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• Oz 20-20 competition begins from Monday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Melbourne, Dec. 26 (ANI): Australia’s star-studded domestic Twenty20 competition begins on Monday and big hitting West Indies captain Chris Gayle will lead the international charge. Gayle has joined forces with Western Australia, while fellow international stars Shahid Afridi and Kieron Pollard (South Australia), ...
  16 hours ago

• Happy Christmas 2009

  
  RodneyOlsen.Net — Authority: 124
  It might be Christmas Eve 2009 where you are but here in Perth the clock has passed midnight and it’s Christmas Day. I want to take this opportunity to wish you and yours a very happy day as you celebrate Christmas wherever you are in the world. Many will be experiencing a white Christmas while here in Perth, ...
  2 days ago

• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  2 days ago

• David Brand

  
  The Girl Who Wished She Was Australian — Authority: 128
  David Brand. Who are you?Im going to guess hes either a former Premier of Western Australia. Or maybe hes the Chief Minister of one of the territories. I know I just recently looked up the latter, and I should remember the name. But what can I say? Ive already forgotten.Well, it was the first one thats ...
  2 days ago

• Colin Barnett

  
  The Girl Who Wished She Was Australian — Authority: 128
  Im going to guess that Colin Barnett is the Premier of Western Australia. It just surprises me that I havent gotten to that yet. So Im thinking maybe today is the day.Lets go see....Yes. Lord Wiki says Im right. Im thinking I probably recognized the name on a subconscious level as well.Barnett has been the ...
  3 days ago

• Cricket can be aggressive, not dirty: Waqar Younis

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Sydney, Dec 22 (IANS) Pakistan bowling coach Waqar Younis said people like to see aggressive cricket but it should not be “dirty”.Australian captain Ricky Ponting recently cracked down on bad behaviour following sanctions meted out to three of his players in the Perth Test against West Indies. Waqar, who is here ...
  4 days ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  4 days ago

• Away and nowhere

  
  Style Discovery — Authority: 121
  I quietly drove away without really telling everybody. Im in the middle of nowhere at the moment. The only thing connecting me to the outside world is a Telstras Next G wireless mobile Internet key. Nobody can call me so my mobile has been off for days. Although it came in handy when we had to clime Bluff Knoll as a ...
  4 days ago

• Literature Review for the IC Field

  
  IC Knowledge Center — Authority: 111
  Just came upon a full text posting of a 2008 Emerald article The Evolving Research on Intellectual Capital by Tan, Plowman and Hancock at UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia.  For anyone new to the field, this is a good start. Also fun for experienced IC’ers to see it all in one place. ...
  5 days ago

• Hot Workshop News

  
  Christian Fletcher Photography — Authority: 128
  Hi all I am running another of my workflow workshops the details are as below WORKFLOW 2010 – (includes all the work I do from capture to printing, the software, techniques and tips to get your photography to the next level) Date : 17th of January 2010 Location : My Dunsborough Gallery Shop 4/ 27 Dunn Bay Rd ...
  5 days ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  6 days ago

• cnr

  
  Melbourne Coffee Review — Authority: 118
  Located at Northbridge Plaza Cnr Lake and James St, Northbridge, Perth WA Northbridge has another debutante cafe added to its ranks, nestled in the corner of the new Piazza and surrounded by lush lawns and a huge outdoor video screen. Cnr is run by ex West Perth bean-counter Lu Yao. The decor is appealing with ...
  1 week ago

• Sexual deception in orchids explained

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 18 (ANI): Orchids use sexual trickery to lure insect pollinators, a new study has found. According to the study, sexual deception in orchids leads to a more efficient pollinating system.Most flowering plants reward pollinators with tasty nectar, but many orchid species turn to trickery. Some use ...
  1 week ago

• Tale of two cities when it comes to FOIing ministers

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 127
  Any resemblance to recently deposed NSW Premier Nathan Rees purely coincidental . Since 1991 NSW has stood out from other jurisdictions with no overall reporting on agency Freedom of Information performance (apart from an Ombudsmans survey not necessarily undertaken every year), with each agency reporting ...
  1 week ago

• Relatively happy but busy Information Commissioner in the West

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 127
  Western Australian Information Commissioner Sven Bluemmel in the Annual Report 2008-2009 details brisk Freedom of Information business, with 180 applications to his office for external review in the year to June 2009 up from 103 in the previous year. The average time for resolving complaints, just under 79 ...
  1 week ago

• hazard hill Semillon Sauvignon 2008

  
  TasteWine — Authority: 128
  hazard hill, Western Australia, semillon sauvignon Blanc 2008 Breezy and fresh, this wine shows grass and citrus in the nose. In the mouth it is crisp and clean, with concentrated flavors of lime and lime zest and a little petilance for lift – very nice.The grapes behind this wine are 51% Semillon and 49% Sauvignon ...
  1 week ago

• IBM Portable Modular Data Center for WA

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 139
  IBM have announced in "WesTrac Selects IBMs Portable Modular Data Center" that West Australian bulldozer company WesTrac is buying an IBM Portable Modular Data Center (PMDC). This will be made up of two modified shipping containers, with IBM "Rear Door Heat Exchanger", uninterruptible power supply (UPS), batteries, ...
  1 week ago

• KB4girls 2010 Tour – first stop

  
  KiteMovement — Authority: 134
  The first event of the KB4girls 2010 Tour will take place from January 8-10 in Augusta, Western Australia. This non-profit tour has the target of supporting females in the sport, to motivate them and help build local communities. In this tour, demo-gear from Best Kiteboarding and KB4girls tour rash-vests from DaKine ...
  1 week ago

• Activists dodge Japanese whaling fleet after skirmish

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  SYDNEY (AFP) – Militant anti-whaling activists said they were dodging a Japanese surveillance ship in icebergs near Antarctica on Wednesday, following their first skirmish with whalers during the annual hunt. Paul Watson, who is leading a campaign to harass this seasons hunt, said a ship loaded with Japanese security ...
  1 week ago

• Laurence made landfall in Western Australia

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  Tropical Cyclone Laurence made landfall in Northwestern Australia this morning (Eastern Time) December 15, 2009. NASAs Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Laurence just before the center of the storm made landfall at 0503 UTC (12:03 a.m. ET). The Moderate Resolution Image Spectroradiometer instrument on Aqua ...
  1 week ago

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