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Govt support lower in country: poll

Voters in country Victoria appear to be less supportive of the Brumby Government than Melbourne voters. A poll in Fairfax newspapers has found 36 per cent of voters in regional Victoria would vote for Labor, compared to 55 per...

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Bringing them in from the cold

Optimistic ... American pioneer Rosanne Haggerty is in Australia to share common ground. Haggerty, the founder and president of the New York organisation Common Ground, is at the centre of a radically different strategy to home...

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Bouncer's foot almost severed by machete

Bouncer's foot almost severed by machete A BOUNCER'S foot was almost severed in a savage machete attack outside a Melbourne nightclub. The victim and colleagues were ambushed in what police believe may have been a setup by a...

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Australian institute for research, collaboration

The Australian government has provided over A$8 million to fund the creation of the Australia-India Institute at the University of Melbourne. The institute is a platform to support research, training, executive briefings and...

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Zultys Appoints Alloy as Australian Distributor

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA and SUNNYVALE, CA, Nov 22, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Zultys, Inc., the leading provider of elegantly simple Unified Communications and VoIP Business Phone Systems since 2001, today announced a...

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Authors tell state that parks are for children, not cars

KATE LAHEY November 23, 2009 ONCE upon a time, Melburnians knew the value of parks - but they are now allowing them to be gobbled up by cars, warn some of the state's best-known children's authors. Thirty authors and...

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Angelsea aquifer kicks off

IT BUBBLES from deep underground, and from this week it will form another piece of Victoria's water supply puzzle. Lifted from 700 metres below Anglesea, the water turns orange as it reaches the surface, as its iron and...

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Program boldly and keep the crowds coming

THE new chief executive of Melbourne's Arts Centre has grand plans to make the spire-topped facility the unassailable cultural heart of the city. It wasn't so long ago, under the leadership of former chairman Richard Pratt,...

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Extremes back climate experts' warnings

IT was a weekend of extremes. Melbourne copped a month's worth of rain in just 17 hours, NSW grappled with "catastrophic" bushfire conditions and record November temperatures -- and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong linked the...

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'Family' wine act making bigger splash

With 643 wineries in the country it's hard to get yourself noticed as an individual winemaker.It's even harder to make your mark internationally when New Zealand is but a blip on the world wine stage.Banding together into...

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