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Aerial Photography

Tips and rumours
Crikey (blog) 31/01/2012 12:10:09 PM
Things ain't always what they seem — I would leave interpretation of aerial photography to people with the appropriate expertise!” Tributes (or not) continue for Baxter. News Limited will be “infinitely better off” without corporate spinner Greg ...
Arrow-Copter AC-10 at $140000 plus might be the answer to Sydney's traffic ...
The Daily Telegraph 29/01/2012 9:56:29 PM
"Shark watch, beach patrols, powerline checking, mining work, locust detection, aerial photography - you name it, it can do it, and a lot cheaper than helicopters and planes," he said. "The helicopter and the plane world, we're coming for you."
Send your DSLR into the skies with the eye3 hexacopter
PC Authority 27/01/2012 10:09:24 AM
Dubbed the eye3 hexacopter, it's essentially a six-armed carbon fibre R/C flying contraption intent on making your DSLR airborne for a bit of aerial photography action. The project is the brainchild of a couple with a hankering for robotics and aerial ...
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Town Planning

HAVE YOUR SAY: Council forces Newport bakery to fork out dough
Hobsons Bay Leader 7/02/2012 4:03:25 AM
Hobsons Bay Council Planning and Environment Director Peter Gaschk said the the applicant had placed containers in the back of the premises without a necessary town planning permit and this action removed existing on-site car parking.
City shares its vision
inmycommunity 7/02/2012 2:03:08 AM
The City's proposed amendment to its town planning scheme to help facilitate the draft plan is in community consultation phase and a report is set to go to the council by mid-year. The City's vision includes redeveloping the precinct within 800m of the ...
Orange's sister act
Central Western Daily 6/02/2012 3:16:36 AM
Since the sister city arrangement began in 1985 Orange City Council staff have visited the city numerous times to offer assistance with governance including waste management and town planning. A container load of furniture from the old Orange hospital ...
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Housing Approvals

WA Mining Booms as Housing Plummets
DesignBuild Source 6/02/2012 8:34:08 AM
Indeed, whilst stand-alone housing approvals lifted a bit in December (see chart), November's result was the lowest on record since April 2001. The picture is similar when apartments and other multi-residential construction is added in – overall ...
More Bad News for Housing Sector
DesignBuild Source 3/02/2012 8:42:26 AM
Stand-alone housing approvals fell by 0.2%. Approvals for multi-residential dwellings (units, apartments, townhouses) fell by 2.5% Compared with the same month in 2010, seasonally adjusted approval numbers are down by almost one quarter (see chart).
Housing approvals tumble amid gloom
The Australian 2/02/2012 11:05:23 PM
THE home building industry last year had its worst year since the global financial crisis, and weak conditions appear set to continue following a further fall in approvals for new dwellings. Local councils approved 11400 new housing plans in December, ...Qld bucks national downturn in housing approvalsQueensland Business Review
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Building Design

$11 million investment in new Victorian medical school
Invest in Australia 6/02/2012 7:52:29 PM
Notre Dame's medical school curriculum focuses on ambulatory models of care and the multi-skilling of staff in teams, and the building design therefore includes teaching rooms based on ambulatory and rehabilitation medicine and multidisciplinary skills ...
Home truths: weekly property wrap
Melton Leader 6/02/2012 5:00:08 AM
RISING energy and water prices have prompted building design service Archicentre to offer homebuyers and renovators a “sustainability” report. General manager David Hallett said the carbon tax and rising energy and water prices would put a hip-pocket ...
New ASIO site on time, on budget
The Canberra Times 4/02/2012 8:25:55 AM
Mr Fricker, who was with ASIO for nine years from 2002, s was involved in approving the building design. ''It is a purpose-built building. You can't get a top-secret agency and just stick it in any old building. If you're going to do it right and ...
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Surveyors

Dirranbandi confident of escaping flood
Ninemsn 6/02/2012 12:54:30 PM
"We have surveyors checking the levels this afternoon and if they discover work needs to be done that will commence immediately." Floodwaters from St George will head towards Dirranbandi over the next week. Ms Stewart said a peak of 5.4 metres was ...
Call for building ban in extreme risk areas
The West Australian 4/02/2012 10:49:34 AM
Australian Institute of Building Surveyors president Terry Bush said the Government should not ban building in fire-prone locations but should enforce measures to minimise the risk. Curtin University fire ecologist Grant Wardell-Johnson said as climate ...
Brooloo folk want road to use
Gympie Times 3/02/2012 5:02:24 AM
When no work had eventuated by late last year, Ms Harris-Johns was again told by the council that work on the road was "being undertaken and the surveyors were coming out to start". "They did come, but no work started," she said.
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Property Development

Merrin Jagtman | 6th February 2012
The Satellite 6/02/2012 4:55:16 PM
A few days after giving birth to her own little masterpiece, baby daughter Harper, Ms Gossner discovered she had won Brisbane's most prestigious new art award, the Metro Property Development and Pearls Australasia Art Competition.
Unhappy Bankwest clients push senate inquiry
Sydney Morning Herald 6/02/2012 8:33:17 AM
"The increase was primarily due to losses from property development lending," she said. "During this period the property development sector generally was under greater pressure due to the GFC and falling property values." But she said the comment ...
South-West native heritage to stay
Perth Now 5/02/2012 4:57:45 PM
Premier Colin Barnett yesterday said that a proposed settlement with Noongar native title claimants would mean "property development, mining, fishing, farming, will all be able to proceed and will not in any way be under threat or disruption or delay ...$1bn native title deal to settle Perth claimsSydney Morning Herald
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Mining Leases

Metgasco still waiting on licence
Northern Star 4/02/2012 7:44:31 AM
Exploration licences, Assessment leases, Opal prospecting licences, Mining leases; and Mineral claims. Petroleum exploration and production that occurs on land is regulated by the Petroleum (Onshore) Act 1991. Similarly, there are four main approvals:
Sandmining on Stradbroke Island to be decided at state poll
ABC Online 4/02/2012 12:51:13 AM
PAUL SMITH: It'll affect some of the areas in mining leases that were cancelled. It will also affect us in that some of the leases now have a finite end date. So we will have to undertake rehabilitation activities post-the cancellation of the actual ...
Ipswich CSG sites ruled out by Arrow
The Queensland Times 3/02/2012 2:21:35 PM
The energy company owns mining leases from Forest Lake in the east to Toowoomba in the west and south to the border. There are currently three wells in Swanbank and Springfield areas. Drilled by Arrow in 2002 and 2003, and Conoco in 1996, ...
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Infrastructure

Western demands assail Aborigines, says Patrick Dodson
The Australian 6/02/2012 11:10:39 PM
"The Northern Territory intervention, employment conditions, income management, housing tenancies -- they are not the pillars of mutually respectful relationships," Mr Dodson told the opening of a conference on infrastructure needs in remote indigenous ...
Downer EDI wins $570m contract for Karara mine project
The Australian 6/02/2012 11:09:12 PM
Under the six-year contract, Downer will set up the infrastructure for the mine and provide drill and blast services as well as load and haul waste and ore. Karara Mining is a joint venture between Gindalbie Metals and China's second largest steel ...Downer wins $570m mining contractNinemsn
Property the likely target of next asset sale
Sydney Morning Herald 6/02/2012 11:05:35 PM
Members of the taskforce include the chief executive of Infrastructure NSW, Paul Broad, and the directors-general of key government departments. The chairman of Infrastructure NSW, Nick Greiner, has called for the government to consider more asset ...
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