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  • Thousands cast votes in Northern Tablelands by-election

    Armidale 2350 Voters across the Northern Tablelands region in New South Wales will today decide who will fill the vacancy left by Richard Torbay's sudden departure from state politics.There are seven candidates on the ballot paper in today's by-election. Four are aligned with a political party; Adam Marshall is contesting the seat for the Nationals, Herman Beyersdorf for Labor, Dora ...

  • Wests Tigers coach Potter hails Benji Marshalls defensive efforts

    Balmain 2041 It was not star five-eighth Benji Marshall's characteristic attacking flair, but his efforts at the other end, that impressed Wests Tigers coach Mick Potter on Friday night. Having been rushed back into the Tigers' starting line-up after being demoted to the bench last round, Marshall scored a try and orchestrated two ...

  • Goodes racially abused by teenage girl

    The AFL's indigenous round has been marred by a racial slur made by a young fan against Adam Goodes which overshadowed a virtuoso match-winning performance by the Sydney champion on Friday night. A teenage girl wearing a Collingwood jumper is believed to be responsible for abusing Goodes in the closing stages of Sydney's 47-point victory. She was later escorted from the venue by ...

  • Police appeal for witnesses of violent Kings Cross attack

    Sydney 2000 Police have released security footage in the hope of finding a group of people who witnessed a violent bashing in Sydney's Kings Cross.A man assaulted three men as they were leaving a club on Darlinghurst Road on May 14 at about 5:50am (AEST).One of the victims, aged 27, was taken to hospital where he had surgery for a serious head injury.He remains in intensive care in a ...

  • Family pay tribute to hero in terror attack

    THE family of Drummer Lee Rigby have paid tribute their ';hero'; in a tearful, agonised press conference, saying ';our hearts have been ripped apart from us';. Lee Rigby was hacked to death on a London street by two men in an apparent terrorist attack. His stepfather Ian Rigby said he spent frantic hours trying to contact Lee after hearing news of the attack. ';Your ...


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Walking Tall

Walking Tall

Before the final credits roll at the end of Walking Tall, there is a title card declaring that that film is dedicated to the memory of Buford Pusser, the real-life Tennessee sheriff whose actions against moonshiners and organized crime in the late 1960s made him a modern American fol ... ...

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  • Campaign to merge US with Australia fails

    THE campaign to force US President Barack Obama to look at merging the US and Australia to create a new super nation called Ameristralia, where inhabitants eat hotdogmeatpies and the coat of arms features a bald eagle with a koala's head, is dead. A petition on the White House's official website calling for the US and Australia merger failed on Friday to receive the 100,000 signatures ...

  • Arrests after plane diverted in UK

    Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain, rattling the UK just days after a British soldier was killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack. A fighter jet was launched to divert the Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying nearly 300 passengers to Britain’s Stansted Airport, ...

  • New clues about location of Ontario hiker missing in Australia

    Rescuers searching for a missing Brampton, Ont., man in the mountains of southeastern Australia have clues he may have taken a different route than originally thought. ...

  • DIY terror no one is safe

    He approaches a terrified witness and, according to Britain's ITV, tells him that ''it's cool, I just want to talk to you''. He speaks direct to the phone camera: ''The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers … it's an eye for an eye … By Allah, we swear by almighty Allah, we will ...

  • Chinese spies woo business leaders

    Some of Australia's most high flying business leaders were feted in China by an ''influence'' platform of the People's Liberation Army, a Fairfax investigation has revealed. Andrew Forrest, who touted his talks with Chinese business leaders last month as a lesson on how to do friendship with China, was joined by the heads of four of the five big banks, Qantas, the ...

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