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Duck ran amok at Channel Nine's Christmas party at St Kilda's Hotel Barkly on Tuesday. Business cards went into a barrel for the door prizes, drawn by Livinia Nixon and Russell Gilbert , the highlight being a ''limited edition'' Hey Hey It's Saturday...
Tags: New Zealand, Auckland, 3AW, Hinch, Livinia Nixon, Browne, John Brumby, Plucka Duck, Hey Hey It's Saturday
The register, launched yesterday, already lists 21 lobbying firms, representing some of the nation's largest companies, including Shell, Linfox and CSR...Premier John Brumby announced the register in August amid controversy over Progressive Business practices,...
Tags: Hawker Britton, lobbying companies, Mr White, Australia, Melbourne, Political corruption, Lobbying, John Brumby, Politics, Lobbying in the United States
John Brumby says Melbourne's nightlife will be allowed to keep growing, despite a claim by Chief Commissioner Simon Overland that the city has too many licensed venues. Mr Overland says further restrictions are needed, beyond the Government's freeze on...
Tags: Melbourne, Australia, John Brumby, Brumby, Simon Overland
THE Brumby Government's alleged popularity is the last thing I expected to read of (''Brumby soaring high: poll'', 22/11). As Tony Morton wrote in January: ''The next election will be fought on the issue of public transport.'' Privatisation is a shambles,...
Tags: Australian Youth Climate Coalition, public transport, Victorian State Parliament, Kennett Liberals, Football Federation Australia, Aurelio Vidmar, Australian Education Union, Australia, Melbourne, Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Victoria, John Brumby, Australian Greens, Visy Industries, Ted Baillieu, Premiers of the Australian states
TAB account services'' at Australia Post offices has been attacked by anti-gambling campaigners as inappropriate and dangerous. From next month people will be able to apply for a TAB betting account, make betting deposits and withdrawals and obtain balances...
Tags: Australia Post, betting account, tab account, Hungary, Tab, Tabcorp Holdings, Horse racing, Business Finance, Bookmakers, Totalizator Agency Board, Gambling, John Brumby, Betfair, Bank, Deposit account, Betting exchanges
Premier John Brumby criticising a planned tax on land in Melbourne's growth areas, claiming it will reduce housing affordability and Victoria's housing competitiveness over other states. Proposed legislation is before State Parliament that would introduce...
Tags: Melbourne, growth area, area tax, urban growth, growth boundary, Australia, Environment, Victoria, John Brumby, Business Finance, Cranbourne East Victoria, Urban studies and planning, Tax, Urban growth boundary
The team of surgeons and nurses were honoured at Government House in Melbourne for the 32-hour marathon surgery. "It's a wonderful way to finish the year with a story about the human spirit and inspiration and immense achievement," Mr Brumby told the...
Tags: Government House, Krishna, Trishna, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, David de Kretser, Australia, Conjoined twins, Human Interest, Twins, Religion Belief, Brumby, Indian films, Health Medical Pharma, John Brumby, Zoology, Surgeon, M, Twin, The Wiggles, Surgery, The Girls, Family, Reproduction, Caregiver
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 addresses. Mr Brumby...
Tags: Victorian, Australia, Melbourne, Business Finance, John Brumby, Environment, Victorian state election campaign, Victoria, Finance, Emergency Alert System, Technology Internet, Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Late 2000s recession in Asia, Budgets, Aviation in the United Kingdom, Disaster Accident
Brumby Government of discriminating against them by refusing to fund the movement's global conference in Melbourne but giving $2 million to a religious conference. The Parliament of the World's Religions begins on December 3 at the Melbourne Convention...
Tags: Melbourne Central City Studios, Australia, Melbourne, Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, John Brumby, Movie studio, Brumby, Politics, Docklands Victoria, Atheism, Criticism of religion, Religion Belief, Entertainment Culture
T got it,'' said a seasoned political observer after watching Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu give a speech to the Melbourne Press Club one year out from the state election...David Cumming, demanded of Baillieu, suggesting the Liberal leader was something...
Tags: Baillieu, John Brumby, Victorian, FOI, Noel Tennison, Melbourne Press Club, opposition leaders, Canada, Victoria, Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Steve Bracks, Politics, Peter Ryan, David Davis, Ted Baillieu, Jeff Kennett