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Family of injured Qld boy to meet doctors
THE family of a five-year-old boy severely injured after being flung from a ride at his school fete will meet with doctors for a condition ...
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Australia Keen To Expand Trade Ties With Brunei
Bandar Seri Begawan - The defence, tourism as well as the food and agribusiness sectors are the areas in which Brunei Darussalam and Australia can work more closely together in. "Australia and Brunei enjoy a very successful trading relationship. The two-way trade in goods and services between the two countries reached about B$2.6 billion in the last year, which is quite sizable, given the ...
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Australian High Comm Hosts Luncheon
Bandar Seri Begawan - A business luncheon was hosted by the Australian High Commissioner to Brunei Darussalam, Todd Mercer, at his residence yesterday. The High Commissioner held the luncheon as an opportunity to meet with a few of the big players from the public and private sectors in business here in the Sultanate. The luncheon saw Susan Kahwati, the Australian Senior Trade Commissioner for ...
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Tom Waterhouse snub angers MPs
TOM Waterhouse has snubbed a second invitation to front a parliamentary inquiry into gambling, outraging MPs who will now decide whether to summons ...
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Sydney girl froze as gun held to head
A 12-year-old girl says she "froze" when a man held a gun to her head and robbed her of her phone and wallet as she walked back from a friend's house in Sydney.Taylor was walking home about 8.30pm (AEST) on Monday when she was approached from behind by a man in Bennett Street in Minto, police said.The man allegedly pulled out a gun and threatened the girl before leaving with her ...
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Hindi to be included in Australian school curriculum
MELBOURNE: A vast untapped pool of skilled Indian migrants should be used to teach Hindi in Australian schools and universities, according to a report. The report by Melbournebased think tank Australia India Institute argues for the inclusion of Hindi in Australia's school curriculum, saying it should be an essential part of the Commonwealth's Asia policy. Authored by well known ...
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Microsoft to build Australian cloud computing centres
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is expanding its services for hosting and processing online data in Australia with the establishment of two new "cloud" computing data centres in the country.The world's biggest software company said on Tuesday it was expanding its Windows Azure business to include a major new region in Australia.Data centres, renting out technology resources such ...
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Twelve-year-old girl robbed at gunpoint in south-western Sydney
Minto 2566 A twelve-year-old girl has been robbed at gun point in south-western Sydney.Police say the girl was walking the short distance home from a friend's house in Minto at about 8:30pm (AEST).She says a man came up behind her and threatened her with a gun, demanding her wallet. The girl was not injured in the confrontation.Chief Inspector Meg Grady from Campbelltown Local Area ...
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Adam Spencer to step down from 702 ABC Sydney breakfast show
Sydney 2000 702 ABC Sydney's breakfast presenter, Adam Spencer, has announced he will step down from the role at the end of the year.Spencer has been in the job since 2006.This morning he told listeners his last broadcast will be on December 6.The former JJJ presenter says the wanderer in him is "keen to go a-wandering again" and the 3.20am starts are beginning to catch up with ...
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Tasmanias Dark MOFO nude swim to go ahead after venue change
Hobart 7000 A controversial nude swim is set to go ahead in Tasmania this winter after agreement on a new venue.The swim, part of the Dark MOFO festival, had been cancelled after police said the participants would be breaking public nudity laws.Police Minister David O'Byrne says the concerns of police, the Hobart city council and local residents at the proposed Sandy Bay venue were ...
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Transfield Services cuts 113 jobs
Engineering firm Transfield Services is cutting 113 jobs and has reduced its profit guidance because of delays to mining projects. "Ongoing uncertainty in commodity markets is resulting in the delay to, and deferment of, a range of resources and infrastructure projects," Transfield said in a statement on Tuesday. "More immediately, scope reductions and cancellations of works ...
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Express trains for Sydney in doubt
The state government risks breaking election promises for 135 new and faster express train services for Sydney and surrounding regions and undermining the viability of the state's XPT service if it implements a new train timetable without major changes. Transport advocates and commuters are concerned about a draft train timetable, revealed last week by Fairfax Media and due to be ...
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More MPs supporting gay marriage Carr
Senator Carr's comments come after former prime minister Kevin Rudd said on Monday he had changed his mind on gay marriage and now believed parliament should make it legal."I think any observer would say there's an underlying trend as members of parliament give it more consideration and listen to the arguments to legalising same-sex marriage," Senator Carr told ABC radio on ...
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Aussie Yen and Gold rally as US dollar pressured
Moodys threatened the US with a downgrade and the US dollar got hit and stocks dropped back a little in overnight trade.This helped drive a very interesting 24 hours with Gold and Silver the big movers hit in early Asian trade and then rebounding as the US dollar came under pressure over the rest of the day. USDJPY reversed of the high of Friday after the Japanese economics minister said the Yen ...
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Abbott Rudd can change his mind
OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott says Kevin Rudd is entitled to change his mind, after the former PM said he now backed gay ...
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Chinese mayor picked for NSW MP vacancy
NSW Labor has reached out to Sydney's Chinese community with the announcement that lawyer Ernest Wong will fill the upper house gap left by Eric Roozendaal. Mr Roozendaal quit parliament earlier this month before a report had been issued by the state's corruption watchdog on claims he received a $10,000-plus discount on a Honda in return for political favours for his former colleague, ...
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Search resumes for missing Vic paraglider
A SEARCH will resume on Tuesday for a missing paraglider in southwestern Victoria. The 66-year-old South Australian man, named in media reports as Bruce Ottaway, and Torquay man Rob Lithgow, 53, failed to return from a tandem paragliding flight near Warrnambool on Saturday afternoon. Mr Lithgow's body and part of the paraglider were found in water on Sunday morning, but Mr Ottaway remains ...
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Australia shares seen steady as U.S. dollar slips
MELBOURNE, May 21 (Reuters) - Australian shares are likely to open roughly unchanged on Tuesday with buyers taking profits following the market's run-up to 5-1/2 year highs and as the U.S. dollar fell against the Aussie. * Local share price index futures rose 0.1 percent to 5,227.0, a 7-point premium to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index close. The benchmark rose 0.5 percent on Monday. * New ...
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Evans sees signs of improvement at Giro
BMC rider Cadel Evans believes he is close to being back to his best as he heads into the last week of the Giro d'Italia.Evans, who sits second in the standings, lost 45 seconds to race leader Vincenzo Nibali in stage 14 on Saturday, but stayed with the Italian during treacherous weather conditions in stage 15 on Sunday.The Australian was a late entrant to the tour, as he looks to regain ...
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Australian jailed in Dubai another cleared of fraud
United Arab Emirates Foreign Affairs minister Bob Carr has promised an Australian man sentenced to 10 years jail in Dubai will receive consular support during his planned appeal.Australian executive Matthew Joyce was yesterday found guilty of fraud against his former employer, a property development company owned by the emir of ...
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Stocks to watch early on Tuesday
Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange on Tuesday, May 21: GPT - GPT PROPERTY GROUP - up four cents at $4.16 LLC - LEND LEASE GROUP - up 13 cents at $10.60 Property owner GPT Group has sold its 50 per cent stake in the Erina Fair shopping centre on the NSW central coast for $397 ...
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Finally Kevin Rudd in gay marriage U-turn
Kevin Rudd has endorsed gay marriage, changing his position on the issue. "The secular Australian state should be able to recognise same sex marriage," Mr ...
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Coalition in war of words on education
Prime Minister Julia Gillard's school funding reforms have ignited a war of words in Coalition ranks, with federal education spokesman Christopher Pyne claiming Premier Barry O'Farrell was ''conned'' into ''a very bad deal'' for NSW. The Prime Minister said the ''incredibly arrogant'' outburst highlighted Opposition Leader ...
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NSW driver dies after dodging kangaroo
Police said the woman, 19, was killed when the car she was driving ran off the road and smashed into a tree at Guyra about 7.20pm (AEST) on Monday.The woman died at the scene.Police said witnesses to the accident said it looked like the woman's car was trying to avoid a dead kangaroo on the ...
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Sydney hairdresser to face assault charge
A HAIRDRESSER who allegedly molested a number of clients at a western Sydney salon is expected to be charged with indecent assault of another ...
Perth Focus
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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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