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Serena sorry for what was written
"She's 16, why was she that drunk where she doesn't remember? It could have been much worse. She's lucky. Obviously I don't know, maybe she wasn't a virgin, but she shouldn't have put herself in that position, unless they slipped her something, then that's different." On Wednesday, Williams called those remarks "what I supposedly said" in a ...
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Australia’s dreaded cost of living – manacle or myth | George Negus
Tony Abbott is keen to lower the cost of living faced by ordinary families. But there is a significant difference between cost of living and cost of ...
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Australia shares seen down after Fed comments eyes on China PMI
SYDNEY, June 20 (Reuters) - Australian shares are expected to drop on Thursday, following Wall Street's lead after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. central bank could begin to scale back its stimulus measures later this year. Investors will also focus on the China HSBC flash PMI for June, due at 0145 GMT, for signals on momentum in Asia's biggest economy after its ...
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What World Cup qualification means for Australia
Australia . For Asia, the top two teams in each group automatically qualify. Australia sat equal third with Oman on six points, one point behind second-placed Jordan and seven points behind its greatest Asian rival, Japan. Although Australia and Iraq had a game in hand, such was the confidence level that Football Federation Australia CEO, David Gallop, went on the offensive by declaring that ...
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Newcastle port sale passes lower house
Newcastle 2300 The New South Wales parliament will this morning resume debate on privatising the Port of Newcastle, after legislation passed the lower house late last night.The planned sell off was announced in Tuesday's state budget and the government suspended standing orders yesterday afternoon to allow debate on the bill.The upper house will consider the bill this morning.Hunter ...
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Parents put on alert after deadly enterovirus linked to childs death in NSW
NSW The New South Wales Health Department is urging parents to be on the lookout for symptoms of a rare virus that has been linked to the death of a child.The child was also suffering other infections, and doctors have not confirmed if enterovirus 71 (EV71) caused the death.Three other young children's deaths in the past six months, including one in the Hunter region, have been linked to ...
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Dollar plunges on US move
The Australian dollar has fallen to 33-month-low after the US Federal Reserve tipped an end to its stimulus program, which had been pumping $US85 billion into the US economy each month. The Australian currency slipped from 95.5 US cents before the start of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's comments, before plunging more than 2.5 US cents to 92.9 US cents. It was trading at 92.81 US cents just ...
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New hair big fall
Gillard steps out with new do The main change in politics since 2010 is that Australians have turned off Julia Gillard. While the polls show Labor is now facing a landslide defeat, its fall has been minor compared with the collapse of the Prime Minister's support. A comparison ...
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Morning Express Drunk driver rampage
I missed this one yesterday but, geez, it's like car crash viewing. Comedian Russell Brand swiftly took down the three hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe, who look like total buffoons as they get his name wrong and have no idea how to talk to ...
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FIFA World Cup Qualifying Wrap Australia Iran South Korea qualify
Australia, Iran and South Korea secured their places at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in the last round of AFC qualifying on Tuesday. Iran secured their fourth finals appearance thanks to a 1-0 win over South Korea in Ulsan. Ahead of the game, each team knew a win would secure their place in Brazil, with Uzbekistan hoping to overtake the losers. With the Koreans going into the game a point clear, ...
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OConnor to start for Australia
Australia have picked James O'Connor at fly-half for Saturday's opening Test against the British and Irish Lions at Suncorp Stadium with Kurtley Beale included on the ...
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Hockey Australia beats India to confirm 2014 World Cup berth
Netherlands Australia confirmed its place in the 2014 men's hockey World Cup following a 5-1 thrashing of India at the Hockey World League in Rotterdam.Glenn Simpson, Matt Gohdes, Russell Ford and Matthew Swann scored for the Kookaburras in the quarter-final clash, while their final score was aided by an Indian own goal.The Kookaburras will meet the Netherlands in Saturday's ...
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Peak hour bus stop attack motorist saves woman
A woman who was waiting to catch a bus in Sydney's lower north shore was allegedly punched and stabbed by a man who then attempted to undress her and rape her on a street, police say. A passing motorist who saw the 30-year-old woman being attacked just after 6pm in Hunters Hill called triple-0 and tried to help the woman, who allegedly had been dragged to the ground and stabbed in the ...
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Aussie dollar plunges lowest level since 2010
The Australian dollar has plunged after the US central bank flagged an end to one of the central planks of its wide-ranging support for the recovering US economy. The local currency was trading at 95.5 US cents prior to remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, but lost more than 2.5 US cents to 92.90 US cents, its lowest point since early October 2010. It was recently buying 93.02 US ...
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Aussie dollar dives on US moves
The Australian dollar has plunged after the US central bank flagged an end to one of the central planks of its wide-ranging support for the recovering US economy. The local currency was trading at 95.5 US cents prior to remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, but lost more than 2.5 US cents to 92.90 US cents, its lowest point since early October 2010. It was recently buying 93.02 US ...
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Royal pair in dark on babys sex
Expectant parents: Kate and William. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have asked not to be told their baby's gender because they want it to be a surprise, a palace spokesman has revealed. The royal households are putting the final touches to their plans for the birth of the royal baby next month, who will be third in line to the throne, whether a boy or a girl. Fairfax understands that ...
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Abbott the thinking persons PM
At the start of this parliamentary sitting week former prime minister Kevin Rudd said: ''I will do everything I physically can to stop Mr Abbott becoming the next prime minister of Australia because he's the single most extreme right-wing political leader that the Liberal Party [has] ever thrown up in [its] history.'' Never mind that the primary role of the federal ...
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Should MPs drink at work
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Familys house sprayed with bullets
Police were called to the single story weatherboard house on Passefield Street in Liverpool about 1am following reports of a shooting.A vehicle was heard outside the home before a number of shots were fired into its front.All the bullets missed a man, woman and three children who were inside the house at the time.A crime scene was established with police cars closing off the street while a ...
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Cops Taser man attempting to rape
The 30-year-old victim was approached by a 46-year-old man who struck up a conversation with her while she was sitting at a bus stop on Alexandra Street in Hunters Hill about 6.10pm.The man then allegedly grabbed the woman, forced her to the ground and attempted to rip off her clothes before punching her in the face and body.As she screamed out for help and tried to fight the man off she was ...
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RPT-Australias Intrepid faces tough fight over Indonesia mine
Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:00pm EDT By Sonali Paul and Fergus Jensen MELBOURNE/JAKARTA, June 19 (Reuters) - Australia's Intrepid Mines Ltd is learning that business in Indonesia is personal as it wages a difficult fight to win back rights to a $5 billion copper and gold prospect in East Java. Intrepid was booted off the site last year by its Indonesian partner who transferred the Tujuh Bukit mining ...
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Royal couple dont know sex of baby
Expectant parents: Kate and William. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have asked not to be told their baby's gender because they want it to be a surprise, a palace spokesman has revealed. The royal households are putting the final touches to their plans for the birth of the royal baby next month, who will be third in line to the throne, whether a boy or a girl. Fairfax understands that ...
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Sport and booze dont mix
Recent alcohol-fuelled controversies involving sportsmen need to end, along with alcohol sponsorship of sport, write Fiona Stanley and Mike ...
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Exorcism is not our speciality
The matrimonial home had several problems, the woman at the centre of a property dispute claimed - recurrent termite infestations, slugs in the shower and a resident ghost. The woman, dubbed Ms Descas in the Federal Magistrates Court, had her solicitors point out the drawbacks to a property assessor in an attempt to lower the value of the NSW property and reduce the share she would need to pay ...
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CBA scandal Senate wants answers
Fairfax Special: Exposed - Planners go rogue The corporate watchdog will face a Senate inquiry into its performance that is likely to embroil the Commonwealth Bank and raise questions about the effectiveness of new financial ...
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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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