Hajnal Ban bid for Canberra
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
A QUEENSLAND councillor who endured a dramatic medical procedure to have her legs lengthened will make a bid for federal parliament for the LNP.
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Launceston, Melbourne, Glenrowan, Wagga, Yass & Canberra . . .
Stiller's Zac's Place Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Sat here in Canberra at the home of Glenn and Ros, eventually getting chance to pause for breath and it's all a bit sureal. Just twelve months ago they returned home to Aus after having spent nearly three years with us Zac's Place. Now it seems I have just nipped out the door and called around for coffee. In fact it's seemed like that for much of the last week or so catching up with so many from the...
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Campaign goes to Canberra
Tax cuts will go ahead: Rudd (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
THE Save the Mary River Co-ordinating Group has marked the recent National Water Week with a campaign to take its fight against the dam to Canberra.
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Gap year opens door to university of life
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
WHEN Eleanor Osborne, 19, completed school in Canberra last year she enrolled in a combined bachelor of arts/law degree - but there was a catch.
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Another doomster who got it expensively wrong...
Australian Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Another doomster who got it expensively wrong University of Western Sydney academic Steve Keen made a name for himself with forecasts of economic doom, predicting a 40% decline in Australian house prices. Keen put his money where his mouth is, selling his unit in Surry Hills in October last year for $526,000. In November last year, Macquarie Bank’s Rory Robertson raised the stakes, proposing...
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Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian interest rates are expected to rise again next week with new figures showing inflation was higher than expected for the September quarter. Australia became the first major economy to boost rates since the onset of the global economic crisis when ... BERN, Switzerland — The Swiss government said that Italian authorities acted in “discriminatory”...
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ROAD SAFETY * * Australia - Lindsay Fox part of commitment
trucks world news (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Canberra,ACT,Australia - ATN -6 Nov 2009: ... Meeting today, the Australian Transport Council (ATC) , also used the meeting to appoint trucking magnate Lindsay Fox as a road safety ambassador to assist the National Road Safety Council . .. Fox will join three other ambassadors – former AFL star David Wirrpanda, Sunrise host Melissa Doyle and radio presenter Neil Mitchell... Ministers appointed...
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Hoopfeed Daily Twitter Digest for 2009-11-06
hoopfeed.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Game thread: No. 16 Seattle Pacific at Washington (Seattle Times) http://j.mp/1Auz4y #ncaaw 08:30:05 NC State: Pack women regroup (NewsObserver.com) http://j.mp/4ixjwj #ncaaw 09:00:21 Michigan State: Women's basketball defeats Wayne State 79-47 in exhibition http://j.mp/2AITH3 #ncaaw 12:24:56 Baylor Continues exhibition play tomorrow http://j.mp/4xCo5n I'll be there seeing Brittney Griner for the...
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Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Fast Post Australia wide - AudioBooks in stock - not ordered in from a publisher like most online Audio Book retailers. The House of Oojah We sell Audiobooks Australia and world wide. We have posted Audio Books to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Adelaide, Geelong, Bendigo, Albury-Wodonga, Wollongong, Central Coast, Newcastle, Port MaQuarie, Coffs Harbour, Northern Rivers, Gold Coast,...
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Dollar's up, so we're nicking off
Peter Martin (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
AS THE RESERVE BANK SEES IT . Outbound tourism up 17 per cent since January . Australian dollar the world's strongest currency this year . Resource exports back on track . Inflation to ease . GDP "speed limit" lifted . Interest rate increases "gradual" RBA Statement on monetary policy, November 2009 Australians are leaving the country as never before. The soaring Aussie dollar...
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Tanner: Gershon savings to hit $1 billion in 4 years
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Federal Government agency efforts to improve their use of ICT as part of Gershon Review changes will result in savings of more than $1 billion over the next four years, Minister for Finance and Deregulation Lindsay Tanner has claimed. In a statement, Tanner said the second round of the business as usual budget reduction program had been completed with "savings of close to $430 million identified...
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Remember, Remember the 6th of November
The Monarchist (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The antipodean hills are alive with the sound of republican defeat on the 10th anniversary of Australia's referendum to depose the Queen. Her Majesty won a resounding mandate, handily taking every state in a contested result that politicians can only dream of matching at the ballot box. Australia has stuck us with the Queen Toronto Star - Martin Regg Cohn - Nov 3, 2009 I would like nothing...
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It’s coloquial, mate
jonbounds/blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Lots of good clean fun on Twitter this morning where Paul Miller (@rellimluap) pointed to an “Australian Fix My Street“. It’s just a mock-up, created at the Canberra govhack hack day, but it’s great — mainly because of it’s title: A lovely dose of self-aware humour “it’s buggered mate” — which I think is an important [...]
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Catholic professor compares atheists to a plague of moths and blowflies
The Freethinker (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
EVER hear of bogong moths? Well, neither had I until earlier this week when I learned from Professor Greg Craven, Vice-Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University, that they are major pest in the Canberra region – and that, in plague terms, they are pretty much like atheists. Writing in The Age, Craven said: FROM time immemorial, this [...]
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Oslo Peace Scholarship at ANU, Australia
2009 2010International Scholarships (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Oslo Peace Scholarship The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo and The Australian National University's Department of International Relations, in partnership with Bjørknes College, are offering a scholarship for Master of International Affairs specialising in Peace and Conflict. The program brings together academics at the forefront of international relations, peace,and conflict research...