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AUSTRALIA Summer News, Dec 20, 2011


Cold Australian summer sees swimwear profits plummet
Telegraph.co.uk
Australia's coldest summer in decades has dampened the mood for Christmas shopping and led to plummeting profits for swimwear and clothing stores. Australiansusually head out in swimwear to the country's magnificent beaches at this time of year. ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Time to call for Cowan
ESPNcricinfo.com
At a time when Australia's Test batting line-up is faltering, Cowan cannot be ignored. At 29, he is mature enough, skilful enough, and in-form enough for Test cricket. The question is not whether he should play at the MCG, but how to squeeze him into ...
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Hitting the high notes
Hindustan Times
There was once a time when the Ashes was the most important series for Australia, a clash against Pakistan the most important for India. Then came the summer of 2001, and it changed the way the nations played and viewed the game. ...
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Hindustan Times
Novak Djokovic begins his Open campaign in the Middle East. Source: AFP
The Australian
... Gael Monfils and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and consistent Spaniard David Ferrer, will then play the Qatar Open in Doha, an event carrying almost three times the prizemoney on offer for the Brisbane International, which starts Australia's tennis summer. ...
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Aussies Shiver In Coldest Summer For 50 Years
Sky News
Temperatures have barely reached the seasonal average of 25 degrees since the official start to summer on December 1. The sunshine and clear blue skies Australiansusually enjoy at this time of year have instead been replaced by rain, wind and plenty...
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Sky News
Police launch $3m summer crime blitz
Perth Now
BLITZ: Police will spend more time on the beat this summer during a $3m crime crackdown. Picture: File Source: PerthNow WA Police officers will spend an extra 36000 hours on the beat oversummer as part of a blitz on car thieves, drug dealers and ...
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Singing the blues in the greys
The Australian
Much of Western Australia is likely to experience a wetter summer season than usual, but large areas of central and southern Australia are more likely to be drier than average, the bureau's forecast says. Southeastern Australia can expect warmer days ...
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Salivating over an Indian summer
Back Page Lead
Chappell's brief and ill-fated time as coach of the Indian national team is testament to the anomalous relationship between Australia and India. Something strange often happens when these two countries come together on a cricket field. ...
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Will Australian cricket selectors ever get the hint?
The Roar
Peter Siddle has also been solid this summer and deserves to keep his spot for the time being. As the lone spin bowler in the side, Nathan Lyon is very good at coming in at the end of an innings and seems to have a knack for cleaning up the tail-end ...
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Former Australia paceman Jason Gillespie dizzy with expectation at Yorkshire
Telegraph.co.uk
Jason Gillespie insisted on Thursday that Yorkshire will be serious contenders in all competitions next summer. By Jim White “I believe that this Yorkshire squad is capable of winning a lot of cricket matches,” said the former Australian Test stalwart...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Australian cricket: where to from here?
ABC Online
The Australian public was rocked by the team's second consecutive Ashes series loss last summer. Since then, the side has stuttered along with some of the performances simply not good enough. An innings of 47 cost it the Cape Town Test and the batting ...
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ABC Online
SIA to add more capacity to Australia
Ninemsn
The Singaporean national flag carrier's northern summer schedule showed the number of flights between Singapore and Adelaide would increase to 10 per week, up from seven per week the sametime last year. The Singapore-Brisbane and Singapore-Perth ...
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C'mon Australia, salute our Diggers
Herald Sun
They will go out on patrol and scan their arcs and sectors, all the time making sure their mates next to them are safe. Instead of stepping out into their backyard for that quintessential Australianbarbecue, or on to their favourite beach, ...
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Cruel to be unkind. A softly, deadly asylum policy
ABC Online
After the weekend's tragic loss of asylum seeker life, it seems inevitable that the familiar charge and counter charge of the Australian refugee debate will soon fill the political vacuum of this early summer. It is no secret that Julia Gillard's ...
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ABC Online
Australian tennis ace Samantha Stosur overcomes Russian hurdle
Herald Sun
She could also come up against US Open runner-up Serena Williams, ranked 12th, and Italy's Francesca Schiavone, who defeated the Australian to the French Open title in 2010. "It's an incredible first week of the Australian summer," he said. ...
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Shane Warne makes disappointing return to cricket in Big Bash League as David ...
Telegraph.co.uk
The Big Bash is scheduled to last for the next five weeks - Australia's summerholidays - at the same time the Australia Test side face a four-Test series against India and attempt to arrest their downward spiral. Australia have sunk to fourth in the...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Saltspring's Clarke sails into Olympics
Victoria Times Colonist
This time it won't be in Finn class, as in the 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Summer Games. Clarke and partner Tyler Bjorn of Beaconsfield, Que., qualified for London 2012 on Sunday by finishing 10th in Star class at the 2011 ...
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USTA Australian Open Wild Card Play-off race kicks off in Norcross
TheSportsCampus.com
"But I got to experience that for the first time earlier this summer at this same club (Atlanta Tennis Championships). Even though it's 35 or 40 miles it's always good to sleep in your own bed and be close to home." Ginepri said this was his first real ...
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Crane sets London Olympics sails, qualifies in Australia for 2012 Games
Darien Times
Sailor Rob Crane's lifelong voyage has taken him, now, from starting out locally at the Noroton Yacht Club, all the way to a top-of-the-world class berth at next summer's London Olympic Games. Crane, 26 from Darien, made the cut by scoring a first and ...
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Master's stroke: Tendulkar's fine form suggests more to come
Sydney Morning Herald
Sachin Tendulkar might have missed out on a century yesterday but everything he did suggests he is ready to continue his love affair with Australian pitches. While Ricky Ponting heads towards his 37th birthday on Monday unsure whether father time has ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Could this Xmas be a turkey?
Sydney Morning Herald
''If it was a hot summer people would have been buying bikinis,'' says David Jones corporate affairs manager Helen Karlis. ''It's the coldest summer we've had in 50 years.'' Cool weather may also be behind 30 per cent discounts on frocks for VIP ...
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Sehwag and Zaheer could decide this series
Hindustan Times
Most of Australia's memorable moments of late have been provided by the younger brigade and the selectors' gaze should be focused forward and not in the rearview mirror. It's time for Michael Clarke to shoulder an extra responsibility and claim the No ...
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Going back to Australia's Twenty20 roots
ESPNcricinfo.com
And whilst the skeptics continue to question the concept of a franchise-based competition shoe-horned into the heart of a fascinating Australian Test summer, the lessons that can be gleaned from the first Twenty20 ever played in Australia are quite...
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ESPNcricinfo.com
There are property bargains on offer across the nation
The Australian
In order they are: units in the NSW central coast town of The Entrance (-16.2 per cent); houses in Western Australia's Mandurah (-14.9 per cent); units in Mooloolaba on Queensland's Sunshine Coast (-14.8 per cent); houses in Whyalla in South Australia ...
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Skipper Dhoni wins over Indians in Australia
Cricketnext.com
Dhoni continued: "More often than not, you watch some really strong advertisements in the lead-up to an India-Australia series. The advertisement said: 'It is winter out there, and summer out here, so get ready to feel the heat Down Under. ...
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Perpetual Appoints Williams as Sevior Departs
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Mr. Sevior described his combined time off as a “never-ending summer” given he escaped the majority of Australia's winter by studying politics and playing the occasional cricket game at Cambridge University and walking through the Swiss Alps. “I ...
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Athletics Australia forced to allay fears after merging of events
Herald Sun
The most commonly expressed concern is that elite overseas athletes invited by AA to spice up the Melbourne meet may in various ways change the competition for local Olympic hopefuls, either by turning certain track races into virtual time trials or, ...
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What's on the TV for Summer?
Central Queensland news
Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta will look at how the Vietnamese community found its place in multicultural Australia. Starting in February will be action comedy series Danger 5, set in a bizarre, 1960s-inspired fantasy Second World War, complete with ...
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Political fight begins over asylum deaths
The Australian
Budget flights: BUDGET airlines are lifting their international flights this summer as a growing number of us take advantage of our strong dollar to go overseas. Hello Doha: AUSTRALIA has claimed a breakthrough in talks to lift global trade, ...
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Australia winter for 2012 hopeful Pavoni
Eurosport.com ASIA
"I was extremely happy last summer to make the World Championships and I when I was there I made the final which was a dream come true for me - I never thought I would be in the top eight in the world. "My performance in the final wasn't as good as I...
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Eurosport.com ASIA
Cricket: Australia holds 'batsmen boot camp'
New Zealand Herald
``We've inherited a schedule that's there,'' Howard said of the lack of four-day matches in Australia in a reworked calendar this summer. ``The schedule is the schedule, we need to deal with it.'' Players contracted to the national team will be ...
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News|Summer at QPAC||ArtsHub Australia
This award-winning adaption drawn from the beloved books of Australia's own ... at the Lyric Theatre QPAC, Brisbane for a strictly limited summer time season. ...
www.artshub.com.au/au/news.../arts/summer-at-qpac-186863
Snakes alive in summer - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting ...
Snakes alive in summer ... Source: ABC News | Duration: 5min 14sec ...AEDT = Australian ...
www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-15/snakes-alive.../3732374
Staying safe on the roads this summer - ABC News (Australian ...
ELEANOR BELL: Come the holiday season and the good times are often tempered with the grimnews of rising road tolls. Earlier this year the Federal ...
www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-16/staying-safe.../3735864
Lukewarm summer forecast - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting ...
If you have inside knowledge of a topic in the news, contact the ABC News ... AEDT = AustralianEastern Daylight Savings Time which is 11 hours ahead of UTC ...
www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-15/20111215.../3731982
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