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Big win for sports stars
SPORTS COMP: Nominations are open for Stock Journal's 2013 Country Sports Personality of the Year. Download the coupon from SJ's Facebook site at ...
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A Legendairy DA decision
PROMOTIONAL PUSH: Dairy Australia manager of industry promotion and product innovation Isabel MacNeill with some of the promotional gear that will be used as part of Dairy SA's Legendairy ...
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Bayviews All Gold day
AN investment in a semen package in Sprys All Gold D052 has paid off for the Thompson family, Bayview stud, Yorketown - it produced two broad ribbon winners at the 54th Dectomax National Shorthorn Show and Sale in Dubbo recently. The sons of the $25,000 top priced bull from Sprys stud's 2011 on-property sale at Wagga Wagga rose through the pre-sale judging on Tuesday to win reserve champion ...
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Leadership speculation expected to persist
A raft of outgoing politicians will deliver their final tributes or parting shots to federal parliament on Wednesday as those who hope to keep their jobs after the September election do their best to maintain discipline. In the lower house, Sharon Grierson, Tony Crook, Robert McClelland, Steve Gibbons and Mal Washer will all give valedictory speeches before they bow out of politics. Rumblings ...
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Bayley to learn fate over Meagher murder
Life or life with parole - serial rapist Adrian Ernest Bayley will learn his fate on Wednesday for the rape and murder of Melbourne woman Jill Meagher. The prosecution wants Bayley jailed for life after he pleaded guilty to the crime but the defence says a life sentence without parole would be inappropriate because the crime was not "on that level of severity". The 41-year-old Coburg ...
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Late winner sends Australia to Brazil
Tim Cahill (No.4) of Australia is tackled by Ahmad Ibrahim of Iraq on Tuesday. Photo: CFPAustralia secured their place at the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil on Tuesday with a late strike from Josh Kennedy firing them to a tense 1-0 win over an understrength Iraq at Stadium Australia.It was an unconvincing victory in front of a sellout 80,000 crowd, but ensured the Socceroos will appear at their ...
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Pat Cummins to make comeback
Pat Cummins, the Australian fast bowler, will return to competitive action on Wednesday as he begins his bid to play in the Ashes. Cummings was named as a non-playing member of the Australia A squad who have played four-day matches against Scotland and Ireland in the last two weeks. The squad have travelled to Bristol to face Gloucestershire on Friday but Cummins will remain in Ireland ...
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Indias batting and NZs bowling to the fore
New Zealand were the best bowling side in the league phase of the Champions Trophy. They took 25 wickets at an average of 21.56 and a strike rate of 26.70. India took an equal number of wickets, though at a higher average (27.80) and strike rate (33.5). Pakistan were the most economical bowling side, conceding only 4.48 runs an over in their three matches. South Africa's bowling economy of ...
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Australian sports firm refutes charges of financial irregularities
Australian sports management firm Sports Marketing and Management (SMAM), which finds itself in the midst of controversy regarding the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, has refuted allegations of any financial ...
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Vic police misleading on abuse church
Peter O'Callaghan, QC, the independent commissioner in charge of the Catholic Church's Melbourne-based complaints system, has submitted to the state's child sex abuse inquiry that Victorian police had told "blatant untruths", News Limited reports.He said a great deal of police evidence was "misconceived, misleading and damagingly wrong".Deputy Police ...
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Australias NSW govt plans sale of Newcastle coal port
By John McGarrity LONDON, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:46pm EDT LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, said it plans to sell Newcastle port, the world's biggest coal export terminal, meaning another chunk of the country's vast resources industry could be sold to foreign buyers. The state's budget for 2013-2014 delivered on Tuesday ...
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NCEMA Australian Government sign MoU
WAM ABU DHABI, June 18th, 2013 (WAM) --National Emergency and Crisis Management Authority (NCEMA), today signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Australia Director of Public Prosecution, Roger Wilkins. The move comes in line with the efforts to activate joint international cooperation and bolster the existing partnership between the UAE and Australia as well. The deal aims to ...
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Australia 1-0 Iraq | World Cup qualifier match report
Australia claimed their ticket to Brazil but fans' nerves were kept jangling in a manner befitting of the Socceroos' often tortured World Cup history.Only seven minutes were left on the clock when Josh Kennedy, a peripheral figure throughout this World Cup campaign, scored the decisive goal shortly after entering the fray. It may not have had quite the same heart-pumping ferocity as ...
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Iran Korea Republic Australia book passage to Brazil
Australia now join Japan, the Asian Cup-holders who booked their ticket a fortnight ago, at next year's FIFA World Cup as the only countries to have qualified alongside hosts Brazil.Although all four Asian qualifiers are familiar names at the FIFA World Cup, the year-long elimination process has been hard-fought and came down to the last week of the final group stage. Ex-Middlesbrough ...
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Hughes seeks to repair confidence
Phillip Hughes is adamant he can repair his shaken confidence in three warm-up matches ahead of the first Investec Ashes Test at Trent Bridge, starting with Australia A's fixture against Gloucestershire in Bristol from Friday. A paltry return of 57 runs in five limited-overs innings on this England tour so far has not enhanced Hughes' claims to a spot in the Australian top order ...
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Aussies can win Ashes - Inverarity
LONDON – Australia's chairman of selectors has told England now is not the time to dismiss his side's chances of regaining the Ashes, despite the controversy currently engulfing the ...
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Roxon backs PM slams sexism in final address
Former Labor minister Nicola Roxon has railed against sexism in Australia while praising Julia Gillard as an ''amazing Prime Minister''. Delivering her valedictory speech in Parliament on Tuesday, Ms Roxon urged her Labor colleagues not to allow internal tensions to distract them from their mission. Australia's first female attorney-general described Ms Gillard as ...
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Labor risks majority crisis
A late switch by Labor back to Kevin Rudd could provoke a constitutional crisis forcing Governor-General Quentin Bryce to consider options such as a sudden recall of Parliament to test Labor's majority or even the appointment of Tony Abbott as prime minister. Another option would be the commencement of an immediate caretaker period before an early election. With pressure building within ...
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Former Olympian Scott Miller arrested reports
Former Olympic swimmer Scott Miller has reportedly landed in trouble for drugs again. Miller was arrested this afternoon, Channel 7 reported, leaving an apartment in Mascot with several grams of methamphetamine and about $17,000 in cash. Police have confirmed a 38-year-old man was arrested and charged with being in receipt of stolen goods and possessing a prohibited substance. The 38-year-old ...
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More will live alone with dementia report
THE number of people living alone with dementia is expected to grow, putting them at risk of malnutrition, falls and accidents, a peak body ...
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Australian Style Nicole Kidman Naomi Watts And Other Aussies We Can Learn From
folks Down Under have it going on in the style department , too. Whether they're wearing a classic suit or an elaborate Dior gown, they clearly know what's up. So much so, in fact, that sometimes if feels as though they are in on a few beauty and style secrets that we Americans aren't privy to. (We're huge fans of the Aussie ...
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Australia books place at 2014 World Cup
Australia's Josh Kennedy, left, is embraced by Tommy Oar after scoring against Iraq to qualify for the 2014 FIFA world Cup, at Australia Stadium in Sydney June 18, 2013. (DANIEL ...
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NRL South Sydney name Tom Burgess to make NRL debut
Redfern 2016 Another Burgess brother has come off the assembly line with Tom to replace his suspended identical twin George in the South Sydney team to face Parramatta on Sunday.Tom, the fourth of the Burgess quartet, is set to make his NRL debut after being named on the bench in the Rabbitohs squad for the Olympic stadium match.George was stood down after he was charged for allegedly smashing ...
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NAPLAN agency blames teachers principals for turning exams into high-stakes test
The agency in charge of national literacy and numeracy tests has blamed principals and teachers for pressuring students to do well in the controversial exams. It says student stress and anxiety stem from ''poor communications between schools and their communities'' leading to false perceptions NAPLAN is a high-stakes test. But the NSW Teachers Federation said blaming ...
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Holden asks Adelaide staff to take pay cut to lower costs
Request for pay cut: The average wage for production staff is approximately $55,000. Holden will ask employees at its Adelaide plant to accept a pay cut, in a bid to slash its labour costs - or risk the company's manufacturing arm leaving Australia. ''Australia is among the most expensive places to build cars anywhere on the planet,'' Holden managing director Mike ...
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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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