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Youths encouraged to enter workforce By David Lee IT was Shepparton’s status as having the highest youth unemployment rate that drove Youth Employment Academy Youth Employment Specialist, Peter Coronica to visit our city and impart his knowledge and tips to students from Notre Dame College, with his main focus being to encourage youths to enter the workforce early. With only 28 percent of people under 25 having a full time job across the country, the lack of skills and lack of a career goal are being blamed for the country’s high youth unemployment rates. Continued on page 20
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NEW LABELS
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WHICH COUNTRY IS IT FROM?… Local members of parliament, including Federal Member for Murray, Dr Sharman Stone, are disappointed with the new country-of-origin labelling, which doesn’t specify which country certain portions of product comes from. Photo: Alicia Niglia.
“I was really hoping for more”
By David Lee THE release of the new countryof-origin food labels is causing a stir with local government members, who are disappointed that the labelling doesn’t give the Australian consumers adequate information to make the best decision to buy the product or not, with the new labelling leaving out the most important detail; the name of the country-of-origin.
The new labels, which the government aims to see the legislation introduced in the Federal Parliament in early December and to have the voluntary rollout of the labelling prior to Christmas before coming into force on April 1, 2016, is supposed to give consumers access to clear, consistent and easy-to-understand food labelling information, but it is being Continued on page 19 argued that this is not enough.