Contributor ReportsVandals hack at massive knitted artwork
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Sat Nov 28 05:07:28 -0800 2009 | business-news
It took a month and 15 people to create the colourful artwork which until last night was lining one side of the Stockbridge in Hobson's Road. The artwork was part of the Big West Festival and was about to be...
All systems go for Camberwell Aerial take-off
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Fri Nov 27 05:44:02 -0800 2009 | business-news
Last Thursday, Sydney-based developer FKP officially launched Camberwell's Aerial project, to be developed on the former Henley Honda site at the busy Camberwell Junction. The proposal will include two nine-level glass apartment towers with 144 units, a 14-level glass office...
Don't ban bikie gangs, expert says
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Thu Nov 26 05:16:29 -0800 2009 | business-news
Arthur Veno, an academic and author of books about bikies, said yesterday that individual members of the Finks and Comanchero clubs had been in Victoria for years. A confidential police report said the two gangs were looking for clubhouses in...
New fire warning system ready to start
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Thu Nov 26 16:27:19 -0800 2009 | business-news
Victorian Premier John Brumby joined fire authorities in Torquay on Friday for a public test of the system, which will be known as the Emergency Alert system. More than 50,000 text and voice messages were sent based on local billing...
Telstra unveils new broadband packages
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Wed Nov 25 17:30:50 -0800 2009 | business-news
Telstra chief executive David Thodey had flagged the changes at a company investor day in October. A range of new broadband plans will offer customers faster speeds and higher data allowances for the same price, while excess usage fees have...
BBC holds commercial arm float talks
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Wed Nov 25 09:03:45 -0800 2009 | business-news
The Financial Times, quoting unnamed sources, said discussions had been held, including with advisers from investment firm Goldman Sachs and banking giant Credit Suisse, about future ownership of BBC Worldwide. Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust which governs the...
Vic channel deepening project completed
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Wed Nov 25 05:27:18 -0800 2009 | business-news
The $1 billion project, which started in February last year, dredged Port Phillip Bay to enable larger, fully-loaded ships to dock. It increased the depth of the channel from 11.6 to 14 metres, removing 23 million cubic metres of sand...
Expat high-flyers coming home to roost?
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Wed Nov 25 05:27:33 -0800 2009 | business-news
It's a question puzzling much of Melbourne at the moment, after the Orrong Road home of former Pacific Dunlop chief executive Phillip Brass fetched more than $20 million last week. That was followed by the sale of a much smaller...
Dollar up on weak greenback
Source: The Courier-Mail
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Wed Nov 25 12:49:10 -0800 2009 | business-news
During the offshore session, the local unit traded in a range between $US0.9238 and $US0.9318. The local unit pushed higher overnight following a speech yesterday by RBA deputy governor Ric Battellino, Bank of New Zealand currency strategist Danica Hampton said....
Bloody fight, but Rocky's master lives to tell a killer kangaroo tale
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Mon Nov 23 17:54:39 -0800 2009 | business-news
The epic battle began when Mr Rickard and Rocky were walking on his Arthurs Creek property, about 45 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, and startled the roo, which Rocky chased into the dam. The roo quickly got the better of Rocky...
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