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  • Channel Nine wants greater say in Oz team selection despite CA stance

    Fresh tensions have erupted between Cricket Australia (CA) and Channel Nine after a leading Nine executive reportedly said that the network expected to have a greater say not only in scheduling but also in team selection. This comes after CA rejected suggestions that Channel Nine would influence team selection and scheduling as part of its new 450 million-dollar deal on TV rights. According to ...

  • 80 Sri Lankans held while trying to migrate to Australia

    At least 80 Sri Lankans were detained by the navy Wednesday for attempting to illegally migrate to Australia, the navy said. The trawler in which the detainees were travelling was intercepted by the navy. They were handed over to police for investigation, Xinhua reported. On May 30, as many as 52 Sri Lankans were detained, and later handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department. The ...

  • Australian charged in attack on Indian restaurateur

    Police in Australia charged a man Wednesday in connection with a vicious gang attack on the owner of an Indian restaurateur earlier this month. The 19-year-old man handed himself in to the police in connection with the attack on Himanshu Goyal, 22, while he was closing his restaurant in Bridge Mall at Ballarat in the Australian state of Victoria June 7, according to media reports. The eight ...

  • Sri Lanka calls for Tamil refugees in Australia to return

    Sri Lankan external affairs minister has asked the Tamil refugees in Australia who fled the nation's bloody civil war to come home. The Tamils had quietly slipped into Canberra for talks on combating people smugglers. According to the Age, G.L. Peiris said Sri Lanka was now in a perfectly stable condition, with an economic boom in the once devastated northern Tamil regions. He, however, ...

  • Smith to lead Australia A in Africa

    Cricket Australia's (CA) National Selection Panel (NSP) Wednesday named a 15-man squad for Australia A's tour to Africa in July and August. All-rounder Steve Smith will lead the side, and right-hand bat Aaron Finch has been named as his deputy. The side will play three four-day matches against Zimbabwe and South Africa A in July before the tri-series involving South Africa A and India A in ...


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The Ruling Class [DVD]

The Ruling Class [DVD]

The historical rigidity and socially sanctioned elitism of the British class system has been a target of constant parody for centuries, from Jonathan Swift, to Oscar Wilde, to George Bernard Shaw, to Monty Python. With the onset of radical politics and social reform in the 1960s, overt satire of the British aristocracy died down as the view became more prominent that class inequalities were being ... ...

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  • Public sector cuts intensify in Australia’s largest state

    In its annual budget announced on Tuesday, the Liberal-National government in New South Wales deepened its already severe cuts to public sector jobs and services On top of the estimated 15,000 jobs eliminated since it took office in 2011, the government in Australia's most populous state unveiled further public sector "savings" worth $18 billion over six years. These will be ...

  • Parole revoked after murderer arrested for attempted rape

    Hunters Hill 2110 A man has been refused bail and his parole revoked after the stabbing and attempted rape of a woman at a Sydney bus stop last night.The alleged offence came just months after the 46-year-old was released from prison on parole for the murder of a 17-year-old girl in 1990.New South Wales Attorney-General Greg Smith has asked for an urgent briefing on the case.The State Parole ...

  • iiNet fined $102000 over Sydney bus advert

    has been fined $102,000 by the competition watchdog for failing to prominently state the total minimum price payable for its Naked DSL service on a Sydney bus advertisement. The fine is the first to be paid by a publicly listed company for an alleged breach of the Australian Consumer Law. The advertisement, which the ACCC said was displayed on the rear of a bus in metropolitan Sydney between ...

  • Three injured as car hits bus shelter

    The car was driving along Anzac Pde when the female driver lost control and ploughed into a bus shelter 50 metres south of Maroubra Rd intersection about 11am.Paramedics treated three patients at the scene, including the driver.A 60-year-old woman standing at the bus shelter at the time of the incident became trapped underneath advertising hording upon impact. She managed to release herself ...

  • PM dividing Australia like Hanson Abbott

    Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has likened Julia Gillard to Pauline Hanson, the anti-immigrant founder of One Nation.Mr Abbott on Thursday told parliament the prime minister of Australia should be a leader for all Australians.But he said Ms Gillard would use class, gender, and now country of birth, to score political points.Speaking in the increasingly rancorous debate on Labor's plan to ...

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