With Christmas approaching, Australia Post is encouraging people to get cracking on Christmas shopping, announcing the all-important last sending dates for delivery within Australia. Australia Post Executive General Manager, Customer and Commercial Gary Starr explained that for sending to and from most destinations within Australia via Parcel Post, parcels should be sent by Monday 12…
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Six 1930s Australian Pennies Headed to Auction
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Six 1930s Australian pennies have come to auction following one being sold unreserved last month breaking an Australian record selling for $60,000 in an online auction. “Following the news of the penny breaking a record at Lloyds Auctions, people were flooding our phones in hopes they had one of these rare pennies, and from this…
Guide Dog Graduates
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Vision Australia will recognise eight handlers and Seeing Eye Dogs who have been successfully paired this year at its annual graduation on Wednesday, October 12. Held in the lead-up to World Sight Day, the Queensland Parliament event celebrates the life-changing bond of assistance animals and people who are blind or low vision. “Training can take…
Coles Product Price Lockdown
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With the cost-of-living pressures on the rise, Coles has launched ‘DROPPED&LOCKED’, working with suppliers to drop and lock in the price on products Aussies love the most by between 10 and 40%. Coles Chief Executive of Commercial and Express Leah Weckert said Coles is committed to helping customers find key staple products that will be…
Bulla and Coles Fundrasing for SecondBite
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Coles and Bulla have joined forces to raise funds from the sale of icecream to help SecondBite provide the equivalent of up to one million meals for Aussies facing hardship. From September 28th until Octoberth 25, Coles and Bulla will donate 20 cents – the equivalent of one meal from every individual and bulk pack…
Stone
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Director Sandy Harbutt Starring Ken Shorter, Helen Morse, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Sandy Harbutt, Vincent Gil Rated R Score 4/6 Police officer Stone goes undercover with the Gravediggers outlaw motorcycle gang, to find out who is murdering their members, one by one. Apparently during the filming of Stone Australian stuntman Peter Armstrong set a then-world record for…
The Honourable Milton Dick MP Launches Parliament in Schools Program
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives of Australia, the Honourable Milton Dick MP launched the Parliament in Schools program – an initiative to make civics education accessible to students regardless of their location. The Speaker will be visiting five schools across Western Australia (WA), over the next three days. “At the moment, we have…
When Thinking About Ticket Resellers
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NSW Fair Trading Commissioner Natasha Mann is calling on consumers to avoid dealing with ticket reselling platforms advertising tickets to popular events, often at exorbitant prices in violation of State laws.Football fans racing to secure tickets for the finals and parents making plans for the upcoming school holidays are reminded that it is against the…
Guide Dogs Australia Recognises Top Collection Dog
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Guide Dogs Australia has today revealed Coles’ “top dogs” with Coles Mackay in Queensland taking out the honour of having the top fundraising coin Collection Dog in the country. The much loved and iconic Collection Dog at Coles might not bark or move but it’s been changing lives one coin at a time with the…
2022 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year exhibition
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Over 100 photographs from 74 photographers are featured in the 2022 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year exhibition, on display FREE to the public at the Australian Museum from Saturday 17 September – Sunday 11 December 2022. ‘Nature’s Prey’ by Ashlee Jansen, a confronting photograph of a humpback whale carcass and circling sharks on…