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Sydney gears up for new year's celebrations. 31/12/2005. ABC News Online
This year's New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney will show that the city has a heart, with a heart-shaped symbol on the Harbour Bridge.
The first outline of the heart will appear during the family fireworks session at 9pm AEDT.
More of the heart will appear each hour until the full fireworks display at midnight.
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Fire crews on stand-by amid extreme conditions. 31/12/2005. ABC News Online
Total fire bans are in place across New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT as crews brace themselves for extreme weather conditions this weekend.
One thousand firefighters are on stand-by across NSW, and the Rural Fire Service (RFS) says it is aiming to put out 20 fires burning across the state before the weather deteriorates further tomorrow.
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Hottest New Year's Day forecast. 31/12/2005. ABC News Online
The Weather Bureau is predicting tomorrow will be the hottest New Year's Day on the Sydney record.
Senior forecaster Chris Webb says on the first day of 1928 it was 38 degrees Celsius in the city, but the bureau is predicting 39 degrees for tomorrow and up to 43 in the west.
"Focusing on the city it looks like we're forecasting a record - forecasting 39 - if we get that high it will be the hottest New Year's Day on record," he said.
He says it should cool down by tomorrow night.
"At this stage we think it'll be a hot, fine day with north to north-westerly winds freshening during the day over most of the Sydney metropolitan area," he said.
"There could be some very weak afternoon, very coastal sea breezes - we're not sure about that but generally freshening north-westerly winds before a gusty southerly change at night - in the evening or at night, but essentially a hot day."
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"If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself 'Come the social revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate.' Whereas if his American counterpart saw a bloke drive past in a Cadillac he'd say 'One day I'm going to own one of those.' To my way of thinking the first attitude is wrong. The latter is right."
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"I've been to the other side, and let me tell you son, there's nothing there." - In 1990 after his heart stopped while playing polo.
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"Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer. Reluctantly." - To a federal parliamentary media inquiry, when asked to state his full name and the capacity in which he appeared.
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“An Alan Bond only happens to you once." - After Mr Bond bought the Channel Nine network for $1.05 billion in 1987. Mr Packer bought it back three years later for $300 million.
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"There is a little bit of the whore in all of us, gentlemen. What is your price?" - To the Australian Cricket Board in 1976, seeking the right to televise Test matches.
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Bushfire alert as mercury soars - National - smh.com.au
Firefighters are bracing for a black Christmas as searing temperatures threaten to combine with low humidity and high winds to fan major bushfires across much of eastern Australia.
Extreme fire danger is current nationwide, with total bans in Victoria and NSW as temperatures soar towards 40 degrees Celsius in tinderbox conditions.
Sydney and Brisbane are forecast to reach 38 degrees Celsius tomorrow, while Melbourne is expecting 36.
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Thousands march against racism
I’ve had enough …. I’’ve stayed quiet on this now It’s my turn.
You see whats happened ! Now we can’t even fly our flag without being called racist …. damn it … it was just one eighth of one percent of Sydney’’s population in the riot at Cronulla and of those a small percentage of them attacked !! That does not make Australians RACIST !!! It makes a very small miniscule segment of the community racist …. and you will get that in any city in any country in the world !
So now …. because I’m Australian and I fly the flag of my country …. I’m racist.
Am I now supposed to fly the flag of Lebanon, or Syria, or Saudi Arabia, or Iraq or Egypt, or Libya, or Afghanistan or any other country in the Middle East …. just not my own ?
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Sydney police seize petrol bombs
New South Wales police have arrested seven men for carrying petrol bombs in Sydney in two separate incidents.
Police say two men were caught with petrol bombs on a public bus at Bondi after a tip-off from the driver.
Five men have been arrested at Brighton Le Sands, in Sydney's south, after police searched their car, finding a drum of petrol and condoms, which they believe were intended for making petrol bombs.
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The Sydney suburb of Brighton-le-Sands has been locked down to all but residents after a five men were nabbed in a car equipped to function as a petrol bomb factory.
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Sneers from those who think they're above it all - Opinion - smh.com.au
A YEAR ago someone came up with the term "conspicuous compassion" to describe the public expression of fake concern for others. This week we've seen its opposite, which might be called "conspicuous contempt". Critics from ethnic melting pots such as Turramurra and Woollahra have been lining up to abuse white-bread Cronulla. I suspect this might have more to do with class than race.
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Gowings clearing out for good after 137 years
GOWINGS is gone. In the end, nobody asked to buy.
An era in Sydney retailing is over after the administrator of the Gowings menswear business told staff on Friday the 137-year-old retailer will close at the end of January.
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THE Premier, Morris Iemma, has warned the public to stay clear of the beach this weekend, amid "credible threats" of large-scale riots.
As police prepared to mount their biggest operation since the Olympics to end this week's outbreak of racial violence, Mr Iemma yesterday asked Sydneysiders not to visit beaches in eastern suburbs, Cronulla, the Central Coast, Newcastle and Wollongong.
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A tale of two Sydneys: affluent versus aspiring
THE stark racial separation of Sydney that seeped into violence in Cronulla has been revealed geographically.
Mapping of the city by the Centre of Population and Urban Research at Monash University shows a high concentration of blue-collar people from a non-English-speaking background in the western suburbs.
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Years of rejection erupted in open rebellion
IT'S a long way from Brooklyn to the streets of Belmore, Punchbowl and Lakemba, but Tupac Shakur would find much to make him welcome. His name is sprayed on walls and fences and scratched on toilet doors. When concrete is poured, the shorthand follows: "2pac 4ever."
That a dead singer finds eternal life in the adulation of fans is a curious phenomenon. Elvis is that classic cultural oddity. But Love Me Tender in the hands of Tupac, the rapper murdered in 1996, is full of Glock pistols, cops and bad ass bitches, a culture of rejection and victimhood and an intense claim to the unfettered right of revenge.
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Religious leaders embrace for peace - and point finger at radio station
AS POLICE prepared for further outbreaks of mob violence this weekend, many religious leaders met by the charred ruins of Auburn Uniting Church to call for calm.
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People are being warned off some of NSW's most popular beaches ahead of more racial violence tipped for this weekend.
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The summer holiday season is the perfect time to own a compact digital camera, what with the many family get-togethers and opportunities for sun, surf and snaps.
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Ledger, Crowe in grab for gold
HEATH LEDGER'S gay cowboy will face off Russell Crowe's boxing legend for best actor in the Golden Globes.
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It has been on the cards for some time - and now Sydney's high profile Tropfest Film Festival is finally heading overseas.
Tropfest founder/director/actor John Polson has created a new division of the festival, TropfestTribeca, which will run for the first time as part of the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
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Cate Blanchett has led a star-studded group of celebrities in an appeal for tolerance in the wake of Sydney's race violence.
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Riots sparked by few 'lunatics'
Prime Minister John Howard has blamed a few "lunatics" for the violence that has gripped Sydney and says it won't affect Australia's international standing.
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Riot laws bolster force of 1500
MORE than 1500 police armed with an unprecedented array of new powers will be on patrol at Sydney's beaches this weekend to quell further rioting.
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Approximately 5000 people took part in the rally which ended up in a riot partly due to alcohol consumption.
Sydney has a population of approx 4 million people, which means approx one eighth of one percent of the city’’s population took part. Hardly cause for news services around the globe to claim “Sydneysiders rioted”.
More correctly one eighth of one percent of Sydneysiders rioted.
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Sutherland Shire Mayor Kevin Schreiber says inflammatory text messages calling for revenge attacks fuelled violent scenes at North Cronulla beach today.
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