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  • Channel Nine wants greater say in Oz team selection despite CA stance

    Fresh tensions have erupted between Cricket Australia (CA) and Channel Nine after a leading Nine executive reportedly said that the network expected to have a greater say not only in scheduling but also in team selection. This comes after CA rejected suggestions that Channel Nine would influence team selection and scheduling as part of its new 450 million-dollar deal on TV rights. According to ...

  • 80 Sri Lankans held while trying to migrate to Australia

    At least 80 Sri Lankans were detained by the navy Wednesday for attempting to illegally migrate to Australia, the navy said. The trawler in which the detainees were travelling was intercepted by the navy. They were handed over to police for investigation, Xinhua reported. On May 30, as many as 52 Sri Lankans were detained, and later handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department. The ...

  • Australian charged in attack on Indian restaurateur

    Police in Australia charged a man Wednesday in connection with a vicious gang attack on the owner of an Indian restaurateur earlier this month. The 19-year-old man handed himself in to the police in connection with the attack on Himanshu Goyal, 22, while he was closing his restaurant in Bridge Mall at Ballarat in the Australian state of Victoria June 7, according to media reports. The eight ...

  • Sri Lanka calls for Tamil refugees in Australia to return

    Sri Lankan external affairs minister has asked the Tamil refugees in Australia who fled the nation's bloody civil war to come home. The Tamils had quietly slipped into Canberra for talks on combating people smugglers. According to the Age, G.L. Peiris said Sri Lanka was now in a perfectly stable condition, with an economic boom in the once devastated northern Tamil regions. He, however, ...

  • Smith to lead Australia A in Africa

    Cricket Australia's (CA) National Selection Panel (NSP) Wednesday named a 15-man squad for Australia A's tour to Africa in July and August. All-rounder Steve Smith will lead the side, and right-hand bat Aaron Finch has been named as his deputy. The side will play three four-day matches against Zimbabwe and South Africa A in July before the tri-series involving South Africa A and India A in ...


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The Ruling Class [DVD]

The Ruling Class [DVD]

The historical rigidity and socially sanctioned elitism of the British class system has been a target of constant parody for centuries, from Jonathan Swift, to Oscar Wilde, to George Bernard Shaw, to Monty Python. With the onset of radical politics and social reform in the 1960s, overt satire of the British aristocracy died down as the view became more prominent that class inequalities were being ... ...

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  • Australia A squad to add players from defeated Champions Trophy team

    Cricket Australia (CA) will reportedly be sending certain players from the defeated ICC Champions Trophy squad to join Australia A to maximise preparation time for the Ashes. Following a disappointing pool-round exit from the Champions Trophy, Australia will use the extra time before the opening tour match to give some players time with the A team, who completed a 93-run first-class win over ...

  • Labor bill in South Australia seeks to legalise gay marriage

    SA Labor backbencher Susan Close has introduced a bill to the South Australian Parliament seeking to allow same-sex marriage.Dr Close said the traditional rules of marriage between a man and a woman were too narrow and it was time for change.Her brother is gay and she said it was unfair he was unable to share the same rights as her to marry a partner."I've always found it quite ...

  • Collar-bomb hoaxer challenges sentence on psychiatric grounds

    Mosman 2088 The man who attached a fake collar bomb to the neck of a Sydney teenager is appealing against his jail sentence on psychiatric grounds. In the NSW Court Of Criminal Appeal, Paul Douglas Peters' lawyer said he was appealing against the severity of his sentence due to the way the judge took his psychiatric state into account. The lawyer said there were seven grounds for appeal. ...

  • James Gandolfini dead at 51

    , has died in Italy. The 51-year-old is believed to have suffered a heart attack. HBO confirmed that Gandolfini was holidaying in Rome at the time of his ...

  • Tabcorp pays $75m for bet monopoly

    A SECRET report has been handed to the O'Farrell government assessing whether Tabcorp should lose its exclusive off-course totalisator betting ...

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