Friday, April 27, 2012

Australian NEWS in ENGLISH.. Τα νέα στην αγγλική


Daughters pray for missing mum

Perth Now - 
Gerard Baden-Clay removes items from his Brookfield home. Picture: Nathan Richter Source: The Daily Telegraph SHE got up early every morning for a walk but Allison Baden-Clay always made sure she was home by the time her little girls woke.

Boat intercepted off West Australian coast

Business Spectator - 
An asylum-seeker boat, believed to be carrying around 60 people, has been intercepted off the coast of Western Australia. Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said the HMAS Maitland, under the control of Border Protection Command, stopped a "suspected ...

Abbott's union rort crackdown

The Australian - 
UNION officials who breach their legal duties face up to five years' imprisonment and $200000 personal fines under an Abbott government as the Liberal leader moves to exploit the Health Services Union scandal.

2GB forced to reveal its backers

The Age - 
THE Sydney talkback radio station 2GB - home to presenters Alan Jones and Ray Hadley - has failed in its bid to stop new rules that force it to reveal its advertising backers on air, despite a plea that it would be tantamount to an attack on freedom of ...

Mines amid the trees, it's not either ore

The Australian - 
Video Image Tarkine faces ongoing mining threat MINING would be checked - but not excluded - in Tasmania's Tarkine wilderness under a compromise that Environment Minister Tony Burke believes could win over opponents of the region's proposed heritage ...

Mac attack: bank joins call for rate cut

The Australian - 
< Prev of 2 Next > MACQUARIE Group chief executive Nicholas Moore has joined the growing chorus of corporate leaders calling for an interest rate cut next week to boost the nation's confidence and help export-reliant businesses that have been suffering ...

A word of advice: lay off the Reserve Bank

Sydney Morning Herald - 
For Australia, it's all coming down to bananas once again. The nation's 23 million people can be very touchy about references to the yellow fruit.

Taxpayers left in dark over public private partnerships

Sydney Morning Herald - 
A maze of companies obscures the money trail in Plenary's PPP deals, writes Michael West. They are the hotshots of structured finance, the corporate overlords of our public hospitals and high-security government buildings, army bases, courthouses and ...

Price battles see JB shares tumble

Herald Sun - 
JB HI-FI's share price has tumbled to its lowest level in three years after the electronics retailer stunned investors with a fresh profit warning.

Landmark Federal Court ruling rescues TV sport and reality shows

NEWS.com.au - 
BILLIONS of dollars worth of TV rights to the country's biggest sporting events, and reality shows like MasterChef, have been preserved, after a landmark ruling of the full Federal Court closed a legal loophole being exploited by Optus.

ACTIVISTS - this is the ship you're looking for.

Courier Mail - 
Just $50000 will get you the ship that inspired the radar-evading vessel that was the base of evil media mogul Elliot Carver in the 007 film Tomorrow Never Dies.

Snooki Has A Few Baby Names Picked Out

MTV.com - 
'It's gonna have a lot of aunts and uncles,' JWoww tells MTV News of Snooki's bun in the oven. By Jocelyn Vena (@jocelyn1212) Snooki is preparing for motherhood.

FIRST LOOK: Two photos revealed from Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained ...

Entertainment Weekly - 
by Anthony Breznican The song “Unchain My Heart” meant something very different when Jamie Foxx re-created it in 2004's Ray, but you could argue the title applies in a strange and more sinister way in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming revenge western Django ...

Carlton coach Brett Ratten praises players, but laments Fremantle comeback

Herald Sun - 
CARLTON coach Brett Ratten admitted last night's last quarter charge by Fremantle had him worried until the siren sounded at Patersons Stadium.

Kearney hides his Sandow axing

Fox Sports - 
By Josh Massoud, Tyson Otto Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Desperate to keep Chris Sandow's axing a secret, Eels coach Stephen Kearney chose not to disclose his plans at a club board meeting on ...

Black Caviar's moment to shine at Morphettville Racecourse

Adelaide Now - 
Trainer Peter Moody faces the media as the champion horse Black Caviar showed off ahead of her big race in Adelaide. Champion mare Black Caviar with strapper Donna Fisher at Morphettville Racecourse on Friday.

Brumbies too clinical for Lions

The Australian - 
THE Brumbies pulled six points clear at the top of the Super Rugby Australian conference with a sparkling 34-20 win over the Lions in Johannesburg.

Niwot chases Sydney Cup miracle

The Daily Telegraph - 
NIWOT, who had an injury so severe that veterinarians said he would never race again, can complete one of the most extraordinary comebacks by winning the $500000 Sydney Cup at Royal Randwick today.

ABC: even worse than the BBC

Telegraph.co.uk (blog) - 
By James Delingpole Environment Last updated: April 27th, 2012 Those of you who don't live in Australia will be lucky enough to have missed last night's travesty of a documentary I Can Change Your Mind About Climate Change by the Aussies' ...

CSG company leaks fluid into Qld river

BigPond News - 
Drilling fluid linked to a CSG project has leaked into a Qld river that is part of the Murray-Darling Basin. Drilling fluid linked to a CSG project has leaked into a Queensland river that is part of the Murray-Darling Basin.

Quantum simulator can outperform a universe-sized computer

DVICE - 
We always knew that one day, quantum computers would be powerful enough to blow traditional processors out of the water. A new quantum simulator from the University of Sydney has, and we're quoting here, "the potential to perform calculations that ...

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