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Actress Hackforth-Jones loved by all
Over the next 40-odd years she would appear in dozens of TV shows.Her credits include Bellbird, Matlock Police, Division 4, Homicide, Tandarra, The Emmigrants, Mother And Son, Cash And Company, A Country Practice and All Saints.Her last appearance was on the ABC-produced The Doctor Blake Mysteries and she also appeared in the ABC's Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries in 2012.Doctor Blake producer ...
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One Aussie jailed one cleared in Dubai
Australian businessman Matthew Joyce has been jailed for 10 years and fined $25 million by a Dubai court for fraud stemming from a collapsed land deal.But the court has cleared fellow Melbourne man Marcus Lee of wrongdoing, paving the way for him to return to Australia after four years trapped in the Gulf state.The men were arrested in January 2009 over fraud allegations brought by Gold Coast ...
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Inquest examines WA plane crash deaths
A PILOT and his spotter were culling goats in Western Australia's Gascoyne region when their plane collided with a helicopter and crashed to the ground, killing them instantly, a coronial inquest has heard. The WA coroner is investigating the deaths of Daniel Joseph Kean, 39, and Bradleigh Michael Roulston, 23, who died in February 2008 when their light aircraft crashed mid-air with a ...
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Australian jailed in Dubai
Jailed: Matthew Joyce One Australian executive has been sentenced to 10 years' jail in Dubai but his junior colleague acquitted in a spectacular climax to their four-year battle against property fraud charges. In a verdict on Monday, described as a travesty of justice by Matt Joyce's supporters, the Ruler's Court rejected his defence against claims that he received $6 million ...
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AFL says umpire right in Eagles-Roos clash
The controversial free kick which set up West Coast's after-the-siren win over North Melbourne on Friday night has been ruled correct by the AFL.Kangaroo Leigh Adams was penalised for tackling Eagle Adam Selwood high.Selwood's resultant free kick sent the Eagles deep into attack, where Nic Naitanui took a sensational pack mark, then kicked the winning goal after the siren.While Selwood ...
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Dubai jails Australian businessman Matthew Joyce for10 years issues $25 million fine
AUSTRALIAN businessman Matthew Joyce has been jailed for 10 years and fined $25 million by a Dubai court for fraud stemming from a collapsed land deal. But the court has cleared fellow Melbourne man Marcus Lee of wrongdoing, paving the way for him to return to Australia after four years trapped in the Gulf state. The men were arrested in January 2009 over fraud allegations brought by Gold Coast ...
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Wed-locked fake marriages in Australia
Fake marriage amongst young Arab-Australians who identify as gay or lesbian has gone unreported until now, and there’s good reason. In the Arab World almost all 22 states and territories punish homosexuality with imprisonment - six of those still enforce the death ...
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Melbournes Hart apologises for abuse
Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart has taken responsibility and apologised to victims for abuse perpetrated during what he called "one of the darkest periods in our church's history".Archbishop Hart said the community wanted someone to take responsibility for the terrible acts that occurred."I take responsibility," Archbishop Hart told a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into ...
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Wallaby call-up could sway Folau to stay
Israel Folau says his selection in the Wallabies squad for the Test series against the British and Irish Lions could convince him to stay with rugby ...
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Gillard steps up school fund lobbying
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has written to state and territory leaders giving them figures on how much they would benefit under Labor's school plan. But the federal opposition says Ms Gillard's figures can't be believed and premiers should endorse the coalition's plan to stick with existing indexation of school funding. So far only one Liberal state, NSW, has agreed to the ...
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Santos Fletcher Finucane producing oil
Shares in Santos closed 1.6 per cent higher after the company said oil production started ahead of schedule at its $490 million Fletcher Finucane project off the West Australian coast. Santos expects to produce 15,000 barrels daily in the first year of production. The company recently said the Fletcher Finucane oil project in the Carnarvon Basin would be commissioned later this month, 16 ...
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Optus rolls out 4G to Canberra
Optus' rollout of its 4G network is expected to reach 70 per cent of Australia's metropolitan population by the middle of 2014. The nation's second largest telco has expanded its 4G network to include Canberra, with mobile broadband dongles and wifi modems expected to be available from June. Optus vice president of mobile radio engineering Andrew Smith said the telco has about ...
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Rebels rugby captain loving new role
Normally captaincy adds extra pressure to sportsmen, but Wallabies back-rower Scott Higginbotham says leadership of the Melbourne Rebels has done the opposite. Higginbotham has hit career-best Super Rugby form in the past month as Rebels skipper - paving the way for him to be a likely starter in Australia's blockbuster series against the British and Irish Lions. The 26-year-old was never ...
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Lions duo face AFL suspensions
Brisbane coach Michael Voss has backed his team's aggression against Essendon, despite losing defenders Daniel Merrett and Justin Clarke to AFL suspensions. The Lions suffered the most at Monday's match review panel, with Merrett receiving a three-game ban on a rough conduct charge for his sling tackle on Bombers forward Michael Hurley. Merrett's poor record means he risks a ...
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Warner in cricket hearing on Wednesday
Opening batsman David Warner will have a Cricket Australia hearing on Wednesday over his angry Twitter exchanges with two journalists. Cricket Australia said Warner, who is set to play for Australia in the Champions Trophy and Ashes Test series, was alleged to have breached a section of its code of behaviour relating to "unbecoming behaviour". Warner used Twitter on Friday night ...
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Dubai clears Aussie businessman of fraud
An Australian businessman who has languished in detention in Dubai for more than four years has been cleared of fraud charges. Lawyers for Marcus Lee have confirmed he was acquitted by the Dubai Criminal Court on Monday. But there are reports that fellow Australian businessman Matthew Joyce and his friend Angus Reed have been jailed for ten years. Confirmation on their fate is being sought ...
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LIVE NRL Melbourne Storm v Manly Sea Eagles
The teams are in for tonight's and the are a few changes to the Storm line-up.Storm forward Ryan Hinchcliffe returns from a knee injury to take his spot in the Melbourne pack, while Maurice Blair wins a start in the centres.Will Chambers and Slade Griffin drop out of the Storm squad, with Tohu Harris starting on the bench to make way for Hinchcliffe.Manly forward Tom Symonds had been ...
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Six years jail for evil sex ring plot
A FORMER teacher will serve more than six years in prison for plotting to start a doll making business in Thailand as a front for a sex ring involving fellow convicted ...
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Illegal drug lab busts on the rise in WA
The Australian Crime Commission's (ACC) Illicit Drug Data Report 2011/12, released on Monday, reveals that authorities found 160 labs in WA during the period.Queensland topped the list for the tenth year running, with a whopping 379 detections.The Northern Territory excepted, the report also records more arrests for amphetamine-type substances in all Australian jurisdictions. In WA, the ...
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Psychiatric treatment angers PMs advisers
FORCED restraint of psychiatric patients is rife despite a promise to limit the practice, says a national agency that advises the prime minister on mental health ...
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Drug row led to stabbing court told
A man stabbed in the back and abandoned by a fellow drug user was without a pulse for 42 minutes before being revived in hospital, a Perth jury has been told.Darlington Sesay, 29, is on trial in the Supreme Court charged with the attempted murder of former friend Errol Flynn in August 2011.Having become mates through a mutual addiction to methylamphetamine, the pair arranged a lunchtime meeting ...
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Final dress rehearsal before Cup for Australia NZ
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (Reuters) -- World champion Australia and World Cup favorite New Zealand stages its final dress rehearsal ahead of rugby union's showcase event in the last match of the Tri-nations series Saturday. While the All Blacks have already won the Tri-nations, after three successive victories, much is at stake in Auckland with the Bledisloe Cup still up for grabs while a ...
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Johnson Athens cant measure up to Sydney
LONDON (AP) -- Track great Michael Johnson says Athens is crowded, old and ill-equippped to stage the Olympics. Johnson, a five-time Olympic gold mealist and world record-holder in the 200 and 400 meters, said Athens will never measure up to the success of the 2000 Sydney Games. "I believe that they will be ready to stage the Games, but I don't feel they will be ready or able ...
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Rugby Three Australia forwards in doubt
MELBOURNE (Reuters) -- Australia forwards Toutai Kefu, Patricio Noriega and Glenn Panoho are doubtful for Saturday's Tri-nations test against New Zealand after failing to join in full training Tuesday because of leg injuries. Wallabies vice-captain Kefu, who suffered spinal concussion in Australia's 29-9 Tri-nations win over South Africa in Brisbane on August 2, is struggling to ...
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Australian govt to inject funding for indigenous education
Australian Education Minister Julia Gillard on Monday announced a new multi-million dollar federal government program to improve indigenous education. The government will provide 16.4 million Australian dollars (14 million U.S. dollars) to the Stronger Smarter Learning Communities project, which helps school leaders improve educational outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. ...
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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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