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Australias NSW govt plans sale of Newcastle coal port
By John McGarrity LONDON, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:46pm EDT LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, said it plans to sell Newcastle port, the world's biggest coal export terminal, meaning another chunk of the country's vast resources industry could be sold to foreign buyers. The state's budget for 2013-2014 delivered on Tuesday ...
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Australia 1-0 Iraq | World Cup qualifier match report
Australia claimed their ticket to Brazil but fans' nerves were kept jangling in a manner befitting of the Socceroos' often tortured World Cup history.Only seven minutes were left on the clock when Josh Kennedy, a peripheral figure throughout this World Cup campaign, scored the decisive goal shortly after entering the fray. It may not have had quite the same heart-pumping ferocity as ...
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Iran Korea Republic Australia book passage to Brazil
Australia now join Japan, the Asian Cup-holders who booked their ticket a fortnight ago, at next year's FIFA World Cup as the only countries to have qualified alongside hosts Brazil.Although all four Asian qualifiers are familiar names at the FIFA World Cup, the year-long elimination process has been hard-fought and came down to the last week of the final group stage. Ex-Middlesbrough ...
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NSW budget has a Liberal flavour
If you were having doubts about the O'Farrell government's conservative credentials, take a look at its third budget. It lacked fireworks, but there was a Liberal flavour - tax cuts for small business, privatisation, an emphasis on "expense control" and pressure on public servants to work more efficiently. Squeezing savings out of the public sector has become a hallmark of ...
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ADF hit with another 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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Australia books place at 2014 World Cup
Australia's Josh Kennedy, left, is embraced by Tommy Oar after scoring against Iraq to qualify for the 2014 FIFA world Cup, at Australia Stadium in Sydney June 18, 2013. (DANIEL ...
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Freedom on the Rocks Tyranny versus Terrorism
As former Booz Allen Hamilton NSA technical consultant, now fugitive whistleblower, Edward Snowden recently said ""they are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them." The NSA is just now commissioning a massive $2 billion data fusion center in Bluffdale, Utah, where avatars (images used to represent each of us in their virtual ...
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NRL South Sydney name Tom Burgess to make NRL debut
Redfern 2016 Another Burgess brother has come off the assembly line with Tom to replace his suspended identical twin George in the South Sydney team to face Parramatta on Sunday.Tom, the fourth of the Burgess quartet, is set to make his NRL debut after being named on the bench in the Rabbitohs squad for the Olympic stadium match.George was stood down after he was charged for allegedly smashing ...
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RBA happy with falling dollar
The Reserve Bank appears to continue to talk down the Australian dollar to help stoke economic growth, while the latest board minutes released by the central bank suggests it is open to cutting the cash rate again. Although the dollar had ''depreciated noticeably'' against other currencies since its May cash rate cut, it ''remained at a high level considering the ...
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Lacks fireworks but budget has a Liberal flavour
If you were having doubts about the O'Farrell government's conservative credentials, take a look at its third budget. It lacked fireworks, but there was a Liberal flavour - tax cuts for small business, privatisation, an emphasis on "expense control" and pressure on public servants to work more efficiently. Squeezing savings out of the public sector has become a hallmark of ...
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What happens if the leader changes
A late switch by Labor back to Kevin Rudd could provoke a constitutional crisis forcing Governor-General Quentin Bryce to consider options such as a sudden recall of Parliament to test Labor's majority, or even the appointment of the Opposition Leader as Prime Minister. Another option would be the start of an immediate caretaker period for an early election. With pressure building within ...
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We go to Rio Australia into World Cup
Until a late, dramatic intervention from the bench, an 82nd minute winner from substitute Josh Kennedy, that broke Iraqi resistance and ensured that Australia will, after all, be going to the ball, the biggest party in global sport. The World Cup in Brazil, 2014. Given the problems they had in breaking down such an inexperienced and youthful Iraqi side, it is a legitimate question to ask ...
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Taking pride in her guiding role
RACHAEL Leahcar's voice garnered the attention of a nation, but it is her charitable work that has earned the singer a Pride of Australia ...
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Big find in hunt for Mackay
POLICE searching for the body of anti-drugs crusader Donald Mackay have discovered a "landmark" that corroborates the story of an anonymous informant who tipped them off to the possible whereabouts of the ...
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Pearce staffers partner given job
THE partner of embattled Finance Minister Greg Pearce's chief of staff has been employed in a director's position at the Workcover Independent Review Office (WIRO) that Mr Pearce set ...
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Australia low on confidence ahead of Ashes says George Bailey - video
Australia stand-in captain George Bailey says his team are low on confidence with the Ashes fast approaching, after crashing out of the ICC Champions Trophy to Sri Lanka on Monday. However, Bailey says Test cricket is a 'different mindset' and that the Ashes tend to bring out 'something special in both ...
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Sri Lanka beat Australia to reach Champions Trophy semi-finals - video highlights
Sri Lanka cruise past an Australian side missing captain Michael Clarke on Monday and booked their place in the Champions Trophy semi-finals. Sri Lanka set a first innings total of 254 with Mahela Jayawardene top-scoring on 84 not out. In reply, Australia are bowled out for 233 using just 42 of their ...
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Taming the Lions would lift the sport in Australia says Rod Macqueen | Paul Rees
'The timing of the Lions tour is perfect because if we did win the series, it would give the game here a boost,' says the former Wallabies coach Rod Macqueen. Photograph: Nick ...
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Fears of a climate time bomb
Australia's rush to acquire airconditioners and fridges is creating a greenhouse gas time bomb, which the Greens and environmental groups say existing regulations, including the carbon tax, are ill equipped to defuse. The country has at least 45 million cooling devices, up from about 30 million in 2007, with 1 million airconditioners alone sold each year for home use and a similar number ...
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Frontline services will be hit unions
Unions are warning that frontline services across the state are at risk after NSW Treasurer Mike Baird announced further cuts to the public service, despite already axing thousands of jobs and shrinking departmental budgets. Delivering his third budget on Tuesday, Mr Baird detailed a two-year extension of a 1 per cent ''efficiency dividend'' to help fund the state's ...
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Still breathing the devils dust
Two years ago, when she was 45, Jane Krsevan finally discovered the reason for her stabbing back pains and the excess fluid in her lungs. After a frustrating decade of worsening health and conflicting medical opinions, Krsevan's ninth doctor started asking questions about her childhood. When she told him her father was a builder who made insulation boxes for hot water units, he immediately ...
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Not my role to intervene Hawke
The Pulse Live: Stephanie Peatling blogs live from Parliament Former prime minister Bob Hawke has rejected a call for him to intervene in the Labor leadership stalemate between Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd, saying it is a matter for the caucus to decide. Former Queensland premier Peter Beattie had earlier called on Mr Hawke to act as a "circuit breaker" for Labor. But in a statement ...
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Family angry as Thomas Kelly charge dropped
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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Kennedys Late Header Sends Australia to Brazil
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Late winner as Australia seal World Cup spot
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia secured their place at the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil Tuesday with a late strike from Josh Kennedy firing them to a tense 1-0 win over an under-strength Iraq at Stadium Australia.It was an unconvincing victory in front of a sell-out 80,000 crowd, but ensured the Socceroos will appear at their third consecutive World Cup, alongside Japan who are already through from ...
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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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