Cricket Australia (CA) Tuesday asked New South Wales batsman Usman Khawaja as a standby player for the fourth Ashes Test, if Australian captain Ricky Ponting doesn’t recover from a fractured finger. Chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch said Ponting will be fit in time for the Test, adding that Khawaja’s selection is only precautionary. “While the [...]
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Khawaja will be a standby for Ponting
December 21st, 2010 |
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Bluesfest 2011 Sideshows
December 17th, 2010 |
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FEATURING TRUCKS & TEDESCHI, ROBERT RANDOLPH,
BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, MAVIS STAPLES,
IRMA
THOMAS
 Mavis Staples |
Bluesfest today announced its first run of
festival sideshows for Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide based audiences. And, what an electrifying array of musical
delights it is, featuring some of the best world-class blues, roots, gospel, and soul talent announced so far for
Bluesfest 2011.
For the first show, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band will be ably supported by the amazing funk
soul pedal-steel master guitarist Robert Randolph and the Family Band in Sydney on April 21 at the Enmore Theatre,
and Melbourne on April 22 at the Palace Theatre.
This next show is ‘A Gospel Celebration!’ with Blind Boys of Alabama featuring Aaron Neville. Opening proceedings
will be none other than Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and legendary vocalist Mavis Staples. The dates are April 20 in
Melbourne at The Palais and April 25 in Sydney at the Opera House.
The third festival sideshow will include Irma Thomas. The soul queen of New Orleans will be traveling down under
for her first ever Australian tour. This “N’awlins Soul Sister No 1” is responsible for cutting some of the finest ever
soul music in the history of New Orelans music including “Time Is On My Side” later recorded by the Rolling Stones,
and “Ruler Of My Heart” which was changed to “Pain In My Heart” and recorded by Otis Redding. This sideshow is
scheduled for April 21 at The Factory in Sydney.
Click here for all information related to Bluesfest 2011
in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
Sembcorp’s Aussie unit wins bid to acquire WSN Environmental Solutions for $305m
December 15th, 2010 |
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Sembcorp Industries announces that its 40%-owned associate, SembSita Australia, trading as SITA Environmental Solutions, has been named the successful bidder to acquire 100% of WSN Environmental Solutions (WSN), a solid waste management service provider owned by the New South Wales government in Australia.
AVJennings says it added over 2,700 residential lots since Jun 30
December 8th, 2010 |
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Residential developer AVJennings today announced details in relation to the addition of over 2,700 lots to its residential pipeline which stood at 9,500 lots as at Jun 30.
The company says it acquired of 470 lots at Cobbitty, New south Wales, a site located in one of Sydney’s most significant growth corridors in South West Sydney. The 43 hectare parcel is zoned residential. Another acquisition is located at Coomera, Queensland.
AVJennings also entered into agreements in relation to the Elysium project in Noosa Heads in Queensland which comprises some 158 lots and 16 nearly completed dwellings, and the Land Management Corporation, a South Australian Government body, in relation to a project of over 1,750 lots at Penfield in Adelaide’s northern growth corridor.
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Green SCG wicket could hinder Ashes hopes of Khawaja, Hughes: Watson
November 10th, 2010 |
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Australian opener Shane Watson has said that the SCG wicket, which is considered a bowlers paradise, could cast trouble for Ashes fringe players Usman Khawaja, Phillip Hughes and even Steve Smith during New South Wales’ Sheffield Shield match against Victoria. Watson said the forecast of stormy conditions would make it tough to score runs in [...]
‘Back to best’ Lee fires ODI comeback hopes
October 30th, 2010 |
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Australian fast bowler Brett Lee put in an impressive domestic performance for New South Wales to suggest that a national one-day recall could be on the cards. Lee, continuing his comeback after a six-month lay-off with an elbow injury, took 2-43 from nine overs to guide the Blues to a six-wicket win over Queensland Bulls [...]
Aug. 5, 1962: First Quasar Discovered
August 5th, 2010 |
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1962: A nearly botched observation of a distant radio source leads to the identification of the first-known quasi-stellar astronomical object, or quasar.
Until the development of radio astronomy in the 1940s, our knowledge of the universe outside our own solar system was pretty much restricted to objects that emitted light in or near the visible [...]
ComfortDelgro flat; Muted reception to Aussie buy
July 16th, 2010 |
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ComfortDelgro’s (C52.SG) expansion in Australia, via A$38.8 million ($46.8 million) acquisition of Swan Taxis, generating little interest among investors, according to Dow Jones.
Stock flat at $1.50 in thin trade. Public transport operator seeking to buy Swan Taxis, which has biggest cab market share in Perth, in bid to enlarge footprint in Australia, where it’s already one of largest private bus companies in New South Wales, Victoria.
ComfortDelGro makes A$39m takeover bid for Perth’s largest taxi operator
July 16th, 2010 |
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ComfortDelGro Corporation has made a A$38.8 million ($46.8 million) takeover bid for Swan Taxis Limited, the largest provider of taxi services in the Perth metropolitan market with 1,667 taxis or a 91% share of the market.
If successful, ComfortDelGro says the move will further extend its presence in Australia where it is already one of the largest private bus operators in New South Wales and Victoria.
Orlando Bloom Miranda Kerr Wedding In Los Angeles
June 28th, 2010 |
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Actor Orlando Bloom and his Victoria’s Secret Angel Miranda Kerr are planning a wedding in the City of Angels. According to Britain’s Telegraph newspaper, Bloom, 33, and Kerr, 27, will wed in Los Angeles.“It is where they spend most of their time and where their mutual friends live,” a friend of the actor said. The Los [...]
Frasers Centrepoint acquires 13.7 hectares of site in Sydney for $98m
June 25th, 2010 |
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Frasers Centrepoint, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fraser and Neave, announced today that its Australasian property arm — Frasers Property Australia — has acquired a 13.7 hectare site (about 1.5 million sq ft) in Sydney from the Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney (Royal Rehab) for A$82.5 million ($97.8 million).
Royal Rehab is an internationally recognised, premier rehabilitation and disability facility within New South Wales.
Sydney schoolboy dies after rugby match
June 22nd, 2010 |
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A Sydney schoolboy, Kundai Chiundiza, has died after he was injured in a rugby match. He was studying in Year 11 at St Andrews Cathedral School. According to the reports, he was participating in a rugby match and was injured during the match on Saturday. Immediately after that he started vomiting on the sidelines of [...]
Sands sues law group after Singapore casino complex complaints
May 20th, 2010 |
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Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s Singapore casino resort sued the organizers of the first conference it hosted after payment was withheld for an event where the power failed during a speech by the Chief Justice of New South Wales and delegates complained of unfinished rooms.
Byron Bay Bluesfest | 04.01-04.05 | AU Photos
May 10th, 2010 |
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Byron Bay Bluesfest :: 04.01 – 04.05
Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm :: Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia
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Justin Bieber Australia Concert Cancelled After Fan Riot Leaves 10 Teens Injured
April 26th, 2010 |
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For God’s Sake — He’s Just A Kid That Can Sing! Bieber Fever has caused another Tween Frenzy. Police in Sydney, Australia sparked a near riot on Monday after they shut down a concert by Canadian teen singing sensation Justin Bieber over crowd safety fears just hours before the free event was due to start.The 16-year-old [...]
Forensic science: The “CSI effect”
April 22nd, 2010 |
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Television dramas that rely on forensic science to solve crimes are affecting the administration of justice
OPENING a new training centre in forensic science (pictured above) at the University of Glamorgan in South Wales recently, Bernard Knight, formerly one of Britain’s chief pathologists, said that because of television crime dramas, jurors today expect more categorical proof than forensic science is capable of delivering. And when it comes to the gulf between reality and fiction, Dr Knight knows what he is talking about: besides 43 years’ experience of attending crime scenes, he has also written dozens of crime novels.
The upshot of this is that a new phrase has entered the criminological lexicon: the “CSI effect” after shows such as “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”. In 2008 Monica Robbers, an American criminologist, defined it as “the phenomenon in which jurors hold unrealistic expectations of forensic evidence and investigation techniques, and have an increased interest in the discipline of forensic science.” …
Rajkumar Hirani receives mysterious parcel from Australia
April 12th, 2010 |
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Bollywood director Rajkumar Hirani was left stunned on receiving a mysterious parcel from a person in New South Wales in Australia, who was hoping the award-winning director might be related to his family.
Kranti Hirani from Austraila posted pictures and a CD containing images of his extended family in the hope that Rajkumar Hirani would recognise [...]
Indian owned college collapses in Australia
March 23rd, 2010 |
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Hundreds of international students, including many Indians, have been left clueless about their future as a college owned by an Indian collapsed in Australia.
With Sydney-based Austech Institute for Further Studies going for voluntary liquidation late last week, over 750 international students are looking at an uncertain future.
The hospitality college, owned by taxi driver turned entrepreneur [...]
Kylie Minogue’’s criminal ancestors
February 6th, 2010 |
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Kylie Minogue may be the descendant of Dinah Riddiford whose execution way back in 1816 became popularly known as ‘The Granny Hanging’.
Fresh documents released online, giving details of some 710,000 British people who migrated to Australia after World War II, claim a link between the singer and Riddiford, who was sentenced to death for stealing [...]
Katherine Jenkins beats rugby star Tommy Bowe in vodka binge
January 4th, 2010 |
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Opera singer Katherine Jenkins out-did rugby star Tommy Bowe when they hit the bottle, while on a night-out in Swansea, south Wales.
The British Lions player admitted that the Welsh beauty had more vodka than him.
He Tweeted: “Katherine took me to pieces on vodka last night.â€
Jenkins has admitted in the past that she took drugs while [...]