Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Man scales 12-storey crane at Wollongong construction site and other top stories.

  • Man scales 12-storey crane at Wollongong construction site

    Man scales 12-storey crane at Wollongong construction site
    Man scales 12-storey crane at Wollongong construction site Video will begin in 5 seconds. Man scales 12-storey crane RAW VISION: A man has been charged with trespass after climbing onto a crane at a construction site in Wollongong. PT0M18S 620 349 A man who scaled a 12-storey construction crane in a bizarre start to the national holiday has been charged with trespass. Police were called to a construction site on Stewart Street in Wollongong about 6.45am on Tuesday, the Illaw..
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  • Man left with broken bones after brutal, bloody Australia Day attack

    Man left with broken bones after brutal, bloody Australia Day attack
    Jackson Crinis in Wollongong after being beaten up by unknown thugs in Corrimal on Australia Day. Image supplied.A MAN’S partner has said she “freaked out” when she found her boyfriend battered and bloodied on the side of the road in the dead of night following a vicious Australia Day attack.So dazed was 24-year-old Jackson Crinis after his ordeal, and so deep in shock, that despite having multiple broken bones and gashes all over his face he didn’t realise he’d been injured and thought the pool..
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  • Australia Day: fireworks explode, not behaviour

    Police kept on their toes, but no major Australia Day-related incidents were reported. Partygoers might have marked our national day in style on Tuesday, but authorities say most were on their best behaviour.Wollongong City Council estimated between 35,000 and 40,000 people moved through the harbour foreshore area across the day  – from the 8am aquathon to 9pm fireworks.Thousands watched as fireworks exploded over Wollongong Harbour to end the city’s Australia Day celebrations. “W..
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  • New Illawarra bands hitting their mark in live music scene

    New Illawarra bands hitting their mark in live music scene
    The Oaks Hotel at Albion Park is not only cementing itself as a live venue. It is giving new local bands and artists a chance to shine. Live music: Unlocking the Doors is a new tribute band from Wollongong that is playing at the Oaks Hotel this Saturday. They are part of an emergence of local talent.The Oaks Hotel at Albion Park is not only cementing itself as a live venue. It is giving new local bands and artists a chance to shine.New Wollongong rock band Mrz Hyde was an immediat..
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  • The great ATAR hoax

    The great ATAR hoax
    The great ATAR hoaxThe AustralianJanuary 28, 2016 7:38AMSavePrint The record; The leak; The question; The lies; The hoaxIt’s a record: New government data released yesterday reveals the highest number of enrolments ever in higher education institutions (1.2 million). At the same time, serendipitously, we have the Fairfax report on ATARs — proving once and for all that advertised ATARs are a massive charade and doing really crap in your HSC is no barrier to getting into university. Of course, we..
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  • Penney out as 36ers size up Hawks

    Penney out as 36ers size up Hawks
    Kevin Lisch keeps the ball of Sixer Anthony Petrie. Photo: Dave Cronin.KIRK Penney will be missing tonight when third-ranked Illawarra hosts fourth-placed Adelaide in an NBL marquee match-up in Wollongong.Penney is nursing a hamstring injury he suffered late in regulation as the Hawks beat New Zealand in double-overtime in the previous round, Kevin Lisch picking up the offensive slack with 40 points.Without Penney, the league’s 2009 MVP and currently its third leading scorer, Illawarra crumbled ..
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  • Noma puts native food back on the menu

    Noma puts native food back on the menu
    Copenhagen's Noma, rated the best restaurant in the world, is serving bush honey and green ants at its Sydney pop-up. But why has it taken a Danish restaurant to put native ingredients in the spotlight? RN Breakfast speaks to Indigenous chef Mark Olive.Since it opened in 2003, Noma has won the title of world's best restaurant four years in a row and has transformed Denmark into a food mecca. Yesterday its Australian offshoot opened its doors for a 10-week stretch at Barangaroo in Sydney. It's..
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  • Teen driver had cache of knives, gun: court

    Teen driver had cache of knives, gun: court
    A run-of-the-mill Australia Day traffic stop this was not. Bailey AllenPolice signalled for the silver Holden Commodore to pull over on busy Cowper Street, expecting they were about to conduct another run-of-the-mill breath test during their Australia Day operations.But in a matter of minutes, the savvy officers had the young driver, Bailey Gregory Allen, in custody accused of serious weapons offences after allegedly uncovering a cache of 17 knives in his vehicle, along with a rif..
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  • Nossal adds voice to anti-vax PhD

    Nossal adds voice to anti-vax PhDJulie HareThe AustralianJanuary 27, 2016 4:29PMSavePrint Higher Education EditorSydneyJulie Hare has spent 15 years specialising as an education journalist. An arts graduate from the University of Newcastle, she has won numerous awards for writing and editing.Prominent immunologist Sir Gustav Nossal is among 12 eminent medicos to sign a statement in support of a stance by University of Wollongong health and medical academics to publicly endorse vaccination.Sir G..
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  • Shellharbour City Hub under fire – again

    Shellharbour City Hub under fire – again
    Community group Stop the Hub has demanded construction of the $60 million project come to an "immediate halt". Ongoing Civic Centre work.Shellharbour’s controversial City Hub progressing despite the  looming threat of a council merger has come under scrutiny once more. Wollongong and Shellharbour City councils would become one under a state government merger proposal, which is currently in the community consultation phase.The plan has raised questions about the need for the Shellh..
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Australia Day a great one for Wollongong Young Citizen of the Year .Australia Day 2016: what's on, weather .
Wollongong to “wharfies” for three theatre students .New LOOK for road crossings .

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