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Northrop adds Australian suppliers
Three Australian companies have joined Northrop Grumman's global supply chain network, gaining $7.4 million in contracts. The U.S. company said the companies selected under the Australian Defense and Materiel Organization's Global Supply Chain Program are Electro Optic Systems, CEA Technologies and Insitec. Those companies, with expertise in aerospace hardware and software, will ...
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Hedge funds bet on Aussie dollar slide
By Laurence Fletcher LONDON | Fri May 24, 2013 12:12pm EDT LONDON May 24 (Reuters) - Hedge funds hungry for trade ideas after the success of their bets on Japan's recovery have been turning their attention to the Australian dollar, betting the end of the commodities boom will drive down the currency. Funds have been watching for signs of weakness in the Aussie dollar, which was one ...
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Evans to lead BMC in Le Tour
Cadel Evans will lead BMC Racing at the 2013 Tour de France, team president Jim Ochowicz has announced.The 36-year-old Australian has been chosen ahead of team-mate Tejay van Garderen, despite the fact that the American finished ahead of him in last year's Tour.Evans, who in 2011 became the first Australian to win cycling's most famous event, finished seventh last time out, with the ...
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Canberra to host vital FIBA Oceania Championship matches
May 24 - Canberra will host the decisive 2013 FIBA Oceania Championships between Australia and New Zealand this August - ahead of 17th FIBA Basketball World Cup to be held in Spain and Turkey next year, it has been announced. The double header - to take place in the nation's capital as part of Canberra's centenary - will feature the Australian Boomers and Jayco Australian Opals taking ...
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New clues about location of Ontario hiker missing in Australia
Rescuers searching for a missing Brampton, Ont., man in the mountains of southeastern Australia have clues he may have taken a different route than originally thought. ...
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Sydney beat Collingwood in AFL clash
Sydney's Adam Goodes was visibly distressed after an apparent racial taunt from a fan marred his side's 47-point victory over Collingwood in the AFL round-nine clash at the MCG on Friday night. Sydney won 15.12 (102) to 8.7 (55) with Goodes in tremendous form in the opening match of the AFL's Indigenous Round, kicking three goals and gathering 30 possessions. However the dual ...
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Video refs baffle Cowboys after NRL loss
North Queensland coach Neil Henry was left "bitter and twisted" after a series of overturned video referee decisions cruelled his side in the Wests Tigers' last-gasp 22-20 NRL win on Friday night. The Tigers snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 78th minute David Nofoaluma try in horrendous wet weather at Leichhardt Oval. It was a brave victory for an injury-hit Tigers ...
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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
indicating whether or not the specified user agent represents a smart phone. * If any of the regular expressions are updated then they should be updated in ...
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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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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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