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US Defense Department Streamlines UK Australia Export Control Regulations
has adopted as final, with changes, the interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, which will implement requirements of the U.S.-U.K. Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty and the U.S.-Australia DTC Treaty, as well as the Security Cooperation Act of 2010, regarding bilateral export control regulations.The final rule streamlines the export control regulations between ...
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Australia fans celebrate with World Cup-qualifying Socceroos – video
Australia's football team, the Socceroos, are given a rapturous greeting when they meet with fans in Sydney after qualifying for the 2014 World Cup with a 1-0 victory over Iraq. Olger Hosieck's team will now be looking to get past the round of 16 stage - their best placing in the World Cup to ...
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Senate to launch inquiry into ASIC
The corporate watchdog will face a Senate inquiry following revelations in Fairfax Media that the regulator took 16 months to act on information from whistleblowers about serious misconduct inside the Commonwealth Bank's financial planning unit. A notice of motion was put in the Senate on Wednesday by Nationals MP John Williams and supported by the ALP's Doug Cameron and Greens leader ...
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Australias refugee reality check
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 High Commission for Refugees. In what amounts to a reality check for the debate in Australia, the report reveals that refugee crises reached levels last year unseen ...
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Global upheavals dwarf Australias refugee numbers
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 High Commission for Refugees. In what amounts to a reality check for the debate in Australia, the report reveals that refugee crises reached levels last year unseen ...
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Sport and alcohol dont mix
Recent alcohol-fuelled controversies involving sportsmen need to end, along with alcohol sponsorship of sport, write Fiona Stanley and Mike ...
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PM to fly north for boat talks
Julia Gillard is planning a trip to Indonesia in two weeks to discuss with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ways to stem the rising flow of asylum seekers coming by boat before the September election. Reflecting her confidence that she will see off any push to install Kevin Rudd as prime minister, Ms Gillard intends to fly to Jakarta within seven days of Parliament rising next week to meet ...
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Bayley unrepentantly evil says Tom Meagher
Jill Meagher's husband, Tom, has described her killer as "unrepentantly evil" and criticised the legal system for failing to keep him out of the ...
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Watchdog in the firing line
Fairfax Special: Exposed - Planners go rogue The corporate watchdog will face a Senate inquiry into its performance that is likely to embroil the Commonwealth Bank and raise questions about the effectiveness of new financial ...
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Jig is up for Titswobble Road
Road name reshuffle The new naming guidelines proposed by the NSW government ensure that the Tim Cahill Expressway will never permanently enter our street ...
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Power up a project wish list
The sale of the $30 billion electricity poles and wires - a move supported by Treasurer Mike Baird - could pay for new projects including the F6 extension and a second harbour rail crossing, as well as projects already under way. Industry groups yesterday said after paying for the WestConnex, North West Rail and light rail to the eastern suburbs, there would still be funds for a number of new ...
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No border to Dr Rays healing
Dr Ray Hodgson is an obstetrician and gynaecologist who takes his skills and experience to disadvantaged women in Nepal at least twice a year. "We are very privileged in this country with the women's health we have," Dr Hodgson said. "(But) the state of women's health in developing countries is appalling. "Every day, 1000 women in the world die as a result of being ...
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NRMAs fears for green slip reforms
EMBATTLED Finance Minister Greg Pearce ignored the pleas of NRMA Insurance not to rush ahead with green slip reform, despite it being the biggest green slip company in the state, it can be ...
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$1.5b plan to revive Haymarket
FIVE new towers, a major town square as wide as Martin Place and a maze of laneways have been proposed to revamp Sydney's Haymarket as part of a $1.5 billion revival of Darling ...
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Jury hears cops fatal shot
A shot was fired moments later before Jacobs was allegedly caught on the muffled recording crying out: "Die I'm sorry, sorry sir." Sen-Constable Rixon suffered a fatal chest wound after a .38 calibre bullet pierced his wrist then entered his heart and lung. Several of the officer's family members listened with their hands clasped over their mouths as the recording was ...
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Mayor of Ryde to face ICAC
The Independent Commission Against Corruption announced yesterday it will hold a hearing next month over Councillor Petch's conduct. He is facing allegations he passed on confidential information, some done in a suggested attempt to undermine colleagues including the council's former general manager John Neish. The inquiry will also examine allegations Mr Petch failed to disclose ...
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Racist abuse puts Manly off limits for Pritchards
The wife of Bulldogs forward Frank Pritchard says her family has been hurt by racial abuse directed at them during last Friday's match at Brookvale Oval, and she is unlikely to return to Manly as a result of the "degrading" incident. Raima Pritchard was called a "monkey" and told to "go back where you came from" as she celebrated her husband scoring a try ...
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Lions tour 2013 Australia back Michael Cooper to tame Sam Warburton
The Wallabies flanker will be charged with beating the Lions captain at the breakdown on Saturday and giving the Wallabies the initiative in a key area of the ...
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NRL boss Dave Smith to keep hardline stance on player misbehaviour
Sydney 2000 Blake Ferguson's future is still in limbo after the Canberra winger was stood down for at least four weeks as NRL chief executive Dave Smith said the code's hardline stance against misbehaving players was here to stay.Ferguson was on Wednesday made unavailable for selection by the Raiders for the four-week ...
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Gillards fall is far bigger than Labors
The main change in politics since 2010 is that Australians have turned off Julia Gillard. While the polls show Labor is now facing a landslide defeat, its fall has been minor compared with the collapse of the Prime Minister's support. A comparison ...
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Nine wants say in cricket selection
Less than three weeks have passed since Channel Nine and Cricket Australia sealed a new $450 million alliance and already they are at each other's throats. The long-time cricket broadcaster made headlines last summer when it protested the rotation of players in the Australian team for one-day internationals. Now, there is fresh tension after a leading Nine executive told a business lunch ...
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Final dress rehearsal before Cup for Australia NZ
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (Reuters) -- World champion Australia and World Cup favorite New Zealand stages its final dress rehearsal ahead of rugby union's showcase event in the last match of the Tri-nations series Saturday. While the All Blacks have already won the Tri-nations, after three successive victories, much is at stake in Auckland with the Bledisloe Cup still up for grabs while a ...
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Rugby Three Australia forwards in doubt
MELBOURNE (Reuters) -- Australia forwards Toutai Kefu, Patricio Noriega and Glenn Panoho are doubtful for Saturday's Tri-nations test against New Zealand after failing to join in full training Tuesday because of leg injuries. Wallabies vice-captain Kefu, who suffered spinal concussion in Australia's 29-9 Tri-nations win over South Africa in Brisbane on August 2, is struggling to ...
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Storms hit Western Australias southwest
Wind gusts have torn roofing from houses, uprooted trees, and brought down power-lines as storms hit the southwest region of Western Australia (WA) overnight, local media reported on Thursday.The southwest town of Waroona in WA has been the worst hit with at least two houses losing large parts of their roofs and downed power-lines causing power cuts, the Australian Associated Press (AAP) ...
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Four Japanese tourists seriously injured in Australia crash
Four tourists were seriously injured early on Thursday in a crash involving a minibus and a truck in Bundaberg, 220 miles north of Brisbane in Australia's Queensland, the Department of Community said.About 10 tourists, believed to be from Japan, were on the minibus when the crash happened, the Department of Community said."Four were taken to Bundaberg Hospital with serious head and ...
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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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