Sunday, October 9, 2016

Sydney to be battered by destructive winds and other top stories.

  • Sydney to be battered by destructive winds

    PARTS of New South Wales are being warned to batten down the hatches with destructive winds expected to hit the state today.The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for the Greater Sydney area, Illawarra, Southern Tablelands, Snowy Mountains, Australian Capital Territory and parts of the Hunter, South Coast, Central Tablelands and South West Slopes.Blizzard conditions are also possible above 1200m in the Alpine Region from late this afternoon and overnight, the Bureau warns...
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  • Sydney: Gusty winds easing by Wednesday morning

    Sydney: Gusty winds easing by Wednesday morning
    Sydney: Gusty winds easing by Wednesday morning 04/10/2016 , 5:01 PM by Graham Creed A severe weather warning for damaging winds is in place for Sydney with wind gusts to 90km/h possible the remainder of today and overnight although easing early tomorrow. Sunny conditions will persist across Sydney for the remainder of the working week with winds easing back to light to moderate from Thursday. A weak southerly wind change will arrive through the day Saturday with some ..
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  • Two in every three properties in Sydney's epic building boom are ...

    Two in every three properties in Sydney's epic building boom are ...
    If you couldn’t tell by the number of cranes littering the skyline, Sydney, Australia’s largest and most expensive housing market, is in midst of an epic residential building boom. According to Australia’s Housing Industry Association, citing figures released by the New South Wales government, there were 30,191 new homes completed in Sydney during 2015/16 financial year, the highest total seen since 1999/2000. Not only was that 10.4% higher than the 2014/15 financial year, apartment completions..
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  • Super yacht stranded off Port Macquarie on NSW mid north coast ...

    Super yacht stranded off Port Macquarie on NSW mid north coast ...
    Super yacht stranded off Port Macquarie on NSW mid north coast 'stable', AMSA says Updated October 04, 2016 19:06:59 A luxury charter yacht that was taking on water and had lost its steering off the New South Wales mid north coast is "under control and stable", the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) says.AMSA spokesman Sam Cardwell said the agency had gone to the aid of 37-metre super yacht Masteka 2 after emergency beacons were detected about 5:00am today.Mr C..
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  • Parents honoured in scholarship

    Parents honoured in scholarship
    IT’S BEEN more than four decades since Gaetano ‘Guy’ Boncardo used a Commonwealth scholarship to complete a degree in civil engineering at The University of NSW, the first in his family to attend a university.However, the Riverstone local hasn’t forgotten the help he received to complete his degree, which was a source of immense pride for his farming parents, Francesca and Adamo Boncardo, Italian immigrants who never had this opportunity to complete higher education.In honour of his beloved pare..
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  • Matador Cup 2016: Glenn Maxwell opens up on his attempt to leave ...

    Matador Cup 2016: Glenn Maxwell opens up on his attempt to leave ...
    He wanted to leave Victoria, but didn't. However, Glenn Maxwell says he has been warmly welcomed back into the Bushrangers' fold and is eager to use their Matador Cup campaign to show Australian selectors why they should recall him to the national one-day team.Maxwell will bat in the top order as Victoria play their first  game under new coach Andrew McDonald against South Australia at Perth's WACA Ground on Wednesday. It will also mark Maxwell's first competitive appearance for his state since..
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  • Balmoral, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Balmoral, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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  • Line markings

    Line markings
    Edward Furst on footy preferences across Australia A couple of years ago, I moved from Tasmania to Sydney to begin uni, and, unsurprisingly, there were some noticeable differences between the two places. Sydney is a lot hotter, larger, and its people are generally less-friendly. But while these differences may have been expected, I observed another difference between the Apple Isle and Harbour City that was less explicable: the dominant code of football. In Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria a..
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  • Apartment rent in Sydney and Melbourne beyond reach of many ...

    Apartment rent in Sydney and Melbourne beyond reach of many ...
    Melbourne is becoming increasingly unaffordable for single women, with one bedroom apartments in 75% of suburbs beyond the reach of the average income earner, according to a recent analysis. The analysis by the Council to Homeless Persons found that a single woman earning the average weekly wage of $882 (taken from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ seasonally adjusted average weekly earnings for Victoria in May 2016) would be priced out of all but 28 Melbourne suburbs, assuming they did not ..
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  • City to surf: A family holiday in New South Wales, Australia

    City to surf: A family holiday in New South Wales, Australia
    City to surf: A family holiday in New South Wales, Australia JUSTINE TYERMAN Last updated 09:53, October 4 2016 Justine Tyerman Sydney Opera House from the MV Birchgrove. It's a formidable challenge trying to arrange a family holiday when there are two hemispheres to consider. The young Londoners en route to a cluster of weddings "down under" wanted a holiday somewhere warm and peacef..
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