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From the National Stroke Research Institute , Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Austin Health, University of Melbourne, Australia; Department of Neurology , Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Australia; Department of Mathematics and Statistics , University of Melbourne, Australia; Department of Neurology , Hunter Medical Research ... (more)

After curtailing one of three pot lines at its Kurri Kurri aluminium plant in January, Norsk Hydro ASA is initiating consultation with the plant's workforce with a view to curtailing the remaining operations.

Australian city offered as template for Midland. AndrA© Sanche is hoping a new program expected to launch this fall will help bring more people to the downtown - and ultimately decrease the number of empty storefronts.

The 34-year-old woman pulled over on Kyle St in Rutherford, north west of Newcastle in the New South Wales Hunter region, at about 5pm yesterday to assist the driver of a vehicle who had parked on the side of the road and raised his car's bonnet.

The New South Wales Government has given the building company Reed Construction nine days to prove it can finish more than $240 million worth of road works.

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An Australian school-based obesity prevention program for adolescent girls was not associated with statistically significant differences in body mass index and other body composition measures, however the small changes may be related to clinically important health outcomes, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Pediatrics & ... (more)

PETER CAVE: Tomorrow's budget will include a commitment to invest $50 million extending the national bowel cancer screening program.

When it comes to reneging on business in Australia, Flo Rida is learning you can run but you can't hide online.

GreenEdge has announced they have come to a three-year sponsorship arrangement with Orica, an Australian multi-national company which provides chemicals and explosives for the mining industry.