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Rugby Lions ready for what Aussies hurl at them
The Lions are ready for widespread rugby battles across Australia and have pledged to continue those tussles with reasoned arguments during their off-field skirmishes too. The tourists leave on Monday and take with them a promise to match the propaganda delivered by the Australian media. "I understand the Australian psyche a fair bit and [assistant coach] Andy Farrell helps me ...
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Gillard to visit Sydneys west
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is visiting Sydney's politically crucial west for the second time in less than a week.Ms Gillard will on Saturday attend an event at Rosehill with western Sydney Labor MPs and ALP candidates for September's federal election, a spokeswoman from the Prime Minister's office says.Ms Gillard plans to fly out of Sydney on Sunday morning.On Wednesday, the ...
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3D-printed gun malfunctions ‘will kill at both ends’ – Australian police
An officer from the NWS Police holding the remnants of a Liberator pistol after it exploded upon testing. Image taken from NSWPolice YouTube ...
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Northrop adds Australian suppliers
Three Australian companies have joined Northrop Grumman's global supply chain network, gaining $7.4 million in contracts. The U.S. company said the companies selected under the Australian Defense and Materiel Organization's Global Supply Chain Program are Electro Optic Systems, CEA Technologies and Insitec. Those companies, with expertise in aerospace hardware and software, will ...
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Hedge funds bet on Aussie dollar slide
By Laurence Fletcher LONDON | Fri May 24, 2013 12:12pm EDT LONDON May 24 (Reuters) - Hedge funds hungry for trade ideas after the success of their bets on Japan's recovery have been turning their attention to the Australian dollar, betting the end of the commodities boom will drive down the currency. Funds have been watching for signs of weakness in the Aussie dollar, which was one ...
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Evans to lead BMC in Le Tour
Cadel Evans will lead BMC Racing at the 2013 Tour de France, team president Jim Ochowicz has announced.The 36-year-old Australian has been chosen ahead of team-mate Tejay van Garderen, despite the fact that the American finished ahead of him in last year's Tour.Evans, who in 2011 became the first Australian to win cycling's most famous event, finished seventh last time out, with the ...
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Canberra to host vital FIBA Oceania Championship matches
May 24 - Canberra will host the decisive 2013 FIBA Oceania Championships between Australia and New Zealand this August - ahead of 17th FIBA Basketball World Cup to be held in Spain and Turkey next year, it has been announced. The double header - to take place in the nation's capital as part of Canberra's centenary - will feature the Australian Boomers and Jayco Australian Opals taking ...
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New clues about location of Ontario hiker missing in Australia
Rescuers searching for a missing Brampton, Ont., man in the mountains of southeastern Australia have clues he may have taken a different route than originally thought. ...
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Sydney beat Collingwood in AFL clash
Sydney's Adam Goodes was visibly distressed after an apparent racial taunt from a fan marred his side's 47-point victory over Collingwood in the AFL round-nine clash at the MCG on Friday night. Sydney won 15.12 (102) to 8.7 (55) with Goodes in tremendous form in the opening match of the AFL's Indigenous Round, kicking three goals and gathering 30 possessions. However the dual ...
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Video refs baffle Cowboys after NRL loss
North Queensland coach Neil Henry was left "bitter and twisted" after a series of overturned video referee decisions cruelled his side in the Wests Tigers' last-gasp 22-20 NRL win on Friday night. The Tigers snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 78th minute David Nofoaluma try in horrendous wet weather at Leichhardt Oval. It was a brave victory for an injury-hit Tigers ...
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ASX pointed higher despite soft leads
Bears waking up? The market lost more than $50 billion in two days. Australian shares reversed early gains to post another big sell-off as faltering banks and market volatility around the region hit investor sentiment. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index fell 76.5 points, or 1.5 per cent, to 4964.3, ending below 5000 points for the first time since April 22. The broader All Ords slumped ...
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Not appy mobile parking system dials up driver ire
Frustrated city drivers have challenged Melbourne's smartphone car parking application, complaining the system lacks dispute-resolution channels and the city council is stonewalling appeals against fines. Fined motorists say there is a lack of communication between the Parkmobile app providers and city parking officials, and procedures to resolve disputed fines are unclear, time consuming ...
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Man charged over child pornography seizure
A Shepparton man has been charged with possessing child pornography, after police seized computers and hard drives allegedly containing more than 6000 images and videos of illegal material. The 44-year-old man has been charged with using a carriage service to access and make child pornography available to others. The man is expected to face the Shepparton Magistrates Court on Friday. The ...
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Canberra Mornings Live Friday May 24
That was the last Canberra Mornings blog for this week. Hope you have a great weekend. The live blog will be back at 6.30am on Monday, with the fabulous Lucy Rickard in the driver's seat. I'll leave you with a quick wrap of the major headlines. - The soldier killed in the alleged terrorist attack in ...
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Urgent evacuation of Russian Arctic post
Moscow: Russia has ordered the urgent evacuation of the 16-strong crew of a drifting Arctic research station after the ice floe that hosts the floating laboratory began to disintegrate. Natural Resources and Ecology Minister Sergei Donskoi on Thursday set a three-day deadline to draft a plan to evacuate the North Pole-40 station. "The destruction of the ice has put at risk the ...
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Lost Australian cruise ship passenger remembered as hero who died attempting to rescue girlfriend
Two police officers check for fingerprints on the balcony of the cabin of two passengers who fell overboard from the cuise ship Carnival Spirit as it returned to Sydney from a Pacific cruise, on May 9, ...
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Is Australia the Face of Climate Change to Come
leaving 24 people dead. Each of these one-off traumas was bad enough, wreaking havoc, but in Australia such events seem to be becoming commonplace. The Lucky Country has experienced a major spike in extreme weather in the past few years, with a string of devastating incidents just since January. That has people wondering if the island continent is somehow a perfect bellwether for the ...
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Discredited vaccination claims injected into GP training
General practitioners are receiving government-mandated training by doctors who claim vaccines are linked to autism and temper tantrums can be treated by delaying immunisation. The body that oversees doctors will investigate how the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), which represents more than 20,000 GPs, could have approved the course as part of its ...
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Piccoli fires back in Coalition bust-up over education
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has returned fire at his federal Coalition colleagues over education funding, warning schools in this state would be worse off under Tony Abbott's policy and defending his own government's decision to sign up to the Gonski deal. He also urged other states to sign up for Labor's funding offer. Federal opposition education spokesman ...
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Artists flag fresh symbols of a nations hope and ideals
Asking a country to change its flag is like asking a country to change its name - so bonded is a nation to its flag, it's rarely changed except in circumstances of upheaval, says the editor of the literary ...
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Retracing the fall of the car industry
An Australian classic: the 1971 Ford Falcon XY GTHO. In the mid-1960s, when Australia's trade minister Sir John McEwen was urging Holden and Ford to seek export markets in Asia, the leader of one of Asia's poorest countries decided his country needed a car industry. Defying the advice of economists, he ordered the country's biggest company to start making cars - with Ford's ...
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On the wings of a departing Falcon
A few years later the company invented the ute. The 1934 Ford Coupe Utility was - as legend has it - spurred into development by the wife of a farmer who wrote to Ford asking for a "vehicle to go to church in on a Sunday, and which can carry our pigs to market on Mondays". The Falcon arrived in 1960. The first Falcon, the XK, was derived from a US product, but hit the right note with ...
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Joyce seeks bail as wife pleads for accuser to set record straight
''Life sentence'': Matt Joyce. Condemned to a ''life sentence'', in the words of his wife, Matt Joyce will plead with Dubai authorities to extend his bail while he appeals against a 10-year jail term and $25 million fine for property fraud. Angela Higgins is calling on her husband's main accuser, fellow Australian David Brown, to have the courage ...
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Hazel - a rock stars rock a nations role model
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Hollow promises an enduring tragedy
John Pat's death was to be the catalyst for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Begun in 1987, the inquiry spent almost four years and more than $40 million investigating 99 deaths, 32 of them in Western Australia. Twenty-five years later, Kwementyaye Briscoe's death was to prove that, far from breaking the vicious cycle of indigenous abuse and neglect in ...
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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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