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Four in court over $13m meth haul
FOUR people charged over the importation of more than 35kg of methylamphetamine hidden in ceramic tiles from China have appeared briefly in a Perth ...
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Dollar weakens as sellers expect rate cuts
At 12pm AEST today, the Australian dollar was trading at 94.69 US cents, down from 94.92 cents yesterday.Easy Forex currency dealer Tony Darvall said that while the US Federal Reserve meeting was dominating the news cycle, traders were offloading the Australian dollar on expectations of more rate cuts."You don't need information to sell the Aussie," he said."Unless we get ...
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Second man charged over Sydney murder
A second man has been charged with murder after a fatal fight in southwest Sydney last year.A 39-year-old man was walking home with friends at Macquarie Fields in the early hours on September 2 when they got into a fight with another group of men.Police arrived to find two men unconscious on the footpath.The 39-year-old died in hospital a short time later while his friend, 42, received treatment ...
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Adelaide City Council set to dump on-street parking fee rises
ADELAIDE City Council is set to dump plans to charge $4 an hour for "premium" on-street parking spaces and raise some other parking fees by 25 per cent after a committee last night voted to water down the controversial hikes. However, the cost of some on-street parking spots will still likely rise by as much as 16.7 per cent, from $3 to $3.50. The plan, revealed in The Advertiser ...
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TV rights extended for Australian Open
Channel Seven have secured the rights to the Australian Open until 2019.The five-year deal extends the partnership between Tennis Australia (TA) and Seven to 46 years and Seven West Media CEO Tim Worner said that the historic relationship was part of the network's character."This is a great partnership for Seven," Worner said."The Australian Open is an extraordinary event and ...
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Goodwood Rd should become Adelaides Broadway Urban Myth Theatre artistic director says
URBAN Myth Theatre artistic director Glenn Hayden wants Goodwood Rd to be Adelaide's Broadway. Well, little Broadway at least. The company has received a $30,000 interest-free loan from Unley Council to finish an upgrade of the Goodwood Institute. "It will mean the Goodwood Institute is a very, very well serviced, professional standard venue for South Australia," Mr Hayden ...
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New Zealand man found dead outside Queensland house
A New Zealand man has been found dead outside a house in Clermont, Queensland this morning. An Australian police spokeswoman said the 40-year-old's death was not being treated as suspicious. It is believed the man slept outside the house in freezing conditions; however police could not confirm this. According to the Bureau of Meteorology, the temperature in Clermont ...
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Australian killer of Irish woman jailed for life
MELBOURNE (AFP) - A serial sex offender was on Wednesday sentenced to life for the "savage" rape and murder of an Irish woman in a Melbourne street, a random killing which shocked the nation and led to an outpouring of emotion.Adrian Ernest Bayley, who pleaded guilty, had a history of violence and was on parole at the time of the attack on Jill Meagher as she walked home alone after ...
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New News Corp in weak ASX debt
Shares in New News Corp, which owns Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspapers and pay TV assets, have fallen after debuting on the local share ...
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Lions pride wounded ahead of first Australia test
British and Irish Lions leave the field after losing their trial match against the ACT Brumbies at Canberra stadium June 18, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew ...
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Australia’s Business Confidence Drops to 9-Month Low
Australian business confidence slid to the lowest in nine months in May, despite the central bank’s interest rates cut to the lowest in three years, amid global uncertainties, especially as Europe’s debt crisis continues to deepen while Greece may leave the euro ...
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Will the All Blacks fall to Australia at the next World Cup
the milestone of their 500th Test match . Two of the three NZ tries were instant classics. In fact, there probably won't be a better score this year than Beauden Barrett's late try under the sticks following a dazzling length-of-the-field breakout. But a performance "close to perfection" and other misty-eyed exaltations? Hardly. In fact, come to think of it, there's a ...
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Transfield wins $366m in new NBN work
The company was already involved in the rollout of fibre optic cable in Sydney, and that work has been extended for another two years in a contract worth $300 ...
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Court told street preachers dispute with Adelaide City Council settled
Adelaide 5000 A lengthy legal dispute appears to have been settled between Adelaide City Council and a group of street preachers.In 2009, brothers Caleb and Samuel Corneloup from the Adelaide Street Church were prosecuted for preaching in Rundle Mall without a permit.They challenged the validity of council by-laws, which they said breached their right to free speech.More recently, the High ...
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Australian Lehman Brothers creditors may face long wait for cash
Australia Australian councils, charities and churches that lost hundreds of millions of dollars through products marketed by the failed US investment bank Lehman Brothers may have to wait several more years to get their money back.The groups have formed a class action against Lehman Brothers, and expected the repayments on the investments be finalised at a creditors meeting in Sydney ...
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Australian jailed for life for rape murder
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- A serial sex offender was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for raping and murdering an Irish immigrant while free on parole after previous convictions for raping five ...
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Ahmed off to Africa but in Ashes frame
Pakistan-born spinner Fawad Ahmed is being sent to Africa on an Australia A tour at the same time as the Ashes series. But Ahmed remains in contention for the Ashes should his Australian citizenship be approved in time, chairman of selectors John Inverarity says. Ahmed and fellow tweaker Ashton Agar were on Wednesday named in a 15-man Australia A squad for an African tour next month. ...
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Swans appoint Pridham as new chairman
Sydney director Andrew Pridham will replace long-serving Richard Colless as chairman of the AFL club next year. Colless last month said he would not be seeking re-election when his term ends in February. Pridham will step into the role having served on the Swans board for the past 12 years, while Andrew McMaster will continue as deputy chairman, the club announced in a statement on Wednesday. ...
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Life sentence for rape murder of Jill Meagher in Melbourne
A serial sex offender has been sentenced to life in prison for a rape and murder that outraged Australia's second-largest city. The violent death of Jill Meagher as she walked home from a bar last September shocked the city of Melbourne. A week later, 30,000 people took to the streets near the laneway where she was strangled to rally against violence toward women. The 29-year-old ...
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Facebook outage sparks online mirth
FACEBOOK has gone down briefly, offering the world a brief and horrific glimpse of what life would look like without the social networking ...
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WA rock art should be protected Greens
THE Australian Greens want Aboriginal rock art in Western Australia's Burrup Peninsula to be protected and are pushing for the area to be given world heritage ...
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Man charged over Qld bikie brawl
A 39-year-old man has been charged over his alleged role in the fight, which happened outside a cafe in Coolangatta on June 8 during the annual Cooly Rocks On festival.The man is expected to appear at the Southport Magistrates Court on July 2.On Tuesday, Gold Coast detectives announced they had charged five men with affray while former NRL player Anthony Watts was charged with affray over the ...
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Call for Colliers head over costly bungle
LABOR is demanding the resignation of former energy minister Peter Collier over what it is calling a $250 million power scandal in ...
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Adelaides war of religious words reaches a new height
The gentle pace of Adelaide's Rundle Mall resembled the more extreme pockets of Speaker's Corner in London's Hyde Park as evangelical preachers harangued shoppers who didn't love Jesus enough, threatening extra hell-fire for the sins of women, homosexuals and Muslims. The group was silenced after a year-long spectacle when the high court ruled to uphold a council by-law ...
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Charges pending against Afghans accused of prison abuse Australia
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Afghan authorities will lay charges against officials at a prison run by the country's internal security service, Australia said on Wednesday, just weeks after Canberra blocked prisoner transfers over fears of detainee ...
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Cost of driving is becoming punitive in Brisbane
Is driving in Brisbane becoming punitively expensive? With the recent toll increases, on top of those made in 2006 and 2008, as well as last year, and the recent mis-management surrounding the privatisation of major roads in Sydney, it seems that using major roads in Brisbane is going to become even more expensive.
Brisbane, like many cities across Australia, is facing a mounting budget deficit in the wake of the near-crippling financial crisis and ensuing recession, as the state capital, it must also oversee Queensland’s plunge in revenues, which has created a budget deficit of over $2.3 billion for the state. Read more
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