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The classic tale of a quick brown fox

Wednesday December 30, 2009
FANTASTIC MR FOX Roald Dahl illustrated by Quentin Blake Puffin, $14.95 Frances Atkinson Reviewer

Drug ring shut down

Wednesday October 14, 2009
POLICE say they have smashed a well-organised drug ring in Melbourne. Eight people were arrested in raids yesterday as part of a six-month investigation into a cannabis-trafficking ring.

Frantic search for earthquake survivors

Friday September 4, 2009
RESCUE workers were frantically sifting through rubble with their hands to find victims of Wednesday's earthquake in Indonesia, with many young children missing and feared dead after a landslide buried a games arcade in a village in West Java.

Late entry may prove small price to pay

Friday June 5, 2009
JUST 13 months after having his first runner as an owner, Lawrence Eales is in line for another big pay day if his Street Cry colt Shocking wins tomorrow's group 1 Queensland Derby at Eagle Farm.

Who'd Be A ...earth-moving Equipment Salesman?

Saturday July 19, 2008
Sean Hoare is-and he has been selling machinery around the world."

'no Evidence' Gallipoli Bones Disturbed

Monday March 7, 2005
THE Government is holding talks with Turkish authorities over claims the bones of Australian soldiers have been disturbed by roadworks at Anzac Cove. Australian writer, historian and Gallipoli resident Bill Sellars has said he was reduced to tears by damage from earth-moving equipment at Anzac Cove. A spokesman for Veterans' Affairs Minister De-Anne Kelly said there was no evidence bones had been disturbed. "Turkish authorities have taken great care over many decades to preserve the graves of ...

In Cold Winter Months, A Money-maker Can Warm Your Heart

Monday May 3, 2004
Arthur Baxter reckoned there was money to be made in apprentices. Old Arthur knew a bit about making money. They say he made his pot from earth-moving equipment.

A Tunnel Vision Splendid

Saturday July 1, 2000
The Australian Jockey Club is confident racing will resume on schedule at Randwick on August13 despite sections of the course looking more like a testing zone for the next generation of smart bombs. A newly-formed crater at the 800m crossing is home to cranes and earth-moving equipment, invoking

Police Search Fails To Unearth Body

Saturday July 31, 1999
Detectives excavated the bank of a dam on a property near Diggers Rest yesterday in their search for the body of a woman who has been missing for 26 years. Using heavy earth-moving equipment, detectives from the missing persons unit and forensic experts looked for the body of Mrs Joyce Culleton,

Group Resists Tunnel Work

Monday May 25, 1998
Northern suburbs residents today will demand that no work continue on the Scarborough-Wombarra drainage tunnel until a promised construction monitoring committee is convened. Residents claimed victory on Friday when work stopped on the project after they confronted earth-moving equipment, c

Protesters Defeat Tunnel Workers

Saturday May 23, 1998
Northern suburbs residents have claimed a victory after they stopped work on the controversial Scarborough-Wombarra drainage tunnel project yesterday. State Rail Authority contractors, Transfield and Fluor Daniel, moved in the earth-moving equipment early in the morning, only to be confronte

Animals, Birds Return After Decade Of Work

Friday March 8, 1996
IT'S ANYBODY'S guess whether platypuses or earth-moving equipment will arrive first at the stretch of Mullum Mullum Creek that runs through the Hillcrest Forestway area of suburban Donvale. A decade of work by members of the local resident group, the Hillcrest Association, has helped make the wat

Legal Threat Over Cracks

Thursday November 29, 1990
Birchgrove residents are planning legal action against a developer over structural damage to their homes, which they allege has been caused by vibrations from construction work on a building site. Residents say the pounding of heavy rock-breaking and earth-moving equipment has caused crack

Queensland, Png Sales Boost Hastings To $18m

Wednesday September 27, 1989
Agriculture and earth moving equipment company Hastings Deering Corp Ltd has received a fillip from major mining equipment sales in Queensland and Papua New Guinea, to post a 58.7 per cent jump in net profit to $17.9 million Those sales resulted in a significant increase of $109 million in

Wigmores Loses First Round To Caterpillar

Friday March 17, 1989
Bond Corporation yesterday lost the first round of its Supreme Court battle to regain the rights for its subsidiary, Wigmores, to distribute Caterpillar earth-moving equipment in Western Australia. Justice Tadgell, in the Victorian Supreme Court, brought down a ruling that thwarted Bond Co

The House On The Rock

Wednesday October 1, 1986
PERCHED on a pinnacle of rock 20 metres high is Camden Villa. Walk out of the front door and you would plunge straight to your death, for the surrounding ground has been chiselled away. Earth moving equipment carefully excavated the 5,200-square-metre site around it. Drilling tests were carried