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Chinas investment does not match status as Australias top trade partner
China's investment in Australia does not match her status as the nation's largest trade partner, said Duan Jielong, China's Consul-General in Sydney on Tuesday. In a speech to Australia China Business Council (ACBC), Duan said as more and more Chinese companies come to Australia to invest, there seems to be some concerns about Chinese investment being too much and growing too ...
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CA rejects 9 cricket selection influence
Cricket Australia has rejected suggestions from the Nine Network that the broadcaster could have input into team selections over the summer.Jeff Browne, managing director of the Nine Network, told a business luncheon in Sydney on Wednesday the network had to have the best players playing all the time in order to attract television ratings.CA consistently rotated its players last summer to keep ...
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Ashes 2013 Odds lengthen on Australia calling up spinner Fawad Ahmed
Pakistan-born leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed has been named in Australia's A squad to tour Africa during the Ashes. Photograph: Mal Fairclough/AFP/Getty ...
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Wimbledon Rafael Nadal named fifth seed Australias Sam Stosur 14th
England Rafael Nadal has been named fifth seed for Wimbledon, leaving his major title rivals to ponder meeting the 2008 and 2010 title-winning Spaniard as early as the quarter-finals.Nadal, the holder of 12 grand slam crowns and fresh from his record-breaking eighth French Open triumph in Paris, was seeded behind compatriot David Ferrer who takes the fourth seeding.Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray ...
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Ultranet facing the scrap heap
The disastrous $180 million Victorian school intranet could be scrapped at the end of the month prompting fears that months of student work and reports would be lost. The four-year contract with NEC to run the troubled network has not been renewed days before it expires on June 30, with a decision yet to be reached on its future. Victorian Education Minister Martin Dixon said the government ...
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NRL boss vows to maintain hardline stance
Blake Ferguson's future is still in limbo after the Canberra winger was stood down for at least four weeks as NRL chief executive Dave Smith said the code's hardline stance against misbehaving players was here to stay. Ferguson was on Wednesday made unavailable for selection by the Raiders for the four-week period while he undertakes an extensive alcohol management program. Ferguson ...
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Poorer children miss out on benefits of after-school activities
Almost half of Australia's most disadvantaged children don't get to play sport outside of school hours or take part in cultural activities such as music and dance lessons. Analysis by the Smith Family and the Australian Bureau of Statistic has revealed an alarming gap between the country's wealthiest and poorest children. Almost 90 per cent of Australia's wealthiest ...
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Online sex squad nabs trainee WA teacher
Western Australia's Online Child Exploitation Squad charged the 21-year old from Yanchep, north of Perth, after he was nabbed following a covert three-month operation.Police will allege between June 12 and 17 the man used online social chat facilities to sexually engage with a police officer posing as a 12 year-old girl.He is said to have groomed the girl by exposing her to indecent ...
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Jeep Cherokee rear-end recall
Iconic 4WD manufacturer Jeep is recalling more than 2.7 million cars globally - including up to 28,000 in Australia - over its performance in rear-end ...
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Parents to blame for kids diabetes
PARENTS of Australian kids suffering from Type 2 diabetes should wear the blame for their poor health, an international expert ...
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Australia Maroochydore Beach Renourishment Kicks Off
The extra sand will widen the beach, help prevent severe erosion and protect public facilities and infrastructure along Alexandra Parade and Aerodrome Road. The popular stretch between Maroochydore and Alexandra Headland is worth around $80 million a year to the Sunshine Coast ...
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Australias Intrepid faces tough fight over Indonesia mine
By Sonali Paul and Fergus Jensen MELBOURNE/JAKARTA, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:07am EDT MELBOURNE/JAKARTA, June 19 (Reuters) - Australia's Intrepid Mines Ltd is learning that business in Indonesia is personal as it wages a difficult fight to win back rights to a $5 billion copper and gold prospect in East Java. Intrepid was booted off the site last year by its Indonesian partner ...
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New News Corp fails to impress on debut
Rupert Murdoch's new News Corp publishing business failed to impress investors in its stock market debut, losing three per cent of its value.The massive media empire is splitting its growing and more profitable cable TV and film assets from its traditional but struggling newspapers.Shares in the publishing division, known as new News Corp, began trading on the Australian market on ...
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PM to visit Indonesia to discuss boats
Prime Minister Julia Gillard will travel to Indonesia next month to discuss ways of combating people smuggling and terrorism.Ms Gillard will meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on July 5 to discuss a number of political, security and commercial issues.The talks, which are part of the annual Indonesia-Australia Leaders' Meeting, will canvas issues around education, trade, climate change ...
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Saints suspend Milne from AFL games
St Kilda have gone against the wishes of their celebrated captain Nick Riewoldt by handing an indefinite suspension to long-time teammate Stephen Milne as he fights rape charges. Regardless of Milne's guilt or innocence, age and form could well determine whether the two-time All-Australian plays again in the AFL. Milne faces four rape charges and is due to face court on July 5. While ...
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Windsor welcomes greater CSG oversight
Many regional communities will be celebrating now that water resources will be protected under federal law from potentially harmful coal seam gas (CSG) projects. Under the laws, which passed parliament on Wednesday, water will act as a trigger in Australia's national environment legislation for the first time. Any new CSG or large coal project that could impact on groundwater will need to ...
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NSW take experience from 2012 Origin loss
A year wiser, NSW know exactly what they can take from last year's gut-wrenching series-deciding loss to Queensland. A game in which the Blues went close, though not close enough. And as they've done in every live rubber played at Suncorp Stadium since 2005, Queensland triumphed. Last year it was a long-range Cooper Cronk field goal which sank the hopes of ...
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Swan welcomes G8 tax exchange commitment
The Australian government may share information with European taxation authorities under global efforts to cut avoidance, Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan says. Mr Swan announced the proposal after the Group of Eight (G8) major industrialised nations on Tuesday agreed to a new global standard for tax information exchange. "The Gillard government is currently looking into joining with a number ...
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ACTU tells MPs to get behind Gillard
The ACTU boss has called on Labor MPs to back Prime Minister Julia Gillard in the run up to the national election, despite successive polls showing huge swings against the government. ACTU president Dave Oliver said Ms Gillard's government had a great record on jobs and workers' rights. "All of the government's MPs should get behind that record, and Julia Gillard, and go to ...
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Meninga booted from Brisbane bar
EXCLUSIVE: MAROONS coach Mal Meninga was asked to leave a Brisbane bar by security in the early hours of Wednesday morning as the Queensland camp celebrated Billy Slater and Cameron Smith's 30th ...
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Indigenous booze bans racist Qld elder
"Is that discrimination or what?" the Aboriginal elder from Yarrabah, near Cairns, told AAP."Who gives them the right to tell us how much we can drink?"Booze is restricted to one carton of light beer or one bottle of wine per adult in the community under an Alcohol Management Plan (AMP) introduced in 2006.The High Court on Wednesday ruled AMPs in 19 indigenous Queensland ...
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McClelland farewell speech spares party
But in a farewell speech to parliament the long-serving politician, 55, stopped short of berating the party leadership which dumped him from the office, and subsequently the frontbench."Obviously if I had've had a little longer in the role of attorney-general - which I must say, I did want a little longer - there were several things I would have liked to have finished," Mr ...
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SA premiers Twitter feed cut
THE tweets of South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill have been blocked from an internal feed to public servants in his own ...
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NSW candidate claims Terminator support
Gladiator star Russell Crowe tweeted this week that Ms Gillard was his choice of political leader through tough times.Now Jamie McIntyre, founder of the 21st Century Australia Party and candidate for the NSW seat of New England, is claiming endorsement from Terminator star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.Mr McIntyre has issued a statement with a video link showing Mr ...
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Australia Maroochydore and Alexandra Headland to Get New Sand
The Sunshine Coast Council announced a plan to test a new sand-pumping dredger which will add sand on the heavily eroded beaches at Maroochydore and Alexandra Headland, according to ...
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Major redevelopment plans for Perth eyesoars
The City of Perth has major projects in the works to redevelop the city’s CBD in-line with the aims of broader projects like Green City and Populate Perth, but some residents remain wary of red tape, while others fear for the future of historical sites such as Langley.
Perth is the commercial, transport and cultural backbone of Western Australia. This city of almost 2 million people is the fourth largest in Australia, but has grown consistently faster than many other cities, outstripping the national average and was ranked by The Economist in 2010 as the eighth ‘most livable city’ in the world, which means we have some of the best living conditions on the planet. Read more
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