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Australian execs jailed over Dubai property deal
Two Australian executives have been sentenced in Dubai to 10 years' jail on property fraud charges, while a third accused has been found not guilty, according to media ...
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Delivery of vital drugs may be hit without funds rise supplier
One of Australia's biggest drug providers is threatening to slow down delivery times of vital medicines if it doesn't receive more money from the government. Australian Pharmaceutical Industries, which supplies prescription drugs to more than 90 per cent of Australian pharmacies, said it would be forced to make some ''trade offs'' if federal funding doesn't ...
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Dubai jails Australian for 10 years over fraud charges
An Australian executive has been sentenced to 10 years jail in Dubai but his junior colleague acquitted in a spectacular climax to their four-year battle against property fraud charges. A defiant Matt Joyce declared his innocence after the guilty verdict against him on Monday and said he would appeal because his conviction was based ''on the evidence of a witness who was found by an ...
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Coalition abandons baby bonus
"The best that we can do for the newborn kids is not leave them drowning in government debt": Nationals senator John Williams. An Abbott government would dump the baby bonus entirely - even the reduced, means-tested payments proposed by Labor, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey has said. The wholesale scrapping of one of the Howard government's key reforms - a policy defended by ...
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Family hopes tragedy will pull strings for change in law to protect cyclists on roads
Richard Pollett, a 25-year-old musician, was crushed under the wheels of a cement truck while cycling in September 2011. The virtuoso violinist was due to perform with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra when he was killed as the truck was overtaking him on Moggill Road, a two-lane conduit through the Brisbane suburb of Kenmore. A simple touch of the brakes would likely have spared a brilliant ...
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Liberals derail reform at every turn Swan
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan believes Australia's long journey of reform has been "frustrated, delayed and derailed" at every turn by the Liberal party. It has always fallen to Labor to bring about the big economic and social reforms in the face of Liberal opposition, Mr Swan will argue in a speech on Tuesday. He will point to Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's announcement ...
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NSW council functions may be privatised
CORE council functions such as street cleaning, garbage collection and road maintenance could be outsourced to the private sector under a bill before NSW ...
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Search to resume for fisherman in Vic
POLICE will resume their search on Tuesday for a 32-year-old man who failed to return from a fishing trip at a lake in northeast ...
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Cannes Sci-Fi Horror Tale Human Race Sells for Germany Australia Japan
, KSM took German-speaking Europe, Anchor Bay picked up the film for Australia and New Zealand and IPA bought Japanese rights. "We are receiving offers every day" said ...
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Preview of Wed-locked fake marriages in Australia
Fake marriage amongst young Arab-Australians who identify as gay or lesbian has gone unreported until now, and there’s good reason. In the Arab World almost all 22 states and territories punish homosexuality with imprisonment - six of those still enforce the death ...
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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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Extend P-plates to 25-year-olds top cop
YOUNG drivers are not going to like this but Victoria's top traffic cop thinks they should be motoring around with a P-plate until they are 25 years ...
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Rudd books in election attack
Blame game: Former PM Kevin Rudd with Treasurer Wayne Swan and infrastructure minister Anthony Albanese , at a press conferenceon the proposed Brisbane Cross River Rail crossing at Kangaroo Point , Brisbane. Picture: Mechielsen ...
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Time for fearful parents to back off
"Sunlight is fairly important in regulating eye growth and what you are doing when you are six is influencing when you are 12 when myopia manifests." Prevention of myopia is important for future eye health because even low levels of the condition can create a higher risk of cataracts and glaucoma in adulthood. Research suggest there is a "modern myopia epidemic" in countries ...
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Costello No GST boost without cuts
Goods and Services Tax warned that while reform is needed it must not come at any price and would be pointless unless there is a "quid pro quo"and state's abolish ineffective levies such as payroll tax. The former Treasurer in an interview with News Limited for the first time weighed into the GST debate sparked by ...
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What led to the fall of a Bishop
THE country's top Anglican, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, personally intervened days before the shock resignation of the Grafton bishop over his mishandling of abuse claims at a notorious children's ...
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Minor parties cry foul at fee spike
Help End Marijuana Prohibition - are crying foul after the major parties jointly backed moves to double the fees for candidate nominations.They warn the move will force them to cutback the number of candidates they will be able to afford to run - and will help cement a Labor/Coalition "duopoly"."It will reduce the number of people that we are going to run by at least one ...
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Asylum children crowded into tents
CHILDREN are among hundreds of asylum seekers sleeping in tents at an overcrowded Christmas Island facility amid record boat arrivals, including 2000 people this ...
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First bloke in V8 pass stink
Tim Mathieson during the Texas 400, event 05 of the 2013 Australian V8 Supercar Championship Series at the Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas, Saturday May 18, 2013. Picture: Mark Horsburgh / ...
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1000-year-old African coins found in Australia
In 1944, during World War II, Australian soldier Maurie Isenberg found five copper coins on a beach in the Northern Territory, and marked the spot with an 'X' on a map. In 1979, he rediscovered the coins in a tin and sent them to a museum for identification, where they were proved to be 1000 years ...
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Apple to open first Adelaide store on Saturday in Rundle Mall
APPLE tragics, the wait is almost over - the technology giant's $2.5 million Rundle Mall store will open to the public from 10am on Saturday. The Rundle Place shopfront is Apple's 20th in Australia and the first store in South Australia. "Our stores offer the best buying experience and the best customer service on the planet," Apple chief executive Tim Cook said, in a supplied ...
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Former prime minister Kevin Rudd backs same-sex marriage in online blog
Australia Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has thrown his support behind same-sex marriage.In a lengthy blog posted on his website tonight, Mr Rudd explains why he has reversed his opposition to gay marriage.Mr Rudd says he has reflected on the matter over a long period of time through conversations with family, friends and staff."I believe the secular Australian state should be able to ...
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Kevin Rudd endorses gay marriage
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 Rudd wrote in a blog post on Monday night. "This change in position has come about as a result of a lot of reflection, over a long period of time, including conversations with good people grappling with deep questions of life, ...
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Rudd comes out in support of gay marriage
But he says any legal recognition for gay marriage should make religious institutions exempt from having to change their own practices.Last September Mr Rudd was one of 98 MPs to vote against a marriage equality bill."This change in position has come about as a result of a lot of reflection, over a long period of time," he wrote in a blog post on Monday announcing his change of ...
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Adelaide desalination plant cash details surrounding bid to double size of the facility dry up
DOCUMENTS detailing South Australia's bid for cash to double the size of Adelaide desalination plant are being withheld, despite release of an audit report that found the move lacked economic merit. The State Government has rejected Advertiser requests for release of a cost-benefit study on the doubling, submitted to the Federal Government advisory group Infrastructure Australia in ...
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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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