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Qld MP says hell be next premier
Former Liberal National Party MP, turned independent, turned United Australia Party (UAP) parliamentary leader Alex Douglas says it's a realistic probability."Yes I do," he said."I think the reality is, the current overwhelming majority of LNP members will not be re-elected at the next election."The public aren't happy with their performance. They went to an ...
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People-smuggling crewman acquitted in NSW
AN Indonesian crewman found guilty of a people smuggling offence has had his conviction quashed in the NSW Court of Criminal ...
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Govt to dock pay of Qld Health workers
THE Queensland government is about to start automatically docking the pay of health workers to recoup overpayments arising from the Queensland Health payroll ...
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Mighell new president of shooters group
FORMER union boss Dean Mighell has taken on a new role at the head of Australia's peak shooting lobby group, the 150,000 member Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia ...
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Palmers party would buy back Qld assets
MINER and wannabe prime minister Clive Palmer says he would buy back any asset sold by the Queensland government if his party won power in the ...
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Yells spark hope in Snowy Mountains search
YELLS have been heard high up in NSW's Snowy Mountains, offering fresh hope that a Canadian man missing for more than a week may still be ...
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Palmers win in royalties battle
The state's wealthiest individual, Mineralogy chairman Clive Palmer, has secured a major Supreme Court victory in his battle with the Chinese company CITIC Pacific, the managers of his WA iron ore ...
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Parental leave is no holiday Hockey
Mr Hockey repeated Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's comment that men are able to get full replacement pay while on holidays while women could not get replacement pay when they left to have babies."I think that's really unfair," Mr Hockey told the National Press Club on Wednesday.Asked to justify the analogy by a female journalist, who pointed out that women receive replacement ...
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Myer boss fan of falling Aussie dollar
MYER boss Bernie Brookes says he's a fan of the falling Australian dollar as it will have more benefits for the department store than ...
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Adelaide Brighton tips profit dip
CEMENT and lime manufacturer Adelaide Brighton expects net profit in 2013 to be flat or slightly below 2012 levels due to the effects of weak demand and the carbon ...
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Adelaide Brighton lowers expectations
Cement and lime manufacturer Adelaide Brighton expects net profit in 2013 to be flat or slightly below 2012 levels because of the effects of weak demand and the carbon tax."2013 full-year net profit after tax is expected to be similar to or less than 2012," chief executive Mark Chellew told shareholders at Adelaide Brighton's annual general meeting in Adelaide.Also, Mr Chellew ...
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Nine people hurt in collision on Australian army base
At least three people were seriously hurt Wednesday morning in a collision between Australian army vehicles at a base in Victoria, officials said. Another six people were treated for injuries at the hospital at the Puckapunyal base, The (Ballarat) Courier reported. A spokeswoman for Ambulance Victoria said two men were airlifted to hospitals and a third went by ambulance. The vehicles involved ...
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Union takes Qantas concerns to airport
QANTAS is underpaying flight staff and importing human rights violations, the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) says. Shouting slogans that included "What's outrageous? Unsafe wages" and "Human rights on every flight", about 60 TWU members converged on Darwin International Airport on Wednesday. The union is holding its annual council meeting in Darwin this week and the ...
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Port Adelaide to come alive after dark
EMPTY windows and disused buildings will be transformed into works of art as arts company Illuminart takes up residency in Port Adelaide. Earlier this month the team of multimedia and illuminous art artists set up base in the former state government-owned Whale and Dolphin Museum on North Pde, owned by the State Government, for a six-month residency. Director Cindi Drennan said the group's ...
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Australian Education Union pushes sell out through delegates’ meetings
The Australian Education Union (AEU) in Victoria yesterday announced that delegates' meetings had voted by a 78-percent margin to ratify its sell out industrial agreement with the state Liberal government. The substantial 22 percent "no" vote gave some indication of the growing hostility among teachers to the union's betrayals. AEU officials secured the majority vote, ...
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Sydney man Daniel Stani-Reginald gets 30 years for rape murder of Indian student
Daniel Stani-Reginald, 21, had shown no capacity for empathy and no remorse for the "extremely cruel" murder of his neighbour, Tosha Thakkar, in March 2011, Justice Derek Price said, setting a maximum 45 year jail term. Stani-Reginald had planned to sexually assault and murder a woman well before he selected Ms Thakkar as his victim, overpowered her in her Croydon unit, raped and ...
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End of Australias resources boom hits investment in sector
SYDNEY | Wed May 22, 2013 1:20am EDT SYDNEY May 22 (Reuters) - The end of Australia's resources boom is taking its toll on investment in the sector, with A$150 billion in planned projects delayed or cancelled since April 2012, government data shows. China's economic slowdown has squashed a decade-long mining boom in Australia that drove gold, copper, iron ore and coal to record ...
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Sydney ferry plan is flawed union
Private ferry operators will gain and passengers will lose from a government plan to modernise Sydney's ferries, the maritime union says.The NSW government says its 20-year Sydney Ferry Future plan, released on Wednesday, will deliver new vessels, more wharves and a better timetable for Sydney commuters.It has pledged to add six new vessels to the fleet by 2016, upgrade wharves across the ...
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Australia Consumer Morale Falls Sharply On Budget
Confidence among Australian consumers declined sharply in May to its lowest level since August 2012, driven largely by negative responses to the Federal Budget, a survey by Westpac and Melbourne Institute showed Wednesday. The index of consumer sentiment fell 7 percent in May to 97.6 from 104.9 in April. This is the lowest reading since August 2012. The survey also revealed that pessimists ...
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Australia Consumer Confidence Dives
was conducted in the week the Labor government delayed a long-promised return to a budget surplus. The government blamed a stubbornly high Australian dollar and lower commodity prices for a dramatic fall in revenues. It also came after the Reserve Bank of ...
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AFLs Bulldogs close to winning McCartney
Western Bulldogs coach Brendan McCartney predicts wins will start coming for his AFL club quicker than outside observers or possibly even his own players expect.McCartney says the Dogs, who have won just one of their past 19 games - against Brisbane in round one - and lost to Gold Coast on Saturday, are frustrated and disappointed.But he says some injuries to key players and a relatively tough ...
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Australia guns down 10000 horses
(53 mins ago) A controversial cull of up to 10,000 wild horses in Australia's harsh Outback reportedly began today in a bid to control the feral animals which officials say are destroying the land. The Central Land Council said animals – including horses, donkeys and camels – were dying in their thousands because of a lack of food and water and a cull was necessary on ...
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Hockey wont support gay marriage
Senior Liberal Joe Hockey expects his party room to re-examine a conscience vote on the difficult question of gay marriage after the September election. But he says he would not personally back a change to the laws. Mr Hockey described the issue of same-sex marriage as "very, very difficult" when asked if he would back a push to allow Liberal MPs a conscience vote in parliament. ...
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Wallaby Ioane in doubt for Lions opener
Wallabies winger Digby Ioane is in doubt for the start of the British and Irish Lions Test series after undergoing a knee operation on Wednesday morning. Ioane had arthroscopic surgery in Brisbane to clean up articular cartilage on his troublesome left knee after flying back from the Queensland Reds' two-match tour of South Africa. The Reds believed the operation would only rule the ...
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League star Ben Teo denies assault claim
South Sydney representative forward Ben Te'o has rejected claims he allegedly assaulted a woman in Brisbane. Details of the woman's assault claims are set be aired on the Nine Network on Wednesday night. Two other NRL footballers are expected to be named in the TV report, but it is believed they were not directly involved in the incident. The NRL's integrity unit will ...
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Australia the energy superpower?
A new boom in the extraction of Australia's natural gas reserves will have immense economic benefits for the country and especially the state of Western Australia, but conservationists warn of an environmental impact.
Australia is a country rich in natural resources, because of this its economy is an export driven one, and coal, iron ore, wool, meat, gold, and wheat are some of its main exports. It was in the 1920’s that Australia’s economic potential was underpinned by the gold rush that saw its population triple in size in just ten years. Read more
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