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Bruce
In The News

The Budget 2025

The federal Treasurer has just delivered the 2025 budget. It’s a budget he didn’t expect to give, we were supposed to be in the middle of...
/australia#budget#federal-government
0 276 1
2025-03-26 01:19:18 UTC
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Bruce
Science & Environment: In The News

Pretty Dire in North Queensland

The situation in north eastern Queensland is looking pretty serious at the moment. The local ABC radios have gone into emergency broadcas...
/australia#floods
4 381 6
2025-02-02 20:44:48 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

Cash must be accepted - government to legislate

The Assistant Treasurer (and my local MP) has said that the government will legislate that certain businesses must accept cash. ...
/australia/cash
7 289 3
2024-12-27 10:07:52 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

ACT Liberal Leader Upset with the Press

The ACT elections are on Saturday and the leader of the ACT Liberal Party gave the press the bird. Way to go after 23 years in oppositio...
/australia/election/rude
0 320 1
2024-10-18 10:26:12 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

Round Australia in 30 Days

Professional cyclist Lachlan Morton rode around the country, cycling over 14000km in 30 days, nine hours and 59 minutes. The NSW-based c...
/australia/cycling#records#bicycle
2 351 2
2024-10-06 17:26:05 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

NT to Lower Age of Criminal Resposibility to 10 years

The Country Liberal Party’s (CLP) incoming law will make the NT Australia’s first jurisdiction to lower the age of criminal responsibilit...
/australia/crime#nt
3 387 6
2024-10-06 13:57:26 UTC
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Bruce
Science & Environment: In The News

Pretty Dire in North Queensland

The situation in north eastern Queensland is looking pretty serious at the moment. The local ABC radios have gone into emergency broadcas...
/australia#floods
4 381 6
2025-02-02 20:44:48 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

Round Australia in 30 Days

Professional cyclist Lachlan Morton rode around the country, cycling over 14000km in 30 days, nine hours and 59 minutes. The NSW-based c...
/australia/cycling#records#bicycle
2 351 2
2024-10-06 17:26:05 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

ACT Liberal Leader Upset with the Press

The ACT elections are on Saturday and the leader of the ACT Liberal Party gave the press the bird. Way to go after 23 years in oppositio...
/australia/election/rude
0 320 1
2024-10-18 10:26:12 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

Cash must be accepted - government to legislate

The Assistant Treasurer (and my local MP) has said that the government will legislate that certain businesses must accept cash. ...
/australia/cash
7 289 3
2024-12-27 10:07:52 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

The Budget 2025

The federal Treasurer has just delivered the 2025 budget. It’s a budget he didn’t expect to give, we were supposed to be in the middle of...
/australia#budget#federal-government
0 276 1
2025-03-26 01:19:18 UTC
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Omah
TV & Film: In The News

I'm A Celebrity 2022 - Jill is Crowned

The first famous faces have been seen touching down in Australia ahead of this year’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!. Former Ra...
/australia/im-a-celebrity-2022
264 3907 284
2022-12-01 11:04:08 UTC
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Bruce
Politics & Govt: In The News

Incompetent Liberals

The Liberal Party (Australia’s equivalent of the UK Tory conservative party) has missed the deadline for nominating candidates in the upc...
/australia/election#local-authorities
20 1633 98
2024-09-04 08:07:07 UTC
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Omah
In The News

Outcry as Australian police taser 95-year-old care home resident

An elderly woman with dementia is in hospital with life-threatening head injuries after being tasered by police at her aged care home. O...
/australia/police#taser#95-year-old/care-home-resident
91 1244 65
2025-05-10 00:18:07 UTC
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Omah
Technology: In The News

Australia - Victorian MP Georgie Purcell criticizes Nine News for ‘sexist’ image editing of her breasts and midriff

Victorian upper house MP Georgie Purcell has lashed Nine News in Melbourne for using an image edited to make her breasts look bigger and ...
/australia#victoria#mp-georgie-purcell#image-editing
8 1192 12
2024-02-03 01:09:52 UTC
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Omah
Pets & Animals: In The News

Australia - Sydney to Hobart yacht race - Sylph VI with Oli the cat finishes

When retired navy officer Bob Williams applied to enter the race for the first time this year, there was never any question Oli would be ...
/australia/2023#sydney-to-hobart#yacht-race#sylph-vi#oli-the-cat
0 1148 9
2024-01-04 00:04:56 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

The Right to "Turn Off" now the Law

From today, plenty of Australian workers will be looking forward to switching off. That’s when the new “right to disconnect” laws come i...
/australia/work
11 860 34
2024-09-11 05:50:37 UTC
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Bruce
Health & Diet: In The News

Fifth Covid Booster Available soon

From February 20, people 18 and over who have not had a COVID-19 vaccine or positive case in the last six months are eligible for another...
/covid-19/australia#vaccination
2 669 13
2023-02-12 21:41:20 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

EU Free Trade Deal Very Dead

The chance of any free trade deal between Australia and the EU has just about ended. Last minute talks with the EU collapsed as once agai...
/australia#eu#free-trade
14 604 10
2023-10-30 20:11:45 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

King Charlie to Visit Australia

Despite loud pleas for him to stay at home in the bosom of his family. The King of Australia has decided to accept the Labor Government’s...
/australia/king-charles
19 570 18
2024-07-17 04:55:39 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

Is 32 Years in Gaol too Long?

Hunter Valley wedding bus driver Brett Button, who described feeling ashamed for committing the “ultimate sin” when he crashed his vehicl...
/australia#bus#dangerous-driving
13 584 11
2024-09-13 20:06:00 UTC
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Omah
Pets & Animals: In The News

Can Australia curb its killer cats?

Australia has a cat problem. Its population of just over eight million feral and domestic cats are thought to kill billions of native cre...
/australia#killer-cats/endangered-species
5 602 3
2023-03-12 21:31:25 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

50 Years Old

It hardly seems possible but it is the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Opera House. When I first came to Australia I lived...
/australia#anniversary#opera-house
7 589 4
2023-08-13 19:50:02 UTC
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Omah
Travel & Holidays: In The News

Rat plague spreads to Australia's fishing towns

Continuing the discussion from I'm a Celebrity 2023 - Day 4: Thousands of rats - dead and alive - have swept up on beaches in Quee...
/rats/australia#queensland
2 563 7
2023-11-23 22:56:58 UTC
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Omah
In The News

UK Gas prices rise on fears of LNG strikes in Australia

The prospect of a possible strike at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Australia has pushed wholesale gas prices up in Europe. Bench...
/australia/energy-prices/liquefied-natural-gas#union-strikes
2 548 7
2023-09-09 11:26:41 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

Oooops! Radio Active Capsule Lost

Health authorities issued an urgent warning on Friday after the 8-millimetre capsule — which has the potential to cause severe burns — wa...
/australia#not-finding-mislaid-cant-find#radio-active
0 542 4
2023-02-02 10:38:46 UTC
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Omah
Science & Environment: In The News

How climate is making Australia more unliveable

By Shaimaa Khalil and Tiffanie Turnbull in Brisbane In the past three years, record-breaking bushfire and flood events have killed more...
/australia/climate-change#insurability-crisis
9 2046 64
2024-02-14 16:54:10 UTC
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Bruce
Travel & Holidays: In The News

The Borders Slam Shut Again

The International borders have only partially opened but are slamming shut again because of the new South African variant “Omicron”
/covid-19/australia#variant/international_travel
67 1702 71
2021-12-03 16:00:48 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

Katie Hopkins Told to Bugger Off

Katie Hopkins has been told to get out of Australia after breaking quarantine conditions. As one commentator said, “Why would Scotty all...
/australia
1 1191 100
2021-08-13 00:36:27 UTC
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Bruce
Politics & Govt: In The News

Social Media Trolls to be Unmasked

Unlike the USA Social Media providers in Australia will be designated as publishers of their content under new laws proposed today to cur...
/australia/legislation/bullying#trolls
32 1138 38
2021-12-01 22:32:41 UTC
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Bruce
Science & Environment: In The News

Losing Our Religion

Some of the interesting facts from the 2021 census. 25.4 million people call Australia home. Population has doubled in 50 years. Mi...
/australia/census#population
24 1005 34
2022-08-09 09:57:10 UTC
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Omah
Health & Diet: In The News

UK to send four million Pfizer Covid vaccine doses to Australia

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the move, in a press conference from Canberra, just days after his country also secure...
/covid-19/australia/vaccines
5 940 15
2021-09-05 14:24:26 UTC
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Bruce
Travel & Holidays: In The News

Australia open for overseas travel in November?

On the radio this morning a person from Strategic Aviation (?) said that it was likely that Australians would be able to fly to selected ...
/covid-19/australia/air-travel
5 979 19
2021-11-08 08:17:52 UTC
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Morticia
Health & Diet: In The News

Australia is the drunkest country in the world, survey finds

I dunno … I find this a little hard to believe. Australians have been named the heaviest drinkers in the world after spending more ti...
/australia#alcohol
13 951 25
2021-12-05 16:08:10 UTC
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Bruce
Politics & Govt: In The News

Inflation Soars

Official inflation figures released today show inflation running at 5.1% the highest for over two decades since the boost given by the in...
/australia/in-the-news/inflation
4 859 36
2022-05-19 17:10:53 UTC
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Bruce
Health & Diet: In The News

Japanese Encephalitis

There are seven cases of Japanese Encephalitis in Australia the first for decades. This a virus found in birds and transferred by mozzi...
/australia#pigs#sickness#mosquitoes
7 737 26
2022-03-10 09:23:25 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

Kylie Coming Home

After 30 years of living in Britain, Kylie Minogue is returning to Australia to live, “It’s too bloody cold” she said (I might have made ...
/australia/uk
1 674 11
2021-10-13 15:10:47 UTC
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Bruce
Science & Environment: In The News

More Cyclones, More Floods, less Bush Fires

The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting more cyclones, more rain for the next six months as the Indian Ocean Dipole and a probable La Nin...
/weather/australia#cyclones
7 622 8
2021-10-12 03:32:49 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

Send Us Your Children (or Grandchildren) Now!

Don’t let your skilled children and grandchildren suffer from your Brexit decisions, your declining economy, your freezing winters, your ...
/australia/immigration#tradespersons
10 593 16
2022-09-02 19:48:54 UTC
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Bruce
Politics & Govt: In The News

New Premier Appointed

Due to the excitement generated by the resignation of Gladys Berejiklian you will be pleased to know that Dominic Perrottet will be swor...
/australia#nsw
0 639 5
2021-10-05 02:20:40 UTC
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Bruce
In The News

End of Blood, Sweat and No Beers

In five hours time, at one minute past midnight NSW reopens, all the shops can re-open but there will be limits on the numbers of people ...
/covid-19/australia
4 632 14
2021-10-11 06:24:58 UTC
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