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Two children $812000 please
The cost of raising children has risen 50 per cent in the past five years with a middle-income family now spending $812,000 on two children, new modelling shows. In 2007, the same family spent $537,000 on children from the time they were born until they left home. The jump in cost largely comes from increased childcare and education costs. ''The cost of raising children is ...
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Morning Express NSW suicide vote
this morning, it's the wettest day in a month so pack the brolly. The next 24 hours will see 25-50mm to fall over Sydney before rain eases tomorrow afternoon. The top temperature will be 15 ...
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FBI shoots man linked to bombs
Orlando, Florida: A man was shot dead in Orlando, Florida, while being questioned by the FBI in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. Law-enforcement officials were interviewing the man this morning when a violent confrontation ended with a shooting involving a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, said Paul Bresson, a spokesman for the agency in Washington. The fight was initiated by ...
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I could have been dead
Girl accuses NRL star of bashing A woman tells Nine News she was "laying in the hallway" and "could have been dead", accusing NRL star Ben Te'o of punching ...
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Rolls-Royce recall only for Australia
The $645,000 Rolls-Royce Ghost. A small issue has caused major headaches for high-end British car maker Rolls-Royce. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is expected to issue a recall notice today for all Rolls-Royce Ghost models sold in Australia. The issue is believed to involve a software problem that prevents a carbon filer inside a canister hooked-up to the fuel ...
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Asylum seeker to be freed after ASIO overturns adverse security assessment
Villawood 2163 A Sri Lankan asylum seeker has become the second person to have an adverse threat assessment overturned by ASIO.Fifty-four asylum seekers who arrived in Australia by boat are currently the subject of adverse security assessments. Manokala Jenaddarsan, 41, was in the final stages of getting her refugee claim processed in 2011 when ASIO issued her with the adverse security ...
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Shot in the back man hit outside home
A man is under police guard in hospital after he was shot multiple times in the back at a home in Sydney's outer north-west. Three other men have also been arrested and are being questioned following the shooting outside a home in Rickards Road in Castlereagh just before midnight on Tuesday. Police arrived at the home to find a man in the front yard of the house with multiple gunshot ...
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The cost of children skyrockets
The cost of raising children has risen 50 per cent in the past five years with a middle-income family now spending $812,000 on two children, new modelling shows. In 2007, the same family spent $537,000 on children from the time they were born until they left home. The jump in cost largely comes from increased childcare and education costs. ''The cost of raising children is ...
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The cost of children skysrockets
The cost of raising children has risen 50 per cent in the past five years with a middle-income family now spending $812,000 on two children, new modelling shows. In 2007, the same family spent $537,000 on children from the time they were born until they left home. The jump in cost largely comes from increased childcare and education costs. ''The cost of raising children is ...
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Integrity unit will be put to ultimate test in Teo case
Girl accuses NRL star of bashing A woman tells Nine News she was "laying in the hallway" and "could have been dead", accusing NRL star Ben Te'o of punching ...
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How much does a child cost
The cost of raising children has risen by 50 per cent in the past five years with a middle-income family now spending $812,000 on two children, new modelling shows. In 2007 the same family spent $537,000 on children from the time they were born until they left home, with the jump in costs largely coming from increased childcare and education expenses. ''The cost of raising children ...
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The cost of kids skyrockets
The cost of raising children has risen by 50 per cent in the past five years with a middle-income family now spending $812,000 on two children, new modelling shows. In 2007 the same family spent $537,000 on children from the time they were born until they left home, with the jump in costs largely coming from increased childcare and education expenses. ''The cost of raising children ...
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Telstra to axe jobs in major shake-up
Significant job losses are expected at Telstra after the telco announced sweeping changes to its operational structure as it shifts away from its legacy business. The telco plans to divert its resources towards high-growth areas such as wireless, NBN and network services while cutting back on loss-making ventures, such as the Sensis directory business. About half of Telstra's ...
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Ruining industry fellow bookies turn on Waterhouse
Australia's biggest corporate bookmaker, Sportingbet, has backed calls for a complete ban on the spruiking of live odds in sports broadcasts and launched a withering attack on Tom Waterhouse. Sportingbet joined market leader Tabcorp in voicing concern at the damage being done to the gambling industry by the growing public outrage at the intrusion of betting into football coverage. Michael ...
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Pogo stick death paramedics delay
A Sydney mother told police her seven-year-old son lost consciousness after falling off a pogo stick but did not call emergency services until she found him dead in a bedroom 24 hours later. Homicide detectives are investigating the suspicious death of Levai Bonnar, who died after apparently falling off a pogo stick and striking his head inside an Oatley unit. Paramedics were called to a Mulga ...
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UN refugee agency faults Australias tough new policy
GENEVA (AFP) - The UN refugee agency took Australia to task Wednesday over a tough new policy that allows boat people who reach its mainland to be sent to remote Nauru or Papua New Guinea for detention while their asylum claims are processed.The so-called "excision" rules, passed last week, extend previous legislation which only allowed the authorities to send boat people for detention ...
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Australias resources boom over
A new report from the Australian government says that committed investment in the country's major resources and energy projects has peaked. The report, released Wednesday by the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics, says that in the past 12 months, around $146 billion of projects have either been delayed, canceled or have had reassessed development plans. BREE predicts investment to ...
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NSW hospitals worst place for Golden Staph
Patients are more likely to catch potentially deadly infections in some NSW hospitals than anywhere else in the country, figures show. More than half the hospitals that failed to meet national benchmarks for Golden Staph blood infections are in NSW, according to a National Health Performance Authority audit released on Thursday. Overall infection rates in NSW are low but the state is being ...
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Fantastic four need your vote
. Last year, I thought the producers had found the best hidden talents in Australia and there would be a fall-off this year. The reverse has happened. The talent level is even better. First, though, we need to deal with snobbery. At a soiree recently an opera-loving eastern suburbs dowager heard me ...
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Supermans Federal Court victory
Superman: Trademarked tighter than his lycra suit. He's faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, can leap tall buildings in a bound, and now Superman has claimed victory in a Federal Court case. High up in the towering law courts in Sydney, DC Comics went to fight for Superman's good name, appealing a decision allowing a fitness company to register ...
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Waterhouse is ruining industry
Australia's biggest corporate bookmaker, Sportingbet, has backed calls for a complete ban on the spruiking of live odds in sports broadcasts and launched a withering attack on Tom Waterhouse. Sportingbet joined market leader Tabcorp in voicing concern at the damage being done to the gambling industry by the growing public outrage at the intrusion of betting into football coverage. Michael ...
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Telstra cuts jobs amid economic gloom
Telstra is poised to make deep cuts to its 30,000 strong Australian workforce, amid a slump in consumer confidence and falling mining investment. The telecommunications giant unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the divisions that contain half its staff on Wednesday, in a move that could lead to substantial job losses. The announcement came as federal Treasury and the new Parliamentary Budget ...
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A roaring good premiere
In New York they draped feather boas from crystal chandeliers at The Plaza hotel, in Cannes they sipped Moet under an art-deco dome overlooking the Cote d'Azur, but it was in Sydney that Baz Luhrmann really let his hair down. On Wednesday night the red carpet snaked its way through Moore Park's Entertainment Quarter for the Australian premiere of ...
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Paramedics called after 24 hours
A Sydney mother told police her seven-year-old son lost consciousness after falling off a pogo stick but did not call emergency services until she found him dead in a bedroom 24 hours later. Homicide detectives are investigating the suspicious death of Levai Bonnar, who died after apparently falling off a pogo stick and striking his head inside an Oatley unit. Paramedics were called to a Mulga ...
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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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