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Wimbledon Rafael Nadal named fifth seed Australias Sam Stosur 14th
England Rafael Nadal has been named fifth seed for Wimbledon, leaving his major title rivals to ponder meeting the 2008 and 2010 title-winning Spaniard as early as the quarter-finals.Nadal, the holder of 12 grand slam crowns and fresh from his record-breaking eighth French Open triumph in Paris, was seeded behind compatriot David Ferrer who takes the fourth seeding.Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray ...
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PM plans asylum talks with Jakarta
Julia Gillard is planning a trip to Indonesia in two weeks to discuss directly with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ways of stemming the rising flow of asylum seekers coming by boat before the September election. Reflecting her confidence that she will see off any push to install Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister, Ms Gillard intends flying to Jakarta within seven days of Parliament rising next ...
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Australia Maroochydore Beach Renourishment Kicks Off
The extra sand will widen the beach, help prevent severe erosion and protect public facilities and infrastructure along Alexandra Parade and Aerodrome Road. The popular stretch between Maroochydore and Alexandra Headland is worth around $80 million a year to the Sunshine Coast ...
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Australias Intrepid faces tough fight over Indonesia mine
By Sonali Paul and Fergus Jensen MELBOURNE/JAKARTA, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:07am EDT MELBOURNE/JAKARTA, June 19 (Reuters) - Australia's Intrepid Mines Ltd is learning that business in Indonesia is personal as it wages a difficult fight to win back rights to a $5 billion copper and gold prospect in East Java. Intrepid was booted off the site last year by its Indonesian partner ...
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Newcastle Port sale bill being rushed through by NSW government
Newcastle 2300 The New South Wales Government is hoping that legislation to privatise Newcastle Port can be rushed through the Lower House tonight.The Government announced the sell off in yesterday's budget, and it has already introduced a bill to allow the transaction.The Leader of Government business Brad Hazzard says it was necessary to suspend standing orders so the bill can be dealt ...
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Game Council report not seen by Environment Minister Robyn Parker
NSW The New South Wales Opposition has questioned why the Minister in charge of overseeing hunting in national parks has not yet seen a report into the Game Council.The Premier Barry O'Farrell instigated the review into the Council's governance after its acting chief executive and a volunteer were charged with illegal hunting and trespass.He said hunting in national parks would not ...
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Australia Maroochydore and Alexandra Headland to Get New Sand
The Sunshine Coast Council announced a plan to test a new sand-pumping dredger which will add sand on the heavily eroded beaches at Maroochydore and Alexandra Headland, according to ...
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How to survive Australia’s Metals Market Correction
Petra Capital's Andrew Richards believes that, while Australian miners have been hard hit, the country's sector is turning a corner. An interview with The Metals ...
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Debate shut down on referral of Greg Pearce to ICAC
NSW The New South Wales Government has used its numbers to shut down debate on whether parliament should refer the Finance Minister Greg Pearce to the ICAC.Yesterday the Opposition Leader John Robertson leader gave notice of a motion to refer Mr Pearce to the corruption watchdog over a series of recent scandals.But this afternoon when the Opposition tried to bring on urgent debate on the issue ...
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Brushed from bar now from court
A Sydney journalist who sued a trendy Oxford Street nightclub for defamation, claiming it falsely and "maliciously" declared he was too drunk to enter, has lost his case in the District Court, with a judge rejecting his version of what happened and finding that his complaint was "trivial".But Richard Sleeman, a well-known sports writer and radio producer, had vowed to appeal ...
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CBA scandal Senate demands answers
Fairfax Special: Exposed - Planners go rogue The corporate watchdog will face a Senate inquiry into its performance that is likely to embroil the Commonwealth Bank and raise questions about the effectiveness of new financial ...
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Macdonald due before privileges committee
DISGRACED former NSW mines minister Ian Macdonald has been asked to appear before a parliamentary committee examining documents relating to a mining licence at the centre of a corruption ...
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Australias ASX 200 0.98 and Chinas Shanghai -0.73
Good Morning, - Euro in demand with all eyes in Fed's statement, Bernanke conference. - Asian shares: Japan's Nikkei 1.83%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng -0.58% (07:00 GMT), Korea's Kospi -0.65%, Australia's ASX 200 0.98% and China's Shanghai -0.73% - All the major currencies marked time on Wednesday as investors waited anxiously to see if the Federal Reserve could clarify ...
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Small numbers of refugees in Australia UN
Australia hosted just 0.3 per cent of the world's refugees by the end of the 2012, the United Nation says. Of the 88,600 refugees resettled around the world in last year, Australia took 5900 while the United States resettled the most refugees by far at 66,300, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report said. Out of 9.9 million registered refugees worldwide, only 30,000 were in ...
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Ahmed Sandhu in Australia A tour of Africa
SYDNEY (AFP) - Pakistan-born leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed was on Wednesday named on the Australia A squad for a tour of Africa beginning next month, despite also being in contention for selection for the Ashes series against England.Ahmed was added to the 15-man squad for the July and August tour along with Ashton Agar, who has Sri Lankan grandparents and paceman Gurinder Sandhu, born in Australia ...
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New South Wales plans sale of Newcastle coal port
Australia's most populous state is considering the sale of the world's biggest coal export terminal, subject to a detailed study of the implications of such a ...
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Australia shares close at a 2-week high Whitehaven jumps
Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:16am EDT (Adds details, comments) SYDNEY, June 19 (Reuters) - Australian shares rose 1 percent to close at a two-week high on Wednesday, helped by expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will not move quickly to scale back its monetary stimulus and as a weaker Australian dollar lifted stocks with large exposure to overseas markets. Whitehaven Coal Ltd surged 4 percent after ...
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Towering plans for Darling Harbour
High-rise towers up to 40 storeys tall and a town square as big as Martin Place would be built at Haymarket under detailed plans revealed on Wednesday. It comes despite calls from the City of Sydney for one tower to be deleted because the buildings are too close together and would overshadow the street, block views and create a “wind tunnel” effect. A $2.5 billion remake of Darling ...
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Serena shamed over rape blame
One of the people responsible for bringing the details of a teenage rape case to public attention says she is shocked by the callous attitude to the victim expressed by tennis star Serena Williams. The world's top-ranked women's ...
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He specialised in speaking truth
"As a journalist, he specialised in speaking truth to power and laying it all out there. He was irascible in his reporting and sometimes/often/always infuriating in his writing: he lit a bright lamp for those who wanted to follow his example. Hastings won awards for magazine reporting for ...
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Racist piece of legislation
The fate of new laws cracking down on the skilled foreign worker visa scheme will come down to the wire amid doubts the Gillard government will find enough support from the independent MPs for the measures. The bill, labelled by Liberal MP Don Randall as "the most racist piece of legislation" he had ever seen, includes new rules to ensure Australians get priority for jobs and would ...
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What if great Socceroos gamble had backfired
echoed around sodden ANZ Stadium. Even in the afterglow of a monumental night, that nagging thought persisted. What if it the great gamble had ...
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OFarrell justifies job cuts
PREMIER Barry OFarrell is defending the budget against claims of widespread job cuts, saying the money saved from expense targets will be put back into frontline ...
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Australia Fans Celebrate World Cup Entry With Sydney Party
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Australia shares climb 1 pct investors await Fed Reserve
Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:28am EDT (Updates to close) SYDNEY, June 19 (Reuters) - Australian shares rose 1 percent on Wednesday, helped by expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will not move quickly to scale back its monetary stimulus and as a weaker Australian dollar lifted stocks with large exposure to overseas markets. The S&P/ASX 200 index climbed 47.1 points to 4,861.4, according to 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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