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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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NSW council functions may be privatised
CORE council functions such as street cleaning, garbage collection and road maintenance could be outsourced to the private sector under a bill before NSW ...
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Search to resume for fisherman in Vic
POLICE will resume their search on Tuesday for a 32-year-old man who failed to return from a fishing trip at a lake in northeast ...
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Cannes Sci-Fi Horror Tale Human Race Sells for Germany Australia Japan
, KSM took German-speaking Europe, Anchor Bay picked up the film for Australia and New Zealand and IPA bought Japanese rights. "We are receiving offers every day" said ...
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Preview of Wed-locked fake marriages in Australia
Fake marriage amongst young Arab-Australians who identify as gay or lesbian has gone unreported until now, and there’s good reason. In the Arab World almost all 22 states and territories punish homosexuality with imprisonment - six of those still enforce the death ...
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Coalition in war of words on education
Prime Minister Julia Gillard's school funding reforms have ignited a war of words in Coalition ranks, with federal education spokesman Christopher Pyne claiming Premier Barry O'Farrell was ''conned'' into ''a very bad deal'' for NSW. The Prime Minister said the ''incredibly arrogant'' outburst highlighted Opposition Leader ...
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Extend P-plates to 25-year-olds top cop
YOUNG drivers are not going to like this but Victoria's top traffic cop thinks they should be motoring around with a P-plate until they are 25 years ...
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Rudd books in election attack
Blame game: Former PM Kevin Rudd with Treasurer Wayne Swan and infrastructure minister Anthony Albanese , at a press conferenceon the proposed Brisbane Cross River Rail crossing at Kangaroo Point , Brisbane. Picture: Mechielsen ...
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Time for fearful parents to back off
"Sunlight is fairly important in regulating eye growth and what you are doing when you are six is influencing when you are 12 when myopia manifests." Prevention of myopia is important for future eye health because even low levels of the condition can create a higher risk of cataracts and glaucoma in adulthood. Research suggest there is a "modern myopia epidemic" in countries ...
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Costello No GST boost without cuts
Goods and Services Tax warned that while reform is needed it must not come at any price and would be pointless unless there is a "quid pro quo"and state's abolish ineffective levies such as payroll tax. The former Treasurer in an interview with News Limited for the first time weighed into the GST debate sparked by ...
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What led to the fall of a Bishop
THE country's top Anglican, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, personally intervened days before the shock resignation of the Grafton bishop over his mishandling of abuse claims at a notorious children's ...
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Minor parties cry foul at fee spike
Help End Marijuana Prohibition - are crying foul after the major parties jointly backed moves to double the fees for candidate nominations.They warn the move will force them to cutback the number of candidates they will be able to afford to run - and will help cement a Labor/Coalition "duopoly"."It will reduce the number of people that we are going to run by at least one ...
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Asylum children crowded into tents
CHILDREN are among hundreds of asylum seekers sleeping in tents at an overcrowded Christmas Island facility amid record boat arrivals, including 2000 people this ...
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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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