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Newcastle is already the world's biggest coal port.

The NSW Government and coal companies want to double it!

The NSW Government has just given the go-ahead for the doubling of Newcastle coal exports! Coal exports are already our state's biggest contribution to global climate change.

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Explosions shook the Gaza Strip and fires lit up the night skies as Israeli ground forces surged into the battered Palestinian enclave following a week of air and naval raids.

Australia will not take any former inmates of the US' Guantanamo Bay detention centre, acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.

Israeli warplanes continued to pound Gaza on Saturday as the assault on Hamas entered its second week and Israeli troops begin massing on the Gaza border.

A suburb in western Sydney has again been named Lotto's luckiest postcode for 2008, after racking up $8.5 million in first division prizes.

Australia is ''unlikely'' to take in former Guantanamo Bay detainees, according to Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard, but the government's refusal to completely rule out President Bush's suggestion has sparked outrage.

Cool Hunting
Best of CH 2008: Top Five Green Projects
Cool Hunting, NY - 1 Jan 2009
Down to delivery by bike messenger, the future is Nau. Right on time, Nau relaunched this with business "as unusual." Nouveau classics such the as the ...

BikeRadar.com
First look: Chrome Ivan rolltop backpack
BikeRadar.com, UK - 1 Jan 2009
By Gary Boulanger, US editor San Francisco-based Chrome caters to the bike messenger crowd, and its locally-made bags, while a tad on the spendy side, ...

New Year festivities have swept their way across the globe - but Gaza fears, Mumbai memories, economic collapse and tragedy in Thailand each cast long shadows at the dawn of 2009.

VIDEO: A fire at a Bangkok nightclub has killed 60 people who were celebrating the New Year. DFAT has now confirmed no Australians are among the dead, however one has been treated for minor injuries.

If you want to successfully quit smoking in 2009, don't start now.