Friday, March 25, 2016

NSW Labor slams Baird Government over lack of social housing at Eveleigh precinct and other top stories.

  • NSW Labor slams Baird Government over lack of social housing at Eveleigh precinct

    NSW Labor slams Baird Government over lack of social housing at Eveleigh precinct
    NSW Labor slams Baird Government over lack of social housing at Eveleigh precinct Posted March 26, 2016 11:49:48 The NSW Government has been criticised for not including plans for more social housing and affordable homes in proposals for an inner Sydney housing complex.Updated plans for the North Eveleigh precinct have shown existing affordable rental housing on Carriageworks Way, south of Redfern station, as well as a proposals for up to 700 new apartments. In 2015, ..
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  • Coles customers take to Facebook to slam Easter food products

    Coles customers take to Facebook to slam Easter food products
    From cockroaches in the hot cross buns to a dead fly in a pack of bacon, furious customers have slammed Coles for a range of Easter food fails.Dozens have taken to the supermarket's Facebook page claiming that the rotten and faulty products have ruined their Easter weekend - just one day after Woolworths was bombarded with complaints.A number of customers claimed that the Coles hot cross buns were 'frozen in the middle' and hard around the edges' - a far cry from the 'freshly baked' treats they ..
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  • New F series: Isuzu launches idle-stop engine system

    New F series: Isuzu launches idle-stop engine system
    The advantages of smaller truck engines include lower weight and therefore lower cost to build, and less fuel use. Isuzu's new four cylinder 4HK1 uses less fuel again because for the first time in an Isuzu in Australia, trucks powered by it will have ...
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  • Sun and storms for Easter

    Sun and storms for Easter
    A CHANGE in weather might cast a cloud over the Easter long weekend, with possible storms and showers forecast. "Friday should be fine with a top of 30," said Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Lauren Murphy. However, from Saturday, a surface trough should drift through bringing clouds and rain. "Things get a little bit more unstable, with the chance of afternoon showers and storms," Ms Murphy said. The weekend is looking to be a warm one with Saturday reaching 31 degrees, Sunday 29..
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  • AIIB head says bank shouldn't be hot spot for US-China frictions

    AIIB head says bank shouldn't be hot spot for US-China frictions
    BEIJING • Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) president Jin Liqun yesterday said the Beijing- based development lender "should not be a new hot spot for frictions between the US and China", and that it would welcome the United States as a member. The AIIB can be "very patient" if the US wants to join, Mr Jin said at the Boao Forum for Asia, where top government and corporate officials gathered this week to discuss economic issues facing the region. "Even if the US isn't a member, we hav..
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  • New Research: Demystifying the Gender Pay Gap

    New Research: Demystifying the Gender Pay Gap
    In the early 1960s, the U.S. labor market was sharply divided. Only 37 percent of women worked outside the home. Newspapers routinely advertised jobs for men and women separately, often with separate pay scales. Women earned on average about 59 cents per dollar earned by men--giving rise to the famous equal-pay slogan "59 cents out of every dollar." Since then, America has made progress. In 1963 Congress passed the Equal Pay Act aimed at eliminating the most egregious kinds of gender discrimina..
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  • EU donates seedlings for Cyclone Winston victims

    EU donates seedlings for Cyclone Winston victims
    EU donates seedlings for Cyclone Winston victims On Thursday 24 March, the European Union handed over 43,000 fruit and vegetable seedlings to the Ministry of Agriculture in Fiji, for distribution among the victims of Tropical Cyclone Winston.In handing over the seedlings, EU ambassador to the Pacific Andrew Jacobs says the project is the first of several EU and Secretariat for the Pacific Community's initiative in assisting rebuilding lives."These seedlings consist of a mixture of cabbages, eggp..
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