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Authorities looking for private sector help to close $132-million budget shortfall
The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District is looking for a private sector partner to design, run and operate educational, interactive visitor programs and activities and raise revenue to help close a $132 million, five-year budget shortfall.
Sky Tower jump not for the faint-hearted
Auckland and Sydney have a few touristy things in common, such as a fine harbour, a bridge you can climb and a sky-scraping tower offering spectacular city views.
Don hard hat and harness to see Stockholm from its rooftops
There's more to a tour than ticking off a list. Have you tried listening to a city, going beneath it or on to the rooftops? These days you can download just about anything - including city tours - to your iPhone, but can your MP3 player lead you, blindfolded, through a city's streets stopping to smell olive trees on the way? Can it talk to elves? ...
5-night Sydney package, from $1,299
Travel by: May 1 through June 8, 2010 The deal The eternal Sydney : A multicultural immigrant haven, a global commerce center, and home to numerous national parks and sandy beaches.
Khoa Do wins DigiSPAA [Fri 20/11/2009 03:26:03] Press release from Tsuki The winner of the prestigious 'SPAARTAN Award' for the 2009 DigiSPAA Feature Film Competition, sponsored by Movie Network Channels, was announced today at the Screen Producers Association of Australia's annual conference.
Driver clocked at 218km/h on freeway
A MAN has been caught driving at 218 km/h on the M5 motorway in Sydney's southwest, almost twice the limit.
Into wild suburbs with Luke Nguyen and foodie chicks
Into the wilds of Cabramatta ... Luke Nguyen at a fruit and vegetable store with his parents.
Placing his palms flat together with his fingers pointing up, Dylan Johnson demonstrated the proper Japanese greeting.
It is from a Sydney newspaper. China: the new big buddy on our block November 6, 2009 .
Sydney Opera House rolling out new comms system
The Sydney Opera House is in the process of moving to a NSC phone system following the end of life of its existing 13 year old combination analogue Siemens and Cisco VoIP system.
That amazing day when the Berlin Wall came down
When I was 15, a German exchange student, Kristine, came to stay with my family in Sydney.
Logging on for love in gourmet heaven
JULES Clancy is a "life gives you lemons, you make lemonade" kind of woman. After breaking up with her boyfriend, the Sydney food scientist was lamenting her single status when she struck upon an idea to marry her love of food with finding a date, The Daily Telegraph reports.
I'm from food-obsessed San Francisco, traveling alone in Sydney for a few days. Staying in Newtown, no car.
Backpackers Party Less in Perth as Aussie Dollar Crimps Foreign Wallets
A Swiss couple trudged into the deserted lobby of the 12:01 East Backpackers hostel in Perth after an eight-hour drive in Western Australia.
ON a building site in Melbourne's western suburbs, an unlikely group of characters found themselves working together.
Night swimming ... the Sebel's foyer.
The seafood's not restricted to the menu at this stylish city stay, writes Christine Sams.
Broome's wild west to hit Sydney
Broome's wild west to hit Sydney [Thu 29/10/2009 04:54:02] Press release from Cardinal Spin Award winning Director of Samson and Delilah, Warwick Thornton has commissioned "karaoke noodle western videos" for a new dance theatre work, Burning Daylight.
"sit down, don't start smashing the doors down"
Media Watch exposes the racist shit-stirring engaged in by the infotainment program 'Nine News' last week in 'Welfare and Refugees' . NOFX once asked 'How can they sleep at night?', to which the answer is 'In luxury, on fluffy white pillows'. Peter Overton is a Walkley Award winning investigative journalist yuppie hack from Sydney's North Shore .
Asylum-seekers arrive by plane, not boat
EVERY day, at least 13 asylum-seekers enter Australia through airports, representing 30 times the number of boat people that are supposedly "flooding" across our maritime borders.
High-rolling rev-heads back in town
Rolls Royce MD Bevin Clayton said he expected to take 40 orders for the $700,000 Ghost in Australia / AP Lamborghini has taken eight orders for the $889,000 Murcielago SV since July / Supplied Roll-Royce taking orders for Ghost It's the $700K cheaper model Mansions : Million-dollar houses on the up WHILE top-end car makers are luring buyers back ...
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