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Wanderlust —
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The Local Boy: Film Review When was the last time you saw something that really mattered? I mean, when was the last time you watched a film that was talking about something important, something that moved you so deeply you wished you could step inside the screen and effect your own change? 12 was that kind of ...4 days ago -
YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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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 ...6 days ago -
Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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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. ...1 week ago -
Devotees pray to rising sun to mark end of Chhath puja
Thaindian News —
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Patna, Oct 25 (IANS) The four-day Chhath festival ended Sunday in Bihar with millions of devotees, mostly women, taking a dip in the Ganga river and praying to the rising sun.The devotees also ended their 36-hour long fast by offering prayers and floating lighted earthen lamps in the river. They sang folk songs and ...2 weeks ago -
Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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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 —
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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 ...2 weeks ago -
Millions in Bihar pray to setting sun on Chhath (Lead)
Thaindian News —
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Patna, Oct 24 (IANS) Millions of people across Bihar, mostly women, marked the festival of Chhath Saturday by fasting, singing traditional songs and praying to the setting sun.Devotees, attired in new clothes, sang folk songs as they prayed to the sun god and set lit earthen lamps afloat on rivers, lakes and other ...3 weeks ago -
Australia faces famine, expert warns
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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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 ...3 weeks ago -
Swindler Madoff king of ‘wild sex and drug parties’
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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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 ...3 weeks ago -
Sailor remembered for ‘living twice as hard’
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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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 ...3 weeks ago -
Brimble jury split on Wilhelm verdict
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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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 —
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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 ...4 weeks ago -
Consumers push to penalise tardy telcos
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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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 ...4 weeks ago -
Wrongful detention was ’serious error’
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Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith has described the three year wrongful detention of a Vietnamese man as a "serious administrative error". Van Phuc Nguyen was detained in 2002 and held in Sydneys Villawood Detention Centre for more than three years. He is a permanent resident of Australia but immigration ...6 weeks ago
