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CHINA: China Foods eyeing US, Australian wineries - report
2013-04-02 17:27:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Food and beverages conglomerate China Foods is aiming to buy "two or three" wineries in Australia and the US, according to local reports.
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Climate Change Fueling Extreme Australian Weather, Group Says
2013-04-02 15:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Australia is facing increased risks of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, wild fires and drought spurred by climate change, according to a report released today by the nations Climate Commission. Key food-growing regions across Australias southeast and southwest are likely to experience more droughts in the future, the commission said in a statement accompanying the report. The number of record hot days in Australia has doubled since the 1960s and a long-term drought is affecting the...
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Australian NBN roll-out progress slower than expected
2013-03-21 11:52:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) NBN Co, the company managing the roll-out of Australia's next-generation broadband network, said the project will miss its target for premises covered by June. The company said it was seeing about a three-month delay in fibre construction. As a result, only around 190,000 to 220,000 premises will be covered by June, and the original target of 341,000 premises passed by fibre should be reached about three months later. The NBN said the problem was not enough construction workers on the ground. To make up for the delay, the NBN Co is assuming direct management of the Northern Territory roll-out to ensure delivery, allowing contractor Syntheo to focus on the WA and SA areas. In addition, NBN Co and its construction partners will train and employ additional specialist workers (fibre splicers) to help recover lost time in the roll-out, and NBN Co's fibre construction contractors will increase their investment in equipment and manpower as well as technology to accelerate on-the-ground design and planning. The company said other major deliverables for the fibre network are on track, with no problems in acquiring equipment, implementing IT systems, rolling out the transit network or launching services. NBN Co underlined that the issue was short term and the NBN would meet its original Corporate Plan in terms of cost and delivery by 2021.
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Windfarm sickness spreads by word of mouth, Australian study finds
2013-03-15 07:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Sickness being attributed to wind turbines is more likely to have been caused by people getting alarmed at the health warnings circulated by activists, an Australian study has found. Complaints of illness were far more prevalent in communities targeted by anti-windfarm groups, said the report's author, Simon Chapman, professor of public health at Sydney University. His report concludes that illnesses being blamed on windfarms are more than likely caused by the psychological effect of suggestions...
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London Rail Goes Australian in Portable Ultrasonic Testing
2013-03-12 15:55:00| Railway Technology
After an exhaustive selection process, Transport for London (TfL), which includes London Underground (LUL) and Tubelines, has contracted C.A.T.E.R for supply of the HANDWave SRT (Single Rail) and DRT (Dual Rail) ultrasonic testing unit. The successfu
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