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Blog posts July 2019

Tips For Faster Recovery After Laser Tattoo Removal

Tattoos are sometimes so significant that you just can’t stop yourself from getting inked and at times you simply want to get rid of them as their sight has become unbearable. Laser tattoo removal is now being chosen by a vast majority of people who want to remove the ink. While people do research a…

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Crown casino: driver's allegations include freely available drugs and no border checks for gamblers

Crown casino in Melbourne

A federal MP has revealed extraordinary allegations from a former Crown casino driver who claims he transported foreign nationals to the company’s Melbourne hotel from a private jet base without being subject to border security checks and saw women degraded, abused and “slapped around”.

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Man takes free ride on the back of Australian tram

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A shocked pedestrian on a Melbourne, Australia, street captured video of a fare-dodging traveler taking a free ride on the back of a tram.

Hadidi Yuri captured video Saturday when he spotted the man holding onto the back of the Yarra Trams vehicle about 8 p.m. in the Sydney Road area of Melbo…

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Oldest Chinatown in Australia faces headwinds from suburban Melbourne New Chinatown plan in Box Hill

Melbourne’s Little Bourke Street has been a hub of Chinese culture and commerce for 160 years. Photo: Alamy

 

When large numbers of Chinese gold prospectors began arriving in Melbourne, Australia, in 1853, they would stop in the city’s Little Bourke Street to rest and obtain provisions before heading off to seek their fortune in the Victorian goldfields.
By the early 1860s many Chinese district…

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MasterChef Australia: Matt Preston on the moment he found out he’d been dropped by Ten

Matt Preston has opened up about the brutal way he discovered he and his MasterChef co-hosts had been dumped.

Preston, who is filling in on the ABC Melbourne breakfast show with Jacinta Parsons this week, was in a car last Tuesday afternoon on his way to Triple M to do an interview spruiking the …

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Introducing Melbourne to the fun of a Vietnamese beer hall

In Vietnam, 'bia hoi' refers both to draft beer and beer halls. The latter is a fun and rowdy meeting spot for families, friends and coworkers.

"They're loud, there's lots of cheering, 'một, hai, ba, dô!', which in Vietnamese means '1, 2, 3, cheers!'," explains Jerry Mai, the owner-chef of Melbou…

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When is UFC 243 in Melbourne? How to watch, who is fighting?

 

The UFC is returning to Australia with a blockbuster UFC 243 pay-per-view card featuring Robert Whittaker defending his middleweight belt against Israel Adesanya.

The card will also see a host of ANZAC MMA talent on show, with Tai Tuivasa, Megan Anderson, Luke Jumeau and Nadia Kassem all al…

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Your Home Cleaning Hit List: What To Disinfect

Do you think your home is free from germs and bacteria just because you do the occasional cleaning? Well, think again! It is not that easy to get rid of these germs and other harmful particles unless you have the knowledge to do that. You will find various information on how to clean your home, but …

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Here's how a Melbourne genealogist found the author of a 50-year-old message in a bottle

It took less than 48 hours for the author of a 50-year-old message in a bottle to be found on the other side of the world, after being uncovered on a remote South Australian beach this week.

In a time when people are more connected than ever on social media, it was not online networking that help…

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Melbourne Top Investment Choice for Chinese Buyers

Chinese buyer enquiries for residential property in Australia has recorded two consecutive quarters of year-on-year growth for the first time since 2016, with Melbourne still the most popular Australian city.

Australia has been losing Chinese buyer interest to other parts of the world due to incr…

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CBD Melbourne: Political animals back in the jungle

Christopher Pyne, Michael Photios and the other moderate Liberals will always have Sydney's Cherry Bar - but it’s the Right that rules the roost over at Monkey Pod.

And now, there are the new inductees in the famed conservative club.

The Monkey Pod has been, for more than a decade, the most …

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Brisbane housing market to outpace Sydney and Melbourne

Step aside, Sydney and Melbourne — Brisbane is set to be Australia's brightest housing market in the next three years, a report by the BIS Oxford Economics said.

The Queensland capital is projected to witness up to 20% price appreciation from 2019 to 2022, surpassing the modest growth expected …

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10 Household Cleaning Products You Should Never Mix

Hello Everyone! I am back with an interesting blog post on household cleaning products and their deadly combinations. There is no doubt that cleaning products available on the market work wonder in removing stains, grease, mould and mildew. But you can’t deny the fact that mixing them together witho…

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Discover The Hidden Gems Within The Australian Performing Arts Collection At Open House 2019

Arts Centre Melbourne is offering a rare opportunity to see inside its Australian Performing Arts Collection on 27 - 28 July as part of Open House Melbourne 2019. The free special guided tour will take participants on a journey through Australia's performing arts history where they will be able to e…

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MIFF and the Australian New Wave

There is a special silvery sigh that came again and again across the assembled Melbourne International Film tragics as they were introduced to the 2019 program in the Forum Theatre earlier this week. It is a kind of astral choir, a shared exhalation, which combines young and old, male and female, fa…

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North Melbourne defender Marley Williams signs one year deal

North Melbourne defender Marley Williams has signed a new one year deal, keeping him in the blue and white until at least the end of 2020.

Williams, who's played 35 games for the Kangaroos after crossing from Collingwood at the end of 2016, hasn't had a career free from incident.

Williams said…

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Top 10 Rules For A Cleaner Home

A clean and sanitised home can help prevent unnecessary stress. It not only improves the overall health and well-being of the family but also reduces allergens and attracts wealth. However, cleaning an entire home needs a lot of time, energy and right cleaning tricks. Whether you have a small kid in…

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Why Winter Is The Best Time For Laser Hair Removal?

Hi All, Let’s be honest! All of us think about laser hair removal procedure once in a while. However, we don’t have the required knowledge about the treatment as very little is known about it traditionally. You might have read about the technology and its administration, but there are still certain …

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