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Sale of NSW government buildings raises more than $405 million
NSW The New South Wales Finance Minister Greg Pearce says the sale of seven state Government-owned buildings has raised more than $405 million.The Government says it is selling off non-essential buildings and leasing back office space where necessary to unlock the capital for infrastructure and housing projects.The buildings sold include Bligh House and the McKell building in Sydney, as well ...
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Torbay allegations referred to NSW Police Integrity Commission
Armidale 2350 Allegations that former independent MP Richard Torbay and a senior policeman made an unauthorised visit to a prisoner in Armidale six years ago have been referred to the inspector of the Police Integrity Commission (PIC).A parliamentary committee asked the Police Integrity Commission about the allegations, after media reports detailing them surfaced in the wake of Mr ...
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Photo furore actors who werent acting
The leading organisation representing Australia's professional photographers has apologised to one of its members after accusing him on Facebook of using actors to set up a wedding photograph entered in a competition. In fact, the newlyweds who featured in the photograph outside Luna Park in Sydney were actors. You may have seen the bride Stephanie Delaney in Underbelly, or the groom ...
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Joe Hockey lays into the Australian Tax Office
The Coalition has signalled it may break up the Australian Taxation Office if it wins government, to ensure a "more independent" resolution of tax disputes. In an address to the National Press Club on Wednesday, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey said that the ATO had developed an "insular and inward-looking culture that has put it at odds with taxpayers". He also said the tax ...
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Rineharts wealth plunges $7 billion
Gina Rinehart's personal wealth has shed a staggering $7 billion in the past 12 months, but even her losses exceed the total wealth of Australia's next richest person, according to the BRW Rich 200 list released today. The mining magnate easily retained her position as Australia's richest individual with total wealth estimated at $22.02 ...
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CBD evacuation after oven blaze
Oven fire forces mass evacuation Fire crews are congratulating building managers who evacuated about 1000 people from an office block in Sydney's CBD after a restaurant's pizza oven caught fire at lunchtime on ...
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Defeat for Australias largest goldminer
In a stunning decision, a NSW court has quashed an exploration licence held by Australia's largest goldminer Newcrest. The licence application in question was made during the stewardship of disgraced mining minister Ian Macdonald in 2008 and renewal was granted in ...
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Qantas frequent flyers exploit loophole
Savvy frequent flyers are avoiding as much as $610 in fuel surcharges on Qantas international flights by exploiting a loophole in the alliance with Emirates. Almost two months after the airlines launched their tie up, executives from the two airlines will meet within the next week to talk about resolving a major difference between their fuel surcharges. Travellers wanting to fly economy from ...
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Eurovision vote row escalates
Moscow has reacted angrily as its neighbour Azerbaijan admitted its vote at the Eurovision Song Contest awarding no points to Russia's song appears to have been falsified. The scandal topped the agenda at a televised briefing between the countries' foreign ministers in Moscow, as Azerbaijan's top diplomat admitted that the votes submitted for Russia via mobile phone had somehow ...
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New sex charges for dance teacher
High profile Sydney dance teacher Grant Davies has been charged with six further child abuse offences. Mr Davies was charged on Saturday with four offences relating to producing child abuse material and grooming two underage girls. Burwood Local Court was told on Wednesday that six other charges have been filed against Mr Davies. The charges are believed to be of a serious ...
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End of Australias resources boom hits investment in sector
SYDNEY | Wed May 22, 2013 1:20am EDT SYDNEY May 22 (Reuters) - The end of Australia's resources boom is taking its toll on investment in the sector, with A$150 billion in planned projects delayed or cancelled since April 2012, government data shows. China's economic slowdown has squashed a decade-long mining boom in Australia that drove gold, copper, iron ore and coal to record ...
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Australia Consumer Morale Falls Sharply On Budget
Confidence among Australian consumers declined sharply in May to its lowest level since August 2012, driven largely by negative responses to the Federal Budget, a survey by Westpac and Melbourne Institute showed Wednesday. The index of consumer sentiment fell 7 percent in May to 97.6 from 104.9 in April. This is the lowest reading since August 2012. The survey also revealed that pessimists ...
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Australia Consumer Confidence Dives
was conducted in the week the Labor government delayed a long-promised return to a budget surplus. The government blamed a stubbornly high Australian dollar and lower commodity prices for a dramatic fall in revenues. It also came after the Reserve Bank of ...
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The curtain falls on ICACs public spectacle
Jerrys Plains 2330 What has been described as the most significant public corruption inquiry in the history of New South Wales has wrapped up with the findings due in July. Court reporter Jamelle Wells covered the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) inquiry for the ABC.Were it not for the seriousness of the allegations raised the six-month corruption inquiry into former New South ...
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Australia guns down 10000 horses
(53 mins ago) A controversial cull of up to 10,000 wild horses in Australia's harsh Outback reportedly began today in a bid to control the feral animals which officials say are destroying the land. The Central Land Council said animals – including horses, donkeys and camels – were dying in their thousands because of a lack of food and water and a cull was necessary on ...
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Woman charged under Skyes Law
A WOMAN who allegedly had a four-year-old in the car has been charged under Skyes Law after a police pursuit in the states central ...
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Underdogs Australia Ready for Ashes Scrap-Clarke
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Levy to be imposed on Sydneys Star casino to cover costs of monitoring operation
Pyrmont 2009 The New South Wales Government has introduced legislation to impose a levy on Sydney's Star Casino to help cover the costs of monitoring and regulating its operations.Taxpayers currently bear most of the cost for the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority to oversee the casino, but the Minister for Hospitality George Souris says it is appropriate for the Star to pick up the ...
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Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin insist Australia ready to reclaim Ashes urn against England
Australia Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke and deputy Brad Haddin insist Australia's disastrous series in India is history with the team fired up to win back the Ashes from England.Clarke and his squad head to England in the knowledge they have not won an Ashes series on foreign soil since 2001 when Steve Waugh's men won in convincing fashion 4-1 before triumphing by the ...
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$1 billion wiped from NSW budget in accounting change
NSW The New South Wales Treasurer has revealed an accounting change will wipe $1 billion off the budget's bottom line this year.Mike Baird will hand down the state's budget on the 18th of June.He says the state has adopted a new standard for calculating the interest on superannuation assets, which will reduce forecast earnings from nearly 9 per cent to just over 3 percent."It ...
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Souths Teo denies assaulting woman
Girl accuses NRL star of bashing A woman tells Nine News she was "laying in the hallway" and "could have been dead for all they know", accusing NRL star Ben Te'o of punching ...
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CBD fire sparks building evacuation
More than 1000 people have been evacuated from a multi-storey building in Sydney's CBD with dark smoke seen billowing from the building. Fire and Rescue NSW crews are at the scene of the fire on the corner of Liverpool and Pitt streets, but the source of the fire is yet to be ...
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Killer did the right thing NSW judge declares
When he saw a man holding a knife to a woman's throat, 72-year-old Keith Harold Allen made a judgment call and shot him. It was almost certainly the right thing to do, a NSW Supreme Court judge says. The actions of Allen, who spent two and a half years in custody and is now terminally ill with lung cancer, were vindicated in court on Wednesday, when Justice Michael Adams handed down his ...
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Save $610 on fuel surcharges
Savvy frequent flyers are avoiding as much as $610 in fuel surcharges on Qantas international flights by exploiting a loophole in the alliance with Emirates. Almost two months after the airlines launched their tie up, executives from the two airlines will meet within the next week to talk about resolving a major difference between their fuel surcharges. Travellers wanting to fly economy from ...
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Apple irrelevant within 5 years
Apple has again been rated as the world's top brand this week, but a leading social researcher warns the omnipresent technology giant is losing touch with its Generation Y heartland. Michael McQueen tracks the changing tastes of Gen-Y and believes the inventor of genre-defining devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod could be largely irrelevant to people under 30 within five years. The ...
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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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