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Aerial Photography

The Green Desert. Photographs by Peter Elfes.
StreetCorner 22/02/2012 5:47:37 PM
It presents the outback in spectacular colour, featuring low level aerial images with astonishing detail that capture the beauty and remoteness of this environmentally and culturally significant part of Australia. One of Peter's most famous photographs ...
Drone journalism takes off
ABC Online 21/02/2012 4:08:48 PM
News organisations can get significantly more aerial footage and reportage for potentially significantly less money. "Originality, the hunger for unique images and video in news is only going to grow. This is a cost-effective way to get new and ...
Drone journalism takes off
ABC Online 21/02/2012 4:00:37 PM
News organisations can get significantly more aerial footage and reportage for potentially significantly less money. "Originality, the hunger for unique images and video in news is only going to grow. This is a cost-effective way to get new and ...
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Town Planning

Grant to boost tomato farm water efficiency
ABC Online 22/02/2012 11:37:55 PM
The company is planning to double the size of its hothouses from 14 hectares to 30 hectares over the next five years. The Member for Narracan, Gary Blackwood, says the expansion will eventually create about 130 jobs at the farm.
Moranbah housing so scarce that McDonald's considered fly-in, fly-out workers
Courier Mail 22/02/2012 11:32:21 PM
HUNDREDS are expected at a central Queensland protest against a mining giant's plans to have a totally fly-in fly-out workforce. THE mining boom is crippling Queensland's coal towns, with the influx of fly-in, fly-out workers pushing health services ...
Rock City's column on the progress of SLAM and National SLAM Day, Snakadaktal ...
Herald Sun 22/02/2012 4:51:19 PM
McLean and Helen Marcou are the SLAM organisers and are currently pushing for the introduction of regular meetings by a live-music round table group that would include Victoria Police, liquor licensing bosses, planning authorities, Music Victoria and ...
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Housing Approvals

Mortgage Choice confident even though profits fell
The Australian 22/02/2012 11:10:16 PM
Despite a subdued housing finance market, Australia's biggest independent mortgage broker expanded its total loan book to $43.5 billion, and generated $5.6bn worth of home-loan approvals, up 9.8 per cent on a year earlier.Cost blowout hits Mortgage Choice profitHerald Sun
Planning process streamlined
The Young Witness 22/02/2012 8:37:54 AM
The NSW Government is advising residents in Young that they are streamlining the planning process for farmers and rural landowners wanting to build a home, shed or farm building on their property, making it easier to gain approval in as little as 10 ...
Lake Macquarie records strong growth
ABC Online 21/02/2012 12:33:46 PM
The close proximity to Sydney, housing affordability and lifestyle, are some of the factors behind Lake Macquarie being ranked in the top five Councils in the State for development approvals. The 2010-11 Local Development Performance Monitoring report ...
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Building Design

No room to move
WA today 23/02/2012 2:07:20 AM
The heritage-listed 1896 building is an imposing landmark in one of the city's main streets, but the court staff and others who use it each day struggle with its outdated design and lack of facilities. So bad are conditions that, as well as the ...
Eco-Cubby makes sustainable design child's play
Leader News 23/02/2012 12:18:43 AM
They may not be able to spell thermal mass, but the pint-size creatives at Ripponlea Kindergarten have already mastered the basics of urban planning and sustainable design. And it is all through the joy of building a simple cubby house.
A model partnership takes wing
The Australian 22/02/2012 11:04:51 PM
Plans for the renovation and expansion of the MCA building have had a controversial history. In June 1997, Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima was announced the winner of a design contest. But the complications of the site made the fundraising too ...
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Surveyors

Gulaptis delivers maiden speech
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner 22/02/2012 2:39:25 PM
Becoming a New South Wales member of Parliament did not seem my destiny, especially growing up in Perth in the 1960s or graduating as a surveyor from the Western Australia Institute of Technology with the intention of working in the Western Australian ...
Green building gets helping hand
Brisbane Times 22/02/2012 5:37:46 AM
The team comprises architects, services and environmental design engineers, construction estimators, quantity surveyors and real estate valuers. Businesses that invest in improving the energy efficiency of their existing building may also be able to ...
Green building gets helping hand
Sydney Morning Herald 22/02/2012 5:37:23 AM
The team comprises architects, services and environmental design engineers, construction estimators, quantity surveyors and real estate valuers. Businesses that invest in improving the energy efficiency of their existing building may also be able to ...
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Property Development

Developer told 'don't disturb the bats'
Gold Coast Bulletin News 23/02/2012 2:27:43 AM
But it will now take at least six days after the Department of Environment and Resource Management told Mr Balson he could only work between noon and 4pm because a colony of bats roosting in trees at the back of the property needed adequate time to ...
Development ban may be lifted at Riverstone
Blacktown Sun 22/02/2012 12:05:48 PM
BY NICK SOON PROPERTY owners at Riverstone have welcomed a draft state regulation that will allow them to develop their land. They have not be able to develop their properties for more than 15 years because they are classified as scheduled lands ...
Trust being rebuilt
Sydney Morning Herald 22/02/2012 9:32:52 AM
Photo: Nicolas Walker They also went into riskier activities such as property development and funds management. After some of the trusts had near-death experiences, they went back to basics - reduced debt, raised new equity and jettisoned many of their ...
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