for higher
interest rates.

"Immigrants have accounted for a considerable proportion of
employment growth in a historically tight labour market," the bank
said.

More than 180,000 permanent visas were granted in 2005-06, with more
than half granted under the skilled migrant scheme. A quarter were
granted to family members of Australians, 24,000 for New Zealand
settlers and 14,000 for humanitarian reasons.

The bank said there was still scope for increased participation by
older people in the workforce.

While participation had increased dramatically in the past decade,
Australia had fewer people aged 55 to 64 in the workforce than
comparable economies. It was 57.5 per cent in Australia, 59 in
Canada, 63.5 in Britain and the US, and 73 in Sweden.

Plywanie w Sydney

[luiza-w-ogrodzie]

Sydney ma 37 plaz - przy wielu z nich sa baseny napelniane woda z oceanu.
Oprocz tego w miescie jest kilkaset basenow publicznych (Wydzial Zdrowia pisze
o ponad 200, w ktorych nadzoruja jakosc wody). Najwieksze i najbardziej znane
centra to Homebush Aquatic Park (miejsce zawodow olimpijskich w 2000),
wybudowane na potrzeby Olimpiady do konkurencji waterpolo centrum w Ryde,
nowoczesna plywalnia obok Hyde Park (Cook + Phillip Park) i mnostwo innych.

Publiczne baseny w centrum Sydney sa bardzo zroznicowane i
ciekawe. Wsrod nich odkryty ogrzewany basen czynny caly rok jest w Camperdown
(Victoria Park Pool)

Nie chce mi sie spisywac wszystkich basenow, ale robiac koleja kolko z Hornsby
przez Northern Line do City, potem porzez Harbour Bridge i z powrotem do
Hornsby przez North Shore Line mozna zaliczyc 5 odkrytych ogrzewanych 50m
basenow czynnych przez caly rok: Hornsby Aquatic Centre potem podjechac do Epping Aquatic Centre stamtad do Burwood, do najstarszego
slodkowodnego 50m basenu w Sydney Enfield Swimming Centre zas stacje dalej przy samych torach
jest polozone Ashfield Aquatic Centre. Na koncu nalezy zaliczyc kultowy
North Sydney Olympic Pool umieszczony przy samym
Harbour Bridge.

Wiecej komentarzy na temat plywania w Sydney mozecie znalezc tutaj:
www.visitnsw.com.au/default.aspx?PageID=644
members.ozemail.com.au/~[e-mail]/syd/beaches.htm
...a na zakonczenie nieco zdjec sydnejskich plaz,
w tym mojego ulubionego oceanicznego basenu na Collaroy.

Pozdrawiam wszystkich plywajacych zima
Luiza-w-Ogrodzie
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Australia-uzyteczne linki

[julia30bb]

Luizo super wątek, będę około tygodnia w Sydney.
pozdrawiam

Pytanie: poszukiwanie zaginionych

[morsa]

Do kogo sie zwrocic, jezeli stracilo sie kontakt z osoba
przebywajaca na Work&Travel Visa?
Pilne......

[bogo2]

wszystko zalezy, od tego, czy to ty stracilas kontakt, czy tez osoba nie chce
sie juz z toba kontaktowac...!

morsa napisała:

> Do kogo sie zwrocic, jezeli stracilo sie kontakt z osoba
> przebywajaca na Work&Travel Visa?
> Pilne......

[morsa]

To moje dziecko, ma wrocic do domu za niecale
dwa tygodnie.......

[bogo2]

jezeli znasz termin powrotu , to ta osoba nie jest zginiona....
ale rozumiem twoj niepokoj...
to co mozesz zrobic to, zadzwonic na dzielnicowy posterunek policji, gdzie
zatrzymalo sie twoje dziecko i poprosic o to, aby sprawdzili, czy nadal tam
mieszka...

morsa napisała:

> To moje dziecko, ma wrocic do domu za niecale
> dwa tygodnie.......

- uzyteczne strony internetowe

[piss.doff]

fajnie u was dziala cenzura, hehehe www.ausearchengine.com/10087801-
newaus_com.html

O pogodzie jeszcze raz

[luiza-w-ogrodzie]

Sezon burz oraz sezon pozarowy poza strefa tropikalna trwaja pol
roku, od poczatku pazdziernika do konca marca. Mini traby
powietrzne, grad wielkosci pilek tenisowych, kilkaset piorunow na
godzine, pol metra opadow na dobe - to wszystko zdarza sie co roku,
ale na bardzo malych obszarach. Biuro meteorologiczne czasem
wychwyci zblizajaca sie "storm cell" i nadaja ostrzezenia, ale te
male i gwaltowne zawirowania pogodowe zdarzaja sie bardzo szybko.

Polecam strone Bureau of Meteorology www.bom.gov.au/climate/
oraz bardzo ciekawa ksiazke o australijskim klimacie pod tytulem: Drought, Dust and Deluge
opublikowana przez to biuro.

Luiza-w-Ogrodzie
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Australia-uzyteczne linki

Sydney - majlepsze miasto dla turystow w 2007

[luiza-w-ogrodzie]

Czytelnicy wielkiego amerykanskiego magazynu Conde Nast Traveler od
1988 roku glosuja na najlepsze miasta z punktu widzenia turysty. W
tym roku tytul najlepszego miasta swiata uzyskalo Sydney.

www.smh.com.au/news/news/sydney-ranked-top-city-in-tourist-poll/2007/10/11/1191696060150.html

Sydney ranked top city in tourist poll
October 11, 2007 - 3:39PM

Sydney has been ranked the world's top city in an international
tourist poll by a top US travel magazine.

The Australian tourist mecca scored the highest points when rated by
readers of US-based Conde Nast Traveler (Conde Nast Traveler) in the
magazine's annual readers choice awards.

The awards, which began in 1988, are awarded after questionnaires
are sent to the magazine's 387,000 subscribers, who rank top cities,
islands, resorts and airlines.

Sydney scored the highest mark this year, on 87.7, beating Florence
(86.8), San Francisco (85.9) and Bangkok (85.8), with readers
commenting on the city's "ambience and friendliness".

Also scoring mentions in the regional lists were US city Santa Fe
(84.1), and Venice and New York (both 82.9).

Melbourne was the only other Australian city to make the list,
scoring 76.3.

Federal Tourism Minister Fran Bailey said the award was good news
for Australian tourism.

"This is a well deserved win," Ms Bailey said today.

She said the Sydney Harbour, Opera House and great shopping made
Sydney "one of the greatest cities in the world".

She said the award should spur more Americans to take the trip Down
Under.

"Conde Nast is one of the most recognised travel publications,
especially for the American market," Ms Bailey said.

"Sydney is an international gateway for tourists.

"First stop is often Sydney, but then they visit other great cities
such as Melbourne and regional areas such as the beautiful Yarra
Valley."

She said the American tourism market was worth $1.9 billion annually
with more than 450,000 Americans visiting Australia each year.

It is not the first time Sydney has been rated best city by the
magazine.

Sydney has won top spot on the magazine's best city list many times
since 1993.

Rankings of top cities by region, according to the Conde Nast
Traveler Reader's Choice Awards:

PACIFIC RIM

1.Sydney 87.7
2.Melbourne 76.3
3.Queenstown, N.Z. 74.6
4.Christchurch, N.Z. 72.5
5.Wellington, N.Z. 70.8

EUROPE

1.Florence 86.8
2.Rome 85.0
3.Venice 82.9
4.Istanbul 81.3
5.Paris 80.8
6.Barcelona 79.7
7.Siena 79.6
8.Bruges 78.3
8.London 78.3
10.Vienna 78.1

United States

1.San Francisco 85.9
2.Santa Fe 84.1
3.New York City 82.9
4.Chicago 82.2
5.Charleston, S.C. 81.8
6.Carmel 79.6
7.Honolulu 78.4
8.Aspen 78.3
9.Seattle 78.0
10.Sedona 77.7

AFRICA/ MIDDLE EAST

1.Cape Town 82.8
2.Marrakech 75.6
3.Jerusalem 74.2
4.Beirut 71.1
5.Dubai 69.9

ASIA

1.Bangkok 85.8
2.Hong Kong 80.4
3.Chiang Mai, Thailand 79.9
4.Singapore 78.8
5.Kyoto 77.7
6.Shanghai 76.5
7.Jaipur, India 74.1
8.Tokyo 70.5
9.Hanoi 69.8
10.Beijing 67.3

AMERICAS

1.Vancouver 82.2
2.Buenos Aires 80.0
3.San Miguel de Allende 79.8
3.Victoria, B.C. 79.8
5.Quebec City 79.3
6.Oaxaca, Mexico 76.3
7.Cuzco, Peru 75.7
8.Montreal 74.6
9.Toronto 70.3
10.Rio de Janeiro 69.4

Zapraszamy!
Luiza-w-Ogrodzie
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Australia-uzyteczne linki

Jadalne owoce morza

[kan_z_oz]

Przydatna strona internetowa - nie wiem Luizo, czy gdzieś już nie
umieściłaś?

Można znaleść na tej stronie informacje kulinarne do przygotowania
wszystkiego co pływa w wodzie wokół Australii. Szkoda byłoby nie
spróbować - jeśli ktoś zawita.

www.frdc.com.au/species.php?f=232&v=f
Pozdrawiam
Kan

Bush tucker czyli o australijskim jedzeniu

[luiza-w-ogrodzie]

Dzieki, Kan. O jedzeniu chyba jeszcze nic nie bylo na tym watku.

Polecam strone z australijskimi ciekawostkami do wykorzystania w
kuchni: www.cuisine.com.au/recipe-finder/search.html?
terms=australian

Albo tutaj: australijskie dania oraz przyprawy:
www.cherikoff.net/cherikoff/index.php?s=recipe_list
Tak mozna jadac z Aborygenami:
indigenousaustralia.frogandtoad.com.au/bushtucker.html
Dla turystow: rosliny jadalne ktore mozna znalezc w buszu:
www.teachers.ash.org.au/bushtucker/
Smacznego!

Luiza-w-Ogrodzie
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Australia-uzyteczne linki

[kuba.peerelski]

www.pilotguides.com/destination_guide/pacific/australia/witchetty_grub.php

Witchetty grubs are traditionally eaten live and raw. Their meat is
rich in protein and makes for a highly nutritious snack if you’re
tramping through the bush. Raw witchetties have a subtle, slightly
sweet flavour and a liquid centre.

Barbecued, witchetties are often eaten as an appetizer. They are
cooked over a fire on pieces of wire, rather like shasliks or
satays. It takes about two minutes each side for the meat to become
white and chewy and the skin crusty. Barbecued witchetties taste
quite like chicken or prawns with peanut sauce.

If you don’t fancy foraging for your grub, these days it is possible
to buy tins of witchetty soup in supermarkets across Australia.

[julia30bb]

W Australii jadłam głównie ryby, głównie gatunki które nie znalazłam w EU. To
samo mogę napisać o owocach, mango zupełnie inaczej smakuje w Australii, a jaki
zapach ?
Jadłam również sporo warzyw, np z makaronem w sosie.
pozdrawiam

[kan_z_oz]

Kagan - możesz się zrewanżować takiemu rekinowi i zjeść go w zupie.
Oczywiście po uprzednim namoczeniu w occie, soku z cytryny lub
mleku. Mięso rekina pachnie mocno amonioakiem i nie jeśli nie można
pozbyć się zapachu to nie da też się zjeść - o czym należy wiedzieć -
po to masz tą stronę. Zawiera wystarczająco dużo aby przydać się
każdemu kto ma dostęp do owoców morza.

Owoce morza są bardzo tanie w Australii i o ile ktoś nie ma lewych
rąk do gotowania, można kupić i upichcić wszystko.
Jeśli jesteś na budżecie bez pieniędzy to polecam' pipis - łopatka i
kubełko - bach na plażę. Idąc brzegiem oceanu - jak zobaczyć dziurkę
w piasku to zacznij kopać - po chwili wykopujesz pipis, czyli sand
cockle, które następnie należy namoczyć w wiaderu ze słoną wodą aby
wypluły piasek.

Stir fry na pikantno - doskonałe. Jeśli nie lubisz pipis to użyj
jako przynęte i złap sobie rybkę.
W ostateczności; cytryna i nóż w kieszeń, i ciach na platformę
najeść się ostryg.
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Dzisiaj swietujemy Australia Day

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Dzisiaj swietujemy Australia Day czyli rocznice powstania federacji
australijskiej. Z tej okazji podaje, jak rozpoznac prawdziwego
Australijczyka :o)))

www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/01/25/1201157638208.html

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Australia-uzyteczne linki

Rzad Australii przeprasza Aborygenów

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Dla mnie to wielki gest, zamkniecie stuleci traktowania Aborygenow
jak podludzi. Cos, na co poprzednich rzadow nie bylo stac.
Rzad Australii przeprasza Aborygenów - pelny tekst ponizej:

"I give notice that, at the next sitting, I will move:

That today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest
continuing cultures in human history.

We reflect on their past mistreatment.

We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were
Stolen Generations - this blemished chapter in our nation's history.

The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in
Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving
forward with confidence to the future.

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and
governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss
on these our fellow Australians.

We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and
their country.

For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their
descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.

To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for
the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry.

And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud
people and a proud culture, we say sorry.

We the Parliament of Australia respectfully request that this
apology be received in the spirit in which it is offered as part of
the healing of the nation.

For the future we take heart; resolving that this new page in the
history of our great continent can now be written.

We today take this first step by acknowledging the past and laying
claim to a future that embraces all Australians.

A future where this Parliament resolves that the injustices of the
past must never, never happen again.

A future where we harness the determination of all Australians,
Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to close the gap that lies between us
in life expectancy, educational achievement and economic opportunity.

A future where we embrace the possibility of new solutions to
enduring problems where old approaches have failed.

A future based on mutual respect, mutual resolve and mutual
responsibility.

A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly
equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in
shaping the next chapter in the history of this great country,
Australia."

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Australia-uzyteczne linki

Peter Garrett przeprasza Aborygenów

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8 lat wczesniej podczas ceremoni zakonczenia olimpiady w Sydney;
dzis jest ministrem w rzadzie Rudda
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLxOq5SNLIg

Budzet federalny Australii - 13 maja 2008

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Artykul w Sydney Morning Herald:
THE Rudd Government will put more than $40 billion in reserve for long-term spending on health, education and infrastructure while ending the open era of hand-outs it inherited by cutting off benefits to families earning more than $150,000 in salaries and fringe benefits.

Dla bardziej ciekawych - strona poswiecona budzetowi w tej samej
gazecie:
business.smh.com.au/federalbudget2008

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Australia to III Swiat!

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W strukturze towarowej australijskiego eksportu (bez usług)
dominującą pozycje zajmują wciąż surowce i produkty podstawowe,
których udział wynosi obecnie ok. 61%, z czego ok. 23% przypada na
paliwa, 16% na minerały, 12% na artykuły spożywcze i ok. 7% na płody
rolne. Wyroby przemysłowe stanowia ok. 29% wartości eksportu.

Najważniejsze produkty eksportowe Australii to:
- węgiel kamienny - główni odbiorcy to Japonia, Korea
Południowa i Indie;
- ruda żelaza - główni odbiorcy to Chiny Ludowe, Japonia i
Korea Południowa;
- ropa naftowa - główni odbiorcy to Korea Południowa, Singapur
i Japonia oraz
- złoto - główni odbiorcy to Indie. Syjam (Tajlandia) i Wielka
Brytania.
Powyższe artykuły stanowiły łącznie blisko 1/3 australijskiego
eksportu. Inne istotne pozycje australijskiej oferty eksportowej to:
wołowina, boksyty (rudy aluminium), aluminium, pszenica, (skroplony)
gaz ziemny, wino i inne napoje alkoholowe.

Zdecydowana większość australijskiego importu to wyroby przemysłowe,
które stanowia ok. 82% importu, z czego ok. 74% to artykuły wysoko
przetworzone. Zdecydowanie mniejsza role odgrywa w Australii import
surowców, jako iż ich udział to tylko 16% wartości importu, z czego
ok. 10% przypadało na import paliw, a ok. 4% na żywność. Ponad 30%
1/3 importu Australii to:
- samochody osobowe- główni dostawcy to Japonia, Niemcy i
Korea Południowa;
- ropa naftowa - główni dostawcy to Wietnam, Malezja i
Indonezja;
- sprzęt komputerowy - główni dostawcy to Chiny Ludowe,
Malezja i USA;
- lekarstwa - główni dostawcy to Wielka Brytania, USA i Niemcy;
- sprzęt telekomunikacyjny - główni dostawcy to Chiny Ludowe,
Korea Południowa i USA;
- produkty rafinacji ropy naftowe - główni dostawcy to
Singapur, Chiny (Tajwan) i Japonia oraz
- samochody ciężarowe - główni dostawcy to Japonia, Tajlandia
i USA.
Tak więc struktura handlu zagranicznego Australii jest typowa dla
słabo rozwinietego kraju III Świata, co wskazuje na bardzo niski
poziom konkurencyjności w handlu zagranicznym i na ogólne
strukturalne zacofanie Australii (szczegolnie jej gospodarki) oraz
na chroniczny wręcz niedorozwój jej przemysłu, a szczególnie sektora
badawczo-rozwojowego (R&D).

Sydney: the world's 10th best city

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Dzis zostal opublikowany kolejny doroczny ranking Mercera.
Podsumowanie w artykule z Sydney Morning Herald: Sydney: the world's 10th best city

Sydney is a little less liveable than last year, but it is still
better than Melbourne, which in turn is better than Perth, which is
way better than Adelaide.

That sounds about right, but then this year's Worldwide Quality of
Living Index reckons Adelaide is better than Brisbane, allegedly the
least liveable of Australia's big-five capitals. Brisbane worse than
Adelaide? Yes - and the gap is widening.

The index, compiled by Mercer, a human resources consulting company,
ranks 215 big cities on 39 criteria including crime, pollution,
education, restaurants, climate and transport.

Mercer sells its services to companies transferring its employees to
different cities, and says anyone going to a city that scores badly
(below 90 on an index where the base, New York City, scores 100, in
49th place) expects to be paid a premium.

The index has Sydney as the tenth-most liveable city, down from
ninth last year, on 106.3. But it falls behind Auckland (fifth) and
just ahead of windy Wellington (12th), a funky upstart that trounces
Melbourne (17th) and the other three Australian cities. Zurich is on
top, then Geneva and Vienna.

Adelaide, in 29th place, is five spots above Brisbane; last year, it
was two places higher. The difference, says the index's briefing
note, is that Adelaide was noted for its medical treatment,
restaurants, opera and the arts, while Brisbane had entertainment
and mild winters.

In comparison, France's cosmopolitan Paris is ranked at 32nd, while
the top-rated United States' cities are Hawaii's Honolulu at 28th
followed by California's San Francisco at 29th. Hong Kong (70th),
Beijing (116) and Jakarta (146) are well down the list.

Mercer spokesman Rob Knox said the annual survey was used by
international companies and governments as they set pay rates for
expat workers.

"The fact that Australian cities enjoy among the best standards of
living in the world reinforces the attractiveness of Australia for
workers and for multinational organisations," Mr Knox said in a
statement.

"Our major cities continue to tick all of the boxes (with)
established infrastructure and transport facilities, quality housing
close to the city, a wide selection of restaurants and other
amenities, as well as a good education and environment."

The global survey relies on data collected over three months to
November the previous year, and last-minute monitoring is also made.

Mercer also today released the results of a similar survey ranking
the safety of 215 cities across the globe.

Luxembourg came in at number one, while Australia's Sydney,
Melbourne and Perth were tied on 29th, and Adelaide and Brisbane
tied on 49th.

Mercer also found the "city with the world's lowest quality of
living and lowest levels of personal safety" is Baghdad, as the war-
torn Iraqi capital sits on the bottom of both lists.

- with AAP

Spacer po Sydey

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z Alanem. Alan ma ponad 90 lat i dzięki swoim spacerom trzyma się
nieźle, jak na swój wiek.
Album Jego zdjęć jest jednym z najciekawszych jakie chyba można
obejrzeć na temat sydneyjskich zaułków, uliczek, wybrzeża...dziwnych
budynków, słupów betonowych i drewnianych.
Bardzo obiektywna i ciekawa fotograficznie rzeczywistość miasta.

Enjoy.

www.walksydneystreets.net/eastcity13.htm
Kan