Chair of casino assessment team appointed

NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has appointed an independent chairman to oversee the next stage of James Packer's bid for a new Sydney casino. David Murray, former chief executive of the Commonwealth Bank, will be in charge of the assessment team...

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Chair of casino assessment team appointed

NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has appointed an independent chairman to oversee the next stage of James Packer's bid for a new Sydney casino. David Murray, former chief executive of the Commonwealth Bank, will be in charge of the assessment team...

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Samsung's Galaxy Note II sales hit 3m

SAMSUNG Electronics Co. says it has sold more than 3 million Galaxy Note II smartphones in a little over a month since its launch. The South Korean firm said Friday sales of the oversize smartphone reached the figure 37 days after its September...

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Royal duty officer 'discharged gun'

A SCOTLAND Yard investigation has been launched after a British policeman believed to be guarding the home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge accidentally discharged a gun while sitting in an unmarked car. Nobody was injured when the officer,...

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Parliament shifts from jovial to toxic

HOW quickly the atmosphere in parliament can change. Totally bipartisan tributes to Australia's latest VC winner on Thursday - the house's last sitting day for three weeks - gave way to exchanges over those two dreaded taxes, carbon and mining....

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Ten completes sale of Eye outdoor ad arm

TELEVISION broadcaster Ten Network Holdings said on Thursday that it had completed the long-anticipated sale of its Eye Corp outdoor advertising unit. The buyer, which was reported several weeks ago, is Outdoor Media Operations (OMO), the owner...

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Tokyo stocks close up 0.98%

TOKYO stocks have closed 0.98 per cent higher as investors welcomed news of the Bank of Japan's (BoJ) latest monetary easing measures aimed at boosting the world's third-largest economy. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange...

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About 120 dead horses to be removed in WA

MORE than 120 horse carcasses left rotting in a parched dam on a remote Aboriginal reserve in northeastern Western Australia will finally be removed after the local shire agreed to intervene. The horses were seeking water when they became stuck...

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NT drink driver a slow learner

A 42-YEAR-OLD man's celebration at obtaining his learner's permit went wrong after police caught him one day later driving a car heavily drunk. Police in Alice Springs said the man, who had only obtained his learner's permit on Monday, was stopped...

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Budget uncertainty threatens NDIS: Abbott

OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott insists the government is "crab-walking away" from its promised budget surplus and has warned it could threaten future funding for a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Mr Abbott on Tuesday said the coalition...

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Lawyer in Mongolia may be in tax fight

AN Australian lawyer being detained in Mongolia may be caught up in a fight over returns from a Rio Tinto mining operation, the head of an Australian parliamentary delegation which visited the mine recently says. Tony Windsor told AAP on Monday...

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Seven in court over Vic drug bust

EDS: Changes keyword from Clandestine By Melissa Iaria MELBOURNE, Oct 29 AAP - Compiling evidence against seven men charged over one of Victoria's biggest ever drug labs may be delayed because of the sheer scale of the operation, a court has...

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Hawaii tsunami warning after Canada quake

AN earthquake that struck in the Queen Charlotte Islands region off the west coast of Canada has generated a tsunami that is heading towards Hawaii, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. The first tsunami wave was expected to arrive in the...

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Union raises alarm on NSW asbestos

A SYDNEY power company has defended its safety practices after a union banned work on electricity meters amid fears workers and householders may have been exposed to asbestos. The Electrical Trades Union (ETU) has stopped working on electricity...

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