FEDERAL Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek has given the thumbs down to tax breaks on loans for first home-buyers.
Aussie Home Loans boss John Symond has said the measure would help ease the housing affordability crisis.
But Ms Plibersek said it wasn’t the fairest way of helping first home buyers.
What needed to be done was to make sure [...]
April 3 marked the 35th anniversary of the initial cell phone call, and wireless technology has evolved tremendously over the years. The original mobile phones hardly seem like they’re in the same family as today’s cell phones, said Mike Minnis, NTELOS director of public relations.
Minnis described the early versions of cellular phones as big and [...]
Bt-resistant populations of bollworm, Helicoverpa zea, were found in more than a dozen crop fields in Mississippi and Arkansas between 2003 and 2006.
What we’re seeing is evolution in action, said lead researcher Bruce Tabashnik. This is the first documented case of field-evolved resistance to a Bt crop.
Bt crops are so named because they have been [...]
Lenders aren’t generally considered Santa Claus; but if you have bad credit, finding a mortgage can seem like a gift from the North Pole. In today’s market, however, loans for people with bad credit are available, even though their rates tend to be higher than conventional loans. Despite the elevated costs, you can [...]
A Jiffy Lube franchisee with 13 stores and more on the way is moving its headquarters from Lodi to West Sacramento as it prepares for a growth spurt.
Don Fowler’s Broadbase Inc., which operates Jiffy Lube stores from Fresno to El Dorado Hills and employs about 150, is scheduled to occupy 10,000 square feet of [...]
In this day and age, the idea of leaving your children with someone you don’t know very well can be quite scary. The FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System says that babysitters commit 4.2% of the crimes reported against children in the US. For your children’s safety and your own peace of mind, you [...]
New research shows that children who don’t get enough nightly sleep are more likely to be overweight and have behavioral problems.
The study examined almost 600 children. Their sleep duration was assessed by actigraphy, a non-invasive method used to study sleep-wake patterns by assessing movement. The study examined sleep patterns at birth, at one year, at [...]
The actual rendezvous will take place early in 2008 with the launch and docking of the most sophisticated spacecraft ever built in Europe, the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV).
We are ready for rendezvous final approach, said the ATV Control Centre (ATV-CC), at the French space agency (CNES) facility in Toulouse, with a pronounced French [...]
“Get rid of pets, posters, certificates and children’s paintings to depersonalise,” says Catherine Smith, the author of a new book to help owners sell their homes. “You don’t want it to look like a show home, but this will also help to declutter.” Smith, editor at Simply You magazine and a professional organiser, has [...]
“Why do we turn our back on the river?” “Why don’t we make more of the river?” You hear it all the time in Hamilton. For decades the city has grappled with the realisation that the river somehow passes it by on its journey to the west coast.
Tourism organisations and visiting consultants reinforce the [...]