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Readout of Secretary Hagels Meeting with Australian Minister for Defense Stephen Smith
Pentagon Press Secretary George Little provided the following readout: "Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel hosted the Australian Minister for Defence Stephen Smith for a working lunch at the Pentagon this afternoon. "Secretary Hagel thanked Minister Smith for his condolences on the loss of life from the devastating tornado in Moore, Okla. "The two leaders discussed the ...
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Family joins search for Ontario man missing in Australia
OTTAWA -- Family members joined a frantic search Tuesday for a Canadian man with survival training missing for more than a week in Australia's Gold Coast region. Prabhdeep Srawn of Brampton, Ont., hasn't been heard from since parking his rental car on May 13 in the village of Charlotte Pass in Kosciuszko National Park. For the last two years, the 25-year-old has been a law ...
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Australia advises on avoiding resource curse
If resource-rich developing countries can avoid the "resource curse," they could reduce their dependency on aid, said an Australian government ...
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Push by supermarkets to souce Cairns produce
The moves could also mean easier access to local produce for shoppers.Coles will bring their "Meet the Buyer'' initiative to Cairns for a Queensland-first meeting on June 4 while Woolworths launched a "Local Sourcing'' strategy this year aimed at liaising with various Far Northern suppliers. Advance Cairns chief executive officer Mark Matthews said having more Far ...
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Easy path to cycling in safety in Cairns
LOCAL cyclists say improved basic maintenance such as more frequent sweeping of the road shoulder would drastically improve safety on the region's perilous ...
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Elderly driver dies in horror head-on crash near Cairns
Emergency services were called to the crash between a Pantechtruck, which was travelling south to Townsville, and a northbound Toyota Corolla about 10am yesterday.The sole occupant of the car was killed instantly in the horror smash while the truck driver and his passenger were uninjured.Cairns South fire station officer RoydKennedy said initial reports suggested the car veered into the oncoming ...
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Agencies distrust Cairns boot camp process
The Yarrabah-based psychologist said the $2 million boot camp contract had divided youth service providers and he feared the "right people"would not bid for the job because of a lack of trust in State Government process.As revealed in The Cairns Post yesterday, Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie announced the re-opening of the tender process after dumping Safe Pathways as the boot camp ...
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Send cattle to PNG Entsch
QUEENSLAND Liberal MP Warren Entsch is seeking to export 150,000 head of Australian cattle into Papua New Guinea (PNG) using a share of AusAID funding, to help resolve the current emergency cattle feed crisis. Speaking to Fairfax Agricultural Media last week, Mr Entsch said his plan had strong backing from Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, the Cairns Chamber of Commerce and senior PNG ...
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CSG move angers industry
Senator Christine Milne said her political party was the only one standing up to big CSG mining companies that were threatening the nation's "precious water" and "valuable ...
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Buffett dumps ADM shares
US BILLIONAIRE Warren Buffett is not waiting around to see how Archer Daniels Midland's (ADM) ambitious takeover plans for GrainCorp will work out - he has quit his ADM shareholding for about $US207 million. Just a few months after revealing it had bought almost six million shares of the US agricultural giant, Buffett's investment firm Berkshire Hathaway has sold the lot, making about ...
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Quality beef suits city buyers
RELYING on pasture and homegrown hay to feed their Angus through the dry summer has proved a challenge for Kenton Creek Angus owners Grant Matthews and Marie Wickerson. Despite living at Kenton Valley in the Adelaide Hills - an area where annual rainfall averages above 750 millimetres - the lack of late spring, summer and early autumn rainfall has put their pasture management program to the ...
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Three down one to go for AACo
THE nation's largest beef producer, Australian Agricultural Company (AACo), has sold three dry land and grazing properties in central Queensland for $23 million, amid a crisis in northern Australian cattle land. The sale to the Comet Downs Cattle Company represents a $1.1 million premium to the carrying book value and comes at a time when write-downs against cattle properties are coming ...
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Chelsea flower show top prize goes to Australians for first time in 100 years
The roar may not quite have been audible back home in Victoria, but the rest of the showground could be in little doubt who was victorious. For the first time in 100 years, a garden design team ...
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Cannes Melbournes Movie Market Secures Four More Years
A part of the Melbourne International Film Festival, the market gets part of a $5.1 million state government support package from the Australian state government of ...
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NRL Expat buys into Melbourne Storm
Elite All Blacks, Major League Baseball stars, EPL footballers and top international cricketers are among the sporting heavyweights in the portfolio of Bart Campbell, the expat Kiwi sports agent whose syndicate has purchased champion NRL club Melbourne Storm. Mr Campbell, a London-based sports and contract lawyer who was educated at Otago and Auckland Universities and later at Harvard Business ...
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Hawaiian flight to Australia returns to Honolulu because of system problem
A Hawaiian Airlines flight bound for Sydney, Australia, returned to Honolulu International Airport Monday afternoon because of a system problem. KHON reports the flight returned to Honolulu after a light in the cockpit came on about an hour into the flight indicating a problem with the system. KHON reports the 246 passengers on the flight were taken to dinner in Waikiki before leaving late ...
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Australians win show garden prize
The Trailfinders Australian Garden by Fleming's Nurseries, which features plants native to the country and demonstrates sustainable landscaping in an urban setting, was also awarded a gold medal, being praised by ...
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Detainee self-harm falls but figures questioned
Self-harm rates among asylum seekers in Australian detention centres has dramatically fallen since September 2011. But an independent report by the Commonwealth and Immigration Ombudsman has lambasted the record-keeping practices of the Department of Immigration and its service provider Serco, saying they make inaccurate reporting ''practically inevitable''. On Tuesday, ...
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Teens technology law when sexting is not pornography
When three US high school students from Virginia made cellphone videos of drunken sex acts with fellow teens and shared them among themselves, they ended up in court last week facing charges usually reserved for adult predators: child pornography. The case is one of a number where teens caught ''sexting'' have been charged with a felony that can carry a sentence of 20 years ...
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Leagues under the sea could even be a celebration
crosswords. Avid readers know the order of battle just by their initials. They even have names for their tormenters: They call DA ''Don't Attempt'', NS is ''No Sweat''. When Mr Plomley joined the tribe, the late Lindsey Browne, the ...
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$25m fine means life in foreign jail
The scales of justice in Dubai are askew. Consider the case of Alicia Gali, an Australian drugged and raped by three fellow hotel employees in 2008. With four broken ribs, she reported the crime - and was promptly charged with having sex out of wedlock. She was sentenced to 12 months' jail and served the next eight months behind bars. Her attackers, charged with the same offence, were ...
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Man shot in park in Sydneys south
The 27-year-old man sustained gunshot wounds to his right hand and left thigh in a park in Mascot on Tuesday night.He has been taken to hospital, where he will undergo surgery for non-life-threatening injuries, police ...
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Penny Wong slams Australian Christian Lobby claims over gay marriage
SOUTH Australian Senator Penny Wong has condemned as "bigotry" Australian Christian Lobby comments comparing children of same-sex couples with the Stolen Generations. Ms Wong, the nation's Finance Minister who has a young daughter with her partner Sophie Allouache, says such views have "no place in modern Australia". The Christian group made the comparison in response to an ...
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Labor MPs back Kevin Rudds change of heart over gay marriage but dismiss leadership chatter
LABOR MPs have welcomed Kevin Rudd's change of heart on gay marriage but insist his public declaration is not designed to trigger another leadership challenge. The former Prime Minister's closest backers say they were "in the dark" over his embrace of same sex marriage while downplaying suggestions it was aimed at boosting his standing within Caucus. "The Kevin thing is ...
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Man denies hiding in Australia to avoid PNG fraud charges
Papua New Guinea A controversial Papua New Guinean businessman denies he had been hiding in Australia to avoid charges of misappropriating millions of dollars.Eremas Wartoto had been living in Australia since 2011 after being charged with misappropriating $3 million earmarked for a high school.He returned to PNG this month after it was revealed he had been living in Cairns on a 457 visa, which ...
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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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