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ASX pointed higher despite soft leads
Bears waking up? The market lost more than $50 billion in two days. Australian shares reversed early gains to post another big sell-off as faltering banks and market volatility around the region hit investor sentiment. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index fell 76.5 points, or 1.5 per cent, to 4964.3, ending below 5000 points for the first time since April 22. The broader All Ords slumped ...
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Not appy mobile parking system dials up driver ire
Frustrated city drivers have challenged Melbourne's smartphone car parking application, complaining the system lacks dispute-resolution channels and the city council is stonewalling appeals against fines. Fined motorists say there is a lack of communication between the Parkmobile app providers and city parking officials, and procedures to resolve disputed fines are unclear, time consuming ...
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Man charged over child pornography seizure
A Shepparton man has been charged with possessing child pornography, after police seized computers and hard drives allegedly containing more than 6000 images and videos of illegal material. The 44-year-old man has been charged with using a carriage service to access and make child pornography available to others. The man is expected to face the Shepparton Magistrates Court on Friday. The ...
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Canberra Mornings Live Friday May 24
That was the last Canberra Mornings blog for this week. Hope you have a great weekend. The live blog will be back at 6.30am on Monday, with the fabulous Lucy Rickard in the driver's seat. I'll leave you with a quick wrap of the major headlines. - The soldier killed in the alleged terrorist attack in ...
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Urgent evacuation of Russian Arctic post
Moscow: Russia has ordered the urgent evacuation of the 16-strong crew of a drifting Arctic research station after the ice floe that hosts the floating laboratory began to disintegrate. Natural Resources and Ecology Minister Sergei Donskoi on Thursday set a three-day deadline to draft a plan to evacuate the North Pole-40 station. "The destruction of the ice has put at risk the ...
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Lost Australian cruise ship passenger remembered as hero who died attempting to rescue girlfriend
Two police officers check for fingerprints on the balcony of the cabin of two passengers who fell overboard from the cuise ship Carnival Spirit as it returned to Sydney from a Pacific cruise, on May 9, ...
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Is Australia the Face of Climate Change to Come
leaving 24 people dead. Each of these one-off traumas was bad enough, wreaking havoc, but in Australia such events seem to be becoming commonplace. The Lucky Country has experienced a major spike in extreme weather in the past few years, with a string of devastating incidents just since January. That has people wondering if the island continent is somehow a perfect bellwether for the ...
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Discredited vaccination claims injected into GP training
General practitioners are receiving government-mandated training by doctors who claim vaccines are linked to autism and temper tantrums can be treated by delaying immunisation. The body that oversees doctors will investigate how the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), which represents more than 20,000 GPs, could have approved the course as part of its ...
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Piccoli fires back in Coalition bust-up over education
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has returned fire at his federal Coalition colleagues over education funding, warning schools in this state would be worse off under Tony Abbott's policy and defending his own government's decision to sign up to the Gonski deal. He also urged other states to sign up for Labor's funding offer. Federal opposition education spokesman ...
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Artists flag fresh symbols of a nations hope and ideals
Asking a country to change its flag is like asking a country to change its name - so bonded is a nation to its flag, it's rarely changed except in circumstances of upheaval, says the editor of the literary ...
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Retracing the fall of the car industry
An Australian classic: the 1971 Ford Falcon XY GTHO. In the mid-1960s, when Australia's trade minister Sir John McEwen was urging Holden and Ford to seek export markets in Asia, the leader of one of Asia's poorest countries decided his country needed a car industry. Defying the advice of economists, he ordered the country's biggest company to start making cars - with Ford's ...
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On the wings of a departing Falcon
A few years later the company invented the ute. The 1934 Ford Coupe Utility was - as legend has it - spurred into development by the wife of a farmer who wrote to Ford asking for a "vehicle to go to church in on a Sunday, and which can carry our pigs to market on Mondays". The Falcon arrived in 1960. The first Falcon, the XK, was derived from a US product, but hit the right note with ...
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Joyce seeks bail as wife pleads for accuser to set record straight
''Life sentence'': Matt Joyce. Condemned to a ''life sentence'', in the words of his wife, Matt Joyce will plead with Dubai authorities to extend his bail while he appeals against a 10-year jail term and $25 million fine for property fraud. Angela Higgins is calling on her husband's main accuser, fellow Australian David Brown, to have the courage ...
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Hazel - a rock stars rock a nations role model
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Hollow promises an enduring tragedy
John Pat's death was to be the catalyst for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Begun in 1987, the inquiry spent almost four years and more than $40 million investigating 99 deaths, 32 of them in Western Australia. Twenty-five years later, Kwementyaye Briscoe's death was to prove that, far from breaking the vicious cycle of indigenous abuse and neglect in ...
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Gaming the politics of TV sports bet reform
Tom Waterhouse is an object of rage for opponents of TV sports betting. Run a cursor across the acres of comments on stories about sports betting and the trumpeting of live odds on TV and an unmistakable message for government emerges: Stop this now. In a letter published in Fairfax Media on Thursday, Lynne Poleson put it like this: ''Stephen Conroy and his cohort are fond of ...
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Doubling of indigenous in prisons alarms leaders
Aboriginal leaders have warned of a crisis in the justice system with an explosion in the black prison population, a spike in the number of juveniles being detained and continuing high numbers of deaths in custody. A report released on Friday by the federal government has confirmed the number of indigenous Australians in prisons and police custody over the past two decades has more than ...
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Army takes to the streets to battle poverty
More than 100,000 volunteers will spend this weekend knocking on doors to help the Salvation Army address Australia's rising rate of poverty. The two-day Red Shield Appeal Doorknock aims to raise $10.2 million, part of an overall fund-raising target of $79 million. The Salvation Army's Major Bruce Harmer said the funds would help more than one million people living in poverty. ...
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Hawkes deep affection for former wife Hazel
Former prime minister Bob Hawke has paid tribute to his late ex-wife Hazel for being a ''constant support'' through difficult times. Mr Hawke said he remembered Hazel ''with deep affection and gratitude''. ''She was more than a wife and mother, being father as well during my frequent absences as I pursued an industrial then political ...
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Outnumbered by the girls hes the last man standing
With the death in Barbados on Thursday of James Emmanuel ''Doc'' Sisnett, at the age of 113 years and 90 days, Jiroemon Kimura, of Japan, has become the last man alive to have been born in the 19th century. Literally the last man. There are, according to the Gerontolgy Research Group at UCLA, 21 women born before New Year's Day, 1901, who are still with us, most of ...
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Sydney school fails to report doping
Pumped: School boys are hitting the gym and supplements in the quest to be fitter and stronger. Serial steroid abuse by a Cranbrook School student was investigated by the police and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority after the boy admitted taking performance-enhancing drugs while representing the private school in rowing and rugby. But Cranbrook failed to inform sports authorities of ...
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Ford pullout sparks worry industry is finished
Concerns about Australia's remaining car industry have escalated after Ford's decision to pull out, prompting calls for a return to higher import tariffs, moves to deflate the Australian dollar, and even the appointment of a ''car tsar'' to stop the industry from sinking altogether. Industry sources have hinted that Holden and Toyota could be gone from Australian ...
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Cosy moments may fail to keep the home fires burning
Warming up: Maya Rose Pickles, 3, and Izzy Tapia, 6, with their grandmother Denise Pickles. Ms Pickles says she uses her fireplaces in her Mosman home ...
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Banks among top companies making use of tax havens
Almost two-thirds of Australia's top 100 companies listed on the sharemarket have subsidiaries in tax havens or low-tax jurisdictions, a new report shows. Further, 13 of the top 20 companies have entities in well-known tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, the British Virgin Islands and Bermuda, including two of the big four ...
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Odds favour change to TV gambling ads
Run a cursor across the acres of comments on stories about sports betting and the trumpeting of live odds on TV and an unmistakable message for government emerges: Stop this now. Lynne Poleson, of Kingsford, put it like this on Thursday: ''Stephen Conroy and his cohort are fond of talking about 'working families'. Have they not seen the figures on compulsive gambling and ...
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Sydney's scandalous toxic waste plan by government
A controversial waste relocation project in Sydney has created anger in a community with a lower income than the Sydney suburb from which the waste is being removed, with many suggesting a class-bias in the city government.
Hunter’s Hill is a predominantly wealthy suburb of Sydney with average house prices of around AUD $1.3 million and a harbour-side community made up predominantly of professionals, managers and other traditionally middle to high-income workers. Penrith, on the other hand, located just over 50 kilometres from Sydney’s CBD, is not as affluent, with average property values of around AUD $280,000. Read more
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