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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The Fine Food Australia exhibition will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from Monday 13th – Thursday 16th of September.
Register before 6 September 2010 for free entry, save $30.
From the Fine Food Australia website:
If you work in the retail, food service or hospitality industry, then you simply cannot afford to miss Fine Food Australia. It only takes one visit to discover hundreds of new ideas with food that could change the way you do business forever!
Fine Food has earned the reputation as Australia’s only truly international event for the food industry. This is the place to find the newest and best products and sevices on offer and stay abreast of what’s hot and happening in the industry.
Click here for more information or to register at the Fine Food Australia website.
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
From the Service Skills Australia newsletter:
The AQF Council has been undertaking a project to develop advice for MCTEE on strengthening the Australian Qualifications Framework to ensure it is nationally and internationally robust and supports flexible cross-sector linkages and pathways.
The project commenced in 2009 and following extensive research on stakeholder views and concerns, related academic literature and international practices, the AQF Council developed a proposal for a strengthened AQF. Stakeholders provided feedback on the proposal and the subsequent revised AQF based on a taxonomy of AQF qualifications that has a ten level structure; a classification of knowledge, skills and application (incorporating generic skills); and a notional duration of learning for each qualification type.
The AQF Council have now released a Consultation Paper for feedback by 4 August 2010.
Click here to download the paper [PDF: 1.52MB].
Click here to view the Australian Qualifications Framework website.
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
From the Victorian Government’s Department of Health website:
From 1 July 2010, major changes to the Food Act 1984 apply to Victoria’s 45,000 food businesses and community groups conducting food events.
The Food Act 1984 regulates the sale of food for human consumption in Victoria.
The amendments aim to better match the level of regulation with the risk inherent in premises’ food handling activities, and to strengthen the accountability of regulators.
Victoria’s food safety standards remain in place while simplifying food safety requirements for low-risk food premises.
The national Food Standards Code continues to apply and is not affected by changes to the Act.
Click here for more information on the Department of Health’s Food Safety website.
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
AgriFood Skills Australia will be coordinating a series of breakfast seminars across the country.
From AgriFood Skills Australia
The seminars are aimed at chief executives, managing directors and business owners and seek to provide detailed guidelines for ‘future proofing’ food processing businesses by making them more sustainable. In the coming years many Australian food processors can expect to face the challenges posed by:
- Large hikes in energy costs
- Access to an affordable water supply
- More regulation demanded by a carbon constrained economy
- More demanding and discerning ‘green consumers’
- Gaps in the right skills to deal with numerous challenges
To survive and compete in this environment business management must begin to think strategically, build relationships and activate the workplace to respond to these pressures. Sustainability is the key to the survival of business operations in the longer term – it is not just about diagnostics and technical ‘fixes’ and processes.
The Victorian seminar will be hosted by Cardinia Shire Council.
7am breakfast, 25 August 2010
Lakeview Room
Cardinia Cultural Centre
Lakeside Boulevard, Pakenham
Click here to view more information on the AgriFood Skills Australia website.
Click here to view the PDF flier [PDF: 142KB].
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
The 5th Annual Skilling Australia Summit 2010 will be held on 10-11th August at the Rendezvous Hotel in Melbourne. The Summit will provide a meeting place for human resources and senior decision and policy makers to come together to put ideas on the table, share practical strategies and to trigger action.
From the Conference webpage:
Some of the questions that will be debated at the Skilling Summit 2010:
- How do you effectively source new talent?
- What can you do to reduce any ‘brain drain’?
- What are you doing to compete with other potential employers for the best candidates?
- How do you plan to keep essential knowledge and experience within your organisation?
- What are you doing to prepare for a changing workforce demographic?
- What can you do to facilitate, and to benefit from, changing working lifestyle?
Click here for more information on the Summit and to register on the Conference website.
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
The 17th Australian HACCP Conference will be held on Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th August at The Sebel, in Albert Park and will see food industry professionals involved in food safety come together. This year the Conference Package also incorporates the SQF International Conference (the first SQF conference to be held outside North America) to be held on Thursday 26th August at the same venue.
The conference will address such topics as:
- Food Safety in new & emerging markets,
- Lessons to be learned from food safety outbreaks,
- Implementing food safety in small businesses,
- Red Line Management,
- The impact of sustainability strategies on food safety,
- Update on allergens and their impact,
- Labelling laws review,
- Air quality testing,
- Toxicology of heavy metals in relation to food safety,
- Controlling personal hygiene in a food service environment.
Click here for more information on the conference on the Australian Food Safety website
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
AgriFood Skills Australia will host its fifth AgriFood national Conference in Melbourne on 23rd September 2010. The conference will comprise a full one-day conference on Thursday 23rd September and it will feature keynote presentations and interactive panels. Some 200 leading industry and government representatives are expected to attend and speakers will focus on contemporary and future issues affecting the industry, the economy, employment, training and workplace capacity as well as current and future skill, workforce and training needs.
Australia’s Regions: Australia’s Future: Leading industry and academic speakers and panelists will provide an interactive program around the critical importance of regional Australia.
Conference dinner: The conference dinner will be held on Wednesday 22nd September from 7.30pm. Changing the dinner to Wednesday night allows a single overnight stay. Conference registration includes the conference dinner but ‘conference only’ registration is available.
Bookings are not yet being taken, but please stay tuned for more details.
Click here to view more information on the AgriFood Skills Australia website.
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
The 2010 Annual Wage Review Decision was handed down Fair Work Australian (FWA) recently. Key elements include:
- The National Minimum Wage will be increased by 69cents per hour to $15 per hour;
- Award wage rates for full-time adult employees will be increased by $26.00 per week;
- Junior, apprentice and trainee wage rates will be adjusted proportionately; and
- Wage-related allowances and expense-related allowances will be increased in accordance with formulas included in each modern award.
Click here for more information on Annual Wage Reviews on the Fair Work Australia website.
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
From the Tourism Victoria website:.
Nine Victorian breweries – many from regional Victoria – shared in a pouring of awards at the prestigious Australian International Beer Awards in a ceremony held at Crown Palladium.
The breadth of quality of the state’s craft beer sector was confirmed as nine Victorian beers from a variety of local craft breweries received Gold Medals during the awards’ judging process.
Among the victors was 2 Brothers’ Voodoo beer, which won the Premier’s Trophy for best Victorian beer. The other gold medallists were:
- E.S.B (Holgate Brewhouse, Woodend)
- Temptress (Holgate Brewhouse, Woodend)
- Chevalier Saison (Bridge Road Brewers, Beechworth)
- Temple Special Bitter (Temple Brewing Company, Melbourne)
- Surefoot Stout (Mountain Goat Beer, Richmond)
- White Rabbit Dark Ale (White Rabbit Brewery, Healesville)
- Red Hill Brewery Christmas Ale (Red Hill Brewery, Mornington Peninsula).
- Red Hill Brewery Imperial stout (Red Hill Brewery, Mornington Peninsula).
Thirty Victorian breweries entered and exhibited a total of 223 beers at this year’s Awards which attracted 1170 entries from 243 breweries across 34 countries including Germany, Scandinavia, Denmark, Norway, USA, UK, Belgium, and the Czech Republic.
Congratulations to all of the Victorian winners!
Click here to view the full list of winners on the Australian International Beer Awards website
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
William Angliss are now offering part time study options in food technology. Qualifications in Certificate IV in Food Science and Technology, and Diploma of Food Science and Technology are now commencing July 19 with night classes on Mondays and Wednesdays – so what are you waiting for? Sign Up Now!
Click here to view more information [PDF: 570KB].
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