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 Web resources

Australian Customs Service -  facilitates trade and movement of people across the Australian border while protecting the community and maintaining appropriate compliance with Australian law.

Australian Centre for Retail Studies (ACRS) - a specialist centre at Monash University for retail education and research that provides a wide range of information and reports.

Australian Retailers Association (ARA) - provides a wide range of information including information on careers - look under the Retail Careers menu.

Consumer Science - CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition.

Franklin's Retail First - an article about Franklins, which successfully undertook targeted training for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people interested in the retail industry.

SafetyLine (WA) provides a range of online resources on workplace OHS issues, including a page on manual handling

WorkCover NSW: Retail & Wholesale - its primary objective is to work in partnership with the NSW community to achieve safe workplaces, effective return to work and security for injured workers.

World Customs Organization - an independent inter-governmental body with worldwide membership, whose mission is to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Customs administrations. The site provides information and links on international customs.

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 10 April, 2007

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