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Affluent womens secret shame
The shadow of domestic violence readily falls across the wealthy and famous, as Nigella Lawson has discovered, but few choose to report it to the police because of shame. The focus was on lower socioeconomic households, Tracy Howe, chief executive at NSW Women's Refuge Movement, said, but the statistics failed to recognise the unreported problems across the affluent suburbs of Australia. ...
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Our son was murdered theres no question
Mother's heartbreak at son's death Thomas Kelly's mother, Kathy, levels thinly-veiled criticism at prosecutors after a murder charge against the man who fatally punched her son was ...
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Coalition scraps green slip changes
THE government has withdrawn its controversial changes to green slip policy, following a public outcry on the slashing of benefits and lack of support from key crossbench ...
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Angelina Jolies Stunt Double Sues Rupert Murdochs News Corp. for Phone-Hacking
's News Corp, alleging that the company's representatives hacked into her cellphone.Huthart filed the suit claiming a violation of her rights to privacy, unlawful access to stored communications and interference with her voicemails stored on her phone. She also claimed that the incidents in particular took place while she worked alongside Jolie.She claimed she worked alongside the ...
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Refugee figures a reality check for Australia
UNHCR figures show that more people were forced to flee their homes every day last year than the total number seeking asylum in Australia in one year. More people around the world were forced to flee their homes every day last year than the total number seeking asylum in Australia during the entire 12 months, according to the annual report on global trends by the United Nations refugee ...
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Head Day 21 16500km road test around Australia
, Steven Ottley and I stopped off at the coastal town of Yeppoon, near Rockhampton, to find arguably the biggest Commodore fan of them all. Peter Champion has amassed Australia’s most exotic collection of Holdens - specifically, almost every famous race car driven by motor racing legend Peter Brock. The collection, which has been turned into a museum called the Champion's Brock ...
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Australia v Iraq what we learned from the World Cup qualifier
For 48 hours before the game, a major Sydney road was rechristened as the Tim Cahill Expressway. This was a man who had scored his country's first ever World Cup goal and at times had dragged the team through qualification. For years, he has been the source of goals when all others had run dry. Yet with 13 minutes remaining ...
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The moment we won the game
Instead, he can reflect with pride after his brave substitution of national hero Tim Cahill with the game in the balance swung it - and World Cup qualification - for the ...
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Australia shares seen bouncing on strong Wall St weaker A$
SYDNEY, June 19 (Reuters) - Australian shares are expected to rebound on Wednesday, after Wall Street rose for a second straight day as investors bet the Federal Reserve will maintain its stimulus support for the world's biggest economy. A weaker Australian dollar may also benefit stocks with overseas exposure. * Local share price index futures rose 0.7 percent to 4,855.0, a 40.6-point ...
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Socceroos heading for Brazil will you be going too
Socceroos are heading to Brazil for the World Cup next year. The question is - will you be? An estimated 3.3 million tickets are expected to go on sale for the world's biggest single sporting event and, now that the Socceroos have sealed their spot among the participating nations, Australian fans will be allocated a specific number of those seats. FIFA has not yet released detailed ...
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ADFs new internet sex scandal
The Australian Defence Force is investigating whether serving military personnel are linked to offensive Facebook pages that included grossly sexist and anti-Muslim posts - another blow to the military on the heels of the sex email affair. Facebook pages emerged in recent days that appear connected to serving and former soldiers based in Townsville and refer to local women as ...
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Mundine in Fergusons corner
"I told him if you want to be the best you have got to give it (alcohol) up": Anthony Mundine on advice he gave to second cousin Blake Ferguson, ...
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Lions defeat a wake-up call for Gatland and massive lift for Australia
Jake White said, after his Brumbies side had beaten the Lions, that Australia will be far more optimistic about the Test series. Photograph: Mark Metcalfe/Getty ...
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There is so much to lose
The shadow of domestic violence readily falls across the wealthy and famous, as Nigella Lawson has discovered, but few choose to report it to the police because of shame. The focus was on lower socioeconomic households, Tracy Howe, chief executive at NSW Women's Refuge Movement, said, but the statistics failed to recognise the unreported problems across the affluent suburbs of Australia. ...
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Switch would risk constitutional crisis
A late switch by Labor back to Kevin Rudd could provoke a constitutional crisis forcing Governor-General Quentin Bryce to consider options such as a sudden recall of Parliament to test Labor's majority or even the appointment of Tony Abbott as prime minister. Another option would be the commencement of an immediate caretaker period before an early election. With pressure building within ...
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UPDATE 1-Angelina Jolie stunt double sues News Corp over hacking
Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:58pm EDT By Jennifer Saba June 18 (Reuters) - A stunt double for Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has sued News Corp over allegations its British newspapers hacked her phone, the first lawsuit in the United States against the company since the scandal broke two years ago. The lawsuit, filed on June 13 by professional stunt double Eunice Huthart, said reporters from News ...
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UPDATE 1-New ZealandAustralia Morning Call-Global markets
-----------------------(06:33 / 2033 GMT)----------------------- Stock Markets S&P/ASX 200 4,814.35 -11.53 NZSX 50 4,462.10 ...
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Australia risk scattering Ashes
Even if some of the more scurrilous rumours abounding from within the Australian cricket team are discounted, it is impossible to escape the symbolism of their current disposition. Day one of the tourists' Ashes campaign ended the same way it began, with the 16 chosen squad members and their shadows dispersed across the United Kingdom. Whether by accident or design, this is more a ...
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Disabled woman and child held as slaves
Three people in Ohio are accused of enslaving a mentally disabled young mother and her daughter over two years. Federal agents and Ashland police said Tuesday that the trio forced the woman to do housework, threatened her and the girl with violence and fed their pets better than the mother and daughter. Ashland police say they discovered the situation when one suspect accused the mother of ...
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E-word riles public service
NSW budget winners and losers Small businesses, the seat of Newcastle and home builders are the biggest winners in the NSW state budget while the public sector will find it tough, says senior reporter Matt ...
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Why did you shoot officer
As she tried to save a highway patrol officer who lay bleeding from a gunshot wound to the chest, Tamworth mother Cheryl Carpenter asked the man who allegedly pulled the trigger, 'why did you do it?' a court has heard. But the alleged killer did not answer and soon after the officer, Senior Constable David Rixon, was dead. Ms Carpenter was giving evidence in the trial of Michael ...
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Frontline services will be hit
Unions are warning that frontline services across the state are at risk after NSW Treasurer Mike Baird announced further cuts to the public service, despite already axing thousands of jobs and shrinking departmental budgets. Delivering his third budget on Tuesday, Mr Baird detailed a two-year extension of a 1 per cent ''efficiency dividend'' to help fund the state's ...
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Its the Angelina effect
There has been a huge surge in phone calls to the Cancer Council helpline, since Angelina Jolie's breast cancer preventive surgery. Cancer Council NSW has recorded an increase of almost 900 per cent in the number of people phoning the helpline, following Jolie's announcement of her preventative double mastectomy last month after learning she had the defective BRCA1 gene, which meant ...
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Budget has a Liberal flavour
If you were having doubts about the O'Farrell government's conservative credentials, take a look at its third budget. It lacked fireworks, but there was a Liberal flavour - tax cuts for small business, privatisation, an emphasis on "expense control" and pressure on public servants to work more efficiently. Squeezing savings out of the public sector has become a hallmark of ...
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Mission accomplished ... just
View all 32 photos But, in these circumstances, that would be churlish and an inquiry for a later day. Suffice to say that it is mission accomplished, but only just. German Holger Osieck might not be as much of a gambler as his Dutch predecessor but one, Guus Hiddink, nor might he have the inherent fortune of ''Lucky Guus". But the Gods smiled on him in this starred arena for ...
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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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