The Hong Kong Trade Development Council together with the Hong Kong Australia Business Association –NSW Chapter is encouraging participants to enter in the annual Hong Kong –NSW Business Awards of Excellence
The awards acknowledge the achievements of local NSW companies trading with Hong Kong, said Director of HKTDC Australia/ NZ Ms Bonnie Shek “The awards recognize individuals and companies striving for excellence in all aspects of international trade between Australia/NSW and Hong Kong SAR/China,” Ms Shek told “It also provides incentive for other NSW based companies to establish trade links with Hong Kong.” There are six award categories, including export of goods, export of service, imports of goods, imports of service, creative SME, contribution to the industry.
In addition to these awards, there will be a Grand Prize selected from one of the six winners. The independent judging panel is to be chaired by The Hon. Sir Laurence Street AC KCMG QC, and comprises The Hon. Henry Tsang OAM MLC with other professionals and industry heads from Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Austrade, Qantas Airways, Aon Risk Services and CMC Markets.Previous Business Awards Grand Prize Winner was Nature’s Care Manufacturing. Other winners included Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Bluechip Infotech Pty. Ltd, Rockman (Australia) Pty.Ltd, K Square Karaoke Lounge, Informed Investors Magazine and Kairos International Pty. Ltd.
Mr Peter Sinn, President of the HKABA NSW, adds “This year the awards have grown to recognize those companies doing business between not only Hong Kong and NSW but also China, 2008 is the biggest year yet with significant sponsors supporting the event led by Qantas Airways Ltd, Aon Risk Services and CMC Markets, truly making this a not to be missed event” The winners will be announced at the Annual Hong Kong Australia Business Association-NSW Chapter Business Awards of Excellence gala dinner, to be held at the Shangri-La Hotel Sydney on October 17.
NSW Businesses can enter online http://www.hkaba-nsw.com.au entries close mid-late August 2008 or contactMr. Peter Bosevski from Hong Kong Trade Development Council Email: peter.bosevski@tdc.org.hk orMs Coco Li from Hong Kong Australia Business Association (HKABA-NSW)Email: hkaba_nsw@tdc.org.hkPhone: 02-9261-8911
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26 June 2008
19 June 2008
ADVANCING AUSTRALIA FAIRLY MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER COMPETITION 2008
1. Background to the Competition
Today’s young people will be tomorrow’s leaders. They will make a critical contribution to building an Australia that promotes tolerance, respect and understanding, and is dedicated to combating prejudice and discrimination against individuals or groups on any basis.
Advancing Australia Fairly is an annual competition that aims to stimulate university and TAFE students to think about their contribution towards shaping Australia’s future.
The competition organizers come from diverse backgrounds and community groups, but are united in our commitment to work together for the common good. We share universal values of love, compassion, equality, respect for human rights and the rule of law. This competition is a contribution towards building unity in diversity in the Australian community.
2. Competition Theme
The theme of this year’s competition is
GROWING TOGETHER IN HARMONY: MY PROPOSAL
Students are invited to express their ideas as essays or visuals.
3. Competition Details
3.1 Competition Categories:
There are two separate sections to the competition – an essay section and a graphic/photo section
The essay should be one page or less (800 words maximum)
The graphic/photo should be a graphic image or photo supported by no more than 300 words. Minimum size is 10cm x 15cm and maximum size is 20cm x 25cm.
3.2 Submission of Entries
Entries may be submitted by individual students or by groups of students attending Universities or TAFE colleges throughout Australia
All entries must be original.
Entries to be posted to
ADVANCING AUSTRALIA FAIRLY COMPETITION
PO Box 443
KINGS CROSS, NSW 1340
3.3 Closing Date
The closing date for all entries will be 8 August 2008. Entries will become the property of the competition organisers.
3.4 Judging
A panel of qualified judges will judge the entries. Decisions made by the judging panel are final.
The entries will be judged on the overall clarity of meaning, focus and relevance of the entry, and its appropriateness relative to illustrating the theme of the competition. Originality and innovation will score highly. Dramatic, beautiful, truthful and creative images will rate highly in the graphic/photo section.
The organisers reserve the right not to award a prize if, in the opinion of the judges, there is no eligible entry that satisfies the judging criteria.
3.5 Winning entries
· Each entrant will receive a certificate of acknowledgement
· Winning entries in each section will receive a prize of $4000
· There will be 6 runners up prizes in each section. Each of these prizes will be $1000
· Winners will be publicly announced in 21 Sept. 2008 to mark the ‘ International day of Peace.
· Winning entries may be published, exhibited publicly, used for promotional purposes or uploaded onto World Wide Web.
4. Organisers
The competition has been initiated by
· The Alfred Dreyfus Unit ( under the umbrella of MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER )
· Australian Baha’i Community
· Australian Law Students’ Association (ALSA)
Community groups and organisations are invited to contribute to the competition as partners or supporters.
Competition partners will contribute, materially or in kind, towards the planning and implementation of the competition.
Competition supporters give their endorsement to the competition and its aims, and commit to promoting it within their organisations and networks.
Supporters of the inaugural competition in 2007 included: Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, Uniting Church Education, Buddhist Council of NSW, Hindu Council of Australia, Chinese Australian Forum, Hye Hoki, and the NSW Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC.
Competition sponsors for 2008 include: Meriton, Specialty Fashion Group, Amitran
5. Further Information
Further information and entry forms will be available from the competition website, www.movingforwardtogether.com.au
B’nai B’rith contact person: Ernie Friedlander, tel (02) 9361 6035 or email erniefrbnaibrith@ozemail.com.au
Australian Baha’i Community contact person: Natalie Mobini-Kesheh, tel (02) 9877 5826 or email natalie.mobini@bnc.bahai.org.au
Today’s young people will be tomorrow’s leaders. They will make a critical contribution to building an Australia that promotes tolerance, respect and understanding, and is dedicated to combating prejudice and discrimination against individuals or groups on any basis.
Advancing Australia Fairly is an annual competition that aims to stimulate university and TAFE students to think about their contribution towards shaping Australia’s future.
The competition organizers come from diverse backgrounds and community groups, but are united in our commitment to work together for the common good. We share universal values of love, compassion, equality, respect for human rights and the rule of law. This competition is a contribution towards building unity in diversity in the Australian community.
2. Competition Theme
The theme of this year’s competition is
GROWING TOGETHER IN HARMONY: MY PROPOSAL
Students are invited to express their ideas as essays or visuals.
3. Competition Details
3.1 Competition Categories:
There are two separate sections to the competition – an essay section and a graphic/photo section
The essay should be one page or less (800 words maximum)
The graphic/photo should be a graphic image or photo supported by no more than 300 words. Minimum size is 10cm x 15cm and maximum size is 20cm x 25cm.
3.2 Submission of Entries
Entries may be submitted by individual students or by groups of students attending Universities or TAFE colleges throughout Australia
All entries must be original.
Entries to be posted to
ADVANCING AUSTRALIA FAIRLY COMPETITION
PO Box 443
KINGS CROSS, NSW 1340
3.3 Closing Date
The closing date for all entries will be 8 August 2008. Entries will become the property of the competition organisers.
3.4 Judging
A panel of qualified judges will judge the entries. Decisions made by the judging panel are final.
The entries will be judged on the overall clarity of meaning, focus and relevance of the entry, and its appropriateness relative to illustrating the theme of the competition. Originality and innovation will score highly. Dramatic, beautiful, truthful and creative images will rate highly in the graphic/photo section.
The organisers reserve the right not to award a prize if, in the opinion of the judges, there is no eligible entry that satisfies the judging criteria.
3.5 Winning entries
· Each entrant will receive a certificate of acknowledgement
· Winning entries in each section will receive a prize of $4000
· There will be 6 runners up prizes in each section. Each of these prizes will be $1000
· Winners will be publicly announced in 21 Sept. 2008 to mark the ‘ International day of Peace.
· Winning entries may be published, exhibited publicly, used for promotional purposes or uploaded onto World Wide Web.
4. Organisers
The competition has been initiated by
· The Alfred Dreyfus Unit ( under the umbrella of MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER )
· Australian Baha’i Community
· Australian Law Students’ Association (ALSA)
Community groups and organisations are invited to contribute to the competition as partners or supporters.
Competition partners will contribute, materially or in kind, towards the planning and implementation of the competition.
Competition supporters give their endorsement to the competition and its aims, and commit to promoting it within their organisations and networks.
Supporters of the inaugural competition in 2007 included: Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, Uniting Church Education, Buddhist Council of NSW, Hindu Council of Australia, Chinese Australian Forum, Hye Hoki, and the NSW Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC.
Competition sponsors for 2008 include: Meriton, Specialty Fashion Group, Amitran
5. Further Information
Further information and entry forms will be available from the competition website, www.movingforwardtogether.com.au
B’nai B’rith contact person: Ernie Friedlander, tel (02) 9361 6035 or email erniefrbnaibrith@ozemail.com.au
Australian Baha’i Community contact person: Natalie Mobini-Kesheh, tel (02) 9877 5826 or email natalie.mobini@bnc.bahai.org.au
24 March 2008
IMPORTANT new laws for incorporated associations
Proposed changes to the laws regulating incorporated associations will make them easier to run and provide increased protection for their members. The reforms will simplify many of the rules for small associations as well as ensuring greater financial transparency for associations whose annual turnover exceeds $200,000.
There are over 35,000 incorporated associations in NSW, with interests ranging from small hobby groups to large sporting clubs and community service organisations. Overall, the proposed changes will modernise the processes involved in running an association and improve the flexibility for meetings and office holders.
The NSW Office of Fair Trading is seeking public comment on the proposed reforms which can be found on the Fair Trading website at http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/ or by calling 13 32 20. Submissions close Friday 11 April.
There are over 35,000 incorporated associations in NSW, with interests ranging from small hobby groups to large sporting clubs and community service organisations. Overall, the proposed changes will modernise the processes involved in running an association and improve the flexibility for meetings and office holders.
The NSW Office of Fair Trading is seeking public comment on the proposed reforms which can be found on the Fair Trading website at http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/ or by calling 13 32 20. Submissions close Friday 11 April.
06 March 2008
FAMILY STORIES: BELGRADE
By Biljana Srbljanovic
Translated and Directed by Bojana Novakovic
15th Oct – 2nd Nov 2008
At the Stablemates Griffin Theatre Darlinghurst
Family Stories: Belgrade is a violently skewed ‘Family Portrait’ of a developed nation in the process of imploding. It gives voice to a generation of people who grew up during a ten-year civil war and articulates what they lost over that time: an identity, a voice and the ability to develop opinions of their own.
A war is over, or it might not be. It is any time after 1999. The inflation rate is absurdly high, there are demonstrations in the streets, politicians wives are publishing self-help books, families are rationing food and kids are left unsupervised in their concrete playground.
On stage, or at the back of an apartment block, four adult actors play children who in turn play adults; mum, dad, son, daughter and the family dog. This is the game of Family Stories, a thrilling, hilarious, devastating parable of post war society.
It is vital to consider that only a couple of decades ago Yugoslavia was very much like Australia seems now; an intellectual and cultural epicentre. Its citizens well-educated, it was a final destination for all Europeans looking for freedom, opportunities, intellectual and artistic expression, and an exciting night-life. In a country that still has this potential, the impact of a work like Family Stories: Belgrade cannot be underestimated.
This play is, at heart, an allegory of Yugoslavia under Milosevic, and one of the most original, contemporary and honest theatrical dramatizations of the unrest that came under his regime. More than that however, it is a depiction of the dehumanization of a society - any society - under the boots of repression, nationalism, corruption, and war.
Ride On Theatre
Fringe theatre doesn’t get much more exciting and disturbing than this.
Cameron Woodhead, The AGE
Ride On is a collective of young professional theatre makers, performers, designers, technicians and musicians who share a passion for theatre as a vital source of our collective cultural conscience, our identity as individuals and as a community. Steered by the artistic vision of Tanya Goldberg and Bojana Novakovic, Ride On’s vision is the creation of challenging, innovative theatre works, which always draw upon the vitality of the medium and resonate and expand the boundaries in our distinctive culture.
"Compelling… refreshingly accessible … inventive… such theatrical conceit seems perfectly matched to the politics of today"
Mark Hopkins, Sydney Morning Herald
Ride On’s 2004 production of LOVEPLAY was a B Sharp sell-out and set an unprecedented box office record for the Downstairs Belvoir Street Theatre, only superceded in 2007 by Ride On’s The Merchant of Venice. After shaking up Sydney audiences during its April 2006 season, Debris had a sell-out second season at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in October, hosted by our friends The Black Lung Theatre. Debris received Green Room Award nominations for Best Independent Production and Best Actress (Bojana Novakovic) With our acclaimed 2006 production of Bone, the production was invited for a return season at the Seymour Centre as part of the Best of Independent Theatre BITE season. Bone received a Sydney Theatre Award nomination for Best Actress (Vanessa Downing) 2006. With The Merchant of Venice, Ride On returned to B Sharp, at Downstairs Belvoir, once again welcoming new members into the company for a fresh, invigorating and highly acclaimed theatrical experience. Thematically and artistically, The Merchant of Venice continued the Ride On tradition of pushing creative boundaries for our team as well as personal ones for our audience. Our 2008 plans continue in the same direction, with ideas for original work and rare contemporary adaptations. We hope you are enjoying the ride!
… Ride On Theatre have certainly ticked the biggest box on their mission statement – providing “a community of artists who believe in theatre’s enlightening and transforming power” Debris indeed enlightens and transforms, and gives hope where you least expect it.
SydneyStage.com
Bojana Novakovic : translator and director.
Bojana graduated from NIDA in 2002. In 2004 she won the AFI award for Best Leading Actress on Television for the ABC mini series Marking Time. This year she is about to star along side Will Smith in the film 7 POUNDS. Other film Credits include Optimisti, Solo, Thunderstruck, The Monkey’s Mask, Strange Fits of Passion, Blackrock and The Eye Inside. Theatre credits include These People, Away and Strange Fruit at the Sydney Theatre Company; The Female of the Species at the Melbourne Theatre Company; Criminology (Greenroom nomination for best actress 2007), Eldorado (Helpman nomination for best supporting actress, 2006) and Necessary Targets at the Malthouse, Death Variations and Loveplay (Ride On) for B Sharp, Romeo And Juliet with Bell Shakespeare and Debris for Ride On Theatre which received a Greenroom Award nomination for best Independent production and best actress in 2006. TV includes the Showtime series Satisfaction and The Cooks, Wildside, Water Rats, Big Sky, Heartbreak High and Murder Call.
Bojana was a producer for the 2004 Ride On sellout season of LOVEPLAY at the Downstairs Belvoir Street Theatre and the 2006 award nominated production of Debris. She was director and writer with Melbourne’s Black Lung Theatre for the critically acclaimed production of Sugar at the 2007 Adelaide Fringe Festival. She was an anti-nuclear testing protest organiser all throughout high school and appeared on the news! As well as fundraising for anti communist protests in Belgrade from 1997-2001. She has worked extensively with refugees in Australia. She is a professional translator for theatre and film (Serbian/ Croatian).
Translated and Directed by Bojana Novakovic
15th Oct – 2nd Nov 2008
At the Stablemates Griffin Theatre Darlinghurst
Family Stories: Belgrade is a violently skewed ‘Family Portrait’ of a developed nation in the process of imploding. It gives voice to a generation of people who grew up during a ten-year civil war and articulates what they lost over that time: an identity, a voice and the ability to develop opinions of their own.
A war is over, or it might not be. It is any time after 1999. The inflation rate is absurdly high, there are demonstrations in the streets, politicians wives are publishing self-help books, families are rationing food and kids are left unsupervised in their concrete playground.
On stage, or at the back of an apartment block, four adult actors play children who in turn play adults; mum, dad, son, daughter and the family dog. This is the game of Family Stories, a thrilling, hilarious, devastating parable of post war society.
It is vital to consider that only a couple of decades ago Yugoslavia was very much like Australia seems now; an intellectual and cultural epicentre. Its citizens well-educated, it was a final destination for all Europeans looking for freedom, opportunities, intellectual and artistic expression, and an exciting night-life. In a country that still has this potential, the impact of a work like Family Stories: Belgrade cannot be underestimated.
This play is, at heart, an allegory of Yugoslavia under Milosevic, and one of the most original, contemporary and honest theatrical dramatizations of the unrest that came under his regime. More than that however, it is a depiction of the dehumanization of a society - any society - under the boots of repression, nationalism, corruption, and war.
Ride On Theatre
Fringe theatre doesn’t get much more exciting and disturbing than this.
Cameron Woodhead, The AGE
Ride On is a collective of young professional theatre makers, performers, designers, technicians and musicians who share a passion for theatre as a vital source of our collective cultural conscience, our identity as individuals and as a community. Steered by the artistic vision of Tanya Goldberg and Bojana Novakovic, Ride On’s vision is the creation of challenging, innovative theatre works, which always draw upon the vitality of the medium and resonate and expand the boundaries in our distinctive culture.
"Compelling… refreshingly accessible … inventive… such theatrical conceit seems perfectly matched to the politics of today"
Mark Hopkins, Sydney Morning Herald
Ride On’s 2004 production of LOVEPLAY was a B Sharp sell-out and set an unprecedented box office record for the Downstairs Belvoir Street Theatre, only superceded in 2007 by Ride On’s The Merchant of Venice. After shaking up Sydney audiences during its April 2006 season, Debris had a sell-out second season at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in October, hosted by our friends The Black Lung Theatre. Debris received Green Room Award nominations for Best Independent Production and Best Actress (Bojana Novakovic) With our acclaimed 2006 production of Bone, the production was invited for a return season at the Seymour Centre as part of the Best of Independent Theatre BITE season. Bone received a Sydney Theatre Award nomination for Best Actress (Vanessa Downing) 2006. With The Merchant of Venice, Ride On returned to B Sharp, at Downstairs Belvoir, once again welcoming new members into the company for a fresh, invigorating and highly acclaimed theatrical experience. Thematically and artistically, The Merchant of Venice continued the Ride On tradition of pushing creative boundaries for our team as well as personal ones for our audience. Our 2008 plans continue in the same direction, with ideas for original work and rare contemporary adaptations. We hope you are enjoying the ride!
… Ride On Theatre have certainly ticked the biggest box on their mission statement – providing “a community of artists who believe in theatre’s enlightening and transforming power” Debris indeed enlightens and transforms, and gives hope where you least expect it.
SydneyStage.com
Bojana Novakovic : translator and director.
Bojana graduated from NIDA in 2002. In 2004 she won the AFI award for Best Leading Actress on Television for the ABC mini series Marking Time. This year she is about to star along side Will Smith in the film 7 POUNDS. Other film Credits include Optimisti, Solo, Thunderstruck, The Monkey’s Mask, Strange Fits of Passion, Blackrock and The Eye Inside. Theatre credits include These People, Away and Strange Fruit at the Sydney Theatre Company; The Female of the Species at the Melbourne Theatre Company; Criminology (Greenroom nomination for best actress 2007), Eldorado (Helpman nomination for best supporting actress, 2006) and Necessary Targets at the Malthouse, Death Variations and Loveplay (Ride On) for B Sharp, Romeo And Juliet with Bell Shakespeare and Debris for Ride On Theatre which received a Greenroom Award nomination for best Independent production and best actress in 2006. TV includes the Showtime series Satisfaction and The Cooks, Wildside, Water Rats, Big Sky, Heartbreak High and Murder Call.
Bojana was a producer for the 2004 Ride On sellout season of LOVEPLAY at the Downstairs Belvoir Street Theatre and the 2006 award nominated production of Debris. She was director and writer with Melbourne’s Black Lung Theatre for the critically acclaimed production of Sugar at the 2007 Adelaide Fringe Festival. She was an anti-nuclear testing protest organiser all throughout high school and appeared on the news! As well as fundraising for anti communist protests in Belgrade from 1997-2001. She has worked extensively with refugees in Australia. She is a professional translator for theatre and film (Serbian/ Croatian).
04 March 2008
JAPA - Justice Access Programs Alert
JAPA - Justice Access Programs Alert is a free bi-monthly electronic alert published by the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW.
It covers innovative programs improving access to justice for economically and socially disadvantaged people throughout but not limited to NSW. Program evaluations are included if available.Each issue will include a focus on a specific theme.
Programs for Aboriginal people are featured in the first issue, which is available on the web at http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/publications/newsletters/japa.
To subscribe go to http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/publications/newsletters/japa.
Contributions and feedback are welcome and can be sent to arussell@lawfoundation.net.au
It covers innovative programs improving access to justice for economically and socially disadvantaged people throughout but not limited to NSW. Program evaluations are included if available.Each issue will include a focus on a specific theme.
Programs for Aboriginal people are featured in the first issue, which is available on the web at http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/publications/newsletters/japa.
To subscribe go to http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/publications/newsletters/japa.
Contributions and feedback are welcome and can be sent to arussell@lawfoundation.net.au
26 February 2008
A BRAND NEW TELEVISION SHOW FOR SBS
Do you know any Sydney families whose adult children live at home?
We’re offering $500 to anyone who refers a family to us that we ask to appear on the program!
(Please talk to the family in question before putting them forward)
We are looking for Sydney based families from various cultural backgrounds to feature in a new television production for SBS.
We need families whose children aren’t in any rush to leave the parental home. There may be some tension but, by and large, the parents like having their kids around and believe they are doing the right thing by helping them out a little; the kids like living under their parents’ roof.
In this exciting new series, families will be asked to break their daily routines and take on new roles while an observational documentary crew capture the events as they unfold. Expert advisors will be on hand to guide them through the process and offer them a unique insight into their lives. The resulting television programs will be thought-provoking for all families, for you it will be the opportunity to learn about and assess your futures. Whatever conclusions you draw from the experiences you’ll be given, it’ll certainly be a positive learning curve for all the family.
If you are interested in taking part in this amazing TV show and would like more information please get in touch with Fabio Basone at casting@freehandtv.com.au or call on 02 85145427
We’re offering $500 to anyone who refers a family to us that we ask to appear on the program!
(Please talk to the family in question before putting them forward)
We are looking for Sydney based families from various cultural backgrounds to feature in a new television production for SBS.
We need families whose children aren’t in any rush to leave the parental home. There may be some tension but, by and large, the parents like having their kids around and believe they are doing the right thing by helping them out a little; the kids like living under their parents’ roof.
In this exciting new series, families will be asked to break their daily routines and take on new roles while an observational documentary crew capture the events as they unfold. Expert advisors will be on hand to guide them through the process and offer them a unique insight into their lives. The resulting television programs will be thought-provoking for all families, for you it will be the opportunity to learn about and assess your futures. Whatever conclusions you draw from the experiences you’ll be given, it’ll certainly be a positive learning curve for all the family.
If you are interested in taking part in this amazing TV show and would like more information please get in touch with Fabio Basone at casting@freehandtv.com.au or call on 02 85145427
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