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  • 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 ...

  • Students need gambling education academic

    Teaching students the dangers of gambling, in the same manner as alcohol, drugs and unsafe sex, is crucial with the boom in betting and easy access to online gambling, an international expert has warned. Canadian academic Jeffrey Derevensky, of McGill University's International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviours, said gambling should be treated like other teen ...

Movie Review

Notorious [DVD]

Notorious [DVD]

Notorious is the best of Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thrillers and one of the strongest works of his extensive cinematic career. In Hitchcock's Films Revisted, Robin Wood described it as "one of Hitchcock's finest works," and Franois Truffaut, in his interviews with Hitchcock, professed that it "is truly my favorite Hitchcock picture ... In my opinion, Notorious is the very q ... ...

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  • The problem with porn

    Technology has enabled the proliferation of pornography, making it so pervasive that it has become the main sex educator for many young people. This is a profound problem because it gives a distorted view of sexuality and human relations, predominantly involves violence against women and encourages hazardous practices. It is causing young people confusion and anxiety, and they are feeling ...

  • Wong lashes out at Christian lobby

    A virtual war over gay marriage has broken out between key Labor government figures and a powerful Christian lobby group. Finance Minister Penny Wong has accused the ultra-conservative Australian Christian Lobby of ''peddling prejudice'' and engaging in ''bigotry that has no place in a modern Australia''. The sharp rebuke of an organisation courted by ...

  • KKR Exits Australias Seven West Media Tim Worner Promoted to Seven West CEO

    SYDNEY - U.S. private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co will sell its entire AUS$260 million (US$255 million) stake in Australia’s Seven West Media, ending a seven year partnership in the top rating Australian TV network, Seven West ...

  • Vaccine refusers turn to Dr Google

    Nationally only two-year-olds have an immunisation rate of 92.6 per cent. The declining immunisation rates are due in part to a group of parents who are vaccine refusers. In December 2012 the children of vaccine refusers made up 1.49 per cent of the kids who should be immunised, the Department of Health ...

  • Teens lack web stranger danger

    Around six per cent of young children and teens have met people in real life who made contact with them through the internet and many other share very personal data online via social networking ...

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