CATARACT REBATE CUT – Medicare rebates for the most common type of cataract surgery will be slashed by more than $280 from Sunday, after the federal government sidestepped a Senate vote blocking its planned cuts and announced a new set of reductions only slightly less severe.
The government move prevents the disaster scenario of there being [...]
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Irish Backpacker Bashed – The mother of an Irish backpacker, who was fatally bashed in Sydney at the weekend, says her son did not die in vain, because he was an organ donor.
Tressa Walsh flew to Sydney two days ago, after she found out her son Gearoid Walsh was in a critical condition in hospital.
He [...]
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Hot Pie Cop - A joke about the safety of eating overheated meat pies has catapulted a New Zealand cop into internet super-stardom.
YouTube and Facebook can’t seem to get enough of police dog-handler Guy Baldwin, who was captured on camera dishing out unusual advice to a late-night carjacker caught in the act.
When the teenage criminal claimed [...]
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Best Property Bargains - Tasmania’s Clarence City is Australia’s best property bargain according to a list of the country’s 100 hottest suburbs.
Investors can pick up an average house in Clarence City suburbs of Clarendon Vale and Rokeby to Hobart’s east for just $178,000, according to a report in Australian Property Investor magazine.
It’s a “long-term hold” but [...]
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Jeanne Merrill - Four young girls were orphaned Saturday in a Virginia crash that claimed the lives of their parents, Michael, 47, and Jeanne Merrill, 42.
Three of the four Merrill girls, aged 13, 3, and 18 months, were in the car with their parents at the time of the fatal collision. A fourth child, 9, was [...]
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