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(Global Edge) China Daily reports on a growing trend of wealthy citizens buying luxury properties in Sydney. 70,000 Chinese arrive in Australia each year to live permanently and investors are increasingly attracted to the country due the favourable exchange rate, recent changes to foreign ownership rules and the outdoor lifestyle. read more
(SMH) AUSTRALIA Post has been accused of secretly monitoring Sydney postal workers using computerised street-side red letter boxes in breach of NSW surveillance laws. [...] Australia Post has argued in the Federal Court that the Australian Postal Corporation Act makes its use of the Cyberlock system exempt from state law. [..] The CEPU secretary, Jim Metcher, said the outcome of the case could affect all federal employers if Australia Post successfully argued that state-based surveillance laws did not apply to its workers. An Australia Post spokeswoman said yesterday...''Australia Post is a Commonwealth government business enterprise and as such Commonwealth legislation will prevail over state-based legislation,'' she said. ''In our view, the NSW Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 does not apply to Australia Post.'' read more
Spying on all Australian workers is either right or wrong, not right and wrong.
Sydney will get its first taste of desalinated water this week. About 1.5 million residents in the city's inner west, east and Sutherland Shire will get some or all of their drinking water from the $1.9 billion seawater treatment plant at Kurnell. Potable water is already being produced at the plant as part of a final five-day test that is taking place before water is pumped into Sydney homes. read more
