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Black plastic and sticky tape have been sent to some South Australian schools so they can cover up plaques before their premises are used as polling booths.

There are reports the bill for the failed Sydney CBD Metro has reached more than half-a-billion dollars after construction companies lodged their compensation claims.

Kevin Rudd may have to tip more money into his CPRS compensation scheme.

Primary school principals are calling for a nationwide, single funding model to ensure government, private and Catholic school students are assessed according to individual needs.

CityRail is reinforcing door windows on one of its older-style suburban trains after Sydney passengers narrowly escaped being injured by flying glass.

An infrastructure company says the proposed sale of Queensland Rail could disrupt plans to build an inland railway.

Political parties are continuing to campaign for tomorrow's elections in South Australia and Tasmania.

Planning Minister Justin Madden is considering giving the Melbourne City Council more power over planning decisions.

Japan has sunk a proposal at a United Nations meeting in Qatar to ban the export on Atlantic bluefin tuna.

United States president Barack Obama has postponed his trip to Australia and Indonesia until June.

The Greens say energy-efficiency assessors who miss out under the restructured Green Loans scheme should be compensated.

Palestine State: Will Fascist Israel give-up old Terror gimmicks? -II

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“iWave launches iW-i.MX51 SOM targeted for embedded computing applications in Industrial, Medical, Consumer segments in the Embedded World 2010 (Hall 12, Stand 125)”

iWave Systems Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a leading embedded turnkey design house in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, has recently launched High performance, low power SOM (System-on-Module) with form factor 70mm x 70mm based on Freescale’s i.MX51 processor. The i.MX51 processor features advanced and power-efficient implementation of the ARM Cortex™-A8 core, which operates at 800 MHz.

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MUMBAI, India, March 18 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- As part of its long-term commitment to corporate responsibility in India, Swiss Re has partnered with an international non-profit organisation, GeoHazards International (GHI), and a New Delhi-based non-profit organisation, GeoHazards Society (GHS), to launch a multi-year campaign to improve hospital earthquake safety in India.

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The Queensland Catholic Education Commission (QCEC) is standing by its pay offer to teachers, despite the threat of a teachers' strike next Wednesday.

Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott have agreed to go head to head in a debate on health next week.

South Australians appear to be preparing to vote Labor out this weekend and replace it with a hung parliament.

The Australian Medical Association of Queensland (AMAQ) says if the State Government accepts a federal plan to overhaul the health system, it would negate the need for private funding to build the new Sunshine Coast University Hospital.