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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) A young man charged with a Sydney gangland-style shooting murder will remain behind bars until his next court appearance. Police say Notorious outlaw motorcycle gang member Massoud Atai, 19, was one of about 12 men and women who travelled in a convoy of four cars to the Fairfield home of Ang Van Ly, in Sydney's southwest, on the evening November 24, 2009. Mr Ly, 35, was shot as he opened the front door and later died from his wounds in Liverpool Hospital. [..] Police have continued their public plea for anyone with information about the incident to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 read more
The public is supposed to help with that limited information? When we first read the SMH headline we pictured tough guys called the Grave Digger's on Harley's. Let's decode this a bit more. Start with the names of the victim and the accused. Using FaceBook (finally found a use for that data collection front) as a guide. People with names like Van Ly would be, and/or look Asian? Using FaceBook again, people with names like Atai would be, and/or look Arabic? Providing our laymen investigation technique is correct, the pubic are supposed to be on the look out for "notorious outlaw motorcycle gangland-style" Asian and Arabic bikers, in Australia? Neo-Multiculturalism is turning Oceania Australia into a 1948-2010 version of Palestinian versus Israel. Remember that old saying, "Good fences make good neighbours"?
(SMH) The 300 workers left without jobs after an abattoir went bust in southwestern NSW will not immediately receive their entitlements. Burrangong Meat Processors in Young, a producer of mutton and beef products for Australian and export markets since 1985, went into receivership on Tuesday. More than 300 workers were stood down immediately. read more
(SHM) Western Australia has become the third Australian state [with Vic and NSW] to allow farmers to grow genetically modified (GM) canola. Agriculture and Food Minister Terry Redman on Monday approved an exemption order under the Genetically Modified Crops Free Areas Act 2003 to permit cultivation of the GM crop. [...] He said there had been 11 "minor events" during the delivery of more than 1200 tonnes of GM canola to receiving sites during the trials.[...] Opposition agriculture Minister Mick Murray said the decision would have negative long-term economic and social impacts on WA that could not be reversed. "WA's green, GM-free image has been lost forever," Mr Murray said. [...] Greens MP Lynn MacLaren said farmers and consumers would both lose from the decision. [...] "The trial results and experience in the eastern states have proven it is not possible to segregate. "Farmers will cop the brunt of this poor decision by having to pay to try to keep their non-GMO crops free from contamination. READ MORE
Traditional farms world wide are being contaminated by Monsanto's GMO seeds. Once contaminated traditional farmers like Percy Schmeiser are dragged through the courts to face the Monsanto mogul giant over so called breaches of patents. If you haven't seen it yet, do yourself a favor and watch "The World According To Monsanto" Download link is here (250mb)
"Rees adviser gets $135,000 payout" "GRAEME WEDDERBURN, Nathan Rees's chief of staff, has been given a taxpayer-funded payout greater than $135,000 after serving just 10 months in the job. He was sacked by the new Premier, Kristina Keneally, last week. Mr Wedderburn's record salary as Mr Rees's chief of staff was in excess of $300,000, Labor sources have confirmed. His $270,000 salary was topped up by the party's head office. His contract ensured he would be paid half of his annual salary if his contract was severed. The deal was negotiated with Mr Rees and the former premier Bob Carr, government sources confirmed." read more
Well then, seeing as how it was Rees and Carr that hired that poor performer, how about Rees and Carr pay Wedderburn with money out of their own private pockets? Ow don't mind me, I'm just fantasising about a fair Australian system where political mechanics that don't fix your state's car, don't get paid.
"NSW households will need to brace themselves for the first impact of the Federal Government's proposal to cut emissions, with electricity prices expected to rise steeply over the next few years. The state's pricing regulator, the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) has today recommended that electricity prices rise by up to 62 per cent, including inflation, over three years." read more
