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Australias Wilful Blindness On Sri Lanka
A Sri Lankan woman and her son were released from detention after their ASIO assessment was reviewed. Lawyer Elizabeth O'Shea acted for the family - and says it is not a victory for the ...
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Teen rape victim lucky
Tennis champion Serena Williams is facing an angry backlash after suggesting that a teenage rape victim ‘‘shouldn’t have put herself in that position’’ and was ‘‘lucky’’ not to have been further injured in a crime that transfixed the US. The world's top-ranked women’s player questioned why the 16-year-old victim, who ...
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Savage and degrading Bayley sentenced to life
Adrian Ernest Bayley, the man guilty of the rape and murder of Jill Meagher, will be kept locked behind bars until he's at least 76 years ...
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Tinkler gets $300m in sell-off
Nathan Tinkler will be out of Whitehaven by the end of today, after selling his stake to other investors. Mr Tinkler sold about half his stake in Whitehaven Coal to US investment firm Farallon Funds for about $300 million, Whitehaven said in a statement to the ASX this morning. A spokesman for the Tinkler Group said other investors, including hedge fund Noonday, had picked up or were picking ...
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Our son was murdered
Mother's heartbreak at son's death Thomas Kelly's mother, Kathy, levels thinly-veiled criticism at prosecutors after a murder charge against the man who fatally punched her son was ...
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ADF hit with another internet sex scandal
Special forces may stay in Afghanistan The Australian Defence Force is investigating whether serving military personnel are linked to offensive Facebook pages that included grossly sexist and anti-Muslim posts - another blow to the military on the heels of the sex email affair. Facebook pages emerged in recent days that appear connected to serving and former soldiers based in Townsville and ...
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Australia stocks rise ahead of Fed policy decision
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Australian stocks rose in early trade Wednesday, following up on Wall Street's rally before the U.S. Federal Reserve addresses its outlook on its stimulus measures. The benchmark S&P/ASX ...
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Holden could leave Australia in 2016 if workers don’t agree to pay reduction
Holden’s workers were given an ultimatum on Tuesday: take a pay cut or the company would join Ford and stop making cars in Australia in 2016. Mike Devereux, chairman of General Motors Holden, told the company’s staff that its Port Melbourne (300 workers) and Elizabeth (1700) should consider a pay cut of $200 per ...
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Courts cut back presence in regional South Australia to slash costs
SOUTH Australia's courts are reducing their presence in regional areas in order to save money. District Court Judge Paul Muscat today said the length of the District Court circuits would be reduced from four weeks to three from the next circuit as part of cost-cutting measures. "As I understand it, the cutback in the length of the District Court circuit is to remain until the end of the ...
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Bayley jailed for 35 years for Jill murder
The man guilty of the rape and murder of Jill Meagher, Adrian Ernest Bayley, arrives at the Victorian Supreme Court, followed by Ms Meagher's ...
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How to get a World Cup ticket
Australia celebrates World Cup qualification A shower of green and gold tickertape greeted the Australia squad as a packed ANZ Stadium celebrated ...
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Affluent womens secret shame
The shadow of domestic violence readily falls across the wealthy and famous, as Nigella Lawson has discovered, but few choose to report it to the police because of shame. The focus was on lower socioeconomic households, Tracy Howe, chief executive at NSW Women's Refuge Movement, said, but the statistics failed to recognise the unreported problems across the affluent suburbs of Australia. ...
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Our son was murdered theres no question
Mother's heartbreak at son's death Thomas Kelly's mother, Kathy, levels thinly-veiled criticism at prosecutors after a murder charge against the man who fatally punched her son was ...
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Coalition scraps green slip changes
THE government has withdrawn its controversial changes to green slip policy, following a public outcry on the slashing of benefits and lack of support from key crossbench ...
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Angelina Jolies Stunt Double Sues Rupert Murdochs News Corp. for Phone-Hacking
's News Corp, alleging that the company's representatives hacked into her cellphone.Huthart filed the suit claiming a violation of her rights to privacy, unlawful access to stored communications and interference with her voicemails stored on her phone. She also claimed that the incidents in particular took place while she worked alongside Jolie.She claimed she worked alongside the ...
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Refugee figures a reality check for Australia
UNHCR figures show that more people were forced to flee their homes every day last year than the total number seeking asylum in Australia in one year. 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 refugee ...
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Head Day 21 16500km road test around Australia
, Steven Ottley and I stopped off at the coastal town of Yeppoon, near Rockhampton, to find arguably the biggest Commodore fan of them all. Peter Champion has amassed Australia’s most exotic collection of Holdens - specifically, almost every famous race car driven by motor racing legend Peter Brock. The collection, which has been turned into a museum called the Champion's Brock ...
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Australia v Iraq what we learned from the World Cup qualifier
For 48 hours before the game, a major Sydney road was rechristened as the Tim Cahill Expressway. This was a man who had scored his country's first ever World Cup goal and at times had dragged the team through qualification. For years, he has been the source of goals when all others had run dry. Yet with 13 minutes remaining ...
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The moment we won the game
Instead, he can reflect with pride after his brave substitution of national hero Tim Cahill with the game in the balance swung it - and World Cup qualification - for the ...
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Australia shares seen bouncing on strong Wall St weaker A$
SYDNEY, June 19 (Reuters) - Australian shares are expected to rebound on Wednesday, after Wall Street rose for a second straight day as investors bet the Federal Reserve will maintain its stimulus support for the world's biggest economy. A weaker Australian dollar may also benefit stocks with overseas exposure. * Local share price index futures rose 0.7 percent to 4,855.0, a 40.6-point ...
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Socceroos heading for Brazil will you be going too
Socceroos are heading to Brazil for the World Cup next year. The question is - will you be? An estimated 3.3 million tickets are expected to go on sale for the world's biggest single sporting event and, now that the Socceroos have sealed their spot among the participating nations, Australian fans will be allocated a specific number of those seats. FIFA has not yet released detailed ...
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ADFs new internet sex scandal
The Australian Defence Force is investigating whether serving military personnel are linked to offensive Facebook pages that included grossly sexist and anti-Muslim posts - another blow to the military on the heels of the sex email affair. Facebook pages emerged in recent days that appear connected to serving and former soldiers based in Townsville and refer to local women as ...
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Mundine in Fergusons corner
"I told him if you want to be the best you have got to give it (alcohol) up": Anthony Mundine on advice he gave to second cousin Blake Ferguson, ...
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Julien Benneteau upends Kevin Anderson in early Eastbourne match
Kevin Anderson in first-round play. The 32nd-ranked Benneteau, who made the finals at the Rotterdam event this year, prevailed over hard-serving South African Anderson 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 at Devonshire Park. Australian Bernard Tomic rebounded from a recent dry spell with a 6-3, 6-4 decision over British wild card James Ward, while Czech ...
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Lions defeat a wake-up call for Gatland and massive lift for Australia
Jake White said, after his Brumbies side had beaten the Lions, that Australia will be far more optimistic about the Test series. Photograph: Mark Metcalfe/Getty ...
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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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