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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• New study further disputes notion that amputee runners gain advantage from protheses

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 612
  A study by six researchers, including a University of Colorado at Boulder associate professor and his former doctoral student, shows that amputees who use running-specific prosthetic legs have no p
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• Gold, Silver Celebrate China’s 60th - NumisMaster.com

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 144
  NumisMaster.com Gold, Silver Celebrate Chinas 60th NumisMaster.com Between them burns the flame of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Behind celebratory fireworks erupt over Beijing . Mintage is 6888. … Continue….. iAfrica.com De Villiers Beijing boost ...
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• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• China’s Green Investment - Energy and Capital (blog)

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 144
  China’s Green Investment - Energy and Capital (blog) Chinas Green Investment Energy and Capital (blog) … A. DeHaemer Anyone who has been to Beijing , or watched the 2008 Olympic Games, knows that China suffers under a large, black cloud of soot and smog . … and more » ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
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• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
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• Swindler Madoff king of ‘wild sex and drug parties’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff presided over an office fuelled by sex and drugs, with wild late night parties that included topless entertainers, a lawsuit said. His "affinity for escorts, masseuses, and attractive female employees was well known in the office culture," said the suit which was filed in ...
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• Sailor remembered for ‘living twice as hard’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Sailing veteran Andrew Short is being remembered as a brave adventurer, a keen businessman and a devoted father at his funeral in Sydney. More than 2,500 people have gathered at the service at St Marys Cathedral to farewell the 48-year-old sailing veteran who was killed when his yacht ran aground during a night race ...
  2 weeks ago

• 9-year-old’s high jumping design to feature on London 2012 - IAAF

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 144
  9-year-old’s high jumping design to feature on London 2012 - IAAF London, UK - Last week it was announced that a high jumping design by a nine-year-old girl from the English city of Bristol has been chosen as the first of a series of commemorative coins to be produced for the London Olympic Games of 2012. The coin ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brimble jury split on Wilhelm verdict

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  The jury in the Sydney trial of a man accused of killing cruise ship passenger Dianne Brimble has reached a verdict on one of two charges. Mark Wilhelm, 37, was charged with manslaughter and supplying a prohibited drug after Ms Brimbles body was found in his cabin on board the Pacific Sky cruise ship in September ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pakistan army advances on Taliban

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  The Pakistani military has suffered its first casualties in the opening exchanges of a major offensive launched against Taliban militants in their stronghold of South Waziristan. Four soldiers were killed and a dozen wounded as about 30,000 troops supported by tanks, artillery , fighter jets and helicopter gunships ...
  3 weeks ago

• Consumers push to penalise tardy telcos

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  If you have ever stayed home all day to wait for that telephone repair technician who never turned up, you may have wanted some redress. Now a new consumer advocacy group has called on the Federal Government to make telcos pay automatic compensation payments to consumers when workers are late or fail to show up. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Boat blast survivors get refugee status

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Asylum seekers who survived a boat explosion off Ashmore Reef earlier this year will be granted refugee status in Australia. The 42 Afghan men will be released into the community this week but it is believed the Federal Government will deport any of them who are subsequently convicted of serious charges over the ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Five Greatest Athletes of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

  
  US OPEN TENNIS — Authority: 136
  A national hero in Maryland and the United States, he has won 16 Olympic medals. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he broke the 36-year-old record of Mark Spitz with eight gold Olympic medals. From 2004 to 2008, Michael Phelps has won more Olympic gold medals than many countries (including Ireland, Luxembourg, Iceland, ...
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• Tander and Davison tame Mount Panorama

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Holdens Garth Tander and Will Davison have won the Bathurst 1000, ending Fords three-year winning streak at Mount Panorama. The lead changed throughout the day, but in true Bathurst fashion it all came down to the final lap and it was the Holden Racing Team duo of Tander and Davison who crossed the finish line in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Digger wounded in Afghan gun battle

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  An Australian soldier has been wounded in a battle with Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. The soldier was wounded while on an operation with other Australian soldiers and members of the Afghan security forces in southern Afghanistan yesterday. The Defence Force says the soldier is being treated at a medical ...
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• Beazley flags new approach to US ties

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  The new ambassador to Washington is indicating that Australias relationship with the United States is set to change. Kim Beazley says he always questioned the former government over its approach as Australia became the ally the Americans wanted but not the one they needed. The former Labor leader has told the ABCs ...
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• Returned rescue worker describes Samoa hell

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A Queensland search and rescue expert says the destruction caused by the tsunami in Samoa is the worst he has seen. Ten urban search and rescue professionals from Queensland were sent to Samoa within hours of last weeks tsunami to provide support to local emergency crews. They returned home to Brisbane this ...
  4 weeks ago

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