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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 ...

  • Australia waits on US-Afghan decision

    Australia is still waiting on the US to decide its post-2014 troop commitment to Afghanistan before announcing how many Australian troops will remain, Defence Minister Stephen Smith says.Speaking after meeting US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in Washington, Mr Smith said Australia remained willing to assist with training of Afghan officers.Australia was also ready to contribute special forces to ...

  • NSW Government unveils plans for the future of Sydney ferries

    Sydney 2000 The New South Wales Government has promised six new ferries, an extra 50 services a week and a new wharf at Barangaroo as part of its 20-year ferry plan.The 50 extra services will be added to the new timetable from October with the government planning to include more frequent stops at Abbotsford, Cabarita, Balmain, Darling Harbour, Cremorne Point, Mosman Bay, Double Bay and Rose ...

  • Morning Express Traffic woes on M5

    Rain will become heavy this afternoon and the top temperature will be 19 degrees. Some buses through Beverly Hills and Roselands are delayed by 15 minutes due to heavy traffic but trains are running okay. See you back here tomorrow for Morning Express, bright and early at 6am. Have a great ...


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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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  • Manly call for golden-point rethink

    Manly have renewed calls for a rethink of the NRL's contentious extra-time policy after Monday's 10-10 draw with Melbourne. The golden-point period of Monday's match again degenerated into a series of field goal attempts with neither side coming close to scoring a try in the 10-minute overtime period. Initially promoted as a worthy way to decide a close game, entertaining ...

  • Shot five times after football training

    A man had just finished football training when he was shot up to five times at the edge of a sporting oval in Sydney's south-east, police say. The 27-year-old will undergo surgery on Wednesday for gunshot wounds to his right hand and left thigh following the shooting at Mascot Oval at 7.55pm on Tuesday. Inspector Paul Thornton, from Botany Bay local area command, said the man had just ...

  • Did pope perform an exorcism

    Pope Francis lays his hands on the head of a young man on Sunday, May 19, 2013, after celebrating Mass in St. Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, convulsed and shook, and then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over ...

  • Wong hits out in gay parenting row

    A war of words over gay marriage has broken out between Labor government figures and a powerful Christian lobby group whose support has long been regarded as necessary to winning elections. Finance Minister Penny Wong has accused the ultra-conservative Australian Christian Lobby of ''pedalling prejudice'' and of engaging in ''bigotry that has no place in a modern ...

  • Man charged with neck stabbing

    A 33-YEAR-OLD Prairiewood resident who allegedly stabbed a Granville man in the neck as he stood in his driveway on Sunday has been charged with attempted ...

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