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• Wollongong Coal wants Planning Assessment Commission review ...

  

  Planning policy governing the drinking water catchment wrongly applied, miner will argue. Wollongong Coal’s controversial plan to expand its Russell Vale mine under the water catchment is headed for court, with the miner challenging the Planning Assessment Commission (PAC) review of its proposal.Big body: The drinking water catchment flowing into Cataract Dam has been at the heart of the problems for Wollongong Coal's mine proposal.The miner has engaged top Sydney law firm Minter ..

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• Government to announce Port Kembla main street cash

  

  One of the successful Port Kembla Community Investment Fund projects will be revealed on Friday. The Illawarra's parliamentary secretary Gareth Ward will join Wollongong lord mayor Gordon Bradbery to announce $330,000 - from the suburb's investment fund - for Port Kembla Main Street Project on Friday.The Illawarra Liberal MP charged with delivering a multimillion-dollar investment boost to Port Kembla has lashed out at Labor Party members for “playing games” one day out from a maj..

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• McKeon chasing more success

  

  Commonwealth Games looms as next major target Big splash: Wollongong two-time Olympian David McKeon.WOLLONGONG’S David McKeon will target a Commonwealth Games campaign on the Gold Coast in two years, after being within a second of an Olympics medal.McKeon produced an extraordinary swim, with a split of 1:45.63 – seven tenths faster than his individual personal best – in the 4x200m freestyle final, as Australia finished fourth, behind the United States, Great Britain and Japan. The..

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• How gen Y changed the employment game

  

  What Are the Highest-Paying Jobs? 1:53Looking for a bump in salary? Want to change careers? Here are some of the highest-paying jobs in the U.S., according to the Glassdoor staffing company. Photo: iStock Their job satisfaction is low and their career mobility high, but employers are having to give in to gen Y’s job-hopping demands.WE ALREADY know gen Y has all but extinguished the idea of a job for life, but this crop of young workers has such a reputation for job-hopping they’re earned the..

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• Hung jury in Dapto one-punch death trial

  

  BREAKING: The fate of Matthew Domio, accused of the one-punch assault and subsequent death of his father, remains undecided after a jury failed to reach a verdict. Hung jury in Dapto one-punch death trial exitThe fate of Matthew Domio, accused of the one-punch assault and subsequent death of his father, remains undecided after a jury failed to reach a verdict. Jurors in the Wollongong District Court trial said they could not come to a unanimous decision on t..

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• Poort may shelve bold Olympics race plan

  

  “It’s exciting to know there was so much support back home, I was almost able to pull off something pretty special” Lead the way: Jarrod Poort during the Olympics marathon swim in Rio. He travels to Hawaii next week for a charity swim. Picture: Getty ImagesJARROD Poort is unsure if he’ll continue to use his bold Olympics front-running tactics again in international marathon swimming racing.The 21-year-old was overwhelmed by the level of public support in Australia, after charging ..

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• New cheap fuel app from NRMA

  

  THE NRMA launched it’s My NRMA app at the Caltex service stations at West Gosford this morning.The My NRMA app now features a ‘Fuel’ function where members can search for the cheapest fuel via price, location or fuel type. The prices are available in real time to offer real savings to motorists.NRMA president Kyle Loades said fuel price data became available after the NSW Government’s outstanding petrol reforms.media_cameraKyle Loades, NRMA President, at Caltex, West Gosford, launches a new smar..

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• 6 things Australian traders will be talking about this morning

  

  Finally some action. In commodities at least, with big moves in oil, precious and base metals which came under heavy selling pressure. Stocks in the US were a little lower as well with the S&P ending down 0.52%, continuing its remarkable run of super low volatility. But that fall hardly dented the enthusiasm of local traders in the September SPI 200, which dipped just 0.1%, 6 points, overnight. On forex markets trade was mixed. Sterling was higher, the euro lower and the Aussie dollar hung re..

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• Groundbreaking study pinpoints exactly when humans started ...

  

  Human activity has been driving climate change since the early stages of the Industrial Revolution almost two centuries ago – much earlier than previously thought, according to a groundbreaking new study. An international team of scientists, led by Associate Professor Nerilie Abram from the Australian National University, have analysed detailed reconstructions of climate going back 500 years. To their surprise, they’ve found that the current global warming trend began in the 1830s, further conf..

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Aussie women miss medals for first time in Olympic triathlon history .	Locals lose out as $2.3b NSW intercity train fleet to be built in South ... .
Gibson 'not OK' after serious gym mishap .	Women at the Olympics have equal claim to glory .