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Soaring rents worsen affordability crisis

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Posted 7 hours, 15 minutes ago

The housing affordability crisis has worsened with a new report showing rents have soared by as much as 25 per cent in the past 12 months.

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Watchdog sniffs at mobile excess usage fees

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Posted 3 days, 1 hour ago

The rise of fast web browsing on 3G mobiles such as the iPhone has prompted the competition regulator to investigate whether carriers are misleading consumers into a trap of high excess usage fees.

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Campervan slogans found to be misogynistic

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Posted 2 days, 22 hours ago

The Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) has upheld two complaints against marketing slogans used by an Australian campervan company.

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Golden Girl Estelle Getty dies aged 84

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Posted 1 day, 5 hours ago

Estelle Getty, the actress best known for her role of Sophia in the 80's sitcom, the Golden Girls, has died at the age of 84. So well known for her role, she reprised it cameos in Blossom and Golden Girls spin-offs Golden Palace and Empty Nest.

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Australians are staying married for longer

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Posted 7 hours, 26 minutes ago

AUSTRALIANS are ditching the seven-year itch and staying married for longer. The divorce rate has fallen to its lowest point in a decade, ABS Social Trends Statistics released yesterday show

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Corby gives nod to final appeal

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Posted 744 days, 18 hours ago

SCHAPELLE Corby's legal team is ready to pitch a final appeal bid to the Indonesian Supreme Court against her drug smuggling conviction and 20-year prison sentence. Her lawyers Erwin Siregar and Haposan Sihombing visited her at Bali's Kerobokan Prison today and got her approval for a 20-page dossier to be presented to the court.

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Brokeback Batman

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Posted 738 days, 22 hours ago

Local boy, turned international film star, Heath Ledger is rumoured to be playing The Joker in the next Batman movie.

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Container city

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Posted 738 days, 13 hours ago

CONVERTING a Bunbury CBD carpark into a refurbished sea container city for low cost housing is one option being considered to ease the city\'s acute housing shortage. The sea container option, already used for student villages in Europe, feature a series of refurbished and airconditioned containers stacked to create apartments with stairwells and balconies.

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