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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 ...

  • Levy to be imposed on Sydneys Star casino to cover costs of monitoring operation

    Pyrmont 2009 The New South Wales Government has introduced legislation to impose a levy on Sydney's Star Casino to help cover the costs of monitoring and regulating its operations.Taxpayers currently bear most of the cost for the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority to oversee the casino, but the Minister for Hospitality George Souris says it is appropriate for the Star to pick up the ...

  • Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin insist Australia ready to reclaim Ashes urn against England

    Australia Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke and deputy Brad Haddin insist Australia's disastrous series in India is history with the team fired up to win back the Ashes from England.Clarke and his squad head to England in the knowledge they have not won an Ashes series on foreign soil since 2001 when Steve Waugh's men won in convincing fashion 4-1 before triumphing by the ...

  • $1 billion wiped from NSW budget in accounting change

    NSW The New South Wales Treasurer has revealed an accounting change will wipe $1 billion off the budget's bottom line this year.Mike Baird will hand down the state's budget on the 18th of June.He says the state has adopted a new standard for calculating the interest on superannuation assets, which will reduce forecast earnings from nearly 9 per cent to just over 3 percent."It ...


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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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  • Souths Teo denies assaulting woman

    Girl accuses NRL star of bashing A woman tells Nine News she was "laying in the hallway" and "could have been dead for all they know", accusing NRL star Ben Te'o of punching ...

  • CBD fire sparks building evacuation

    More than 1000 people have been evacuated from a multi-storey building in Sydney's CBD with dark smoke seen billowing from the building. Fire and Rescue NSW crews are at the scene of the fire on the corner of Liverpool and Pitt streets, but the source of the fire is yet to be ...

  • Killer did the right thing NSW judge declares

    When he saw a man holding a knife to a woman's throat, 72-year-old Keith Harold Allen made a judgment call and shot him. It was almost certainly the right thing to do, a NSW Supreme Court judge says. The actions of Allen, who spent two and a half years in custody and is now terminally ill with lung cancer, were vindicated in court on Wednesday, when Justice Michael Adams handed down his ...

  • Save $610 on fuel surcharges

    Savvy frequent flyers are avoiding as much as $610 in fuel surcharges on Qantas international flights by exploiting a loophole in the alliance with Emirates. Almost two months after the airlines launched their tie up, executives from the two airlines will meet within the next week to talk about resolving a major difference between their fuel surcharges. Travellers wanting to fly economy from ...

  • Apple irrelevant within 5 years

    Apple has again been rated as the world's top brand this week, but a leading social researcher warns the omnipresent technology giant is losing touch with its Generation Y heartland. Michael McQueen tracks the changing tastes of Gen-Y and believes the inventor of genre-defining devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod could be largely irrelevant to people under 30 within five years. The ...

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