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  • Oz jihadist charged for issuing how-to survive holy war list on Facebook

    An Australian has been charged under anti-terrorist laws for issuing a how-to list on Facebook for how young men can engage in holy war without getting killed or ending up in Guantanamo Bay. Zaky Mallah had travelled to Syria and lived with the rebels engaged in the bloody civil war against Muslim hardliner President Bashar al-Assad. He has posted some top tips for joining jihad and ...

  • CA to improve pay conditions for Oz women cricketers to boost professionalism

    Australian women cricketers are set to take a major leap towards professionalism after Cricket Australia's (CA) expected announcement of a major improvement in pay and conditions for female players next week when it unveils the women's Ashes squad. The success of the national team the Southern Stars and the sacrifices women make to play domestic and international cricket, will also be ...

  • Warne says IPL spot fixing scandal kick in the teeth for cricket

    Australian spin great Shane Warne has said that the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal felt like a kick in the teeth for the game of cricket. Warne was the inaugural captain of the team at the centre of the scandal, the Rajasthan Royals, before current skipper Rahul Dravid took over after the 2011 IPL season, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Stating that he had spoken to the team's ...

  • Saddened Gilchrist demands life bans for IPL spot-fixers if found guilty

    Australian legend Adam Gilchrist has expressed his disappointment at the spot-fixing scandal of the Indian Premier League and has demanded life bans for the cricketers involved in the crime if they are found guilty. Gilchrist, who plays for the Punjab Kings XI, became unwittingly involved as he faced an over allegedly 'thrown' by paceman S.Sreesanth, one of three Indian players charged with ...

  • Oz captain aspirant Warner comes under scrutiny for calling journalists pck old fart on Twitter

    Australian Test batsmen David Warner has come under investigation after he posted expletive-laden tirade on the social media against the journalists of a reputed Australian media company. A series of fiery rants were posted on the Twitter account of Warner, in response to News Limited journalist Robert Craddock's article on the perils of the rich and corrupt Indian Premier League, News.com.au ...

Movie Review

Waking Life [DVD]

Richard Linklater has complained that there aren't enough ideas in movies these days--that is, beyond the idea of the "high concept," in which you can summarize everything a movie is about in two sentences--so he went out and made one that is about nothing but ideas and certainly cannot be summarized in two sentences. The result, Waking Life, is simple in conception, but mind-boggling in i ... ...

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  • Oz Education Minister Collier apologises for Facebook like of naked Young Liberal

    Australia's education minister Peter Collier has apologized for an embarrassing Facebook indiscretion which revealed that he had liked a picture of a Young Liberal showing his genitals. The minister was aged 16 at the time and had participated in a trend called 'sneaky nuts', which is termed as a practice to secretly show both testicles while standing in the background of a photo, News.com.au ...

  • Australian jailed for 45 years for raping murdering and stuffing Indian student in suitcase

    An Australian man has been sentenced to 45 years of imprisonment on grounds of raping and murdering Indian student Tosha Thakkar whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase. Daniel Stani-Reginald is said to have exchanged places with his father who has been arrested on charges of bashing his mother and was released weeks ago, News.com.au reports. According to the report, Justice Derek Price ...

  • Warners Twitter fight Cricket Australia to launch probe

    Cricket Australia says it is attempting to contact test opener David Warner over reported comments he made on Twitter in terse and often angry exchanges with two ...

  • Dugan impresses in Dragons win

    Fullback Josh Dugan has played a starring role in his return to the NRL for St George Illawarra, scoring two tries in the Dragons' 32-12 win over Parramatta in Wollongong. Returning to football for the first time since round one after being sacked by Canberra, Dugan showed that the time away from the game had done him no harm as he ran strongly throughout and latched onto crosskicks from ...

  • Perth CBD doubles in size

    Less than 11,500 people lived in central Perth in 2005 but the number of residents grew to more than 28,000 in 2011, according to the latest census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The number of residents under 15 years old more than tripled in that time, from 523 to 1720.RP Data figures for the past two years show Perth city is becoming increasingly popular with buyers with the ...

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