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  • Australian construction industry to see slow recovery

    The Australian building and construction industry will see a mixed recovery over 2015-16 after a number of challenging years, according to Master Builders Australia (MBA) forecasts released Monday. While the forecasts predict a positive growth for the industry, MBA reports that the current economic climate is creating headwinds that may impede the timing and strength of recovery. There's light ...

  • Warner facing CA disciplinary hearing over vitriolic Twitter outburst ahead of Ashes

    Australian opening batsman David Warner is facing a Cricket Australia (CA) disciplinary hearing for his vitriolic social media outburst at respected News Limited sportswriters Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn. Warner, whose captaincy aspirations have taken a hit, had been reported for breaching the code of behaviour of the CA, which will be deciding a date for the hearing ahead of this week's ...

  • Asian celebrities recruited to promote Australia

    Tourism Australia has called on popular Hong Kong actor, Ekin Cheng, to showcase Cairns and Sydney to the Asian market in a new television travel series. Joined by fellow celebrities Andy Chai Siu Chun, Jacqueline Wong and Lai Yi, the group will film the travelogue series, ‘Tailor Made Tours’, which were designed to attract more visitors from Greater China. Expected to reach an ...

  • Wiped out tornado levels Oklahoma City

    A huge tornado up to three kilometres wide has flattened entire neighbourhoods, set buildings on fire and landed a direct blow on a primary school in Oklahoma City. We'll have the latest developments as they come to ...

  • Frantic search in tornado rubble

    Oklahoma tornado caught on camera RAW VIDEO: The day after tornadoes killed two people in Oklahoma US, a new tornado was spotted on the ground in Newcastle. NO ...


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Movie Review

M. Hulot's Holiday (Les vacances de M. Hulot) [DVD]

M. Hulot's Holiday (Les vacances de M. Hulot) [DVD]

Jacques Tati's cinematic alter ego, Monsieur Hulot, is long-limbed and gangly, polite and friendly, and a disaster waiting to happen. With his white pants pulled up about a foot too high, giving the impression that he is three-fourths legs and only a quarter torso, his foppish hair, striped socks, and slightly sleepy eyes, he is a strikingly funny sight, someone who inspires laughs even befor ... ...

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  • Teen killed dodging kangaroo

    The car accident that killed a 19-year-old woman from Kirrawee on Monday night was witnessed by her friend, who was driving the car travelling behind her on Guyra Road at Guyra in the state's north. Police say the woman who died had been negotiating a bend in the road when she swerved to avoid a dead kangaroo in the middle of her lane about 7.20pm. She lost control of the car and veered ...

  • Labor fills vacant Roozendaal seat

    State Opposition Leader John Robertson has announced Burwood Deputy Mayor Ernest Wong take up a spot in the Upper House.Mr Wong will fill the position left vacant by Eric Roozendaal, who quit earlier this month.Mr Wong, who moved to Australia from Hong Kong in 1979, is fluent in three languages - English, Mandarin and Cantonese."I’m pleased to welcome Ernest Wong to the NSW Labor ...

  • Australia Keen To Expand Trade Ties With Brunei

    Bandar Seri Begawan - The defence, tourism as well as the food and agribusiness sectors are the areas in which Brunei Darussalam and Australia can work more closely together in. "Australia and Brunei enjoy a very successful trading relationship. The two-way trade in goods and services between the two countries reached about B$2.6 billion in the last year, which is quite sizable, given the ...

  • Twelve-year-old girl robbed at gunpoint in south-western Sydney

    Minto 2566 A twelve-year-old girl has been robbed at gun point in south-western Sydney.Police say the girl was walking the short distance home from a friend's house in Minto at about 8:30pm (AEST).She says a man came up behind her and threatened her with a gun, demanding her wallet. The girl was not injured in the confrontation.Chief Inspector Meg Grady from Campbelltown Local Area ...

  • It feels right Spencer quits ABC

    There will be no more 3.20am wake-ups for ABC 702 announcer Adam Spencer, who has revealed he will finish with the broadcaster on December 6, bringing an end to 14 years on air with ABC Radio, seven of them as breakfast presenter. The news has come as a surprise within the Sydney radio industry, and a replacement host or hosts has not been ...

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