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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 ...

  • 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 ...


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Trust the Man [DVD]

Trust the Man [DVD]

There is such a delicate, fine line between romantic comedies in which couples realistically and understandably work through obstacles to find happiness in the end and romantic comedies in which couples act ridiculously and childishly before finding happiness in the end. Bart Freundlic ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • Morning Express Rainy day for Sydney

    will buy and build six new ferries within three years, and put on an extra 50 ferry services a week within months as part of their 20-year ferry plan. But it will not commit to building any new wharves in Sydney Harbour beyond one at ...

  • Abbott urged to privatise ABC SBS

    Facing internal pressure from Victorian Liberals: Tony Abbott. Tony Abbott is facing internal pressure from Victorian Liberals to privatise the ABC and SBS if he wins the September 14 election amid claims both organisations are struggling to comply with their charters. State Liberals have launched a push ahead of the election to sell the public broadcasters, arguing the funds raised should be ...

  • Christian group pedalling prejudice

    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 ...

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