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  • Enhanced contract payments for Australian cricket eves

    Cricket Australia (CA) Tuesday announced a restructuring of the contracting system for women players which will result in the Australian female cricketers becoming some of the best paid female athletes in the country. CA approved a restructure of the contract system with a move from a three-tier payment system to a squad-ranking system. The top player retainer increases substantially from ...

  • Warner expected to plead guilty for Twitter rant during CA hearing

    Australian Test batsman David Warner is expected to plead guilty during Cricket Australia hearing over his recent Twitter rant with two prominent journalists. Senior Code of Behaviour Commissioner, Justice Gordon Lewis, will hear the case via teleconference. According to news.com.au, Warner faces sanction ranging from a fine, suspension, reprimand or counseling after being reported under CA's ...

  • KKR Exits Australias Seven West Media Tim Worner Promoted to Seven West CEO

    SYDNEY - U.S. private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co will sell its entire AUS$260 million (US$255 million) stake in Australia’s Seven West Media, ending a seven year partnership in the top rating Australian TV network, Seven West ...

  • Manly call for rethink on golden point rule

    Manly have renewed calls for a rethink of the NRL's contentious extra-time policy after Monday's 10-10 draw with Melbourne. The golden-point period of Monday's match again degenerated into a series of field goal attempts with neither side coming close to scoring a try in the 10-minute overtime period. Initially promoted as a worthy way to decide a close game, entertaining ...

  • Oil production starts offshore Australia

    Australian energy company Santos said it expects to produce 15,000 barrels of oil per day from its Fletcher Finucane project offshore Western Australia. Santos said it started oil production from the facility ahead of schedule and on budget. The $490 million development was sanctioned in January 2012. "Fletcher Finucane is projected to have an average gross production rate of 15,000 ...


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She's All That

"She's All That" is "Pygmalion" set in a Southern California high school, with the student body president and all-around athlete trying to turn a gawky, bespectacled art student into the prom queen in six weeks. The set-up is thin and much of the film is composed of predictable, well-trodden material from the John Hughes oeuvre and its imitators of the mid-1980s (anybody remember "Can't Buy Me Lo ... ...

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  • Oasis childcare worker Jessica Bleaney named best young childcare worker in Australia

    SEEING the smiles on childrens faces makes going to work easy for day care centre employee Jessica Bleaney. The Salisbury’s Oasis Community Children’s Centre worker has been named the best young child care centre employee in Australia. The 22 year old was awarded the National Rising Star award at the Australian Family Early Education and Care gala dinner in Sydney this month. Ms ...

  • Australia should help Dubai fraud man Abbott

    Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has suggested the 10-year jail sentence imposed on Australian businessman Matthew Joyce in Dubai is harsh by Australian standards and the government should be doing everything it can to ...

  • Mining services suffer as Australias mining boom peaks

    - A spate of profit warnings from Australian mining services firms suggests the country's "once-in-a-century" resources spending boom may have peaked sooner than companies, economists and policymakers had ...

  • 7yo boy found dead in Sydney home police investigate

    Oatley 2223 Police are investigating the death of a seven-year-old boy who was found dead at his home in Sydney's south this morning.Paramedics were called to the home in Oatley around 6:00am after being told the boy was unconcious.On arrival they determined that he was dead.The boy's parents reportedly told police that he had suffered a head injury when he fell off a pogo stick the ...

  • Manly call for NRL extra-time rethink

    Manly have renewed calls for a rethink of the NRL's contentious extra-time policy after Monday's 10-10 draw with Melbourne.The golden-point period of Monday's match again degenerated into a series of field goal attempts with neither side coming close to scoring a try in the 10-minute overtime period.Initially promoted as a worthy way to decide a close game, entertaining football ...

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