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Combet blames coalition for GM cost cuts
Industry Minister Greg Combet blames the coalition for causing uncertainty in the car-making industry that has forced GM Holden to seek deep cuts to its labour costs. Holden workers in Adelaide may be forced to take a pay cut to save their jobs and keep the carmaker alive. Mr Combet believes the coalition's position to take out $500 million of assistance from the motor vehicle industry ...
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DPP called on to explain Kelly downgrade
The NSW Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is under pressure to explain why a charge against Thomas Kelly's killer was downgraded to manslaughter, but Premier Barry O'Farrell has stopped short of ordering a review. Kieran Loveridge, 19, was allowed to plead guilty to the lesser charge on Tuesday after he fatally king hit Mr Kelly in Sydney's King's Cross last year. He ...
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Miles Franklin winner rich and ambitious
This year's Miles Franklin award-winning novel, Michelle de Kretser's Questions of Travel, is hailed as a "rich and ambitious work" that explores many of Australia's big political and cultural issues. De Kretser won the $60,000 prestigious literary award ahead of a shortlist of five titles all written by women. It centres on two characters, with two stories, each ...
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New News Corp in weak ASX debut
New News Corp has had an inglorious debut on the Australian share market, with its stock falling. The share price of the newly hived off publishing business was down nearly four per cent to $14.42 at 1245 AEST, after opening at $15.00 at noon on Wednesday. The non-voting stock was down more than eight per cent to $14.80 after starting at $15.60. The shares have begun trading on the ASX on a ...
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WA government probes $23m in fraud
MORE than $23 million in public sector fraud was investigated by West Australian police in just two years, a new report has revealed, and corruption within government agencies is ...
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Sun and fun along WAs Coral Coast
GROWING numbers of visitors are flocking to Western Australias Coral Coast each year to enjoy the year-round sunshine, get closer to nature and escape the crowds of the ...
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Shady agents trying to kill coal Qld govt
QUEENSLAND'S premier claims an unholy alliance of non-government organsiations, the Greens and the federal Climate Commission are trying to shut down the state's coal ...
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Changes allow dogs in NSW apartments
NSW pet owners will no longer be in the doghouse thanks to changes to the state's strata laws making it easier to keep cats and dogs in ...
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Troy Buswell top of the Dry July charts
But after vowing to give up the grog as part of the annual Dry July fundraising push, the controversial politician seems to have the support of the country, currently sitting number one on the national league table of fundraisers for the Cancer Council.While he struggles to balance WA's books as the state's mining boom comes off the boil, Mr Buswell has had no trouble drumming up ...
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Why Australians deserve a universal minimum income | Godfrey Moase
I once worked in a call centre where a few of the interviewers would be regularly rostered to do phone surveys about female incontinence products. Asking strangers whether they lost a teaspoon, a tablespoon or more in volume per occasion is a tough gig. Then again, the horror of the role was somewhat less visceral than that experienced by a worker I’d once represented who had to manually ...
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Australia Fans Celebrate World Cup Entry With Sydney Party
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Australian government wracked by further leadership infighting
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is facing renewed opposition to her leadership from within her own government, less than three months before the scheduled September election. Underlying the turmoil-wracked minority government is a wider crisis of the Labor Party and the entire parliamentary setup in Australia.Labor parliamentarians yesterday met in Canberra for the final two-week session ...
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General Motors demands wage cuts from Australian workforce
General Motors Holden (GMH) yesterday demanded that its Australian workforce accept further job losses, major wage cuts and productivity speed-ups by the end of August. Managing director Mike Devereux stated that unless workers agreed, GM would join Ford and cease car production in Australia. Last month Ford announced the closure of its assembly plants in Melbourne and Geelong in 2016, ...
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Australia shares climb 1 pct investors await Fed Reserve
Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:28am EDT (Updates to close) SYDNEY, June 19 (Reuters) - Australian shares rose 1 percent on Wednesday, helped by expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will not move quickly to scale back its monetary stimulus and as a weaker Australian dollar lifted stocks with large exposure to overseas markets. The S&P/ASX 200 index climbed 47.1 points to 4,861.4, according to the ...
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Serial rapist Adrian Bayley jailed for life in Melbourne over murder of Irish woman Jill Meagher
A serial sex offender has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of an Irish woman that outraged Australia's second-largest ...
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What Bust Australia Set for Huge Boom Report Says
Australia's economy has been clouded with negative forecasts in recent weeks with some even warning of a dip back into recession, but a recent report argues the economy is poised for a rapid acceleration in the coming months. According to Clifford Bennett, chief economist of the financial services firm White Crane Group, which publishes the White Crane Report, Australia is set for a major ...
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Arabs in the Outback Australia Arab Film Festival heats up on June 27th
Babel, english company filming about tourism in arab countries. Iraq, 1961, Ani, Latif el - Professional photographer, Ani, Latif el Collection, Copyright Arab Image Foundation (Photo from the event's Facebook ...
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Australian share market rises
Australia Gains in resources stocks have helped the Australian share market to stay in positive territory today, but trade has been mixed among the banks.The All Ordinaries had climbed 0.8 per cent to 4,830 points at 2:40pm (AEST), while the ASX 200 was also up 0.7 per cent to 4,851.Rio Tinto added 1.3 per cent to $54.22, and BHP Billion climbed 0.8 per cent to $32.95.Fortescue and Woodside ...
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Australian relay swimmers await punishment over London Stilnox use
Australia Australian swimming's controversial 'Stilnox six' will find out their punishment from the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) next week.The six men's 4x100 metres freestyle swimmers have already been disciplined by Swimming Australia (SA) but face further sanctions from the AOC.The swimmers - Eamon Sullivan, Matt Targett, James Magnussen, James Roberts, Tommaso ...
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Eastern Adelaide Police search for Felixstow flasher
POLICE are searching for a man with possible links to two indecent exposures in the eastern suburbs. The man is believed to have flashed a woman waiting at a Felixstow bus stop earlier this month. Police say the 20-year-old woman was sitting at a bus stop on Glynburn Rd when the man approached her on Monday, June 3. There he tried to strike up a conversation with her before exposing ...
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Saints suspend Milne from AFL
St Kilda have suspended Stephen Milne after the AFL player was charged with four counts of rape. Saints president Greg Westaway made the announcement at the club headquarters on Wednesday afternoon. "The board acknowledges this is a most serious matter and one that is distressing to all the parties that are involved," Westaway said, reading from a prepared statement. "It also ...
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IBM quietly axes Australian jobs
IBM Australia is in the midst of axing up to 1500 Australian staff in a reshuffle that will send many jobs offshore to Asia and New Zealand, according to sources. Affected staff have told Fairfax Media between 1200 and 1500 local jobs are being made redundant this year in several ...
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High Court backs alcohol ban targeting indigenous people
The High Court has accepted an indigenous woman's argument that alcohol restrictions on a Queensland island targeted indigenous people, but has rejected her bid to have the restrictions removed. Joan Maloney, an indigenous resident of Palm Island, was convicted of possessing a bottle of rum and a bottle of bourbon in a public place, in breach of the island's alcohol restrictions. The ...
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WA power station costs public $250m Labor
WESTERN Australia's opposition is calling for the head of a minister over what it says is the waste of $250 million of taxpayers' money on the refurbishment of a 47-year-old power ...
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Insurers cant gouge over Vic fire levy
ACTING Victorian Premier Peter Ryan has two words of advice for insurance companies thinking of gouging customers over the removal of the fire services levy: good ...
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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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