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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 ...
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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 ...
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Levy to be imposed on Sydneys Star casino to cover costs of monitoring operation
Pyrmont 2009 The New South Wales Government has introduced legislation to impose a levy on Sydney's Star Casino to help cover the costs of monitoring and regulating its operations.Taxpayers currently bear most of the cost for the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority to oversee the casino, but the Minister for Hospitality George Souris says it is appropriate for the Star to pick up the ...
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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 ...
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$1 billion wiped from NSW budget in accounting change
NSW The New South Wales Treasurer has revealed an accounting change will wipe $1 billion off the budget's bottom line this year.Mike Baird will hand down the state's budget on the 18th of June.He says the state has adopted a new standard for calculating the interest on superannuation assets, which will reduce forecast earnings from nearly 9 per cent to just over 3 percent."It ...
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Souths Teo denies assaulting woman
Girl accuses NRL star of bashing A woman tells Nine News she was "laying in the hallway" and "could have been dead for all they know", accusing NRL star Ben Te'o of punching ...
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CBD fire sparks building evacuation
More than 1000 people have been evacuated from a multi-storey building in Sydney's CBD with dark smoke seen billowing from the building. Fire and Rescue NSW crews are at the scene of the fire on the corner of Liverpool and Pitt streets, but the source of the fire is yet to be ...
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Killer did the right thing NSW judge declares
When he saw a man holding a knife to a woman's throat, 72-year-old Keith Harold Allen made a judgment call and shot him. It was almost certainly the right thing to do, a NSW Supreme Court judge says. The actions of Allen, who spent two and a half years in custody and is now terminally ill with lung cancer, were vindicated in court on Wednesday, when Justice Michael Adams handed down his ...
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Save $610 on fuel surcharges
Savvy frequent flyers are avoiding as much as $610 in fuel surcharges on Qantas international flights by exploiting a loophole in the alliance with Emirates. Almost two months after the airlines launched their tie up, executives from the two airlines will meet within the next week to talk about resolving a major difference between their fuel surcharges. Travellers wanting to fly economy from ...
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Apple irrelevant within 5 years
Apple has again been rated as the world's top brand this week, but a leading social researcher warns the omnipresent technology giant is losing touch with its Generation Y heartland. Michael McQueen tracks the changing tastes of Gen-Y and believes the inventor of genre-defining devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod could be largely irrelevant to people under 30 within five years. The ...
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Tornado brings out good in neighbours
It's 'shocking how few people have been killed' Listen to US correspondent Nick O'Malley as he walks through the tornado devastated suburb of Moore, Oklahoma ...
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Thomson now facing 173 fraud charges
EMBATTLED MP Craig Thomson is facing 19 fresh charges in relation to allegations he misused thousands of dollars in union funds to pay for porn and ...
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Put best foot forward on way to school
Holy Innocents Primary School students Carla Coluccio, 7, Scarlett Waters, 10, and Rory Giugni, 11, get ready for Walk to School Day. Picture: Nic ...
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Kewell unhappy with Australia omission
Club-less Australian Harry Kewell insists he is fit for his country's upcoming World Cup qualifiers despite playing just three games this year.Socceroos coach Holger Osieck is set to announce his squad for June's crucial matches against Japan, Jordan and Iraq on Thursday. Kewell, 34, has played three matches for Al Gharafa in Qatar since leaving the Melbourne Victory in June, 2012. But ...
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Tycoon says Australia treating mining firms as ATMs
Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart is pictured in Perth on June 9, 2010 Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart on Friday accused the government of using the mining industry as an ATM, warning of an unhealthy reliance on the sector and unsustainable debt levels. In a speech to the Australian Mines and Metals Association conference, the outspoken tycoon, chairman of Hancock ...
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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 ...
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Manly coach slams NRL rule changes
Angry Manly coach Geoff Toovey savaged the NRL over "ridiculous, knee-jerk" decision-making on Wednesday, following mid-season rule changes intended to speed up games.The NRL's Competition Committee announced on Tuesday that from round 15 this season they were introducing a 30-second time limit for scrums to be packed, while also reducing the time limit for line drop-outs from 40 ...
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Sydney dance school teacher facing more sex charges
Chiswick 2046 A Sydney dance teacher accused of grooming teenage girls and possessing child abuse material is facing new charges of sexual and indecent assault.Grant Davies is a founder and former co-director of the RG Dance Studio at Chiswick in Sydney's inner-west. The 39-year-old was arrested last Friday night, accused of sending indecent material to two girls aged 13 and 14. Police ...
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Renewed hope in search for missing Canadian bushwalker
Charlottes Pass 2624 Yelling has reportedly been heard from a hut in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains where rescuers are searching for a Canadian bushwalker. Prabhdeep Srawn began walking from Charlotte Pass Village to Mount Kosciusko more than a week ago and has not been seen since.An air search for the 25-year-old is now focussed on a specific location within the Kosciuszko National Park ...
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Sydneys train station escalators a hazard for guide dogs
Sydney 2000 Vision Australia has backed calls for Railcorp to upgrade its escalators in New South Wales train stations so they can be safely used by guide dogs.Liberal MP Bart Bassett has urged Railcorp to spend $12 million to upgrade its escalators after learning a guide dog caught its paw in one at Sydney's Town Hall station.Simone Cottom's seeing eye dog Gidgit got her paw trapped ...
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Bernard Tomic will play at the French Open according to Tennis Australias Todd Woodbridge
France Australian Tennis officials have been told Bernard Tomic will play in the French Open despite a ban imposed on his father and coach John.John Tomic is excluded from all men's tour events while he fights an assault charge after he headbutted his son's training partner in Spain.Tennis Australia's Todd Woodbridge says his relationship with Bernard Tomic is still strong and ...
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Court quashes Newcrest licence
In a stunning decision this morning, a NSW court has quashed an exploration licence held by Australia's largest goldminer Newcrest. The licence application in question was made during the stewardship of disgraced mining minister Ian Macdonald in 2008 and renewal was granted in 2011. Amid the staggering revelations of mates-deals by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, this ...
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Carlton offensive and hurtful
ABC betrayed its audience: Carlton Fairfax columnist Mike Carlton says the ABC's Australian Story program 'sugar-coated' their segment about Ray Hadley and left out criticisms about the radio ...
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Is Apple rotting at its core
Apple has again been rated as the world's top brand this week, but a leading social researcher warns the omnipresent technology giant is losing touch with its Generation Y heartland. Michael McQueen tracks the changing tastes of Gen-Y and believes the inventor of genre-defining devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod could be largely irrelevant to people under 30 within five years. The ...
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Leumeah is not Lakemba
Campbelltown is a part of south-western Sydney - but it no longer wants to be. As far as TV and radio news coverage is concerned, that is. Residents of Campbelltown, Camden and the Picton-based Wollondilly Shire are fed up with being thrown into the same geographic area as Lakemba, Punchbowl and Campsie in a distant, unconnected part of Sydney. So that's why the local Fairfax newspaper ...
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Sydney's scandalous toxic waste plan by government
A controversial waste relocation project in Sydney has created anger in a community with a lower income than the Sydney suburb from which the waste is being removed, with many suggesting a class-bias in the city government.
Hunter’s Hill is a predominantly wealthy suburb of Sydney with average house prices of around AUD $1.3 million and a harbour-side community made up predominantly of professionals, managers and other traditionally middle to high-income workers. Penrith, on the other hand, located just over 50 kilometres from Sydney’s CBD, is not as affluent, with average property values of around AUD $280,000. Read more
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