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Newfield Resources' latest funding takes Tonga project 'a long way ... (Proactive Investors Australia)

Newfield Resources Ltd (ASX:NWF)'s executive director Karl Smithson updated Chris Rhodes on developments at its Tongo diamond mine...

Around US$70mln has already been spent developing the underground mine, he says, but unlocking access to an additional A$55mln (US$37mln) should take Newfield 'a long way towards commercial production in the next 24 months," said Smithson. The company is seeing high-quality and high-grade diamonds from its site, he says, with over US$500 per tonne in situ or the equivalent of US$9g/t in comparison to gold.

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Famous Aussie author reveals inspiration behind latest novel (9Homes)

Pittwater, on Sydney's northern peninsula could very well be the prettiest place to call home. It's where a...

So to have my daughter here with me today, it's kind of the closing of one book and opening of another." Michael fell overboard and my father jumped in after him in his winter clothes," Morrissey said. "My father and baby brother drowned off Scotland Island. and I said, 'I don't have many books so I make up my own' and she said, 'when you grow up you must put your stories down in books for other people to read'. There are too few." That's Dorothea Mackella's house, Tarrangaua," Morrissey told A Current Affair. "I never went to the funeral, I never had closure. READ MORE: I thought 'what a good idea'." "You need trees and you need places you can sit and be still and be silent and imagine things. "You couldn't 'movie set' this, you couldn't make a place up like this, which is why I wanted to use this setting in the book," Morrissey said while looking out at the view. "She came out and she caught me looking around the house and she said, 'what do you think you're doing?'," Morrissey recalled about her childhood neighbour, Mackellar.

Media statements - Latest official visitor figures show WA leading the ... (Media Statements)

Western Australia records biggest increase in interstate visitors of any State; Perth records best visitor growth of any capital city; Domestic visitor ...

"The growth in interstate visitors and seeing spending in Perth up almost 50 per cent are a real shot in the arm for tourism and hospitality businesses. Perth's growth of 48 per cent was the best of any capital city - Brisbane was up 39 per cent, Adelaide up 28 per cent, Melbourne up 10 per cent and Sydney down 7 per cent. This increase was in contrast to interstate visitor numbers falling in all other States - Victoria down 21 per cent, New South Wales down 18 per cent, Queensland down 10 per cent and South Australia down 6 per cent.

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