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Sydneys train station escalators a hazard for guide dogs
Sydney 2000 Vision Australia has backed calls for Railcorp to upgrade its escalators in New South Wales train stations so they can be safely used by guide dogs.Liberal MP Bart Bassett has urged Railcorp to spend $12 million to upgrade its escalators after learning a guide dog caught its paw in one at Sydney's Town Hall station.Simone Cottom's seeing eye dog Gidgit got her paw trapped ...
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Bernard Tomic will play at the French Open according to Tennis Australias Todd Woodbridge
France Australian Tennis officials have been told Bernard Tomic will play in the French Open despite a ban imposed on his father and coach John.John Tomic is excluded from all men's tour events while he fights an assault charge after he headbutted his son's training partner in Spain.Tennis Australia's Todd Woodbridge says his relationship with Bernard Tomic is still strong and ...
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Court quashes Newcrest licence
In a stunning decision this morning, a NSW court has quashed an exploration licence held by Australia's largest goldminer Newcrest. The licence application in question was made during the stewardship of disgraced mining minister Ian Macdonald in 2008 and renewal was granted in 2011. Amid the staggering revelations of mates-deals by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, this ...
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Carlton offensive and hurtful
ABC betrayed its audience: Carlton Fairfax columnist Mike Carlton says the ABC's Australian Story program 'sugar-coated' their segment about Ray Hadley and left out criticisms about the radio ...
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Is Apple rotting at its core
Apple has again been rated as the world's top brand this week, but a leading social researcher warns the omnipresent technology giant is losing touch with its Generation Y heartland. Michael McQueen tracks the changing tastes of Gen-Y and believes the inventor of genre-defining devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod could be largely irrelevant to people under 30 within five years. The ...
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Leumeah is not Lakemba
Campbelltown is a part of south-western Sydney - but it no longer wants to be. As far as TV and radio news coverage is concerned, that is. Residents of Campbelltown, Camden and the Picton-based Wollondilly Shire are fed up with being thrown into the same geographic area as Lakemba, Punchbowl and Campsie in a distant, unconnected part of Sydney. So that's why the local Fairfax newspaper ...
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Big business smarter greener and millions richer
Big business can save millions of dollars in operating costs, avoid wasting millions of litres of water and prevent thousands of tonnes of waste just by adopting some simple green habits and actions. Thanks to a new Sydney Water grant and matching funding from the City of Sydney, the Smart Green Business program will target 200 businesses – including hotels, restaurants, clubs, large ...
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Library books and more delivered to your door
Bookworms stuck at home or in hospital are being encouraged to take advantage of the City of Sydney's Home Library service, which delivers books direct to residents' doors. The Home Library service team already visits 35 homes, seven aged-care hostels and 13 childcare centres across Sydney each week, making sure no one misses out on the joy of reading. Lord Mayor Clover Moore said ...
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The budget airline of hotels set to open in Australia
The Tune hotel low-cost model is based on a similar concept to cheap airlines. The low-cost Tune hotel chain is on schedule to open its first Australian property in November and is likely to start online selling in July in a pre-opening sale with some of the lowest room-rates in years. Tune's Kuala Lumpur-based chief executive Mark Lankester was in Melbourne this week looking over the ...
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Sea of Hands carries Australia to a brighter future
Sydney College of the Arts student Claire Munro has been announced as the winner of the design competition for her design 'Carrying Australia to a Brighter Future'. Her design will form a major focal point ...
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Australia shares inch higher on Wall St banks weak
Tue May 21, 2013 9:43pm EDT (Adds details, comments, stocks on the move) SYDNEY May 22 (Reuters) - Australian shares inched 0.1 percent higher on Wednesday, led by blue-chip miners after comments from two voting U.S. Federal Reserve presidents eased fears the Fed was contemplating an imminent cut in its stimulus programme, helping Wall Street close at all-time highs. Bellwether miners BHP ...
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Australia number one for Brits
A new poll among British travellers found Australia to be their top pick for ‘Best Country in the World’. According to a survey conducted by the UK’s Ultratravel magazine, Australia was voted best country, outranking other popular destinations including; Italy, New Zealand, Thailand and the US. Tourism Australia managing director Andrew McEvoy said although economic ...
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Relatives join search for Canadian missing in Australias Snowy Mountains
OTTAWA -- Family members joined a frantic search Tuesday for a Canadian man with survival training missing for more than a week in Australia's Snowy Mountains region. Prabhdeep Srawn of Brampton, Ont., hasn't been heard from since parking his rental car on May 13 in the village of Charlotte Pass in Kosciuszko National Park. For the last two years, the 25-year-old has been a law ...
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Carlton hateful and vengeful
Fairfax columnist Mike Carlton says the ABC's Australian Story program 'sugar-coated' their segment about Ray Hadley and left out criticisms about the radio ...
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New charges for dance teacher
High profile Sydney dance teacher Grant Davies has been charged with six further child abuse offences. Mr Davies was charged on Saturday with four offences relating to producing child abuse material and grooming two underage girls. Burwood Local Court was told on Wednesday that six other charges have been filed against Mr Davies. The charges are believed to be of a serious ...
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Thomson facing 19 new charges
Former Federal Labor MP Craig Thomson - accused of using a Health Services Union credit card to pay for prostitutes - has appeared in court today to face 19 fresh charges. Mr Thomson, 48, who last week announced he would stand as an independent for his NSW seat of Dobell at the September federal election after being suspended by the Labor Party, appeared briefly in the Melbourne Magistrates ...
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Dubais justice system askew
The scales of justice in Dubai are askew. Consider the case of Alicia Gali, an Australian drugged and raped by three fellow hotel employees in 2008. With four broken ribs, she reported the crime - and was promptly charged with having sex out of wedlock. She was sentenced to 12 months' jail and served the next eight months behind bars. Her attackers, charged with the same offence, were ...
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Abbott told to privatise ABC SBS
Facing internal pressure from Victorian Liberals: Tony Abbott. Tony Abbott is facing internal pressure from Victorian Liberals to privatise the ABC and SBS if he wins the September 14 election amid claims both organisations are struggling to comply with their charters. State Liberals have launched a push ahead of the election to sell the public broadcasters, arguing the funds raised should be ...
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Impossible calculation for parents
As the school day was ending, parents in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore were forced to make an impossible calculation – rush to schools to gather up their children and risk being caught in the open, or trust that the reinforced walls of the school buildings would shelter them. A tornado was coming, one that may be the most destructive to ever strike the United States. There would be ...
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Commuter phone anger off the hook
HEAR that? It’s the sound of silence, trundling towards a train station near you as CityRail kicks off its long-awaited trial of quiet train ...
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Australia stocks advance paced by miners
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Australian stocks rose Wednesday, with mining issues continuing to recover from recent weakness that stemmed in part from concerns about slowing in China. The S&P/ASX ...
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Australia consumer confidence falls sharply in May
SYDNEY | Tue May 21, 2013 8:32pm EDT SYDNEY May 22 (Reuters) - A measure of Australian consumer confidence fell sharply in May as households reacted negatively to the government's budget announcement, even after a cut in interest rates to a record low. The poll of 1,200 people by the Melbourne Institute and Westpac Bank was conducted in the week the Labor government delayed a ...
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Retrenched BlueScope workers ripped off by Government rescue fund
Port Kembla 2505 Steel workers are bitterly disappointed a Government rescue fund designed to ease the blow of job losses in the industry has failed to create hundreds of positions it promised to deliver.The $30 million Illawarra Region Innovation and Investment Fund was set up in late 2011 by the Gillard Government in the wake of mass redundancies at BlueScope Steel's Port Kembla works, ...
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Man injured in Sydney sports oval shooting
Mascot 2020 Police are appealing for witnesses following a shooting at a sports oval in Sydney's south-east.A 27-year-old was found with gunshot wounds to his hand and thigh at the oval in Mascot at about 7:55pm (AEST) last night.He has been taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital to undergo surgery.Police say his injuries are not life threatening.Anyone with information is urged to call ...
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Police probe pogo stick death
The death of a seven-year-old boy whose parents said hit his head after falling off a pogo stick is now being treated as a potential homicide. Homicide squad detectives have joined local detectives to investigate the boy's death at a home in Oatley, in Sydney's south, on Tuesday. Paramedics were called to the home on Mulga Road at 6am on Tuesday after receiving a triple-0 call that ...
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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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