Unis spend $280m a year on red tape

UNIVERSITIES estimate they spend $280 million a year on meeting red tape requirements like telling the government every time any academic travels overseas. The Universities Australia submission to the coalition's deregulation taskforce calls...

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Hayes and Mailman score silver Logies

ACTORS who brought the stories of real-life Australians to the screen have been recognised with Logies for the most outstanding actor and actress. A teary-eyed Deborah Mailman was given a standing ovation in Melbourne on Sunday when she received...

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Direct trade for Aust, China currency

AUSTRALIAN and Chinese currency will be traded in China for the first time under a deal to be announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard. And a major tourism and investment campaign will be run in Shanghai in late 2014 to take advantage of China's...

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Joy for Ten as Keddie wins Gold

OFFSPRING star Asher Keddie has given Network Ten something to celebrate after winning the Gold Logie. Keddie had been twice nominated for a Gold Logie before claiming the highest individual honour at the annual television awards night in Melbourne....

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Syria's Homs besieged for 300 days: oppn

A SIEGE of Syria's central city of Homs has entered its 300th day, as troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad wage a campaign to oust rebel groups holed up there, the opposition says. "Three hundred days have gone by since the start of the siege...

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Sudan army men jailed over coup plot

A GROUP of Sudanese military officers have been sentenced to between two and five years in prison for their role in an alleged coup against the Sudanese government last year, a lawyer says. "Today the military court issued its decision about...

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Lagarde says euro has long-standing future

INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has told an audience in China the euro has a solid future and she hopes no more countries in Europe will need bailouts. "I think the collective political will ... to maintain, defend, protect...

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