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Wests Tigers coach Potter hails Benji Marshalls defensive efforts
Balmain 2041 It was not star five-eighth Benji Marshall's characteristic attacking flair, but his efforts at the other end, that impressed Wests Tigers coach Mick Potter on Friday night. Having been rushed back into the Tigers' starting line-up after being demoted to the bench last round, Marshall scored a try and orchestrated two ...
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Family pay tribute to hero in terror attack
THE family of Drummer Lee Rigby have paid tribute their ';hero'; in a tearful, agonised press conference, saying ';our hearts have been ripped apart from us';. Lee Rigby was hacked to death on a London street by two men in an apparent terrorist attack. His stepfather Ian Rigby said he spent frantic hours trying to contact Lee after hearing news of the attack. ';Your ...
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Campaign to merge US with Australia fails
THE campaign to force US President Barack Obama to look at merging the US and Australia to create a new super nation called Ameristralia, where inhabitants eat hotdogmeatpies and the coat of arms features a bald eagle with a koala's head, is dead. A petition on the White House's official website calling for the US and Australia merger failed on Friday to receive the 100,000 signatures ...
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Arrests after plane diverted in UK
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain, rattling the UK just days after a British soldier was killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack. A fighter jet was launched to divert the Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying nearly 300 passengers to Britain’s Stansted Airport, ...
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New clues about location of Ontario hiker missing in Australia
Rescuers searching for a missing Brampton, Ont., man in the mountains of southeastern Australia have clues he may have taken a different route than originally thought. ...
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DIY terror no one is safe
He approaches a terrified witness and, according to Britain's ITV, tells him that ''it's cool, I just want to talk to you''. He speaks direct to the phone camera: ''The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers … it's an eye for an eye … By Allah, we swear by almighty Allah, we will ...
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Chinese spies woo business leaders
Some of Australia's most high flying business leaders were feted in China by an ''influence'' platform of the People's Liberation Army, a Fairfax investigation has revealed. Andrew Forrest, who touted his talks with Chinese business leaders last month as a lesson on how to do friendship with China, was joined by the heads of four of the five big banks, Qantas, the ...
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The tax secrets of big business
'The ruleswere developed for the industrial age' said Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury. Very few Australians will have heard of Burdekin Investments, one of the thousands of low-profile post-box companies that makes its home at Ugland House, a resort-style office building in George Town, the capital of Caribbean tax haven the Cayman Islands. It keeps a much lower profile than ...
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Murder just hours before her wedding
A US woman who stabbed her fiance to death with a large kitchen knife hours before their wedding last year folded her hands and rocked side to side as a Pennsylvania jury announced it had found her guilty of first-degree murder. The jury of five woman and seven men deliberated for just under three hours before reaching its decision during the third day of Na Cola Darcel Franklin's trial. ...
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UK arrests 2 men over incident with Pakistan plane
Lahore, Pakistan , was originally supposed to have landed in Manchester. Essex Police said that two men have been arrested and removed from the plane, which landed safely and was on an isolated runway at Stansted Airport. Britain's Ministry of Defense confirmed that a Typhoon jet was scrambled to investigate ...
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Is Australia the Face of Climate Change to Come
leaving 24 people dead. Each of these one-off traumas was bad enough, wreaking havoc, but in Australia such events seem to be becoming commonplace. The Lucky Country has experienced a major spike in extreme weather in the past few years, with a string of devastating incidents just since January. That has people wondering if the island continent is somehow a perfect bellwether for the ...
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Retracing the fall of the car industry
An Australian classic: the 1971 Ford Falcon XY GTHO. In the mid-1960s, when Australia's trade minister Sir John McEwen was urging Holden and Ford to seek export markets in Asia, the leader of one of Asia's poorest countries decided his country needed a car industry. Defying the advice of economists, he ordered the country's biggest company to start making cars - with Ford's ...
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Its a matter of standing up to a bully
program on Ray Hadley that the ABC put to air last Monday evening. It's a matter of standing up to a bully. I know several of the young men who were tormented by this man. I know about Hadley's rages, the torrents of foul-mouthed abuse. I know he savaged these kids at their most vulnerable, when they were barely out of university and finding their way in the daily hustle of a radio ...
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Sydney school fails to report doping
Pumped: School boys are hitting the gym and supplements in the quest to be fitter and stronger. Serial steroid abuse by a Cranbrook School student was investigated by the police and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority after the boy admitted taking performance-enhancing drugs while representing the private school in rowing and rugby. But Cranbrook failed to inform sports authorities of ...
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5 things the Blues must do to win State of Origin
AN impromptu team dinner two weeks ago underlined the camaraderie and commitment NSW players will bring into camp when the team for Origin I is named on Sunday. Organised by skipper Paul Gallen, hooker Robbie Farah, back-rower Luke Lewis and centre Josh Morris, the dinner was attended by players who were in the Blues team last year or hope to be selected this season. Trent Merrin drove 90 ...
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Pakistani plane in UK diverted
British police say two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a civilian plane flying from Pakistan to England. A jet was launched to divert the Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying nearly 300 passengers to Britain's Stansted Airport on Friday. It was originally supposed to have landed in Manchester. Essex Police said that two men ...
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Homicide squad looks into pogo-stick death
Homicide detectives have officially taken over the investigation into the pogo-stick death of a seven-year-old Sydney boy. Paramedics were called to a Mulga Road address after receiving a triple-0 call to a boy who was unconscious and not breathing just before 6.30am on Tuesday. The boy's mother, Kayla James, told police her seven-year-old son lost consciousness after falling off a pogo ...
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Stood down over fake reviews
THE self-proclaimed "director of propaganda" for a major hotel group has been ordered on a leave of absence after he was discovered posting negative reviews online for rival companies under a fake ...
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Carrs new passengers parachute ride
A spokesman for Mr Carr, who is currently in the Middle East, referred to Mr Carr's previous statement in which he said he intended to be "very old" before he left the Senate. Mr Dastyari is the fourth general secretary of the NSW branch in 10 years, in a job which many in the party believe has become a revolving door. Senior Labor sources claimed an agreement had been struck. If ...
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Fat of the land is no good thing
Dietitian Duncan Hunter said the figures showed those most at risk of being overweight lived outside capital cities. "These people are isolated from healthcare, cheap good food and physical activity," he said. Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute's Professor Paul Zimmet said the solution was to make cheap, healthy food more available, make the fight against obesity part of urban ...
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Blood money a powerful incentive
Donor Ben Cebuliak giving blood at the Red Cross, George St, city. Researchers have found that people are more likely to give blood and return to donate again if there is an incentive. Picture: Barker ...
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Australia gives $11.5 million for Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Bob Carr said Friday following a meeting with Prime Minister designate Tammam Salam.Carr said Australia supports Lebanon's disassociation policy from the Syrian crisis and his country is committed to ...
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AFL Adam Goodes leads Sydney Swans to imerious win over Collingwood Magpies
Collingwood 3066 Sydney's 47-point win over Collingwood has been marred by a spectator being evicted from the MCG following an incident involving Adam ...
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Barba makes late charge for Maroons
Ben Barba's magic generally rests with ball in hand. But you truly get a sense as to whether the Canterbury fullback is "on" or not by what he does off the ball. And boy was he back to his best on Friday night in the Bulldogs' 24-14 win against Brisbane at ANZ Stadium. He scored a try and saved two others in a first-half performance that was easily his best since being ...
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Tahs lose momentum with Rebels loss
What a game. The diehard Rebels fans were absolutely roaring in that half as their men had their backs to the wall, and they were rewarded witha heroic performance. Folau and Betham almost broke through in the last dozen phases after the siren. Unlucky for the Tahs who might kiss their finals hopes goodbye but really the damage was done earlier in the season. Would have liked to see more ...
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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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