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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, ...

  • Ford to close manufacturing operations in Australia slash 1200 jobs

    Ford will close its manufacturing operations in Australia and 1200 workers will lose their jobs in October 2016. Ford Australia president and CEO Bob Graziano said that the company would shut the Geelong engine factory, costing 510 jobs, and the Broadmeadows car assembly line, shedding another 650 positions, reports News.com.au. Sacked workers have been offered a 39 million-dollar rescue ...

  • Australia looks into allowing Sikhs to wear turban at work

    Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said that she would look into the issue of allowing Sikhs in her country to wear the turban while at work and also while riding motorcycles. "We will work with your community to help make the necessary changes requested on cultural and religious grounds," the Blacktown Sun quoted her as saying Thursday during a visit to Gurdwara Sahib in the Sydney ...

  • Casual Khawaja set to prove critics wrong with worthy performance in Ashes

    Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has said that he is often misunderstood by some in the Cricket Australia hierarchy, saying that he will prove them wrong by proving himself on the field and bringing home the Ashes. Khawaja has been largely stranded on the periphery in the past two years, playing only six Tests since his debut in an Ashes Test in Sydney in 2011, and against England, the Sydney ...

  • CA chief Sutherland says IPL not a concern for Oz Ashes bid

    Cricket Australia (CA) chief executive James Sutherland has said that Australia's Ashes bid in England will not be compromised by the Indian Premier League (IPL). Two members of the Ashes party, Shane Watson and James Faulkner, remain on the subcontinent with their team, Rajasthan Royals, who will play in an elimination semi-final in Delhi, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Describing the ...


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The Virgin Suicides [DVD]

The Virgin Suicides [DVD]

Sofia Coppola's directorial debut, "The Virgin Suicides," is a hazy, dream-like tale of how the local teenage boys of a wealthy Michigan suburb in the early 1970s view the Lisbon sisters. These five daughters of the gawky local math teacher (James Woods) and his strongly religious wife (Kathleen Turner) are all blond and beautiful, ranging in age from 13 to 17, and they are the subject of many pr ... ...

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  • Penitent Warner fined 5750 dollars by CA for Twitter rant

    Australian Test cricketer David Warner has copped a 5750-dollar fine from Cricket Australia for his Twitter rant controversy. Warner had pleaded guilty to unbecoming behaviour after his expletive-laden criticism of senior News Ltd cricket writers Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn for an article by Craddock exposing the sleazy nightlife and alleged corruption within the Indian Premier League ...

  • Search continues for Canadian hiker missing in Australia for more than one week

    Kosciuszko National Park is seen in this undated handout photo. The Canberra Times reports that an air search for Prabhdeep Srawn is focusing on a specific location within the Kosciuszko National Park, about 350 kilometres southwest of Sydney. Srawn, a 25-year-old Brampton, Ont., man hasn't been heard from since parking his rental car May 13 in the village of Charlotte Pass. (Westpac Life ...

  • Four Carriers to Launch China-Taiwan-Australia Service in June

    will launch a joint China-Australia-Taiwan service on June 7.The CAT service will employ six 4,250-TEU container vessels, including two each from Evergreen and Yang Ming and one each from PIL and Sinotrans.The port rotation is as follows: Ningbo, Shanghai and Shekou in China; Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia; and back to Kaohsiung and Ningbo. The roundtrip voyage is ...

  • Ford Motors to Leave Australia After 90 Years

    Ford Motor Company announced Thursday that it would stop making cars in Australia within two years because high costs and low volumes mean it cannot compete with imported vehicles. Ford Australia chief Bob Graziano said that closing its plant in Melbourne and the other 60 kilometres further south-west in Geelong would see 1,200 workers laid off by October 2016. "Our costs are double ...

  • Right to die bill is defeated

    Loredana Alessio-Mulhall, who has suffered from multiple sclerosis for 40 years, was in the gallery and visibly upset when the proposal failed. "I should not have to beg for mercy from the people around me, like I am now, to be allowed to die in peace and with dignity," she said. The bill was lost 23 to 13, but Ms Faehrmann said later the campaign was not over. "This is not the ...

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