City officials have decided to review security at some of Sydney's most important tourist attractions following an incident involving members of environmental organisation Greenpeace at the Sydney Opera House.
Activists scaled the iconic structure, one of the most recognizable in the world, to unfurl a protest banner about climate change.
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Australian aboriginal icon Ernie Dingo has lashed out at the hypocrisy amongst white people in Australian who take issue with Aborigines and their alleged high and dangerous rate of alcohol consumption.
Dingo has instead suggested that the real people at fault are those who are supplying the alcohol in the first ...
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Tiger Woods is at the receiving end of a non-stop series of blows.
Tiger Woods has received yet another blow coming this time from major sponsor Accenture which has announced that it’s is terminating its six-year sponsorship deal with him.
This news comes after razor company Gillette had explained it was shrinking ...
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One of Australia’s top winemakers, as well as his family, has been the target of an alleged extortion attempt involving several million dollars.
John Casella, the head of a family company which produces the well known Yellow Tail wines, is said to have paid a large sum of money stemming from ...
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Jaimee Grubbs, a cocktail waitress who is believed to have had a 31-month affair with golfing champion Tiger Woods has apologised to the golfer's wife, Elin Nordegren, on US television.
Just a week ago, Woods had also apologised via a statement on his website for what he called his "transgressions" and ...
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A Tasmanian resident who was officially registered as missing has been discovered, alive and almost well, in a bar in the south island of New Zealand. The wayward drinker was reported as being oblivious in every sense.
45-year-old Michael Craig was reported as missing by his travel buddy after he left ...
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A Sydney woman accused of choking her two-year-old son and hiding his body in a piece of luggage has received a 19 year prison sentence.
Twenty-eight-year-old Rachel Pfitzner pleaded guilty to the murder of her son Dean Shillingsworth in October 2007.
Pfitzner told the NSW Supreme Court that she had held the ...
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Qatar Airways begins operations to and from Australia with a new Doha to Melbourne air route. The carrier thus adds one more continent to its rapidly expanding international network.
Melbourne becomes Qatar Airways’ 85th destination and its fourth new route in 2009. The award-winning airline plans to initiate flights to Sydney ...
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Shark campaigner Richard Fitzpatrick says he lassoes and humps on the sea predators for science, stressing that he’s not doing this in the name of entertainer.
The marine biologist does not want to be compared to the famed and late croc hunter Steve Irwin.
The 39-year-old scientist is amassing information stemming from ...
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An alleged Satanist and would-be paedophile has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment over a bizarre scheme which attempted to lure young girls to a cemetery in Sydney for sex using a bogus internet gothic club.
The conditions of becoming a member of the Rookwood Gothic Society was that new applicants ...
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