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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 ...

  • Search for missing Canadian continues in Australian mountains

    Family members joined a frantic search Tuesday for a Canadian man with survival training missing for more than a week in Australia's Snowy Mountains region.Prabhdeep Srawn, of Brampton, Ont., hasn't been heard from since parking his rental car on May 13 in the village of Charlotte Pass in Kosciuszko National Park. For the last two years, the 25-year-old has been a law student at Bond ...

  • Brazil is Australias perfect match ANU

    Australia should boost its ties with Brazil as the South American nations continues its transformation into a global power, an ANU expert ...

  • Swans the problem not Treasury Abbott

    Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he respects the professionalism of the Treasury department and instead takes issue with the federal government.Mr Abbott was responding to Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson's comments that the government had no influence on his department's forecasts.The opposition leader said he admired the department's professionalism."I've never ...

  • Australian Market Trades Marginally Higher

    The Australian stock market is trading marginally higher amid selective buying on Wednesday. Though Wall Street ended higher overnight, gains were just modest amid a lack of fresh triggers.In the Australian market, mining stocks are mostly trading notably higher. Healthcare, energy, ...

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