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NSW lifesaver charged over sexual assaults
A VOLUNTEER lifesaver has been charged over the 2007 sexual and indecent assaults of two teenage girls on a northern Sydney ...
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Cosco ANL to Operate Joint Sino Australia Service
will jointly operate Sino Australia Service with six vessel deployments, including five vessels from Cosco and one from ANL.The new loop will enhance Cosco's existing service network in the Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia trade.The SAS port rotation is Ningbo, China; Shanghai; Xiamen, China; Shekou, China; Hong Kong; Sydney; Melbourne, Australia; Brisbane, ...
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Search for missing boy suspended overnight
Johns River 2443 A ground and air search for a toddler who went missing on the New South Wales mid-north coast will resume later this morning.Police say the two-year-old boy named Tyler was with his mother at a business in Johns River, about 35 kilometres north-east of Taree, when he wandered away.He was thought to have ventured into nearby bushland, however a search by police, the Dog Squad ...
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Exploring Australia’s Gold Coast
GOLD COAST, Australia -; To get to Oz's famed glow worms, we tromped through the pitch-black rain forest at night, fighting off wilderness willies since nocturnal creatures were surely eyeballing us and bloodsucking leeches, we were warned, might try to glob onto our flesh. In this spellbinding primal paradise, dead silence was pierced only by chirping crickets, fluttering bats, and our ...
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Australia issues RFT for radar development
Australia's CEA Technologies has received a Request for Tender for development of a High Power Phased Array Radar concept demonstrator. The RFT was issued by the Australian Department of Defense, which is looking at an initial investment of nearly $4 million in the development project. "This tender is for the development of radar systems based on the CEAFAR radar, which could support ...
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AFPs Indonesian people smuggling force cut
The federal government is cutting by 40 per cent the Australian Federal Police contingent in Jakarta which focuses on people smuggling as a record number of refugees continue to leave Indonesia to come to Australia. The cut from July 1 comes just months after Foreign Minister Bob Carr announced at the recent Bali Process meeting that he wanted other countries in the region to ''more ...
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One giant step for humankind
Many scientists, including Australians, have tried to grow cloned embryonic stem cells, considered the holy grail of stem cells because they can be genetically matched to patients and don't require risky gene modifications. While the technique has succeeded in animals such as mice and monkeys, many believed it was impossible in humans, until this week. ''This has been long ...
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Changing fortunes put Gates back on top
Bill Gates is once again the world's richest person. The 57-year-old co-founder of Microsoft recaptured the title from Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim this week, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. It is the first time Gates has held the mantle since 2007, with his fortune valued at $US72.7 billion, up 16 per cent on the latest year as Microsoft shares have surged to a ...
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Calm killer caught taxi with her body in suitcase
The teenager casually wheels a large black suitcase out to a waiting taxi. As he and the driver heft the case into the boot, the young man lies to explain the bag's surprising weight and bulging contents, telling the driver it's ''full of laptops and electrical gear''. CCTV footage, later tendered as evidence, shows the 19-year-old Daniel Stani-Reginald ...
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School fundraising shows divide
Teacher Tim Creighton had a simple goal: raise a few hundred dollars to buy some camera equipment for his students. But fund-raising has been a tough ask at Kingswood High, near Penrith, which has a large number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds and among the lowest rate of parent contributions and other private sources of income of any public school in Sydney. Mr Creighton found a ...
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Call for lessons on steroid abuse
Senior school head Michael Parker refused to comment on the student, who has since graduated, but said: ''Good men can make bad mistakes.'' This month in Brisbane, two students, aged 16 and 17, were expelled from St Joseph's Nudgee College and charged by police for possession and supply of steroids. Australian Medical Association president Steve Hambleton said the use ...
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Dollar dilemma below parity and going south
Winners and losers: Living with a lower dollar value. After spending most of the past two years more valuable than the greenback, the Australian dollar has finally been driven well below parity with its American counterpart. The exchange rate fell to about US97¢ on Friday night, its lowest point since June last year, after taking a pounding on currency markets. The main reason for the ...
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Chinese websites a new challenge to retailers
As Australia's major retailers ramp up their online sales channels, pouring millions into their websites, new competition from China's booming e-commerce industry looms. China's online retail market is now the world's second largest after the United States, with an estimated $210 billion in revenue last year, according to consultancy firm McKinsey & Company. The push ...
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Police official About $1 million worth of jewels stolen from hotel near Cannes Film Festival
PARIS - Suspected thieves ripped out a small safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with about $1 million worth of jewelry inside, a French police official said Friday. Cmdr. Bernard Mascarelli, a judicial police spokesman in the nearby city of Nice, said the robbery at the Novotel hotel overnight took place in the room of a representative of Swiss-based ...
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Abbott GST is back on the table
An Abbott government? Photo: Christopher Pearce Tony Abbott has revealed the goods and services tax could be included in a full review of the tax system if the Coalition is elected, raising the prospect the 10 per cent rate could be lifted or the tax broadened to include food, education and health services. The decision to review the controversial tax, which Labor ducked with its Henry tax ...
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Gates back on top of fortune list
Bill Gates is once again the world's richest person. The 57-year-old co-founder of Microsoft recaptured the title from Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim this week, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. It is the first time Gates has held the mantle since 2007, with his fortune valued at $US72.7 billion, up 16 per cent on the latest year as Microsoft shares have surged to a ...
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Beware the intrusion of the market
Is there anything wrong with a free market in human kidneys? Why shouldn't a woman rent her womb to the highest bidder for a surrogate pregnancy? What's the problem with schools paying reluctant kids to read books; or with wealthy inmates paying for an upgrade to a better prison cell? What about the $US30 billion trade in life insurance policies, in which investors bet on strangers ...
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Boys need education on steroid harm
Crisis point: WADA has called for every Australian school student to be taught about the dangers of drugs in sport. The World Anti-Doping Agency has called for every Australian school student to be taught about the dangers of performance-enhancing drugs, saying children are putting their health at risk by taking steroids and sports supplements. WADA president John Fahey said revelations of ...
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Daft Punk a no-show in Wee Waa as album launched
Tiny New South Wales town Wee Waa has gone mad for French electronic outfit Daft Punk as a mass marketing campaign takes hold. Music editor Peter Vincent ...
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Bigorexia school sports big drug fight
Schoolboys wanting a hit of the latest bulk-building product or pill need not travel far. At The Scots College, in Sydney's east, protein powders are supplied by teachers to adolescent athletes in the school gym. A sponsor of the school's rugby sevens tournament is Ultimate Sports Nutrition, whose products include ''hardcore'' anabolics, meal replacements and ...
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Bruised dollar hit by another major sell-off
The Australian dollar has been hit by another sudden sell-off, falling more than half a cent this afternoon as investors flee the currency. The dollar fell as low as 97.32 US cents, a level not seen since early June 2012, and down from 99.12 US cents about midday on Thursday. It's been a particularly volatile 24 hours for the currency, which was fetching 99.12 US cents as late as ...
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Sid saved from life of silence and pain
On his first run, Sid swung wide and hit a submerged log. He was flown to Sydney Children's Hospital where an MRI revealed he had partially dislocated the base of his skull from his neck bones. A few millimetres either way and his injury could have been fatal. Fitted with a life-saving halo to hold his spine and head in place, Sid spent six weeks in intensive care recovering - and months ...
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Diet or exercise why not do both
Meal preparation time makes way for fitness sessions or vice-versa, the study found. Nutritionist Susie Burrell believes it highlights how being "time poor" is a key factor in health. "People are so rushed with family commitments, long working hours and commuting that it is not a case of not wanting to eat well and exercise but fitting it all in," Ms Burrell said. Nearly two ...
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Charities miss online opportunity
While 50 per cent of not-for-profit (NFP) organisations surveyed as part of the Westpac Community Confidence Index made use of social media for promotional purposes, the report finds the "online channel still remains under-utilised when it comes to generating income"."This is an opportunity for not-for-profits to use the skills they're getting through their reach of social ...
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Body-bag murderer jailed 45 years
And while the driver was curious why the bag he helped hoist into the boot was so heavy, the chatty 19-year-old explained it was simply full of electronics equipment. The Supreme Court heard yesterday the dark suitcase really contained the body of a young woman, the victim of a remorseless killer who spent his spare time schooling himself on society's most violent and depraved criminals. ...
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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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