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  • Cricket Australia investigating Warners twitter rant

    Cricket Australia (CA) is investigating a Twitter rant by cricketer David Warner, who launched a scathing attack on reputed Australian cricket writers Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn. "CA is aware of comments made on David Warner's twitter account overnight. CA is attempting to contact Warner and will continue to investigate the matter. CA will make further comment once it has conducted a ...

  • US-Australia Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty Comes Into Force

    United States of America and Australia have signed defense trade treaty Australian on Thursday. Reports say Defence Minister Stephen Smith and US ambassador Jeffrey Bleich exchanged diplomatic notes in Canberra to formally bring the Australia-US Defence Trade Treaty into force. The Treaty reflects the two countries' commitment to strengthening the alliance in the field of Defence ...

  • Job feud lifts lid on chaos in Greens

    Greens leader Christine Milne is being accused of running a dysfunctional office and allowing a culture of intimidation, after the sudden resignation of a highly regarded senior employee. Alexandra Lamb, a media adviser to Senator Milne, quit her job last Sunday after professional clashes with the party's new communications director, Georgie Klug. Ms Lamb was given half an hour to leave ...

  • What will you do with all those videos you have

    Sooner or later, every Australian household must face an agonising decision: what to do with all the videocassettes they have accumulated in the past 30 years. The videos we used to watch repeatedly have great sentimental value because they represent the history of a family's changing tastes. But we can never share that pleasure again because the VCR broke down two years ago and has long ...

  • With cancer you dont mess around

    Burlesque queen reveals cancer scare Imogen Kelly speaks out about how her family's battles with breast cancer affected her decision to undergo a double ...


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Charlie Wilson's War

Charlie Wilson's War

In Charlie Wilson's War, Tom Hanks effects a Southern drawl and an air of debauched charm to play the East Texas Congressman who, in the 1980s, became the unlikely architect of a covert war against the invading Soviet army in Afghanistan. This is certainly a fascina ... ...

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  • No one really knows what goes on

    Anti-doping authorities might never interrogate headmasters or first XV rugby coaches. There will be no raids on classrooms or government ministers staging shocking news conferences about drugs and organised crime in the schoolyard. But to ignore whispers about the use, and potential for use, of performance-enhancing drugs and supplements in schools may be as naive as believing Australian ...

  • Betrayed dance coach arrested

    For almost a decade thousands of parents trusted prominent Sydney dance teacher Grant Davies as he told them he could make their children famous. But for almost the entire time Mr Davies operated his RG Dance studio in the city's inner west, police claim he was taking naked photographs of female students. In recent years Mr Davies, whose students have gone on to perform in major ...

  • Gillards $500m election war chest

    The Gillard government has stashed away a ''war chest'' of nearly half a billion dollars in secret projects to be announced before the election. In Tuesday's budget, Treasurer Wayne Swan listed a line item of $463.9 million as "decisions taken but not yet announced". Deloitte Access Economics director Chris Richardson said Australians should expect to see the ...

  • Motherhood is harder than Olympic gold

    From Olympic athlete to wife and mother, golden girl Cathy Freeman says raising toddler Ruby is the hardest thing she has ever done. But motherhood beats winning gold medals any day. ''Oh my god, there is no comparison - motherhood is amazing but hands down, it's the hardest thing I've ever done,'' Freeman said in her first interview since having Ruby, whom she ...

  • Anorexics wait two years for treatment

    Young women in desperate need of treatment for eating disorders could be forced to wait up to two years for public hospital treatment because of a dire lack of beds. NSW Health has confirmed there are 23 people on the waiting list for admission to the only two public hospital beds that treat eating disorder patients from across the state. Doctors and psychologists say the shortage of public ...

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