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The NSW government is considering giving power to child care centres to exclude children who have not been vaccinated.
NSW The New South Wales government is considering giving power to child care centres to exclude children who have not been vaccinated, but not if they have a genuine conscientious objection.The State Opposition is introducing a draft bill to let childcare centres and pre-schools choose whether they accept children who have not been vaccinated, after recent figures showed up to eight per cent ...
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Poor breeding tourists lashed
The dire manners and "uncivilised behaviour" of some Chinese tourists abroad are harming the country's image, said a top official who lamented their poor "quality and breeding", according to state-run media. Wang Yang, one of China's four vice premiers, singled out for condemnation "talking loudly in public places, jay-walking, spitting and willfully carving ...
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Kurzel directs NRMAs new spot
’s Justin Kurzel (pictured) to direct its new ad campaign which aired last night (see TVC below). The campaign by WhybinTBWA was launched in NSW and ACT to celebrate NRMA's "85 years of experience and knowledge helping people get back on their feet". The new series of television and cinema commercials observe the days after a disaster, as people rally together and ...
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Illicit drug report says Australia being targeted
Australia quoThe Australian Crime Commission's (ACC) annual illicit drug data report shows drug purity is on the rise and Australia is a target.The ACC handed down its 2011-12 report at Sydney's international mail centre this morning, as the report shows parcel post accounts for thelargest number of illicit drugborder ...
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Tweet row Warner immature
Commentator and former Test star Mark Waugh says opener David Warner is over-sensitive and immature, and some Australian international cricketers are getting ahead of themselves and need to pull their heads ...
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Australians to join diabetes drug suit
Diabetes: More than 1.7 million prescriptions for the drug have been filled in Australia over the past four years. Australian victims of a popular diabetes drug that has been linked to bladder cancer will join a US class action suing the makers of the drug. Tens of thousands of Australians are thought to have taken the diabetes drug Actos, which has been linked to a 40 per cent increased risk ...
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Swarmageddon to hit US
The US east coast is bracing for a cacophonous summer as hordes of flying insects emerge for a once-in-a-generation phenomenon popularly known as "Swarmageddon". After 17 years underground growing from larva to bug, billions of cicadas are about to revel in the final four climactic weeks of their unusual life cycle. At some point over the next few weeks, when the temperature at 2.4 ...
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Eddie Obeid has more front than Mark Foys
Former NSW Labor MP Paul O'Grady thought there must have been a sub-editing mistake when he read a newspaper report in which Eddie Obeid claimed Ian Macdonald had never been into Mr Obeid's office. Mr O'Grady, who was a member of the Upper House from 1988 to 1996, told the Independent Commission again Corruption on Monday that he was "incredulous" when he read a report ...
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Australia shares up in broad rally Wall St underpins market
Sun May 19, 2013 9:45pm EDT (Adds details, comments, stocks on the move) SYDNEY May 20 (Reuters) - Australian shares climbed 1.1 percent on Monday in a broad rally after upbeat U.S. economic data pushed Wall Street to record highs and as stocks with large exposure to the U.S. market gained on a weaker Australian dollar. "It's a broadbased rally, the overnight news was very positive and ...
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Australia teaches lessons on development from mining
Australia Australia is sharing some of its historical lessons about mining's impact on development at an international conference in Sydney.The conference has been organised by the International Mining for Development Centre, an academic centre based at both the University of Queensland and the University of Western Australia.The centre's director Ian Satchwell says, while mining can ...
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Wanderers sign new striker Tomi Juric
The Western Sydney Wanderers have made their first new signing for the next A-League season after securing former Adelaide United striker Tomi Juric on a two-year deal. Juric, 22, signed a short-term deal with Adelaide last season, scoring twice in a seven-game spell after five years of playing in Croatia. In his time abroad the western Sydney native scored 12 goals in 18 games for Croatia ...
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The boy who manned up to the church
The teacher who molested John Saunders made him feel ''special and wanted'', so this abuse was not the main cause of the emotional distress that shattered his later life. This is the conclusion of a clinical psychologist's report that the Catholic Church did not want Saunders or his lawyers to see. After a 13-year battle, it has finally handed over the report. Rick ...
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Abbott staffer busted drink driving
Mr Abbott's office confirmed Peta Credlin was caught outside her home with a ''low-range reading'' after returning from a dinner in the capital last week.ACT Police have since confirmed a 42-year-old woman was picked up drink driving on Thursday night with a reading of 0.075.Mr Abbott delivered his Budget reply speech in Parliament on Thursday night following ...
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Mayors from across Australia to discuss bid to ban live exports
PORT Adelaide Enfield Mayor Gary Johanson will take his fight to ban live animal exports to Canberra. Mr Johanson is calling for the eventual phase out of live animal exports, to be replaced by chilled or frozen meat. He will seek the backing of other councils from around Australia to get his motion across the line at the Australian Local Government Association conference in June. Mr Johanson ...
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Pluton Resources improving operating cash costs at Western Australia iron project
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Pluton Resources (ASX: PLV) has been steadily improving operating cash costs at its Cockatoo Island iron ore project in Western Australia since the first shipment commenced in December 2012 and expects further reductions soon.It plans to recommence exploration in the third quarter of this year to expand its existing Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves.The ...
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GB Energy granted exploration licence on Stuart Shelf in South Australia
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) GB Energy (ASX:GBX) has been granted exploration licence EL 5231 on the Stuart Shelf by the South Australian Department of Manufacturing, Trade, Resources and Energy.EL 5231 covers 945 square kilometres of the Stuart Shelf, an area on the northeast margin of the Gawler Craton identified by Geoscience Australia as highly prospective for Iron Oxide Copper ...
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Security tightened after primary school girls assaulted in Sydney
Haberfield 2045 Security has been tightened at Haberfield Public School, in Sydney's inner west, after Friday's attack on four young girls.Police are still looking for the man who sexually and physically assaulted the girls in a stairwell on the school grounds on Friday morning.The attack reportedly took less than a minute before the intruder fled. A Department of Education ...
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Missing teenager leaves parents distraught
Kiama 2533 Missing 13 year old Kiama Downs teenager Bethany Neville will feature in this week's Missing Person's campaign.She was last seen on security footage at Central station in March.There's been no contact or confirmed sightings of her since.Detective Sergeant Paul Connery from Lake Illawarra Police says her parents have been doing everything they can to try to find ...
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Waterhouses $50 million NRL deal collapses
Tom Waterhouse's bid to become an official sponsor to the National Rugby League competition is dead in the water, with both parties walking away from negotiations on a deal that was set to cost the bookmaker $50 million over five years. The NRL's general manager for strategy Shane Mattiske has told the ABC's Four Corners the parties had "failed to reach agreement around ...
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Waterhouse $50m NRL deal collapses
Tom Waterhouse's bid to become an official sponsor to the National Rugby League competition is dead in the water, with both parties walking away from negotiations on a deal that was set to cost the bookmaker $50 million over five years. The NRL's general manager for strategy Shane Mattiske has told the ABC's Four Corners the parties had "failed to reach agreement around ...
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Abbott chief of staff caught drink-driving
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's chief of staff has been booked for drink-driving. Peta Credlin was breathalysed outside her Canberra home while returning from a dinner on Thursday night. According to a spokesman for Mr Abbott, Ms Credlin recorded an unspecified ''low-range reading''. ''She accepts without reservation that she has done the wrong thing and the ...
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OFarrell conned on Gonski
Coalition frontbencher Christopher Pyne is urging NSW to pull out of its Gonski education deal with the federal government, saying Premier Barry O'Farrell has been ''conned''. NSW is the only state so far to have signed up to the federal government's school funding reforms, that are set to deliver an additional $14.5 billion to Australian schools over the next six ...
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PMs gain from budget pain
The latest Age/Nielsen poll, taken after Treasurer Wayne Swan's unorthodox no-handouts pre-election budget, has found voters drifting back to Labor, with two-thirds approving of what was supposed to be the most politically risky aspect of the budget, the decision to scrap the generous Howard government baby ...
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What sort of PM will Abbott be
It is hard to believe that barely six years ago Australia appeared to be entering an age of social democracy. I remember after the 2007 election reading one national newspaper's political editor declare that Kevin Rudd was ''now in a position to be one of Australia's great prime ministers and establish a decade of unprecedented Labor power in Australia''. It ...
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Wifes suspicion dance teacher became secretive
The wife of high-profile dance teacher Grant Davies became suspicious when he placed a security lock on his phone and computer, court documents reveal. The usually outgoing Mr Davies, who was a co-director of RG Dance Studio in Sydney's inner west, had become ''secretive'' in the past few months, Lisa Ricketts told police. Mr Davies, 39, was arrested at a North ...
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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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