Theme 7: Images of farm life (Primary)
2014-06-03 Health centre offer stands: Walsh – Hamilton Spectator
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2014-06-03 Health Centre Offer Stands – Walsh: Hamilton Spectator
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2014-06-04 Canadian Government to roll out Australia’s abandoned farmer health centre – ABC Rural (Audio)
An award-winning farmer health program, developed in Australia, will be rolled out in Canada after being abandoned by the Australian Government.
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2014-06-04 Canadian Government to roll out Australia’s abandoned farmer health centre
2014-06-05 Canadian support for Australia’s abandoned farmer health program – ABC Rural
A farmer health program developed in regional Victoria, that can’t get funding, will be rolled out by the Canadian Government in October.
A lack of state or federal government funding in Australia means the same award-winning program has ceased work on home soil.
The Hamilton-based National Centre for Farmer Health has been lobbying for $1 million in core funding since it was left out of the 2012 Victorian State Budget…
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2014-06-05 Canadian support for Australia’s abandoned farmer health program
(Photo and article source: ABC Rural News. Photo by Dean Koopman)
On the Money – Financials for Farming Women
On the Money is a FREE business and financial management program specifically designed for Western Victoria’s farming women.
Fundamentally, it’s all about money … and farms. In next to no time you’ll learn how to improve your farm financial management capacity.
COURSE DATES
HAMILTON – Thursday 29 May
SKIPTON – Friday 30 May
You’ll understand the role of:
- Your farm’s cash position;
- Know how to interpret and manage your Profit and Loss;
- Understanding your balance sheet;
and how these management tools can help grow your future wealth.
Beyond just giving you an understanding of these farming financial fundamentals, there are other benefits. It’s your chance to meet other farming women, to compare notes and roles and share experiences.
On the Money – Financials for Farming Women
2014-04-14 PPSA project targets healthy living
IT has been one year since Primary Producers SA replaced the South Australian Farmers Federation as the peak lobby group for farmers….
Undertaken in collaboration with the National Centre for Farmer Health, and support from Country South SA Medicare Local, the project has an emphasis on preventive health, and working to identify strategies to help agricultural workers operate at full capacity without compromising on their health and safety.
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2014-04-14 PPSA project targets healthy living (Photo source and article: Stock Journal)
2014-05-15 The hidden toll: rural suicide – Ground Cover GRDC (May June)
Health researchers are trying to find ways to improve support for growers for whom isolation and cumulative financial and emotional pressures lead to a tragically high incidence of suicide…
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The hidden toll: rural suicide – Ground Cover GRDC (May June)
2014-05-14 Joyce admits Budget will be tough for rural Australia – ABC Rural
The Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce acknowledges the Federal Government will lose some friends in rural Australia because of the Budget.
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2014-05-14 Joyce admits Budget will be tough for rural Australia – ABC Rural
2014-05-14 Farming sector’s expectations met in ‘tough’ federal Budget… – The Weekly Times
AGRICULTURE has been spared major funding cuts but regional Australia is set to share the pain inflicted by the Abbott Government’s first Budget.
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2014-05-14 Farming sector’s expectations met in ‘tough’ federal Budget – The Weekly Times
2014-05-14 Andrew Broad on Budget 2014 – ABC 594 Western Victoria (audio)
Member for Mallee, Andrew Broad gives his thoughts on the federal budget and how it impacts Western Victoria.
2014-05-14 Andrew Broad on Budget 2014 – ABC 594 Western Victoria (audio)
2014-05-12 Steve Martin talks with Susan Brumby – ABC Ballarat (audio)
Susan Brumby talks to Steve Martin on the Morning program about funding for the National Centre for Farmer Health (ABC Ballarat 107.9)
2014-05-12 Steve Martin talks with Susan Brumby – ABC Ballarat (audio)
2014-05-10 Last roll of the dice – Hamilton Spectator
TUESDAY’S Federal Budget looms as a last roll of the dice in the bid to save Hamilton’s National Centre for Farmer Health from …
2014-05-10 Last roll of the dice – Hamilton Spectator
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