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The cost of children skyrockets
The cost of raising children has risen 50 per cent in the past five years with a middle-income family now spending $812,000 on two children, new modelling shows. In 2007, the same family spent $537,000 on children from the time they were born until they left home. The jump in cost largely comes from increased childcare and education costs. ''The cost of raising children is ...
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The cost of children skysrockets
The cost of raising children has risen 50 per cent in the past five years with a middle-income family now spending $812,000 on two children, new modelling shows. In 2007, the same family spent $537,000 on children from the time they were born until they left home. The jump in cost largely comes from increased childcare and education costs. ''The cost of raising children is ...
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Integrity unit will be put to ultimate test in Teo case
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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How much does a child cost
The cost of raising children has risen by 50 per cent in the past five years with a middle-income family now spending $812,000 on two children, new modelling shows. In 2007 the same family spent $537,000 on children from the time they were born until they left home, with the jump in costs largely coming from increased childcare and education expenses. ''The cost of raising children ...
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The cost of kids skyrockets
The cost of raising children has risen by 50 per cent in the past five years with a middle-income family now spending $812,000 on two children, new modelling shows. In 2007 the same family spent $537,000 on children from the time they were born until they left home, with the jump in costs largely coming from increased childcare and education expenses. ''The cost of raising children ...
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Telstra to axe jobs in major shake-up
Significant job losses are expected at Telstra after the telco announced sweeping changes to its operational structure as it shifts away from its legacy business. The telco plans to divert its resources towards high-growth areas such as wireless, NBN and network services while cutting back on loss-making ventures, such as the Sensis directory business. About half of Telstra's ...
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Ruining industry fellow bookies turn on Waterhouse
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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Pogo stick death paramedics delay
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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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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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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