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Moon explosion No telescope required
The most powerful meteor strike on the moon ever observed has just been announced by NASA. A March 17 strike on the moon caused an explosion equal to five tons of TNT and could have seen with the naked eye, said Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "It exploded in a flash many times as bright as anything we've seen before," said Dr ...
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Up the creek for fabulous paddle in Kangaroo Valley
THE Kangaroo River starts in the gurgle of a little stream, glinting through tumbled boulders before emerging among lush green ...
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Tigers CEO Humphreys resigns
Balmain 2041 Stephen Humphreys has stepped down from his position as Wests Tigers chief executive.The Tigers are languishing at the bottom of the NRL ladder following a 54-10 thumping at the hands of South Sydney on Friday night.Humphreys, who has been under pressure during a season of bad results and injuries to key personnel, is expected to stay on at the club until a replacement is ...
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Missing toddler found alive in dense bushland
Taree 2430 A toddler who went missing yesterday near Taree on the New South Wales mid-north coast has been found safe and well. Police say the two-year-old boy named Tyler was with his mother at an auto-mechanic business in Johns River, about 35 kilometres north-east of Taree, when he disappeared around 10:30am yesterday. A ground and air search failed to locate the boy and was suspended at ...
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Explosion meteor strikes moon
The most powerful meteor strike on the moon ever observed has just been announced by NASA. A March 17 strike on the moon caused an explosion equal to five tons of TNT and could have seen with the naked eye, said Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "It exploded in a flash many times as bright as anything we've seen before," said Dr ...
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Hockeys free kick turns into a battering
All Hockey had to do was go on the Alan Jones show, make some noises about government debt and the carbon tax, and bask in Jones' furious agreement. The interview was bound to be a free kick, right? Wrong. What followed was extraordinary radio, during which Jones harangued Hockey for subsidising wind and solar power, attacked the entire Medicare system as "unaffordable" and ...
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Workers Struggles Asia Australia and the Pacific
Jasper Auto Services workers in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh demonstrated outside the company's premises on May 14 to oppose the sacking of 50 employees and the transfer of four others. Almost all workers had been at the car sales outlet for 25 years. They claimed to have been victimised for demanding a wage rise. The protest was organised by the Stalinist CPI-affiliated All India Trade ...
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Tigers take another blow as chief quits
Rabbitohs crush Tigers After a dominant first half, South Sydney Rabbitohs triumphed with a massive 44-point margin over Wests Tigers at ANZ Stadium Friday ...
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Real drama comes to Cannes festival
Emma Watson: I almost quit acting after Harry The cinematic excitements of the Cannes Film Festival were overtaken by real crime on Friday, with a jewellery heist and a fake shooting stealing the limelight from on-screen dramas. Actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil, who are both in Cannes to serve on the festival's competition jury, were being interviewed on stage on the beach ...
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School leaves parents in the dark
Parents with children at Haberfield Public School have been left in an "information black hole", saying they were not given enough details or support after a man attacked four girls in the playground on Friday morning. Police said they were continuing to investigate the sexual assault of one girl, the indecent assault of two others and an attack on another girl as the students were in ...
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Man on multiple child abuse charges
A Sydney dance school owner is due to appear in court today charged with grooming children for sex and possessing child pornography. The man, who runs a dance studio in Bibby Street in Chiswick, was arrested after a large amount of child-abuse material and evidence of child grooming were discovered on a computer. Police seized the computer in April this year after receiving a report that child ...
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Why Angelina Jolie is a role model for the celebrity age
We need to find a new word for celebrity, and quick. Because this week has clearly illustrated that the term is no longer sufficient. It's too broad, applying to the sublime and the ridiculous simultaneously. The word has been stretched to breaking point, expanding to ensnare the frivolous and vulgar along with the talented and relevant. It's so bloated and spent that it's about ...
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Church promises better support after bishops resignation
Map: Grafton 2460 The Anglican Diocese of Grafton says it is developing a new approach to better support victims of abuse following the shock resignation of a local bishop.The Right Reverend Keith Slater resigned as bishop yesterday over his handling of about 50 claims of acts of physical, sexual and psychological abuse at the North Coast Children's Home in Lismore, on the New South Wales ...
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Customs seize 9kg of ephedrine
Four packages of ephedrine were detected by Customs officers in Sydney on Wednesday, secreted in parcels sent from Hong Kong and Shanghai.A kilogram of ephedrine had been concealed inside an engine, five kilograms were stashed in packages of hair ties and bracelets, 1.8 kilograms was hidden in a shipment of tea and 1.05 kilograms were found in a parcel of printer accessories, Customs said in a ...
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Fans need to stick by sorry Tigers Potter
Sydney South 2000 Wests Tigers coach Mick Potter has implored the Leichhardt faithful to stick by his side as it looks to arrest its appalling form this season.The Tigers copped a 54-10 hammering at the hands of the South Sydney Rabbitohs as the white-hot Greg Inglis scored four tries past Wests' sorry ...
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Warner launches Twitter tirade
Australian cricketer David Warner is likely to face disciplinary action from Cricket Australia after he launched a blistering and lengthy tirade on Twitter against two of the Australian media's longest-serving cricket writers. Warner, who is playing in India's IPL, began his rant on his official Twitter ...
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Hairdresser on sex charges
A hairdresser has been charged with sexually and indecently assaulting clients at a hair salon in Sydney's west. Police allege the 31-year-old man assaulted four women - aged 41, 39, 31 and 29 - on separate occasions at the salon in Merrylands. The women, who were all clients at the time of the alleged assaults, reported the incidents to police on Friday. Police arrested the man on ...
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Missing toddler found overnight
A TODDLER who went missing in Johns River, near Taree, has been found safe and well. Tyler Kennedy, 2, went missing from an auto-mechanic business on Wharf Road about 10.30am Friday. Police from Manning Great Lakes Local Area Command and volunteers conducted an extensive search for the child throughout the day and night. About 1.15am Saturday the boy was located safe ...
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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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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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