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• PLA-linked purchase of Darwin Port needs explaining, Labor says | afr

  

  A ship at the port of Darwin loads cattle bound for Asia.Glenn CampbellHow a Chinese company with close ties the People's Liberation Army was allowed to buy Darwin Port needs to fully explained, Opposition treasury spokesman Chris Bowen said.China's Landbridge Group, which has a 99-year lease over the commercial port, has close links to the Chinese armed forces and established a people's armed militia within the company, academic Geoff Wade said in a recent article."In short, Landbridge is a com..

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  Despite concern about the Darwin deal among some in the ADF, senior Defence Department officials stated firmly at recent Senate estimates hearings that the ...

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• Cyclone season: Twice-evacuated Indigenous community Warruwi...

  

  Cyclone season: Twice-evacuated Indigenous community Warruwi still waiting for shelterPostedNovember 13, 2015 14:23:59 An island community twice evacuated this year during Cyclone Lam and Cyclone Nathan is heading into another Northern Territory cyclone season without adequate shelter, and a solution is unlikely before the end of summer.Warruwi elder and Yagbani Aboriginal Corporation chairman Bunug Galaminda said the community was crossing its fingers that no cyclonic weather systems headed..

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• Volcano grounds Bali flights again

  

  Some flights may operate out of Bali today. Most Bali-bound Aussies are planning to travel as normal despite volcanic ash continuing to wreak havoc on flights.But some have gone cold on the holiday hot spot and are escaping instead to destinations like Hawaii, Thailand and the South Pacific.As some tourists recalibrate their flight paths, Bali officials are still calculating losses caused by the continuing eruption of Mt Rinjani in Lombok. Haydn Long from travel agency Flight ..

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• Quolls return to mainland home after island breeding program

  

  Quolls return to mainland home after island breeding programBy Lorna PerryUpdatedNovember 13, 2015 15:44:24 Endangered quolls that have been living it up in paradise off the Arnhem Land coast for the last dozen years have started returning home.The quolls were sent to Astell and Pobassoo Islands to be an insurance population in 2003, amid fears for the animals with the arrival of cane toads in the Territory.Quolls used to be very common according to Dion Wedd, curator at the Territory Wildli..

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• EARLIER: Principal 'not alarmed by counsellor's penis talk'

  

  Knight used the reference to gain a job at a Darwin school where he raped and abused a group of young boys. Mr Case agreed he should have been hyper alert ...

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• Rioli to face former side Palmerston

  

  Wanderers coach Dean Rioli comes up against former club Palmerston Magpiesby:JORDAN McARDLEFrom:NT NewsNovember 13, 20159:12AMJackson Hollmer (left) will play his first game for Wanderers this season against Palmerston on Saturday. Picture: ELISE DERWINSource:News Corp AustraliaIT’S fair to say Wanderers coach Dean Rioli knows tomorrow’s opponent Palmerston pretty well.Rioli coached a developing Magpies in 2013-14 and 14-15 and came within one win of taking them to finals last season.But a new e..

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• PortfolioConstruction conference: Darwin and Freud | Money Management

  Are financial markets just a conglomeration of human herd instincts and hugely inflated egos? Or do they truly reflect company profits, the real economy and offer a quantifiable risk premium over cash?At this year’s PortfolioConstruction Conference (August 27-28), UK-based James Fairweather, chief investment officer for Martin Currie Investment Management, will show that the volatility of markets suggests that, at least in the short tem, the former is true, and that market returns make the econo..

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• SkyCity earnings climb, planned $300m upgrade to Adelaide Casino

  

  'Significant progress has been made on addressing the cost structure of the Adelaide operations,' chief executive Nigel Morrison says. Sky City is planning a $300 million upgrade of the property.Photo: Bryan CharltonSkyCity Entertainment Group said its earnings in the first four months of the financial year rose 14 per cent thanks to improved results from its flagship Auckland business and the Adelaide Casino.It also said it is moving forward on a $300 million upgrade of the Adelaide facility.Ea..

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• Rent growth still slow despite some improvement over October

  

  Rents across Australia’s capital cities are continuing to grow at a glacial pace, according to research released yesterday. The latest CoreLogic RP Data Rent Review report reveals the combined capital cities annual rate of rental growth was just 0.6%, a slight improvement from the 0.5% recorded in September. The increase in the annual rate of growth came despite the fact that four out of the eight capital city markets saw their ren..

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