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Australian mining towns key election battleground

tracks in Kalgoorlie. It was incredible, forget about the global crisis,” said Ashok Parekh, owner the Palace Hotel in the Western Australia gold mining town of Kalgoorlie. “A lot of people in Western Australia would like to see the Labor party out of

Australian man killed in Iraq hotel fire

A MAN originally from South Australia has been confirmed dead in a hotel fire in Iraq that left 30 people dead. A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said the man, 53, was a long-term resident of Thailand and was

Australian soccer fans robbed at gunpoint

FIVE Australian soccer fans were among nine people tied up and robbed at gunpoint in their hotel room after the Australia-Serbia World Cup match in South Africa. The Nine Network said that one of the victims was sexually assaulted during the robbery,

More staff needed for detention centre

A Department spokesman says the people will be taken either to the Darwin Detention Centre or to a hotel. The Darwin detention centre has a capacity of 550, and is now holding 445 detainees. Tags: community-and-society, immigration, refugees, australia,

Another group moved from Christmas Island

A Department spokesman says the people will be taken either to the Darwin Detention Centre or to a hotel. The spokesman says the Darwin centre currently holds nearly 450 people. Tags: community-and-society, immigration, refugees, australia, nt,

Supervisors ignored sailors’ abuse, inquiry told

her that she was encouraged to get intoxicated at a bar and was then sexually abused in a hotel room while on deployment. Tags: defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, navy, law-crime-and-justice, australia, nsw, sydney-2000

Ken Talbot: from humble beginnings to mining magnate

Ken Talbot is one of Australia’s richest men, who carved his billion-dollar fortune out of coal and hotel developments. Talbot’s career in the mining industry began more than 40 years ago as a cadet industrial chemist at BHP’s Port Kembla Steelworks in

New Luxury Tasmania Hotel Welcomes First Guests

NEW YORK, June 7 /PRNewswire/ — Australia’s newest luxury hotel, Saffire, located on the picturesque East Coast of Tasmania near Freycinet, is now open. Saffire is considered by its developers to be an iconic development for the Australian tourism

400 mile round trip to closest pub

Last weekend, The Ironclad Hotel, the only pub in Marble Bar, Western Australia, closed its doors for good. The town, with a population of just 300, is barely a dot on the map of the

Floodwaters reach Birdsville track

the Birdsville Track in outback South Australia, as the flow toward Lake Eyre. Phillip Gregurke from the Mungerannie Hotel, 300 kilometres south of Birdsville, says it is 20 years since the Cooper Creek cut the Track. “The track will still be open for a