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November |
Sydney voted top place to eat - ONE of the biggest selling newspapers in the US has declared Sydney the best place on earth to eat. more...
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Queensland gets tough on doctors
- A SPECIAL taskforce has been created to assess overseas-trained as
part of the Queensland Government's plan to improve the standard of
overseas-trained doctors and nurses entering the state's health system.
more...
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Special visas for Commonwealth Games
- AUSTRALIA will have special visa arrangements in place for the
accredited Commonwealth Games Family Members for the period extending
from 15 February 2006 to one month after the Games. more...
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You save on medicines - THE Australian
Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has revised
its policy statement PS176 to make it easier for wholesale
foreign financial services providers (FFSPs) to operate
in the Australian market. more...
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New agreements sideline unions
- A MAJOR battle is emerging as the Australian Government takes on the
labor opposition and trade unions over its plan to introduce individual
workers agreements which willl side-line the trade unions. more...
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West tops the list for job vacancies - WESTERN Australia is arguably the best state in Australia to secure employment. more...
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National schools ranking - Exams for Year 12
- STATES will have their Year 12 English, maths, physics and chemistry
courses ranked in order of excellence in an attempt to stop "dumbed
down" curriculums short changing Australian students. more...
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Sydney houses 'are too dear'
- SYDNEY property is too expensive and young homebuyers would be better
served by going somewhere more affordable, says the Reserve Bank
governor, Ian Macfarlane. more...
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Great dive trips in SA - GONE is the fear that storms bought to sailors as they roared past the southern tip of Yorke Peninsula. more...
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September |
Role
swap could ease tension - MEN should swap their
role as breadwinner for the "mummy track" employment path
and end relationship tensions over work and family, according
to a national discussion paper. more...
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House
prices set for a big drop - RESERVE Bank governor
Ian Macfarlane warned there was a 50 per cent chance that
interest rates could rise further and that housing prices
could fall further, especially in Sydney. more...
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Review
of migration law - AUSTRALIA'S immigration laws
should be reviewed in the wake of the London bombings
and those who promote hatred should be deported, according
to an overwhelming number of respondents to the latest
Westpoll. more...
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Easier
for overseas provided to operate - THE Australian
Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has revised
its policy statement PS176 to make it easier for wholesale
foreign financial services providers (FFSPs) to operate
in the Australian market. more...
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Millionaires
are on the increase - AUSTRALIA is producing
an average of 47 new millionaires every day - the fourth-fastest
rate in the world - according to an international analysis
of the super rich by global financial services providers
Merrill Lynch and Capgemini. more...
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Jobless
rate at 29-year low - EMPLOYERS took on an extra
12,700 workers in July, extending the extraordinary boom
in employment into its llth month. more...
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More
to Canberra than politics - CANBERRA, the national
capital of Australia, is a unique place where city style
meets the beauty of the Australian bush, and Canberra
offers plenty to do and see for everyone! more...
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August |
Heat
is rising around the country - THE Australian Bureau
of Statistics has confirmed time - the country is getting
hotter. more...
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New
ID plans cover passports, licenses - AUSTRALIANS
could be fingerprinted or photographed as part of a national
identity card, with Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone giving
conditional support to the controversial plan. more...
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Migrants
help boost economy - AUSTRALIA'S Migration Programme
is delivering results according to the new report, 'Immigration
in a Time of Domestic Skilled Shortages: Skilled Movements
in 2003-04,' by Dr Bob Birrell and colleagues of Monash University.
more...
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Aussies
getting even richer and faster - THE number of millionaires
in Australia jumped last year to 134,000, with more than 17,000
joining the ranks of the "high net worth individual" - and
that's in US dollars. more...
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Teachers
to be tested - ALL Queensland teachers will have
to prove they are competent to remain in the classroom under
tough reforms which will force them to reregister and undergo
criminal history checks every five years. more...
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Booming
Mandurah has best of both worlds - WESTERN Australia
looks like becoming the star performer for its economic strength
and buoyant housing market. more...
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Experience
historic rail travel in Tasmania - RAILWAY buffs
are beating a path to western Tasmania to experience one
of the world's most picturesque and unusual railway journeys
- the 35km line between Queenstown and Strahan. more...
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July |
Proposed
law will offer right to die - TERMINALLY ill people
will have a legally recognised right to die under new laws
proposed by the State Government. more...
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Workers
hit on $17 week rise - AUSTRALIA'S 1.6 million lowest-paid
workers will receive a $17-a-week pay rise under the Australian
Industrial Relations Commission's national safety net wage finding.
more...
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Oz
population hits 20m mark - AUSTRALIA is now officially
a country of 20 million people. more...
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Migrants
help to boost boom in WA - WESTERN AUSTRALIA'S booming
population should boost the local real estate market, according
to Ryan Dhue, executive director of The Mortgage Gallery. more...
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Aussies
are now even richer - NO WONDER Australians are confident
about the future - we are the richest we have ever been. Thanks
to the booming property market over the past decade and a resurgent
sharemarket, every man, woman and child has a net worth of $250,000,
compared with $125,000 in 1997, a joint report by the Treasury
and Bureau of Statistics has found. more...
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The
demon drink still lives - AUSTRALIA has always been
a nation of heavy drinkers, but a new study has finally attached
a dollar value to our thirst for alcohol - about $80 out of
a family's budget every week. more...
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New
innovations improve skiing - AS USUAL there has been
frenetic activity in the off-season at all the ski fields in
Australia, with lots of innovations for the season ahead. more...
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June |
Health
epidemic around corner - THERE is a new epidemic facing
Australia. New international guidelines for metabolic syndrome,
a cluster of symptoms that predisposes you to heart disease
and diabetes, mean a million more Australians have the syndrome
than previously thought. more...
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It
boom time for jobs - THE Australian jobs story just
keeps getting better, with new figures showing the strongest
growth in jobs in the nation's history. more...
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Help
to get skills checked - THE Australian Government plans
to establish a national skills web portal to help new arrivals
and potential skilled migrants get their overseas skills and
qualifications recognised in Australia. more...
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Strong
growth for car market - THE Australian car market continues
to grow, with record April sales driving the market ahead of
last year's results. more...
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Plan
to get more off welfare - A MASSIVE $3.6 billion overhaul
of the welfare system is aimed at getting more people into work
to meet the nation's growing demand for labour. more...
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Mixed
views on WA population increase - A CALL for Western
Australia to increase its population radically to 100 million
- 50 times the current level - has been dismissed as absolute
lunacy and out of touch with reality. more...
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Find
natural, man-made wonders in Sydney - QUEENSLAND is
Australia's second largest State in area, occupying a little
over 22 per cent of Australia's total landmass. Around 3.8 million
people call Queensland home, representing around 19 per cent
of Australia's total population. more...
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May |
Aussies
happy - UK rates high - AUSTRALIANS may rubbish the
UK but it's one of their favourite countries, with 86 per cent
having positive feelings towards Britain. more...
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Shortages
drive bosses up pole - WESTERN Power, one of Western
Australia's biggest employers, is planning to use skilled foreign
workers to do key maintenance work. more...
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Family
visitor visa may need bond - THE SPONSORED Family Visitor
visa (also known as the subclass 679 visa) is intended to be
used by all people seeking to go to Australia to visit family.
more...
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Health
insurance can be lifesaver - PRIVATE health insurance
is very popular in Australia with some nine million people,
nearly 50 per cent of the population, a member of one of the
several official funds operating in the country. All of them,
from the largest to the smallest are overseen and have to be
approved by the Federal Government. more...
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Young
stay in family nest - NOT all baby boomers are empty
nesters downsizing to trendy apartments. Some are defying present
property trend forecasts by hanging on to their large suburban
home or building a new one with separate quarters for their
adult children. more...
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Aussie
workers well paid - WORKERS in Australia are among
the best paid in the world and their standard of living has
improved over the past eight years, Peter Costello claimed,
citing research by the OECD. more...
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Find
beauty and adventure together in Blue Mountains - MORE
than three million people venture to the Blue Mountains National
Park in New South Wales each year. more...
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April |
Aussies
like their shares - SHARES are growing in popularity
in Australia and more than 600,000 Australians - most of them
middle-income earners - had bought into the local share market
in the past 12 months, according to an Australian Stock Exchange
share ownership study. more...
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Loan
rates up as jobs surge - SURGING employment growth
is continuing unabated, underlying the economy's strength and
maintaining pressure on the Reserve Bank to consider another
rise in interest rates after last month's 0.25 per cent rise.
more...
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Move
to beach gaining speed - A VACANT home site on the
Gold Coast has sold for $9.5 million - a Queensland record.
The 3500sqm waterfront site in a canal development at Sovereign
Islands was bought by an expatriate Australian living in London.
Land prices here average $2 million. more...
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Double
grant in Victoria - FIRST home buyers in Victoria can
get the State Government's cash bonus of $5000, plus a $7000
grant from the Federal Government. more...
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Business
plea for migrants - BUSINESS leaders have urged Prime
Minister John Howard to deliver a dramatic increase in skilled
migration by boosting the annual intake to 180,000 over the
next five years, to help clear the capacity bottlenecks which
have driven up interest rates. more...
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Adelaide
best for new ideas - SOUTH Australian businesses have
been found in an Australian Bureau of Statistics survey to be
leading the nation in their use of innovation. more...
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Aust
seniors are happiest in world - THE current crop of
retired Australians are the most contented senior citizens in
the world. more...
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Australia's
high tax - families badly hit - THE average Australian
worker, supporting a family of two children on one income, has
the second-highest marginal tax rate in the developed world,
a new report has found. more...
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Tasmania
for fun and games - See nature at her best - IF YOU
have a thirst for adventure head for Tasmania where you can
get your thrills abseiling down a cliff face hundreds of metres
above a wild beach, or by getting close and personal with a
Tasmanian devil dining out. more...
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March |
National
ID card system on the way - THE identity of Australians
could be subjected to unprecedented scrutiny under the biggest
security protection plan since the failed Australia Card. more...
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Home
rates on way up - INTEREST rates are expected to be
increased in Australia this month, probably by quarter per cent.
But the even worse news is that they are expected to go up again,
by a further quarter per cent in May. more...
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Moves
boost migration to regional Victoria - THE number of
migrants settling in Victoria, particularly regional areas,
is set to increase further as a result of new migration initiatives.
more...
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Check
your past - A NEW kit developed by the National Archives
will allow migrants and their families access to information
about their arrival in Australia, the Minister for Immigration,
Senator Amanda Vanstone, said. more...
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Adelaide
offers best of beach and hills - SOUTH Australia and
its sophisticated capital city, Adelaide are increasingly being
chosen as the ideal location to live and do business. The State
is home to approximately 1.5 million people. more...
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Clamp
on money scams - INTERNET payment systems such as PayPal
and e-gold face extra regulation as part of a legislative package
designed to stop terrorists and criminals laundering cash through
offshore bank accounts. more...
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Help
with costs of childcare - IF YOU need help with the
costs of approved child care, you may be able to get a Family
Assistance Office payment called Child Care Benefit. more...
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January |
Team
sports fall out of favour - MORE and more people are
showing an appetite for "fastfood sports". more...
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More
migrants plea - AUSTRALIA'S leading business industry
body, the Business Council of Australia has again come out saying
that Australia needs more migrants to counter the ageing population.
more...
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You
must have a return visa - A RESIDENT Return visa (RRV)
is valid for three months or five years (depending on circumstances).
It allows Australian permanent residents to travel to and from
Australia as often as they wish within the validity of the visa,
while maintaining their status as permanent residents. more...
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You
can visit for health care - AUSTRALIA has an excellent
health system with public and private hospitals in all cities
and major towns. more...
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Students
near top in main subjects - AUSTRALIAN school students
are among the best in the world at reading, maths and science,
with West Australian and South Australian pupils outperforming
their eastern State rivals. more...
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Young
boost fortunes for S.A. - YOUNG South Australians are
driving the State to record levels of personal optimism, with
the majority of consumers believing the future is looking brighter,
a major new survey shows. more...
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See
the secrets of Middle Earth - EXPERIENCE the fantastic
world of Middle-earth with the international blockbuster The
Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy - The Exhibition at
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum this summer, until end-March. more...
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