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Stocks to watch at noon on Monday
Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange at noon on Monday:GPT - GPT PROPERTY GROUP - up 5.00 cents, or 1.21 per cent, at $4.17LLC - LEND LEASE GROUP - up 22 cents, or 2.10 per cent, at $10.69Property owner GPT Group has sold its 50 per cent stake in the Erina Fair shopping centre on the NSW central coast for $397 million.LEI - LEIGHTON HOLDINGS LTD - up 86 cents, or 4.77 per cent, at ...
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Australian Market Advances On Wall Street Cues
The Australian stock market is trading higher on Monday, tracking the positive cues on Friday from Wall Street, where stocks benefited from some upbeat U.S. economic data as well as comments from a Federal Reserve official.Banking and mining stocks are leading the gainers in the Australian market. In late-morning trades, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index is advancing 45 points or 0.87 percent ...
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Merrick named new Phoenix coach
New Zealand Ernie Merrick, who steered Melbourne Victory to two A-League titles, is the new coach of the Wellington Phoenix.The 60-year-old Scotsman, whose last job was as Hong Kong's national coach, was named as the successor to Ricki Herbert by the New Zealand club on Monday.The club received around 200 applications for the role including from former Manchester United winger Steve ...
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50 per cent of Australians dont discuss their dying wishes
Map: Australia A new survey has found one in two Australians who have recently lost a loved one had not discussed their dying wishes.The survey by Palliative Care Australia also found that only 15 per cent of those who died had left a detailed plan for their relatives.The organisation's president, Professor Patsy Yates, says the figures highlight just how important it is for people to ...
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Illicit drug report says Australia being targeted
Australia quoThe Australian Crime Commission's (ACC) annual illicit drug data report shows drug purity is on the rise and Australia is a target.The ACC handed down its 2011-12 report at Sydney's international mail centre this morning, as the report shows parcel post accounts for thelargest number of illicit drugborder ...
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Australians to join multi-million dollar diabetes drug class action lawsuit
Diabetes: More than 1.7 million prescriptions for the drug have been filled in Australia over the past four years. Australian victims of a popular diabetes drug that has been linked to bladder cancer will join a US class action suing the makers of the drug. Tens of thousands of Australians are thought to have taken the diabetes drug Actos, which has been linked to a 40 per cent increased risk ...
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Coach not concerned about Titans temper
Gold Coast coach John Cartwright doesn't have any long-term concerns after his team's ill-disciplined NRL derby display against rivals Brisbane last Friday. The Titans were on the end of a 10-0 penalty count during the first half of the 32-6 hiding at Suncorp Stadium, with representative forward Dave Taylor placed on report and captain Greg Bird sent to the sin-bin. But Cartwright ...
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Qld family waits for little mate to wake
The grandfather of a five-year-old boy in a coma after being thrown from a fete ride in Queensland says all he wants is his "little mate" to wake up. LNP Party Treasurer Barry O'Sullivan's grandson Patrick was flung 10 metres from the spinning Frizbee ride at a fete at his school on Sunday afternoon. The Mary MacKillop Catholic School community at Highfields, north of ...
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WA second as drug lab capital
According to the Australian Crime Commission’s (ACC) Illicit Drug Data Report 2011–12 there were 160 clandestine laboratories detected in Western Australia last financial year.Queensland detected the most clandestine laboratories with 379.The report released today also found that of the 809 clandestine laboratories busted in Australia in 2011-12, 70 per cent were in residential ...
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Kids forge asylum link
WA primary schools are being encouraged to raise debate about asylum seekers in the classroom to combat racist stereotypes from an early ...
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OK to cry at work Facebooks Sandberg
FACEBOOK chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg says it's OK for women to cry at work, share emotions and be honest about their ...
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Folau shocked by Wallabies selection
Israel Folau says he was stunned by his selection in the Wallabies squad to take on the touring British and Irish Lions and he's determined to press for a starting role.Rugby league convert Folau was chosen in coach Robbie Deans' 25-man squad after just 11 Super Rugby games in his new code for the NSW Waratahs.The 24-year-old former rugby league international said on Monday he was ...
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Visconti wins snow-covered stage 15 of Giro
Italy's Giovanni Visconti won stage 15 of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday on another weather-affected day of racing.After conditions had forced an alteration to the route on Saturday, organisers followed suit with more changes on Sunday, with the race distance reduced by 4.25 kilometres due to snow.And despite a slow finish, Movistar rider Visconti was rewarded for a brave solo climb.He ...
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Australian Labor Partys primary vote unchanged after new budget Newspoll
Australian Labor Party's primary vote is still at a low level and the new federal budget last week will not change the voters' minds, the latest Newspoll showed Monday.According to the latest Newspoll of The Australian, conducted on the weekend, Labor's primary vote was unmoved on 31 percent and the Coalition's was virtually unchanged on 46 percent. The analysis of local ...
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Australia shares up in broad rally Wall St underpins market
Sun May 19, 2013 9:45pm EDT (Adds details, comments, stocks on the move) SYDNEY May 20 (Reuters) - Australian shares climbed 1.1 percent on Monday in a broad rally after upbeat U.S. economic data pushed Wall Street to record highs and as stocks with large exposure to the U.S. market gained on a weaker Australian dollar. "It's a broadbased rally, the overnight news was very positive and ...
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Nixons car impounded after drink-drive bust
Ricky Nixon's car has been impounded. Former AFL player agent Ricky Nixon had his car impounded after police pulled him over for allegedly speaking on his mobile phone while driving drunk and with a suspended licence. Nixon, was driving about 1am on Sunday when he was stopped by police on Commercial Road in Prahran. A police spokeswoman said a 50-year-old Port Melbourne man had been ...
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SIDS and Kids Dash of red lunch
If wearing red could stop SIDS we’d gladly do it, every day. As we would for all the colour coding of insidious diseases that we pin on ribbons for throughout the year. But the loss of a tiny baby, a healthy happy baby who was tucked up in bed, kissed goodnight and expected to be alive and well the next day, but for no apparent reason died, is for any parent and their family, ...
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Markets Live ASX set for early gain
10:54am: ‘‘It’s a question of a good lead from Wall Street and people buy on momentum,’’ says IG market strategist Chris Weston. ‘‘On a positive day when the world’s feeling good about themselves, you generally see BHP and Rio, and certainly Fortescue, outperforming the banking stocks which are a little bit more defensive in their earnings ...
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Yahoo buys Tumblr for $US1.1b report
Tumblr CEO David Karp: will reportedly get a large cash windfall and stay at Yahoo for four years. Yahoo's board has approved a deal to purchase the popular blogging platform Tumblr for $US1.1 billion in ...
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Hope for the oil tycoon who needled Kremlin
Russia's Supreme Court says it will hear an appeal against the second conviction of jailed former oil tycoon and fierce Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The surprise announcement means that Russia's former richest man – behind bars since 2003 – could walk free years before his second sentence on money laundering and embezzlement charges expires in 2016. The ...
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Man charged over riverside flash
Police have charged a man after reports of a flasher exposing himself in the coastal town of Ocean Grove last week. A female jogger was on a track along the Barwon River last Monday about 4.15pm when a man appeared from behind a bush and exposed himself. He was not wearing pants at the time, police said. A man from the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree, aged 30, has been charged with one count of ...
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Assad troops storm key stronghold
Syrian troops backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah have entered Qusair, a strategic rebel stronghold linking Damascus to the coast, a day after President Bashar al-Assad insisted he would not quit. Mr Assad's opponents warned his regime's "barbaric and destructive" assault on Qusair could torpedo US-Russian attempts to organise a conference on ending more than two years of ...
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Qantas find favour with business travellers while Virgin flies steady
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ASADA health warning as six league players banned
Brisbane 4000 Athletes have been warned of health risks posed by a banned stimulant which has led to two-year bans for six lower grade Queensland rugby league players.The players all tested positive in August or September last year to methylhexaneamine, a stimulant banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).Four of the players - Matthew Lennon and Matthew Tailford (Sandgate Brighton Gaters) ...
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Australia teaches lessons on development from mining
Australia Australia is sharing some of its historical lessons about mining's impact on development at an international conference in Sydney.The conference has been organised by the International Mining for Development Centre, an academic centre based at both the University of Queensland and the University of Western Australia.The centre's director Ian Satchwell says, while mining can ...
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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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