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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 ...

  • Retrenched BlueScope workers ripped off by Government rescue fund

    Port Kembla 2505 Steel workers are bitterly disappointed a Government rescue fund designed to ease the blow of job losses in the industry has failed to create hundreds of positions it promised to deliver.The $30 million Illawarra Region Innovation and Investment Fund was set up in late 2011 by the Gillard Government in the wake of mass redundancies at BlueScope Steel's Port Kembla works, ...

  • Man injured in Sydney sports oval shooting

    Mascot 2020 Police are appealing for witnesses following a shooting at a sports oval in Sydney's south-east.A 27-year-old was found with gunshot wounds to his hand and thigh at the oval in Mascot at about 7:55pm (AEST) last night.He has been taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital to undergo surgery.Police say his injuries are not life threatening.Anyone with information is urged to call ...

  • Police probe pogo stick death

    The death of a seven-year-old boy whose parents said hit his head after falling off a pogo stick is now being treated as a potential homicide. Homicide squad detectives have joined local detectives to investigate the boy's death at a home in Oatley, in Sydney's south, on Tuesday. Paramedics were called to the home on Mulga Road at 6am on Tuesday after receiving a triple-0 call that ...


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Howling III: The Marsupials [DVD]

Howling III: The Marsupials [DVD]

Philippe Mora's Howling III: The Marsupials is a silly, semi-spoof of werewolf movies that has nothing to do with the first two entries in The Howling series aside from the title (not that The Howling and Howling II had much to do with each other, either). Set in Australia, it imagines a clan of marsupial werewolves living isolated and in relative peace in the far reac ... ...

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  • Where will the buses go

    Improved public access has been touted as key to redeveloping Darling Harbour, where poor pedestrian and public transport links are blamed for cutting off the precinct from the city, Pyrmont and Ultimo. But a submission by Transport for NSW says the proposal fails to include space for public buses, providing only for private bus zones. This is despite planned bus network changes after light ...

  • Notre Dame suicide over vile law

    A far-right writer and activist killed himself in front of the altar of Paris's famed Notre Dame Cathedral on Tuesday in an apparent protest against gay marriage, after calling for "spectacular" action to protect France's identity. Dominique Venner, 78, a former right-wing activist known in France for his political essays, posted a note on his blog, attacking a law passed by ...

  • Scales of justice askew

    The scales of justice in Dubai are askew. Consider the case of Alicia Gali, an Australian drugged and raped by three fellow hotel employees in 2008. With four broken ribs, she reported the crime - and was promptly charged with having sex out of wedlock. She was sentenced to 12 months' jail and served the next eight months behind bars. Her attackers, charged with the same offence, were ...

  • An impossible calculation for parents

    As the school day was ending, parents in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore were forced to make an impossible calculation – rush to schools to gather up their children and risk being caught in the open, or trust that the reinforced walls of the school buildings would shelter them. A tornado was coming, one that may be the most destructive to ever strike the United States. There would be ...

  • 800k for a dump auction results take off

    Whether it's "unliveable" dumps or million-dollar mansions, recent auction results are stunning agents and their vendors but frustrating buyers. Analysts are predicting some sectors of the Sydney market could experience 10 per cent growth this year. Last Saturday's auction clearance rate of 78.7 per cent was the best in three years and included the $800,000 sale of a ...

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