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Golfers hopes down the toilet
Defending champion Nicolas Colsaerts crashed out of the World Match Play Championship on Saturday after being forced to play out of a toilet. The Belgian was beaten by Ryder Cup colleague Graeme McDowell 2 & 1 in the quarter-finals on the Thracian Cliffs course. His challenge unravelled on the par-four 10th hole when his tee shot flew into a public toilet close to the green. He was then ...
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NSW to ban ’anti-vax’ kids
A move to ban unvaccinated kids from NSW preschools and childcare centres isn’t about discriminating against the children of vaccine refusers, the state opposition says. Labor leader John Robertson will introduce amendments to the public health act which would give early childhood centres the right to refuse kids who haven’t had their shots. The move comes amid concern about high ...
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Abbott under the pump on GST
A federal coalition government will face mounting pressure from Liberal states to increase the GST rate, Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury says. NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell on Sunday said the GST should be "on the table" as part of a tax review proposed by his Canberra colleagues. "Every Liberal state premier has been calling on the government to reopen the question of ...
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NRLs Storm fired up for Manly battle
Melbourne are preparing for a Manly side still licking its wounds after its crushing exit from the NRL finals series last year at the hands of the Storm. Melbourne swept aside the Sea Eagles in their preliminary final last season with a 40-12 victory on their way to claim the NRL title. It was the latest meeting in a long history between the fierce rivals, which includes the infamous ...
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What on earth is Abbott thinking
I'll say it again: in the wake of the news this week that since the carbon tax was introduced last year, ''electricity generated by highly polluting coal-fired power plants had fallen 14 per cent … while renewable power had soared'', why on earth would the Coalition dismantle it to replace it with a proposal that gives ''financial incentives to companies ...
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The face of police corruption
Detective Sergeant Graham ''Chook'' Fowler shot to prominence - literally - on Monday, June 5, 1995, when a secret camera placed under the dashboard of a car showed him in his Stubbies pocketing a $1000 bribe. Fowler had been the boss of Kings Cross detectives but, unknown to him, his equally corrupt second-in-charge Trevor Haken had rolled over to the Wood Royal ...
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Australian Tamils celebrate in Sydney
Sydney 2000 More than a thousand people from Australia's Sri Lankan Tamil community have attended a ceremony in western Sydney to mark the fourth anniversary of the end of the Sri Lankan civil war. One of the organisers, Seran Sribalan, said it was an emotional occasion."Four people who were there at the time have now come to Australia as refugees actually told their stories and it ...
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Preschoolers could be segregated under immunisation plan
NSW Legislation to allow childcare centres to ban children who are not vaccinated is being introduced to increase immunisation rates in New South Wales. The State Opposition says it will consult the child care sector and public on the draft bill, which will allow preschools to choose whether to accept children who are not immunised.The change is being proposed to encourage parents to vaccinate ...
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Mermaid makes a splash
The water polo team has left for the night and the lights at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre have been turned off. But in the darkness of the diving pool is a shimmering figure, blonde hair flowing, arms floating and body twisting. Hannah Fraser comes up for air - she can hold her breath for up to two minutes - and rests by the side of the pool. Her six-kilogram mermaid tail made of ...
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Abbott will be pressed to lift GST ALP
A federal coalition government will face mounting pressure from Liberal states to increase the GST rate, Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury says. NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell on Sunday said the GST should be "on the table" as part of a tax review proposed by his Canberra colleagues. "Every Liberal state premier has been calling on the government to reopen the question of ...
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OFarrell backs GST review
NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell says increasing the GST should be on the table as part of a tax review promised by federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott. Mr Abbott has ruled out hiking the GST rate if elected in September, but promised in his budget reply speech to deliver a tax "white paper" within two years of winning government. Any proposed changes would then be put to voters at ...
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Farm incomes face drought
With rainfall at record low levels, farmers across Australia are facing some of the toughest drought conditions in years. So why has the government chosen now to change crucial allowances for those in ...
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Shooting accident reignites call for hunting ban
NSW A shooting accident in South Australia has reignited calls for amateur hunting in New South Wales national parks to be abandoned. The NSW Opposition says the program in South Australia has been suspended because a man was shot in the ankle during a supervised cull.Amateur hunting in New South Wales is on hold until a review of the Game Council is finished.The Opposition's environment ...
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Dugan eyes Origin return
Josh Dugan shapes as a State of Origin wildcard for NSW coach Laurie Daley and the new St George Illawarra fullback says he wants to lend a hand in helping to break Queensland's seven-year stranglehold on the interstate series. Dugan was superb on his Dragons debut in Wollongong on Saturday night in just his second game this year after being axed by Canberra in March for repeated ...
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Eurovision Song Contest winner announced
Denmark has won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in the Swedish city of Malmo. The country was crowned the winner early on Sunday for their ...
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Teacher on multiple child abuse charges
A Sydney dance teacher has faced court accused of photographing young girls posing naked, grooming girls for sex and having thousands of child porn images on his laptop. Abbotsford resident Grant Davies, who ran the dance studio RGDANCE on Bibby Street in Chiswick, allegedly photographed various young girls naked over a period of nine years between 2004 and 2013. Mr Davies also allegedly sent ...
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SKorea NKorea Fires 3 Short-Range Missiles
South Koreans watch TV news showing a footage of North Korean missiles on a military parade, at a Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 18, 2013. North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official ...
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Backpacker dies on Indonesian island
A British backpacker has died while trekking through the Indonesian jungle after she drank suspected tainted alcohol, police say. Cheznye Emmons, 23, was travelling with fellow Briton Joseph Cook, 21, through lush rainforest on Sumatra island, where many tourists go to see endangered orangutans, according to a police report into the incident. The pair, accompanied by a third tourist, drank ...
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US-Australia Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty Comes Into Force
United States of America and Australia have signed defense trade treaty Australian on Thursday. Reports say Defence Minister Stephen Smith and US ambassador Jeffrey Bleich exchanged diplomatic notes in Canberra to formally bring the Australia-US Defence Trade Treaty into force. The Treaty reflects the two countries' commitment to strengthening the alliance in the field of Defence ...
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Job feud lifts lid on chaos in Greens
Greens leader Christine Milne is being accused of running a dysfunctional office and allowing a culture of intimidation, after the sudden resignation of a highly regarded senior employee. Alexandra Lamb, a media adviser to Senator Milne, quit her job last Sunday after professional clashes with the party's new communications director, Georgie Klug. Ms Lamb was given half an hour to leave ...
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What will you do with all those videos you have
Sooner or later, every Australian household must face an agonising decision: what to do with all the videocassettes they have accumulated in the past 30 years. The videos we used to watch repeatedly have great sentimental value because they represent the history of a family's changing tastes. But we can never share that pleasure again because the VCR broke down two years ago and has long ...
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With cancer you dont mess around
Burlesque queen reveals cancer scare Imogen Kelly speaks out about how her family's battles with breast cancer affected her decision to undergo a double ...
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No one really knows what goes on
Anti-doping authorities might never interrogate headmasters or first XV rugby coaches. There will be no raids on classrooms or government ministers staging shocking news conferences about drugs and organised crime in the schoolyard. But to ignore whispers about the use, and potential for use, of performance-enhancing drugs and supplements in schools may be as naive as believing Australian ...
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Betrayed dance coach arrested
For almost a decade thousands of parents trusted prominent Sydney dance teacher Grant Davies as he told them he could make their children famous. But for almost the entire time Mr Davies operated his RG Dance studio in the city's inner west, police claim he was taking naked photographs of female students. In recent years Mr Davies, whose students have gone on to perform in major ...
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Gillards $500m election war chest
The Gillard government has stashed away a ''war chest'' of nearly half a billion dollars in secret projects to be announced before the election. In Tuesday's budget, Treasurer Wayne Swan listed a line item of $463.9 million as "decisions taken but not yet announced". Deloitte Access Economics director Chris Richardson said Australians should expect to see the ...
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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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