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  • Cricket Australia investigating Warners twitter rant

    Cricket Australia (CA) is investigating a Twitter rant by cricketer David Warner, who launched a scathing attack on reputed Australian cricket writers Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn. "CA is aware of comments made on David Warner's twitter account overnight. CA is attempting to contact Warner and will continue to investigate the matter. CA will make further comment once it has conducted a ...

  • NRLs Storm fired up for Manly battle

    Melbourne are preparing for a Manly side still licking its wounds after its crushing exit from the NRL finals series last year at the hands of the Storm. Melbourne swept aside the Sea Eagles in their preliminary final last season with a 40-12 victory on their way to claim the NRL title. It was the latest meeting in a long history between the fierce rivals, which includes the infamous ...

  • What on earth is Abbott thinking

    I'll say it again: in the wake of the news this week that since the carbon tax was introduced last year, ''electricity generated by highly polluting coal-fired power plants had fallen 14 per cent … while renewable power had soared'', why on earth would the Coalition dismantle it to replace it with a proposal that gives ''financial incentives to companies ...

  • The face of police corruption

    Detective Sergeant Graham ''Chook'' Fowler shot to prominence - literally - on Monday, June 5, 1995, when a secret camera placed under the dashboard of a car showed him in his Stubbies pocketing a $1000 bribe. Fowler had been the boss of Kings Cross detectives but, unknown to him, his equally corrupt second-in-charge Trevor Haken had rolled over to the Wood Royal ...

  • Australian Tamils celebrate in Sydney

    Sydney 2000 More than a thousand people from Australia's Sri Lankan Tamil community have attended a ceremony in western Sydney to mark the fourth anniversary of the end of the Sri Lankan civil war. One of the organisers, Seran Sribalan, said it was an emotional occasion."Four people who were there at the time have now come to Australia as refugees actually told their stories and it ...


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The Break-Up

The Break-Up

Star power is an interesting thing, especially when it goes wrong. Simply because of the presence of Vince Vaughn in The Break-Up, people have been entering the theater under the impression that they're in for an uproarious romantic comedy--When Harry Met Sally by way of ... ...

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  • Preschoolers could be segregated under immunisation plan

    NSW Legislation to allow childcare centres to ban children who are not vaccinated is being introduced to increase immunisation rates in New South Wales. The State Opposition says it will consult the child care sector and public on the draft bill, which will allow preschools to choose whether to accept children who are not immunised.The change is being proposed to encourage parents to vaccinate ...

  • Mermaid makes a splash

    The water polo team has left for the night and the lights at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre have been turned off. But in the darkness of the diving pool is a shimmering figure, blonde hair flowing, arms floating and body twisting. Hannah Fraser comes up for air - she can hold her breath for up to two minutes - and rests by the side of the pool. Her six-kilogram mermaid tail made of ...

  • Abbott will be pressed to lift GST ALP

    A federal coalition government will face mounting pressure from Liberal states to increase the GST rate, Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury says. NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell on Sunday said the GST should be "on the table" as part of a tax review proposed by his Canberra colleagues. "Every Liberal state premier has been calling on the government to reopen the question of ...

  • OFarrell backs GST review

    NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell says increasing the GST should be on the table as part of a tax review promised by federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott. Mr Abbott has ruled out hiking the GST rate if elected in September, but promised in his budget reply speech to deliver a tax "white paper" within two years of winning government. Any proposed changes would then be put to voters at ...

  • Farm incomes face drought

    With rainfall at record low levels, farmers across Australia are facing some of the toughest drought conditions in years. So why has the government chosen now to change crucial allowances for those in ...

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