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Fish market fined for seafood ripoffs
18 April 2007
One of the biggest fish retailers in the Illawarra, in southern New South Wales, has been caught ripping off consumers by replacing local seafood with a cheaper imported product.
The Shellharbour S...
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Population growth of Tasmania creeping up.
18 April 2007
Tasmania''s population is still growing, but only just.
The Bureau of Statistics has released new figures showing the state''s population at the end of September last year was 489,600.
That was ...
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Adelaide Parklands heritage listing urgent.
18 April 2007
The National Trust of Australia is calling for Victoria Park to be state heritage listed immediately.
It has announced that Adelaide''s Parklands are rated at the top of South Australia''s heritage...
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New home boom in Canberra
18 April 2007
The number of new homes built in Canberra this financial year is expected to have made almost a 30% increase.
A Housing Industry Association report shows the recovery in the new home market is expe...
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Rare Gallipoli footage uncovered
18 April 2007
The Australian War Memorial has found one minute of rare footage taken at Gallipoli in 1915.
The film features the only known pictures of Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and British soldiers...
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Rain brings Perth''s wettest day
17 April 2007
SUNDAY''S downpour brought Perth its wettest day in nearly two years with a recording of 40.4mm of rain between 9am Sunday and 9am Monday.
June 2005 was the last time that Perth had similar rain am...
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Dingo attacks girl on Fraser Island
17 April 2007
A fouryearold girl has been attacked by a dingo on Fraser Island off the southeast Queensland coast.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says the child was bitten on the thigh, buttocks and ...
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Quantas could be undone by bigger debt say observers.
17 April 2007
A report in this morning''s Sydney Morning Herald says that the revealing that the private equity suitors of Qantas have left the door open to take as much as $4.5 billion from the company have prompt...
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Do you want to go to Fiji tomorrow?
17 April 2007
With the budget of Fiji Visitors Bureau having been dramatically cut, travel operators and properties wanting to attract Australian business to Fiji have put their resources together and organised th...
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A stroll in Byron Bay
17 April 2007
Take a walk through the centre of the pretty township of Byron Bay and it''s not difficult to see to see how the local voices have kept serious developers at bay.
Byron Bay has kept hold of it''s ...
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Emirates deal to bring more tourists to Australia.
17 April 2007
Emirates Airlines and Etihad Airways, both based in the Middle East, will potentially carry twice the number of passengers to Australia by 2011 by having the Australian and UAE governments sign an air...
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Australia in tourism survey top 20.
14 March 2007
Because of its excellent air transport network and the many natural wonders it possesses, Australia has received a top 20 place in a major international tourism survey.
From 124 countries surveyed,...
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Tourists should be weary of Australian dangers
05 February 2007
Over five million tourists visit Australia each year, 800,000 of them British, and most will return home safely, however Australia can be a far more dangerous place to visit than overseas visitors are...
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Brits attracted by the Australian sun.
15 December 2006
It is estimated that Australia is now home to about 1.3 million Britons which makes it the leading destination for those Britons wanting to start a new life overseas.
Australia offers a lifestyle t...
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Plumber finds 7foot long Python in womans toilet
14 December 2006
In Australia, a plumber who had been called out to unblock a womans toilet, found more than he bargained for when he discovered a 7 foot python coiled in the pipes.
A wildlife officer, from the Nor...
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New South Wales gets tough with new dog laws
25 October 2006
New legislation has been introduced today in the New South Wales parliament to impose tough new dog laws that will give councils the authority to pronounce dogs dangerous or restricted, despite the fa...
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UK has Australia at number one again.
04 June 2006
Travellers from the UK have given a massive boost to the Australian industry for tourism in the most recent Lonely Planet poll after voting Australia as the destination they would like to visit the mo...
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