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The live export industry cares about its animals
Manama :: Bahrain | about 1 hour ago
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It is the same time of year when the Australian livestock export industry increases its year-round animal welfare activities to deliver even further improvements in the trade. As an Australian animal welfare specialist living in the Middle East and working...
Tags: Middle East, Meat & Livestock Australia, Western Australia, Australian, animal welfare, living animal, export industry, livestock export, Bahrain, Manama, Meat industry, Domestic sheep, Stockman, Slaughterhouse, Meat, Livestock, Animal rights, Meat processing
Four honoured in WA's top Aussie awards
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
Credibility Victoria Cross winner and a country music director have taken top honours in the WA Australian of the Year 2010 awards. The awards are the precursor to the Australian of the Year Awards announced in January 2010. Professor Ralph Martins was this evening...
Tags: Western Australia, country music, Afghanistan, Kabul, Environment, Entertainment Culture, South West region of Western Australia, Boyup Brook Western Australia, Human Interest
A lifeline on the streets
Melbourne :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility New York policy pioneer Roseanne Haggerty believes Australia can eradicate chronic homelessness and that the solutions are less complicated than we may think...Over the four years since, staff have noticed that Dimitri has become sicker, thinner and more...
Tags: Western Australia, Roseanne Haggerty, chronically homelessness, Dimitri, New York, crisis centre, United States, Melbourne University, Tanya Plibersek, Australia, Melbourne, Crisis, Homelessness in Canada, Homelessness in the United States, Homelessness, Common Ground, Homeless
From the origin of species to their future
Sydney :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility They are found in NSW, Tasmania, Victoria and parts of Western Australia [like the one pictured below]. For so long, that's what we thought boronias did: live in the temperate forests along the south coast. Until, of course, we found a different kind...
Tags: Bush Heritage Australia, Western Australia, North Queensland, Australia, Sydney, On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, Species, Darwin Northern Territory, Flower, Biology, Darwin-Wedgwood family, Fellows of the Royal Society, Environment
Mother's tears for boy locked up over Freddo
Perth :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility IT WAS heartbreaking, my baby sitting in the cells, and I'm outside sitting there crying.'' The mother of the 12-year-old Aboriginal boy who was locked up for about six hours at a police station for receiving a stolen Freddo frog from an older boy has...
Tags: Australia, Perth, Perth Western Australia, Western Australia, Western Australia Police, Freddo Frog
Rogers helps Bushrangers bury his old team
Victoria :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility FOR discarded cricketers on the outside trying to find a way back in, life is all about sending little reminders. The likelihood that the door will never be answered seemingly isn't going to stop Chris Rogers from knocking.
Tags: Chris Rogers, Western Australia, Victoria, Nick Jewell, Marcus North, Sandgroper David Hussey, D Hussey, Canada, Twenty-20 cricket in Australia in 2006￢ﾀﾓ07, Adam Voges, David Hussey, Ashley Noffke, 2005￢ﾀﾓ06 Australian cricket season, allnews, 2006-07 Australian cricket season, Australia, cricket
Australian naval tragedy remembered
Geraldton :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility Sydney during the Second World War, Minister for Veterans' Affairs Alan Griffin encouraged Australians to pay tribute to the 645 men who lost their lives in the tragedy. "The sinking of Sydney and the death of her crew was one of Australia's greatest...
Tags: HMAS Sydney II, naval tragedy, Western Australia, tragedy remembered, West Australian, Kormoran, australians naval, Australia, Geraldton
Consumers prefer cash as wages grow
Shanghai :: China | 3 days ago
Credibility New data released on Thursday showed the annual average wage now stands at $62,431, having risen 5.2 per cent in the 12 months to August. While such growth stands well above the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) perceived "line in the sand" of 4.5 per...
Tags: Western Australia, credit cards, Australian Bureau of Statistics, RBA, China, Shanghai, Wage, Minimum wage, Inflation, Reserve Bank of Australia, Economist, Business Finance
Simon Baker takes a 'Breath'
Melbourne :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility The Mentalist" star Simon Baker and producer Mark Johnson have teamed to acquire feature rights to the Tim Winton novel "Breath." Baker and Johnson will produce together, and Baker plans to play one of the lead roles. They plan to enlist a director before...
Tags: Western Australia, Simon Baker, Mark Johnson, Tim Winton, Australia, Melbourne, Miles Franklin Award, The Chronicles of Narnia, Cloudstreet, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Narnia, Breath, Entertainment Culture
This cruelty to sheep is economically unsound
Sydney :: Australia | 4 days ago
Credibility The live export industry is becoming increasingly irrelevant yet the Australian Government continues to bow to the live export lobby at the expense of animal suffering. Last year 40,000 sheep died on their way to slaughter in the Middle East. It's not...
Tags: live sheep, RSPCA Australia, sheep export, Western Australia, live export, Middle East, sheep trade, Australia, Sydney
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