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  • 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 ...

  • Warner expected to plead guilty for Twitter rant during CA hearing

    Australian Test batsman David Warner is expected to plead guilty during Cricket Australia hearing over his recent Twitter rant with two prominent journalists. Senior Code of Behaviour Commissioner, Justice Gordon Lewis, will hear the case via teleconference. According to news.com.au, Warner faces sanction ranging from a fine, suspension, reprimand or counseling after being reported under CA's ...

  • 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 ...

  • Person struck on Perth highway dies

    A pedestrian has died after being hit by a vehicle in Ascot on Wednesday morning. The incident happened just before 10am near the corner of Tonkin Highway and Great Eastern Highway. It is understood the deceased is a woman and the vehicle involved may have been a truck. The section of the road where the incident happened is expected to be closed for some ...

  • 1200 evacuated from Sydney building fire

    Around 1200 people have been evacuated in Sydney's CBD due to a fire in a multi-story building.The area around World Square is engulfed with smoke from the blaze, which firefighters believe may have started in an oven in a pizza shop on the ground floor.About 50 firefighters are on the scene at 338 Pitt St.Workers and residents on the 14th floor and above remain inside the building ...

  • Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin insist Australia ready to reclaim Ashes urn against England

    Australia Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke and deputy Brad Haddin insist Australia's disastrous series in India is history with the team fired up to win back the Ashes from England.Clarke and his squad head to England in the knowledge they have not won an Ashes series on foreign soil since 2001 when Steve Waugh's men won in convincing fashion 4-1 before triumphing by the ...

  • Pitt Street fire in Sydney CBD forces more than 1000 workers to evacuate

    Sydney 2000 More than 1000 people have been evacuated from an office building in Sydney's CBD after a fire broke out in a ground floor pizza restaurant.The fire and rescue service says the blaze is in an air conditioning duct and has sent smoke throughout the entire building.The blaze is in the State Street Centre on the corner of Pitt and Liverpool Streets. Superintendent Ian Krimmer ...

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