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Warner targets media in Twitter rant
Australian cricketer David Warner is likely to face disciplinary action from Cricket Australia (CA) after he apparently launched a scathing attack on two journalists on social media on Saturday.Warner took to Twitter to launch his expletive-laden tirade directed at News Limited journalists Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn after taking exception to an article published by Craddock which was ...
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Rudd and Swans awkward moment
"Welcome to my electorate," smiled former prime minister Kevin Rudd to Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan - the man who famously accused Mr Rudd of "putting his own self-interest ahead of the interests of the broader Labor movement and the country as a whole" following his unsuccessful February 2012 leadership spill.It was then left to Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese - who ...
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Opposition slams AFP Customs cuts
THE federal opposition has hit out at the government's plans to cut funding and staff for Customs and Australian Federal Police ...
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Dance teacher charged with grooming child
A SYDNEY dance teacher is accused of trying to groom a child for sex and having a large cache of child porn. The 39-year-old man, who runs a dance studio on Bibby Street in Chiswick, was arrested about 6pm (AEST) on Friday, police said in a statement. Police had launched an investigation after a large amount of child porn and evidence of grooming was found on a computer in April. The man was ...
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Australian cricketer David Warner in shocking Twitter rant
DAVID Warner appears to have launched an extraordinary expletive-laden social media tirade against journalists. A series of fiery rants were posted on Warner's Twitter account in response to a News Limited article on the perils of the rich and corrupt Indian Premier League. Warner is currently competing in the IPL for the Dehli Daredevils. His Twitter account has almost 190,000 ...
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Carr cancels 457 visa of PNGs most wanted man
Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr has used his special powers to cancel the 457 visa issued by the Gillard government to an alleged crime boss wanted in Papua New Guinea over the theft of $30 million. Senator Carr's decision to revoke the visa of Eremas Wartoto comes a week after Fairfax revealed that the powerful PNG businessman - accused of being one of PNG's most corrupt ...
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NSW lifesaver charged over sexual assaults
A VOLUNTEER lifesaver has been charged over the 2007 sexual and indecent assaults of two teenage girls on a northern Sydney ...
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Australian Politician Tricked Into Liking Photo of Teen’s Nuts on Facebook
An Australian politician fell victim to a photo prank on Facebook that resulted in ';liking'; a picture of a 16-year-old boy’s testicles. Peter ...
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MLB New York Mets 3 Chicago Cubs 2
Matt Harvey scattered five hits over 7 1/3 innings and drove in the winning run Friday in the New York Mets' 3-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Harvey (5-0) gave the Cubs a pair of first-inning runs but retired 20 of the next 21 batters after that. He allowed five hits, struck out six and didn't allow a walk. The effort was saved by a throw ...
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Sydney hairdresser on sex charges
A HAIRDRESSER in Sydney's west has been charged with sexually and indecently assaulting four clients. The 31-year-old man has been charged with assaulting four women on separate occasions at a Merrylands hair salon between February 7 and May 17 this year, police said in a statement. The women - aged 41, 39, 31 and 29 - reported the incidents to police on Friday. The man was arrested about ...
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Cosco ANL to Operate Joint Sino Australia Service
will jointly operate Sino Australia Service with six vessel deployments, including five vessels from Cosco and one from ANL.The new loop will enhance Cosco's existing service network in the Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia trade.The SAS port rotation is Ningbo, China; Shanghai; Xiamen, China; Shekou, China; Hong Kong; Sydney; Melbourne, Australia; Brisbane, ...
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Military police pressured to make prisoners more pliable
Military police at Australia's detention centre in Afghanistan were pressured to make prisoners more "pliable" by gagging them, depriving them of sleep and denying them exercise. Sources with first-hand knowledge of the detention centre at Tarin Kowt have said that senior officers from Australia's special forces, as well as the "force exploitation team" - defence ...
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Exploring Australia’s Gold Coast
GOLD COAST, Australia -; To get to Oz's famed glow worms, we tromped through the pitch-black rain forest at night, fighting off wilderness willies since nocturnal creatures were surely eyeballing us and bloodsucking leeches, we were warned, might try to glob onto our flesh. In this spellbinding primal paradise, dead silence was pierced only by chirping crickets, fluttering bats, and our ...
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Missing toddler found in NSW bushland
The toddler, named as Tyler, went missing from an auto-mechanic business on Wharf Road in Johns River, near Taree, about 10.30am on Friday.An extensive search for Tyler was stood down as night fell and was set to resume at daybreak. However, about 1.15am (AEST) on Saturday volunteers found the boy in the dense bushland.He was checked by NSW Ambulance paramedics and taken to Port Macquarie ...
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Survey finds near unanimous scientific agreement on climate change
A survey of thousands of papers in scientific journals has found 97.1 percent agreed climate change is caused by human activity, an Australian-led study found. The near unanimity creates a powerful rebuttal to climate skeptics who insist the science of climate change remains unsettled, the survey authors said. Of the 4,000-plus papers that took a position on the causes of climate change, only ...
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Brisbane punish hapless Titans 32-6 in NRL
Brisbane forward David Stagg may have suffered a career-ending knee injury as the Broncos punished an ill-disciplined Gold Coast 32-6 at Suncorp Stadium on Friday night.Stagg, playing his 98th game for the Broncos, suffered a suspected ruptured ACL 56 minutes into the match and looked distressed as he was helped from the field with Brisbane ahead 24-6.Brisbane overcame the absence of ...
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Cairns heritage listed Rex Theatre demolishers plead guilty in court
THE company behind the demolition of the heritage-listed Rex Theatre and a real estate agent associated with the project are facing hefty fines after pleading guilty to undertaking the work without council ...
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Best paws forward to help a good cause on Cairns Esplanade
The annual national event raises money for RSPCA services such as microchipping, vaccination and desexing.Cairns RSPCA walk co-ordinator Sally Charles said they hoped to match last year's local fundraising total of $16,960, with more than 800 people and their pooches expected to turn out for the fun event."The more the better, it is the biggest fundraising event for the RSPCA and we ...
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Authorities worried dengue outbreaks In Far North Queensland will be prolonged
The number of dengue fever cases climbed to 136 yesterday, prolonging an outbreak that began in December last year, and four people have also been struck down with chikungunya,a similar virus, after returning from Papua New Guinea this month.Queensland Health officials are worried about the ongoing dengue outbreak and this week held an urgent meeting to determine a course of action."It is ...
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Cairns community pays tribute to cyclist Tanya Roneberg at memorial
IF anyone doubted the impact Tanya Roneberg had on the Cairns community, they only had to step onto the Fish Tank basketball court yesterday and hear the words from those whose lives she had ...
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No grazing in parks Burke
CONTROVERSY has erupted over the federal government's refusal to open up former cattle stations - now national parks - in northern Queensland, for emergency grazing. Several media conferences were held at Parliament House on Thursday, as well as other meetings seeking resolution to the rapidly unfolding animal welfare crisis in northern Australia. Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke was ...
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Small dairy co-op doing big things
IN 2002, group of Victorian organic dairy farmers got together and formed one of Australia's newest, and perhaps the smallest, dairy co-operatives. Today, collecting milk prices about 25-30 per cent above conventional milk, the Organic Dairy Farmers Co-operative is a handy demonstration that farmers standing together can achieve things that individual farmers can't. There are currently ...
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Pulses welcome southern rain
Not all pulses have post-emergent broadleaf weed control options available. PULSE producers will welcome the rain across Victoria and South Australia, not only as a chance to get the 2013 planting season into full swing, but also to lessen the risk of plantback issues. Many herbicides have a residual component which requires some rainfall to break them down, and with many areas receiving ...
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Crunch time for chickpeas
AUSSIE grain growers could potentially capture a share of the growing global healthy snack food market by specifically growing chickpeas with desirable "puffing" qualities. Research being done by the GRDC and Charles Sturt University is exploring the ability of Australian chickpea varieties to puff when subjected to high temperature for a short time without oil - a process which ...
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How Australia cottoned on
They also learned that the Australian government was busting for some know-how in the cotton business. Most of Australia's 10,000 bale cotton crop was grown in Queensland, and most of that was poor quality. Kahl (pictured below) and Hadley grew their first crop, with help from Nick Derera, on a 65-acre field east of Wee Waa in 1961-62. It yielded a creditable 1.5 bales an acre (3.7 ...
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Australia the energy superpower?
A new boom in the extraction of Australia's natural gas reserves will have immense economic benefits for the country and especially the state of Western Australia, but conservationists warn of an environmental impact.
Australia is a country rich in natural resources, because of this its economy is an export driven one, and coal, iron ore, wool, meat, gold, and wheat are some of its main exports. It was in the 1920’s that Australia’s economic potential was underpinned by the gold rush that saw its population triple in size in just ten years. Read more
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