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Great Lakes and Dredging International to Work on Wheatstone LNG Project

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation are to work with Dredging International (part of DEME) on a subcontract to dredge 26 million cubic metres of clay and rock around the Wheatstone…

February 14, 2012No CommentRead More

Commission of Inquiry Releases Final Report into Discipline On Board HMAS Success

A commission of inquiry has released the final part of a report into serious discipline issues aboard the HMAS Success – a Royal Australian Navy resupply vessel. Following a national…

February 10, 2012No CommentRead More

NBN Co Spends AUD $620 Million on Satellites to Boost Rural Broadband

NBN Co has contracted US company Space Systems / Loral to deliver two satellites designed to boost broadband service in rural Australia. The deal is worth AUD $620 million. It…

February 9, 2012No CommentRead More

Severe Tropical Cyclone Jasmine Brushes New Caledonia

Severe Tropical Cyclone Jasmine is currently brushing the island territory of New Caledonia, a French collectivity 1500km East of Bundaberg, Australia. The storm follows hot on the heels of Tropical…

February 7, 2012No CommentRead More

Nokia to Audit Australian SMS Marketing

Finnish mobile giant, Nokia Corporation, is to audit its SMS marketing in Australia following an investigation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). The ACMA is Australia’s regulator for…

January 25, 2012No CommentRead More

Europe and US Put Pressure on Iran with Warships in the Gulf

The European Union has decided to place sanctions on the import of oil from Iran. The Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union has decided to impose an import ban…

January 24, 2012No CommentRead More

Australian Open 2012 Tennis: Top Four Men’s Singles Seeds Safely Through to Fourth Round

The top four seeds in the Australian Open 2012 Men’s Singles Tennis have all made it through into the second week, after each recorded a straight sets victory in the…

January 21, 2012No CommentRead More

Asian Honey Bees Found on Ship at Townsville Port in Queensland

Nearly three hundred Asian honey bees have been exterminated following an urgent pest control response at Townsville Port in Queensland. Live and dead Asian honey bees were found by stevedores…

January 10, 2012No CommentRead More

Environmental Investigators Screen Undercover Series in Australia & New Zealand

A group of environmental investigators from London will be hitting the small screens of Australia and New Zealand in January 2012 as a mini-series of undercover films shot by the…

January 3, 2012No CommentRead More

Extract from Award Winning Australian History Book “Bad Characters” by Peter Stanley

Dr Peter Stanley’s account of the murkier side of the Australian armed forces shared the 2010-2011 Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History. Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny and Murder in…

December 21, 2011No CommentRead More