http://www.excavation.com.au/rss/ www.excavation.com.au rss feed en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 04:30:55 +0000 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:30:55 +0000 custom support@www.excavation.com.au webmaster@www.excavation.com.au http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/03/26/33m $329,000 to $660,000 MELBOURNE 33 Mackenzie Street Private sale Agent Colliers, 1300 075 113 Melway 2B F12 2011-03-26 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/03/14/survivors-on-long-slow-road AS THE highway descends from the pine and snow-clad mountains above Sendai, the signs of catastrophe grow clearer. 2011-03-14 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/03/11/judge-lashes-kelly-over-barangaroo-law THE Land and Environment Court has delivered a highly critical assessment of the decision by the Planning Minister to approve the car park excavation at Barangaroo and said that he had failed to comply with the planning laws on remediation. 2011-03-11 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/03/10/minister-ran-down-clock-for-approvals JUST hours before the NSW government moved into caretaker mode last week, the Planning Minister, Tony Kelly, approved four separate developments at Barangaroo, dealing another blow to critics attempting to stall the project. 2011-03-10 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/03/4/critics-fear-poisons-leaking-to-harbour SECTIONS of the Barangaroo site are heavily contaminated but the area approved for a massive underground car park contained lower-grade contaminants similar to those previously found at King Street Wharf, Lend Lease says. 2011-03-04 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/03/4/kelly-defied-advice-on-barangaroo-exemption THE Planning Minister, Tony Kelly, overturned specific instructions from the head of his department this week when he ordered the development at Barangaroo be exempt from planning laws on contamination. 2011-03-04 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/03/4/into-oblivion-with-pens-raised YOU'RE a minister in a government facing annihilation at the coming election. As things look now, your party may be out of power for two, three - even four terms. On your desk a pile of directives awaits your signature, some of them months old. Some are embarrassing but necessary, awaiting a politically convenient time. Others are glad-handing gestures of the kind all governments make to shore up support. Still others are genuine achievements to which your party will be able to point in opposition, but which cost too much when budgets are tight. The election writs are about to be issued, ending your time in office. What do you do? 2011-03-04 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/03/3/goahead-for-barangaroo EXCAVATION for a massive underground car park on polluted land at Barangaroo could begin next week after the government made it the only project in NSW exempt from planning laws on contamination. 2011-03-03 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/03/2/twisted-tiffany-appeals Many collectors are now interested in art glass, especially from the postwar period. 2011-03-02 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/03/1/love-of-pot-lands-grower-in-jail A LOVE affair between a computer scientist and marijuana to enhance his performance as a male escort has ended in heartbreak and a six-year prison term for drug offences. 2011-03-01 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/02/19/hotel-moved-from-habour-in-new-barangaroo-vision ALMOST 60 independent architects and planners have united to back an alternative scheme for Barangaroo, which would have smaller towers, remove the hotel from the harbour and jettison the "naturalistic" headland championed by Paul Keating. 2011-02-19 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/02/19/missed-steps-on-painful-and-tormented-path YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD 2011-02-19 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/02/17/footpath-art With China's terracotta warriors still in residence at the Art Gallery of NSW, another warrior site is being unearthed in Martin Place. Well, not quite. The Australian chalk artist Jenny McCracken is creating a 3D artwork of the unearthing in 1974 2011-02-17 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/02/15/oldest-groundedge-stone-tool-found-in-arnhem-land THE piece of stone was so small that at first no one noticed it. It was only when he returned to Melbourne from the Northern Territory that archaeologist Bruno David gave it a second glance. 2011-02-15 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/02/14/face-to-face-with-10000-yearold-carvings AN AUSTRALIAN scientist searching for the fossilised bones of giant rats in a cave in East Timor has discovered ancient stone carvings of human faces, the first found on the island. 2011-02-14 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/02/13/engineer-warns-of-barangaroo-toxins IT WILL take at least 30 years to get rid of a plume of toxic chemicals from the $6 billion Barangaroo development, a report into the Sydney harbourside project warns. 2011-02-13 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/02/11/tiny-tipper-poised-to-make-a-big-impact Size matters for the small yet mighty Isuzu NLR 275, writes Steve Skinner. 2011-02-11 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/02/9/cover-property PADDINGTON 81 LEINSTER STREET $3 million+ 2011-02-09 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/02/9/xstrata-excavates-a-512bn-result ZUG-BASED Xstrata has kicked off the profit-reporting season in style for the world's big miners. 2011-02-09 http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2011/02/7/opera-houses-underground-show A THREE-YEAR $152 million program to build a series of tunnels and a loading dock deep beneath the Sydney Opera House officially starts today. 2011-02-07