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Jeep Cherokee rear-end recall
Iconic 4WD manufacturer Jeep is recalling more than 2.7 million cars globally - including up to 28,000 in Australia - over its performance in rear-end ...
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Parents to blame for kids diabetes
PARENTS of Australian kids suffering from Type 2 diabetes should wear the blame for their poor health, an international expert ...
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Australia Maroochydore Beach Renourishment Kicks Off
The extra sand will widen the beach, help prevent severe erosion and protect public facilities and infrastructure along Alexandra Parade and Aerodrome Road. The popular stretch between Maroochydore and Alexandra Headland is worth around $80 million a year to the Sunshine Coast ...
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New News Corp fails to impress on debut
Rupert Murdoch's new News Corp publishing business failed to impress investors in its stock market debut, losing three per cent of its value.The massive media empire is splitting its growing and more profitable cable TV and film assets from its traditional but struggling newspapers.Shares in the publishing division, known as new News Corp, began trading on the Australian market on ...
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PM to visit Indonesia to discuss boats
Prime Minister Julia Gillard will travel to Indonesia next month to discuss ways of combating people smuggling and terrorism.Ms Gillard will meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on July 5 to discuss a number of political, security and commercial issues.The talks, which are part of the annual Indonesia-Australia Leaders' Meeting, will canvas issues around education, trade, climate change ...
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Saints suspend Milne from AFL games
St Kilda have gone against the wishes of their celebrated captain Nick Riewoldt by handing an indefinite suspension to long-time teammate Stephen Milne as he fights rape charges. Regardless of Milne's guilt or innocence, age and form could well determine whether the two-time All-Australian plays again in the AFL. Milne faces four rape charges and is due to face court on July 5. While ...
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Windsor welcomes greater CSG oversight
Many regional communities will be celebrating now that water resources will be protected under federal law from potentially harmful coal seam gas (CSG) projects. Under the laws, which passed parliament on Wednesday, water will act as a trigger in Australia's national environment legislation for the first time. Any new CSG or large coal project that could impact on groundwater will need to ...
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NSW take experience from 2012 Origin loss
A year wiser, NSW know exactly what they can take from last year's gut-wrenching series-deciding loss to Queensland. A game in which the Blues went close, though not close enough. And as they've done in every live rubber played at Suncorp Stadium since 2005, Queensland triumphed. Last year it was a long-range Cooper Cronk field goal which sank the hopes of ...
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Swan welcomes G8 tax exchange commitment
The Australian government may share information with European taxation authorities under global efforts to cut avoidance, Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan says. Mr Swan announced the proposal after the Group of Eight (G8) major industrialised nations on Tuesday agreed to a new global standard for tax information exchange. "The Gillard government is currently looking into joining with a number ...
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ACTU tells MPs to get behind Gillard
The ACTU boss has called on Labor MPs to back Prime Minister Julia Gillard in the run up to the national election, despite successive polls showing huge swings against the government. ACTU president Dave Oliver said Ms Gillard's government had a great record on jobs and workers' rights. "All of the government's MPs should get behind that record, and Julia Gillard, and go to ...
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Meninga booted from Brisbane bar
EXCLUSIVE: MAROONS coach Mal Meninga was asked to leave a Brisbane bar by security in the early hours of Wednesday morning as the Queensland camp celebrated Billy Slater and Cameron Smith's 30th ...
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Indigenous booze bans racist Qld elder
"Is that discrimination or what?" the Aboriginal elder from Yarrabah, near Cairns, told AAP."Who gives them the right to tell us how much we can drink?"Booze is restricted to one carton of light beer or one bottle of wine per adult in the community under an Alcohol Management Plan (AMP) introduced in 2006.The High Court on Wednesday ruled AMPs in 19 indigenous Queensland ...
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McClelland farewell speech spares party
But in a farewell speech to parliament the long-serving politician, 55, stopped short of berating the party leadership which dumped him from the office, and subsequently the frontbench."Obviously if I had've had a little longer in the role of attorney-general - which I must say, I did want a little longer - there were several things I would have liked to have finished," Mr ...
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SA premiers Twitter feed cut
THE tweets of South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill have been blocked from an internal feed to public servants in his own ...
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NSW candidate claims Terminator support
Gladiator star Russell Crowe tweeted this week that Ms Gillard was his choice of political leader through tough times.Now Jamie McIntyre, founder of the 21st Century Australia Party and candidate for the NSW seat of New England, is claiming endorsement from Terminator star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.Mr McIntyre has issued a statement with a video link showing Mr ...
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Australia Maroochydore and Alexandra Headland to Get New Sand
The Sunshine Coast Council announced a plan to test a new sand-pumping dredger which will add sand on the heavily eroded beaches at Maroochydore and Alexandra Headland, according to ...
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Smith spells out post-2013 Afghan mission
Defence Minister Stephen Smith has spelled out key aspects of Australia's ongoing military presence in Afghanistan, with several hundred troops set to remain after the main force withdraws at the end of this year.That will include a new commitment of 75 instructors and support staff and security personnel at the Afghan National Army's new officer academy in Kabul.In Kandahar, the ...
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How to survive Australia’s Metals Market Correction
Petra Capital's Andrew Richards believes that, while Australian miners have been hard hit, the country's sector is turning a corner. An interview with The Metals ...
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Justice done in Bayley sentence family
Nothing can bring Jill Meagher back, but her family can say justice has been done. Even though Adrian Ernest Bayley could walk free from jail at age 76, Ms Meagher's family are satisfied that the judge determined that only a life sentence was appropriate for her savage rape and murder. "Jill was brutally raped and murdered and she is never coming back," Jill's father George ...
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Dollar recovers as traders look to US
The Australian dollar recovered from early weakness to end Wednesday little changed as traders marked time ahead of a key monetary policy decision in the US. At 1700 AEST on Wednesday, the Aussie was trading at 94.92 US cents, in line with its level on Tuesday afternoon. It had traded as low as 94.34 during the Australian morning, while the subsequent rally stalled as it poked its nose above ...
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Hodgman remembered as political giant
Former federal minister Michael Hodgman has been remembered by friends from across the spectrum as the colourful - and vocal - giant of Tasmanian politics. Mr Hodgman has died aged 74 at a Hobart aged care centre after a long battle with emphysema. Liberal colleagues and opponents alike have paid tribute to a man who spent more than 40 years in the Tasmanian and federal parliaments, his ...
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Aust dollar recovers to end little changed
The Australian dollar recovered from early weakness to end Wednesday little changed as traders marked time ahead of a key monetary policy decision in the US. At 1700 AEST on Wednesday, the Aussie was trading at 94.92 US cents, in line with its level on Tuesday afternoon. It had traded as low as 94.34 during the Australian morning, while the subsequent rally stalled as it poked its nose above ...
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Ferguson stood down by Raiders for 4 weeks
Canberra have made suspended NSW Origin winger Blake Ferguson unavailable for NRL selection for at least four weeks while he undertakes an extensive alcohol management program. The Raiders board made the decision on Wednesday after the club met with Ferguson following his dumping from the NSW team when charged with indecent assault over an alleged nightclub incident. The four-week period ...
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MoMAs best on show in Perth
last year, said he was thrilled to return."I feel like Perth is now becoming a second home," he said.He said the exhibition presented a rare opportunity for the Perth public to view remarkable works in their hometown."This exhibition is a remarkable opportunity to see not only some of the most important works of art in the Museum of Modern Art’s collection but some of the ...
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Rio native title deal irks splinter group
A NATIVE title group in Western Australia's Pilbara has inked a land use deal with Rio Tinto despite objections by rival ...
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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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