February 17, 2012
The West Australian 17 February 21012
WA will lose more than $400 million from its share of the GST next financial year to prop up flood-ravaged Queensland.
In another blow to the State Government's bottom line, the Commonwealth Grants Commission's review of GST payments is understood to back the deep cut to WA's share.
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February 15, 2012
By ABC's Louise Maher
Updated February 14, 2012 15:09:51
Though not necessarily illiterate, an estimated seven million Australians are struggling with low literacy levels.
What you're doing right now – reading and understanding these words – is difficult if not impossible for a staggering number of Australians.
Nearly half t... ...
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February 1, 2012
John McDuling AFR 31 January 2012
Telstra wants the NBN network design to be scrutinised. Photo: Michele Mossop
Telstra has challenged NBN Co’s pricing strategy and cast doubt over its financial targets, as manoeuvring around the $36 billion network enters a decisive phase.
In their first significant public clash since the signing... ...
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January 30, 2012
Evonne Barry From: Herald Sun January 30, 2012 12:00AM
PARENTS are shirking the responsibility of disciplining their kids, turning teachers into makeshift mums and dads.
A major Herald Sun survey of Victorian teachers found three-quarters believe parents have unreasonable expectations about the school's role in raising kids.
And the... ...
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January 23, 2012
Australian, Page: 12
By Barry Cohen
Monday, 12 December 2011
The progressives’ are in for the shock of their lives when the mainstream mobilises
ANYONE wondering why the Labor Party is having a lean time need only to have watched the federal conference to understand why. With the world on the brink of another global financial cr... ...
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January 18, 2012
The Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum January 2012, Tokyo Japan.
Global economic situation relating to food security.
Food security in the Asia-Pacific
Reducing hunger by half is the first of the Millennium development Goals (MDGs). According to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), nearly one bil... ...
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December 14, 2011
West Australian, Page: 19
By Shane Wright
Monday, 12 December 2011
year the nine-member board will for the first time be one-third female. While in some areas there is rejoicing that one-third of the Reserve’s board is to be female, the gender difference is still very wide.
First, a few facts.
Last I checked women make up ju... ...
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December 9, 2011
Crystal Cox, "investigative blogger" of Eureka, Montana, committed acts of media, and it cost her $2.5 million.
Her case is being reported as a slap down; the wrong-headed ol' bloggers aren't journalists. But it's not that simple.
Cox's problem stems from a series of articles she wrote about Obsidian Finance Group LLC, an investment firm ba... ...
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December 9, 2011
Education editor Sheradyn Holderhead From: The Advertiser December 09, 2011 12:00AM
ALL university students will pay 40 per cent of the cost of their course and the Government the other 60 per cent under a plan to overhaul funding.
Law, accounting, commerce and economics students pay 84 per cent of their course cost while science students only ... ...
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December 2, 2011
August 31, 2011A consignment of imported apples has been rejected by Australian authorities.
South Australian Agriculture Minister Michael O'Brien says two shipments of New Zealand apples have been rejected in the first weeks since imports from across the Tasman started.
"I've been informed by the Apple and Pear Growers' Association of Sout... ...
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