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  • Enhanced contract payments for Australian cricket eves

    Cricket Australia (CA) Tuesday announced a restructuring of the contracting system for women players which will result in the Australian female cricketers becoming some of the best paid female athletes in the country. CA approved a restructure of the contract system with a move from a three-tier payment system to a squad-ranking system. The top player retainer increases substantially from ...

  • Warner expected to plead guilty for Twitter rant during CA hearing

    Australian Test batsman David Warner is expected to plead guilty during Cricket Australia hearing over his recent Twitter rant with two prominent journalists. Senior Code of Behaviour Commissioner, Justice Gordon Lewis, will hear the case via teleconference. According to news.com.au, Warner faces sanction ranging from a fine, suspension, reprimand or counseling after being reported under CA's ...

  • Wests Tigers name Benji Marshall at six against Cowboys Sharks recall captain Paul Gallen

    Sydney 2000 All is forgiven at Wests Tigers, with coach Mick Potter making an SOS call to star playmaker Benji Marshall to save the club's sinking season.Potter made the bold decision to bench his star five-eighth last week, but the move backfired with the Tigers falling behind 16-0 after 17 minutes before Marshall was injected into the game.That move has been shelved after just one ...

  • Gay bigotry Wong accuses Christian group

    A war of words over gay marriage has broken out between Labor government figures and a powerful Christian lobby group whose support has long been regarded as necessary to winning elections. Finance Minister Penny Wong has accused the ultra-conservative Australian Christian Lobby of ''pedalling prejudice'' and of engaging in ''bigotry that has no place in a modern ...

  • Pay more taxes or get less Treasury

    Australians will have to either pay more tax or expect poorer government services, the head of the Treasury has warned. Martin Parkinson told a post-budget function in Sydney the share of the economy devoted to tax had suffered its most dramatic slide since the 1950s. ''From its pre-crisis level of 23.7 per cent the tax-to-GDP ratio fell to 20.1 per cent in 2010-11,'' he ...


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The Iron Giant

Forget that awful advertising campaign that tries to be an homage to 1950s comic books, but makes the movie look like an imported animated cheapie with no plot and dubbed dialogue ("It came from OUTER SPACE!"). The truth is, "The Iron Giant" is a surprisingly smart, thoroughly entertaining animated fable that actually makes you think. It is also solid in the technical departments, with beautiful ... ...

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  • Privatise ABC SBS Victorian Libs

    Facing internal pressure from Victorian Liberals: Tony Abbott. Tony Abbott is facing internal pressure from Victorian Liberals to privatise the ABC and SBS if he wins the September 14 election amid claims both organisations are struggling to comply with their charters. State Liberals have launched a push ahead of the election to sell the public broadcasters, arguing the funds raised should be ...

  • Who knew what in builder collapse

    Tradies caught out by the collapse of National Buildplan Group have called for a financial ''rescue'' package and an investigation into the failure of the company. The call comes as administrators struggle to sort through the construction company's finances, with unsecured creditors including tradies, subcontractors and suppliers owed at least $18 million when National ...

  • No refund at school in sex abuse case

    Angry parents who have pulled their children out of a leading Sydney dance school after a director was charged with child-abuse offences have been told they won't receive refunds because the alleged ''threat has been removed''. Police executed a search warrant at the inner-western Sydney studios of RGDance on Monday night as part of their investigations into the ...

  • Up the only way for taxes to go

    Someone said the reason the political debate in Australia has become so bitter and personally abusive is that, at bottom, there's not a lot of difference between the two sides on policy issues. There are a few issues on which they offer clear alternatives, but not many. You may think, for example, there's a big difference between them on taxation. But, as it has become clearer in the ...

  • Conroy tells TV industry bets are on

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy brokered a deal with the television industry to allow betting companies to continue spruiking live odds during sports broadcasts, despite the growing public backlash against the spread of gambling culture. Despite Mr Conroy repeatedly saying that sports fans are having live odds ''pushed down their throats'', Fairfax Media has learnt ...

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