How Australia Sustainably Manages the World’s Last Wild Commercial Fishery of Pearl Oysters

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Terry Hunter, a Bardi man, is a cultural tour guide on the Cygnet Bay Pearl farm. Photo Credit: © Neena Bhandari

By Neena Bhandari

SYDNEY/BROOME/CYGNET BAY (Australia), 23.11.2018 (IPS): Australia’s remote north-western Kimberley coast, where the Great Sandy Desert meets the sapphire waters of the Indian Ocean, is home to the giant Pinctada maxima or silver-lipped pearl oyster shells that produce the finest and highly-prized Australian South Sea Pearls.

Australia is the only country in the world that uses wild oyster stocks. To ensure its sustainability, the pearling industry operates on a government-regulated quota system that sets a maximum number of wild stock pearl oysters that can be caught each year from the Eighty Mile Beach, south of Broome in the state of Western Australia. These wild pearl oyster beds represent the last wild commercial fishery for Pinctada maxima oysters in the world.

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5 Stellar tips from AHRI Awards Finalists

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By Neena Bhandari

Sydney, 19.11.2018 (AHRI HRM Magazine): Successful HR looks different in each industry and organisation. But as these award finalists prove, there are ideas that can work across the profession.

HR leadership provides the blueprint for achieving an organisation’s goals by attracting, managing and inspiring talent. Here, five finalists of the David Ulrich HR Leader Award talk through innovative initiatives and strategies that contributed to tangible outcomes for their organisation and the wider community.

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Age diversity programs: the best of the best

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By Neena Bhandari

Sydney, 22.10.2018 (AHRI HRM Magazine): As working years now span from late teens to beyond 70 years, HR professionals are reinventing recruitment and training practices to accommodate the opportunities and challenges a multi-generational workforce brings to a business.

From offering flexible working hours to combining work and study, HR is taking various measures to attract, retain and support older and younger employees. The following organisations are going above and beyond in this space – they’re all finalists for the Susan Ryan Age Diversity Award at this year’s AHRI Awards.

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