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Why I live in Cabramatta
I work in Artarmon, in the north shore. Work seems to be getting more and more frantic lately meaning many early mornings and some late nights and the occasional weekend.
In good traffic, it’s an hour drive, when things are bad it could take two hours – each way. Some of my kind work friends (and there are many because I’m particularly blessed) have asked if I’ve thought about moving closer to work or at least to the City. more
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George Gittoes is a filmmaker who rejects the 'rules' of documentary making, writes Paul Kalina.
EVEN by the unholy standards of George Gittoes' unconventional career, The Miscreants sets a new standard in audacious and courageous filmmaking. more
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AS IF spam email wasn't unloved enough already, new research
shows all those unsolicited messages, 62 trillion of them last
year, generate greenhouse gases equivalent to driving a car around
the planet 1.6 million times. more
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Stop the Spam to Save the Planet
Here's a new twist on climate change!-----------------------------------Conrad WaltersSMH Online, 26 April 2009AS IF spam email wasn't unloved enough already, new research
shows all those unsolicited ...
Posted 25 Apr 2009 16:07 by - Thang
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Russian roulette, with a camera
The Age, 2 April 2009George Gittoes is a filmmaker who rejects the 'rules' of
documentary making, writes Paul Kalina.
EVEN by the unholy standards of George Gittoes' unconventional
career ...
Posted 12 Apr 2009 18:17 by - Thang
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Kylie Minogue uses Botox and health spas
Daily Telegraph Online,13 April 209KYLIE Minogue has splashed out more than $82,000 on an anti-ageing spa break in Spain.
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40-year-old singer, who recently ...
Posted 12 Apr 2009 18:04 by - Thang
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Boy, 13, isn't dad of teen's baby
A DNA test showed
a 13-year-old boy in Britain is not the father of a baby born to a
15-year-old he had unprotected sex with once ...
Posted 27 Mar 2009 04:21 by - Thang
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Social networking beats email on the web
AAP, from cnet.com.au11 March 2009
Social networking is a more popular online activity than email, according to a new survey.
The survey by market research firm Nielsen ...
Posted 11 Mar 2009 03:24 by - Thang
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Cabra 2166: About the town I love
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Wayne Boyce, 23, from Bonnyrigg, was set upon in Trevanna St, Busby, just after 3am.
The father of two infant boys had driven to the address after a friend,
known as Joel, called him for help when the angry group turned up at
his house. more
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Angry mob beats to death young father
By Yoni BashanDaily Telegraph, April 26, 2009
A YOUNG father
was stabbed and savagely beaten to death with a baseball bat by a mob
of up to 15 people ...
Posted 25 Apr 2009 16:13 by - Thang
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Murder of MP: report vindicates jury verdict
Geesche Jacobsen, Crime Editor
Sydney Morning Herald, 18 April 2009
AFTER 36 days of evidence, 23 witnesses and at least a million dollars in legal costs, a retired judge has ...
Posted 17 Apr 2009 22:42 by - Thang
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Ngo did mastermind MP's murder: inquiry
Geesche JacobsenSMH Online, 17 April 2009After a six-month inquiry into his conviction, evidence
that Phuong Ngo did mastermind the murder of former Cabramatta MP John
Newman is ...
Posted 17 Apr 2009 03:12 by - Thang
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Where I live
I work in Artarmon, in the north shore. Work seems to be getting
more and more frantic lately meaning many early mornings and some late
nights and the occasional weekend ...
Posted 25 Mar 2009 02:35 by - Thang
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NEW HAIRDO
My hair has been short for very practical reasons, I save time by not having to worry about how to do my hair.But
the past few weeks have been ...
Posted 14 Mar 2009 20:55 by - Thang
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THE Finance Minister, Joe Tripodi, has misused his parliamentary allowances, using his stationery and electorate office for Labor campaigns for Fairfield Council, documents obtained by the Opposition reveal.
Letters to political donors leaked to the Opposition by Labor sources show Mr Tripodi used his letterhead as Fairfield MP to thank at least three donors for their payments in March 2004. more
Teflon Tripodi survives.. again more.
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Tripodi's $290,000 trip revealed
SMH Online, 12 May 2009
Joe Tripodi ... testing the market worldwide.
NSW government minister Joe Tripodi spent $290,000 of taxpayers' money travelling the world to drum up interest in ...
Posted 12 May 2009 00:28 by - Thang
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Hand-outs fuel pokies binge
Jason DowlingThe Age, April 27 2009VICTORIA'S gambling watchdog is signalling the Federal
Government's attempts to stimulate the economy are hurting some of the
most vulnerable in ...
Posted 27 Apr 2009 04:05 by - Thang
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TEFLON TRIPODI SURVIVES... AGAIN
No further investigation of Tripodi
Alexandra Smith
Sydney Morning Herald, 18 April 2009
THE NSW Finance Minister, Joe Tripodi, misused his parliamentary allowances but there was no evidence of a ...
Posted 17 Apr 2009 22:39 by - Thang
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Things that tick me off!
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Hundreds protest Pirate Bay conviction
The rich TV and music execs just want to get richer...SMH Online, 20 April 2009Wearing bandanas and waving Jolly Roger flags, hundreds of
supporters of file-sharing hub ...
Posted 19 Apr 2009 17:36 by - Thang
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Conroy backtracks on internet censorship policy
Asher MosesSMH Online, 1 April 2009The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has begun
distancing himself from his controversial internet censorship
policy in what one internet industry engineer has dubbed ...
Posted 1 Apr 2009 04:04 by - Thang
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Blacklist snares Bill Henson fan site
Asher Moses, SMH Online March 26, 2009
A link containing Bill Henson's artistic photographs of young boys has been added to the communications regulator's blacklist, again calling into ...
Posted 26 Mar 2009 14:11 by - Thang
Foreign Affair
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A TORRID gay sex
movie from China and a blistering denunciation of film and music
censorship in Iran brought world politics centre-stage at the Cannes
film festival on Thursday. more
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Gay sex, love tale Spring Fever hits Cannes Film Festival
A TORRID gay sex
movie from China and a blistering denunciation of film and music
censorship in Iran brought world politics centre-stage at the Cannes
film festival on Thursday ...
Posted 15 May 2009 14:26 by - Thang
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I'm not gay, Ian Thorpe insists
Daily Telegraph, 30 January 2009SWIMMING hero Ian Thorpe has rubbished continuing speculation about his sexual orientation by insisting: I am not gay.
The
five-time Olympic gold medallist was ...
Posted 30 Jan 2009 15:48 by - Thang
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Meet Ian Thorpe's swimmer friend, Daniel Mendes
Daily Telegraph, January 28, 2009 IAN Thorpe's
mystery male friend has been unmasked - he is Brazilian swimmer Daniel
Mendes. Mendes and Thorpe were photographed sunning themselves and
playing in ...
Posted 30 Jan 2009 15:45 by - Thang
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Changeling, the movie
One of the best movies I've seen in a while. Makes you appreciate how far our society has come, and how far we still have to go. moreChangeling - Angelina Jolie
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Changeling - Angelina Jolie
Saw Changeling last and truly loved it. Never been a fan of Angelina or Clint Eastwood for that matter. But this movie sucked me right in.It made me angry ...
Posted 13 Feb 2009 02:28 by - Thang
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Singapore Air cuts Australian flights
SMH Online, January 16, 2009
Flights to Sydney, Perth
and Brisbane will be among 200 cut by Singapore Airlines between now
and the end of March as the carrier battles ...
Posted 17 Jan 2009 21:45 by - Thang
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MCA on 9 Jan 09
Went to the MCA yesterday to see the new exhibtion by Yinka Shonibare, a cheeky artist born in the UK of Nigerian parents but grew up in Lagos. His work ...
Posted 9 Jan 2009 22:32 by - Thang
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