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Lifelong education and training is vital in enriching the lives of not only our citizens, but we as a Nation.

Industrial relations or labour relations, greatly influences the way our economy functions and performs. It is the relationship between management and workers that applies to the workplace.

The public service consists of a group of dedicated and professional people who deliver a range of vital goods and services to the community and government.

Since European settlement, most native vegetation in the Southwest of Western Australia (an area that comprises 12.3% of the state, some 31,063,650 hectares) has seen over 65% of the vegetation cover removed or significantly modified through mining, urbanisation and pastoralism. In fact, only 7% of the original untouched vegetation is intact! The continued and increasing clearing of native vegetation is a significant threat to our outstanding biodiversity and natural environment.

Water, over the past few decades, has become an increasingly rare and vital commodity to our way of life. Our planet surface is covered by up to 70% of water, of which only 2.5% is fresh water, with less than ~0.007% available for human use. Of this, currently 6 billion people on the planet use about 30% this available water, and it is predicted that by 2025 that percentage will rise closer to 70%. With increasing demand on our water resources, our supply of water is rapidly decreasing.