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AUSTRALIA Summer News, Mar 20, 2012

Time to intensify snail control measures
Stock and Land
Unusually moist and cool summer-autumn conditions over the past couple of years have resulted in a sharp rise in snail populations and activity, leading to significant crop damage. Grains industry and entomology authorities are advising growers and ...
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'Nightline' Daily Line, March 20: 'Hunger Games' Star Liam Hemsworth
ABC News (blog)
Forget spring it's like summertime outside in New York City. We're expected to hit 80 degrees by Thursday. 2:01 pm ET: Oh Glory-ious day. Daily Beast reports that Beyonce has announced a new round of concert tours — the first since she gave birth to ...
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ABC News (blog)
Australian legend Michael Lynagh believes Wales can win Test series in Australia
WalesOnline
By Delme Parfitt FORMER World Cup winning fly-half Michael Lynagh last insisted Grand Slam champions Wales are capable of breaking new ground by winning in Australia this summer. The man who helped steer the Wallabies to the Webb Ellis Trophy in 1991, ...
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Company tax is close to highest
The Australian
As Wayne Swan ruefully noted last week, the biggest problem he confronted at the time was what to do with massive budget surpluses. By the time the Henry review was delivered over the summer of 2009-10, the budget was deep in deficit.
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Humphries to retire Dame Edna after summer stage tour
BreakingNews.ie
Dame Edna Everage, the Tony Award-winning drag act known for her purple hair and oversized rhinestone eyeglasses, will soon open her final stage show tour in Australia. Publicist Kerry O'Brien said today that Barry Humphries – the actor and satirist ...
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Mooney leads from the front in NZ
Gympie Times
Mooney, who played for the Cavaliers men's team in the Fraser Coast Cricket A-grade competition whenever time and commitments allowed during thesummer, led Australia to an impressive four-wicket win against the New Zealand Emerging Players in a ...
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China Halts Stock Rally
Wall Street Journal (blog)
An executive from Australia's mining giant BHP Billiton warned demand for iron ore from China will flatten as the world's second-biggest economy slows. Couple that with an announcement from China that it will raise domestic gasoline and diesel prices ...
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Magical craft a transport to joy
The Australian
YOU may have seen the kooky travelogue of Endless Summer, the serious dramatisations in Big Wednesday and Point Break, and possibly glimpsed drug-inspired hippie movies such as Morning of the Earth. If you're a surfer, you would also have seen hundreds ...
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Ben Hollioake: a glorious talent that never got the chance to wither
The Guardian
It is a distinct and at times almost rather plaintive romantic attachment, often remaining entirely undimmed by age or statistical evidence. Cricketers have an advantage in this regard: they are destined always to remind you of summer, to occupy some ...
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The Guardian
Glamorgan sign Aussie bowler Hogan
AFP
LONDON — Western Australia fast bowler Michael Hogan confirmed on Tuesday he has signed a three-year contract with British county cricket side Glamorgan. "I am thrilled to be joining Glamorgan. I have always been keen to play cricket in the UK and am ...
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AFP
Glamorgan snap up Hogan
EatSleepSport
Western Australia paceman Michael Hogan has agreed to join Glamorgan for the next three seasons and will arrive at the start of July. The 30-year-old will not count as an overseas player as he holds a British passport and he agreed to move to the ...
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Fracking and the company that's exploring the depths of Fermanagh
Belfast Telegraph
The Australian company is eyeing a £6bn investment which it says could create 600 full-time direct jobs and more than 2400 indirect posts. Tamboran claims that the projected production of up to 2.2trn cubic feet of shale gas would remove Northern ...
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Water skills extreme in Mandurah extravaganza
The West Australian
The games incorporated the first Australian International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (IWWF) World Cup Stop. An enthusiastic crowd gathered on the foreshore in Mandurah to watch the action as light winds and perfect weather greeted competitors ...
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The West Australian
from an Irish lad to football hero
Herald Sun
"Football was a natural outlet for my energy and I was playing a form of football from the time I was six or seven years of age," Stynes wrote in his autobiography Whatever It Takes. "We dented cars, smashed lights, bent gates and cracked the odd ...
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Bicycle hour starts today at 6 pm: Get on your bikes
Toronto Star
By David Graham Living reporter A group of Australian cyclists is hoping to make the world a safer place for bikes today. For one hour from 6 to 7 pm anyone who owns a bicycle anywhere in the world is encouraged to strap on a helmet and hit the street, ...
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Toronto Star
Shane Williams: Grand Slam should just be the start for Wales
Metro
Wales may still be celebrating a Grand Slam but coach Warren Gatland will already be planning for the summer tour of Australia. He will believe, as I do, that there is more to come from this team and will be working hard to improve key areas.
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Metro
Australian swimmers set seven world records en route to London 2012
insideworldparasport
The records have yet to be ratified by International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming, but two belong to eight time Paralympic gold medal winner Matthew Cowdrey (pictured). The S9 swimmer beat his own record in the 100 metres freestyle, ...
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Brett Hawke to coach Bahamas at Olympics!
Nassau Guardian
Bahamian Olympic swimmer Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace is expected to benefit from the presence of her collegiate coach, Brett Hawke, on The Bahamas' swim team at the 2012 SummerOlympics. FILE PHOTOS Former Olympic swimmer for Australiaand current Head ...
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Nassau Guardian
Decision time for British windsurfer, Bryony Shaw
Dorset Echo
The former Weymouth schoolgirl, who represents Great Britain at thissummer's Games on home waters, has not let the setback get her down. She joked that if she does compete she will be 'the most rested athlete' on the race course.
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Harmony Day in Albury
ABC Local
When Thakur Adhikari walked into his first Maths class in Australia, he'd never used a calculator before. He blurted out an answer to a times table question while the rest of his class were punching in numbers. They are in their final year of school ...
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Water skills extreme in Mandurah extravaganza
The West Australian
The games incorporated the first Australian International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (IWWF) World Cup Stop. An enthusiastic crowd gathered on the foreshore in Mandurah to watch the action as light winds and perfect weather greeted competitors ...
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The West Australian
Sam the man 'to skipper Lions'
South Wales Argus
A dead leg and a knee problem also plagued the 23-year-old during this year's Grand Slam and Warburton faces a race against time to be fit for Wales' three-Test tour of Australia in June. “Warburton may have had injuries, but when he has been fit he ...
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PORTER ROBINSON Brings His Spitfire Tour To Europe - Details Announced!‏
Altsounds.com
Having blown away fans in both America and Australia, the time has now come for Porter Robinson to bring his monumental Spitfire Tour to Europe where he'll spend much of the summer. Taking in over 20 shows, 14 countries and smashing every major city in ...
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Warburton upbeat for Aussie prospects
Setanta Sports Ireland
by Setanta Staff , 19 March 2012 Wales captain Sam Warburton is optimistic that he will be able to lead the Grand Slam winners on their tour of Australia this summer. The 23-year-old was forced out of Saturday's 16-9 victory over France at half-time ...
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Setanta Sports Ireland
Mazda CX-5: Diesel Review
CarAdvice
By Tim Beissmann | March 20th, 2012 The Mazda CX-5 finally fills what has been a gaping hole in Mazda Australia's line-up by becoming the brand's first diesel-powered passenger vehicle with an automatic transmission. WhileAustralians have warmed to ...
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Sportsday - Breaking sports newsLive
BBC Sport
What have you made of O'Neill's progress in the Stadium of Light hot-seat, and who should he look to sign in the summer to take them to the next level? Tweet using the hashtag #bbcsportsday. Chilean golfer Felipe Aguilar will become the first ...
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"John Carter": Disney's Turn for a Big Loss
Forbes
In Russia, “John Carter” has made $16 million–they love it! Who cares if it doesn't make sense? Australians dug it, but they like a good time, mate. Think of “Crocodile Dundee.” Or Baz Luhrmann's “Australia.” But here, in the real world, so to speak, ...
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Forbes
Robbo is still the man for Slam hero Hastings
Glasgow Evening Times
We have a summer tour starting with Australia at the Ausgrid Stadium, New South Wales on June 5, then we head to the South Pacific to play Test matches against Fiji and Samoa and I think he should have the opportunity to take charge of that tour.
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From Vienna with love
The Canberra Times
They'll arrive back in Australia this month for a visit to catch up with family and friends and to perform a number of engagements. ''It's important to know people in Vienna to get an audition,'' Connor says, ''but if you're good enough people will go ...
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Sam Warburton fears injury may rule him out of Wales's summer tour
Here Is The City
I knew then I would have to go off at half-time. I have not watched the game back yet and will have to do so to see if it triggers something in my memory. "I remember competing at a ruck and Williams Servat running in head first but I get stingers in ...
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Here Is The City
Jonny Jacobsen: A Q&A with Europe's Premier Scientology Blogger
Village Voice (blog)
The Times' coverage - from the initial three-part investigation into violence at Int Base in the summer of 2009, to its more recent breakdown of Scientology's relentless hard-sell tactics - has been thorough, meticulous and impressive in its scale.
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Nindooinbah commanding attention
Stock and Land
"We just couldn't do that in Australia, because what they are doing in South America is so far beyond what we, as an industry, are even attempting," he said. Since summer 2006, Nindoo-inbah has mated 9057 head through embryo transfer and artificial ...
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Mendham Mother/Daughter Partner To Make Movie
Patch.com
Mooney and Kelly journeyed around the world in the summer of 2010, capturing the stories of eleven subjects on six continents. They filmed in Uganda, Poland, Russia, Nepal, Thailand, Australia, Peru, Argentina and the United States.
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Sailing in Marin: As Oracle's tactician, Kostecki in perfect position for 2013 ...
Marin Independent-Journal
(Oracle Racing photo/Guilian Grenier) Guilain GRENIER YOU HAVE to be loving life when on-the-job-training requires spending time in the warmth of the southern hemisphere summer, whipping up a wake aboard A Class catamarans on a lake much bigger than ...
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batsmen all know their orders
The Southland Times
His response was that India had recently been thrashed in a test series by Australia, with England suffering the same fate at the hands of Pakistan. Teams lose test matches, he said, without adding that New Zealand ought to be beaten nine times out of ...
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The Southland Times
Watson: Top order to blame
sportal.co.in
Watson, who is deputising for the injured Michael Clarke, scored 25 asAustralia managed a poor total of 9-154 in their five-wicket loss to the West Indies on Monday morning. It was the second time this series that Watson made a steady start to his ...
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INDIA'S NATIONAL MAGAZINE
Frontline
With experts and laymen alike calling for a revamp of the Indian team after eight successive overseas Test defeats, including four in England last summer, Dravid, 39, chose to step down and make way for others. But unlike the time when Dravid made it ...
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Frontline
Netball: Irvine scoops top award
Larne Times
The multi-talented Jordanstown woman, who wrote a column for the Newtownabbey Times last summer during the Netball World Cup, collected the Senior Female Personality Award at a recent gala dinner held at Belfast City Hall. Although the 27-year-old, ...
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Larne Times
Ricky Ponting: Wanted by Somerset
Sportinglife.com
But with another overseas spot set to open up in the final months of the LV= County Championship campaign, Rose is keen to bring the Australia great back to the team where he spent a brief spell in 2004. "Ricky Ponting had a great time for Somerset and...
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Sportinglife.com
'Lullaby' singer to join Michelle Malone in April for Decatur's concert series...
The Huntsville Times - al.com
Other well-known tunes include “All In My Head” that was featured in the popular comedy TV show “Scrubs” and “Shimmer,” which was used on “Dawsons Creek” and in Australia for its promotional campaign during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
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The Huntsville Times - al.com
Shane Williams backing Wales heroes to take on southern giants
This is South Wales
"They will have a tough tour to Australia in the summer and they will be a squad potentially in 2015 that can go on and win (in the World Cup)." He added: "You have to work really hard to achieve a Grand Slam. It's a fantastic occasion.
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The life and times of Jim Stynes
Melbourne FC
Stynes represents Victoria for the first time in State of Origin football against Western Australia. It is the first of 10 appearances in the Big V. Stynes also earns his bachelor of education degree. 1989: Stynes plays in Melbourne's second ...
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How to survive the daylight saving time switch - Montreal - CBC News
"Until now, most of the impact of daylight saving time has been anecdotal," Roach told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "One of science's aims is to find ...
www.cbc.ca/news/.../03/.../f-daylight-saving-time-spring.html
ABC Asia Pacific News:Stories:Western Australia on tropical cyclone ...
Western Australia on tropical cyclone alert. Tropical Cyclone Lua - Track Map 5 36am Western Australia Summer Time, Saturday 17 ...
abcasiapacificnews.com/stories/201203/3455789.htm?desktop
Perth swelters through record heatwaves - ABC News (Australian ...
Perth is sweltering through the eighth heatwave of the summer and autumn seasons, the first time such an event has happened since records started being kept ...
www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-11/perth...record.../3882394
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