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  • Australia India strengthen agriculture skills ties

    Australia and India today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop and strengthen cooperation in skills training in the agriculture sector. The MoU results from the joint commitment of the Australian and Indian Prime Ministers in October 2012 to build bilateral partnerships between skills councils in key industry areas, including telecommunications, retail, mining, ...

  • Ford to close manufacturing operations in Australia slash 1200 jobs

    Ford will close its manufacturing operations in Australia and 1200 workers will lose their jobs in October 2016. Ford Australia president and CEO Bob Graziano said that the company would shut the Geelong engine factory, costing 510 jobs, and the Broadmeadows car assembly line, shedding another 650 positions, reports News.com.au. Sacked workers have been offered a 39 million-dollar rescue ...

  • Australia looks into allowing Sikhs to wear turban at work

    Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said that she would look into the issue of allowing Sikhs in her country to wear the turban while at work and also while riding motorcycles. "We will work with your community to help make the necessary changes requested on cultural and religious grounds," the Blacktown Sun quoted her as saying Thursday during a visit to Gurdwara Sahib in the Sydney ...

  • Casual Khawaja set to prove critics wrong with worthy performance in Ashes

    Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has said that he is often misunderstood by some in the Cricket Australia hierarchy, saying that he will prove them wrong by proving himself on the field and bringing home the Ashes. Khawaja has been largely stranded on the periphery in the past two years, playing only six Tests since his debut in an Ashes Test in Sydney in 2011, and against England, the Sydney ...

  • CA chief Sutherland says IPL not a concern for Oz Ashes bid

    Cricket Australia (CA) chief executive James Sutherland has said that Australia's Ashes bid in England will not be compromised by the Indian Premier League (IPL). Two members of the Ashes party, Shane Watson and James Faulkner, remain on the subcontinent with their team, Rajasthan Royals, who will play in an elimination semi-final in Delhi, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Describing the ...


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The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) [DVD]

The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) [DVD]

In the early 1950s, with the help of noted film theorist and critic Andr Bazin, 20-year-old Franois Truffaut began writing regularly for the Parisian film journal Cahiers du cinema. He quickly gained a reputation as an uncompromising and often vicious critic with a clear-cut sense ... ...

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  • Packers Crown sells out of Echo

    Sydney 2000 James Packer's casino company Crown Limited has announced it has sold all its shares in the parent company of The Star casino, Echo Entertainment.Crown sold its 82.6 million shares for $264 million, or $3.20 each.News of the sale pushed Echo's share price down more than 10 per cent to $3.08 by 11:10am (AEST).In a statement to the stock exchange, Crown says it wants to ...

  • Children damaged by porn diet

    Children are developing permissive attitudes to sex and are viewing women as objects after being raised on a "diet of pornography", a major British study has found. For the first time, the Children's Commissioner for England has found a clear link between exposure to extreme images at a young age and a rise in "risky behaviours". It emerged that children who regularly ...

  • Cars plunge into river as bridge collapses

    A highway bridge has collapsed in the US state of Washington, sending at least two cars with people inside into the water. The Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge, about 100 kilometres north of Seattle, collapsed just after 7pm on Thursday, KIRO-TV reported. Rescue teams are currently searching the river for survivors, with three people reportedly pulled from the river and taken away in ...

  • $28 billion plunge sharemarket dives

    After reading the comments on here, I might have to see what's going on outside. Seems like the world is about to end.What's the problem? China is slowing down? I could've told you that before their manufacturing figures came out. Manufacturing in Australia is dying? I could've told you that 20 years go. The AUD is getting smashed? I thought that was good for most of our ...

  • Adult obesity rates in Australia reach high level report

    The adult obesity rates in Australia continue their climb, rising from 24.4 percent of Australians to 28.1 percent over the fours years to 2012, a latest report from the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council showed Friday. This report, COAG Reform Council's fourth report on the National Healthcare Agreement, shows that in 2011-12, 63 percent of Australians were either ...

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