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  • Channel Nine wants greater say in Oz team selection despite CA stance

    Fresh tensions have erupted between Cricket Australia (CA) and Channel Nine after a leading Nine executive reportedly said that the network expected to have a greater say not only in scheduling but also in team selection. This comes after CA rejected suggestions that Channel Nine would influence team selection and scheduling as part of its new 450 million-dollar deal on TV rights. According to ...

  • 80 Sri Lankans held while trying to migrate to Australia

    At least 80 Sri Lankans were detained by the navy Wednesday for attempting to illegally migrate to Australia, the navy said. The trawler in which the detainees were travelling was intercepted by the navy. They were handed over to police for investigation, Xinhua reported. On May 30, as many as 52 Sri Lankans were detained, and later handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department. The ...

  • Australian charged in attack on Indian restaurateur

    Police in Australia charged a man Wednesday in connection with a vicious gang attack on the owner of an Indian restaurateur earlier this month. The 19-year-old man handed himself in to the police in connection with the attack on Himanshu Goyal, 22, while he was closing his restaurant in Bridge Mall at Ballarat in the Australian state of Victoria June 7, according to media reports. The eight ...

  • Sri Lanka calls for Tamil refugees in Australia to return

    Sri Lankan external affairs minister has asked the Tamil refugees in Australia who fled the nation's bloody civil war to come home. The Tamils had quietly slipped into Canberra for talks on combating people smugglers. According to the Age, G.L. Peiris said Sri Lanka was now in a perfectly stable condition, with an economic boom in the once devastated northern Tamil regions. He, however, ...

  • Smith to lead Australia A in Africa

    Cricket Australia's (CA) National Selection Panel (NSP) Wednesday named a 15-man squad for Australia A's tour to Africa in July and August. All-rounder Steve Smith will lead the side, and right-hand bat Aaron Finch has been named as his deputy. The side will play three four-day matches against Zimbabwe and South Africa A in July before the tri-series involving South Africa A and India A in ...


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The Ruling Class [DVD]

The Ruling Class [DVD]

The historical rigidity and socially sanctioned elitism of the British class system has been a target of constant parody for centuries, from Jonathan Swift, to Oscar Wilde, to George Bernard Shaw, to Monty Python. With the onset of radical politics and social reform in the 1960s, overt satire of the British aristocracy died down as the view became more prominent that class inequalities were being ... ...

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  • Australia A squad to add players from defeated Champions Trophy team

    Cricket Australia (CA) will reportedly be sending certain players from the defeated ICC Champions Trophy squad to join Australia A to maximise preparation time for the Ashes. Following a disappointing pool-round exit from the Champions Trophy, Australia will use the extra time before the opening tour match to give some players time with the A team, who completed a 93-run first-class win over ...

  • PM dividing Australia like Hanson Abbott

    Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has likened Julia Gillard to Pauline Hanson, the anti-immigrant founder of One Nation.Mr Abbott on Thursday told parliament the prime minister of Australia should be a leader for all Australians.But he said Ms Gillard would use class, gender, and now country of birth, to score political points.Speaking in the increasingly rancorous debate on Labor's plan to ...

  • Second Sydney airport a federal issue NSW

    NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has refused to confirm speculation that Badgerys Creek will be the site of Sydney's second airport, saying it's a matter for the federal government.The state government has unveiled plans for a new suburb at Wilton, about 80km southwest of Sydney, which is one of two possible airport sites.The other option is Badgerys Creek, only 55km to the city's ...

  • Origin Blues forward Anthony Watmough sits out first training session

    Coogee 2034 Blues interchange forward Anthony Watmough sat out the team's first genuine hit-out on Thursday, taking extra caution in his recovery from a corked thigh. Watmough, who suffered the injury in Manly's loss to Canterbury last Friday, ran laps of Coogee Oval while his State of Origin team-mates went through ball drills.The 29-year-old Sea Eagles star is the only Blues player ...

  • Don but not forgotten

    James Gandolfini dead at 51 The don has died. But in a double blow, the death of actor James Gandolfini claims not one life but two: he takes with him the peerless, compelling mafia boss Tony ...

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