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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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Shark Night 3D

Shark Night 3D

Snatching the mantle of Worst 3D Shark Movie, which has long been held unchallenged by Jaws 3D (1983), Shark Night supplies some cheesy late-summer tedium in its sloppy mixture of revenge-of-nature thrills and hillbilly horror. Set in and around a large salt water lake de ... ...

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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 ...

  • Fire damages factory plant in suburban Brisbane

    A fire broke out in a factory plant at Carole Park in Brisbane's southwest on Monday night. Though the fire was quickly contained, it caused extensive damage to the ...

  • Melbourne Beach Mayor Tom Davis resigns

    This 2011 file photo shows Tom Davis during his campaign to become mayor of West Melbourne. Davis, who was elected in November 2011, announced his resignation Monday, May 20, 2013. (FILE/Tom Davis, via ...

  • GlaxoSmithKline to axe 120 jobs

    Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline will axe 120 Melbourne jobs as it closes its tablet packaging business. The redundancies will occur at the company's Boronia site in Melbourne's east, which employs 363 people, GlaxoSmithKline said in a statement. Boronia site director Troy Webb says the job losses come as the company abandons its tablet packaging business to focus on technology ...

  • Essendon AFL player stabbed

    Essendon AFL footballer Nathan Lovett-Murray has been stabbed in a domestic dispute in Melbourne. Lovett-Murray, 30, is being treated in Royal Melbourne Hospital for a stab wound to the arm. A 22-year-old man and 17-year-old boy have been arrested and are being interviewed by police. The incident happened at a house in suburban Reservoir just after 10pm (AEST) on ...

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