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Cancer-suffering pilot sentenced to jail over drug importation flight into ...

Wollongong father Bernhard Stevermuer, 43, pleaded guilty in February after a plane was raided by police at Illawarra Regional Airport last July, following a Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad investigation into drug supply in the Sydney metropolitan ... >> view original

Machete dancing man charged in Wollongong

A NSW man has been charged after allegedly hitting another man in the neck with a machete he was swinging around his head while dancing. The men had reportedly been arguing in the street just before 5am on Saturday in Wollongong's northern suburb of ... >> view original

Identity of man found dead in Wollongong laundry released

Police have released the name and the image of a man found dead in the laundry of a New South Wales Housing unit complex in Wollongong in April. The body of 56-year-old Mark Dower was discovered in the unit block in Crana Place, Mangerton, on April ... >> view original

Wollongong comedian Frenchy on bringing rude back

"The Wollongong show is the one I care about the most because this is where I grew up and these are people I'll probably see again," he says. "If I suck in Perth, it's cool because I'll only be back one day of the year. "It'll be a much better show ... >> view original

Income gap hampers growth, report warns

PARIS—The widening gap between haves and have-nots in much of the developed world not only raises concerns about the fraying social fabric — it's also dramatically holding back economic growth, according to a new global study. Far from a rising tide ... >> view original

Australia urged to fix transport systems or face gridlock

SYDNEY--Australia must pour more money into transport systems or risk gridlock in its biggest cities costing more than AU$53 billion (US$42 billion) a year, an infrastructure audit published Friday found. Road congestion across Australia's six largest cities, ... >> view original

Crude falls sharply amid stronger dollar boosted by CPI data

Investing.com - Investing.com -- Crude futures fell sharply on Friday paring some of its gains from one session earlier, amid a strengthening dollar aided by slight increases in inflation last month. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, WTI crude for July ... >> view original

Air Warfare Destroyer: Government to put control of troubled warship program ...

The Federal Government will put control of the troubled Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) project out to tender, following a new report revealing the total cost for the three new ships has now blown out to around $9 billion. The audit into the status of the project has ... >> view original

Forrest fire: Twiggy's secret bid to salvage iron ore price

For the second time in five years, Andrew Forrest has been comprehensively out-lobbied, out-manoeuvred and out-muscled in Canberra's halls of power by his despised rivals BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. The billionaire chairman of Fortescue Metals Group is ... >> view original

US stocks mostly up despite worries

Fed Chair Janet Yellen reaffirmed that the Fed was on track to raise interest rates this year. Photo: Bloomberg. NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks moved mostly higher this week despite mixed earnings from big retailers and caution about swelling equity ... >> view original