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Vale Hackforth-Jones mainstay of film and TV
Penne Hackforth-Jones, one of the nation's most recognisable actors, died on Saturday, months after being diagnosed with lung cancer. The 64-year-old appeared in almost every well-known TV series ...
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Loss of bonus will impoverish some families triple recipient
John Howard was on the baby-kissing election trail in October 2001 when he met first-time mother Vikkie Chrisoulis and held her day-old daughter, Kathryn. Less than 24 hours before visiting her maternity ward at St Vincent's Private Hospital in Melbourne he announced a baby bonus of up to $2500 would be part of the 2002 budget with payments eligible to the first child either born or ...
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Fears births will be brought forward
His concern this time is that births will be brought forward. ''Frankly, I think this is worse,'' he said. ''The delay increased birth weights, and I recall one study that showed that could be beneficial. But in this case, we are likely to suffer from earlier births, meaning lower birth weights.'' Asked at the National Press Club on Wednesday whether he ...
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X marks the spot 1000-year-old coins may prove traders visit
Five copper coins and a nearly 70-year-old map with an ''X'' could rewrite Australia's history. Ian McIntosh, an Australian scientist and professor of anthropology at Indiana University in the US, is planing an expedition in July to revisit the location where five 1000-year-old coins were found in the Northern Territory in ...
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Vic police phone taps face limits
Victoria Police appears unlikely to be able to share phone tap information with sport authorities because of its wording in a submission to the federal government. Commonwealth Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is awaiting a report from a parliamentary committee, which is considering potential reforms of the national security legislation, which includes phone intercepts. In its submission to the ...
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Beekeepers call for pesticides withdrawal
Urban beekeepers are demanding retailer Bunnings Warehouse remove all products containing the pesticide neonicotinoids, following the European Union's decision to ban it a fortnight ago. More than 16,000 people have signed an online petition calling on the hardware chain to pull popular Yates-brand pesticides off its shelves. One brand sold by Bunnings - Yates' Confidor Hose-On Lawn ...
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Vaccine fears could lead to epidemic
Concerned: 53 per cent of parents are worried about vaccination. More than 50 per cent of parents are worried about the safety of childhood vaccines, Australia's first national survey of attitudes to vaccination has revealed, prompting concerns of childhood outbreaks of disease. The NSW opposition has defended proposed changes to the law that would allow preschools and childcare centres ...
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Australias got the vision Europe
No, that's cool, we're not in Europe, we get it.But excuse us for feeling a little jealous when we see all that pageantry and - when it comes to the voting - b*stardry, and we can't have a piece of it.We reckon we could mix it with some of Europe's "finest" musical acts.Surely with Australia's Got Talent, Australian Idol, The X Factor and The Voice Australia we ...
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Lubna Al Qasimi discusses bilateral cooperation with Australia
WAM ABU DHABI, 19th May, 2013 (WAM) -- The Minister of International Cooperation and Development, Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi has discussed prospects of enhancing cooperation between the UAE and Australia in various international development and humanitarian issues. The discussions came during a meeting at the ministry in Abu Dhabi today with Australian Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, and his ...
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Holdens signs similar to Mitsubishi when it closed Adelaide plant
HOLDEN is in danger of shutting its manufacturing operations and could bring the rest of the car industry down with it. That's the warning from University of Adelaide Associate Professor John Spoehr, who says he is seeing similar signs to the lead-up of Mitsubishi's Adelaide factory closure in 2008. LABOR MP SEEKS TARIFFS TO SAVE HOLDEN JOBS "I'm very concerned about the ...
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Two more held in Aussie missionary Graham Stains murder case
Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI Friday arrested two more persons in connection with a case in which Australian missionary Graham Stains and his two minor sons were burnt alive by a mob in ...
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Vic 12-year-old girl returns home
CHANNEL 9 have refused to apologise to the parents of a baby girl who was branded "ugly" by panellists on The Footy Show and likened to rugby league great Peter ...
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Asylum seeker boat intercepted on Saturday
HMAS Leeuwin intercepted a boat on Saturday believed to have 83 passengers and two crew on board.Border Protection Command has transferred the passengers to Australian government authorities on Christmas Island, where they will undergo initial security, health and identity ...
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Twins recruited to help promote science for Royal Institute of Australia
MEET Sara and Sanja Krneta - the identical twins recruited by the RiAus Science Exchange to help peak their peers' interest in science as an area of study. The Year 12 Australian Science and Mathematics School students, who came to Adelaide as Bosnian refugees in 2001, are producing a series of online videos to promote science as fun and exciting. "What we've found is that children ...
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Young South Australian women shunning regular pap smears
YOUNG South Australian women are shunning pap smears, with just 45.4 per cent of 20 to 24-year-olds undergoing the cervical cancer screening test. The figure has been declining in SA and across the country since the introduction in 2007 of a national immunisation program offering the Gardasil vaccine free to women aged 12 to 26. The drop - from 48.8 per cent in 2007-08 - has prompted SA Health ...
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Turner from the Tate The Making of a Master exhibition breaks South Australia Art gallery records
AN exhibition of works by one of Britain's greatest artists has broken the Art Gallery of South Australia's attendance record for paid exhibitions staged in the past 25 years. The gallery's communications manager, Marika Lucas-Edwards, said yesterday that Turner from the Tate: The Making of a Master had eclipsed the previous record-holder, Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre, which ...
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Australia coach Robbie Deans announces squad to face Lions – video
despite being left out of the initial Wallabies squad . Deans included three uncapped players in his squad to face the Lions on their Australia tour, but said it was not the end for players who hadn't been named as there are still six more places to be ...
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Vic cops fear for 12-year-old missing girl
A 12-YEAR-OLD girl has gone missing from her home and police believe she may be with a teenage boy. Police say Calliopeia Tolongou was last seen at a relative's house in McClelland Ave, Lara, southwest of Melbourne, around 11pm (AEST) on Saturday night and has not been seen since. They believe Calliopeia may be travelling in a brown 1999 VT Holden Commodore sedan with registration number PMN ...
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Aussie trio solid in Japan
Brendan Jones, Paul Sheehan and Scott Strange have recorded top-15 finishes at the PGA Championship Nissin Cupnoodles Cup on Sunday.The trio finished tied for 15th at two over at the Sobu Country Club Sohbu Course near Tokyo, with Jones and Strange the best of the group on the final day with even-par 71s while Sheehan shot two over.South Korea's Kim Hyung-Sung claimed the Japan Golf Tour ...
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NRL deal with Tigers needs balance Wests
Financially powerful Western Suburbs are demanding to be on equal terms with Balmain in the struggling Wests Tigers merger.However, the Magpies faction denied they would attempt to separate themselves from Balmain, saying it would be unrealistic for the foundation club to re-enter the NRL as a lone entity.Wests Tigers Chairman Mike Bailey - who is from the Magpies side - along with deputy ...
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Ports Hinkleys AFL honeymoon over
Port Adelaide's hot early-season AFL form has given way to a run of three straight defeats, culminating in Sunday's disappointing loss to ...
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Crows beat Saints by 40 points in AFL
Adelaide squared their AFL season with a 40-point victory against St Kilda in Sunday's twilight match. The Crows floored the Saints with a third term burst which set up a 12.15 (87) to 6.11 (47) triumph at AAMI Stadium. Adelaide now have a four-four win-loss record and St Kilda's struggles continue with their sixth loss of the season. Crows forwards Josh Jenkins and Tom Lynch both ...
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Inu could be in trouble over leg twist
Canterbury centre Krisnan Inu could be facing another stint on the sidelines after a sickening leg twist on Newcastle's James McManus in the Knights' 44-8 win over the Bulldogs on Sunday. Inu has only just returned from a five-game ban for a spear tackle on Inglis and although he was not placed on report, the incident is certain to come under scrutiny from the match review committee. ...
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Magpies want equal place in Tigers merger
Financially powerful Western Suburbs are demanding to be on equal terms with Balmain in the struggling Wests Tigers merger. However, the Magpies faction denied they would attempt to separate themselves from Balmain, saying it would be unrealistic for the foundation club to re-enter the NRL as a lone entity. Wests Tigers Chairman Mike Bailey - who is from the Magpies side - along with deputy ...
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Leo opts out of Sydney premiere
After premieres in New York and Cannes, Leonardo DiCaprio has dropped out of the Australian launch of The Great Gatsby. The Hollywood star, who plays Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's lavish adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel, has cited a schedule change for missing the Sydney premiere this week. ''My time shooting, living and working in Sydney, with the most ...
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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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