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CONTENTS

CONTENTS 28 20 Cover Story 10

Mining Industry…

Wealth & Tycoons Adrian Payne

Regulars

Features

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

20 Future Leaders

18 Looking to Hire a Venue?

The Hills Shire Council

Regulars EDITOR’S LETTER

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Choosing the Right Medium…

Dmitry Greku

LEADERSHIP

16 NSW Politics: Factional

Warlords, White Bread Hacks and Misogynists Charlie Lynn

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BUSINESS ADVICE

24 Is a Wordpress Website Sufficient?

Daniel Moisyeyev

SOCIETY & LIFE

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The Great Australian Divide

Angry Anderson

Recognised at TAFE Event

22 Education Beyond the

School Gates

John Watters

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EDITOR’S LETTER

Choosing the Right Medium…

Dmitry Greku, M. Sc. - Editor and Publisher - GWP Magazines®

Today I’ll share some of my own knowledge and experience, which came from you – our readers and advertisers.

You all ask yourselves: “Where should I go to advertise my business? Which publication is the right one? Will the information about my business reach potential clients?” In simple terms there is only one question – how can I find the right publisher to promote my business?

We know how ugly, wet and dirty promotional material (flyers, catalogues, etc.) looks when hanging out of over-stuffed mail boxes. How many times have you seen packs of magazines, newspapers and catalogues still in strapped printer’s bundles dumped in the street, inside office buildings or simply in a handy rubbish bin?

Someone has paid for them! – they are business people like you and me, sometimes it’s actually you … and your business marketing material.

I would like to introduce you to some ‘common sense’ points to help you make a better decision when you are in the process of choosing a medium for your next marketing campaign. All these facts are from my own personal experience.

Readership – the people who read or are thought to read a particular book, newspaper, magazine, etc.

Ask your service provider where their readership numbers have been taken from. This should be independently audited data and nothing less.

Between you and me, I still don’t trust this information anyway, unless it’s based on paying subscribers. Readership can be presented in a very misleading way. Thinking about it, who can actually count every person reading a newspaper or a magazine? Just because a publication has been received by mail or stuffed into a mailbox it doesn’t mean it’s been read. In many cases

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management multiplies the circulation of their publication by three and claims this number as their readership.

be delivered to the readership – your potential new clients, in order for it to be useful. Ask for a proven distribution figure.

We know how ugly, wet and dirty promotional material (flyers, catalogues, etc.) looks when hanging out of over-stuffed mail boxes. How many times have you seen packs of magazines, newspapers and catalogues still in strapped printer’s bundles dumped in the street, inside office buildings or simply in a handy rubbish bin?

Circulation – the number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are distributed.

This is a very important statistic for a publication.

This number shows the quantity of copies actually delivered. Please note, this number can be less than the number of newspapers or magazines produced. Ask your publisher for proof of the number of copies circulating or at least printed.

This could be in the form of audited data and/or a tax invoice from their printing supplier.

Please consider my advice about any advertising or promotional publications in the market place and check your publisher’s information carefully.

The good ones will be happy to provide all necessary statistical information supported by their suppliers, readers, clients, contributors and their advertisers. Make a wise decision.

Have a great day. Take care of yourselves and your clients. G

Distribution – the process of making a product or service available to be read by a consumer or business.

Any sheet of paper is a medium when someone writes a message on it. The value of such a medium depends on how many people are interested enough to read it and on the method by which the message was delivered. Assume for example, that a publication has the best look and the best articles ever, but the delivery system is not working. Would you advertise your business with this medium? I’m sure your answer would be ‘no’. This great look and valuable content must

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The town of Mount Isa is surrounded by vast mineral deposits

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Mining Industry WEALTH & TYCOONS

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he Australian mining industry began with gold; unlike Iron ore, bauxite etc, it required little or no processing, was light and easy to transport and ruined many more lives than it enriched! It was first discovered in New South Wales in 1823. James McBrien, a public official was on a survey mission in hills near the Fish River east of Bathurst. The gold he found wasn’t all that plentiful and his report didn’t look very promising so it was soon forgotten, but gold was there all the same!

by Adrian Payne When many Australians were migrating to the United States in 1849 following reports of rich gold discoveries in California, the New South Wales Government realised that if the wave of migration was to be reversed, it needed to provide incentives for Australians to find gold in their own country. To that end, rewards were offered for the discovery of ‘payable’ gold.

In April 1851 the first reported discovery of payable gold was made by John Lister and William Tom at the junction of Lewis Ponds and Summer Hill Creeks at Ophir (near Orange NSW). Edward Hargraves, an associate of Lister and Tom, took their gold to the Colonial Secretary and then claimed the reward which included 5,000 pounds to Hargraves and 500 pounds each for Lister and

Tom. Hargraves publicised his find and started the first goldrush. Soon others followed in Victoria, particularly at Ballarat and Bendigo.

The NSW Government’s ‘reward for discovery’ policy started to work halting the outgoing flow and then new people began to emigrate to the Australian colonies. A growing population prompted an increase in agricultural and industrial development by those who preferred to supply goods and services to the miners, rather than to mine a claim themselves. By the 1850s, Australia was filling orders for nearly forty per cent of the world’s demand for gold.

In the 1870s, Mount Bischoff in Tasmania was found to have major deposits of tin and before

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Broken Hill, NSW, one of Australia’s iconic mining towns, backed by the man-made mullock heaps from the Line of Lode

the twentieth century dawned, the first of the large corporate mining operations mines were set up. Copper and gold at Mount Morgan near Rockhampton, silver, lead and zinc at Broken Hill, gold at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia and Iron ore at Iron Knob and Iron Baron in South Australia.

Bernhardt Holtermann with the 630lb rock containing more than 75 percent gold from Hill End, unearthed in 1872

Gold diggings, Ararat, Victoria circa 1854

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There were plenty of accidents in the early days.

At Creswick in the Victorian goldfields was the site of The New Australasian number two Deep Lead Gold Mine. In the early hours of Tuesday the twelfth of December 1882, twenty-nine miners were

trapped underground by flood waters that came from the nearby flooded number one mine shaft.

Only five men survived and made it to the surface; despite two days of continuous pumping the water overtook the pumps and filled the mine shaft. The trapped men scrawled last notes to their loved ones on billy cans before they drowned. Mercifully mining accidents are few and far between in the twenty-first century but the risks are ever-present in the hearts and minds of mining families.

Claude Albo de Bernales, born 31st May 1876 was a Western Australian mining entrepreneur whose

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business and marketing skills did much to bring significant investment to Western Australia in the early 1900s. In the 1930s gold production in WA increased from one point six million pounds to eleven point eight million. Employment in the industry increased four-fold due largely to de Bernales’ marketing of the goldfields to overseas investors. De Bernales enjoyed immense personal wealth through his many mining enterprises and attracted significant overseas investment. But in the twilight years of his life, financial difficulties and ill-health saw him live as a recluse in Selsey, Sussex where he died in December 1963.

embargo on iron ore exports that until then had been in force since 1938. Major finds of iron ore in the Pilbara (WA) were announced and developed over the next few years. As government and other credible sources of expertise began showing new enthusiasm, exploration recommenced in earnest. Discoveries of bauxite (aluminium), nickel, tungsten, rutile (titanium), uranium, oil and natural gas were added to Australia’s mineral resources list. Australia then became a serious raw materials exporter, with major customers being Europe and Japan.

Gwalia Gold Mine c.1921

Memorial for the workers who lost their lives at Mount Kembla, 1902

In October 1985, he left the accounting profession and founded Normandy Mining Limited. He remained as Executive Chairman throughout its 17 years of activity. In 1988, de Crespigny and his family moved to Adelaide when Normandy took control of Poseidon Limited. Normandy was taken over by Newmont Mining in 2002 but Champion de Crespigny and his family remained in Adelaide.]

Apart from pockets of notable success, as the mining industry was developing in the early 1900s it was slow going. There was no overall mining boom right away and until the early 1960s it was believed Australia had insufficient iron ore reserves for domestic use. But in 1959 the Commonwealth Government announced a relaxation of the

Mining entrepreneur Champion de Crespigny was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne where he graduated with a degree in Commerce. He later qualified as a Chartered Accountant and he practiced for 13 years with KMG Hungerford in Perth.

The history of mining in Australia is signposted by people like de Crespigny who dared to think big and stand on the world stage selling our mineral wealth.

Another of these is Joseph Isaac Gutnick (Diamond Joe). His father Rabbi Shneur Chaim HaKohen Gutnick, was born in Zolotonosha, Ukraine, in 1921. He studied at the Telshe yeshiva in Lithuania until 1940 when the country was annexed by the Soviet Union. Travelling via the far east, he came to Cairns in 1941. In 1945 he married Rose Chester and the couple had six children together, Joseph Gutnick was born in 1953.

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who maintained a high profile in the competing spheres of business and politics. Famous initially for discovering the world’s largest iron ore deposit in 1952 and becoming one of the richest men in Australia, he is now perhaps best remembered for his marriage to the controversial and much younger former maid Rose Porteous. Hancock’s daughter Gina Rinehart, was bitterly opposed to Hancock’s relationship with Porteous. The conflicts between Rinehart and Porteous overshadowed his final years and continued until more than ten years after his death. Georgina Hope Rinehart is now Executive Chair of Hancock Prospecting Group and Australia’s most wealthy woman.

John Andrew Henry Forrest was born in 1961, he’s better known as Andrew or by his nickname ‘Twiggy’ he’s another Western Australian mining magnate, currently non-executive chairman and previously chief executive officer of Fortescue Metals Group.

Drilling rig at a BHP Billiton minesite about 550 km (342 mi) outside of Newman, Western Australia

Joseph Gutnick is the President and CEO of Legend International Holdings. A mining company focused on phosphate exploration in Queensland.

After almost being ruined by the 1987 stock market crash, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson suggested to Gutnick that he to go back to the Australian desert and search for gold and diamonds. He

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was subsequently responsible for facilitating the discovery of the Plutonic gold deposit, as well as the discovery, development and operation of the Bronzewing and Jundee gold mines.

Langley Frederick George “Lang” Hancock was an Australian iron ore magnate from Western Australia

In 2003, he took control of Allied Mining and Processing and renamed it Fortescue Metals Group.

He is still a major shareholder of FMG, through his private company, The Metal Group. Since then, the company has grown to possess three times the assets of its nearest rival in the iron ore rich Pilbara region.

Fortescue holds major deposits at Mount Nicholas, Christmas Creek, Cloudbreak, and Tongolo. In 2007, he took control of Niagara Mining, which operates around Laverton, WA. He was nominated the 2011 Western region, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2013, Andrew and his wife, Nicola, were the first Australians to pledge half their wealth to charity during the remainder of their lifetime.

GREAT AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIES We are the world’s top supplier of gemstones and industrial diamonds, lead and the mineral sands ilmenite, rutile and zircon. Australia is the largest exporter of black coal and the second largest producer of zinc. We’re the third largest producer of gold, iron ore and manganese ore and the fourth largest producer of nickel. We are the fifth largest producer of copper and silver and have the world’s most extensive reserves of lowcost uranium.

Australia mined gold production, 1960-2012

One of the most modern stores of natural wealth is being ‘tapped’ rather than mined. The reserves of natural gas in Australian and off-shore are vast. One of the most adventurous projects is The Gorgon gas project in Western Australia, involving the development of the Greater Gorgon gas fields. The facility includes subsea gas-gathering infrastructure and a liquefied natural gas plant on Barrow Island the most westerly point of the Australian mainland. A long loading pier has been constructed to allow large tanker vessels to received the liquefied gas, prior to its export to countries anxious for a cleaner more efficient fuel option. The project also includes a domestic gas component. It is currently under construction and once completed, will become Australia’s fourth LNG export development.

Australian metal ore and mineral quarterly exports ($A millions) since 1969

Despite a current temporary downturn in demand, Australia has the potential to sustain its position.

New deposits are being discovered ...to stay at the top, the minerals industry has to continue to find and develop more deposits to meet the demand and replace older worked-out mines. Some people believe huge areas of the continent are devoted to mining, but in fact, less than point zero two per cent of the Australian landscape has been, or is currently being mined.

Mining Employment by Sector in 1000’s

The importance placed on mining research by successive governments has meant that the Australian mining sector has been a pioneer in mining technology, having a high wages and salary threshold compared with other countries. These days a large proportion of mines worldwide use Australian mining systems software including specialised Geological Database and Resource Estimation Modelling software developed by Micromine and mine planning software by Runge Ltd and Maptek Pty Ltd.

Headworks over a shaft at Beaconsfield gold mine in Tasmania

No ‘gallery’ of Australian mining entrepreneurs would be complete without the colourful character and current member of federal parliament Clive Frederick Palmer, businessman, politician and owner of Mineralogy through which he has iron ore, nickel and coal holdings. In addition to Mineralogy, Clive Palmer owns Waratah Coal and a vastly diverse business, Palmer Industries.

In 2013, he formed the Palmer United Party to contest the federal election, in which he won a seat in the Division of Fairfax in Queensland.

Australia’s mining services, equipment and technology exports earn over two billion dollars annually.

But back to mining... Today, Australia is among the world’s leading mineral resources exporters.

We are the world’s largest refiner of bauxite and the fourth largest producer of primary aluminium.

We enjoy one of the highest living standards in the world and a good part of the reason is down to our valuable mining exports. Perhaps it’s one of the reasons we are called ‘the lucky country’. G

The mining industry knows that it needs to responsibly manage the environment in which it operates. Governments are increasingly responding to citizens’ cries for responsible environmental behaviour. The Australian population is looking for balance between the value of mining products and care for the land we have in trust for our children.

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NSW Politics: Factional Warlords, White Bread Hacks and Misogynists The Hon. Charlie Lynn - Member of the Legislative Council

There were no surprises in the recent 2014 Readers Digest ‘most trusted professions’ survey.

Paramedics topped the list while politicians and door-to-door salesmen continue to languish below the bottom rung of the ladder. The good news is they can only move in one direction. One of our most famous door-to-door salesmen and self-made billionaire, Gerry Harvey, is testimony to this fact.

However the current ICAC showcase trials and the Royal Commission into union corruption indicate that it will be some time before our political class climbs off the bottom rung.

It’s ironic that much of the blame for the lack of public trust in our political class rests with factional warlords at the organizational level rather than the politicians who represent them.

While these warlords preach democracy within their respective organisations they practice dictatorship. Cross them and they will pursue you to your political grave.

The Royal Commission has heard evidence of political seats being offered as a reward for turning a blind eye to corruption involving union thugs, crook executives and political carpetbaggers.

ICAC has exposed former Labor Ministers seeking to manipulate multi-million dollar windfalls for themselves and their mates. Snakeoil entrepreneurs, dodgy developers and factional spivs saw the corruption virus jump the political divide and bring down a potential Federal Treasurer, a NSW Premier, a couple of Liberal Ministers and a squad of local MPs. Wiser political elders from both major parties know that change is necessary but its implementation is akin to turning a political titanic around whilst ever factional warlords remain on the bridge.

This is evident in their desperate resistance to deny their own Party members a ‘plebiscite’ which is a system that allows members of a political party to have a direct vote for the person they would like to represent them in Parliament.

It is the most valuable privilege a political party can grant to its members. It provides an incentive for recruitment and an opportunity for them to

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support the most talented and popular person in their respective electorates.

The recent farce where the Liberal Party could only attract one applicant, an unknown tradesman from Picton, to represent them in the NSW Legislative Council for an eight year term on a six-figure salary is a classic example of the destructive force of factionalism. The closedshop system of membership cost Tony Abbott the seat of Greenway in the last Federal election and is proving an embarrassment for Premier Mike Baird in Riverstone in the lead-up to the

The Liberal Party also risks being rebadged as ‘Tip-Top’ after the white bread bakery as they will not have a single Asian representative. This is a crude snub to the large and diverse Asian population in Western Sydney and reinforces the perception that they are still a white-Anglo North Shore Party. Expect to see Labor MLCs such as Ernest Wong and Shaoquett Mouselmane making much political capital of this perception in Western Sydney during the election campaign.

The best Liberal asset to counter this perception, a female Vietnamese refugee and former ABC

It’s ironic that much of the blame for the lack of public trust in our political class rests with factional warlords at the organizational level rather than the politicians who represent them. next State election. The closed-shop system is the antithesis of democracy but it suits factional warlords who use local hacks to reject new members and maintain a vice-like control of the numbers.

The current system of factional patronage is also a major disincentive for women to enter Parliament. Women currently make up 30.9 per cent of the Legislative Council with 13 out of the 42 members.

But the likely outcome after the March 2015 election will be a damning indictment of the male dominated factional system. Two Labor woman have lost pre-selection and another is moving to the Legislative Assembly. This will leave Labor with just two female Members out of a team of 14. The factional heavies in the Liberal Party have already decided to dump one woman and have ambushed a couple of other outstanding female candidates. The most likely outcome will be similar to Labor with just two women and 10 blokes. The National Party have dumped one of their most capable women and another is retiring.

They will be left with two women and five blokes.

The total number of women in the Legislative Council will therefore drop from the current 30.9 per cent representation to just 19 per cent. After March 2015 there will be 34 blokes and just 8 women.

journalist, Dai Le, was ‘persuaded’ not to stand as a candidate after a visit from a male factional heavyweight.

The major beneficiaries from the blokey factionalism of the major parties will be the Greens who currently have two outstanding female members in their team of five. The situation also provides a timely opportunity for another minor party with an all-female membership to contest the next election. Such a Party would appeal to 50 per cent of the population that will otherwise hold just 19 per cent of the positions in the Legislative Council.

Politicians will remain on the bottom of the trust ladder for as long as they deny women more equitable representation in the NSW Legislative Council and deny their members a vote in who they would like to represent them in the Legislative Assembly. G

For more topics and to contact Charlie Lynn, please visit www.charlielynn.com.au/blog.

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Looking to Hire a Venue?

Do you have a workshop, conference or end-of-year function coming up? Are you searching for a well-priced local venue? Need information about where you can hold your next gathering?

The Hills Shire Council has a variety of venues and halls that are available to hire for exhibitions, business functions, conferences, performances, club and group meetings, dances, weddings, parties and cultural events.

The Crestwood Community Centre has two smaller spaces available for hire – the larger space seating 80 people. Why not take a walk through beautiful Crestwood Reserve opposite at break times.

Wrights Road Community Centre Cnr Harrington Ave and Wrights Road, Castle Hill

Just some of the venues on offer are:

Located opposite Kellyville Plaza, the community centre has a function room with a maximum capacity for 180 and a number of activity rooms.

The centre sits on the border of The Centenary of Anzac Reserve - and you even have the potential for a game of bocce.

Castle Grand Corner of Pennant and Castle Streets, Castle Hill

Vinegar Hill Memorial Community Centre Civic Way, Rouse Hill Town Centre

Choose from the Pioneer Room, Rebellion Room, Tribute Room, Wexford Room or Garden Room, depending on the size of your event. The largest room seats 500 theatre style, and the next largest seats 180.

Above the Vinegar Hill Library are a number of spaces for a range of activities. The Rex Money and Margaret Catchpole rooms can each seat 135 theatre style, while the Henry Rooke room seats 100. The Patrick White room suits smaller gatherings, seating 75. Kitchenettes are available.

Hire charges depend upon the venue selected however, with the variety of venues available, most budgets can be accommodated.

Castle Grand offers the convenience of being located centrally in Castle Hill and has on-site parking and modern kitchen facilities.

Thompson Hall, Balcombe Heights Estate 92 Seven Hills Road, Baulkham Hills This 20m x 11m hall is perfect for a self-catered workshop or event. It has a large kitchen, modern facilities and ample on-site parking.

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Beaumont Hills Community Centre Cnr Arnold Jassen Drive and The Parkway, Beaumont Hills This local venue has three meeting rooms to choose from, with kitchen facilities and off-street parking.

Don Moore Community Centre North Rocks Road, North Rocks Featuring a main hall with a capacity for 500 theatre style, this centre also has a gymnasium and two meeting rooms, set next to the lovely North Rocks Park.

Council has these many more venues available for hire. G You can now enquire, take a virtual tour or make a booking online at Council’s website www.thehills. nsw.gov.au – check the information under the Venues and Parks tab.

Or speak to one of Council’s Community Facilities Customer Services Officers located on Level 1, Castle Grand Community Centre, Corner of Pennant and Castle Streets, Castle Hill – directly below the Castle Hill Library. Parking is available on site underneath the building.

Phone 9761 4563 or 9761 4516 or 9761 4509 for more information.

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Future Leaders Recognised at TAFE Event The future leaders of business in Western Sydney were recognised recently at a prestigious awards event.

Western Sydney TAFE students, industry representatives, local MPs, teachers and employers attended the gala dinner presentation at Panther’s World of Entertainment. More than thirty awards were presented to recognise the outstanding achievements of students and enterprises.

Winning the major prize for the evening was 21 year-old Natalia Taumatauka. Natalia studied hospitality supervision at Mount Druitt College and was singled out for the Institute Medal from TAFE Western Sydney Institute’s 140,000 plus enrolments in 2013. Despite significant barriers to education and employment, Natalia achieved success and gained confidence to seek employment and establish herself as a hospitality professional.

Highly Commended Institute Medals were awarded to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student of the Year, Jake Field, and Hairdressing and Beauty Student of the Year, Terese Simone, who had also both risen above adversity to achieve outstanding outcomes.

IT, Web and Data support business Analitix was named Apprentice and/or Trainee Employer of the Year. This accolade was for the organisation which provided the best apprentice/trainee program incorporating WSI training. Nominated for its outstanding mentoring and support to ICT trainees, Analitix invests significant time in personally overseeing each of its trainees.

Analitix’s trainees are increasingly entrusted with appropriate responsibilities as their training progresses and confidence levels build.

“Analitix has always been keen to make a contribution to providing entry level employment opportunities within the ICT industry and as a small business is making a significant contribution in this area. Having a trainee program has assisted Analitix to grow as a business while having a cost effective structured training process for new entrants to their workforce.” said Graeme Hoinville, TAFE WSI teacher.

Packaging manufacturing company Orora, created in 2013 after Amcor demerged their

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(l-r) TAFE WSI Directors Francesca Saccaro, Susan Hartigan and Sue Westbrook

FEATURE Australasian and Packaging Distributions businesses, was presented with the award for Enterprise Training Program of the Year. This award was for the enterprise training program which provided the most outstanding outcomes in terms of employee training. Orora’s training program included qualifications in Competitive Manufacturing and Process Manufacturing, and licensing courses such as Senior First Aid, Forklift, Working at Heights, Confined Spaces and Remote Crane training. Orora also delivered training which addressed organisational cultural and safety, pulp and paper making and operator training for new machinery. The foresight of Orora in implementing this program led to great success when the new equipment was commissioned.

“The Orora and WSI partnership has attracted strong support within the manufacturing

industry and is being developed as a model for future training needs,” said WSI Senior Training Consultant, Sonja Malcolm.

ACON’s Needle and Syringe Programs provide a range of harm-minimisation services to people at risk. The health promotion organisation was named Work Skills Provider of the Year because of the work experience opportunities provided to OTEN students completing qualifications in Community Services. The work experience provided has contributed to students gaining valuable strategies for their vocation in an area in which it can be difficult to obtain relevant practical experience.

Programs provide a useful introduction to the field, in a positive and well-monitored way,” said OTEN teacher Althea Mackenzie. G

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Education Beyond the School Gates John Watters, Executive Officer – AusSIP

Fundamentally there is an ideological difference between education and schooling. Whilst schools are identified as being the source of education, questions arise such as can you attend school without being educated or can you be educated without going to school? Furthermore, do you have to physically attend school?

Winston Churchill has been quoted to have said that ‘he never let school get in the way of his education.’

In the digital age where teachers are competing against the speed of 4G, the concept of schooling and education, as well as where learning occurs is under more scrutiny than ever before.

The concept of online learning is not essentially a new idea, having many remnants in previous generations of remote learning or distance learning.

If one casts their minds back not so long ago, School of the Air was a valuable source of learning and interaction for students utilising radios. More recent advancements in technology has seen a plethora of online learning solutions grow in scope, breadth and depth of learning and this will undoubtedly continue to expand. Interestingly though, the location of where most students access such learning is often more traditional in nature, being quieter places such as home offices or study areas rather than on public transport etc.

Another type of learning that has grown rapidly thanks to YouTube is the concept of ‘Just in Time Learning’. In such instances, smaller amounts of bite-size learning is facilitated through short videos demonstrating how to complete tasks. This could range from fixing a hole in the wall to changing spark plugs to adjusting settings on computer programs.

In each instance, the viewer is seeking to gain enough knowledge just in time to fix an immediate challenge. There is no need to complete an online course covering customer service or attend classes addressing areas that may be part of a qualification or are essentially irrelevant to the problem at hand.

Are such solutions foolproof or in some cases legal? Probably not. Has their knowledge improved and are they more educated? Most definitely.

Many employers raise concerns about the work readiness of students or misunderstandings of the world of work. Whilst it can be argued that other

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forms can substitute on-the job training, the only real way anyone learns about businesses and industries is actually undertaking work experience, work shadowing, mentoring or industry visits. Even as adults, there is a workplace culture present in every business that needs to be experienced to be understood. ‘The way we do things around here’

expected outcomes may have to be revised, but strategies transcend whims. For me, education is a cumulative life-long journey. Whilst schooling is a part of that process, it is not the final outcome or the only piece in the jigsaw. Outside experiences enhance schooling and provides deeper education. G

Many employers raise concerns about the work readiness of students or misunderstandings of the world of work. Whilst it can be argued that other forms can substitute on-the job training, the only real way anyone learns about businesses and industries is actually undertaking work experience, work shadowing, mentoring or industry visits. is always best understood when actually in the environment, rather than an induction presentation.

There has been a long history of work experience and work placement throughout NSW. More recently, there has been a growing body of evidence and number of examples of schools and businesses working together for mutual benefits.

Internationally and nationally, this partnership model has demonstrated successful outcomes for schools, businesses and tax payers. Schooling has become part of the wider education landscape and external experiences have become a value-adding process.

On January 1 2015, many of these support mechanisms for all sectors will cease to exist.

In recent budget cuts, programs such as Youth Connections and Partnership Brokers have been completely wiped from existence. The Job Guide and accompanying websites will also cease to exist. Work placement funding that supports VET students around NSW remains uncertain.

The support mechanisms that assist schools, businesses and families assist young people make their transition from school to work are vanishing.

Education beyond the school gate is becoming a distant memory.

In a time of transition for both the economy and education as a whole, support mechanisms are essential. Existing models, funding levels and

AusSIP working in Alliance with BREED and Penrith SIP can assist in finding opportunities for businesses to positively engage with young people and help build a more productive workforce.

For more information on Partnership Brokers, please contact your local office listed below.

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FEATURE

Is a Wordpress Website Sufficient?

Daniel Moisyeyev, B. IT

Open Source (OS) Content Management Systems (CMS) became quite popular and widespread due to their DIY potential. Wordpress is probably one of the most widely known as it offers some distinct features: out-of-the-box blog functionality and rather low requirements for technical proficiency. Wordpress, in particular, became popular as it’s one of the few Content Management System that does not require extensive technical knowledge to get it setup and running.

a custom Wordpress site, than it is to use a more advanced or proprietary Content Management System.

Websites that require full online shopping functionality are best developed using dedicated shopping cart systems (e.g. Zen Cart) or custom built to particular needs.

The back-end Wordpress is built on is a fairly unsophisticated platform and is not the best choice for mission critical applications.

This is a quote from the Wordpress website (http:// wordpress.org/about/license/): “Part of this license outlines requirements for derivative works, such as plugins or themes.

Derivatives of WordPress code inherit the GPL license.

There is some legal grey area regarding what is considered a derivative work, but we feel strongly that plugins and themes are derivative work and thus inherit the GPL license. If you disagree, you might want to consider a non-GPL platform such as Serendipity (BSD license) or Habari (Apache license) instead.”

The key advantages The key advantage in the Wordpress platform is the blogging functionality. As Wordpress has it’s roots as primarily a blogging application, the integrated functionality is hard to beat by both rival systems and custom projects.

As Wordpress is a widely used system with source code freely available, all websites derived from Wordpress are subject to security risk. Here, at GWP Media, we have had a first hand experience with recovery of a defaced customer website that was built in Wordpress.

These are the particular functions that Wordpress performs quite well: • Article (known a “Post”) publishing • Content Categorisation • Text Search Capacity • Quality Automated Organic Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for content within a Wordpress site • User Comment Publishing and Management • User-friendly Administration • Extensibility (Plugins) • Wide availability of Themes

work and will also inherit the GPL license! This is a very restrictive licensing system that severely restricts resale or distribution of your project in the future.

Wordpress is licensed under the GPLv2 license (to view particulars visit opensource.org/ licenses).

Wordpress is not the right choice for custom proprietary applications that hold commercial value. G

If your business needs a company website or an online shopping cart - please do not hesitate to contact GWP Media for all your Web Design & Development needs.

Wordpress also offers limited customisation techniques that do not require technical expertise - these are completed from the Wordpress administration panel. The Wordpress administration panel is known for its user-friendly The limitations Although Wordpress is a well-designed platform for blogs, it is quite limited when it comes to advanced customisation.

See www.wordpress.org for more information on Wordpress.

The dangers An entire website can be completed in Wordpress, however this approach needs a qualified web developer highly experienced in Wordpress customisation to correctly implement navigation, layout and presentaition. You can easily find that it is far more complex and expensive to prepare

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Wordpress is licensed under the GPLv2 license (to view particulars visit opensource.org/licenses).

Very few recipients of projects completed in the Wordpress Content Management System know that their whole project will be classified as derivative

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Commitment to Producing Work of High Quality Kylie Maxwell, Principal Solicitor

Kylie Maxwell, Solicitor is a team of two individuals and a host of contractors with a history of providing professional services in their respective fields and in the Sydney legal services industry.

The chief professional advisor is Kylie Maxwell, who has 15 years of legal experience working in large and small, government and non-government enterprises. Kylie has a great wealth of experience in commercial transactions and disputes and her areas of expertise are broad.

Kylie herself is active in the community, being a former director (and soon to be returning) of Parramatta Mission’s Community Care Network Board where she was Chair of the Governance and Risk Committee. She is an active member of the St Vincent de Paul Society Conference at North Sydney. She is a past long-serving member of the Ethics Committee of the Law Society of NSW and a past member of the Parish Council of the Parish of Our Lady of the Way at North Sydney.

The remainder of our staff include contracting administrative assistants and a dedicated paralegal, each of whom are committed to the ongoing development of their individual expertise.

We liaise with businesses on a regular basis in relation to our areas of specialty. An important part of our work is building on and refining our knowledge in the key areas of practice and creating systems that make the experience of being a client of our firm an easy one.

We share a commitment to producing work of high quality.

The chief focus of the firm is environmental and planning law, mostly advice and dispute work.

Kylie has a long standing commitment to this area which she can trace back as far as winning the University of Sydney Environmental Law Prize.

Since then Kylie has successfully represented clients in a wide variety of both standard and complex matters including: • proceedings to force the owner of property to sell to a purchaser under contracts for sale of land.

• establishing ownership of land under an adverse

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possession claim as part of the title of the possessor, where such land is the subject of qualified and limited title.

• securing stamp duty exemptions for charities entitled to them and negotiating with the Office of State Revenue in relation to carparking levies, particularly in circumstances where an overpayment has been made.

environmental compliance related to clearing land and seeking approvals for development activities.

She has defended alleged polluters and advised retail business owners on permits required to achieve environmental compliance.

The firm is located in Macquarie Park and has access to city offices for city clients and easier access to the Courts. G

In the area of town planning and environmental compliance, Kylie has represented clients in: • a dispute concerning the expiration of a development consent sought to be relied upon by a subsequent landowner.

• a dispute with Council about alleged noncompliance with swimming pools legislation and standards.

She advised major development organisations (including Lendlease) on Federal and State

Contact Kylie Maxwell, Solicitor for a solicitor that really cares about your results.

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Retailers Use Bartercard to Test the Market with New Products

Last month we introduced you to two restaurateurs and they discussed how they utilise Bartercard within their business. This month we feature Veronica and Patricia Avila, from The Latin Store, and Graeme Blaiklock, from Opal Cutters. Whilst these members are both from the retail industry they have had very different experiences with their trading in Bartercard.

When Veronica and Patricia Avila joined Bartercard some 4 years ago, they had already established The Latin Store, selling South American products from colourful bags to lush alpaca wool blankets. For Veronica, being a Bartercard member has been a journey fill with pleasant surprises. Graeme Blaiklock, from Opal Cutters in Sydney was approached to join Bartercard 10 years ago but didn’t as he didn’t understand how to account for it. Now, he kicks himself for all those years of lost revenue. Read about how he now uses Bartercard to test the market with new products.

Q. Why did you join Bartercard?

A. (Veronica) When we joined Bartercard we didn’t have a huge budget to pay for marketing, IT and printing. With our initial sales we hired a business and marketing professional on Bartercard who coached us and helped us expand our business.

We’ve gone from a not-so-great location in suburban Sydney to the Queen Victoria Building (QVB) in the CBD. A. (Graeme) After it was explained to me that Bartercard’s trade dollars are like normal Aussie dollars I joined. With 22 thousand jewellery designs we have plenty of stock to offer.

Q. How is Bartercard an effective way to sell your products?

A. (Veronica) Bartercard is a really quick and easy way to make sales. You can gain a lot of exposure through Bartercard and there’s a captive market seeking to purchase from you. We primarily sell locally and Bartercard has expanded our reach by facilitating sales made to people in Queensland, Melbourne and Tasmania.

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A. (Graeme) Bartercard is a great way to test the market with a new product. We run various promotions through Bartercard to gage the uptake. Our best year of trading so far has amounted to $300,000 in additional sales. We’re hoping to increase this by using Bartercard’s online trading facilities which is currently being upgraded to a brand new platform called ‘my bc’.

Q. What is the biggest benefit you derive from Bartercard?

A. (Veronica) The biggest benefit was being able to afford a business coach which really helped us to refocus our business and make some big decision. On a personal note, it has given us the freedom to pamper ourselves! We can be really health conscious thanks to Bartercard as we’re able to pay for health food products, dental check-ups, remedial massages and hair styling that kind of thing.

A. (Graeme) Being able to purchase radio and newspaper advertising has been fantastic for our business. Not only does it save us cash, as we’re paying for it with trade dollars, but the advertising brings in new cash customers. Without Bartercard we simply couldn’t do this.

Q. What do you plan to spend your Bartercard trade dollars on in the future?

A. (Veronica) We’re planning on attending a lot more interstate events such as the Royal Melbourne show and the Gift and Home Ware trade fair. By using our trade dollars to pay for accommodation and dining whilst we’re there, it assists to increase our cash profits for each event.

A. (Graeme) If I had more time I’d do all sorts of things. For now, we’d like to freshen up our workplace by painting the interior and modernising the offices with furniture and furnishings. G

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FEATURE

Save Our Sons Held their 7th Casino Royale (Play 4 a Cure) on 30th May The success of the event relies heavily on the support of ambassadors, sponsors and the general public who attend the events, not only to show their support but also to share a fun night of poker, casino and sideshow alley games.

Fun they had with the Poker Tournament Winner taking home a catered box for 12 to State Of Origin II and a handcrafted white gold and black diamond bracelet kindly donated by Nader Jewellers.

The Celebrity Challenge was taken out by footy great, Benny Elias.

But it’s not all fun and games. Save Our Sons have a vision… to find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).

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To raise awareness and funds to help all DMD sufferers, and with events such as this, they get a little closer.

With over 1200 guests playing poker, enjoying the casino, bidding on great memorabilia in the live and silent auction, Save Our Sons raised $80,000 on the night. The funds will go towards human clinical trials such as; VBP15 – Synthetic Steroid (USA), Multi-component Nutritional Supplement Trial, C1100 – Ultrophin Up Regulation (UK). Additionally, a 4th and 5th trial are currently being looked at.

More events are planned for the year including a Family Fun Weekend to be held at FX Zone, the Melbourne Cup Luncheon at the Ivy and the showstopper, the Save Our Sons Gala Dinner being held at Luna Park. G

For further information on DMD, the human clinical trials and the future events visit www.saveoursons. org.au

SAVE OUR SONS September 2014 – Laugh for a Cure Comedy Night (date & venue to be confirmed)

You will be left in stitches before the night is through. Some of Australia’s best comedic talent take to the stage for a night of laughter and awareness.

Tuesday, 4th November 2014 – Melbourne Cup Luncheon The Ivy Bar Sydney Put on your best attire... Save Our Sons is going to the races in one of Sydney’s most popular hot spots.

Saturday, 6th December 2014 – A Night Before Christmas Gala Dinner Luna Park Sydney A night you do not want to miss! Hosted by Alan Jones and a line up of Australia’s A Listers. The Save Our Sons Gala Dinner is a night you will never forget.

It’s at these events you can expect to rub shoulders with celebrity ambassadors such as Ada Nicodemou, Lynne McGranger, Triple M’s Grill Team, Jonesy and Amanda, Jeff Fenech, Angry Anderson, Sam Burgess, Billy “The Kid” Dib just to name a few. With other high profile names (such as Alan Jones & Ray Hadley) also giving their support you’re bound to have a great night whilst supporting a worthwhile cause.

Be warned though; with all the glitz and glamour also come high emotions. You will see first hand what Save Our Sons is trying to accomplish, and how devastating DMD truly is. But with your help we can make a difference.

For more event information and/or to register your interest, please contact: • Bass – 0400 004 312 (email: bass@saveoursons.org.au) • Rita – 0405 466 866 (email: rita@saveoursons.org.au) Monetary donations are also welcome and can be deposited via the Save Our Sons website: www.saveoursons.org.au.

There you can also read up on DMD, the Save our Sons team, Ambassadors, Sponsors and other fundraising opportunities such as 5s for Lives.

See you at the Event!

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SOCIETY & LIFE

The Great Australian Divide Angry Anderson, AM

We have all heard the expression ‘divide and conquer’ because as a strategy, if you can divide a force, you weaken it and therefore make it easier to conquer or control. A divided force, army or country is easier to overthrow or control than a truly united one.

So, if you wanted to defeat or control a country, a smart tactic would be to systematically weaken its structure, divide it among itself so as to weaken the very fabric that it was originally woven from… and that folks, brothers and sisters, is what is happening to this great country of ours…to us, its people.

What’s more, we are allowing it to happen because the architects of this insidious scheme have cleverly convinced us that, (a), we are wrong to resist and (b) we are powerless to stop it.

Facebook, a constant source of fascination for some, has become a casual source of entertainment and surprisingly, a form of education as well, for me. In recent times I came across a message sent from an online ‘Friend’ that suggested I follow the link as it may be of interest to me. I dutifully followed the link and found to my surprise and delight an article about how the original Women’s Movement was undermined, weakened and therefore controlled by men who owned the big banks.

The banking families decided that they weren’t getting enough taxes from taxing only one bread earner from each family unit. If they could split the family down the middle they could easily convince the non bread winner, the home maker, the wife, that she should go out and get herself a job and therefore they could tax her wage too and so increase their yield, their plunder...oh but the sacrifice to achieve this would be the dismantling of the traditional family unit as we knew it and that was a sacrifice they were willing to make on our behalf.

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into operation. The world, well women anyway were ripe for ‘Liberation’ from the drudgery of staying at home, keeping the home together, raising the children, etc. so it was easy to convince them that they were being ‘exploited’ by their natural enemy, their husbands and, well, men in general. They should demand liberation from this slavery and be given equal rights, equal to the rights that men had and so jealously guarded.

So, if you wanted to defeat or control a country, a smart tactic would be to systematically weaken its structure...

So the Women’s Movement was ‘funded’ and ‘guided’ by those who paid the bills. We all know that if you take money from someone, you are ‘indebted’ to same. That is not to say that all the women’s liberation movements were funded by the big banks because, wisely, some of the sisters smelt a rat or were guided by their God given instincts and were completely independent from any influence that was not of their choosing.

the parents having too much of a say in their upbringing because that may make it harder to manipulate the children later on.

We can argue, at another time, the pros and cons of the results or effects that that liberation/ revolution has had on us all but I often wonder, with all the support our sisters received from the majority of we men, with all the wisdom and good common sense applied to the cause of liberating women, why have the results been so disappointing for them?

The home and family unit is devalued, divided and partially dismantled. Our schools are turned into places of indoctrination not education. There is a divide created between parents and children as there is a division created between teachers and students.

The weakening of the family unit was achieved and women abandoned the traditional roles of homemaker, wife, mother so the fabric that held it all together went out into the world to seek employment to be liberated, to be equal or to be better.

Which part of this great wisdom are we not getting?

The bonus, which was to come later, was that they could also separate the children from their parents and therefore create even more wages to tax, not a new idea but a bonus none the less.

Day Care Centres sprung up on every second corner thus creating even more jobs for women because men were excluded from caring for children because, as the enemy, they could not be trusted. That, as they say, is another story for another day altogether but suffice to say, part of the overall plot to divide us and weaken us.

The time was right for the master plan to be put

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divide the children at school from their teachers so creating a fertile environment to indoctrinate, as opposed to educate, our young to embrace an ideology that was politically/economically driven, for their own good. This would foster in them the misguided belief that once liberated from the constraints of structure and discipline, they could seek and find a better way. We may as well include dividing the children from their parents while we are at it because we don’t need

The result is that in our schools we are left to deal with the breakdown in structure and discipline leading to all sorts of problems so that far too many of our kids, mainly in our State Schools are not getting the education they should.

To divide is to weaken!

The workplace has long been the bastion of division between the workers and the boss.

The unionisation of the workforce was necessary all those years ago. I still believe that unions morally run and administered by honest working men, should be a force used to defend and protect the workers from exploitation at the hands of unscrupulous and greedy bosses.

Companies such as this still exist today. There is no doubt that some companies, particularly the huge conglomerates, will exploit if it means more profits for themselves and their shareholders.

Unions, too, have become a tool of division, the Boss is not always the enemy and all bosses are not out to get you, as the unions would have us believe.

Shows them up for what they are.

I grew up in a labour household believing that it was us against them, that it was every worker’s ‘right’ to rort the boss because he was the enemy. I have found few bosses, in all my years of working, that were shonks, crooks or out to rip me off and I was smart enough to work this out for myself. What I was taught was wrong!

We have been divided and weakened.

They were dividing us!

The result of this division is a worker who believes that the four day weekend is a right, that paid sickies are right and proper, that you should be paid to knock off and have smoko or any of another dozen rorts that the unions have bullied into the workplace as workers entitlements. They have successfully, for years, pitted the worker against the boss and now our workplaces are over burdened with a thousand tales of how we, the worker, get even for imagined wrongs perpetrated against us by our evil boss, while the truth is forgotten and we all pay the price.

A great example of this is when a worker who wants to work ‘an honest days work for an honest days’ pay is told to not work so hard or well, because it shows the rest of us up’.

There are others who will work harder for less rorts and they are coming.

Multiculturalism in its purest politically correct form is dividing the world and left rampant it is dividing and will divide Australia just as it already has elsewhere around the globe! What insanity leads us to believe that we will somehow be different to Europe, Britain or America, where the very fabric of their societies has been frayed, almost if not, beyond repair? Again this is a decision made in our best interests, a sacrifice we all have to make for the betterment of whom?

Who are the champions of this insidious division, who crows the loudest when someone questions or challenges, who drives us to accept no protest? Who pollutes our children with wild social experiments, who? You may ask. Well I have identified who my enemy is and I now prepare myself for my battle against those who would deny me my rights and liberties. Who, I wonder will fall into step beside me to fight for this cause?

Angry Anderson AM is available for the following public speaking.

Subjects covered: • personal life journey experience, overcoming obstacles along the way like his battle with alcohol and drugs, humorous anecdotal stories about his life on the international stage with his band the legendary Rose Tattoo; • inspirational messages on his ability to deal with surviving all his tribulations; • stories about his involvement in Television which introduced him to his dedication to helping others in need; • his commitment to Men’s Health; • his life long battle with depression and his dedication as ambassador, to spreading awareness regarding Prostate Cancer.

w | www.angryanderson.com

I have found my cause, I know my enemy.

I walk with my God as I hope you walk with yours, Your friend, Angry G

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