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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 ...
Sydney up on the valuation runway
The newly internalised management team of MAp Airports will no doubt be again running the ruler over their valuation of Sydney Airport following the sale of London's Gatwick Airport.
Backpackers 'having a lot more sex'
British backpackers holidaying in Australia are returning home with much more than a suntan / Supplied UK backpackers 'spreading STDs' More than one third had multiple partners Twenty-four per cent had unprotected sex BRITISH backpackers holidaying in Australia are returning home with much more than a suntan, and could be driving the spread Down ...
"They're having a divorce." At Sydney Wildlife World, an icecream-smudged boy of about four points at a wombat and wallaby, who look distinctly unimpressed with each other.
Celebrity chef cooks with Vegemite
That's cooking with Vegemite... Alvin Leung. If you ran a popularity poll on Australia's favourite ingredients, Vegemite and wagyu would both be chart-toppers. But together in a restaurant dish? Surely that's the culinary equivalent of an arranged marriage between Dame Edna and Hamish Blake? Not according to Hong Kong chef Alvin Leung, one of the ...
Warragamba Dam to reopen to public
Long a favourite for family picnics and school excursions, Sydney's iconic Warragamba Dam reopens to the public next month after more than a decade.
The photo that had Miranda fuming
SHE is famed for her slim figure - just don't accuse Miranda Kerr of dieting. The top model has fought back against claims she has undergone a dramatic weight loss regime after shots of her from a fashion shoot in Sydney this week showed her looking radically thin.
Hello. We've had network outages for the last day and a half, so apologies this is so late... but hey, we're here now.
Politics News: Tommy Sheridan blasts MSPs' 40,000 junket down under
WEEK 40,000 "junket" Down Under for MSPs has been condemned by Solidarity leader Tommy Sheridan.
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