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Gatland Says Aussie Squad Predictable No Wilkinson u-Turn
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Beef up your branding
BRANDING - everybody talks about it, but how do you do it effectively? The key to Australian Agricultural Company's (AACo) success, according to general manager marketing Jason Strong, is the overarching message - and underlying AACo brand - presented across the company's various beef brands. Additionally, customers have confidence in the brand and as a result, promote it further ...
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Grazing debate heats up
QUEENSLAND Liberal Senator Ian Macdonald has quizzed federal Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig over efforts to open up national parks for emergency cattle grazing. The federal government has refused to open up former cattle stations - now national parks - in northern Queensland, for emergency grazing as a resolution to the rapidly unfolding animal welfare crisis in northern ...
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Wheat woes share the blame
Many bear responsibility for potential loss of control over the wheat trade, writes Andrew Farran. OPINION: IT IS no wonder Australian grain growers are about to lose to North American interests the last vestiges of control over their industry and their major export markets. While lamenting this development, all mainstream political parties (including the Nationals), relevant industry ...
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Cotton harvest wraps up
COTTON pickers are moving through the final fields of a 4.35 million bale cotton crop, wrapping up a harvest that has gone smoothly under blue skies and fine conditions. Throughout the cotton belt, growers are reporting above-average yields of more than 10 bales a hectare for irrigated cotton, while there are mixed yield results among the diminished levels of dryland plantings which were down ...
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Dairy sets its political agenda
MILK IT: With the plight of the dairy industry drawing interest from federal politicians since the start of the year, industry leaders are hoping for real change in dairy's recognition as a ...
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Go direct to profits
IN A 250-millimetre average annual rainfall district, retaining summer moisture through efficient weed control is a critical component to crop success. Mallee graingrower Steve Heinrich, Tatiara Homestead Farms, Wunkar, has been using direct-injection spraying with a Goldacres sprayer for the past five years and reports "very strong results". Steve was one of the guest speakers at this ...
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Marree mighty at SE fair
ALTHOUGH Bill and Jo Thompson, Glenorleigh Holsteins stud, Allendale East, did not own some of the cattle, females bred at the stud performed well at the South East Holstein Fair on Friday. Murray Bridge breeder Rob Walmsley took out senior champion cow and supreme best udder titles with Glenorleigh Lheros Marree, a cow he bought from the Thompsons for $5000 at their celebration sale in early ...
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We Went to the Daft Punk Album Premiere in Wee Waa Australia Pop. 2100
, was originally scheduled to take place on May 17 at a farm show in the rural Australian town of Wee Waa, population 2,100. The unconventional choice of locale made worldwide news, as intended. The event (and its marketing) was always about more than just two French guys releasing an album: It was an attempt to breathe life into the idea that a distinct collection of songs could still be ...
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Aust resident Abdi arrested in Jakarta
Indonesian police have arrested an Australian resident they are treating as a major people-smuggling suspect.Mohammad Abdi, 36, was arrested at an apartment in West Jakarta early on Monday, along with two other Iranians, The Australian newspaper says.Abdi has denied being involved in smuggling asylum-seekers to Australia.However, he is also known as Said Ali and is a major people smuggler, a ...
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Australia ancient African coins suggest continent was ‘discovered’ earlier than 1606
An Australian anthropologist plans to lead an expedition to the Wessel Islands off the coast of northern Australia in July to excavate a site where ...
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Strewth mate. Aussies wave goodbye to Britain as it becomes too pricey to stay
Take the shrimps off the barbie and put the stubbies back in the fridge: the Aussies are leaving Britain and the companies which served them are going ...
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Harding hoses down fears of Cairns bias
JAMES Cook University vice-chancellor Professor Sandra Harding has moved to allay fears Townsville will be overlooked in favour of Cairns for a multimillion-dollar innovation precinct. The Bulletin reported yesterday industry leaders were concerned JCU was leaning towards a partnership from Cairns.Prof Harding yesterday confirmed the university had been approached by both an unnamed industry ...
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TNG Limited intersects broad zones of zinc copper and lead in the Northern Territory
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) TNG Limited (ASX: TNG) has intersected broad intersections of zinc, copper and lead at its Mount Hardy Project in the Northern Territory.Significant base metal zones were intersected at all electromagnetic targets tested with two conductors containing broad zones over 20m of high-grade multi-element mineralisation.Individual zones within these two ...
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Aussie businessman jailed for 10 years in Dubai
AN Australian businessman has been jailed for 10 years in Dubai on bribery charges, while a colleague has been cleared and is free to return home.Australian businessmen Matthew Joyce and Angus Reed yesterday were found guilty of the bribery charges, which stemmed from a failed Dubai land deal with Gold Coast developer, Sunland.Both were sentenced to 10 years in jail, the maximum sentence, and ...
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Being 13 Who we are and what we think
No longer kids but not yet adults. Hyperconnected but wary of giving away too much. They want to be independent but need their parents, too. What's it like being 13 in ...
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Tally room to run despite networks
The Australian Electoral Commission has confirmed that the tally room will be running for the upcoming election, despite reports that commercial TV broadcasters may abandon the service. Commission spokesman Phil Diak described the $1 million service operated by the commission as a non-integral part of the ''practical business of generating the results'', but said it would go ...
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Liberals would throw out the limited baby bonus
An Abbott government would dump the baby bonus altogether - even the reduced, means-tested payments proposed by Labor, Joe Hockey has said. The wholesale scrapping of one of the Howard government's key reforms - and a policy defended by Tony Abbott until very recently - reveals how far the Coalition is prepared to go to bring the budget back to surplus. Even the Nationals, who have ...
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Day care ban for unvaccinated children heavy handed says expert
Legislation allowing childcare centres and preschools to ban unimmunised children would be "draconian" and unnecessary, a child immunisation expert from the University of Sydney says. On Tuesday NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson will give notice to Parliament that he will introduce the bill, which he expects to get support from both sides of government. State Health Minister ...
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Australian execs jailed over Dubai property deal
Two Australian executives have been sentenced in Dubai to 10 years' jail on property fraud charges, while a third accused has been found not guilty, according to media ...
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Delivery of vital drugs may be hit without funds rise supplier
One of Australia's biggest drug providers is threatening to slow down delivery times of vital medicines if it doesn't receive more money from the government. Australian Pharmaceutical Industries, which supplies prescription drugs to more than 90 per cent of Australian pharmacies, said it would be forced to make some ''trade offs'' if federal funding doesn't ...
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Dubai jails Australian for 10 years over fraud charges
An Australian executive has been sentenced to 10 years jail in Dubai but his junior colleague acquitted in a spectacular climax to their four-year battle against property fraud charges. A defiant Matt Joyce declared his innocence after the guilty verdict against him on Monday and said he would appeal because his conviction was based ''on the evidence of a witness who was found by an ...
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Coalition abandons baby bonus
"The best that we can do for the newborn kids is not leave them drowning in government debt": Nationals senator John Williams. An Abbott government would dump the baby bonus entirely - even the reduced, means-tested payments proposed by Labor, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey has said. The wholesale scrapping of one of the Howard government's key reforms - a policy defended by ...
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Family hopes tragedy will pull strings for change in law to protect cyclists on roads
Richard Pollett, a 25-year-old musician, was crushed under the wheels of a cement truck while cycling in September 2011. The virtuoso violinist was due to perform with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra when he was killed as the truck was overtaking him on Moggill Road, a two-lane conduit through the Brisbane suburb of Kenmore. A simple touch of the brakes would likely have spared a brilliant ...
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Liberals derail reform at every turn Swan
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan believes Australia's long journey of reform has been "frustrated, delayed and derailed" at every turn by the Liberal party. It has always fallen to Labor to bring about the big economic and social reforms in the face of Liberal opposition, Mr Swan will argue in a speech on Tuesday. He will point to Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's announcement ...
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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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