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Victoria, Australia News

Local news for Victoria, Australia continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

8 hrs ago | Ranges Trader Mail

Upgrade tops class @Normal:Education Minister Bronwyn Pike and Monbulk MP James Merlino celebrate ne

TWO hills primary schools have shared in a $1 million cash windfall for much needed upgrades.

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16 hrs ago | Wilson's Almanac

Teen sex conviction in Australia for Mi-Sex manager

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 Robert Jackson Yates, the former manager of the New Zealand and Australian New Wave band Mi-Sex , has been sentenced to a four-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to having sex ...

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Tue Aug 19, 2008

MediLexicon

Starpharma Holdings Limited Announce New VivaGel(R) Clinical Trial Commences

Starpharma Holdings Limited announced the start of its next clinical trial of VivaGel .

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Australian News

Sydney residents oppose Buddhist monastery development

Australian News.Net Tuesday 19th August, 2008 A Buddhist society's plans to build a temple in south-western Sydney is facing an outcry from residents, coming as it does close on the heels of the recent furore ...

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Mon Aug 18, 2008

The Age

'Six-pack of Molotov cocktails'

Three men will face charges after police allegedly found six petrol bombs in a car in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.

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The Oregonian

Researchers say numbers aren't needed to count

Answer this without counting: Are there more X's here , or here ? That's a problem facing people whose languages don't include words for more than one or two.

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Related Topix: Australia, World News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Politics, US News

The West Australian

Truckie to fight Kerang crash charges

The truck driver involved in last year's Victorian rail disaster, that claimed 11 lives, will fight charges against him after he was committed to stand trial.

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The Age

DeGeneres and de Rossi wed

Sealed with a kiss ... Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi. Photo: Reuters August 17, 2008 It was a case of here come the brides for Ellen DeGeneres and Australian love, Portia de Rossi.

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Sun Aug 17, 2008

News.com.au

Green light for bag levy

SHOPPERS will pay 10c for each plastic bag they take home from supermarkets in three Victorian centres from today.

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The Courier Mail

Farmer anger at guest scheme

QUEENSLAND farmers are angry that a trial of Pacific Island workers they pushed for will benefit southern horticultural producers.

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News.com.au

Foreign workers' scheme 'not cheap labour'

What garbage.?? I will bet there are Aussie dole bludgers on welfare in these areas.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Vegetables, Agriculture, Science, Oceania, World News, Australia,

Sat Aug 16, 2008

Ferntree Gully, Belgrave Mail

Law gets the

Neesham White Gentle principal and lawyer, Barry Gentle. TOP quality solicitors and conveyancing staff form the backbone of Monbulk law practice Neesham White Gentle with the firm's solicitors combining to ...

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Fri Aug 15, 2008

CNN

Engine panel falls off Qantas jet in flight

An engine access panel fell off a Qantas Airways jumbo jet en route to Singapore from Melbourne, Australia, on Friday, the latest in a string of incidents for the airline.

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Thu Aug 14, 2008

CANOE

32 picketers arrested outside Disneyland

Cinderella, Snow White, Tinkerbell and other fictional fixtures of modern-day childhood were handcuffed, frisked and loaded into police vans Thursday at the culmination of a labour protest that brought a touch ...

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Related Topix: Anaheim, CA, Australia, World News,

Manawatu Evening Standard

Man shot in head, drives himself to hospital

A man jumped in his car and drove himself to safety after being shot in the head while on his way to buy cigarettes in Melbourne.

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Wed Aug 13, 2008

News.com.au

Three held over armed hold-ups

THE Victoria Police special operations group swooped in a suburban street early today taking three people into custody over alleged links to a string of armed robberies in the western suburbs.

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Tue Aug 12, 2008

Space Ref

NASA Cassini Begins Transmitting Data From Enceladus Flyby

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Comments Shortly after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began sending data to Earth following a close ...

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Ferntree Gully, Belgrave Mail

Students make lifestyle exchange

Monbulk College has welcomed eight German students, front, Marlen, Jette and Tobias, and in back, Lara, Vera, Anne-Marie, Fabian and Tim, as part of their sister school exchange program.

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, Australia, Travel, Australia Travel

Mon Aug 11, 2008

The Age

Double shooting at railway station

POLICE and commuters witnessed a 65-year-old man fatally shoot himself in a station car park yesterday after he shot a woman he had been stalking in the face.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

Drowned sorrow: Street View puts Bill's grief on show.

Down and out ... Bill pictured on Google's Street View mapping tool. View Australian Street View discoveries Photos: Google's Street View has already uncovered a lying neighbour, sprung a cheating spouse and ...

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Related Topix: Australia, World News, Privacy, Oceania,

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