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Its like a war zone out there tornado wreaks havoc
RAW VIDEO: US man, Ricky Stover, recounts the harrowing experience as the Oklahoma tornado swung the cellar doors open where he sought ...
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Fossil fuel divestment campaigns victory in Australia will be a moral one | Alexander White
gigatons of carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, fossil fuel companies have reserves of carbon from oil, coal and gas of almost 3000 gigatons --far exceeding the climate's safe limit if it were to all be burned.This "math" has been known for some years before McKibben's ...
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Family joins search for Ontario man missing in Australia
OTTAWA -- Family members joined a frantic search Tuesday for a Canadian man with survival training missing for more than a week in Australia's Gold Coast 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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Pay more taxes or get less
Australians will have to either pay more tax or expect poorer government services, the head of the Treasury has warned. Martin Parkinson told a post-budget function in Sydney the share of the economy devoted to tax had suffered its most dramatic slide since the 1950s. ''From its pre-crisis level of 23.7 per cent the tax-to-GDP ratio fell to 20.1 per cent in 2010-11,'' he ...
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Secret life of a sociopath like me
If my life were a television show it would start like this: It's a pleasantly warm summer day in a beautiful southern clime. Sunlight glints off ripples in the pool. The sliding door opens with a gentle rumble. A young woman steps out in her flip-flops and a black Speedo swimming suit. Her skin is darkly tan from lifeguarding at the local municipal pool. Today she is giving a private ...
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Australia advises on avoiding resource curse
If resource-rich developing countries can avoid the "resource curse," they could reduce their dependency on aid, said an Australian government ...
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Made in Australia loved by the world
The possibilities if we can make this happen are widespread. Not only would it grow the talent base of the game, but whenever people from different cultures interact it brings society closer together and creates greater understanding. That can only be a positive. The AFL and local football clubs and its volunteers do a great job at Auskick clinics and junior programs but the question remains ...
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Hawaiian flight to Australia returns to Honolulu because of system problem
A Hawaiian Airlines flight bound for Sydney, Australia, returned to Honolulu International Airport Monday afternoon because of a system problem. KHON reports the flight returned to Honolulu after a light in the cockpit came on about an hour into the flight indicating a problem with the system. KHON reports the 246 passengers on the flight were taken to dinner in Waikiki before leaving late ...
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Wests Tigers name Benji Marshall at six against Cowboys Sharks recall captain Paul Gallen
Sydney 2000 All is forgiven at Wests Tigers, with coach Mick Potter making an SOS call to star playmaker Benji Marshall to save the club's sinking season.Potter made the bold decision to bench his star five-eighth last week, but the move backfired with the Tigers falling behind 16-0 after 17 minutes before Marshall was injected into the game.That move has been shelved after just one ...
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Gay bigotry Wong accuses Christian group
A war of words over gay marriage has broken out between Labor government figures and a powerful Christian lobby group whose support has long been regarded as necessary to winning elections. Finance Minister Penny Wong has accused the ultra-conservative Australian Christian Lobby of ''pedalling prejudice'' and of engaging in ''bigotry that has no place in a modern ...
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Privatise ABC SBS Victorian Libs
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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Who knew what in builder collapse
Tradies caught out by the collapse of National Buildplan Group have called for a financial ''rescue'' package and an investigation into the failure of the company. The call comes as administrators struggle to sort through the construction company's finances, with unsecured creditors including tradies, subcontractors and suppliers owed at least $18 million when National ...
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No refund at school in sex abuse case
Angry parents who have pulled their children out of a leading Sydney dance school after a director was charged with child-abuse offences have been told they won't receive refunds because the alleged ''threat has been removed''. Police executed a search warrant at the inner-western Sydney studios of RGDance on Monday night as part of their investigations into the ...
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Up the only way for taxes to go
Someone said the reason the political debate in Australia has become so bitter and personally abusive is that, at bottom, there's not a lot of difference between the two sides on policy issues. There are a few issues on which they offer clear alternatives, but not many. You may think, for example, there's a big difference between them on taxation. But, as it has become clearer in the ...
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Conroy tells TV industry bets are on
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy brokered a deal with the television industry to allow betting companies to continue spruiking live odds during sports broadcasts, despite the growing public backlash against the spread of gambling culture. Despite Mr Conroy repeatedly saying that sports fans are having live odds ''pushed down their throats'', Fairfax Media has learnt ...
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Warner is still captain material
David Warner will not be scratched as a future captaincy candidate despite his extraordinary social media outburst at journalists, Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland says. The 26-year-old Test opener is scheduled to appear by teleconference on Wednesday afternoon at a CA disciplinary hearing after being reported for an alleged breach of the body’s code of behaviour. He is expected ...
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Tornado like no other
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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My house is on me tornado terror
RAW VIDEO: US man, Ricky Stover, recounts the harrowing experience as the Oklahoma tornado swung the cellar doors open where he sought ...
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Tinkler mansion put up for sale
Embattled coal tycoon Nathan Tinkler has put his $5.2 million Queensland mansion up for sale. The seven-bedroom, five-bathroom country estate, on four hectares on Brisbane's outskirts, features a home cinema, a gym, a climate-controlled wine cellar that can house 3500 bottles and a nine-car garage. The property, in Pullenvale, west of Brisbane, is listed online as being for sale for ...
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Bad back is no cop out
A NSW police officer who received a payout worth hundreds of thousands because of injuries and stress has applied to get his job back because he is feeling better ...
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Accused Muslim rioter not sexist
THE accused Muslim rioter who a female magistrate slammed as "very disrespectful" for refusing to stand for her has defended his actions - saying he wouldn't get on his feet for a male magistrate ...
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The right mongrel for the job
The signs are Premier Barry O'Farrell will try Mr Boland-Rudder out and give him the job permanently if he performs well after Pete McConnell, 35, left the crucial chief of staff role for a $700,000-a-year job at Woolworths on Monday. The man they know simply as "JBR", is a former chief of staff to Roads Minister Duncan Gay and a gun cricketer who played the likes of Australian ...
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Man shot in leg near sports oval
The 28-year-old was shot in the leg and hand at Mascot Oval about 7.55pm last night.He was treated by paramedics as he lay next to a row of parked cars before being rushed to hospital.Five men were taken from the scene by police for questioning.A local sports team were training at Mascot Oval when the incident happened and gathered outside the crime scene as officers investigated.Police were ...
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Getting hung-up on public calls
Over-sharing passengers babbling away on their phones have been named as the most annoying people on public transport, an online poll conducted by ...
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Man denies hiding in Australia to avoid PNG fraud charges
Papua New Guinea A controversial Papua New Guinean businessman denies he had been hiding in Australia to avoid charges of misappropriating millions of dollars.Eremas Wartoto had been living in Australia since 2011 after being charged with misappropriating $3 million earmarked for a high school.He returned to PNG this month after it was revealed he had been living in Cairns on a 457 visa, which ...
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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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