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Dec 27, 2011

AUSTRALIA Summer News, Dec 27, 2011


World's best doing battle for $30 million this summer
Herald Sun
Now 30, Federer's 16th slam came in Melbourne in 2010, but fellow four-times Australian Open champion Ken Rosewall says it'd be foolish to back against the father of two breaking his two-year drought next month. "He's got to have a lot of good things ...
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Australia on New Year's Eve: How Aussies Will Boogie Down, Down Under
Jaunted
New Years Eve plans don't have to include ways to stay warm while singing Auld Lang Syne, or fighting for a cab in a snowstorm. it'ssummer down under in Australia! And some time spent with friends and family on a beach or dining alfresco while ...
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Jaunted
Summer prices buck trend
Weekly Times Now
Evidence of this is seen in the fact that the current December price for the EYCI is 31 per cent higher than the five-year average, according to Meat and Livestock Australia. So what does it mean for producers, especially those using historical price ...
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Weekly Times Now
Haddin at ease with no-ball rule
Sportal.com.au
At the time, the decision reversal was a gut-wrenching blow for Australia as Dravid (68 not out) and Sachin Tendulkar (73) threatened to put the tourists in total control of the match with their unbeaten 106-run third-wicket partnership having India ...
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It's just not cricket
The Australian (blog)
THE Boxing Day Test match is synonymous with the Australian summer. For the crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and those watching on television and listening to the radio, the highlight has been a spirited debut by Australianbatsman Ed Cowan. ...
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Cargill comes to the fore
Stock and Land
This financial year Cargill expects to handle up to 8.5m tonnes of the Australianwinter and summer grain crop (up from 2.5m last year), including about a third of the total wheat export task shared between 24 registered traders. ...
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Sydney Sixers and Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins may withdraw from next ...
The Daily Telegraph
I've said the whole time that playing for Australia is my number one goal. "I don't want anything to impact on that. Looking to the future, I might have to reassess my options." The Penrith paceman's second thoughts will come as a relief to purists who ...
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Hospital a basket case, says AMA
The Age
THE Australian Medical Association has warned Victorians to avoid Frankston Hospital - one of the largest in Melbourne - after it closed a 30-bed ward due to a lack of government funding. The hospital, which comes under extra pressure at this time of ...
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The Age
India justified in refusal of DRS - Ganguly
Sydney Morning Herald
As debate over India's decision to snub an updated, high-tech review system, along with Hot Spot and Eagle Eye, in Australia thissummer continued yesterday, Ganguly said the Board of Control for Cricket in India had made the right call. ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Where might you travel in 2012?
St. George Daily Spectrum
It is summer in the land down under and the perfect time to explore Australia and New Zealand. There are amazing land tours where we take care of every detail. Explore the Outback, the Great Barrier Reef, beautiful Sydney Harbor and the rugged Blue ...
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Elle MacPherson Sports a Hot White Bikini for a Beachy Christmas in Australia
PopSugar.com (blog)
It's Summer Down Under, where Aussie-native Elle joined her family for the holiday. Elle spends most of her time home in the UK with her two boys running her ever-expanding Elle Macpherson intimates line. Elle was not nearly the only star who enjoyed a ...
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Scott Johnson excited by Scotland challenge
BBC Sport
Johnson joined Ospreys in the summer of 2009, having coached with the Australian, Welsh and US national sides. Scottish Rugby's chief executive Mark Dodson said: "I believe this is a significant appointment for Scottish Rugby. ...
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BBC Sport
Teenager aiming to be a cut above
Otago Daily Times
Held for the first time in Cromwell, the competition formed part of the Southland-Otago Axemen's Association's summer circuit, staged at five different venues, which concludes in Tuatapere on New Year's Day. About 40 axemen and axewomen took part in ...
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Otago Daily Times
Ricky Ponting's promising innings is not enough to silence the critics
The Australian
Still, by the standards of other first-day Australian Test pitches this summer, this was a featherbed. That's what made the end, when it came, so stunning and unexpected. Ponting couldn't believe it. Even while his brain was processing the dismissal, ...
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Year of the sequel
Newcastle Herald
3 on the list of Australia's all-time money-spinners, eclipsing the three Lord of the Rings movies and behind only Avatar ($115.5million) and Titanic ($57.6million). HP 7.2 also recorded the biggest ever opening weekend at Australian cinemas ...
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A sunny summer for housing
Business Spectator
I've also highlighted AFG's housing finance numbers for November, which were the best it has recorded since March 2009 (AFG is Australia's largest mortgage broker). Both the AFG and ABS data intimate to a revitalisation of first time buyer activity at ...
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Would you like E.coli with that?
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
Compared to previous generations we tend to eat more food that's raw, or lightly cooked - and more food that's travelled long distances – so we need to be cautious, especially in summer, Madden points out. Australia's food safety record is good – but ...
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Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
Guardian Weekly Letters, 30 December 2011
The Guardian
Geoff Mullen Sydney, Australia • In his push for a "tough message" to be sent to the summer looters, David Cameron seems to have succumbed to an 18th-century atavism that treats crime against property with undue severity. He harks back to atime when ...
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Japanese whalers dressed for battle
Stuff.co.nz
The security men are part of Japan's multimillion-dollar bid to protect the whalers this summer in the expected clash with Sea Shepherd activists. The images were taken southwest of Western Australia, where the two Japanese ships are tagging the Sea ...
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Stuff.co.nz
Northern Ireland Clipper crew battle a cyclone
Belfast Telegraph
It marked a challenging start to race seven in the series as it got under way fromAustralia's Gold Coast to Singapore. Just after the boats took off on Christmas Eve they encountered tropical Cyclone Fina as it tracked down the Queensland coast of ...
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Heroes and zeroes in Confidential Awards
Courier Mail
Tayshus was outraged that we hadn't heard of "the most famous comedian inAustralia" and demanded to speak with our superiors. This was despite the fact we were four years old when he had something of a hit in 1983 for his comedy single Australiana, ...
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WTA - Top women headed to Brisbane and Auckland to kick off new season
Tennis World - the place for Tennis News and Tennis Tournament
Williams and Clijsters will both be playing their first tournaments since the summer hardcourt season. "I'm really looking forward to coming back to Brisbane in 2012," Clijsters said. "The last time I was there I played extremely well. ...
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Jolliffes' special fertiliser
Weekly Times Now
Their optimism is based on a field trial in a summer millet crop that showed a 22m-wide strip with no compost applied visually required a drink before the rest of the paddock. The Jolliffes irrigate pastures and crops with a 44ha fixed pivot and an ...
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Weekly Times Now
Big Winners of 2011: Dany Torres
Red Bull (International)
Dany also took the bronze medal in Los Angeles in the Summer X Games 17. Heading into the final event of the season in Sydney,Australia, two-time defending Red Bull X-Fighters champion, Nate Adams, held what looked like a solid lead over Dany, ...
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Red Bull (International)
King tides predict climate change sea level rises
ABC Online
By Neroli Roocke A Queensland government project is interested in summerholiday beach photos taken around the time of king tides. King tides are the highest tides of the year and one of the biggest is forecast for January - although already over ...
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Rooftop soccer, outdoor movies: The new strip mall?
Globe and Mail
Imagine a strip mall that allows pedestrians to walk up a ramp onto a grassy rooftop to play soccer in the summer and toboggan in the winter. Picture these mundane suburban retail spaces transformed into greenhouses, outdoor movie theatres or the ...
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Globe and Mail
The 11 Top Biofuels Trends of 2011
Biofuels Digest
At the end of last summer, Coskata CSO Rathin Datta didn't exactly descend into the lion's den, when choosing to present this strongly positive view on ethanol at the Fuel Ethanol Workshop in Indianapolis. It's sort of like praising Cal Ripken Jr. in...
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Frenchman Richard Gasquet arrives in Perth ahead of Hopman Cup
Herald Sun
"It's always tough when you're coming from another place to Australia (because of the heat). "I played one time in mixed doubles and I won Roland Garros, so I think I like it, I've never lost in the mixed doubles." Gasquet will partner Marion Bartoli ...
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Tom Richardson - Surrey and England
Cricket Web (blog)
There were 246 wickets at 16 in an Australian summer when he was instrumental in England winning the three match series 2-1. In the first Test at Lord's a fast and true wicket promised a good match for batsmen, but Australia were undone by what was one ...
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Cricket Web (blog)
New cricket technology still a blessing and a blight
TVNZ
Each summer Channel 9 introduces a new piece of technology that enhances the viewing experience, and one that ruins it. And it's a resounding "thumbs down" for the Vodafone Viewer Verdict, which really just confirms that your averageAustralian punter ...
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Warner almost gave up on NSW cricket
Fox Sports
He signed a new three-year deal with NSW and in his maiden first-class outing thissummer for the Blues, the Matraville Mauler hammered 148 from 185 balls against South Australia. The innings propelled Warner into the Australia A team. ...
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Sydney Sixers pair Brett Lee and Dwayne Bravo ruin Shane Warne's farewell at ...
The Daily Telegraph
But last night the SCG turnstyles swung in merry testament to Australia's most prolific bowler, who might just have farewelled Moore Park on a rare losing note. Uncommitted to the Big Bash League beyond this summer, Warne was left stranded with his ...
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The perils of imitating Shane Warne
DAWN.com
“Four times a week I would turn up at exactly quarter to three with Billy Watson (who coincidentally would go on to play for Australiahimself) and practice in the same net.” Numerous others would show up at their own leisure to replace Billy, ...
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DAWN.com
Review of the year - Sportsmail looks back at an action-packed 2011: August
Daily Mail
Newcastle striker Shola Ameobi signed a two-year contract extension to tie him to the club until summer 2014. Wales lost 2-1 to Australia at Cardiff City Stadium, Scotland beat Denmark 2-1, Northern Ireland beat the Faroe Islands 4-0 and the Republic ...
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Pregnant Sheree Murphy enjoys a leisurely stroll with the family as she counts ...
Daily Mail
The footballer, 33, was dressed for summer in a blue T-shirt and shorts. Later the family went to the cinema to see Happy Feet 2, and stumbled across a poster of Kewell modelling for an Australianclothing company. Christmas present? ...
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Daily Mail
Yukon permafrost yields answers to mysteries
Vancouver Sun
As much as Froese had vowed he was going to stay home last summer, his wife knew that he wouldn't be able to resist when Beets told him about the ancient wedge of permafrost he planned to dig into. Froese had been eyeing it for years. As it turned out, ...
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Yahoo! Contributor Network
Yahoo! Sports
Contributor Network 12 hours, 15 minutes ago New Zealand is about the size of the state of Colorado, and the beautiful nation is home to 12 disc golf courses with the sport growing quickly there as well in Australia. In just over a month, ...
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Summer time, and the swimming is easy | The Australian
COAST to coast yesterday, the nation took the day off to swim and feast -- whether with seafood, turkey or a barbecue -- and as always, charities made sure that ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/.../story-e6frg6nf-1226230295360
Summer time, and the swimming is easy
COAST to coast yesterday, the nation took the day off to swim and feast -- whether with seafood, turkey or a barbecue -- and as always, charities made sure that ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/.../story-e6frg6nf-1226230295360
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
Australian Cattle Prices Reach All-Time High as Buyers Seek ...
Cattle prices in Australia, the second-biggest beef exporter, jumped to a record as processors and feeders sought to secure supply over the summer months and ...
www.bloomberg.com/.../australian-cattle-prices-reach-all-time-...
Cold Australian summer sees swimwear profits plummet - Telegraph
Australia's coldest summer in decades has dampened the mood for Christmas ...head out in swimwear to the country's magnificent beaches at this time of year. ...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/ ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Cold-Australian-summer-sees-swimwe...
Federer set for Indian summer – News - Tennis Australia
The resurgent Roger Federer is primed to serve up a treat over summer inAustralia. ... but fellow four-times Australian Open champion Ken Rosewall says it 'd be ...
www.tennis.com.au/news/2011/.../federer-set-for-indian-summ...
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 grim news of rising road tolls. Earlier this year the Federal ...
www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-16/staying-safe.../3735864
agoda.com Super Aussie Summer Deals – Limited Time only! (Tvinx ...
... announced a selection of super hotel specials for the Australian summertime.... Released: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 05:23 UTC Type of news: Good ...
www.tvinx.com/agoda_com_super_aussie_summer_deals_–_li...
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