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Aussie gets 10 years jail 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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Manly Storm draw 10-10 in golden point
Defending NRL champions Melbourne and Manly have played out a 10-10 draw after golden point failed to separate the arch-rivals at AAMI Park.Neither side could get the field goal they desperately sought to claim the win.The Storm had three attempts, as did Manly, but couldn't find the target and were forced to settle for the draw in another absorbing match between the two teams.Manly looked ...
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Australian-trained doctor Huang Jiefu hits back at critics over ties to China organ harvesting
The University of Sydney 2006 The Australian-trained doctor under fire for his involvement in China's controversial organ transplant program has defended the practice and responded to calls for him to be stripped of honorary titles from the University of ...
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Dubai case length is indefensible Carr
Foreign Minister Bob Carr says he can only imagine the stress Australian businessman Matthew Joyce and his family are under as they face news of his 10-year jail sentence in Dubai. Senator Carr also described as "indefensible" the length of time the legal process had taken, after the Dubai court on Monday jailed Joyce and fined him $25 million for fraud charges stemming from a ...
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Intense hard-fought draw in Melbourne
Melbourne look like they're suffering a mid-season GF hangover. No legit NRL premiership winner has made the GF the next year since the Chooks in ...
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Corby loses another freedom bid
National Narcotics Agency official Benny Mamoto yesterday revealed he had recently written to Indonesia's Minister for Justice and Human Rights to declare the Australian drug smuggler should not be given parole.The development comes after her hopes of release were boosted in March when the Australian government took the unprecedented step of offering a guarantee to Indonesia that Corby ...
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Australian Catholic Church admits slow to act on sex abuse
SYDNEY (AFP) - The most senior Catholic in the Australian state of Victoria on Monday admitted the church had been too slow to act on paedophile priests, but insisted things have changed.Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart was speaking at a state government inquiry into the handling of child sex cases by religious and non-government bodies after hundreds of children were abused by clergy.The Church ...
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Suns Smith is latest AFL knee victim
Gold Coast ruckman Zac Smith is the latest player to have his season cut short as part of a plague of serious knee injuries that has swept the AFL.The Suns announced on Monday that the 23-year-old will need a reconstruction after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his right knee during Saturday's win over the Western Bulldogs.Smith hurt his knee in an innocuous incident ...
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Kevin Rudd declares his support for same sex marriage
FORMER prime minister Kevin Rudd has thrown his support behind same sex marriage in a blog post on his website. "I have come to the conclusion that church and state can have different positions and practices on the question of same sex marriage," Mr Rudd said. "I believe the secular Australian state should be able to recognise same sex marriage." Mr Rudd said any marriage ...
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Focus on community not markets Sheldon
ALP vice president Tony Sheldon wants Labor to focus more on building communities and less on promoting market power ahead of this year's election. "I think we have been so successfully captured by market rhetoric that some people in the Labor Party have started to believe it," Mr Sheldon said on Monday. "Many of us in the party don't believe it. "We believe that ...
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Thurston says Leichhardt wanker chant ok
He's not one of rugby league's Immortals yet but North Queensland star Johnathan Thurston wears the "wanker" tag from opposition supporters as a badge of honour. He revealed the slight - frequently used against Queensland icon and Immortal Wally Lewis during his playing days - was a crowd favourite when he visited Leichhardt Oval, which Thurston will do again when the ...
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Fantastic downgrades profit guidance
Furniture retailer Fantastic Holdings has downgraded its full year profit guidance, citing subdued trading over the past few months. "The sales strength usually experienced in March and April did not eventuate this year and subdued trading has continued into May," Fantastic said in a statement on Monday after the close of share market trading. "The subsequent sales shortfall, ...
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Church better late than never Hart
MELBOURNE Archbishop Denis Hart says the Catholic Church taking 18 years to petition for a pedophile priest to be defrocked is "better late than ...
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65-year-old Qld man on rape charges
The man, from Upper Coomera, has been charged over several incidents police allege took place during 1998 and 1999.He is facing three counts of rape and five counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16 years of age.He will appear in Southport Magistrates Court on ...
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More than 2000 Australians gather for Lionel Roses funeral
by Vienna MaFriends, family, sports stars and politicians on Monday gathered at Festival Hall in Melbourne for the funeral of Australia's sporting greats, legendary boxer, Lionel Rose.More than 2,000 people attended the service at Festival Hall. Among the mourners at the state funeral are Rose's long-time trainer Jack Rennie, former boxing world champion Johnny Famechon and Aboriginal ...
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Australian Karl Muggeridge to replace injured Xaus at World Superbike in UK
Australian motorcycle racer Karl Muggeridge will replace Ruben Xaus at the World Superbike races in Britain, as Xaus suffered from injuries due to a crash, Fox Sports Australia reported on Wednesday. Earlier, Castrol Honda team had fielded Alex Lowes after Jonny Rea was sidelined by injury, but the team has to pull in a second substitute after their second rider, Xaus suffered a horrible crash. ...
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Swans focus on momentum not AFL hoodoos
Sydney coach John Longmire doesn't like talking about hoodoos whether he breaks them or not.The Swans finally broke one of the AFL's longest losing streaks on the way to their grand final win last year - an 11-game reverse to Collingwood that stretched over seven seasons - but Longmire said that victory will be of no consequence when the teams face off in round-nine action at the MCG ...
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Australia Post subcontractor launches legal action saying she has been underpaid
Melbourne 3000 There are claims that some workers who deliver parcels for Australia Post are being paid less than the minimum wage, and are not covered by worker's compensation or superannuation.Fiona Lawson claims she is owed almost $16,000 by the contractor who employed her and is planning to launch legal action in the Melbourne Magistrates Court.Ms Lawson took a sub-contractor job ...
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Eagle Wellingham to miss 5-7 weeks of AFL
Sharrod Wellingham's wretched injury run this year has continued, with the West Coast midfielder set to miss up to seven weeks due to a serious ankle injury.A pre-season trampoline mishap that caused major damage to his right ankle grounded Wellingham for the first five rounds of the AFL season.But the former Magpie was dealt another blow in Friday night's win over North Melbourne when ...
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AACo sells Central Highland property
THE Australian Agricultural Company has sold a 19,404ha (48,000 acre) portion of its Goonoo aggregation at Comet on the Central Highlands. A statement issued by AACo to the ASX this morning says the land has sold for $23 million. Related ...
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Rain gives confidence at Wodonga
STEERS sold to a top of $672 at the Wodonga store sale last Thursday where about 2000 cattle were yarded. Agent Gerard Ryan, Brian Unthank Rodwell said he thought the sale was good for the joined cows and the top end of the steers. "These two sections of the sale were strong points but the weak spots for the sale were the cows and calves and the plain heifers," Mr Ryan said. "The ...
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CPC loss due to live ex ban
AUSTRALIA'S largest live cattle exporter and one of the country's biggest landholders, Consolidated Pastoral, has taken a $34 million hit on the value of its property portfolio, tipping total property writedowns for the industry's top cattle companies to more than $100 million in the last few months. Consolidated Pastoral, which was purchased by London-based private equity firm ...
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UAE in talks to ease visa requirements to Australia
Australia is considering relaxing visa requirements for UAE citizens in a bid to boost trade between the two countries and encourage more Emirati students to study at Australian universities, the UAE Foreign Minister has ...
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Panthers thrive in NRL under Cleary
Penrith NRL centre Lewis Brown believes coach Ivan Cleary is slowly recreating the success he had with the Warriors at the rejuvenated Panthers. Written off as wooden spoon certainties at the start of the season, Cleary has masterminded three wins from the past four games with an injury-hit side. After producing the shock result of the season by beating premiers Melbourne in round nine, the ...
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`Ive a lot of money accused NSW rapist
A British tourist accused of forcing a woman to give him oral sex on Bondi Beach told her he had "a lot of money" and a complaint to police would never go anywhere, his trial has heard. Gregory Charles Cox, 32, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent with the woman, then aged 21. On the opening day of his trial, the District Court in Sydney heard ...
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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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