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Australia Aria Awards 2009 Winners:

Album of the Year: Empire of the Sun, Walking on a Dream (Capitol/EMI Music Australia)

Single of the Year: Empire of the Sun, Walking on a Dream (Capitol/EMI Music Australia)

Breakthrough Artist Album: Ladyhawke, Ladyhawke (Modular Recordings)

Breakthrough Artist Single: Ladyhawke, My Delirium (Modular Recordings)

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Buy Microsoft Windows 7 Professional UPGRADE (32-bit & 64-bit)
For $49.95

Windows 7 Professional includes all the Home Premium features you love and the business features your work demands. In addition, you can connect to your school network easily using the domain join feature. You can run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode and recover your data easily with automatic back-ups to your home network.

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To celebrate Darling Harbour 21st anniversary celebrations, Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority will open the doors to the Sydney Chinese Gardens of Friendship for FREE on Sunday 25 October 2009.

The Open Day will commemorate the Garden’s anniversary and the close bond which was forged between the local Chinese community and Sydney’s sister city Guangzhou in Guangdong Province, China to share their heritage in Australia through a garden of friendship. The Garden, designed and built by Chinese landscape architects and gardeners, opened in 1988 as part of Australia’s Bicentenary. The Garden is one of the few traditional public Chinese gardens created outside Asia that offers a rare opportunity to experience century-old traditions of Chinese landscaping, architecture and garden design. (Read the article)

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Do You know that you can claim medical expenses from your tax , as long as the total out of pocket expenses is more than $1500 in a financial year?

You can claim a tax offset of 20% of your net medical expenses over $1,500, and You can only claim medical expenses for those of your dependants who were Australian residents for tax purposes. For your information, Net medical expenses are the medical expenses you have paid less any refunds you got, or could get, from Medicare or a private health insurer.

The medical expenses must be for:

• you
• your spouse – married or de facto – regardless of their income
• your children who were aged under 21 years, including adopted and stepchildren, regardless of their income
• any other child aged under 21 years – not a student – whom you maintained and whose separate net income (SNI) was less than $1,786 for the first child and less than $1,410 for the second child and any subsequent children.
• a student aged under 25 years whom you maintained and whose SNI was less than $1,786
• a child housekeeper, but only if you can claim a tax offset for them.
• an invalid relative, parent or spouse’s parent, but only if you can claim a dependant tax offset.

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Woolworths to enter $24 billion hardware sector
− Grows local independent retail hardware sector via acquisition of Danks
− Launches destination home improvement store network
− Announces JV with leading US home improvement retailer Lowe’s

The Board of Woolworths Limited (Woolworths) has approved plans for the company to enter the $24 billion plus hardware sector with a multi format strategy designed to meet the everyday home improvement needs of Australian consumers.

First Coles and Woolworths compete in the supermarket aisles. Then the competition moved further into the bottle shop, and also service station sector. Now they will compete again in Retail Hardware sector or home improvement sector.

This fresh new home improvement offer will be based on a combination of significant local and international industry expertise, the right range representing value and choice; and a mix of convenient traditional hardware store formats and large destination home improvement stores to broaden consumer choice.

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