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Big business smarter greener and millions richer
Big business can save millions of dollars in operating costs, avoid wasting millions of litres of water and prevent thousands of tonnes of waste just by adopting some simple green habits and actions. Thanks to a new Sydney Water grant and matching funding from the City of Sydney, the Smart Green Business program will target 200 businesses – including hotels, restaurants, clubs, large ...
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Library books and more delivered to your door
Bookworms stuck at home or in hospital are being encouraged to take advantage of the City of Sydney's Home Library service, which delivers books direct to residents' doors. The Home Library service team already visits 35 homes, seven aged-care hostels and 13 childcare centres across Sydney each week, making sure no one misses out on the joy of reading. Lord Mayor Clover Moore said ...
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The budget airline of hotels set to open in Australia
The Tune hotel low-cost model is based on a similar concept to cheap airlines. The low-cost Tune hotel chain is on schedule to open its first Australian property in November and is likely to start online selling in July in a pre-opening sale with some of the lowest room-rates in years. Tune's Kuala Lumpur-based chief executive Mark Lankester was in Melbourne this week looking over the ...
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Sea of Hands carries Australia to a brighter future
Sydney College of the Arts student Claire Munro has been announced as the winner of the design competition for her design 'Carrying Australia to a Brighter Future'. Her design will form a major focal point ...
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Australia shares inch higher on Wall St banks weak
Tue May 21, 2013 9:43pm EDT (Adds details, comments, stocks on the move) SYDNEY May 22 (Reuters) - Australian shares inched 0.1 percent higher on Wednesday, led by blue-chip miners after comments from two voting U.S. Federal Reserve presidents eased fears the Fed was contemplating an imminent cut in its stimulus programme, helping Wall Street close at all-time highs. Bellwether miners BHP ...
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Australia number one for Brits
A new poll among British travellers found Australia to be their top pick for ‘Best Country in the World’. According to a survey conducted by the UK’s Ultratravel magazine, Australia was voted best country, outranking other popular destinations including; Italy, New Zealand, Thailand and the US. Tourism Australia managing director Andrew McEvoy said although economic ...
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Relatives join search for Canadian missing in Australias Snowy Mountains
OTTAWA -- Family members joined a frantic search Tuesday for a Canadian man with survival training missing for more than a week in Australia's Snowy Mountains 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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Carlton hateful and vengeful
Fairfax columnist Mike Carlton says the ABC's Australian Story program 'sugar-coated' their segment about Ray Hadley and left out criticisms about the radio ...
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New charges for dance teacher
High profile Sydney dance teacher Grant Davies has been charged with six further child abuse offences. Mr Davies was charged on Saturday with four offences relating to producing child abuse material and grooming two underage girls. Burwood Local Court was told on Wednesday that six other charges have been filed against Mr Davies. The charges are believed to be of a serious ...
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Thomson facing 19 new charges
Former Federal Labor MP Craig Thomson - accused of using a Health Services Union credit card to pay for prostitutes - has appeared in court today to face 19 fresh charges. Mr Thomson, 48, who last week announced he would stand as an independent for his NSW seat of Dobell at the September federal election after being suspended by the Labor Party, appeared briefly in the Melbourne Magistrates ...
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Dubais justice system askew
The scales of justice in Dubai are askew. Consider the case of Alicia Gali, an Australian drugged and raped by three fellow hotel employees in 2008. With four broken ribs, she reported the crime - and was promptly charged with having sex out of wedlock. She was sentenced to 12 months' jail and served the next eight months behind bars. Her attackers, charged with the same offence, were ...
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Abbott told to privatise ABC SBS
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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Impossible calculation for parents
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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Commuter phone anger off the hook
HEAR that? It’s the sound of silence, trundling towards a train station near you as CityRail kicks off its long-awaited trial of quiet train ...
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Australia stocks advance paced by miners
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Australian stocks rose Wednesday, with mining issues continuing to recover from recent weakness that stemmed in part from concerns about slowing in China. The S&P/ASX ...
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Australia consumer confidence falls sharply in May
SYDNEY | Tue May 21, 2013 8:32pm EDT SYDNEY May 22 (Reuters) - A measure of Australian consumer confidence fell sharply in May as households reacted negatively to the government's budget announcement, even after a cut in interest rates to a record low. The poll of 1,200 people by the Melbourne Institute and Westpac Bank was conducted in the week the Labor government delayed a ...
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Retrenched BlueScope workers ripped off by Government rescue fund
Port Kembla 2505 Steel workers are bitterly disappointed a Government rescue fund designed to ease the blow of job losses in the industry has failed to create hundreds of positions it promised to deliver.The $30 million Illawarra Region Innovation and Investment Fund was set up in late 2011 by the Gillard Government in the wake of mass redundancies at BlueScope Steel's Port Kembla works, ...
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Man injured in Sydney sports oval shooting
Mascot 2020 Police are appealing for witnesses following a shooting at a sports oval in Sydney's south-east.A 27-year-old was found with gunshot wounds to his hand and thigh at the oval in Mascot at about 7:55pm (AEST) last night.He has been taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital to undergo surgery.Police say his injuries are not life threatening.Anyone with information is urged to call ...
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Police probe pogo stick death
The death of a seven-year-old boy whose parents said hit his head after falling off a pogo stick is now being treated as a potential homicide. Homicide squad detectives have joined local detectives to investigate the boy's death at a home in Oatley, in Sydney's south, on Tuesday. Paramedics were called to the home on Mulga Road at 6am on Tuesday after receiving a triple-0 call that ...
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Where will the buses go
Improved public access has been touted as key to redeveloping Darling Harbour, where poor pedestrian and public transport links are blamed for cutting off the precinct from the city, Pyrmont and Ultimo. But a submission by Transport for NSW says the proposal fails to include space for public buses, providing only for private bus zones. This is despite planned bus network changes after light ...
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Notre Dame suicide over vile law
A far-right writer and activist killed himself in front of the altar of Paris's famed Notre Dame Cathedral on Tuesday in an apparent protest against gay marriage, after calling for "spectacular" action to protect France's identity. Dominique Venner, 78, a former right-wing activist known in France for his political essays, posted a note on his blog, attacking a law passed by ...
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Scales of justice askew
The scales of justice in Dubai are askew. Consider the case of Alicia Gali, an Australian drugged and raped by three fellow hotel employees in 2008. With four broken ribs, she reported the crime - and was promptly charged with having sex out of wedlock. She was sentenced to 12 months' jail and served the next eight months behind bars. Her attackers, charged with the same offence, were ...
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An impossible calculation for parents
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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800k for a dump auction results take off
Whether it's "unliveable" dumps or million-dollar mansions, recent auction results are stunning agents and their vendors but frustrating buyers. Analysts are predicting some sectors of the Sydney market could experience 10 per cent growth this year. Last Saturday's auction clearance rate of 78.7 per cent was the best in three years and included the $800,000 sale of a ...
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Drive-by shooting victim in surgery
Mr Fogarty was getting changed outside his car following rugby league training at Mascot Oval, in Sydney's south, when a white Mercedes pulled up beside him shortly before 8pm.He was shot four times in his right hand and left thigh and there were also at least four bullet holes in the side of his grey Honda.Emergency services were called to the O'Riordan St park following reports of ...
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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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