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UN refugee agency faults Australias tough new policy
GENEVA (AFP) - The UN refugee agency took Australia to task Wednesday over a tough new policy that allows boat people who reach its mainland to be sent to remote Nauru or Papua New Guinea for detention while their asylum claims are processed.The so-called "excision" rules, passed last week, extend previous legislation which only allowed the authorities to send boat people for detention ...
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Australias resources boom over
A new report from the Australian government says that committed investment in the country's major resources and energy projects has peaked. The report, released Wednesday by the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics, says that in the past 12 months, around $146 billion of projects have either been delayed, canceled or have had reassessed development plans. BREE predicts investment to ...
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NSW hospitals worst place for Golden Staph
Patients are more likely to catch potentially deadly infections in some NSW hospitals than anywhere else in the country, figures show. More than half the hospitals that failed to meet national benchmarks for Golden Staph blood infections are in NSW, according to a National Health Performance Authority audit released on Thursday. Overall infection rates in NSW are low but the state is being ...
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Fantastic four need your vote
. Last year, I thought the producers had found the best hidden talents in Australia and there would be a fall-off this year. The reverse has happened. The talent level is even better. First, though, we need to deal with snobbery. At a soiree recently an opera-loving eastern suburbs dowager heard me ...
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Supermans Federal Court victory
Superman: Trademarked tighter than his lycra suit. He's faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, can leap tall buildings in a bound, and now Superman has claimed victory in a Federal Court case. High up in the towering law courts in Sydney, DC Comics went to fight for Superman's good name, appealing a decision allowing a fitness company to register ...
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Waterhouse is ruining industry
Australia's biggest corporate bookmaker, Sportingbet, has backed calls for a complete ban on the spruiking of live odds in sports broadcasts and launched a withering attack on Tom Waterhouse. Sportingbet joined market leader Tabcorp in voicing concern at the damage being done to the gambling industry by the growing public outrage at the intrusion of betting into football coverage. Michael ...
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Telstra cuts jobs amid economic gloom
Telstra is poised to make deep cuts to its 30,000 strong Australian workforce, amid a slump in consumer confidence and falling mining investment. The telecommunications giant unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the divisions that contain half its staff on Wednesday, in a move that could lead to substantial job losses. The announcement came as federal Treasury and the new Parliamentary Budget ...
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A roaring good premiere
In New York they draped feather boas from crystal chandeliers at The Plaza hotel, in Cannes they sipped Moet under an art-deco dome overlooking the Cote d'Azur, but it was in Sydney that Baz Luhrmann really let his hair down. On Wednesday night the red carpet snaked its way through Moore Park's Entertainment Quarter for the Australian premiere of ...
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Paramedics called after 24 hours
A Sydney mother told police her seven-year-old son lost consciousness after falling off a pogo stick but did not call emergency services until she found him dead in a bedroom 24 hours later. Homicide detectives are investigating the suspicious death of Levai Bonnar, who died after apparently falling off a pogo stick and striking his head inside an Oatley unit. Paramedics were called to a Mulga ...
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Twitter rant costs Warner $5750
David Warner's twitter tirade at journalists has cost him a $5750 fine, the maximum financial penalty for a first offence. The opening batsman on Wednesday night pleaded guilty to the charge that resulted from his social media outburst at leading cricket writers Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn. The 26-year-old also apologised for his offensive language but promised to keep speaking his ...
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NRLs Teo denies assaulting woman
Girl accuses NRL star of bashing A woman tells Nine News she was "laying in the hallway" and "could have been dead", accusing NRL star Ben Te'o of punching ...
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Elderly killer did the right thing judge declares
When he saw a man holding a knife to a woman's throat, 72-year-old Keith Harold Allen made a judgment call and shot him. It was almost certainly the right thing to do, a NSW Supreme Court judge says. The actions of Allen, who spent two and a half years in custody and is now terminally ill with lung cancer, were vindicated in court on Wednesday, when Justice Michael Adams handed down his ...
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Jamie Bordas Tells Why He Is Not Moving To Australia
But, it is only as I have gotten older and had the opportunity to help so many people through the practice of law that I have come to truly realize what that book is all about. Life throws things at us all the time. However, there is almost always someone who had a day that was a lot worse. My day didn't go as planned. But, almost every day, I talk to someone who has suffered a terrible ...
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Tom Waterhouse is ruining industry betting rival says
Australia's biggest corporate bookmaker, Sportingbet, has backed calls for a complete ban on the spruiking of live odds in sports broadcasts and launched a withering attack on Tom Waterhouse. Sportingbet joined market leader Tabcorp in voicing concern at the damage being done to the gambling industry by the growing public outrage at the intrusion of betting into football coverage. Michael ...
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James wants to die with dignity
JAMES McKay is 46 and wants to die. The former nurse, who lives in Orange, has motor neurone disease and knows that within years, his body will become ...
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Backpackers move in for free McNap
WELCOME to the McHostel. Late at night this McDonald's restaurant near Sydney Airport looks more like backpackers' accommodation than a fast food ...
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Chambers lobby for Badgerys
The Campbelltown and Narellan chambers of commerce have joined forces to call on politicians of all stripes at all levels of government to to get behind a western Sydney airport at Badgerys Creek to boost jobs in the region. Campbelltown chamber's Anne Parham said an airport at Badgerys Creek would deliver thousands of much-needed jobs to the region. With the south-west growth centre ...
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Boys pogo stick death questioned
Family and Community Services last night confirmed two children had been taken into their care while police investigate the death of their seven-year-old brother. The boy was found dead at an Oatley unit on Tuesday morning. His mother and her male partner told police the child suffered a head injury after falling from a pogo stick on Monday afternoon. The couple told police they put the boy to ...
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Restaurant fire shuts down CBD
A WALL of thick smoke shut down central Sydney yesterday. More than 1000 office workers and lunchtime diners were evacuated after a fire broke out in a restaurant ...
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Fines case no trivial pursuit
Mrs Allan wrote to ANCP seeking a waiver. Her request was rejected. So she contacted NSW Fair Trading. It contacted ANCP. The fine was dropped. But last month Mrs Allan got in touch to say ANCP was after her again - over the same fine. Fair Trading Minister Anthony Roberts said: "I am concerned by reports of consumers being harassed by carpark operators and this will not be tolerated by NSW ...
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Elderly man killed in crash
The 84-year-old man was driving with an 80-year-old woman when their car ran off the road at Marcus Clarke Crescent in Glenmore Park about 4.50pm today.NSW Ambulance said the pair were trapped for some time before being released.Paramedics attempted to revive the man but he died at the scene.The woman was treated at the scene before being rushed to Westmead Hospital. Police were still ...
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Minister speaks against Hunter mines
NSW Planning Minister Brad Hazzard has told mining giant Anglo American it has failed to fully consider how its new open-cut coal mine proposed in the Hunter Valley will affect two world-class horse ...
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States in scramble to attract Prince Harry when he visits Australia for Navy Fleet Review
A FIERCE tug-of-war has erupted between the army and the governments of NSW, ACT and the Northern Territory for a piece of royal action when Prince Harry visits Australia in October. The four-way tussle to lure the playboy prince is centered around the third in line to the British throne visiting Sydney on October 3 as a guest of the Navy to take the Royal Salute during the Royal Australian ...
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Search for Canadian missing in Australia enters 3rd day
By Reuters The search for a Canadian man, 25, missing in Australia's Snowy Mountains for more than a week went into a third day on Wednesday. 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. The car was found on May 13 on the slopes of Mount Kosciuszko, and police believe he ...
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Australias Warner Fined for Twitter Outburst
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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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