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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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X marks the spot history rewritten
Five copper coins and a nearly 70-year-old map with an ''X'' could rewrite Australia's history. Ian McIntosh, an Australian scientist and professor of anthropology at Indiana University in the US, is planing an expedition in July to revisit the location where five 1000-year-old coins were found in the Northern Territory in ...
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Australia way older than you think
REMEMBER when you were taught that Australia was discovered by James Cook in 1770 who promptly declared it "terra nullius" and claimed it for the British ...
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Sydney teen bashed with baseball bat
A 13-YEAR-OLD boy was assaulted with a baseball bat by three man yesterday during a frightening home invasion in the citys ...
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Jewellers robbed of cash at gunpoint
POLICE are searching for two men after they allegedly threatened a pair of wholesale jewellers with a knife and a firearm before making off with cash and valuables ...
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Gillard shoots down gun laws
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has postponed her plan to tackle gun violence, particularly in western Sydney, with tough national anti-gang laws delayed until after the ...
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Australia stocks gain on bank mining advances
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) - Australian stocks rose Monday, a stronger start for the benchmark index as banking and mining issues posted gains. The S&P/ASX ...
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Obeid threatens Labor with legal action over expulsion move
Sydney 2000 Former New South Wales Labor MP Eddie Obeid is threatening the party with legal action if it moves to expel him.The opposition leader John Robertson wrote to ALP officials in March demanding the expulsion of Eddie Obeid and former colleague Ian Macdonald, saying both had brought the party into disrepute. Mr Obeid and Mr Macdonald are the subject of extensive inquiries by the ...
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Hackforth-Jones dead at 64
Penne Hackforth-Jones, one of the nation's most recognisable actors, died on Saturday, months after being diagnosed with lung cancer. The 64-year-old appeared in almost every well-known TV series ...
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Wifes suspicion he was 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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