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International Day of Mourning

The International Day of Mourning – 28 April – is recognized worldwide as a day to remember workers who have died from workplace incidents or disease. The International Labor Organization marks the occasion as World Day for Safety and health at Work ...

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Great Oz Holiday destinations.

I love the Blue Mountains, there is something about the place that keeps drawing me back. The Grampians, although only been once - Halls Gap. Mystery Bay NSW South Coast and Eden - love them.

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DONKEY DOLLARS ABC’s shock finding:

One of Julia Gillard’s final acts as Prime Minister was to give an extra $10 million to the ABC, a local community-based broadcasting outfit struggling to get by on a mere $1.2 billion every year. That additional cash helped the ABC to fund an elite ...

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Still Eating Easter Chocolate?

OH and I don't exchange Easter eggs or bunnies. Neither of us really go for chocolate much, and it's a bit silly for us to be giving each other fertility symbols. However. OH did get a nice Darrel Lea Easter egg from his boss. A milk chocolate NOUGAT...

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Funny town names. What's your favourite?

Saw this doing the rounds on facebook, and thought it could be fun for here. What's the funniest Australian town name you know? I had a postbox at Condong once. It was hell trying to tell people over the phone what my postal address was. Wonglepong i...

Malcolm Fraser Is "Very Uneasy"

In what is being labelled the most serious questioning of Australia's foreign policy by a former prime minister since World War II, former Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser said he had become "very uneasy" at the level of Australia's compliance with US s...

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Aussies Used Talk Different

Watching the Australian Story on Andrew "Boy" Charlton last night it struck me how the newsreaders of the day had a much "plummier"accent. Almost but quite quite the "pommy" rrrrrowwnded vowels. Distinctly Orstrelian. We've relaxed a lot since then a...

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No global warming for 17 years 8 months

Times are not easy for true-believers just now. The RSS satellite lower-troposphere temperature anomaly for March, just in, shows no global warming at all for 17 years 8 months. This remarkable 212-month period, enduring from August 1996 to March 201...

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Loons and ratbags to run Labor

BILL Shorten was right about one thing yesterday. It wasn’t Tony Abbott who threw the Labor Party into opposition, it was the Australian people. Problem is, Shorten still hasn’t figured out why. Delivering what was billed as a historic, reforming spe...

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WHO"S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD ....KITTY

Found my normally laid back poodle adara shaking with fear today..who was the culprit..One evil eyed stalking Angel the kitten....Go figure ???HERE SHE SPOTS THE OFFENDER....OH mygosh its going to strike.........LET ME OUT....IM OUTA HERE....THE CULP...

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Next Australian federal election...............

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Australian_federal_election ref. tables of Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction with all parties esp. both Libs and Labor........tell a lot..................but the small print under the table for'Preferred Prime Ministe...