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  • CA considering social media policy after Warner Twitter rant

    Cricket Australia (CA) chief James Sutherland has said the governing body might need to consider implementing a social media policy after Australian Test batsman David Warner's recent Twitter controversy. He said there had been no discussions about developing a social media policy for players, but admitted it is something that CA is considering. Sutherland insisted he will continue to ...

  • Enhanced contract payments for Australian cricket eves

    Cricket Australia (CA) Tuesday announced a restructuring of the contracting system for women players which will result in the Australian female cricketers becoming some of the best paid female athletes in the country. CA approved a restructure of the contract system with a move from a three-tier payment system to a squad-ranking system. The top player retainer increases substantially from ...

  • Newly identified immune protein could stop diabetes in its tracks

    An immune protein that has the potential to stop or reverse the development of type 1 diabetes in its early stages, before insulin-producing cells have been destroyed, has been identified by Melbourne researchers. The discovery has wider repercussions, as the protein is responsible for protecting the body against excessive immune responses, and could be used to treat, or even prevent, other ...

  • Social network addiction taking over lives Australian study

    The 2013 Yellow Social Media Report has analyzed that a growing number of Australians are using social network at an addictive rate wherever they can, even in toilet cubicles! According to the study, three out of every five internet users are accessing these sites more than five times a day, making it a total of seven hours a day. In a report by News.com, the study found that the time spent by ...

  • Annual report of Australia-India Institute-Australia India Youth Dialogue Partnership launched

    The annual report of the Australia-India Institute-Australia India Youth Dialogue Partnership was launched at the Australian High Commission here last evening in the presence of Australian High Commissioner Patrick Suckling and Australia-India Institute (AII) Director Professor Amitabh Mattoo. The event was held in the Murray Harris Room of the Australian High Commission. Speaking on the ...

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My Bloody Valentine 3-D

My Bloody Valentine 3-D

Jason Voorhees Michael Myers Freddy Krueger Harry Warden? While most of those names, having been forever embedded in the pop culture consciousness as icons of 80s slasher films, immediately ring a bell, the last one doesnt quite fit. Despite having an immediately recogni ... ...

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  • South Australian Tourism Commission using short films to show new side to city

    THE secret Adelaide night life that rivals Sydney's; Chinatown's hidden treasures; chef Simon Bryant joining the new food-truck culture - these windows into Adelaide life are part of a South Australian Tourism Commission campaign using films made by independent film-makers. The SATC commissioned 10 filmmakers to shoot a short feature showing why they love the state - and the results went ...

  • Australian Education Union pushes sell out through delegates’ meetings

    The Australian Education Union (AEU) in Victoria yesterday announced that delegates' meetings had voted by a 78-percent margin to ratify its sell out industrial agreement with the state Liberal government. The substantial 22 percent "no" vote gave some indication of the growing hostility among teachers to the union's betrayals. AEU officials secured the majority vote, ...

  • Sydney man Daniel Stani-Reginald gets 30 years for rape murder of Indian student

    Daniel Stani-Reginald, 21, had shown no capacity for empathy and no remorse for the "extremely cruel" murder of his neighbour, Tosha Thakkar, in March 2011, Justice Derek Price said, setting a maximum 45 year jail term. Stani-Reginald had planned to sexually assault and murder a woman well before he selected Ms Thakkar as his victim, overpowered her in her Croydon unit, raped and ...

  • Sydney ferry plan is flawed union

    Private ferry operators will gain and passengers will lose from a government plan to modernise Sydney's ferries, the maritime union says.The NSW government says its 20-year Sydney Ferry Future plan, released on Wednesday, will deliver new vessels, more wharves and a better timetable for Sydney commuters.It has pledged to add six new vessels to the fleet by 2016, upgrade wharves across the ...

  • Australia Consumer Morale Falls Sharply On Budget

    Confidence among Australian consumers declined sharply in May to its lowest level since August 2012, driven largely by negative responses to the Federal Budget, a survey by Westpac and Melbourne Institute showed Wednesday. The index of consumer sentiment fell 7 percent in May to 97.6 from 104.9 in April. This is the lowest reading since August 2012. The survey also revealed that pessimists ...

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