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Adult obesity rates in Australia reach high level report
The adult obesity rates in Australia continue their climb, rising from 24.4 percent of Australians to 28.1 percent over the fours years to 2012, a latest report from the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council showed Friday. This report, COAG Reform Council's fourth report on the National Healthcare Agreement, shows that in 2011-12, 63 percent of Australians were either ...
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Man jailed for drug trafficking in Latrobe Valley
Sale 3850 A man who trafficked drugs in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, has been sentenced to more than nine years in jail. Glen Andrew McKinnell, 34, and five other men were arrested in Melbourne in May last year and charged with trafficking the drug methylamphetamine, which also known as ice. The men were charged after a lengthy police investigation involving telephone intercepts.They had ...
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Man arrested after police raid illegal bikie bar
Granville 2142 Police have raided a bar they say was being run illegally from a Hells Angels clubhouse in Sydney's west.Specialist detectives from Strike Force Raptor raided a Hells Angels clubhouse at Granville they say was being used as an illegal bar.Police seized a number of items and structures that were in breach of the clubhouse's development application regulations.They also ...
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I lost it jailed for killing mother
A Goulburn fruit picker who strangled his elderly mother to death in a fit of rage will spend just four years in jail for the crime, after a judge found the man was so affected by alcohol-induced dementia he was not aware he was killing the woman and had no memory of doing so afterwards. On the night of February 27, 2011 Terrence David Kain rang his sister and said, simply: "mum's ...
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Refugees novel story of survival
``Then he grabbed an AK-47 from one of his guards and shoved it into my hands, but it was much heavier than I expected and I actually fell over.''``He looked at me and said, `You're not even as tall as this AK-47, go back to your village, eat a lot of food and when I come back next year I will take you.''The family managed to flee a month later, marking the start of ...
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UPDATE 1-Australias Crown sells Echo stake focus on Sydney casino plan
Thu May 23, 2013 11:20pm EDT * Crown sells Echo stake for $255 mln * Crown, Echo in fight to capture Asian gamblers in Sydney * Crown planning VIP casino; Echo seeking exclusive licence (Recasts; adds company, analyst quotes) By Jane Wardell and Maggie Lu Yueyang SYDNEY, May 24 (Reuters) - Australian casino company Crown Ltd sold its 10 percent stake in rival Echo Entertainment Group, ...
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New South Wales name new CEO
Andrew Jones, the former Cricket Australia head of strategy, has been named as the new chief executive of Cricket New South Wales. Jones will take up the role vacated by David Gilbert, who spent 11 years in the position ...
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NSW Police terrified 3D plastic guns will be used in Australia
POLICE are terrified a frightening new weapon, a plastic gun made from downloading a file off a 3D home computer, will eventually be used in Australia. Known as “The Liberator” more than 100,000 people worldwide including Australia have downloaded the instructions on how to make the gun. The 3D guns are made of thermo-plastic or synthetic material which makes them undetectable in ...
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Down to the dollar stocks dive
, Mark Bryan, an analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch wrote in a note yesterday. Berry says: "Crown's decision to exit its stake in Echo likely reflects an increased degree of confidence in its ability to secure Barangaroo." Sydney's Barangaroo is where Packer would like to build his casino. Echo shares have slumped 10.5 per cent, Crown shares are down 1.2 per ...
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Jail for killing he cant remember
A Goulburn fruit picker who strangled his elderly mother to death in a fit of rage will spend just four years in jail for the crime, after a judge found the man was so affected by alcohol-induced dementia he was not aware he was killing the woman and had no memory of doing so afterwards. On the night of February 27, 2011 Terrence David Kain rang his sister and said, simply: "mum's ...
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Hawke pays tribute to former wife Hazel
An inspiration to the end Former prime minister Bob Hawke has paid tribute to his late former wife Hazel for being a ''constant support'' through difficult times. Mr Hawke said he remembered Hazel ''with deep affection and ...
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Are you crazy mum
Ten minutes passed. A crowd had gathered around the dead soldier, but still nobody else approached the suspects. "There were 50 to 60 people," says Mrs Loyau-Kennett. "They were watching; filming on their phones. I pushed one back because he was too close. I told them if they want to do something, come and help. It made me sad. They were thinking of themselves, not about this poor ...
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Why was London attacker free to kill
Adebolajo, 28, is the son of devout Christian Nigerian immigrants, Anthony and Ibitoye Adebolajo, who settled in Romford, east London, where Michael and his three siblings were born. Adebolajo went to the local Marshalls Park School and Havering Sixth Form College, where he first became interested in Islam at the age of 16 or 17. One school friend said: "His parents were extremely strict. ...
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The toughest holiday Australias first Biggest Loser Retreat
Golden Door Health Retreat’s parent company, Cypress Lakes Group has teamed up with the producers of the Biggest Loser to launch Australia’s first-ever dedicated weight-loss retreat. Following in the footsteps of The Biggest Loser Resorts in the US, the Gold Coast’s Golden Door Health Retreat will be rebranded from July this year to The Biggest Loser Retreat. Much like ...
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Manly desperate to end home losing streak
It's been nearly a decade since Manly last lost three consecutive matches at Brookvale Oval, and that record has the Sea Eagles ready to fight for their turf this Saturday. Back-to-back losses to South Sydney and Sydney Roosters in the past month have Manly on the verge of losing three on the trot at Brookvale for the first time since July 2005 when the Sea Eagles went down 26-24 in the ...
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French nickers causing a stink
Quelle horreur: the French consulate in Sydney has pleaded for better behaviour from French backpackers. Badly behaved French backpackers in Australia, who have been accused of shoplifting, getting drunk and showing disrespect for authority, have French officials worried about their country’s reputation. The consul-general of France in Sydney, Eric Berti, has written an open letter to ...
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Travel card anomaly dumped
About a quarter of all Sydney's ferry passengers will have to pay significantly more after the O'Farrell government dropped the use of a popular travel card on ferry journeys. From September ferry passengers will no longer be able to use MyMulti1 tickets on trips through Sydney, saving the government and costing commuters about $5.5 million a year. Ferry passengers will instead have ...
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Events blow as deal falls through
Negotiations to construct a temporary convention and exhibition centre at Glebe Island have collapsed, sending the state government scrambling to find a replacement operator for Sydney's business events. The state government plans to construct a temporary convention and exhibition centre on Glebe Island to run for three years when the existing centre at Darling Harbour closes for a $1 ...
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Markets Live stocks dive again
. We’ve seen mining services stocks hit, you’ve seen some money come out of defensive stocks over the last few weeks. [Offshore investors] are looking and going, ‘Is it time now after a run in the market, especially with a falling Australian dollar, to bring some money home.' The drop in banks could be a result ...
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Tigers set to hit a new low
The worst losing streak in Wests Tigers' history is expected to be compounded by the lowest Leichhardt Oval crowd in nine years on Friday night. With the NRL looking towards moving games from dilapidated suburban grounds to the larger stadiums, Friday's game between the Tigers and Cowboys could be the third-last game at the ground. The lowest crowd at Leichhardt Oval as a joint ...
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Australia shares fall market volatility hits investor confidence
Thu May 23, 2013 9:45pm EDT (Adds details, comments, stocks on the move) SYDNEY May 24 (Reuters) - Australian shares reversed early gains to fall 0.9 percent as faltering banks and market volatility hit investor sentiment on Friday, sending the benchmark index tumbling further from one-month lows touched a day earlier. "There's also a lot of volatility from a macro perspective from ...
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Australia stocks extend selloff
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Australian stocks fell in early trade Friday, extending a selloff that pushed the benchmark to a one-month low Thursday after disappointing data from China, Australia's largest export market. The S&P/ASX ...
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Australia may save millions on fighter jet
AUSTRALIA may save millions on state-of-the-art combat aircraft after defence company Lockheed Martin trumpeted the first ever fall in the cost of the controversial F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) ...
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Premiers fix-it men abandon ship
Mr Greiner confirmed last night he might have stayed in the job if the Premier had sold the $30 billion electricity networks, as he had urged, because it would have meant there were more projects which could have been planned."Would I have stayed if there was a lot more money? Who knows," Mr Greiner said. "Of course I've had different views on funding (with the Premier) but ...
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US military fears taking on Assads troops in drawn-out Syrian war says Bob Carr
Foreign Minister Bob Carr has told a group of Syrian refugees in Lebanon that the United States military does not want to risk a drawn-out war with the Syrian army. Senator Carr spoke with the refugees during a visit to their camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, on the border with Syria. The refugees urged Senator Carr to back military intervention to bring the civil war in Syria to an end. ...
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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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