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Farmers call for minimum wage increase
An increase in the national minimum wage would help the struggling farming industry to attract entry level workers, Australia's peak farmers group says. In annual consultations with Fair Work Australia on Wednesday, the National Farmers' Federation (NFF) called for a $9 increase in the weekly minimum wage, which is currently $606.40 for full-time employees. This increase would ...
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Broker convicted of insider trading
The former head of stockbroking firm Lonsec has been fined $30,000 for insider trading. Norman John Graham of Barwon Heads in Victoria was convicted of two counts of insider trading in the County Court of Victoria on Wednesday. Graham, 53, sold 200,000 shares in listed company Clean Seas Tuna on behalf of two clients when he knew the company was going to announce a loss of more that $10 ...
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Chinalco Yunnan shares jump
Shares in explorer Chinalco Yunnan Copper (CYU) have jumped after the company announced positive drilling results from a project in Queensland. Shares in the copper explorer closed at 7.0 cents, up more than 16 per cent or one cent, following positive results from its Blue Caesar prospect in north-west Queensland. Meanwhile, new managing director Paul Williams says the company is looking to ...
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Ten injured in Vic army base vehicle crash
A collision between two armoured vehicles during a training exercise at a Victorian army base has left 10 soldiers injured. Three soldiers were seriously injured when one of the Australian Light Armoured Vehicles (ASLAVs)collided with the rear of another at the Puckapunyal Army Base in central Victoria. The crash occurred on a dirt training track during a training exercise at about 10.30am ...
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Internet job ads fall 3.6pc in April
Job advertisements on the internet fell by 3.6 per cent in April, federal government figures show. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations internet vacancy index fell to a seasonally adjusted 61.6 points in the month, and was 24.1 per cent lower than a year earlier. All eight occupational groups monitored by the department rose in March. The biggest monthly fall was ...
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$A lower on consumer sentiment figures
The Australian dollar has dropped back below 98 US cents following disappointing consumer sentiment figures. At 1700 AEST on Wednesday, the currency was trading at 97.82 US cents, down from 98.17 cents on Tuesday. The Australian dollar fell following the release of the Westpac/Melbourne Institute May consumer sentiment survey, which showed pessimists among respondents outweighing the number of ...
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Home truths spark Lions AFL turnaround
The focus might be on Brisbane coach Michael Voss but Lions co-captain Jed Adcock said senior players had felt the pressure, prompting an honesty session that might yet turn their AFL season around. Players did their best to end speculation that off-contract Voss had until round 15 to secure his job by upsetting Essendon last round. However, Adcock credited a player heart-to-heart weeks ...
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Phil Hughes to meet Ashes mentor
Phil Hughes says the English county mentor who reinvented him as a Test batsman will play a key role in his Ashes preparation. Hughes credits Worcestershire coach Steve Rhodes with breathing new life into his career in 2012 after he was dumped from the Test side midway through the 2011/12 summer. The 24-year-old says Rhodes helped him believe in himself again after three years of slipping in ...
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Hockey puts ATO set-up on notice
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) looks set for a major shake-up should the coalition win power in September, with its policeman functions to be split from its tax administration. Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey, in his budget reply speech before the September 14 election, said a parliamentary committee would also be set up to conduct regular public hearings of the tax commissioner, similar to ...
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Coalition puts own spin on Gonski
The federal coalition has committed to bringing in its own version of "Gonski" school funding reform should it win office in September. Opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne made the pledge in letters sent to state and territory leaders outlining the coalition's approach to school funding. However, Mr Pyne's stance has been seized on by unions and Labor as a ...
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Man charged over WA road death
A 63-YEAR-OLD man who crashed into and killed a 74-year-old man in Perth has been charged with dangerous driving occasioning ...
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WA wont rule out public sector job cuts
WESTERN Australia's post-election austerity mode will include a review of the public sector, with Premier Colin Barnett refusing to rule out job ...
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People urged to dob in illegal gun owners
PEOPLE too afraid to tell police who's been shooting at them or their homes should call Crime Stoppers and anonymously dob in troublemakers, the federal government ...
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Injured Qld boy wakes from coma
The hospital where five-year-old Patrick O'Sullivan has remained in a coma since the accident on Sunday revealed the news in a brief statement late on Wednesday."Patrick O'Sullivan is in a stable condition waking from a coma at Mater Children's Hospital," the Mater statement read.Patrick's school principal told ABC Radio she'd heard on Wednesday afternoon ...
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Adding up the claims on school funding
AS the prime minister moves her post-budget focus to sealing a deal on school funding, both sides of politics are claiming the other is fiddling the ...
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Provocation laws to be changed in NSW
MEN who kill their wives in fits of jealousy won't be able to get off the hook using the partial defence of provocation but it will remain open to battered ...
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Waste-to-energy plant gets green light
HOUSEHOLD rubbish will be converted into electricity after the final environmental approvals were made for the State's first large scale waste-to-energy ...
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Gas leak forces evacuation in WA
AUTHORITIES have taken less than two hours to make safe an area impacted by a gas main rupture in Western Australia's South West ...
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Superman label off limits for fitness firm
Now a judge has ruled an Australian fitness company can not register the trademark "Superman Workout" for its services.Last July, a delegate of the Registrar of Trade Marks allowed Cheqout Pty to register the Superman Workout trademark for its fitness classes, despite DC Comics' opposition.The registrar ruled the Superman trademark wasn't likely to deceive or confuse ...
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More doubts about hunting in NSW parks
A SHOOTING incident at a rural NSW property has raised more doubts about how the state government can safely roll out hunting in national parks, conservationists ...
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10000 wild horses to be culled in NT
UP to 10,000 wild horses in central Australia will be culled in what officials say is a humane response to an environmental ...
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Questions raised about NSW PIC decision
SERIOUS questions have been raised by a police watchdog decision not to investigate claims a top officer and former NSW MP Richard Torbay secretly visited a prisoner, a parliamentary committee ...
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Levy to pay for Sydney casino regulation
A levy will be imposed on Sydney's Star casino to help cover the cost of monitoring and regulating its operations.Taxpayers currently bear much of the cost of maintaining the casino regulatory regime in NSW, Hospitality Minister George Souris says.He has introduced legislation to amend the Casino Control Act 1992 to allow a casino supervisory levy to be imposed on the casino operator to ...
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Worker injured in Vic power station fall
A WORKER has suffered serious head injuries after falling several metres at a Victorian power station. The man in his 40s was flown by air ambulance to The Alfred hospital after the 2.3m fall at the Hazelwood Power Station in Victoria's Latrobe Valley about 2.15pm (AEST) on Wednesday, Ambulance Victoria said. WorkSafe is on the scene investigating the ...
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Tas policeman cleared over shooting death
A TASMANIAN police officer used reasonable force when he shot dead a man in the state's north in 2010, a coroner has found. Constable Ian Fraser Blake shot 21-year-old Nicholas Martin Whiteley at Westbury after a violent struggle, Coroner Robert Pearce said in handing down his findings. Whiteley had attacked Const Blake, who attended the dead man's home to help a former partner remove ...
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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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