Thursday, September 22, 2016

Thousands ride from Sydney to Canberra in remembrance of fallen ... and other top stories.

  • Thousands ride from Sydney to Canberra in remembrance of fallen ...

    Thousands ride from Sydney to Canberra in remembrance of fallen ...
    More than two thousand people have gathered to honour Australia’s fallen police officers at the 2016 Wall to Wall motorcycle ride event, including the wife of slain police accountant Curtis Cheng.The annual Ride for Remembrance aims to honour the service and sacrifices of officers killed in the line of duty.Inspired by the popular American police motorcycle and charity event in Texas, the ride started in 2009 and attracts hundreds to the National Police Memorial in Canberra every year. Selina C..
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  • Dozens arrested at Sydney music festival

    Dozens arrested at Sydney music festival
    Police have arrested 77 people following a western Sydney dance music festival. The Defqon festival was held at the Sydney International Rowing Centre at Penrith on Saturday, attracting almost 25, 000 people. Targeting anti-social behaviour, drug and alcohol offences and public safety, officers conducted a number of searches, returning 77 drug detections. Six people were charged with supplying a prohibited drug while more than 200 received medical treatment for drug and heat-related illnesses w..
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  • Adelaide City plots redemption on national stage

    Adelaide City plots redemption on national stage
    THE National Premier League’s playoffs offer Adelaide City the ideal opportunity to bounce back from its grand final heartbreak, skipper Matthew Halliday says.The Oakden club travels to Sydney for an elimination final against New South Wales minor premier Sydney United at Edensor Park today (1.30pm SA time).Halliday said the match, played eight days after City’s 1-0 SA Premier League decider loss to Campbelltown City, might be a blessing in disguise.“There’s still something to play for,” Hallida..
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  • Visual Impact Sydney Video Review

    The last local show for the year has come to a close with many exhibitors and visitors delighted with the outcome.   Exhibitions have a great future in Australia, even though the cost of exhibiting is prohibitive to many small companies. For the visitor, it is their chance to compare product performance against pricing and running costs and then being able to assess the benefits (or the lack of) to their own operations.Many of the exhibitors had some tempting "Special offers on pricing" that w..
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  • North Coast pioneers of organic farming

    North Coast pioneers of organic farming
    SUE Mangan and her husband Dave Forrest are pioneers of the organic and local food movement in northern New South Wales.They moved to the region from Sydney in the 1970s, on to a block of land at Federal where they had a family, worked hard, and turned their dreams of living off the land and creating an organic farm into reality.In the 1990s they helped set up Australia's first organic farmers' market at Lismore, and Dave was instrumental in getting the country's first TAFE-accredited organic f..
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  • How to spot a great apartment from a money pit

    How to spot a great apartment from a money pit
    The apartment price crunch is coming0:59A fresh round of data has painted an even grimmer picture of the outlook for Australia's apartment market. Brisbane and Melbourne’s CBD are areas highlighted as ‘apartment glut’.NOT all apartments are created equal.Some are top-tier investments, offering both solid capital growth and healthy rental returns, while others are underperforming money pits managing the seemingly impossible: negative growth in Australia’s east coast capital cities.“The issue com..
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  • Economy at risk if tighter alcohol policies come in

    Economy at risk if tighter alcohol policies come in
    Economy at risk if tighter alcohol policies come in TAO LIN Last updated 05:00, September 18 2016 CHRIS MCKEEN/FAIRFAX NZ Friday night arrests and detention in Auckland. Threats to tighten opening hours in bars and restaurants could have a devastating effect on the night-time economy of New Zealand's top cities, say hospitality chie..
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