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Australia PPI inflation bolsters rate-cut odds
MarketWatch
By James Glynn SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Australian wholesale prices recorded their biggest quarterly fall since late 2009 in the first quarter of 2012, increasing bets that the Reserve Bank of Australia will cut interest rates next week.
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Deans names new Wallabies assistant coaches
SI.com
SYDNEY (AP) -Australia rugby coach Robbie Deans has made three new appointments to his coaching staff ahead of mid year tests against Scotland and after the cleanout that followed last year's World Cup failure. Tony McGahan, who succeeded Ireland coach ...
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Australian PPI Falls, Stocks Weak Ahead of CPI Data
123Jump.com
8:00 PM Sydney – Australian stocks edged lower on the first day of a short trading week after producer prices declined in the March quarter. Investors are expecting consumer price index to show an increase of at least 0.6% tomorrow.
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Australia Shares End Down 0.3% Before Local CPI Data
Wall Street Journal
SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Australia's share market weakened slightly Monday amid a lack of fresh demand before major events this week, including domestic consumer price inflation data and the US Federal Reserve Board meeting.
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Australia's Budget Could Face Hurdles Amid Political Drama
Wall Street Journal
By ENDA CURRAN AND RACHEL PANNETT SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard could face a delicate balancing act in winning backing for the May budget amid a political drama that threatens the stability of her minority government.
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Ignore the Premier and build second airport at Badgerys Creek, says Qantas CEO ...
The Australian
Work on a second airport in Sydney should commence immediately - preferably at Badgerys Creek - and politicians of all persuasions should put their differences aside to do the best thing for Sydney and Australia, Mr Joyce said.
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Australia's Finance Sector Has Lost 3000 Jobs In 2012 - Union
Wall Street Journal
SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Australia's financial sector has lost 3000 jobs so far this year in a wave of cutbacks that will hit the industry for years to come, the National Secretary of the Financial Services Union said Monday. This month,Australia & New ...
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Hollywood Studios Lose Australian Internet Piracy Case
Voice of America
April 23, 2012 Hollywood Studios Lose Australian Internet Piracy Case Phil Mercer | Sydney Some of Hollywood's biggest film studios have failed in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal video downloads when they lost a landmark appeal against an ...
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Cockatoo Falls After SK Networks Drops Stake Plan: Sydney Mover
Bloomberg
Cockatoo Coal Ltd. (COK) fell the most in seven months in Sydney trading after South Korea's SK Network Co. scrapped a A$313 million ($324 million) plan to boost its stake in the Australian producer to 40 percent. Cockatoo fell 7.3 percent to 32 cents, ...
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Australia: Call for calm after shootings
News24
Was R67.95 Now R64.55 Sydney - Australian police on Monday renewed calls for calm after two Aboriginal teenagers were shot in Sydney's red-light district, saying footage of the incident was shocking but had to be judged in context.
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RGL Forensics Appoints US Partner to Lead Australia Operations - Atlanta's ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
International forensic accounting firm RGL Forensics has appointed Ryan A. Carruth, CPA/CFF, CGMA, CFE, previously partner in the firm's Atlanta office, to manage the operations and direction of the firm's new office in Sydney,Australia.
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Senior UBS Australia energy banker to leave-sources
Reuters
| SYDNEY, April 23 (Reuters) - Simon Weller, a senior oil and gas banker at the Australian unit of UBS, will leave the bank by the end of April, two sources with direct knowledge of the move said on Monday. Weller, an executive director at UBS, ...
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Australia Planned Budget Cuts Need To Be Tempered - Deloitte Access
NASDAQ
SYDNEY -(Dow Jones)- The Australian government's all-out effort to produce a budget surplus in 2012-13 attracted further criticism Tuesday, with leading Canberra think-tank Deloitte Access Economics saying the plan poses risks to the economy.
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Wrapp Social Gifting App Coming to Australia
MarketWatch (press release)
SYDNEY, Apr 22, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Wrapp, the hot new social gifting company backed by Skype and LinkedIn founders Niklas Zennstrom and Reid Hoffman, has opened offices in Sydney and is working with some ofAustralia's biggest and coolest ...
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Australia wholesale inflation less than expected
MarketWatch
By Sarah Turner SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Australia's producer price index fell 0.3% in the first quarter of 2012, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported Monday. On an annual basis, PPI rose 1.4%. Economists had been expecting a 0.4% rise in ...
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Qantas's Nancy-Bird Returns to the Skies
Wall Street Journal (blog)
In November 2010, Qantas Airway's brand new Airbus 380, named for pioneering Australian aviatrix Nancy Bird-Walton, suffered a potentially devastating engine failure minutes after taking off from Singapore. The pilot in command that day, ...
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Engine explosion Qantas A380 returns to Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
Photo: AFP Some 535 days after a mid-air engine explosion over Indonesia, the pride of the Qantas fleet - the plane that chief executive Alan Joyce calls the Flying Kangaroo's flagship - touched down at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport at 9.18am (AEST) ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Qantas chief calls for second Sydney airport
AFP
SYDNEY — Qantas chief Alan Joyce Monday said bottlenecks atSydney airport were unsustainable and called for a second hub in the city before its global reputation was damaged. Sydney'sKingsford Smith Airport is the main gateway into Australia and ...
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AFP
Injury crisis for Waratahs
ABC Online
New South Wales have lost fullback Bernard Foley and flanker Chris Alcock for Sunday's massive Super Rugby clash with the Crusaders in Sydney. The Waratahs, who sit second behind the Brumbies in the Australian conference, face a mini-personnel crisis ...
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Qantas A380 blowout plane returns to service
Reuters
By Harry Suhartono | SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australia's Qantas took its repaired A380 superjumbo back to the skies on Saturday, resuming a 3900 mile (6300 km) journey dramatically interrupted 18 months ago when one of its engines blew up over Indonesia.
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Biota Falls Most in Eight Months on Merger with Nabi
Bloomberg
Biota Holdings Ltd. (BTA), an Australian company that earns royalties on influenza drugs, slumped in Sydney trading after agreeing to merge with Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (NABI) to gain access to the Nasdaq market. Biota fell as much as 9.5 percent, ...
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Australia PM defends scandal-hit speaker's appointment
AFP
By Martin Parry (AFP) – 10 hours ago SYDNEY — Prime Minister Julia Gillard Monday defended her appointment of Peter Slipper asAustralia's speaker as court documents alleged he used his position to pursue sexual relations with male employees.
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AFP
Tickets for Australian Museum's Alexander the Great Exhibition On Sale Now
Broadway World
Tickets for Alexander the Great: 2000 years of treasures, described as "the most exciting and prestigious classical culture exhibition ever to be hosted by the Australian Museum in Sydney," go on sale today, Monday 23 April 2012.
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Key independent lawmakers stand by Australian government after parliament ...
Washington Post
Slipper stepped aside Sunday while police investigate allegations leveled by a former staffer last week that Slipper misused taxi payment vouchers while traveling by limousine in Sydney on three occasions this year. The same staffer, James Ashby, 33, ...
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Bond Risk Falls in Australia, Credit-Default Swap Prices Show
Bloomberg
The cost of insuring Australian corporate bonds from non-payment decreased, according to traders of credit-default swaps. The Markit iTraxx Australia index fell 1 basis point to 158 as of 10:33 am in Sydney, Credit Agricole SA (ACA) prices show.
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Australian Speaker Steps Aside After Harassment, Fraud Claims
Bloomberg
According to Ashby's claim, Slipper used the same vehicle for travel in Sydney in January and February and on three occasions passed several signed dockets to the driver, without detailing the cost of the trip. “The Australian Federal Police is aware ...
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Bloomberg
Government Policies Hurting Smaller Lenders - Aussie Home Loans Chairman
Fox Business
SYDNEY – Government intervention has made Australia's banking sector less competitive and could lead to higher costs for consumers in the future, the executive chairman of mortgage broker Aussie Home Loans said Monday.Australia's mortgage sector is ...
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Qantas A380 in QF32 incident returns to Sydney
Flightglobal
... after take-off from Singapore in November 2010 has finally returned toAustralia. The aircraft, which has the registration VH-OQA, took off from Singapore's Changi airport on the evening of 21 April and landed in Sydney on the morning of 22 April.
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Beachley Classic Women's World Tour Surfing: Dee Why, Sydney,Australia
The Manly Daily
DEE WHY, Sydney NSW/AUS (Saturday, April 21, 2012) – Courtney Conlogue (USA), 19, has won the prestigious 2012 Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic, over Malia Manuel (HAW), 18, at Dee Why beach today. In clean, but challenging two-to-three foot (1.5 ...
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The Manly Daily
New artefacts for Sydney Jewish Museum | The Australian Jewish ...
By Gareth Narunsky
A SPECIAL ceremony was held last Monday to mark the transition of a collection of wallets, confiscated during the Holocaust, from the International Tracing Service (ITS) into the custodianship of the Sydney Jewish Museum. Based in Bad ...
The Australian Jewish News
Sydney-based R&B/Soul Singer Senani ... - Music News Nashville
By Dan Harr
Emerging R&B/Soul songstress Senani is gearing up for the official release of her debut album, Infinity, celebrating with a show at one of SydneyAustralia'shottest new live performance venues, Blue Beat Live, on May 10, 2012 at 8 p.m. ARIA ...
Music News Nashville
One Direction arrives in Sydney, Australia - 2012 - 7 News, Channel ...
One Direction Blooper Goes LIVE-to-air on TVby 9NEWSAUSTRALIA26155 views · One ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j-CmEZ4xpE
Sydney Morning Herald - Business & World News Australia | smh ...
Breaking news from Sydney, Australia and the world. Features the latest business, sport, entertainment, travel, lifestyle, and technology news.
www.smh.com.au/am/2012/04/14/index.html
Madame Tussauds opens in Australia in Sydney | News.com.au
KEITH Urban, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Croc Dundee are personalities you might not expect to see sharing the same stage.
www.news.com.au/...in.../story-e6frfku0-1226327737399
Wolverine film to shoot in Sydney - ABC News (Australian ...
Hugh Jackman will return to Sydney this August to shoot The Wolverine, in which he will reprise his role of the gruff, metal-clawed, muscled-up mutant.
www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-20/wolverine...to.../3962104
News: Australian Cyber League touches down in Sydney ...
Dishonored · Click. Awesome trailer - looking forward to seeing more of this! - aawells07 The tagline 'Revenge Solves Everything' is genius! - appyday Wowzers!
www.computerandvideogames.com/.../australian-cyber-league...
Prince Australian Tour Tickets Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane - Music ...
Tickets for the Prince Australian Tour are now on sale for Sydney Melbourne and Brisbane. This tour has been anticipated for many months, and is expected t.
musicfeeds.com.au/.../prince-australian-tour-tickets-sydney-me...
Australia Rainstorm Targets Sydney
Flash flooding has prompted rescues and hundreds of calls for help in easternAustralia, the Australian ABC News website said.
www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/australia.../64241
West Sydney Target Severino - Australia News - Australian ...
THE recruitment drive for incoming A-League club Western Sydney has begun, with ex-Gold Coast United midfielder Daniel Severino one of the franchise's first ...
au.fourfourtwo.com/.../236592,west-sydney-target-severino.as...
Secret Cinema Comes to Australia - News - Concrete Playground ...
World Movies will bring Secret Cinema to Sydney next month, transforming a mystery downtown building into a lavish cinema just for the night. The film to be...
sydney.concreteplayground.com.au/.../secret-cinema-comes-to...
Music News Australia: Seal performs at Sydney Entertainment ...
This is the official website for Music News Australia, which is based inSydney, Australia, enjoying a worldwide audience. The Music News Australiawebsite ...
musicnewsaustraliadotcom.blogspot.com/.../seal-performs-at-s...
Outsourcers flag Sydney expansion - Business - News - ZDNet ...
Mahindra Satyam and Tech Mahindra plan to hire hundreds of people for theirSydney operations, a move welcomed by NSW Acting Minister for Trade and ...
www.zdnet.com.au/outsourcers-flag-sydney-expansion-33933...
Sky News: One Direction teen hysteria in Sydney
Screaming teenagers packed Sydney's Martin Place on Wednesday as British- Irish boy band One Direction stopped traffic in the city. The latest pop sensations ...
www.skynews.com.au/showbiz/article.aspx?id=738463...
Aged Care a Ticking Time Bomb - Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney ...
News. MISSION & EVANGELISATION; |; OUR WORKS & COMMUNITY; |; PRAYER & ... Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese, ... a 1960sAustralia and does not address ... Most Australians believe they will be looked after in old age.
www.sydneycatholic.org/news/latest.../2012411_1720.shtml
Photo Of One Direction On The Stage In Sydney, Australia ...
One Direction recently completed a trip to Sydney, Australia where they promoted their music, met with fans and ... Nickelodeon TV Show House Of Anubis News ...
www.nickutopia.com/.../photo-of-one-direction-on-the-stage-i...
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