Category: Oceania

Meet Jack Outback, the – most interesting’ Australian

Lead researcher says even though persona was refined and the name dropped throughout the study, he would still like to meet him for a beer Krouwel is the pioneering data scientist behind Election Compass , an online political sentiment tool used in more than 40 countries worldwide. He is also the lead researcher on the Political Persona Project – one of the most comprehensive attempts ever made to profile different types of Australians based on their lifestyles, social values and politics.

Canberra schoolgirl Rosa Green to represent ACT in Miss Teen Galaxy Australia

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I too have burn marks over my front lawn says Joe Matheson of Umina Beach. “A motor bike tyre on a black bitumen road in summer gets considerably hotter than air temperature.

Federal line should make most of MIA

The federal government is embarking on an ambitious nation-building project – an inland freight rail route from Brisbane to Melbourne. The idea is to link the inland regions with ports of Brisbane and Melbourne to get freight off our congested roads and improve supply chains.

Donald Trump versus the world

President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull in the Oval Office of the White House, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017 in Washington. It’s known as the National Prayer Breakfast.

Congressional leaders scramble to reassure Australia after testy Trump phone call

Top Republican figures on Capitol Hill sought to reassure Australia on Thursday following reports of a remarkably tense phone call between President Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Australia was a ”very essential” US ally after being pressed in a morning news conference by reporters on the call, as well as on a tweet late Wednesday where Trump dismissed an agreement to accept refugees from Australia as a ”dumb deal.’

Significant appointment for the Catholic Church in…

The New Zealand bishops today announced that Deacon Danny Karatea-Goddard will be taking on a new part-time role with Secretariat for Te Huinga o ng Phopa Katorika o Aotearoa / the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference supporting the secretariat The New Zealand bishops today announced that Deacon Danny Karatea-Goddard will be taking on a new part-time role with Secretariat for Te Huinga o ngA PA hopa Katorika o Aotearoa / the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference supporting the secretariat and the bishops in their commitment to Katorika MA ori.

US: Trump ‘unbelievably disappointed’ in Australia deal

The White House deepened its condemnation of an Obama administration refugee deal with Australia Thursday, saying President Donald Trump was “unbelievably disappointed” in the agreement. The agreement to allow mostly Muslim refugees to resettle in the United States was a source of friction during a recent phone call between Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, according to an administration official.

Planet Labs to Acquire Terra Bella and Launch Largest Ever Constellation of Satellites

Proposed San Francisco Class B airspace changes would enable lower-angle descents into SFO optimized for the higher glide ratios of… Providence Approach: King Air 1234 contact Bradley Approach on 123.95 … Providence Approach: King Air 1234 contact Bradley Approach on… In the Flytenow case, the FAA applied old thinking that doesn’t work in a world where technology moves at the speed of heat. They’ve moldered on my office shelf, unused, for more than a decade.

AFL stars gather in Broome for Indigenous camp

The head of the AFL Players’ Association says this week’s Indigenous All Stars’ visit to Broome is about much more than just football. A who’s who of Indigenous football are in Western Australia’s Kimberley region for a four-day camp, beginning today.

Australian PM won’t comment on report of terse Trump call

In this May 8, 2016 file photo, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. Turnbull said Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 that U.S. President Donald Trump had agreed during a weekend telephone conversation to keep an Obama administration promise to resettle an undisclosed number of mostly Muslim refugees held on the impoverished nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea.

Greenlea to the Rescue

The amazing team at Greenlea Premier Meats love helping people. They also love the Greenlea Rescue Helicopter, which is why they have come to the rescue once again.

Toyota confirms date for end of Australian assembly

Two weeks ago Holden confirmed that it will end vehicle production at its Elizabeth, Adelaide plant on October 20 – and now Toyota has announced it will end its Australian vehicle assembly on October 3. The two closures will come exactly a year after Ford ended its assembly operations at Melbourne and Geelong in October last year, with the loss of 600 manufacturing jobs. Toyota Australia has confirmed that as part of the shutdown process, its Altona, Melbourne manufacturing plant will stop building V6 Aurions in August, Camry hybrids in September and Camry petrol models in October.

Spark partners with UnisonFibre for home and small business fibre installations

Spark will use UnisonFibre to connect new customers to Spark fibre broadband, in areas covered by the UnisonFibre network. UnisonFibre has an extensive fibre network, with more than 700kms of cabling reaching nearly 13,000 homes and businesses across the Hawke’s Bay region and Taupo and Rotorua and offers fibre network capabilities equivalent to those available via the Ultra-Fast Broadband network in other parts of New Zealand.

NZ unemployment jumps to 5.2 per cent

The construction industry continues to create jobs, but the number entering the work force outnumbered job creation at the end of 2016. Unemployment jumped to 5.2 per cent at the end of 2016, with new entrants to the workforce swamping the number of jobs created.

Could Donald Trump cost Bill English the election?

OPINION: Just days into his leadership, and US President Donald Trump is already casting a long shadow over the next New Zealand election. When Prime Minister Bill English announces the election date on Wednesday, there will be a sneaking worry that National’s fourth term will become collateral damage.

Research debunks Abbott power claims

Upgrading Australia’s coal-fired power stations to cut emissions would cost up to $38 billion more than making the same reductions with renewable energy. The new research comes as Tony Abbott doubles down on his call for the Turnbull government to dump the renewable energy target.

Stadium takes on logistical nightmare

ILT Stadium Southland general manager Nigel Skelt takes a break as the stadium prepares for its most challenging couple of weeks. ILT Stadium Southland general manager Nigel Skelt says the next 15 days will provide the biggest logistical challenge they have encountered in the venue’s 17-year history.

Soccer bid

The Geelong-based bid – under the working guise of Victoria Patriots – is being fronted by former Socceroos player Steve Horvat and will also represent Warrnambool, Colac, Hamilton and the rest of western Victoria. Horvat, who made 32 appearances for Australia, said the consortium of investors had used the Western Sydney Wanderers model as inspiration and was looking to build links with regional Victorian cities.

One flag missing on Australia Day in Eden

Eden’s iconic flag mast in the Imlay Street roundabout was adjorned with eight different flags on Australia Day but there was one missing. For more than 20 years Eden Killer Whale Museum volunteers have flown the flags of this country on the mast at the entrance to Imlay Street, but yesterday this tradition was questioned by many Eden residents.

Time to treat health and safety as business as usual

I challenged my heath and safety trainer the other day by saying the new Health and Safety at Work Act hadn’t changed anything. Surely, WorkSafe New Zealand’s own workplace fatality statistics told the damning story: 57 fatalities in 2013, 48 in 2014, 43 in 2015, and 45 last year – an increase in the year the new act came into being.

Australia Day scorcher for Perth with mercury set to hit forty degrees

On Thursday, come what the Australian poet Dorothea Mackellar called “the hot gold hush of noon,” Perth will be sweltering through forty degrees as it celebrates Australia Day. Ms Mackellar’s ode to Australia My Country famously states “I love a sunburned country, a land of sweeping plains, of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.”

Health Alert (Australia) January 23, 2017

Commonwealth. Federal Court 13 January 2017 – Selia v Commonwealth of Australia [2017] FCA 7 – ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – Judicial Review – Professional Services Review Scheme under Part VAA of the Health Insurance Act 1973 – where Professional Services Review Committee found applicant dentist engaged in ‘inappropriate practice’ as defined in s 82 – meaning of ‘initiating’ in s 82 – where applicant billed Medicare for dental services in advance of rendering – where dental services provided by dentists employed by applicant were billed using applicant’s medicare provider number – where Determining Authority directed applicant should be reprimanded, counselled and required to repay amount to first respondent – whether pre-billing can constitute ‘inappropriate practice’ – whether conduct of applicant in billing services provided by employees under his medicare number can constitute ‘inappropriate … (more)

Health Alert (Australia) January 23, 2017

Commonwealth. Federal Court 13 January 2017 – Selia v Commonwealth of Australia [2017] FCA 7 – ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – Judicial Review – Professional Services Review Scheme under Part VAA of the Health Insurance Act 1973 – where Professional Services Review Committee found applicant dentist engaged in ‘inappropriate practice’ as defined in s 82 – meaning of ‘initiating’ in s 82 – where applicant billed Medicare for dental services in advance of rendering – where dental services provided by dentists employed by applicant were billed using applicant’s medicare provider number – where Determining Authority directed applicant should be reprimanded, counselled and required to repay amount to first respondent – whether pre-billing can constitute ‘inappropriate practice’ – whether conduct of applicant in billing services provided by employees under his medicare number can constitute ‘inappropriate … (more)

As Australians we’re all in this together

Many a civic version of Advance Australia Fair will get sung at citizenship ceremonies and some pretty tuneless attempts at barbecues. A few of the more lively renditions will be performed by Aussies with flag stickers plastered on their faces and with a drink in one hand and a chop or snag in the other.