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Thousands of new mums face mental illness
THOUSANDS of Australian babies are being born to mothers with mental health problems, according to research which highlights the need for early intervention and ...
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Racing Innes beats Aussie jockeys
Leith Innes says, no, he's not looking to establish himself in Australia despite winning Saturday's A$500,000 Doomben Cup and after comments by the Cup-winning trainer Chris Waller. Innes, on a Queensland working holiday, won the Doomben Cup on Beaten Up, one of Waller's three runners in Saturday's feature. In a late-week interview Waller said Innes had been engaged for Beaten Up ...
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Economy wide spending up in April
The prospects for Australian businesses are looking healthier, with spending across the economy rising for the eighth consecutive month.Commonwealth Bank's Business Sales Indicator (BSI) found that spending rose 0.5 per cent in trend terms in April.It was the eight month-on-month increase in a row, with spending up 4.9 per cent in April compared to a year earlier.CommSec chief economist ...
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Folau in Cooper out for Australia
Australia's coach Robbie Deans has not often been described as a risk taker and after scrutinising the Lions squad and noting their power and physicality he decided the mercurial attributes of the fly-half Quade Cooper, who is not the most eager of tacklers, would have worked more to the advantage of the opposition than the Wallabies.Cooper, who fell out with Deans last year after ...
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Vic third runway to impact on 3000 homes
MELBOURNE Airport's proposed third runway will put more than 3000 homes in Tullamarine, Gladstone Park and Broadmeadows under the new flight ...
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Hate crimes on the rise in Victoria
VICTORIA Police want tougher penalties handed out to people convicted of hate crimes after new figures show hundreds of Victorians have been the target of racial, religious or sexual ...
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Fears innovation precinct may head to Cairns
CITY leaders fear James Cook University is pushing for Cairns rather than Townsville to be the headquarters of a future Industry Innovation Precinct which has the potential to attract more than $50 million in Federal Government funding annually. Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill said she was concerned the hub was being earmarked for Cairns, despite Townsville being far better placed to host the ...
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State Grid taps into Australian power
The State Grid Corp of China (SGCC), the world's largest State utility, has agreed to buy large stakes in Australian power companies from Singapore's Temasek in a deal worth over A$5 billion ($4.93 billion), as it searches overseas for higher-yielding assets.State Grid will buy 19.9 percent of electricity supplier SP Ausnet for A$824 million, and 60 percent of energy infrastructure ...
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Voters cant decide on preferred PM poll
The latest Fairfax-Nielsen poll has Labor as the underdog to win the federal election but voters can't seem to choose a leader. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott are back on par as preferred prime minister, the poll shows. Both leaders are on 46 per cent as preferred prime minister, an eight point improvement for Ms Gillard since last month. On a ...
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PMs advice sign up to Gonski or average state school to lose $1.9m
Victorian government schools would lose $1.9 million in funding over six years on average if the states and territories do not sign up for the Gonski reforms, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Sunday. The difference in schools funding would be $16.2 billion nationally over six years, she said. ''The current funding system is broken. Schools that are teaching similar children get ...
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Labor going nowhere in latest Newspoll
The opinions of Australian voters are now entrenched and not even a federal budget promising help for the disabled and education reforms will change their minds, the latest Newspoll suggests. The Newspoll in The Australian newspaper, taken over the weekend, shows that not much has changed in previous polling going back three months except that Prime Minister Julia Gillard has narrowed the gap ...
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Railing against sidetracking history
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No penalties no work
Heather Thomas spends her weekdays at university and her weekends waiting on tables at an inner-city Sydney restaurant. But the 21-year-old says that, if a push by restaurants across Australia to end extra pay for working weekends and at night is successful, she will be among droves of workers to leave the industry. ''If I wasn't being paid adequately for a weekend I definitely ...
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New judges to ease load
Three new judges will be appointed to the Federal Court this year to ease its workload and lessen a shortage on the bench. The federal budget allocated $10.8 million over the next four years to appoint the judges, who are expected to be based in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. A spokeswoman for federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the judges will be appointed in coming months. ...
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Vale Hackforth-Jones mainstay of film and TV
Penne Hackforth-Jones, one of the nation's most recognisable actors, died on Saturday, months after being diagnosed with lung cancer. The 64-year-old appeared in almost every well-known TV series ...
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Loss of bonus will impoverish some families triple recipient
John Howard was on the baby-kissing election trail in October 2001 when he met first-time mother Vikkie Chrisoulis and held her day-old daughter, Kathryn. Less than 24 hours before visiting her maternity ward at St Vincent's Private Hospital in Melbourne he announced a baby bonus of up to $2500 would be part of the 2002 budget with payments eligible to the first child either born or ...
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Fears births will be brought forward
His concern this time is that births will be brought forward. ''Frankly, I think this is worse,'' he said. ''The delay increased birth weights, and I recall one study that showed that could be beneficial. But in this case, we are likely to suffer from earlier births, meaning lower birth weights.'' Asked at the National Press Club on Wednesday whether he ...
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X marks the spot 1000-year-old coins may prove traders visit
Five copper coins and a nearly 70-year-old map with an ''X'' could rewrite Australia's history. Ian McIntosh, an Australian scientist and professor of anthropology at Indiana University in the US, is planing an expedition in July to revisit the location where five 1000-year-old coins were found in the Northern Territory in ...
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Vic police phone taps face limits
Victoria Police appears unlikely to be able to share phone tap information with sport authorities because of its wording in a submission to the federal government. Commonwealth Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is awaiting a report from a parliamentary committee, which is considering potential reforms of the national security legislation, which includes phone intercepts. In its submission to the ...
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Beekeepers call for pesticides withdrawal
Urban beekeepers are demanding retailer Bunnings Warehouse remove all products containing the pesticide neonicotinoids, following the European Union's decision to ban it a fortnight ago. More than 16,000 people have signed an online petition calling on the hardware chain to pull popular Yates-brand pesticides off its shelves. One brand sold by Bunnings - Yates' Confidor Hose-On Lawn ...
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Vaccine fears could lead to epidemic
Concerned: 53 per cent of parents are worried about vaccination. More than 50 per cent of parents are worried about the safety of childhood vaccines, Australia's first national survey of attitudes to vaccination has revealed, prompting concerns of childhood outbreaks of disease. The NSW opposition has defended proposed changes to the law that would allow preschools and childcare centres ...
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Australias got the vision Europe
No, that's cool, we're not in Europe, we get it.But excuse us for feeling a little jealous when we see all that pageantry and - when it comes to the voting - b*stardry, and we can't have a piece of it.We reckon we could mix it with some of Europe's "finest" musical acts.Surely with Australia's Got Talent, Australian Idol, The X Factor and The Voice Australia we ...
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Lubna Al Qasimi discusses bilateral cooperation with Australia
WAM ABU DHABI, 19th May, 2013 (WAM) -- The Minister of International Cooperation and Development, Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi has discussed prospects of enhancing cooperation between the UAE and Australia in various international development and humanitarian issues. The discussions came during a meeting at the ministry in Abu Dhabi today with Australian Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, and his ...
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Two more held in Aussie missionary Graham Stains murder case
Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI Friday arrested two more persons in connection with a case in which Australian missionary Graham Stains and his two minor sons were burnt alive by a mob in ...
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Vic 12-year-old girl returns home
CHANNEL 9 have refused to apologise to the parents of a baby girl who was branded "ugly" by panellists on The Footy Show and likened to rugby league great Peter ...
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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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