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/ 10 December 2008
Australian cricket legend Shane Warne on Wednesday threw his support behind a musical stage show that presents a warts-and-all account of his career.
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/ 30 November 2008
Australia on Sunday mourned the death of Danish architect Joern Utzon, who designed Sydney’s iconic, sail-shaped Opera House.
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/ 30 November 2008
Australia on Sunday mourned the death of Danish architect Joern Utzon, who designed Sydney’s iconic, sail-shaped Opera House.
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/ 28 November 2008
South African Tim Clark fired a solid two-under-par 70 to hold a one-shot lead after the Australian Masters second round at Huntingdale on Friday.
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/ 26 November 2008
Rio Tinto said on Wednesday it was confident it could sell billions in assets to pay down massive debt, despite concerns about a lack of buyers.
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/ 25 November 2008
Andrew Symonds’s word is no longer enough for his bosses, who will decide on his international cricket future after another alcohol-related incident.
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/ 24 November 2008
The Wallabies have dodged the guillotine in winning their first rugby international in France in eight years.
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/ 22 November 2008
Dozens of pilot whales have died in a mass stranding on Australia’s island state of Tasmania, state parks and wildlife officials said on Saturday.
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/ 22 November 2008
Australia is to modify a test for prospective citizens to exclude questions on history and culture, and specifically cricket legend Donald Bradman.
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/ 20 November 2008
Global news agencies have boycotted coverage of the first cricket Test between Australia and NZ starting because of conditions imposed by organisers.
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/ 17 November 2008
Global media magnate Rupert Murdoch says doomsayers who are predicting the internet will kill off newspapers are ”misguided cynics”.
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/ 6 November 2008
An Australian court has ordered the retrial of two alleged drug traffickers because the judge in their original court case repeatedly fell asleep.
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/ 4 November 2008
The long arm of the law didn’t have to reach too far to arrest one Australian teenager, who was caught breaking into a police station.
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/ 4 November 2008
Ricky Ponting has been likened to inheriting a family business on the slide as Australian cricket comes face-to-face with reality.
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/ 1 November 2008
SA Rugby came in for strong criticism from Australian rugby boss John O’Neill in an interview with the Australian Associated Press on Friday.
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/ 27 October 2008
Legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne said on Monday he expects Australia to bounce back in their Test series in India.
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/ 24 October 2008
Retired Australian vice-captain Adam Gilchrist has questioned India’s sportsmanship and has singled out Sachin Tendulkar for special criticism.
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/ 22 October 2008
Australia’s cricketers are under fire from local media who said the loss to India in Mohali signalled the end of their control over the game.
An Australian company has come up with a version of this free exchange, offering to replace your old lightbulbs with energy-efficient CFLs.
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/ 17 October 2008
Nobel laureate JM Coetzee and Japan’s Haruki Murakami were on Friday named on the long list for the richest prize for fiction in Australia.
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/ 14 October 2008
An error in the automatic pilot system caused an Airbus jet to plummet last week, injuring scores of passengers on a Qantas flight.
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/ 10 October 2008
Australia’s tourism chiefs have turned to Hollywood for help in promoting the country as a holiday destination after their last campaign failed.
Up to 40 passengers and crew were injured when a Qantas jetliner suddenly changed altitude on Tuesday, the airline said.
Australia’s Casey Stoner overcame a persistent wrist injury to win his home MotoGP at Phillip Island for the second successive year on Sunday.
The parents of a seven-year-old boy who broke into an Australian zoo and fed small animals to its resident crocodile are likely to be sued.
An offbeat suggestion that Australians should eat kangaroos instead of cattle and sheep has been given a scientific stamp of approval.
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/ 26 September 2008
Australia’s acting prime minister admitted on Friday she had smoked marijuana as a university student, but said it was no big deal.
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/ 24 September 2008
Donald Bradman’s first Test cricket bat sold at auction in Australia late on Wednesday for a record 900, the auction house said.
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/ 24 September 2008
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will begin his comeback to professional road cycling in Australia’s Tour Down Under in January.
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/ 24 September 2008
A pig the size of a Shetland pony trapped an Australian woman in her village home, the national broadcaster reported on Tuesday.
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/ 23 September 2008
Rugby in the southern hemisphere is poised for major changes not seen since the sport went professional, ARU CEO John O’Neill said on Tuesday.
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/ 21 September 2008
An Australian company this week launched a free tool it says offers web browsers a world-first opportunity to view the internet in three dimensions.