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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Burj Dubai
However, it may not hold this title for long if the enormous 1,000 m (3,281 ft) Solar Tower project that has been proposed in Buronga, New South Wales, Australia is completed as planned.
The design of Burj Dubai is derived from the geometries of the desert flower, which is indigenous to the region, and the patterning systems embodied in Islamic architecture.
It combines historical and cultural influences with cutting edge technology to achieve a high-performance building which will set the new standard for development in the Middle East and become the model for the future of the city.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Burj_Dubai   (503 words)

  
 Major Highways of New South Wales
Major projects are currently underway or in planning south of Wollongong to upgrade the highway to a 4 lane divided high standard highway.
Nonetheless, the New England Highway is generally a high standard wide 2-lane highway with many overtaking lanes and a number of dual carriageway sections.
The new section was opened in 1960 and has historic significance in that it was the first road of its kind in Australia to be surveyed using aerial photographic interpretation.
www.geocities.com /lockstar/nswhighways.html   (4187 words)

  
 Holiday toll down on last year - theage.com.au
The driver of the car, from Buronga in New South Wales, died after the car ran off the road, rolled over and hit a post.
Police inspector Tim Fenlon said it was always tragic to lose people in road crashes, but the state's police were generally pleased with the way holidaymakers were travelling on the roads this season.
There have been four deaths in New South Wales and three in South Australia, with two people dying near Bordertown, in the state's south-east on Tuesday night.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/12/25/1040511090451.html   (434 words)

  
 Biographies: Commemorative Mission 60th Anniversary of Victory in Europe 1945-2005
He was chosen for aircrew training and was sent to South Africa in February 1941.
He served for a period in 76 Wing RAAF and at the end of the war he was in 40 Squadron conducting transport flights between Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Towards the end of his training in early 1942, Jeff heard the tragic news of Les’ death in action in Malaya.
www.dva.gov.au /commem/2005/bio/bios_5.htm   (2301 words)

  
 New South Wales Accommodation & Travel Information, Jasons Travel Channel
New South Wales is about the same size as California in the USA, although it started life as a much larger place than it is today.
The gold rushes of the 1850s swelled the population further and today New South Wales is Australia's most populous state.
Destinations in New South Wales include Sydney, Port Macquarie, Newcastle, Byron Bay, Coffs Harbour, Tamworth, Dubbo, Katoomba, Albury, Parramatta, Broken Hill, Bourke, Bega, Armidale, Orange, the Blue Mountains, the Hunter Valley and the Snowy Mountains.
www.jasons.com /000561,AUS,NSW,OUTBACKNSW,,pg,1,0.mel   (379 words)

  
 Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Power grid between South Australia and New South Wales approved   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This A$ 110 mm project is a product of New South Wales transmission utility, TransGrid.
It would allow 250 MW of electricity to move between Buronga in New South Wales and Robertstown on the South Australian grid.
It allows states such as South Australia and Victoria, which are least capable of supplying their own needs, to tap into larger energy networks.
www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nts24812.htm   (142 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Australia plans world's tallest tower
The one billion Australian dollar (US $0.56 bn) project is being backed by the Australian Government, and is expected to be completed in 2006 in the remote Buronga district in New South Wales.
Enviromission chief executive officer Roger Davey told Reuters news agency: "Initially people told me 'you're a dreamer', there's no way anything that high can be built, there's no way it can work".
The tower proposal has received the support of the Australian and New South Wales governments, which have defined it as a project of national significance.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2628361.stm   (360 words)

  
 Wentworth - New South Wales - www.smh.com.au/travel/
The town soon became an important and commercially influential river port at the centre of the NSW, Victorian and South Australian river trade and, effectively, the capital of the district.
It was a small but notoriously harsh prison for more serious offenders with 10 male and 2 female cells, massive 45-cm thick walls, lookout towers, a stretching rack, a whipping stool, stocks, and shackles set into a boulder in the unshaded centre of the courtyard.
Scotia Sanctuary is a wildlife reserve situated in the arid outback of far western New South Wales.
www.smh.com.au /news/New-South-Wales/Wentworth/2005/02/17/1108500200075.html   (2364 words)

  
 Vino! Wineries: New South Wales Wineries, Australian Wineries
With 900 hectares of established vineyards and a new winery with existing capacity of 10,000...
Cassegrain Wines was established in 1980 when Gerard and Francoise Cassegrain planted a vineyard near Port Macquarie, on the New South Wales Mid-North Coast, heralding a rebirth of viticulture in the...
Lake's Folly was the first new vineyard in the Hunter Valley last century, established by Max Lake and his family in 1963.
www.vino.com /wines/country.asp?CID=1&CRIT=R&Sort=99   (1450 words)

  
 enviromission
Long-term forecasting by NEMMCO indicates continuing summer shortfall in Victoria and South Australia, and adequate capacity in New South Wales and Queensland.
From 1997 until implementation of the new legislation, 720 MW of additional “green” capacity has been installed.
In December 2000, AEA identified over 1,000 MW of capacity from 77 committed or proposed projects with the new regulation.
www.aie.org.au /pubs/enviromission.htm   (3252 words)

  
 1997 Vintage Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The high-speed bottling line, capable of filling, labelling and packaging 24,000 bottles per hour, is part of a new world class $17 million bottling and packaging complex to be built at the Reynella winery.
The new $17 million bottling and packaging complex to be built at the Reynella winery will be devoted to still wine packaging.
In March this year, the company opened the new $18 million state-of-the-art Stonehaven winery at Padthaway, in the South East of SA - the largest new winery complex to be built in Australia for some 20 years.
www.hardywines.com.au /news/press/expansion.html   (829 words)

  
 Winepros Countries
Outside McLaren Vale, BRL Hardy owns two major wineries in the Riverlands, others at Clare in South Australia, Buronga in New South Wales, and the Houghton winery in the Swan Valley in Western Australia.
Owner of 4730 acres (1915 ha) of vineyard, it is a joint venture partner in 940 acres (380 ha) and leases another 295 acres (120 ha) to complete its a total area under vine of 5965 acres (2415 ha).
The company also owns half a joint venture interest in a new Chilean wine brand, Mapocho, whose wines are made by Jose Canepa and distributed internationally through the BRL Hardy network.
www.winepros.com.au /jsp/cda/countries/region_topic.jsp?ID=1423   (955 words)

  
 Visit the many wineries in Mildura (Where To Stay)
As an integral part of the BRL Hardy Wine Group, the Buronga Winery is one of the lowest cost producers in Australi, efficiency stemming from state of the art technology.
In addition to Stanely wines produced at Buronga, there are wines from Padthaway, Clare, Coonawarra and McLaren Vale and from Western Australia, wines are featured from Margaret River, Swan Valley and Gin Gin.
Trentham Estate is positioned on the banks of the Murray River at Trentham Cliffs, New South Wales, just a short 15 kilometre scenic drive from Mildra.
www.wheretostay.net /article/aumildur   (832 words)

  
 Where to see Australian Plants - New South Wales
If you know of a location which should be added (whether in New South Wales or elsewhere), or can provide "missing" details for the locations listed, please contact the Society.
The Albury Botanic Gardens were established in 1877 and cover an area of 4 hectares on the alluvial flood plain of the Murray River.
These gardens are situated in the Mildura/Buronga area in far western New South Wales adjacent to the Murray River.
farrer.riv.csu.edu.au /ASGAP/whereto2.html   (2990 words)

  
 About Leasingham - Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
New cellars were added onto the original buildings.
Vineyards south of Clare upgraded to facilitate machine harvesting.
June 8th - Barbara Weise, South Australian Minister of Tourism, officially opened a $2 million upgrading of vineyard, winery, cellar door and garden area.
www.leasingham-wines.com.au /about2.html   (658 words)

  
 World's tallest structures - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Counting buildings as structures with floors throughout, New York City's World Trade Center was the tallest including the antennas, Sears Tower in Chicago excluding the antennas.
A Solar Chimney that has been proposed in Buronga, New South Wales, Australia would be 1,000 m (3,281 ft) tall.
The new Guangdong TV Tower at Guangzhou, China may also become one of the world's tallest structures.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Worlds_tallest_buildings   (1145 words)

  
 Emaar Properties, Burj Dubai, Mohd Alabbar, Residential Properties dubai, Emaar Properties in Dubai, Rental Properties ...
The idea is that this sort of luxury brand extension catches the eye and lends itself well to exotic and expensive advertising campaigns.
Cradle-to-grave welfare systems, established during the oil boom years of the 1980s, have led to unrealistic salary expectations among the new generation of Arab jobseekers".
Emaar has also expanded internationally with projects in Pakistan; the company is building an office complex in Lahore as well as a new city nearby, which will cost $800 million.
www.mohamedalabbar.net   (1023 words)

  
 New South Wales competitions
The CRL wanted a new administration structure, an equal partnership in which the NSWRL looked after league in Sydney, and the CRL looked after it in the bush.
When their proposal was rejected the CRL broke away from the NSWRL for a week, but returned to the fold with a promise that a committee would be set up to sort things out.
Group 7 (South Coast) covers an area stretching along the south coast of NSW from Nowra to Batemans Bay.
users.hunterlink.net.au /~maajjs/aus/nsw/nswcomps.htm   (3299 words)

  
 Australian industry embraces green energy while government fights emissions cuts
EnviroMission, a public company in Australia, is building a 50MW power station on the Sunraysia site in Buronga, New South Wales, that is based on a "solar chimney" concept whereby solar energy is harnessed by the convection of heated air.
EnviroMission's technology, which it calls a Solar Tower power station, uses the sun's heat to warm a large body of air which then rises through a vertical wind tunnel causing large turbines to spin and generate electricity.
While China has been actively investing in exploration and development operations in Africa, South America, and other parts of Asia over the past five years, China has also significantly expanded its interests in renewable energy sources including wind, solar, biofuels, tidal, and small hydroelectric dams.
news.mongabay.com /2005/1201-australia.html   (1081 words)

  
 Eric Shackle's eBook - Solar Tower
Last month (February 10, 2005) the New Zealand Herald ran a detailed story under the heading Outback's solar tower will reach for the sky.
It reported that the Melbourne-based company Enviromission would buy a 10,000 hectare (24,710 acre) slice of Tapio station at Buronga, New South Wales, 25km (15.5 miles) northeast of Mildura, Victoria, to build the tower.
Construction of the world's tallest engineered structure at Buronga, New South Wales is increasingly likely to begin next year following a crucial Federal Government vote of confidence in the one kilometre tall Solar Tower project.
www.bdb.co.za /shackle/articles/solar_tower.htm   (642 words)

  
 New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia : Nature
New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia : Nature
Here we report a new series of 25 optical ages showing that both burials occurred at 40
This new chronology corrects previous estimates for human burials at this important site and provides a new picture of Homo sapiens adapting to deteriorating climate in the world's driest inhabited continent.
www.nature.com /nature/journal/v421/n6925/abs/nature01383.html;jsessionid=9EBC360DE071D7CC1D059B72D9DE569D   (349 words)

  
 Accommodation Buronga New South Wales Australia. Great accommodation in buronga australia.    (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Buronga lies at the heart of an extensive citrus and grape growing region and hosts an International Food Festival every November.
of Buronga accommodation including hotels, motels, apartments, bed & breakfasts, cottages and caravan parks.
All the accommodation is star rated to help you select the perfect place to stay whether it be a budget motel, luxury B&B, business hotel or family caravan park.
www.accommodationguide.com.au /sitemap/racv/Outback-Nsw-buronga.shtm   (223 words)

  
 New South Wales Security and Tactical Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Boost your confidence by carrying a kubotan, telescopic steel baton, keychain heart attack, sling shot, or even the pistol handle crossbow.
Instructional Fighting Videos on unconventional fighting methods designed to teach you how to not only level the playing field but to give you a distinct advantage in any violent situation where your safety, the safety of your clients or the safety of a loved one is on the line.
We offer global security and tactical services in New South Wales.
www.sectac.com /directory/Australia/NewSouthWales   (167 words)

  
 COOEEads ~ 5 October 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Programs are challenging, journey based experiences designed to achieve meaningful outcomes focusing on the development of the individual, the group and their relationship with the natural environment.
We are seeking new staff members who have a passion for developing the potential in people, an enthusiastic commitment to the outdoor education industry, and a desire to make a difference while having fun!
Note: The South West District Senior Ranger Operational Support will be required to undertake work in all areas of the district and may be required to work modified hours or rosters and undertake extended periods of travel.
www.projectnatureed.com.au /5october2005.htm   (3101 words)

  
 Harvesting tornadoes as power plants, renewable wind vortex energy
EnviroMission, a public company in Australia, is building a 50MW power station on the Sunraysia site in Buronga, New South Wales, that is based on a solar chimney concept.
In a new report, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says energy poverty is seriously impeding socio-economic development in the world's poorest countries.
Noting that in the developing countries some 1.6 billion people still lack access to electricity and about 2.4 billion continue to rely on traditional biomass like fuelwood for cooking and heating, Annan calls for intensified efforts to promote renewable energy sources for the poor.
news.mongabay.com /2005/1009-tornado.html   (1428 words)

  
 1996 Census New South Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
1996 Census of Population and Housing - New South Wales
This document contains data from the 1996 Census of Population and Housing, and describes the characteristics of people in New South Wales and their housing arrangements.
The 1996 Census of Population and Housing counted 6,038,696 people in New South Wales (NSW) on census night, representing a growth of 5.4% in the population count since 1991 (5,732,032).
www.abs.gov.au /websitedbs/D3110124.NSF/f14a497cbb29f485ca25659b0004039a/e7735df420bb5444ca25659b00041e58?OpenDocument   (2577 words)

  
 OZ Adventure- Once Around New South Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Leaving Broken Hill, we headed south to the border of New South Wales and Victoria.
There on the Murray River we would find the twin towns of Mildura and Gol Gol.
After a few minutes of yabbie humiliation, we carefully released them back into the ponds for another family to discover.
www.organicsofoz.com /oz1999/leg7.asp   (715 words)

  
 EnviroMission Limited - The Solar Tower Project is designed to provide large scale renewable energy with zero ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Our aim is to lead the renewable energy market with new energy technologies that do not consume fuel resources or produce greenhouse gas emissions.
State Significant Development status has also been granted to the project by the NSW State Government recognising the significance of the project to NSW and has passed the planning approval process to the NSW Minister for Planning ensuring a streamlined approach to the planning process.
We hope you will continue to follow the progress of our Solar Tower earmarked for Buronga in the Wentworth Shire of New South Wales, Australia.
www.enviromission.com.au /index1.htm   (348 words)

  
 28 September 1942 - Crash of a Kittyhawk at Buronga, NSW
P-40E Kittyhawk A29-89 (#41-25122) from No. 2 Operational Training Unit (2 OTU) based in Mildura, VIC, lost control at 6,000 feet and spun into the ground at
Buronga in New South Wales (NSW), which is across the river from Mildura in Victoria and near
The crash site is in what is now a citrus orchard at Boeill Creek.
home.st.net.au /~dunn/ozcrashes/nsw141.htm   (108 words)

  
 ES&T Online News: Australia eyes a piece of the sun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
“But the tower [had to wait for commercial development] because energy became relatively cheap and available and the need for alternative investments in new technology became less pressing.
EnviroMission hopes to start building the tower at Buronga, New South Wales in early 2003 with completion in 2005–2006; SBP will act as consulting engineers.
SBP has also formed a joint venture with the German company Solar Millennium, which is seeking suitable sites for a 100-MW unit in northern Africa.
pubs.acs.org /subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2002/sep/tech/mb_australiasun.html   (521 words)

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