Your Search Returned 500 tagged news reports
Brisbane District Court Judge Terry Martin, SC, in a decision published today, ordered Ryan Laim Upton, 28, pay Ben Ferrett, 27, criminal compensation for the permanent partial hearing loss caused by the foolish prank on January 11, last year...Upton...
Tags: Ben Ferrett, Ryan Laim Upton, super glue, Brisbane District Court, Australia, Sydney, Upton, Law Crime
Newly-appointed Pakistan's fielding and bowling coach Waqar Younus has expressed confidence that team has the capability to beat tough opponent Australia and advised young players to bring more consistency in their performances. The 40-year-old former...
Tags: Australia, Waqar Younus, Boycott Waqar, Pakistan Cricket Board, Sydney, Pakistani cricket team in England, Waqar Younis, Younis Khan, Mohammad Asif, Wisden Cricketers of the Year, allnews, Pashtun people, Punjabi people
Resi's head of consumer advocacy, Lisa Montgomery, said borrowers increasingly felt disenfranchised by the pricing power of the major banks...The RBA last week raised the cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.75 per cent, following similar moves in October...
Tags: better deal, Westpac Banking Corporation, mortgage rate, Ms Montgomery, variable mortgage, major banks, Australia, Sydney, Mortgage, Subprime crisis background information, Mortgage loan, Financial crisis of 2007¬タモ2009, Mortgage broker, Business Finance, Bank, economics
Several small Pacific nations are pushing the delegates at the Copenhagen climate talks to sign up to a tougher international agreement than the Kyoto protocol. But Professor Garnaut says the future of the Pacific islands is only a small part of the world's...
Tags: China, Australia, developing countries, garnaut says, Ross Garnaut, Sydney, Environment, Diplomatic conferences, Carbon finance, Climate change, Carbon dioxide, Climate change in Australia, Kyoto Protocol, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
The fire is burning out of control in the Blue Mountains National Park near Hawkesbury Heights. A number of water-bombing aircraft and RFS crews are on the scene...Tags: disasters-and-accidents , fires , bushfire , australia , nsw , hawkesbury-heights-2777...
Tags: Blue Mountains National Park, air crane, Australia, Sydney, Bushfires in Australia, Blue Mountains, Wildfires, Bushfire, Black Saturday bushfires, New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Wildland fire suppression, Disaster Accident, Black Christmas
An Australian family is turning heads with a rotating house that can guarantee a different view every time they wake up. The Everinghams have been in a spin since they moved into their dream home in the countryside north of Sydney three years ago. They...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Fahmy, Neighbours, Everingham, Car turntable
Like Jurrah, who showed some freakish talent in his debut AFL season with the Demons this year, 21-year-old Patrick comes from a remote Northern Territory desert community. He is from the small Lajamanu community, 900km south of Darwin. Having played...
Tags: Gold Coast AFL, Liam Patrick, Lajamanu Lightning Bolt, Australia, Sydney, Liam Jurrah, Lajamanu Northern Territory, allnews, Australian Football League, Marcus Ashcroft
One of the world's biggest technology security companies, Symantec Corp, says it has been approached to assist the federal government with "advice and support" in drafting privacy legislation. Chief executive Enrique Salem said Australia was expected...
Tags: Mr Salem, Australian Law Reform Commission, disclosure law, federal government, Symantec Corp, Australia, Sydney, Identity theft, Politics, Salem Tamil Nadu, Privacy law, Privacy, Data privacy, Salem Massachusetts, Personal identification
THE emotions of Linda Stilwell's family finally spilled over the moment they knew the man believed to be their little girl's killer was heading for the courtroom. Their collective shiver was almost palpable and when Derek Ernest Percy was finally...
Tags: Derek Ernest Percy, Linda Stilwell, Australia, Sydney, Inquest, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Pathology, Coroner, Beaumont children disappearance, St Kilda Victoria, Disappeared people, Law Crime, Civil procedure
But he said the Government had gone too far with its industrial relations legislation to kill off Work Choices. Ms Gillard used the signing up of NSW, South Australia and Queensland to national workplace laws for the private sector to warn that Mr Abbott...
Tags: work choices, Ms Gillard, workplace relations, Mr Abbott, Australia, Sydney, Eric Abetz, Politics, Politics of Australia, Julia Gillard, Australian labour law, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Tony Abbott, WorkChoices