http://theglobalherald.com News, Analysis & Reflection Mon, 21 May 2012 11:05:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://theglobalherald.com/great-lakes-and-dredging-international-to-work-on-wheatstone-lng-project/27665/ http://theglobalherald.com/great-lakes-and-dredging-international-to-work-on-wheatstone-lng-project/27665/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:57:04 +0000 Business Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=27665 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 LNG Project on the North-West cost of Australia. The approach channel, maneuvering area and the berths for the Chevron-operated gas plant will be created as [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/great-lakes-and-dredging-international-to-work-on-wheatstone-lng-project/27665/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/commission-of-inquiry-releases-final-part-of-report-into-discipline-on-board-hmas-success/27573/ http://theglobalherald.com/commission-of-inquiry-releases-final-part-of-report-into-discipline-on-board-hmas-success/27573/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:28:17 +0000 Law Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=27573 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 scandal that has included allegations of sailors having intercourse on a pool table in Qingdao, urinating into each others’ mouths, placing bets on the likelihood [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/commission-of-inquiry-releases-final-part-of-report-into-discipline-on-board-hmas-success/27573/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/nbn-co-spends-aud-620-million-on-satellites-to-boost-rural-broadband/27540/ http://theglobalherald.com/nbn-co-spends-aud-620-million-on-satellites-to-boost-rural-broadband/27540/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:43:15 +0000 Technology Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=27540 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 is hoped that the Ka-band satellites and associated tracking, telemetry and control systems will help deliver peak speeds of 12 megabit per second download  and [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/nbn-co-spends-aud-620-million-on-satellites-to-boost-rural-broadband/27540/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/severe-tropical-cyclone-jasmine-brushes-new-caledonia/27479/ http://theglobalherald.com/severe-tropical-cyclone-jasmine-brushes-new-caledonia/27479/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:48:39 +0000 Science Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=27479 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 Cyclone Cyril. Jasmine is moving East-SouthEast at a rate of around 14 knots and winds nears the centre are estimated at about 90 knots, according [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/severe-tropical-cyclone-jasmine-brushes-new-caledonia/27479/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/nokia-to-audit-australian-sms-marketing/27259/ http://theglobalherald.com/nokia-to-audit-australian-sms-marketing/27259/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:59:35 +0000 Business Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=27259 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 broadcasting, the internet, radiocommunications and telecommunications. The ACMA’s strategic intent is to make communications and media work in Australia’s public interest. The ACMA commenced the [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/nokia-to-audit-australian-sms-marketing/27259/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/europe-and-us-put-pressure-on-iran-with-warships-in-the-gulf/27252/ http://theglobalherald.com/europe-and-us-put-pressure-on-iran-with-warships-in-the-gulf/27252/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:50:33 +0000 News Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=27252 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 on crude oil from Iran as well as a freeze on the assets of the Iranian Central Bank within the EU. Australia has opted to [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/europe-and-us-put-pressure-on-iran-with-warships-in-the-gulf/27252/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/australian-open-2012-tennis-top-four-mens-singles-seeds-safely-through-to-fourth-round/27107/ http://theglobalherald.com/australian-open-2012-tennis-top-four-mens-singles-seeds-safely-through-to-fourth-round/27107/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:22:39 +0000 Sport Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=27107 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 Third Round. Novak Djokovic (1), the Serbian World Number One, was in imperious form as he blew France’s Mahut off the court, dropping just two [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/australian-open-2012-tennis-top-four-mens-singles-seeds-safely-through-to-fourth-round/27107/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/asian-honey-bees-found-on-ship-at-townsville-port-in-queensland/26898/ http://theglobalherald.com/asian-honey-bees-found-on-ship-at-townsville-port-in-queensland/26898/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:08:24 +0000 Science Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=26898 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 on a ship arriving from Port Moresby. Dock workers notified the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry who sent experts in to investigate the breach. [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/asian-honey-bees-found-on-ship-at-townsville-port-in-queensland/26898/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/environmental-investigators-screen-undercover-series-in-australia-and-new-zealand/26678/ http://theglobalherald.com/environmental-investigators-screen-undercover-series-in-australia-and-new-zealand/26678/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:15:25 +0000 Entertainment Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=26678 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 group are aired on Nat Geo Wild – a channel of the National Geographic. The EIA helped to make three documentary films for the channel [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/environmental-investigators-screen-undercover-series-in-australia-and-new-zealand/26678/feed/ 0 http://theglobalherald.com/extract-from-award-winning-australian-history-book-bad-characters-by-peter-stanley/26397/ http://theglobalherald.com/extract-from-award-winning-australian-history-book-bad-characters-by-peter-stanley/26397/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:44:10 +0000 Entertainment Desk http://theglobalherald.com/?p=26397 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 the Great War takes a “warts and all” look at the behaviour of the diggers in World War I. Transgressions included failing to salute, going [...]]]> http://theglobalherald.com/extract-from-award-winning-australian-history-book-bad-characters-by-peter-stanley/26397/feed/ 0