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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 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) [DVD]

The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) [DVD]

In the early 1950s, with the help of noted film theorist and critic Andr Bazin, 20-year-old Franois Truffaut began writing regularly for the Parisian film journal Cahiers du cinema. He quickly gained a reputation as an uncompromising and often vicious critic with a clear-cut sense ... ...

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  • Adult obesity rates in Australia reach high level report

    The adult obesity rates in Australia continue their climb, rising from 24.4 percent of Australians to 28.1 percent over the fours years to 2012, a latest report from the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council showed Friday. This report, COAG Reform Council's fourth report on the National Healthcare Agreement, shows that in 2011-12, 63 percent of Australians were either ...

  • Man jailed for drug trafficking in Latrobe Valley

    Sale 3850 A man who trafficked drugs in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, has been sentenced to more than nine years in jail. Glen Andrew McKinnell, 34, and five other men were arrested in Melbourne in May last year and charged with trafficking the drug methylamphetamine, which also known as ice. The men were charged after a lengthy police investigation involving telephone intercepts.They had ...

  • Man arrested after police raid illegal bikie bar

    Granville 2142 Police have raided a bar they say was being run illegally from a Hells Angels clubhouse in Sydney's west.Specialist detectives from Strike Force Raptor raided a Hells Angels clubhouse at Granville they say was being used as an illegal bar.Police seized a number of items and structures that were in breach of the clubhouse's development application regulations.They also ...

  • I lost it jailed for killing mother

    A Goulburn fruit picker who strangled his elderly mother to death in a fit of rage will spend just four years in jail for the crime, after a judge found the man was so affected by alcohol-induced dementia he was not aware he was killing the woman and had no memory of doing so afterwards. On the night of February 27, 2011 Terrence David Kain rang his sister and said, simply: "mum's ...

  • Refugees novel story of survival

    ``Then he grabbed an AK-47 from one of his guards and shoved it into my hands, but it was much heavier than I expected and I actually fell over.''``He looked at me and said, `You're not even as tall as this AK-47, go back to your village, eat a lot of food and when I come back next year I will take you.''The family managed to flee a month later, marking the start of ...

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