The downfall of Premier Barry O’Farrell is a wakeup call to both the NSW Coalition and Labor. It is time to end the culture of influence-peddling that has infested politics in this state, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye. Dr Kaye said: “What has happened is bigger than ICAC and Australian Water Holdings. “It […]
Minister for Crime Prevention Edward O’Donohue today celebrated a major milestone in the fight against graffiti, with two million square metres of graffiti removed under the Victorian Coalition Government’s community clean-up program. Speaking in Heidelberg today with Liberal candidate for Ivanhoe Carl Ziebell, Mr O’Donohue said offenders on community correction orders have removed two million […]
Half a million Easter eggs at Caulfield Racecourse are ready to be discovered at this year’s Melbourne’s Greatest Ever Easter Egg Hunt Raceday on Saturday 19 April 2014. Premier of Victoria and Minister for Racing Denis Napthine said the hugely successful family event would once again be held in partnership with Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation, a charity […]
Fishing enthusiasts from across NSW will benefit from a major inland native fish stocking program, where more than one million fish have been released into lakes, dams, rivers and weirs across NSW, Minister for Primary Industries, Katrina Hodgkinson said today. Ms Hodgkinson stopped in at the Department of Primary Industries’ (DPI) Narrandera Fisheries Centre, where the fish […]
Attorney General Greg Smith SC today announced the appointment of Helen Wilson SC as a judge of the District Court of NSW. Ms Wilson has been practising criminal law for 24 years, the last 15 of which she has been a barrister and a Crown Prosecutor. She has appeared before the criminal courts on an […]
New York, April 16 (IANS) Caught in a bad romantic relationship? Do not give a damn if things go wrong especially if you are a girl. Else, you may suffer mentally a lot when romances unfold differently than you imagined. According to research, for adolescent girls, such a situation would lead to negative implications for their […]
Lucknow, April 16 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Narayan Dutt Tiwari will not contest from Uttarakhand’s Nainital Lok Sabha constituency seat, his close aides said Wednesday. Sources said the former chief minister of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh wanted to contest one last time and had also pleaded with the party leadership to field his son Rohit Shekhar […]
Politics has been integral to the Indian business milieu as building political connections is part of doing business in the country. But it is for the first time some of India’s corporate tycoons are being named openly in a charged election campaign and their close links have become part of the popular conversation, stuff of […]
Los Angeles, April 16 (IANS) Socialite Kim Kardashian and singer Kanye West were seen having fun in Paris amid speculation that the couple is in the early stages of wedding planning. The 33-year-old reached the City of Lights Saturday to join her beau. The duo then worked out at Usine Gym Center and later indulged in […]
Washington, April 16 (IANS) New York Police Department has disbanded a controversial surveillance unit started after the September 11, 2001, attacks to catalogue information on Muslim businesses and mosques across the New York region. Developed with the CIA’s help after 9/11, the so-called Demographics Unit-or Zone Assessment Unit-has been the target of controversy and civil lawsuits. […]