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Hawthorn skipper Luke Hodge to fight bump charge
Hawthorn 3122 Hawthorn captain Luke Hodge will contest his rough conduct charge at the AFL tribunal, risking his appearance in Friday night's clash with West Coast. Hodge was charged after a high bump on Carlton defender Lachie Henderson and will appear at the judiciary this evening to fight the charge.The minor grading of the offence, which was ruled negligent conduct of low impact, ...
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St Kilda player Milne charged with rape
St Kilda AFL player Stephen Milne has been charged with rape over an incident that allegedly occurred in 2004. Victoria Police said a 33-year-old Cheltenham man has been charged with four counts of rape following an alleged incident in 2004. He will appear in court on July 5. Police had said last year that it was likely Milne would never be prosecuted because key evidence was missing and ...
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Voss wont lose focus with Lions
Brisbane coach Michael Voss has reflected on his time in charge of the Lions in the wake of Mark Neeld's sacking, but says his focus will remain on development.Voss, 37, has come under fire in 2013 with his side - the NAB Cup winners - sitting at 3-8 ahead of their clash against Geelong at the Gabba on Sunday.Neeld was sacked on Monday after the Demons' horror start to the year, which ...
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Mixed injury news for Cats
Geelong ruckman Hamish McIntosh has suffered another injury setback, while other Cats are nearing a return.McIntosh, 28, is yet to debut for the Cats after being traded to the club from North Melbourne last year.A knee injury has kept him sidelined, but the former Kangaroo is now battling an ankle problem which looks set to keep him out."Hamish McIntosh's knee is really good although ...
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Johnson backs Rocket for top job
AFL legend Brad Johnson believes Melbourne should look no further than Rodney Eade to replace Mark Neeld as coach because he's turned battling clubs into powerhouses in the past.Johnson, who played 364 AFL matches between 1994 and 2010, was captain of a struggling Bulldogs team when Rodney Eade arrived at Whitten Oval in 2005.He says Eade transformed the cash-strapped Dogs from cellar ...
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Ballarats emergency dispatch system crashes
Ballarat 3350 Victoria's triple-0 dispatch system has crashed again, this time in Ballarat.The Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority (ESTA) says the computer system was down for just over an hour last night and dispatchers had to use a back-up.The unexpected outage happened during planned work to fix a fault.The authority says it does not appear to have caused any problems for ...
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Prison nurses stop work in bid for better deal
VIC Victorian prison nurses will stop work for two-hours today in a bid for better entitlements.The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) says negotiations have stalled after 18-months of discussions with prison manager, GEO Care Australia.The union says prison nurses receive substandard rates of overtime, penalty payments and long service leave.The ANF's Barry Megennis says the industrial ...
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Melbourne will be IT capital of country
Melbourne has been selected by the federal government as the location where the NBN’s operations centre will be headquartered, setting the stage for the city to become the IT, technology and communications capital of Australia.
Melbourne has a long-running rivalry with Sydney and, to a lesser degree, Perth. The two biggest cities in Australia competed intensely to be designated the capital in the early 20th century and Canberra was built from scratch and designated the national capital in large part because of such rivalry, but now Melbourne is set to have something that Sydney will not, the city has been officially chosen as the centre of operations for the ground-breaking National Broadband Network. Analysts and city leaders see the decision as one which will in time make Melbourne the IT hub of the country. Read more
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