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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, ...

  • Homicide takes lead on pogo death

    Homicide detectives have officially taken over the investigation into the pogo-stick death of a seven-year-old Sydney boy. Paramedics were called to a Mulga Road address after receiving a triple-0 call to a boy who was unconscious and not breathing just before 6.30am on Tuesday. The boy's mother, Kayla James, told police her seven-year-old son lost consciousness after falling off a pogo ...

  • Matt Moylan rewarded for form with new Penrith Panthers deal

    Penrith 2750 Penrith has re-signed full-back Matt Moylan, one of a handful of youngsters that coach Ivan Cleary says has helped power the club to back-to-back wins amid its injury crisis.Moylan was named man-of-the-match when he made his NRL debut in the Panthers' 44-12 thumping of Parramatta in round seven.Over the past fortnight, the 21-year-old was influential in a shock win over ...

  • Waratahs look to continue late finals push

    Shane Brady here in the neutral corner for our live coverage of the derby between the resurgent Tahs, wo are knocking on the door of a finals berth that looked all but out of sight just a few weeks ago, and the Rebels, all fired up after finally cracking it for a win last week after a string of heartbreaking narrow defeats. ...

  • Driver killed tanker crashes into cafe

    Traffic chaos: as it happened A truck driver is dead after his tanker crashed into the front of a cafe and burst into flames in Sydney's inner west, forcing the closure of Parramatta Road for more than seven hours. A witness claimed the driver may have braked to avoid hitting a car ahead on the wet road when the tanker veered across the median strip, onto the wrong side of Parramatta Road ...


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Edtv

Ron Howard's "Edtv" is a satire masquerading as a romantic comedy (or is it the other way around?) about a man who willingly allows every moment of his life to be filmed and broadcast live to whoever wants to watch. At first, this premise might sound absurd (which it is), but in today's TV-driven world, it could easily become a reality. With the recent overload in "reality TV," ranging from Fox sp ... ...

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  • Ford Australia announces shut down of car production

    Ford Motor Company's Australian subsidiary announced yesterday it is shutting down all manufacturing operations by 2016. The closures will mean sacking about 1,200 workers at Ford's two plants at Broadmeadows and Geelong in Victoria. These two working-class areas, already afflicted by widespread unemployment, will be devastated.Thousands more jobs will be destroyed in the auto ...

  • AIME visit helps to build Australias future leaders

    Former NSW Young Australian of the Year, Jack Manning Bancroft, visited the University of Sydney on Wednesday to kick off the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a program which has proven to dramatically improve the chances of Indigenous children finishing ...

  • Adult obesity rates on the rise in Australia

    Governments are being urged to tackle the growing problem of obesity, as a new report finds increased number of Australian adults suffering from the condition. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council will on Friday release its fourth report on the National Healthcare Agreement, showing an improvement in some areas such as smoking rates, but other areas deteriorating. Adult ...

  • Holden and Toyota dismiss speculation that they will exit Australia

    Holden and Toyota have recommitted to manufacturing cars in Australia, with Holden suggesting that more government support could be necessary. Holden ...

  • Search for missing Canadian bushwalker halted

    Charlottes Pass 2624 Rescue teams have found no trace of a missing Canadian bushwalker after searching the Mount Kosciusko and Charlotte Pass area in New South Wales.Prabhdeep Srawn, 25, set out on a mountain walk on Monday last week but has not been seen since.A rescue helicopter took off just before 7am and used a thermal camera to search areas around Perisher and Kosciuszko.The search has ...

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