Monday, November 9, 2015

Last Top Stories: Art from the NT desert comes to Wollongong for theatre collaboration - ABC Illawarra NSW - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

  • Art from the NT desert comes to Wollongong for theatre collaboration - ABC Illawarra NSW - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

    For the past two weeks, the Project Contemporary Art Space in Wollongong has hosted an exhibition of work from the Warlukurlangu Art Centre in the Northern Territory. It has been happening alongside live performances from the Wollongong Theatre Company in a collaboration that could provide the template for future events. "The committee members have been really impressed and I believe it's something they'll look at doing in the future," Bulli art entrepreneur and curator Michael Pelo..
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  • BHP Billiton doubles payment terms on $14b of supply contracts

    BHP Billiton doubles payment terms on $14b of supply contracts
    BHP chief executive Andrew MacKenzie. The mining giant's suppliers have been told the change to 60 days is effective on new contracts from the end of November.Stefan PostlesBHP Billiton is pushing out its payment terms on $14 billion of supply contracts to 60 days from 30 days after a review found its existing deal was "significantly shorter than the standard terms in the marketplace".While the move will improve BHP's working capital, it will also come as a blow to many of the company's 20,000 ..
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  • How computers broke science – and what we can do to fix it

    How computers broke science – and what we can do to fix it
    Reproducibility is one of the cornerstones of science. Made popular by British scientistRobert Boylein the 1660s, the idea is that a discovery should be reproducible before being accepted as scientific knowledge.In essence, you should be able to produce the same results I did if you follow the method I describe when announcing my discovery in a scholarly publication. For example, if researchers can reproduce the effectiveness of a new drug at treating a disease, that’s a good sign it could work ..
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  • Kennedy portfolio has $250m sale hopes

    ... four-decade history and comprises a Sydney-based portfolio of nine nursing homes and two retirement villages across southwestern Sydney and Wollongong.
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  • This is what really happens when NBN moves in

    This is what really happens when NBN moves in
    What has been the real impact of the NBN rollout?IT’S the high-speed internet network that is meant to change our lives.The National Broadband Network has been spruiked as the key to establishing “hotbeds of innovation”, creating a stream of hi-tech jobs and converting tired regional towns into “silicon cities”.Sounds pretty great, doesn’t it?But while NBN advocates made many optimistic claims to news.com.au, an investigation found that they failed to stack up.The network may have the potential ..
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  • Survey #7 - The Results & The Analysis Tuesday

    Survey #7 - The Results & The Analysis Tuesday
    DetailsCategory:What's NewPublished on Monday, 09 November 2015 15:00Survey #7 in all its glory will surface at 9:30am AEST Tuesday across the country and Radio Today will have all the results and analysis across the day ready to roll. In Melbourne, already most of the major FM players have pushed the reset button on breakfast for 2016, the only real stable shift around the country on the FM side at least, is Drive.So who will take the lead there? Can Kate, Tim and Marty hold onto their lead nat..
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  • Sustainability key to success at national architecture awards

    Sustainability key to success at national architecture awards
    Sustainability was a key theme that distinguished winning projects across all categories at last weeks National Architecture Awards, according to jury chair and former Australian Institute of Architects president David Karotkin.Among the trends the jury saw as they toured finalist projects was a “proliferation” of materials choices that suggested an “increased interest in the intrinsic qualities of the materials”, such as sustainably sourced spotted gum, with durability, maintenance minimisation..
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  • Mackay family could lose $500k after man skips court

    Mackay family could lose $500k after man skips court
    RELATIVES of Mackay man Markis Scott Turner may lose more than $500,000 worth of surety after Mr Turner failed to turn up at supreme court this morning.Mr Turner is facing charges over an alleged $20 million cocaine importation operation and was ordered to turn up at Brisbane Supreme Court at 9.30 this morning.But there was no sign of him.Relatives, including his mother Elizabeth Turner, could lose the surety they promised to pay as part of Mr Turner's bail conditions.They will fight to keep the..
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  • State of the nation

    State of the nation
    WOLLONGONG: It was a quiet Tuesday afternoon in the gleaming showroom of Wollongong's Dwyers BMW dealership when disgruntled buyer Ian Keith ...
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  • Rove & Sam

    Rove & Sam
    DetailsCategory:What's NewPublished on Monday, 09 November 2015 08:00Rove McManus and Sam Frost made their debut this morning as 2Day FM’s new breakfast team. You can take a listen to two hours of their first show.Already this morning we've heard from number of people with their thoughts on Rove & Sam and while you can’t base their future on the very FIRST show, here is what some thought. The comments are mainly from experience Metro EP’s, CD’s and Consultants."It will take at least a year o..
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