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Three generations of the Johnson family have known the iconic Tathra wharf since the age of coastal steamers.
Topics: history, sea-transport, regional, tathra-2550
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Topics: people, sea-transport, history, regional, tathra-2550
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| UpdatedState and Federal ministers are asked to consider changing legislations after Federal Court ruling on Indigenous Land Agreements questions mining, gas, ports, infrastructure and national park legality.
Topics: mining-rural, oil-and-gas, coal, rural, rail-transport, sea-transport, national-parks, native-title, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, mining-industry, perth-6000
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Topics: sea-transport, grain, sydney-2000, wollongong-2500
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Topics: sea-transport, grain, sydney-2000, wollongong-2500
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Topics: sea-transport, grain, sydney-2000, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedA record grain harvest is causing bottlenecks on the way to port terminals, where export ships are heavily booked for the next six months.
Topics: agricultural-prices, sea-transport, grain, sydney-2000
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Topics: sea-transport, grain, sydney-2000, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedAn animal law expert demands an overhaul of Tasmania's livestock regulations after more cattle die while being shipped across the Bass Strait.
Topics: animal-welfare, sea-transport, beef-cattle, livestock-welfare, livestock, rural, tas
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Traffic jams are forming at some Chinese ports as ships wait for smog to clear to offload their goods.
Topics: air-pollution, mining-industry, sea-transport, china
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| UpdatedA tourist catches a lucky break when he is spotted drifting on a surfboard off the Australian coast nearly 6 kilometres offshore, after spending 16 hours in the water.
Topics: accidents, accidents---other, sea-transport, surf-life-saving, surfing, bulli-2516, wollongong-2500
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Mount Weld Station in Western Australia's Goldfields will install sea containers to camel-proof vital infrastructure at watering holes and bring cattle back to the station.
Topics: beef-cattle, sea-transport, animals-and-nature, animals, miscellaneous-animal-production, animal-behaviour, water, laverton-6440
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A group of Chinese warships led by the country's sole aircraft carrier enters the top half of the South China Sea, Taiwan's Defence Ministry says.
Topics: world-politics, defence-and-national-security, sea-transport, china, asia, taiwan, sao-tome-and-principe
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Topics: transport, sea-transport, mental-health, charities-and-community-organisations, volunteers, townsville-4810
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Topics: transport, sea-transport, mental-health, charities-and-community-organisations, volunteers, townsville-4810
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Topics: transport, sea-transport, mental-health, charities-and-community-organisations, volunteers, townsville-4810
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Topics: transport, sea-transport, mental-health, charities-and-community-organisations, volunteers, townsville-4810
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Topics: transport, sea-transport, mental-health, charities-and-community-organisations, volunteers, townsville-4810
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The global shipping industry is in dire straits with international rates low for five years, and for some vessels, the current day rates are covering less than 5 per cent of costs.
Topics: sea-transport, company-news, multinationals, economic-trends, australia, korea-republic-of
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King Island will have a twice weekly shipping service, travelling between the island, Victoria and mainland Tasmania.
Topics: sea-transport, beef-cattle, king-island-7256
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Around 10,000 tonnes of corn has been shipped out of Wyndham, as part of a new export deal for farmers in the Kimberley's Ord Irrigation Scheme.
Topics: rural, grain, sea-transport, trade, wyndham-6740, korea-republic-of
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| UpdatedJunior WA miners fear they will be locked out of their only export facility in the Pilbara after the State Government passed legislation to sell Utah Point, allowing half the port's capacity to be used by mining giants.
Topics: mining-industry, sea-transport, port-hedland-6721
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The type of oil that washed ashore polluting Fraser Island off Queensland's coast last month is identified as being from a large trading ship, but the State Government says it will be difficult to pinpoint the culprit.
Topics: water-pollution, land-pollution, pollution, environment, activism-and-lobbying, public-sector, government-and-politics, oceans-and-reefs, national-parks, conservation, sea-transport, eurong-4581, qld, australia, bundaberg-4670
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The sunken tall ship Defender will be removed from Townsville's Ross Creek ahead of the storm season.
Topics: maritime, government-and-politics, sea-transport, history, townsville-4810, brisbane-4000, tas
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Topics: sea-transport, storm-disaster, local-government, insurance, tathra-2550