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Newcastle, Wollongong soaking up Sydney market stragglers: BIS Shrapnel 2018

Wollongong is beating Newcastle in attracting potential property buyers priced out of the Sydney market, with Wollongong's vacancy rates falling and the median house price rising by 14% in 2014/2015, according to a new study. The BIS Shrapnel ... >> view original

Wollongong to host Oceania Judo Open

The 2015 Oceania Judo Open will be held at the WIN Stadium in Wollongong, Australia, the Oceania Judo Union has announced. The New South Wales city had also hosted last year's event. The 2015 edition is due to take place on November 14 and 15. >> view original

Wollongong Hospital's new intensive care unit gets thumbs up

The 70-year-old chatted to NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner from his bed in Wollongong Hospital's new intensive care unit on Monday morning. "I smoked for 60 years and this is the end result," he said, pointing to his leg which was recently ... >> view original

Police investigate child approach in Wollongong

Police have commenced inquiries after a child was approached by an unknown man in Wollongong yesterday. The 12-year-old boy was walking along Cranford Lane at Figtree about 3pm Tuesday, when a man approached him. The man repeatedly urged ... >> view original

Is Apple planning to launch 3 new iPhones in the next 9 months?

New Delhi: Latest revelations about Apple's plans for its next line of iPhones hint to a third variant that will be smaller in size and have a metal casing. Earlier speculations indicated that the tech giant is working on a 4.7-inch model, called ... >> view original

2015 Y62 Nissan Patrol V8 | new car sales price

In a bid to boost sluggish sales, Nissan has announced substantial price cuts and a consolidated two-grade model lineup for the 2015 Patrol V8 SUV, the first update since the model landed in Australia in January 2013. The big petrol-powered SUV range ... >> view original

Apple launches cheap SIM card

IT'S not just about the Music. Apple entered another new industry today, quietly launching its own SIM cards Australians can use to cheaply access the internet overseas. Apple SIM cards, which can be used in iPads, have been added to Australian Apple ... >> view original

Engineer Behind Mazda 787B, New Miata Wants Brand to Return to Le Mans

It's been nearly 25 years since a Mazda won Le Mans, and the engineer behind that win is ready to go back. Nobuhiro Yamamoto, the father of the 1991 Le Mans-winning, rotary-powered 787B and the program manager for the new MX-5 Miata, told Top Gear ... >> view original

Unhealthy table corals threaten Great Barrier Reef fish

Some of the Great Barrier Reef's most iconic and beautiful fish species will disappear if more is not done to protect fragile table corals, James Cook University researchers have warned. Print page; Email this · Permalink. Share. Breat Barrier Reef ... >> view original

Apple switches to music subscriptions, takes on Spotify

Apple music has been made available as an update to millions of iPhones and iPads around the world. Share on twitter. by John Davidson. Apple has changed the way it thinks about music, and is set to drag its 800 million or so iTunes customers out of ... >> view original