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  • Australia India strengthen agriculture skills ties

    Australia and India today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop and strengthen cooperation in skills training in the agriculture sector. The MoU results from the joint commitment of the Australian and Indian Prime Ministers in October 2012 to build bilateral partnerships between skills councils in key industry areas, including telecommunications, retail, mining, ...

  • Ford to close manufacturing operations in Australia slash 1200 jobs

    Ford will close its manufacturing operations in Australia and 1200 workers will lose their jobs in October 2016. Ford Australia president and CEO Bob Graziano said that the company would shut the Geelong engine factory, costing 510 jobs, and the Broadmeadows car assembly line, shedding another 650 positions, reports News.com.au. Sacked workers have been offered a 39 million-dollar rescue ...

  • Australia looks into allowing Sikhs to wear turban at work

    Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said that she would look into the issue of allowing Sikhs in her country to wear the turban while at work and also while riding motorcycles. "We will work with your community to help make the necessary changes requested on cultural and religious grounds," the Blacktown Sun quoted her as saying Thursday during a visit to Gurdwara Sahib in the Sydney ...

  • Casual Khawaja set to prove critics wrong with worthy performance in Ashes

    Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has said that he is often misunderstood by some in the Cricket Australia hierarchy, saying that he will prove them wrong by proving himself on the field and bringing home the Ashes. Khawaja has been largely stranded on the periphery in the past two years, playing only six Tests since his debut in an Ashes Test in Sydney in 2011, and against England, the Sydney ...

  • CA chief Sutherland says IPL not a concern for Oz Ashes bid

    Cricket Australia (CA) chief executive James Sutherland has said that Australia's Ashes bid in England will not be compromised by the Indian Premier League (IPL). Two members of the Ashes party, Shane Watson and James Faulkner, remain on the subcontinent with their team, Rajasthan Royals, who will play in an elimination semi-final in Delhi, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Describing the ...


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The Virgin Suicides [DVD]

The Virgin Suicides [DVD]

Sofia Coppola's directorial debut, "The Virgin Suicides," is a hazy, dream-like tale of how the local teenage boys of a wealthy Michigan suburb in the early 1970s view the Lisbon sisters. These five daughters of the gawky local math teacher (James Woods) and his strongly religious wife (Kathleen Turner) are all blond and beautiful, ranging in age from 13 to 17, and they are the subject of many pr ... ...

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  • Penitent Warner fined 5750 dollars by CA for Twitter rant

    Australian Test cricketer David Warner has copped a 5750-dollar fine from Cricket Australia for his Twitter rant controversy. Warner had pleaded guilty to unbecoming behaviour after his expletive-laden criticism of senior News Ltd cricket writers Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn for an article by Craddock exposing the sleazy nightlife and alleged corruption within the Indian Premier League ...

  • Family takes comfort from final act

    When Lisa McKay drove her brother to the Carnival Spirit cruise liner last month, it would be the last time she would see him. Ten days later, Paul Rossington had tumbled into the Tasman Sea from the deck of the ship, moments after his partner, Kristen Schroder, went overboard. Family and friends of Mr Rossington told a memorial service on Thursday of their heartbreak at losing the ...

  • $15m sale for Abeles home

    Sydney recorded its third-highest auction sale price on Wednesday night when the former home of Sir Peter Abeles sold for $15,501,000. Secrecy surrounded the private auction and agents refused to divulge who attended. But among the last to leave was the chancellor of Bond University, Dr Helen Nugent, who is also president of the Cranbrook School next door, fuelling speculation it was bought on ...

  • Micro yarns win $93ooo prize

    An author who pens stories the length of a sentence won this year's Man Booker International Prize. American writer Lydia Davis has written some short stories of conventional length but most range from one to three pages, while others are just a paragraph or a sentence long. Davis was picked from a short list of 10 names to win the fifth Man Booker International Prize, which is presented ...

  • Tigers set to hit new low at Leichhardt

    The worst losing streak in Wests Tigers' history is expected to be compounded by the lowest Leichhardt Oval crowd in nine years on Friday night. With the NRL looking towards moving games from dilapidated suburban grounds to the larger stadiums, Friday's game between the Tigers and Cowboys could be the third-last game at the ground. The lowest crowd at Leichhardt Oval as a joint ...

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