The Splendour In The Grass lineup will be released next week – if triple j’s Lindsay McDougall isn’t having us on. On Tuesday, during his drivetime show, he teased “No words on who’s playing Splendour In The Grass – we’ll find that out next week.” So was he just adding to all the rumour, after so many…
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Passengers aboard P&O’s cruise ship Pacific Pearl were the first to trial the new $57-million passenger terminal at White Bay this week. The White Bay terminal, located in the inner-west suburb of Rozelle, replaces the temporary Wharf 5 site known as Barangaroo. With the capacity to hold three cruise ships simultaneously, White Bay is set…
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Iran’s most powerful earthquake in 50 years has rocked Pakistan, India and the Gulf states. Casualties, however, were slight because the quake struck deep, about 90 kilometres down, and near the remote, sparsely populated border with Pakistan. Pakistani officials reported that more than 30 people died in a border community, but expect the toll may…
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80′s actress Molly Ringwald is heading to Australia as one of the star attractions for this year’s writers festival. Writers, editors, bloggers and the like gathered at last night’s program launch at The Rocks in Sydney. Festival organisers are promising this year’s guests will take audiences back to the basics of storytelling. – Presented by…
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The former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher passed away on Monday, aged 87. The woman who changed the face of Britain forever had long been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and had largely withdrawn from public life. She suffered a stroke at the weekend while staying at London’s Ritz Hotel and died soon after. – Report by Patrick…
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Melbourne artist Warren Lane has won the $7500 Bald Archy first prize with his portrait of Gina Rhinehart and her daughter Ginia. Lane modelled the winning portrait on the 17th-century Dutch painting The Banquet of Esther and Ahasuerus. “I saw some parallels with Gina and her daughter Ginia,” Lane told The Newsroom. “I just swapped the…
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Forty years ago the first mobile phone call was made. It lasted about five seconds. Since then mobiles have taken giant leaps forward in technology and our phones have become a necessity in our lives. We entrust our most valuable information to these tiny devices; we can do almost anything, from banking to gaming to…
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Nemo is to make another big splash after Pixar announced a sequel to its blockbuster Finding Nemo. No sooner had Pixar officially announced the new movie, to be named Finding Dory, than Ellen DeGeneres announced on her TV show that she will return as the voice of Dory, the helpful but absent-minded blue tang who now takes centre…
DetailsThe draw against Oman – a team the Socceroos should have beaten – leaves their hopes for the 2014 World Cup in limbo. The coach, Holgier Osieck, had insisted it was a match the Socceroos had to win, but it seems the team didn’t get the message; the players never really got going against a well-organised and determined…
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NSW Labor has threatened to withdraw its support for Sydney’s second casino. James Packer announced last year that he would build a $1 billion six-star hotel and casino complex at Sydney’s premier harbourside redevelopment site, Barangaroo. The project won in-principle support from Labor’s shadow cabinet but Opposition planning spokesman Luke Foley now says support for…
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