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Table 3: Call Subjects in Report Period by State
Note: X is a combination of "AU" which are Australian callers who contacted GLASS by email only with no postcode given and "OS" which stands for overseas. To date, the Global Lead Advice & Support Service (GLASS) has handled email enquiries about lead from 62 countries with residents of at least 150 countries having visited our website - www.lead.org.au - see Appendix 6. Table 4: Total Number of Subjects in Report Period, by Category
(Please see also Appendix 4 that shows a chart which combines tables 3 and 4). Appendix 4 that shows a chart which combines tables 3 and 4). The NSW Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) requested that we categorize the subjects of calls to our service at the beginning of the 3 year funded period just ended (FY 2002-5). They had previously in 1997 requested that we collect data on the subject of every call and defined for us a set list of subjects. Despite the predominance of calls in the environmental category in all three years, and despite the Environment Ministers acceptance of the need for continued funding of the service provided by Pollution Line staff and the rest of the DEC and Ministerial office staff, the Acting Manager of Ministerial and Parliamentary Services in Mr Debuss office responded on 26 July 2005, to The LEAD Groups request for an extension of the three year $10,000 per annum grant, with advice that The LEAD Group should apply to the NSW Environmental Trust which funds environmental education "projects rather than the continuing administration of organisations." The Acting Manager presumably knew at the time of writing that applications for Environmental Trust grants closed in June 2005 for this year so even if this option were successful it would see our service unfunded for a period of some 15-18 months. We wonder how the Minister and DEC staff would perform and how many would continue working if they were given no wages for 2 years and then had their remaining budget taken away for at least 15-18 months. Rural/Urban & Male/Female Split of SA & NSW Callers Of the 90 South Australian callers, 81 were from the Adelaide area and 9 were rural, 42 were male, 38 female and 10 calls were with organisations. Of the 2,182 NSW callers, 1,268 were within 10 kms of Sydney CBD, 568 in rest of Sydney, 46 in Boolaroo area (Newcastle), 20 in Pt Kembla area, 11 in Broken Hill and 269 in the rest of NSW, 990 were female, 927 male, 238 organizations and 27 unknown (emails). |
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