AUSTRALIA - uzyteczne strony internetowe

jestesmy kosmitami! - pozaziemskie DNA z Australii

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zidentyfikowano extraterrestrial DNA w meteorycie z Australii

wiadomosci.onet.pl/1769536,16,item.html
astrobiology.gsfc.nasa.gov/analytical/PDF/Martinsetal2008.pdf

Australijczycy najgrubsza nacja swiata

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Australijczycy najgrubsza nacja swiata - rekord watpliwej chwaly...

Australia pips US as world's fattest nation
June 20, 2008


AUSTRALIA has overtaken the United States as the world's most obese
nation, a new report says.

The report, Australia's Future Fat Bomb, says 26 per cent of adult
Australians - almost 4 million people - are now obese, 1 million
more than the last calculation in 1999.

The findings mean Australia is the world's most overweight nation,
ahead of the notoriously super-sized Americans, who have a 25 per
cent obesity rate.

"That, unfortunately, makes us the heavyweight champions, a title we
don't really want," said Professor Simon Stewart, the author of the
report and head of preventive cardiology at the Baker IDI Heart and
Diabetes Institute in Melbourne.

The report says that 9 million adults have a body mass index over
25, making them overweight or obese, an increase from 7 million.
Experts have called for obese people to be given gym discounts and
for surgical waiting lists to be prioritised on the basis of weight
loss.

The report presents the results of height and weight checks on
14,000 adult Australians nationwide in 2005, giving the most
thorough picture of obesity since the AusDiab study in 1999.

The data suggests there will be an extra 700,000 heart-related
hospital admissions in the next 20 years due to obesity. Almost
125,000 people will die as a result.

"I would regard this as the biggest threat to our future health,"
Professor Stewart said.

"As we send our athletes off to the Olympics, let's reflect on the
fact that we would win the gold medal now in the world fat Olympics
if there was such a thing.

"The health care system is going to be overwhelmed by weight-related
hospitalisations from knee replacements through to heart attacks and
strokes."

AAP

Zmiany systemu podatkowego od 1 lipca 2008

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Obnizenie podatkow osobistych, podwyzka becikowego, doplat do opieki
nad dziecmi (zlobki, przedszkola, swietlice), mozliwosc odpisania
przez rodzicow wydatkow na szkole (do $375 na rok dla podstawowki,
$750 dla szkol srednich) od podatku,
...ale beda wyzsze oplaty za wode i doplata do budowy odsalarni wody
morskiej budowanej w Sydney, zwieksza sie podatki od luksusowych
samochodow i wzrosna rozne oplaty rzadowe (z powodu zwiekszenia
inflacji).

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www.smh.com.au/news/national/dday-for-tax-cuts-but-sting-in-levies/2008/06/29/1214677850310.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

D-day for tax cuts, but a sting in state levies
Stephanie Peatling and Brian Robins
June 30, 2008

FROM tomorrow Australians will receive tax cuts, a souped-up baby
bonus and more help with child-care fees and education costs
courtesy of the Federal Government.

But taxpayers will have to cope with a host of price rises ranging
from higher gaming taxes to water and recycling charges as the State
Government passes on surging costs.

The start of the new financial year will see the baby bonus rise to
$5000, the rebate for out-of-pocket child-care expenses rise to 50
per cent and the start of the tax cuts promised in last year's
election will kick in.

The Treasurer, Wayne Swan, yesterday promised the tax cuts would
provide "substantial relief" for people struggling to meet the costs
of living.

A worker on the average income of about $60,000 will take home an
extra $11.54 a week. Lower-income earners on $35,000 to $45,000 will
pocket $20. Those on incomes of more than $180,000 get $50 a week.

Low-income workers earning $14,000 or less will pay no tax at all
while seniors may be eligible to pay no tax until they earn more
than $24,680.

Pensioners will also receive the next instalment of the $500
utilities allowance.

From tomorrow parents will need to start collecting receipts for
things such as laptops, software, home internet connections and
textbooks as the education tax refund begins. The money will be
repaid when they complete next year's tax return.

Parents will be able to claim up to $375 a year for each child in
primary school and $750 for each child in secondary school.

The luxury car tax on vehicles costing $57,123 or more will increase
from 25 per cent to 33 per cent from tomorrow. This will add $500 to
the price of a $65,000 vehicle and $15,000 to a $300,000 car.

Adults applying for passports will have to pay an extra $8, taking
the price of the document to $208. Children's and seniors' passports
will increase from $4 to $104. The departure tax will also rise by
$9 to $47.

Among the largest rises imposed on people by the State Government
are water charges, which will rise 20 per cent, largely to fund the
Kurnell desalination plant, with waste charges to rise 21 per cent
to encourage more recycling.

At the same time, some state taxes and levies are to be cut, with
the start of a staged cut in the payroll tax to 5.5 per cent from 6
per cent, along with the staged abolition of mortgage duties.

The State Government has also quietly raised a large range of
government fees and charges for such things as conveyancing, land
registration and marine and shipping fees, in most cases in line
with inflation.

Other increases are a boost to witness allowances in court cases for
both ordinary witnesses and specialist witnesses. The latter will
now receive up to $185 a day in appearance money.

Cutting the payroll tax would slice $34 million from tax receipts in
2008-09, the state Treasurer, Michael Costa, said.

The staged abolition of mortgage duty continues with duty on non-
owner occupied residential properties abolished from tomorrow. This
will save investors $160 million in 2008-09, and "will mean a saving
of $1,941 on a $500,000 mortgage", Mr Costa said.

Federal changes

- Baby bonus increases to $5000


- Child-care rebate to increase to 50 per cent of out-of-pocket costs

- Adult passport fees rise $8 to $208. Resident return visa fees
double to $240 and temporary residence visas rise by $60 to $250

- Families can claim up to $150 per year for a preventive dental
check for teenage children

State fees and levies

- A rise in hotel gambling tax rates to inject a further $210
million into schools, hospitals and roads

- Water charges rise to fund desalination and recycling

- Average 5.2 per cent increase in electricity prices

- 21 per cent increase in solid waste levy to encourage recycling
and reduce waste going into landfill

Uzyeczne strony internetowe

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wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80539,5427661,Australia_jednym_z_najmniej_religijnych_krajow___sondaz.html

Australian Social Trends 2008

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Troche statystyk o australijskim spoleczenstwie: oryginalne opracowanie Australijskiego Biura Statystycznego
oraz podsumowujacy jego wyniki artykul z Sydney Morning Herald: Australia's growing ... except for NSW
Gerard Noonan, July 23, 2008 - 1:23PM

"Australia is growing steadily, its cities are growing faster than
country regions, but NSW continues to lose its population faster
than any other state.

Australians also like to volunteer their services, with one in five
adults undertaking a voluntary task each fortnight, and they're more
likely to volunteer if they're healthy.

And they're more likely to have visited a naturopath, acupuncurist
or chiropractor over the past few decades.

While the number of alternative health practitioners had almost
doubled since 1996 top 8600, visits have increased by 50 per cent to
around three quarters of a million in the same period. Almost a
quarter of a million people had visited an alternative health
practitioner in a sample two- week period.

Welcome to Australian Social Trends, the annual snapshot of national
life produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The survey is drawn from a mass of data - some of it already
published but much unpublished - taken from the five-yearly ABS
census and aimed at looking at contemporary social issues and areas
which concern public policy makers.

Over the past decade, the nation swelled by 2.5 million people to 21
million by June 2007, with the greatest increase in population -
315,700 - happening in the past year. It's expected to reach 28
million by the middle of the century.

Over the past decade, a slightly higher proportion of Australian
households rented their homes (28.5 per cent), up 1.5 per cent.

And perhaps not surprisingly, they moved around a lot more than
owner occupiers.

More than a third of all renters had changed address in the past
year, three times the rate of their occupiers.

But the profile of renters varied substantially with age, with the
average age of renters being 37 years, 15 years younger than the
median age for owner occupied households.

And the decision to rent rather than own mattered a lot if the
household had a sole parent.

Sixty per cent of lone parent households with dependent children
were renting, almost three times the rate of couples with dependent
children. The ABS says this reflected relatively lower incomes for
single parent families.

Public transport is becoming a more familiar way for adults to get
to work, but it's still a minority of citizens who use buses, trains
and trams. Nineteen per cent of city-based workers now use public
transport daily, compared to 16 per cent a decade ago.

And internet access at home has ballooned over the past decade, with
just under two thirds (64 per cent) of households with access, up
from 16 per cent in 1998.

"Some government services, such as E-tax, child support and a range
of Medicare functions, are now available online," according to the
ABS.

"News services, internet shopping, and personal communications such
as email, instant messaging and social networking sites are also
increasingly a feature of people's daily lives."

While it's predominantly a younger age group which uses the internet
at home, there have been significant increases in people aged over
55 using the internet.

In 2004, around 40 per cent of people aged between 55 and 64 used
the internet, but within two years the takeup rate had lifted to 55
per cent."


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Australia-uzyteczne linki

Suburban bonanza: life's good

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Przeciwnie do popularnego wrazenia ze wszyscy chca przeprowadzic sie
z miast nad ocean albo w gory, okazuje sie ze w Australii najlepsza
jakosc zycia jest w miastach. BankWest quality of life index, czyli analiza
jakosci zycia w 590-ciu gminach Australii (local government areas)
porownuje takie czynniki jak stan zdrowia, posiadanie domu,
zatrudnienie, zarobki, dostep do edukacji, przestepczosc, dostep do
internetu oraz udzial w wolontariatach.

Ponizej omowienie w melbournenskim The Age:
www.theage.com.au/national/melbournes-best-but-cbd-gets-the-thumbsdown-20080819-3y8n.html?skin=text-only


...i w Sydney Morning Herald:
FORGET a sea change or even a tree change. The best quality of life is to be found in the suburbs, particularly those in the Ku-ring-gai and Hunters Hill local government areas.

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Australia-uzyteczne linki

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Ja laduje na pozycji 27.

Strona "Australia, moja miłość"

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"Australia, moja miłość" - strona internetowa prowadzona przez Marka
Tomalika, dziennikarza National Geographic Polska
www.australia-przygoda.com/
Zdjecia i sprawozdania z podrozy po Australii: "Moje spotkania z
Australią":
www.australia-przygoda.com/wydarzenia.html

Przyjemnego czytania!
Luiza-w-Ogrodzie
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Australia-uzyteczne linki

Dla rowerzystow: National Ride to Work Day

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Kolejny krajowy dzien "Rowerem do Pracy". Niektore firmy
zorganizowaly z tej okazji darmowe sniadania dla rowerzystow. Coraz
wiecej ludzi jezdzi rowerami do pracy, do szkoly, albo do
najblizszej stacji kolejowej. Mam nadzieje ze mer Sydney dotrzyma
obietnicy budowy nowych sciezek rowerowych. Oby jeszcze byly
oddzielone od jezdni...

Sydneysiders ditch cars for bikes

Ellie Harvey
October 15, 2008 - 10:54AM

Sydneysiders ditched their cars for bicycles for National Ride to
Work Day this morning.

Almost 2000 cyclists gathered in Hyde Park as Sydney Lord Mayor
Clover Moore and Bikes NSW chief executive Alex Unwin addressed the
crowd.

Cr Moore said there had been large increases in the number of
cyclists riding on Oxford Street, Ultimo Road and Pyrmont Bridge
recently.

"By 2017 we want to increase cycling trips by 500 per cent," she
said.

Cr Moore hopes to do this by building 55 kilometres of separated
cycleways and more than 200 kilometres of cycle paths in Sydney in
the next few years.

The annual event has spread across the world this year, with
Copenhagen and Bangkok taking part for the first time.

Bangkok organisers expect more than 3000 riders to participate.

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Ubezpieczenia zdrowotne

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W Australii rezydenci i obywatele objeci sa systemem panstwowym
zwanym Medicare. Dostepne sa tez prywatne ubezpieczenia zdrowotne i
jest ich wiele, z roznymi opcjami, trzeba spedzic troche czasu zeby
sie w nich rozeznac (od tego miesiaca mialy tez podrozec o
przecietnie 6%).

MEDICARE:
Pokrywa wizyty lekarskie (zazwyczaj czesciowo), czesciowe koszty
badan (RTG - xRay, badania laboratoryjne, CAT scan etc) oraz pobyt w
szpitalu panstwowym. Nie pokrywa opieki dentystycznej (choc mowi sie
o wprowadzeniu tego), okulisty, fizjoterapii, karetki.

Przy wizytach u lekarzy ogolnych (GP=General Practitioner) i
specjalistow zazwyczaj doplaca sie roznice miedzy tym, co Medicare
ustala jako koszty wizyty a tym, na ile lekarz wycenia koszt. Sa tez
lekarze lub cale przychodnie, ktore oglaszaja sie jako "Bulk
billing" co znaczy, ze nie placisz nic, bo Medicare pokrywa wizyte w
calosci.

UBEZPIECZENIE PRYWATNE
Koszty zaleza od tego, jakie opcje potrzebujecie (np. jesli ktos nie
planuje miec wiecej dzieci, nie bierze ubezpieczenia polozniczego)
oraz od istniejacego stanu zdrowia (pre-existing conditions).
Polecam przeczytanie artykulow na stronie magazynu
konsumenta "Choice":

Private health insurance buying guide:
www.choice.com.au/viewArticle.aspx?id=103031&catId=100292&tid=100008&p=1&title=Private+health+insurance+
buying+guide

Drugi artykul o "health insurance":
www.choice.com.au/viewArticle.aspx?
id=100824&catId=100292&tid=100008

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Luiza-w-Ogrodzie
Pour vivre heureux vivons cachés - By żyć szczęśliwie, żyjmy w ukryciu.

Outstanding work

[ratpole]

w przyblizaniu Australii do granic Polestyny.
Jeszcze tylko poltora Oceanu to go hehehe

a co z gaasssarbajterami ?

[czapajew_pl]

maja jakies ubezpieczenie ??

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czapajew_pl napisała:

> maja jakies ubezpieczenie ??

alez oczywiscie,czapajew,kazdy osrodek dla nielegali zapewnia pelna opieke
lekarska,wikt i opierunek.Cena dziennego pobytu tam az do odlotu zupelnie
przyzwoita,ok $Au 110.00.
pzdr.

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luiza-w-ogrodzie napisała:
W Australii rezydenci i obywatele objeci sa systemem panstwowym
> zwanym Medicare. Dostepne sa tez prywatne ubezpieczenia zdrowotne i
> jest ich wiele, z roznymi opcjami, trzeba spedzic troche czasu zeby
> sie w nich rozeznac (od tego miesiaca mialy tez podrozec o
> przecietnie 6%).
>
> MEDICARE:
no ptrzaj luska u mnie tez majom medicare i jeszcze jakie inne medi tez maja
hehe ameryka !!!yhyhyhyhyhyhyhyh tylko americzka hahahahahehehe

14% redukcja puli wiz General Skilled Migration

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Dzisiaj minister imigracji Chris Evans oglosi 14% redukcje puli
zawodowych wiz rezydenckich (General Skilled Migration) na rok
finansowy 2009-2010. Jest to pierwsza redukcja od ponad dziesieciu
lat. Zmniejszona bedzie takze liste zawodow poszukiwanych, glownie o
zawody zwiazane z budownictwem. Celem tych dzialan jest ochrona
australijskiego rynku pracy - ograniczenie wzrostu bezrobocia.

"THE record immigration intake will be cut for the first time in
more than a decade as the Government tries to preserve jobs in a
deteriorating global economy.

The Immigration Minister, Chris Evans, will announce a 14 per cent
cut to the skilled migration program today, capping the number of
workers to enter Australia next year at 115,000, down from 133,500
in 2008-09.

Skilled workers make up the majority of migrants.

The decision to cut back on foreign workers comes as pressure mounts
on the Government after last week's jump in unemployment to 5.2 per
cent.

"The economic circumstances in Australia have changed as a result of
the global financial crisis," Senator Evans said. "It is prudent to
reduce this year's migration intake accordingly."

The cuts will be coupled with deletions to the critical skills list,
which specifies which jobs are open to migrants. Trades in building
and manufacturing will be removed, forcing companies to find
bricklayers, plumbers, welders and carpenters domestically.
Professions still experiencing skills shortages."

Calosc artykulu tutaj:
Immigration slashed to protect jobs

pigs will fly - the can do community blog

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Wklejam nadeslany przez Pawla link do "pigs will fly - the can do
community blog"
www.pigswillfly.com.au/
Uwazam ze jest interesujacy - polecam artykul: Skilled Migrants NOT Finding Work?

Pozdrawiam
Luiza-w-Ogrodzie
Pour vivre heureux vivons cachés - By żyć szczęśliwie, żyjmy w ukryciu.