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...course centers aren't the only option. Family day-care schemes are being promoted as a cheaper alternative to long day care, especially as a career for single mothers being coaxed from welfare to work. For the past 23 years, Mary Hinton has looked after children in her Ipswich, Queensland home; four days a week, she now cares for four children under three, for which she charges $A3.90 an hour per child. She and her retired husband have converted their garage into an activity room, and their grandchildren have grown up playing with the children she looks after. "They become...
...Until 2003, Queensland authorities invested great faith and resources in a relocation program for troublesome crocodiles. Animals spotted near humans were captured, then released in remote areas including the Normanby River system in the 577,000-ha Lakefield National Park. After the Jefferies attack, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service regional director Clive Cook said no crocodiles had been relocated to Lakefield since 1997. But according to a research paper by a visiting American scientist, Chris Kofron, 12 crocodiles were relocated into the park between 1999 and 2001. Cook now says he was only "making a general observation" about crocodile relocation...
...thing most wildlife-management experts are sure of is that relocation programs do not work. The Queensland government has quietly stopped the practice. In an experiment, a satellite tracking device was attached to a crocodile, which was relocated from one side of Cape York Peninsula to the other. Within a few months the animal was back home, having swum about 450 km around the tip of the Cape. Read says captured crocodiles are now sold to reptile farmers or nature parks...
...where are the crocodiles that were once resettled in Queensland? No one can be sure. N.T. rangers ended their relocation program in the early '90s after concluding the animals would eventually return home. Crocodile management expert Read says no animal relocated in Queensland has ever been caught again. According to Kofron's research, at least 20 of the 80 crocodiles captured in the state between 1999 and 2001 were relocated in North Queensland. Are these crocodiles too clever to be caught again? Have some of them made their way back to their old haunts? With some of these reptiles originally...
...Before your eyes, her luminous glazes seem to fade to white; porcelain lips quiver. When two Buddhist monks enter the room, they are drawn to the pieces like moths to a flame, which is hardly surprising. If Tasmania's Les Blakebrough is the father of Australian pottery, then Ipswich, Queensland-based Hanssen Pigott, who practices a form of Buddhism, is its mother superior. "If there was any investment of her spirituality in her work," says Jason Smith, curator of the National Gallery of Victoria's current retrospective, "it would be that calmness, and the hope that people would find that...