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Insurers cant gouge over Vic fire levy
ACTING Victorian Premier Peter Ryan has two words of advice for insurance companies thinking of gouging customers over the removal of the fire services levy: good ...
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Fischer pays tribute to colourful MP
FORMER deputy prime minister Tim Fischer has paid tribute to Michael Hodgman, one of Australia's longest-serving ...
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Legionnaires probe looks at past case
HEALTH authorities are revisiting a 2011 legionnaires' death at a major Brisbane hospital to see if it is linked to the recent outbreak of the ...
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Former Liberal Michael Hodgman dies in Tas
WITH a career in federal and state politics spanning more than 40 years, Michael Hodgman was one of Australia's most durable ...
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6PR announcer apologises for tweets
On Wednesday, Fairfax confirmed the 6PR announcer had apologised for his offending comments on Twitter on September 12 last year."In retrospect, I should have done things differently," Jordan said."I need to apologise to Charlotte as I never intended to hurt her."I apologise unreservedly for any hurt I may have caused Charlotte during our tweet conversation."Jordan said ...
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Union report finds injured workers hurting
ALMOST a fifth of NSW's sick and injured workers have had their payments cut over the last year, and half of this group have lost them altogether, a new report ...
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Brian Burke faces insider trading trial
Burke, 66, entered the plea in person at Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court in Perth today.His co-accused, former Patersons Securities stockbroker David John Massey, 57, also pleaded not guilty to the same charges.The charges followed secret recordings by the Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) of Burke's phone calls some six years ago, which were passed on to federal authorities.It is ...
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Australias low rates are working on housing RBA
The rush will extend across profiles. Outsiders will want to be part of the changes that Murthy will bring in; and this will not happen if they are working for competition," says Aditya Mishra, Randstad ...
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Fawad Ahmed picked for Australia A cricket tour of Africa
Australia 's Ashes squad, has been named in the party for next month's A tour of Africa. The 31 year old claimed refuge in Australia three years ago after he fled his native Pakistan claiming he was being persecuted by the Taliban and has since gone on to forge a successful career in domestic cricket. A recent amendment to the Citizenship Act meant that Fawad would be allowed to ...
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Socceroos celebrate with fans in Sydney
The triumphant Socceroos have celebrated booking a place in next year's World Cup in Brazil with hundreds of fans in Sydney on Wednesday. Peter Allen's famous tune I Go to Rio rang through the crowd as the players were feted at a public reception outside Customs House in Circular Quay. The 1-0 win over Iraq in front of over 80,000 fans at ANZ Stadium the previous night was enough to ...
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Australia Leading Index Suggests Above-Trend Growth
economy in the coming quarters, a report from Westpac and Melbourne Institute showed Wednesday. The annualized growth rate of the leading index, which indicates the likely pace of economic activity three to nine months into the future, was 5.4 percent in April, comfortably above its long term trend of 3 percent. The level of the index increased 1.8 points from a month earlier to 294.0 in April. ...
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Surfer swims with whales off Gold Coast
300m offshore of Broadbeach surf club a kayaker gets to splash around with a mother and her calf. Surfer Jordan Hart films as he swims with whales about 300m off Broadbeach yesterday, June 18, ...
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Michelle de Kretser wins Miles Franklin literary award
Michelle de Kretser has been named winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin literary award for her fourth novel, Questions of Travel, at a ceremony in Canberra on Wednesday lunchtime. De Kretser beat four other shortlisted authors – all women, for the first time in the prize’s history – with her novel set in Australia and Sri Lanka, where she was born, that touches upon travel, ...
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UPDATE 2-Australian tycoon Tinkler sells out of Whitehaven Coal
Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:13am EDT * Lenders swap Tinkler debt for 20 pct stake in Whitehaven * Hedge fund Farallon becomes top shareholder * Farallon in no rush to sell down stake-source * Coal assets plentiful in weak market-analysts * Whitehaven shares jump 9 pct By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE, June 19 (Reuters) - Australia's Nathan Tinkler has handed his stake in Whitehaven Coal Ltd to lenders to pay ...
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Ruckman excited about Lions AFL future
Brisbane ruckman Matthew Leuenberger believes he's committed himself to special times ahead after signing a contract extension with the AFL club. The 25-year-old put an end to speculation linking him to several clubs including Greater Western Sydney by signing a two-year extension to his deal with the Lions on Wednesday. Leuenberger is one of several young Lions who will be expected to ...
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Economic outlook boosted by share rally
A measure of economic growth in the coming months has strengthened because of growing company profits and gains on the share market. The Westpac Melbourne Institute Leading Index, which indicates the likely pace of economic activity three to nine months in the future, was 5.4 per cent in April, well above its long-term trend of 3.0 per cent. The two major reasons for the above-trend reading ...
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WorleyParsons shares rise on Nigeria deal
SHARES in mining engineer WorleyParsons are up three per cent after a South Korean shipbuilding giant awarded it a $US100 million ($A105.97 million) offshore oil and gas contract in ...
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NSW kitchen fires spark warning
AN elderly woman whose arms were burnt and a man who suffered severe hand burns are among the victims of more than 200 kitchen fires in NSW in just six ...
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Four in court over $13m meth haul
FOUR people charged over the importation of more than 35kg of methylamphetamine hidden in ceramic tiles from China have appeared briefly in a Perth ...
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Dollar weakens as sellers expect rate cuts
At 12pm AEST today, the Australian dollar was trading at 94.69 US cents, down from 94.92 cents yesterday.Easy Forex currency dealer Tony Darvall said that while the US Federal Reserve meeting was dominating the news cycle, traders were offloading the Australian dollar on expectations of more rate cuts."You don't need information to sell the Aussie," he said."Unless we get ...
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SA Government gives $50k boost to Giant Australian Cuttlefish research
ENVIRONMENTALISTS have welcomed a $50,000 boost towards the future protection of the dwindling Australian Giant Cuttlefish numbers in the state's northern Spencer Gulf region. The State Government today announced an extra $50,000 - making it a total of $200,000 - towards monitoring and investigating the reasons behind the species decline. Adelaide University ecologist Professor Bronwyn ...
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Second man charged over Sydney murder
A second man has been charged with murder after a fatal fight in southwest Sydney last year.A 39-year-old man was walking home with friends at Macquarie Fields in the early hours on September 2 when they got into a fight with another group of men.Police arrived to find two men unconscious on the footpath.The 39-year-old died in hospital a short time later while his friend, 42, received treatment ...
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Adelaide City Council set to dump on-street parking fee rises
ADELAIDE City Council is set to dump plans to charge $4 an hour for "premium" on-street parking spaces and raise some other parking fees by 25 per cent after a committee last night voted to water down the controversial hikes. However, the cost of some on-street parking spots will still likely rise by as much as 16.7 per cent, from $3 to $3.50. The plan, revealed in The Advertiser ...
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TV rights extended for Australian Open
Channel Seven have secured the rights to the Australian Open until 2019.The five-year deal extends the partnership between Tennis Australia (TA) and Seven to 46 years and Seven West Media CEO Tim Worner said that the historic relationship was part of the network's character."This is a great partnership for Seven," Worner said."The Australian Open is an extraordinary event and ...
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Goodwood Rd should become Adelaides Broadway Urban Myth Theatre artistic director says
URBAN Myth Theatre artistic director Glenn Hayden wants Goodwood Rd to be Adelaide's Broadway. Well, little Broadway at least. The company has received a $30,000 interest-free loan from Unley Council to finish an upgrade of the Goodwood Institute. "It will mean the Goodwood Institute is a very, very well serviced, professional standard venue for South Australia," Mr Hayden ...
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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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