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  • Australian construction industry to see slow recovery

    The Australian building and construction industry will see a mixed recovery over 2015-16 after a number of challenging years, according to Master Builders Australia (MBA) forecasts released Monday. While the forecasts predict a positive growth for the industry, MBA reports that the current economic climate is creating headwinds that may impede the timing and strength of recovery. There's light ...

  • Warner facing CA disciplinary hearing over vitriolic Twitter outburst ahead of Ashes

    Australian opening batsman David Warner is facing a Cricket Australia (CA) disciplinary hearing for his vitriolic social media outburst at respected News Limited sportswriters Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn. Warner, whose captaincy aspirations have taken a hit, had been reported for breaching the code of behaviour of the CA, which will be deciding a date for the hearing ahead of this week's ...

  • Cannes Sci-Fi Horror Tale Human Race Sells for Germany Australia Japan

    , KSM took German-speaking Europe, Anchor Bay picked up the film for Australia and New Zealand and IPA bought Japanese rights. "We are receiving offers every day" said ...

  • Preview of Wed-locked fake marriages in Australia

    Fake marriage amongst young Arab-Australians who identify as gay or lesbian has gone unreported until now, and there’s good reason. In the Arab World almost all 22 states and territories punish homosexuality with imprisonment - six of those still enforce the death ...

  • Distributors threat on drugs delivery

    One of Australia's biggest drug providers is threatening to slow down delivery times of vital medicines if it doesn't receive more money from the government. Australian Pharmaceutical Industries, which supplies prescription drugs to more than 90 per cent of Australian pharmacies, said it would be forced to make some ''trade offs'' if federal funding doesn't ...


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Coach Carter

Coach Carter

The Western is usually held up as the genre that best exemplifies the mythological American ideal of the power of the individual to right wrongs, but I would argue that it is the inspirational coach/teacher genre that really drives this message home. A relatively new dramatic subgenre tha ... ...

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  • Retailers in a world of pain

    Illustration: Rocco Fazzari The whole retail recovery story has wandered perilously off script over the past quarter. The start of the year held the promise of green shoots at the discretionary spending end. But as we near the close of the financial year, the fragile recovery appears to have been nipped in the bud. It would not be surprising to see some retailers provide updates over the ...

  • Rail promise looking shaky

    The state government risks breaking election promises for 135 new and faster express train services for Sydney and surrounding regions and undermining the viability of the state's XPT service if it implements a new train timetable without major changes. Transport advocates and commuters are concerned about a draft train timetable, revealed last week by Fairfax Media and due to be ...

  • Jailed for 10 years in Dubai

    An Australian executive has been sentenced to 10 years' jail in Dubai but his junior colleague acquitted in a spectacular climax to their four-year battle against property fraud charges. A defiant Matt Joyce declared his innocence after the guilty verdict against him on Monday and said he would appeal because his conviction was based ''on the evidence of a witness who was found ...

  • We promise not to screw it up

    acquiring blogging service Tumblr for $US1.1 billion in cash , Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer has pledged "not to screw it up". The deal, which will use about a fifth of Yahoo's $US5.4 billion in cash and marketable securities, is the largest by far since Mayer took the reins of the web company in July last year seeking to reverse a multi-year decline in ...

  • NRL better off without Waterhouse

    Six weeks ago, at the conclusion of the Manly Sea Eagles v Canterbury Bulldogs match at ANZ Stadium, when Tom Waterhouse made his way into the Sea Eagles dressing-room after their win, one Manly official was heard to loudly remark: "What's he doing here? This is a Centrebet shed." Was that an elephant in the room, or a huge boa constrictor in the Zeitgeist zoo? I say both. It ...

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