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Pedroia powers Red Sox past Twins
Dustin Pedroia has smashed a two-run homer in the ninth inning to seal a 5-1 MLB win for the Boston Red Sox over the Minnesota Twins.In a match halted for three hours by rain, Boston claimed their fifth successive victory thanks to a strong pitching performance by John Lackey, while Pedroia's 379-foot homer gave the visitors a healthy lead before Minnesota's final at-bat.Boston's ...
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Retailers unhappy with import fee increase
RETAILERS have lashed out at the federal government for trying to push through a hike in the cost of importing goods for sale. The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) says changes to the import processing charge (IPC) will ultimately impact on jobs and state government GST revenues. Association executive director Russell Zimmerman says "hidden in the depths" of Labor's budget last ...
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New South Wales becomes Australia steroids capital
(35 mins ago) Australia's east coast haven New South Wales, which is seeking to recruit a `chief funster' to promote tourism to Sydney and elsewhere, took the dubious honor for the biggest hauls of steroids and hallucinogens in 2011-2012 in the country, authorities said today. Most commonly used steroids in Australia include erythropoietin (EPO) and Human chorionic gonadotrophin ...
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Bulldogs Inu faces another NRL suspension
Canterbury centre Krisnan Inu faces a second stint on the sidelines this season after being hit with a grade-two dangerous contact charge by the NRL match review committee. In his first game back after serving a five-game ban for a dangerous throw on South Sydney's Greg Inglis, Inu has been charged with making dangerous contact - unnecessary leg pressure on Newcastle winger James McManus. ...
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Penriths Kingston told to find new club
Penrith captain Kevin Kingston is on the lookout for a new NRL club for 2014 after being told his contract will not be renewed at the end of the season. The 30-year-old hooker is the second captain the club has offloaded in as many seasons, after getting rid of Luke Lewis last year. Kingston was informed of the news by Ivan Cleary two weeks ago but the former Cronulla and Parramatta man has no ...
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Merrick ready to turn Phoenix round
New Wellington Phoenix coach Ernie Merrick's coaching philosophy has been distilled over the years into one succinct sentence. "Football's about winning and putting on a show, and the best show is scoring goals," Merrick summed up on Monday. There was very little winning and precious few goals in the Phoenix's last A-League season, the Ricki Herbert-coached team ...
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Lauryn Eagle handcuffed arrested at Sydney hotel
A night out for world champion athlete and model Lauryn Eagle ended when she was arrested and handcuffed by police for refusing to leave Northies Cronulla Hotel on Sunday. Bar staff called officers to the hotel, on the corner of the Kingsway and Elouera Road, after the boxing champion and former water-skier allegedly refused to leave, police said. Detective Inspector Shane Woolbank from ...
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Roar A-League veteran Murdocca joins Heart
Brisbane Roar's most-capped player Massimo Murdocca has left the A-League club to join Melbourne Heart. Murdocca played 162 games for the Roar, including their two championships, and was their last remaining foundation player. The Roar wanted to keep Murdocca, but agreed to release the hard-running 28-year-old midfielder from the last year of his contract to allow him to return to his ...
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Why Aussies love Eurovision cheesefest
It is surely a great testament to the success of Australia's international broadcaster that Eurovision has acquired such a dedicated local following. Were it not for SBS's dedicated coverage, celebrating the 30-year anniversary of televising the event, it's likely the Australian following would not extend much further locally than handful of diehard European Australians in ...
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Battle of the Atlantic veterans head to UK
The 95-year-old was in his twenties when he piloted a Sunderland flying boat for the air force to secure allied supply routes in the Atlantic Ocean.To mark the campaign's 70th anniversary Mr Marrows will travel to England this week, alongside seven other veterans, to commemorate the British and Australian sacrifice.Sitting at Sydney's Hyde Park war memorial on Monday, Mr Marrows choked ...
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Bush search for missing Jarrahdale man
POLICE are concerned for the welfare of a 42-year-old Jarrahdale man who has not been seen since he left his home on Friday ...
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Police search for brothers missing in Wheatbelt
POLICE are frantically searching for two young boys who have gone missing in a small Wheatbelt town about 250km north-east of ...
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Exhausted 58-yr-old Aussie sailor rescued by cargo ship in middle of Pacific Ocean
A CONTAINER ship has rescued an exhausted 58-year-old Australian sailor off Christmas Island who called for help after the autopilot system on his vessel failed. The US Coast Guard says the Kota Wangi's crew rescued the man on Monday night. He was about 425 nautical miles off Christmas Island in Kiribati. Christmas Island is more than 1,300 nautical miles south of Honolulu. It is not to ...
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Drug traffickers targeting Australia
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia seized a record 23 tonnes of illicit drugs in 2011-2012 with arrests at a 10-year high, data showed on Monday, as officials warned the country had become a key target for traffickers.The annual Australian Crime Commission report showed the amount caught was up 154 percent on the previous year, boosted by a single 11 tonne bust of hypophosphorous acid in New South Wales ...
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Voss lauds Lions best win since 2009
Brisbane coach Michael Voss has hailed the Lions' 10-point boilover against over Essendon as the club's best victory in four years.Voss on Monday admitted the Lions' backs-to-the-wall win at Etihad Stadium, where they started $12 underdogs, outdid any other since they last made the AFL finals in 2009.That season, Voss's first in charge at the Gabba, Brisbane finished sixth ...
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Catholic Church slow to act on abuse
The Catholic Church has been slow to act against pedophile priests, Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart says."I would certainly say that the church has been slow to act," Archbishop Hart told a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into child ...
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Low rates to lift home building report
Residential building will increase strongly over the next three years as low interest rates release pent-up demand, a new report says.The Master Builders Australia report projects the value of residential building work done will grow from a forecast $46.2 billion in 2012/13 to $60.9 billion in 2015/16.Home building starts are predicted to rise to 164,000 in 2013/14, 179,000 in 2014/15 and ...
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Australia a target for illicit drugs
A record 23.8 tonnes of illicit drugs worth $5 billion were intercepted by Australian customs staff last year, including the highest number of performance and image enhancing substances for a decade.The strong dollar and demand for the drugs means criminal gangs around the world will continue to target the Australian market, authorities say.International narcotics syndicates are using ...
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Doping remains a threat to Australian sport ACC
Canberra 2600 The controversial drugs in sport report has been vindicated by record seizures of performance enhancing drugs, Australia's crime fighters say. And the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) says since the release of its drugs in sport report, imports into Australia have dropped.The ACC was criticised for a lack of specifics when it released its report in February.Many clubs and ...
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Record drug hauls including cannabis cocaine and steroids show Australia becoming narco hub
(28 mins ago) Australia seized a record 23 tonnes of illicit drugs in 2011-2012 with arrests at a 10-year high, data show, as officials warned the country had become a key target for traffickers. The annual Australian Crime Commission report showed the amount detected was up 154 percent on the previous year, boosted by a single 11 tonne bust of hypophosphorous acid in New South Wales state, ...
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NRL selection headaches for Broncos
Injured Brisbane five-eighth Scott Prince returned to training on Monday with no guarantees of starting Friday's NRL clash with a wounded Canterbury. Brisbane coach Anthony Griffin has several selection issues to sleep on before naming his side after Prince's five-eighth replacement Ben Hunt impressed in the Broncos' 32-6 win over Gold Coast on Friday. Adding to Griffin's ...
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Waterhouse $50m NRL deal dead reports
Bookmaker Tom Waterhouse's bid to become the NRL sports betting sponsor is reportedly dead in the water, with both parties walking away from negotiations. The NRL's Shane Mattiske has told the ABC's Four Corners - in a program to air on Monday night - the league had been negotiating with Waterhouse since early this year. "At our (Australian Rugby League) Commission meeting ...
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Record drug haul as steriods and hormones flood the market
Online shopping: More than 91 per cent of detections of steroids, hormones and peptides occurred in parcel post. Steroids and hormones are flooding into Australia compared to a decade ago and detections of amphetamines and ecstasy at the border increased by more than 50 per cent in a year, the annual report card of drug seizures has found. Detections of amphetamines and MDMA - known as ...
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Higher priority issues than GST ACCI
A key business lobby group doesn't believe there's a compelling case to broaden or increase the GST. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says there will be a review of taxation, including the 10 per cent, GST if the coalition wins the September election. But Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief economist Greg Evans does not believe a debate on the GST is a high priority. ...
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Elder slams NT forced adoption plan
An indigenous elder is pleading with Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles to scrap plans to address Aboriginal child neglect via forced adoptions. Mr Giles has warned that Aboriginal children are being left with neglectful parents for fear of creating another stolen generation. The first indigenous head of government in Australia has flagged placing Aboriginal kids in adopted homes if ...
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Cost of driving is becoming punitive in Brisbane
Is driving in Brisbane becoming punitively expensive? With the recent toll increases, on top of those made in 2006 and 2008, as well as last year, and the recent mis-management surrounding the privatisation of major roads in Sydney, it seems that using major roads in Brisbane is going to become even more expensive.
Brisbane, like many cities across Australia, is facing a mounting budget deficit in the wake of the near-crippling financial crisis and ensuing recession, as the state capital, it must also oversee Queensland’s plunge in revenues, which has created a budget deficit of over $2.3 billion for the state. Read more
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