Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Two Zika virus cases confirmed in Sydney and other top stories.

  • Two Zika virus cases confirmed in Sydney

    Two Zika virus cases confirmed in Sydney
    Two Zika virus cases confirmed in Sydney by health authorities Updated February 03, 2016 10:14:31 New South Wales Health has confirmed a woman and a man in Sydney were infected with Zika virus after travelling to Central America.But the NSW Health director of communicable diseases Vicky Sheppeard said there was no reason to be alarmed."We know there isn't a means to spread the infection in NSW," Dr Sheppeard said."We do know that in most cases it's a relatively mild dis..
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  • Sydney: Windy end to the week

    Sydney: Windy end to the week
    Sydney: Windy end to the week 02/02/2016 , 5:17 PM by Graham Creed A high in the Bight and a low in the Tasman Sea will combine to produce a vigorous southerly wind flow along the New South Wales coast arriving in Sydney later Wednesday afternoon. Along with windy conditions there will be plenty of cloud about on Thursday and Friday with showers on both days although more widespread on Thursday but even then falls will mostly be light and many suburbs will remain dry. ..
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  • Schools in Victoria, Queensland and NSW evacuated following ...

    Schools in Victoria, Queensland and NSW evacuated following ...
    Students outside the school. (9NEWS) Almost 20 schools across the country have been evacuated or locked down after a string of suspicious phone calls, believed to be originating from overseas.Several Victorian schools are the latest to be locked down this afternoon, following earlier scares in NSW and Victoria.It is understood bomb threats were called in to Queensland schools, while Sydney’s Cherrybrook Technology High and Denistone East Primary School were also affected. It follows a similar i..
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  • Sydney strip clubs where 'staff sold drugs to patrons' closed

    Sydney strip clubs where 'staff sold drugs to patrons' closed
    Two Sydney strip clubs have been ordered to close for six months after undercover police officers were allegedly sold drugs by staff at the venues.Police raided Dreamgirls and Bada Bing in December last year after receiving information that staff regularly sold drugs to patrons, the ABC reports.The raid on Dreamgirls uncovered 17 plastic bags suspected to contain drugs, leading to a number of arrests and the club's temporary closure. Not long after police and the Office of Liquor, Gaming and Ra..
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  • Australians have gone cold on housing

    Australians have gone cold on housing
    Led by a steep fall in New South Wales, sentiment towards Australia’s residential property market deteriorated dramatically in the final parts of 2015. The latest quarterly residential property index from the NAB fell to +1 during the December quarter, a 9 point fall from the level of three months earlier. The index, now well below its long-run average of +13, now sits at the lowest level seen since mid-2012. According to the NAB, sentiment weakened in most states, with the steepest declines r..
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  • New South Wales Blues vs Western Warriors: Sheffield Shield ...

    New South Wales Blues vs Western Warriors: Sheffield Shield ...
    New South Wales Blues vs Western Warriors: Sheffield Shield cricket scores Roar Guru 8 Have your say Live ScoresScores updated each minute. REFRESH NOW   New South Wales Blues v Western Warriors BERT SUTCLIFFE OVAL, FEBRUARY 3-6, 2016 Match 16 - NSW v WA   NSW Blues 1st Inn 2/182 Western Warriors won the toss and elected to bowl Tea: Day 1 NSW Blues Over:60.0  RR:3.03 Batsmen Runs B 4s 6s SR KR Patterson* 22 67 3 0 32.84 NJ Maddinson 33 32 4 2 103.13 Alcohol. Th..
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  • There are already pro-rapists here in Australia

    There are already pro-rapists here in Australia
    Internet misogynist Daryush “Roosh” Valizadeh tweeted his plans to illegally enter Australia but the real problem is that the likes of him already live here. (Pic: Twitter)By now you’ve probably heard of Daryush​ “Roosh” Valizadeh, the leader of a disturbing neo-masculinist group, Return of Kings, who believes that rape on private property should not be a crime. Daryush Valizadeh, founder of Return of Kings. (Pic: Instagram)Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has said that Valizadeh is unlikely t..
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  • Proposed glasshouse tomato project to create more than 300 jobs in ...

    Proposed glasshouse tomato project to create more than 300 jobs in ...
    Proposed glasshouse tomato project to create more than 300 jobs in Oberon in NSW central tablelands By Fiona Halloran and Kia Handley Updated February 03, 2016 11:50:46 The Mayor of Oberon in the New South Wales central tablelands has revealed a company's plan to create 308 jobs through a multi-million-dollar project to grow tomatoes in glasshouses. Kathy Sajowitz said Sydney-based Nectar Farms was behind the planned development on a 40-hectare site near one of t..
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  • Why a country girl moved to the big smoke in Toowoomba

    Why a country girl moved to the big smoke in Toowoomba
    FUTURE VISION: Jessica Kramer shares her thoughts on Toowoomba for Our City, Our Future. Bev Lacey HAVING grown up in country New South Wales, the move to the "big smoke" of Toowoomba proved a little daunting for Jessica Kramer. Miss Kramer came to Toowoomba when her family moved from regional New South Wales south of Sydney seven or eight years ago. "I went from a tiny regional town where you could walk down the street and bump into three or four people you know, to a city where..
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  • Sydney Symphony Orchestra's first female double bass player ...

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra's first female double bass player ...
    Sydney Symphony Orchestra's first female double bass player overcame tragedy and sexual abuse Posted February 02, 2016 16:46:27 Jan Gracie Mulcahy became the first woman to play double bass for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra despite growing up in poverty, surviving sexual abuse at the hands of her grandmother and losing her first husband in a tragic accident.Ms Mulcahy, now 87 and living near Lismore in northern New South Wales, has told her extraordinary life story in..
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Several schools in Queensland and New South Wales evacuated as ... .How Australia has come out on top in this currency war .
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