SPC juices up home-grown produce
The News Review:
- SPC juices up home-grown produce
- Get our act together
- Minister urges local training for imams
SPC juices up home-grown produce
The Age - Jul 26, 2005
Photo: Sandy Scheltema Spc Ardmona has turned its back on fruit imports and secured a12-month deal to supply its new parent, Coca-Cola Amatil, withhome-grown apple juice as part of a broader expansion plan. SPC, which was taken over in February by the bottler ofCoca-Cola, will process about 23,000 tonnes of juice apples thisyear compared with only 3500 tonnes last year. It will replace product previously sourced from China. There has been a big surplus this year of apples in the GoulburnValley, the big fruit-producing region in northern Victoria that isSPC Ardmona’s home base. SPC Ardmona managing director Nigel Garrard said the extra10,000 tonnes of juice apples required under the deal would nototherwise have been produced.
Get our act together
Melbourne Herald Sun - Jul 26, 2005
article-tools –> July 26, 2005 12:00am WHEN Prime Minister John Howard gets back he must act to pull together Australia’s fragmented response to international terrorism. The nation urgently needs a federal body to co-ordinate security. The London experience has shown that the threat can come as much from home-grown terror as from overseas. The present piecemeal confusion is no one’s fault: it is the natural reaction in a democratic society used to the luxury of resolving problems by reasoned debate. But reason is not in the lexicon of fanatics. We cannot, for instance, afford to endlessly argue whether or not security cameras are a good idea. They have helped identify terrorists in London and while cameras might not prevent a bombing, any captured terrorists can lead to their accomplices.
Minister urges local training for imams
The Age - Jul 26, 2005
In a move that won support from Muslim leaders, Dr Nelsonoffered government aid for universities to set up local programs totrain Australian-born imams. At present the vast majority are bornand educated overseas. “It seems to me that the Australian Islamic community mightappreciate assistance in seeing its own scholars that are born andbred in Australia, who understand and fully respect Australianvalues,” he said. The proposal came as the Australian Federation of IslamicCouncils responded to the challenge of Prime Minister John Howardand wrote to Muslim leaders and imams, urging them to speak out intheir communities to condemn terrorism.