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Morning Express Waterhouse NRL deal dumped
to become an official sponsor of the National Rugby League (NRL) have broken down, with both parties walking away from the proposed deal. "We failed to reach agreement around terms with Tom Waterhouse," the NRL's general manager for strategy, Shane ...
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Morning Express Latest transport news
Morning Express been up and running for a couple of months now, and we’d like to gauge your thoughts on what you like - and what you don’t like. We have three multiple-choice questions for you to answer. Go on, ...
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Morning Express Sydney jewellers robbed
Morning Express has been up and running for a couple of months now, and we’d like to gauge your thoughts on what you like - and what you don’t like. We have three multiple-choice questions for you to answer. Go on, ...
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Warner fury over IPL corruption link
An early morning text message from a friend in Australia is believed to have sparked the Twitter tirade from David Warner that has resulted in the opener being reported by Cricket Australia for an alleged breach of the body's code of behaviour. Warner was enraged after a friend sent a picture of ...
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13-year-old boy bashed with baseball bat during Bonnyrigg home invasion
Bonnyrigg 2177 A thirteen-year-old boy has been bashed with a baseball bat after three men broke into his western Sydney home.Police say the men forced their way inside the Bonnyrigg home around 2:30pm yesterday.The teenager, who was home alone, was treated for minor injuries at the scene.Officers say the suspects ran off towards a nearby shopping centre, and are appealing for help from the ...
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Proceedings pending over Ray Hadley workplace incident
Sydney 2000 Controversial radio presenter Ray Hadley has spoken for the first time about the workplace incident that saw him reported to 2GB management, in an interview with the ABC's Australian Story.A digital content manager at the station alleged he was verbally abused by Mr Hadley and took a recording of the conversation to management in February this year.2GB management decided to ...
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I thought he was dead jab trauma
Luke Philben was playing happily on the floor when his mother, Sam Jackson, looked across and saw something was not right. Six-month-old Luke had a strange smile on his face, was holding his arm out at an angle and his body was twitching. Terrified, Jackson began carrying Luke to the car to drive him to hospital, but by the time she reached the driveway he was having such violent fits he was ...
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Yahoo set for $US1.1b Tumblr deal
reported on Sunday. Yahoo! did not immediately return AFP's calls for confirmation, but CEO Marissa Mayer has scheduled a news conference in New York on Monday at which the company said it will unveil "something special." Reports last week said Yahoo! is eyeing the move to attract more users from the key 18- to 24-year-old age bracket, and that the Internet pioneer sees the ...
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Yahoo to buy Tumblr for $US1.1b
reported on Sunday. Yahoo! did not immediately return AFP's calls for confirmation, but CEO Marissa Mayer has scheduled a news conference in New York on Monday at which the company said it will unveil "something special." Reports last week said Yahoo! is eyeing the move to attract more users from the key 18- to 24-year-old age bracket, and that the Internet pioneer sees the ...
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Morning Express More sun for Sydney
: Brisbane v Gold Coast, Full Time 32-6South Sydney v Wests Tigers, Full Time 54-10St George Illawarra v Parramatta, Full Time 32-12Penrith v Warriors, Full Time 62-6North Queensland v Sydney Roosters, Full Time 8-12Cronulla v Canberra, Full Time 30-20Newcastle v Canterbury-Bankstown, Full Time 44-8Melbourne v Manly, Pre game 20-May-2013 ...
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Single ticket claims $604m US lotto jackpot
Powerball officials said the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $US590 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery ...
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TV mainstay Hackworth-Jones dead
Penne Hackforth-Jones, one of the nation's most recognisable actors, died on Saturday, months after being diagnosed with lung cancer. The 64-year-old appeared in almost every well-known TV series ...
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TV mainstay Hackforth-Jones dead
Penne Hackforth-Jones, one of the nation's most recognisable actors, died on Saturday, months after being diagnosed with lung cancer. The 64-year-old appeared in almost every well-known TV series ...
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Photo sparked Warner Twitter tirade
An early morning text message from a friend in Australia is believed to have sparked the Twitter tirade from David Warner that has resulted in the opener being reported by Cricket Australia for an alleged breach of the body's code of behaviour. Warner was enraged after a friend sent a picture of ...
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Wife suspected an affair
The wife of high-profile dance teacher Grant Davies became suspicious when he placed a security lock on his phone and computer, court documents reveal. The usually outgoing Mr Davies, who was a co-director of RG Dance Studio in Sydney's inner west, had become ''secretive'' in the past few months, Lisa Ricketts told police. Mr Davies, 39, was arrested at a North ...
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Folau in Cooper out for Australia
Australia's coach Robbie Deans has not often been described as a risk taker and after scrutinising the Lions squad and noting their power and physicality he decided the mercurial attributes of the fly-half Quade Cooper, who is not the most eager of tacklers, would have worked more to the advantage of the opposition than the Wallabies.Cooper, who fell out with Deans last year after ...
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Winners of NSW Premiers Literary Awards revealed
NSW Melbourne-based author Carrie Tiffany has won the prestigious New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Fiction for her novel, Mateship With Birds.Her success comes soon after taking out the inaugural Stella Prize for Australian women's writing.Tiffany's second novel was selected for the $40,000 Premier's Award over titles from some of Australia's most renowned ...
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Footing the bill for sex frolic folly
It is unedifying to see senior judges disadvantaged by the vigorous sexual activity of a young woman, but this is a self-inflicted wound a full bench of the Federal Court of Australia has brought on itself. The Commonwealth public servant, a woman to whom we shall give the nom de guerre Dolores Tremble, is going to cost you, me and the rest of the taxpayers more than $1 million before she is ...
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Voters approve hip-pocket hits
It's the poll result that will shock the political class more than any other. A government has defied all convention by taking money away from voters in an election year. And the voters notice. But they approve. Responsibility can be ...
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Teachers wife suspected an affair
The wife of high-profile dance teacher Grant Davies became suspicious when he placed a security lock on his phone and computer, court documents reveal. The usually outgoing Mr Davies, who was a co-director of RG Dance Studio in Sydney's inner west, had become ''secretive'' in the past few months, Lisa Ricketts told police. Mr Davies, 39, was arrested at a North ...
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Vale Hackforth-Jones mainstay of film and TV
Penne Hackforth-Jones, one of the nation's most recognisable actors, died on Saturday, months after being diagnosed with lung cancer. The 64-year-old appeared in almost every well-known TV series ...
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Prime Minister shows gain from budget pain
Julia Gillard has arrested a three-month decline in her standing with voters to be back level with Tony Abbott as preferred prime minister, although Labor would still be defeated if an election were held now. Both leaders are on 46 per cent as preferred prime minister - a relative 8 point improvement for Ms Gillard since last month - and just 4 points below her December high of 50 per cent when ...
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Expel me see you in court
A letter from Mr Obeid's solicitor, Tim Breene, to NSW Labor executive officer Elizabeth Scully was circulated at a meeting of the party's disputes committee on Sunday morning. The letter outlines Mr Obeid's view that party officials are acting prematurely in moving to expel him before the ICAC has delivered its findings and any possible court cases have run their course. It ...
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Fears births will be brought forward
His concern this time is that births will be brought forward. ''Frankly, I think this is worse,'' he said. ''The delay increased birth weights, and I recall one study that showed that could be beneficial. But in this case, we are likely to suffer from earlier births, meaning lower birth weights.'' Asked at the National Press Club on Wednesday whether he ...
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Battle for borrowers heats up
Source: RateCity.com.au, RBA Westpac has fired the latest salvo in the fixed-rate home loan wars as lenders battle for new borrowers following the Reserve Bank's cash rate cut. The bank dropped its one-year fixed-rate home loans to 4.79 per cent, while its Bank of Melbourne and St George divisions lowered their one to five-year fixed rates to below 5 per cent. Mortgage rates are at their ...
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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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