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Bombers AFL CEO Ian Robson resigns
Essendon chief executive Ian Robson has resigned over the AFL club's supplements saga but the Bombers won't say whether other officials are set to follow. Robson announced his resignation on Thursday, saying he initially offered to resign when the saga first became public in February but the board wanted him to stay on to help the club through the tumultuous months that followed. ...
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Air safety body slammed over air ambulance crash investigation
The country's air-safety investigation bureau has been castigated in its handling of an inquiry into the ditching of an air-ambulance plane in the sea off Norfolk Island in November 2009. Releasing its final report on Thursday, a senate committee has called for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau to reopen its investigation into the night-time ditching of the Pel-Air Westwind jet after ...
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Report suspect chemical use Dreyfus
Here's how to tell if your neighbour could be a terrorist bombmaker. He has lots of pool chemicals but no pool, his place smells of chemicals or he has a bin full of empty chemical containers. If you are a shopkeeper you might have your suspicions raised by someone seeking to buy a large quantity of particular chemicals with cash. Launching a campaign and website to raise awareness of ...
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Harrison battling to be fit for Eels clash
Queensland State of Origin star Ashley Harrison appears to be in extreme doubt for Gold Coast's NRL clash on Sunday against Parramatta in Mudgee. The Titans lock has failed to train all week as he battles a knee complaint, leaving him in a battle to prove his fitness for the country NSW game against the Eels. Harrison will be with the team when they depart Queensland on Friday for a ...
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Qld opposition to introduce vaccine bill
QUEENSLAND'S opposition has followed the lead of its NSW counterparts to call for law changes to allow child care centres to ban unvaccinated ...
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Indigenous family centre program delays
In 2008, federal, state and territory governments agreed to set up the centres in urban, regional and remote locations with high indigenous populations to improve early childhood education access.The program is worth a total of $292.6 million.An auditor general's report said all centres were supposed to be up and running by December 2012.However, there have been delays with construction of ...
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Qld dad violently threw baby girl court
The man, 39, is facing one count of grievous bodily harm and appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday where he successfully applied for bail.During the application the court was told the man, from North Lakes, allegedly threw the five-week-old infant into her cot in a fit of rage last Friday evening.The baby, who is a twin, is critically ill in Redcliffe Hospital.Magistrate Wendy ...
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NSW premier praises Gerry Peacocke
THE NSW premier and his deputy have paid tribute to former Dubbo MP Gerry Peacocke, who died in his sleep on Wednesday night aged ...
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Qld watchdog probe of public servant OK
A FORMER top Queensland public servant has lost a long-running battle against the state's corruption watchdog for tarnishing his ...
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NSW ambos warn against scammers
THE NSW ambulance service is warning people not to engage with scammers claiming to sell fundraising advertising space in a ...
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Drunk driver admits babys crash death
A 35-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to causing the death of a baby boy while he slept in his nursery in Perth's northern ...
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SA serial rapist may die in five years
A SERIAL rapist whose offences were "every woman's worst nightmare" may be dead within five years due to severe emphysema, a South Australian Supreme Court has ...
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Qld budget takes significant hits govt
The last sitting week of parliament before the June 4 state budget was dominated by opposition questions about whether jobs will be lost and if a flood levy will be introduced.Mr Nicholls says the budget has been hit by natural disasters, slow world economic growth and a drop in mining royalties."The budget is being framed in difficult circumstances," he said."We will make the ...
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Powerful greenback pushing dollar lower
The currency is plumbing one-year lows, heading past 96.50 US cent today, after being above parity for most of the past year.As the US economic recovery gets a bit stronger, there's more talk the US Federal Reserve could soon end its program called quantitative easing (QE) - whereby it buys bonds from banks to encourage borrowing and, therefore, stoke economic growth.That's caused the ...
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Machine guns and rifles seized in NSW
Police revealed the figure as they pleaded for more help taking illicit guns off the streets.Senior officers in Sydney, scene of four gun crimes this week, launched the trans-Tasman Operation Unification on Thursday - a two-week initiative encouraging people to report illegal firearms.They did so alongside David and Cathy Knight, whose truckie dad Bob was killed in 2009 after being hit by a ...
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Families left reeling by Ford closure
The company's reach is extensive. Generations of individual Geelong families have worked for it and the brand is everywhere, including on the shirts of the local AFL team.The disappearance of jobs and the Ford corporate presence is certain to influence results at the September federal election.Labor's Darren Cheeseman holds Corangamite on a margin of just 0.3 per cent and even his ALP ...
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West Australia govt retains Mitchells and OMD
Incumbents Mitchell & Partners and OMD have been re-appointed by the West Australian Government for the provision of campaign advertising services following a competitive pitch. The pitch for the $33.8m account ...
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Writing had been on the wall for Ford
THE decision has just been announced, but the writing was on the wall for Ford's Australian manufacturing arm as far back as 2009. Two years before that, in July 2007, Ford announced it would close its Geelong engine plant with the loss of 600 jobs. The plant makes the venerable six-cylinder engine that has been around since the first Falcon rolled off the Ford production line in 1960 but, ...
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Tame Impala up for Song Of The Year
TAME Impala are in pole position for the prestigious 2013 APRA Song Of The Year award, winning two nominations with their hits Elephant and Feels Like We Only Go Backwards. The acclaimed rockers will face competition from Guy Sebastian, rising lyricist Courtney Barnett and folk chanteuse Mia Dyson when the APRA Awards are announced at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre on Monday, June ...
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Hawks star Franklin defends bar outburst
Hawthorn AFL star Lance Franklin says he was verbally attacked by the woman who accused him of rude, intimidating behaviour in a Melbourne bar.Former fashion designer Nicky Rowsell called Franklin an "absolute disgrace of a human being" after a confrontation on Saturday night.She said that Franklin had stood over her and yelled in her face.After she contacted the Hawthorn AFL club, ...
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Ford to cease Australian manufacturing
Ford will end its Australian manufacturing operations in three years, resulting in 1200 job losses at its two Victorian plants.The carmaker's plants at Broadmeadows in Melbourne's north and Geelong, west of Melbourne, will close their doors in October 2016, resulting in the loss of 650 and 510 jobs respectively.Ford Australia president and CEO Bob Graziano says the cost of ...
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$A lower after China data Fed comments
Disappointing Chinese manufacturing figures and comments from the US central bank boss have sent the Australian dollar to a fresh one-year low.The local unit went as low as 96.28 US cents on Thursday morning, its weakest level since June 2012.At 1200 AEST, it was trading at 96.40 US cents, down from 97.82 cents on Wednesday.Recent speculation that the Federal Reserve was considering winding back ...
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Australian cops targeting illegal firearms
Australians are being asked to dob in anyone they suspect has illegal firearms.The nation's police forces and their New Zealand counterparts are part of Operation Unification, a two-week blitz on illegal firearms.Crime Stoppers and the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA) are part of the crackdown which was launched in Melbourne on Thursday.Chair of the ANZPAA Crime ...
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Carbon tax a factor in Ford exit Lib MP
Ford Australia boss Robert Graziano has announced the company will cease manufacturing in Australia by October 2016 with the loss of 1,200 ...
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In Conversation Australias other migrant workers
In a recent post for The Conversation which appeared on the SBS World News Australia website, Dr Shanthi Robertson highlighted the long-term but temporary, 'invisible' group of workers made up of backpackers and international students. She groups them together as Australia's 'other migrant workers', and is calling for more political and public recognition of this ...
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Melbourne will be IT capital of country
Melbourne has been selected by the federal government as the location where the NBN’s operations centre will be headquartered, setting the stage for the city to become the IT, technology and communications capital of Australia.
Melbourne has a long-running rivalry with Sydney and, to a lesser degree, Perth. The two biggest cities in Australia competed intensely to be designated the capital in the early 20th century and Canberra was built from scratch and designated the national capital in large part because of such rivalry, but now Melbourne is set to have something that Sydney will not, the city has been officially chosen as the centre of operations for the ground-breaking National Broadband Network. Analysts and city leaders see the decision as one which will in time make Melbourne the IT hub of the country. Read more
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