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Australia gives $11.5 million for Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Bob Carr said Friday following a meeting with Prime Minister designate Tammam Salam.Carr said Australia supports Lebanon's disassociation policy from the Syrian crisis and his country is committed to ...
AFL Adam Goodes leads Sydney Swans to imerious win over Collingwood Magpies

Collingwood 3066 Sydney's 47-point win over Collingwood has been marred by a spectator being evicted from the MCG following an incident involving Adam ...
Barba makes late charge for Maroons

Ben Barba's magic generally rests with ball in hand. But you truly get a sense as to whether the Canterbury fullback is "on" or not by what he does off the ball. And boy was he back to his best on Friday night in the Bulldogs' 24-14 win against Brisbane at ANZ Stadium. He scored a try and saved two others in a first-half performance that was easily his best since being ...
Tahs lose momentum with Rebels loss

What a game. The diehard Rebels fans were absolutely roaring in that half as their men had their backs to the wall, and they were rewarded witha heroic performance. Folau and Betham almost broke through in the last dozen phases after the siren. Unlucky for the Tahs who might kiss their finals hopes goodbye but really the damage was done earlier in the season. Would have liked to see more ...
Chinese military woos big business

Some of Australia's most high flying business leaders were feted in China by an ''influence'' platform of the People's Liberation Army, a Fairfax investigation has revealed. Andrew Forrest, who touted his talks with Chinese business leaders last month as a lesson on how to do friendship with China, was joined by the heads of four of the five big banks, Qantas, the ...

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I am usually attuned to significant trends in popular culture, whether they be on disc, in print, or on screen, which is why I was surprised to learn not too long ago that I had somehow completely missed the arrival and growing popularity of Stephenie Meyers series of teen-pulp gothic novels a ... ...

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Homicide takes lead on pogo death

Homicide detectives have officially taken over the investigation into the pogo-stick death of a seven-year-old Sydney boy. Paramedics were called to a Mulga Road address after receiving a triple-0 call to a boy who was unconscious and not breathing just before 6.30am on Tuesday. The boy's mother, Kayla James, told police her seven-year-old son lost consciousness after falling off a pogo ...
Matt Moylan rewarded for form with new Penrith Panthers deal

Penrith 2750 Penrith has re-signed full-back Matt Moylan, one of a handful of youngsters that coach Ivan Cleary says has helped power the club to back-to-back wins amid its injury crisis.Moylan was named man-of-the-match when he made his NRL debut in the Panthers' 44-12 thumping of Parramatta in round seven.Over the past fortnight, the 21-year-old was influential in a shock win over ...
Waratahs look to continue late finals push

Shane Brady here in the neutral corner for our live coverage of the derby between the resurgent Tahs, wo are knocking on the door of a finals berth that looked all but out of sight just a few weeks ago, and the Rebels, all fired up after finally cracking it for a win last week after a string of heartbreaking narrow defeats. ...
Driver killed tanker crashes into cafe

Traffic chaos: as it happened A truck driver is dead after his tanker crashed into the front of a cafe and burst into flames in Sydney's inner west, forcing the closure of Parramatta Road for more than seven hours. A witness claimed the driver may have braked to avoid hitting a car ahead on the wet road when the tanker veered across the median strip, onto the wrong side of Parramatta Road ...
Ford Australia announces shut down of car production

Ford Motor Company's Australian subsidiary announced yesterday it is shutting down all manufacturing operations by 2016. The closures will mean sacking about 1,200 workers at Ford's two plants at Broadmeadows and Geelong in Victoria. These two working-class areas, already afflicted by widespread unemployment, will be devastated.Thousands more jobs will be destroyed in the auto ...

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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, media/entertainment and agriculture.

Welcoming the initiative, the Australian High Commissioner to India, Mr Patrick Suckling, said the MoU was another successful outcome of the Australia India Education Council's (AIEC) work to expand collaboration in skills development between Australia and India.

"This partnership aims to achieve quality industry-led skills training standards in the agriculture sector. With India projected to add 12 to 15 million workers to its labour force every year over the coming decades, employability and productivity gains will be inextricably linked to quality standards," said Suckling.

The MOU was signed between the Agriculture Skills Council of India and AgriFood Skills Australia and will promote cooperation in creating quality occupational, training, assessment, certification, information and stakeholder engagement standards. ...