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12:00 AM AEST | SHIRLEY, of Mount Direction, thinks she may need her speedometer checked after travelling on the West Tamar highway to work yesterday.
"I was in a hurry and was doing the 100km/h limit, yet five ca
12:00 AM AEST | 1 Premium Bond, 7 Oaf, 9 Shift work, 10 Shawl, 11 Owned, 14 Noun, 15 Into, 16 Letdown, 17 Body, 19 Kite, 20 Husky, 23 Charm, 26 Oil tanker, 27 See, 28 Step this way.
DOWN: 1 Posh and Becks, 2 Evil,
12:00 AM AEST | ASTRONOMICAL INFORMATION
Three of the planets are still clearly visible in our western evening sky. Venus is easily seen shortly after sunset and remains visible until it sets at 9.40pm.
Be
12:00 AM AEST | Credit demand by Australia's small business sector fell sharply in June, with demand for asset finance plunging 21 per cent.
Veda Advantage's commercial credit demand index showed credit de
12:00 AM AEST | GRANT Cameron prefers a silent house when he goes home after a hard day at the office.
The Sydney-based owner of 10 of Tasmania's 12 radio stations likes to leave the blaring radios back a
12:00 AM AEST | SYDNEY - A sharp fall in coal and iron ore exports to China and India and one-off purchases of military aircraft are the factors behind a much lower than expected trade surplus, economists say.
Th
12:00 AM AEST | SYDNEY - Watching your favourite team win a grand final might be priceless, but the associated eating, drinking and betting will pump half a billion dollars into the economy.
AFL and NRL fans will
12:00 AM AEST | Fairfax board: Fairfax Media Ltd says it has completed the process of board renewal following the appointment of two new directors with media experience.
A former radio executive and a former news
12:00 AM AEST | Need for training
FROM time to time, political parties talk about providing training, but in reality little extra training is done where it is needed.
Retail trade often employs untrained
12:00 AM AEST | WHEN Hobart-born Baywatch star, Jaason Simmons, travels back to Tassie with his husband and adopted son, his Canadian marriage has no legal standing.
If, for example, Jaason was in an acc
12:00 AM AEST | Fatalities as
at Tuesday, August 31:
2010 - 22
2009 - 53
Serious injuries as
at Tuesday, August 31:
2010 - 177
2009 - 203
- Figures supplied
12:00 AM AEST | THE Gillard government may look pretty ordinary, begging for support from Greens and independents after a dismal election performance, but the Coalition looks far worse.
The Coalition's perfor
12:00 AM AEST | The World Bank raised its emergency funding to Pakistan to $1 billion yesterday to help the nation cope with the massive economic impact of flooding.
The rise is an additional $US100 million ($110
12:00 AM AEST | NAGS HEAD, North Carolina - Hurricane Earl headed towards the US eastern seaboard yesterday as communities from North Carolina to New England kept a close eye on the forecast, worried that even a slig
12:00 AM AEST | COPIAPO - The morale of 33 miners trapped in Chile soared yesterday after music and hot meals were supplied, and NASA added its experience to keeping them healthy while a rescue drill inched closer.b
12:00 AM AEST | Under the shadow of fresh violence, US President Barack Obama has convened the first direct Israeli- Palestinian talks in two years, challenging Middle East leaders to seize a fleeting opportunity to
12:00 AM AEST | THE Australian Education Union and the Liberal Party both demanded clarity from the state government yesterday on plans to change post-year-10 education - and neither were happy with the response.
12:00 AM AEST | TASMANIA'S real estate sector sailed through the global financial crisis relatively unscathed, the industry's annual conference heard yesterday.
Real Estate Institute of Tasmania presi
12:00 AM AEST | University academics and post- graduate students from around Australia gathered at the University of Tasmania yesterday to hear guest speakers on art and design.
About 150 delegates attended the co
12:00 AM AEST | TEENAGE pregnancy in North and North-West Tasmania is being tackled through an eye-opening early intervention program in four high schools that includes showing teens a DVD of a birth.
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