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Eating revolution BONBEACH Primary School had a huge cook off to celebrate Food Revolution Day last month. About 300 pupils rolled up their sleeves and joined in the largest cooking class the community has seen. They chopped up fresh vegetables and herbs from the school garden, and created a mouth-watering and healthy pasta salad. “The aim of the cooking class was to inspire our kids and show them how tasty fresh food is, and how much fun it is to cook and eat healthy,” health and wellness coach Maddie Race said. Principal Ken Jones and his teaching group were right behind Food Revolution Day, and the school was excited to participate. Ms Race said the day carried a message about a global health crisis. “An astounding 41 million children under five are overweight, while another 159 million are too undernourished to grow properly,” she said. “We’re failing both our children and future generations by not empowering them with the right food and skills they need to grow healthily and happily.”
Hungry for health: Ollie, left, Alva, Andrea, Zoe, Chloe, Tegan and Tate, back, learn about fresh food at Bonbeach Primary School’s Food Revolution Day. Picture: Yanni
Scientists target election Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au CLIMATE change scientists are campaigning to save their jobs in the lead-up to the 2 July federal election in the wake of up to 32 redundancies at the CSIRO’s research centre in Aspendale. CSIRO Staff Association president Dr Michael Borgas says “quite a few people have been told they’re surplus to requirements” amid a restructure
of the science body’s operations nationwide. Scientists and research staff are handing out flyers to Isaacs residents as part of a Community and Public Sector Union campaign urging voters to “put the Liberals last”. “A possible change of government would save the jobs,” Mr Borgas said. Federal Isaacs Labor MP Mark Dreyfus, who holds the seat with a 3.9 per cent majority, said scientists around the world rely on data from
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the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Centre in Aspendale to track the effects of climate change in the southern hemisphere. “The Turnbull government’s cuts to the CSIRO look set to force this centre to close,” he said. “The closure of this site, no doubt to lead to its sale for development, would be a disaster for Aspendale and for Australian science. “Labor is 100 per cent opposed to these cuts to the CSIRO and Mr Turnbull’s planned closure of the As-
pendale centre.” Mr Borgas said the monitoring of an ice core from Antarctica, to track climate change, at the Aspendale laboratories is “being maintained at a lower capacity”. “They were initially going to sack everybody ... but there are still people being made redundant on the basis they’re working on that [the ice core].” The air quality scientist said he could personally lose his job but his role as a union official means he is
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