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That's despite concerns that the upper house will have a tight time period to consider the package of bills ahead of a vote on Thursday. Tuesday is the likely day a deal will be struck between the government and opposition on amendments to the ETS. Cabinet...
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ABC managing director Mark Scott has laid out a vision for the broadcaster's international future that includes opening five more bureaus in the Asia-Pacific region and launching services across Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Mr Scott also...
Tags: ABC Radio, Latin America, Australia Network, Mark Scott, Mr Scott, Middle East, abc managing, social media, Radio Australia, director mark
It has struck a deal with the Victorian Government to join ABC Radio as an official emergency broadcaster. Emergency Services Minister Bob Cameron says talks are still ongoing with other broadcasters. Mr Cameron says Sky News will broadcast warnings during...
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A 17-year-old Queens youth was being questioned last night in the grisly slaying of radio newsman George Weber, who was stabbed as many as 50 times in his Brooklyn apartment, The Post has learned. Cops took the teen into custody upstate and were bringing...
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Investigators in New York think the death of ABC Radio newscaster George Weber was a homicide, ABC News reported Sunday. Weber, 50, was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment Sunday morning by police responding to a call about a missing person.
Tags: George Weber, Brooklyn, ABC Radio, radio reported, ABC News Radio, brooklyn apartment, KOA, Steve Jones, stab wound
A raft of the ABC's flagship radio programs have been axed, at the same time the national broadcaster moves to sack dozens of employees elsewhere in the organisation. When staff at Radio National were informed earlier this week of the 2009 line-up, missing...
Australia's pioneer of television gardening, Kevin Heinze, died yesterday after suffering a heart attack at the weekend, at the age of 81. Heinze hosted the ABC's gardening show Sow What from 1967 to 1988. The program was produced at his home property...
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Mike Rann has given a public assurance he will lead the Labor Party to the next state election. He has also given an assurance that if he wins he will serve the full four-year term until the next election in 2014. The comments on ABC Radio will put an...
Two people suffered minor burns and nine people were trapped as the syrupy cocktail flowed through the laboratory at the Pioneer Sugar Mill at Brandon, 120 kilometres south of Townsville. The two injured men have been taken to Ayr hospital for treatment.
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The 42-year-old Melbourne man, Fadi Sheikh, was visiting his parents when he was killed in fighting between pro and anti-government groups in the country's north, ABC reported. He had a wife and five children. "This death underlines the highly dangerous...
Tags: N. Lebanon, Australian Lebanese Youth Association, Antoun Issa, ABC Radio, melbourne man, Halba, man killing