Category: Aussie News
Red light cameras net $32m in fines
MOTORISTS are being slugged up to $1 million a week for running red lights. Revenue from the NSW government’s controversial safety camera regime will soar to about $42 million this financial year. Red light revenue has jumped to $32 million already this financial year from $16 million in 2010-11 and $349,000 in 2009-10. The cameras [...]
Mother’s Day fun runs raise millions
THOUSANDS of Australians have run through the streets to raise money for breast cancer on Mother’s Day. The Mother’s Day Classic is in its 15th year, with fun runs held in 51 Australian cities and towns. This year the event was on target to raise $4.2 million. Queensland Premier Campbell Newman ran the four kilometre [...]
So long Labour, and thanks for all the cash
THOUSANDS of extra dollars for low-income households have failed to prevent a voter exodus because many Labor supporters are convinced the Budget will leave them worse off, a poll has found. The Galaxy poll suggests $5 billion in family payments revealed last Tuesday – and billions more previously announced as carbon price compensation through tax cuts [...]
Okay, so who wants $25 million? Anyone?
YOU’D think selling a $25 million-winning Oz Lotto ticket at your convenience store would be big news. But for Sydney 7-Eleven proprietor Tony Singh, the occasion was apparently not worth informing his wife about. Sue Singh only found out their Pendle Hill service station had sold the winning ticket when she arrived at work at [...]
Families ‘will spend bonus on bills’
FAMILIES will use extra benefits delivered in the Budget to pay basic household costs, rather than spending in stores, a consumer group said. Choice said families were saying the money would go into household bills, putting new brakes on the car and paying their car registration. “We’ve been hearing from our consumers they’re going to [...]
Happy Mothers Day: Working mum wins $25m in lotto
A MOTHER from the western suburbs has claimed her $24.9 million share of last night’s huge Oz Lotto draw. The mother – who has shared in $74.8 million with two other interstate players – purchased the 17-game Easi-Pick at the West Lakes lotteries kiosk at West Lakes shopping centre for $20. She plans to keep [...]
Three winners in $75 million Oz Lotto jackpot
ONE lucky South Australian’s dreams came true after claiming a stake in last night’s mammoth Oz Lotto jackpot. The lucky millionaire will split the Division 1 prize money three ways to scoop almost $25 million in the big win. A SA Lotteries spokeswoman said the winner comes from the western suburbs of Adelaide. The other [...]
The budget: the winners and losers
Families and Australia’s ageing population are the big winners in Treasurer Wayne Swan’s fifth budget, which has delivered a razor thin surplus of just $1.5 billion. Last year’s budget was $44 billion in deficit and the Labor government has found $33.6 billion of savings to meet the promised, and much spruiked, surplus. Advertisement: Story continues [...]
Budget gift ‘just a sugar hit’, Australians warned
THE Federal Government is revamping the bonus for school children because it is panicked over the impact of the incoming carbon tax, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey says. Prime Minister Julia Gillard will today unveil the bonus for one million families with school-aged children to replace the existing education tax refund. Under the means-tested SchoolKids Bonus [...]
Lottery fever grips Australia
Tonight’s $70 million Oz Lotto has Australians in a frenzy with half of the country’s adult population expected to buy tickets ahead of the draw. The jackpot grew this week after last Tuesday’s $50 million draw did not go off. A total of 7.5 million tickets are expected to be purchased with four million of [...]
NSW will still build Sydney rail link to north-west
PRIVATE investment may be sought by the NSW government to fund Sydney’s North West Rail Link after Canberra rejected a plea to chip in $2.1 billion. Infrastructure Australia knocked back a state government request to help pay for the rail link, connecting Sydney’s northwest suburbs to Epping and the city centre. It recognised Sydney’s transport [...]
School bonus: Government to give cash for kids
ONE million families will be promised a new cash bonus of $820 for every teenager at high school and $410 for every primary school child in the May Budget In another sign the Government is preparing a Robin Hood budget that targets the rich to return the Budget to surplus but helps struggling families, Julia [...]
Tough times as 4000 Victorian public servants lose jobs
ABOUT 4200 Victorian public servants will lose their jobs over the next two years under further cuts unveiled in what the Treasurer describes as the most difficult Budget in a decade. Victoria is forecast to post a $155 million surplus for 2012/13, keeping to the Government’s pre-election promise of minimum $100 million surpluses. A further [...]
‘Sweet and crunchy’: Loveable new Aussie apple
MOVE over Pink Lady and Granny Smith, a new apple is set to hit the market and it promises to be loveable. The Kalei apple was launched in Brisbane today after a 20-year breeding program at Applethorpe, southwest of Brisbane. It takes its name from the word for “loveable” in Hawaiian and Queensland Agriculture Minister [...]
Government pay Aussie families to take in refugees
THE Federal Government will pay families up to $300 a week to temporarily house asylum seekers in their homes to help deal with the increasing flood of arrivals. With the Immigration Department now facing a potential shortage of community housing to accommodate detainees who are being released into the community, the Government has turned to [...]
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