OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
Escapees in 300km chase
TWO prison escapees led police on a 300-kilometre chase in a stolen four-wheel-drive through southern NSW yesterday.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
We won't pick on the obese, say airlines
VIRGIN BLUE calls it an ''impairment''. Tiger Airways prefers ''comfort or medical'' issue. But none of the major carriers in Australia has a defined policy to deal with obese or overweight passengers.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
Inmates warm to their tailor-made task for charity
THERE was a time when the bedding most associated with prisoners was knotted sheets thrown out of windows during escape attempts but a novel scheme at Bathurst jail has put the focus on a different type of bedcover.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
Acted words bring life to the written ones
NOT everyone is moved by the written word, so teachers are taking their students who are taking part in the Premier's Reading Challenge to see stories come to life.
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Paddington price for a Zetland zinger
INNER-CITY Zetland challenged its reputation as ''the poorer sister'' to Surry Hills, Paddington and Darlinghurst yesterday when 27 Portman Street was sold at auction for $811,000 - $111,000 above reserve.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
Escapees in 300km chase
TWO prison escapees led police on a 300-kilometre chase in a stolen four-wheel-drive through southern NSW yesterday.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
Report brings no joy for Marysville victim
MARYSVILLE resident Dan Walsh could not bear to watch any of the media coverage of the release of the bushfires royal commission report.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
We won't pick on the obese, say airlines
VIRGIN BLUE calls it an ''impairment''. Tiger Airways prefers ''comfort or medical'' issue. But none of the major carriers in Australia has a defined policy to deal with obese or overweight passengers.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
Sofa so good for Jones portrait
RADIO king Alan Jones has a fearsome reputation but he was content to sit and be told what to do by Alesandro Ljubicic.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
At last, closure after 78 years
THE Sydney Harbour Bridge had been open barely five months when a double fatality involving a motor vehicle occurred.
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Emergency chiefs blasted for failure of leadership
THE two people in charge of Victoria's emergency response teams went missing on the day of the Black Saturday bushfires, the royal commission into the tragedy has found.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
Self-braking car to save lives
A CAR'S crash-avoidance technology will include radar and sonar sensors to detect people and objects behind the vehicle and automatically stop the car.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
Life balance still not working
Almost 10 years after then prime minister John Howard delivered his 'barbecue stopper' line about the challenge of balancing work and family life, little has changed.
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Juggling work and toddlers leaves no time for mum
Nadia Odorico doesn't have time for small talk.
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Gillard pulls plug on solar research centre funding
The Gillard government has stopped funding Australia's solar research centre.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
Fans happy to be left with own devices as iPad sales boom
When it was released in Australia two months ago, Apple's iPad was cast as either a 'game changer', or an answer to a question that nobody had asked.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
Emergency chiefs blasted for failure of leadership
THE two people in charge of Victoria's emergency response teams went missing on the day of the Black Saturday bushfires, the royal commission into the tragedy has found.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
Govt to consult community on bushfires
The Victorian government will this week release its interim response to the final report into the Black Saturday bushfire tragedy.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
Govt to consult community on bushfires
The Victorian government will this week release its interim response to the final report into the Black Saturday bushfire tragedy.
Categorie: OCEANIA - Australia e Nuova Zelanda
Thousands fight Russian forest fires
HUNDREDS of thousands battle forest fires raging across central Russia in a heatwave that has killed more than 30 people.
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