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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  11 hours ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  4 days ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  4 days ago

• Young Grey Currawongs

  
  Trevor's Birding — Authority: 118
  View Original " rel="lightbox"> Grey Currawong (juvenile) Over the last week or so we have had two young Grey Currawongs visiting the garden almost every day. They are still quite downy and their begging calls are quite pathetic compared to the far reaching, ringing calls of the adult birds. They didn’t ...
  4 days ago

• Young Australian Magpie

  
  Trevor's Birding — Authority: 118
  View Original " rel="lightbox"> Australian Magpie I have been a little puzzled about our resident pair of Australian Magpies this spring. Although they showed signs of building a nest earlier in the spring they seemed to abandon the idea after a few days. I had observed them refurbishing the nest they have ...
  5 days ago

• Cats’ rivals building for 2010 assault

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 501
  Geelong’s closest rivals went to the AFL draft, as they did in trade week, smelling a potential premiership. Most clubs spent the final draft before Gold Coast and Western Sydney dominate the early picks over the next two years, stocking up with talented youngsters to survive the drought to come. But a select ...
  6 days ago

• Ball relieved to land in Magpie nest

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 501
  Luke Ball admits there is more to his departure from St Kilda than the AFL midfielder wants to discuss. Whatever the new Magpie is keeping to himself, he insists there is no bitterness towards the Saints. Ball decided to leave his AFL home of eight years after a tumultuous season when the Saints nearly won the ...
  6 days ago

• My favourite books of the autumn – A selection of mini-reviews. Part 1

  
  Vulpes Libris — Authority: 468
  I haven’t been around Vulpes Libris as much as I’d have liked over the past few months, but in the time I’ve been away I have read a stack of books. So today I’m trying something different. Rather than offering a detailed, longer-length review of a single book, I have a selection of mini-reviews, which cover ...
  6 days ago

• Magpies get Ball to end weeks of agony

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 501
  Luke Ball’s manager says the former St Kilda skipper was made to endure “six weeks of agony” before finally getting his wish to join rival AFL club Collingwood through the national draft. While Victorian 18-year-old midfielder Tom Scully earned the night’s honoured position of being taken with the No.1 pick, ...
  1 week ago

• Making the case against free agency. For now!

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 501
  Thursday night’s AFL National Draft looms as one of the most intriguing ever seen in the game, with controversy striking only days out from one of the biggest days in a young footballer’s life. This year the stars of tomorrow have been overshadowed by Luke Ball and his refusal to discuss his future with any ...
  1 week ago

• Do Dogs Know Death?

  
  The Playing Field — Authority: 400
  How animals perceive death has been a longstanding puzzle. That animals understand death and grieve for their losses is no longer the question. For example, in her Coming of Age With Elephants , biologist Joyce Poole describes a mother elephant grieving for a stillborn baby-crying, slumped over, days on end spent ...
  1 week ago

• Coming up on Vulpes Libris

  
  Vulpes Libris — Authority: 468
  This week the Bookfoxes are in celebration mode. We have a Thanksgiving-themed review, a selection of favourite recent reads and we finish the week in fine style with a review of a novel written by retired Bookfox, the fabulous Emily Gale. We also have a Soapbox article by Kirsty, as well as reviews of a memoir and ...
  1 week ago

• Voluntary or Involuntary

  
  I Eat Gravel — Authority: 119
  Wasps are known to lay their eggs inside the bodies of ladybugs, using them as some sort of surrogate womb. That’s interesting, but not as interesting as the fact that the ladybugs survive the incident. “What is fascinating is that the ladybug is partially paralysed by the parasite, yet it’s eventually ...
  2 weeks ago

• How ladybugs are taken hostage by wasps

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 18 (ANI): An entomologist at University of Montreal are trying to find out how a type of wasps lay their eggs on the ladybug’s body, a common practice in the insect world, without even killing their host.Jacques Brodeur, focussed his study on wasps-Dinocampus coccinellae- present in Quebec that ...
  2 weeks ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 weeks ago

• AFL clubs beginning to think outside the square

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 501
  The AFL’s expansion to 18 teams means the talent pool will become more diluted and clubs are reacting to this by seeking new ways to find players. It presents a new challenge for footy clubs and it’s interesting to observe their different methods. When the Gold Coast and West Sydney clubs do arrive on the AFL ...
  3 weeks ago

• Malthouse, Buckley deal hinged on one final meeting

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 501
  The ground-breaking deal that has established Collingwood’s coaching structure for the next five AFL seasons eventually hinged on one 30-minute conversation. After months of intense media scrutiny and careful negotiations, Collingwood’s hierarchy had to wait as Mick Malthouse and Nathan Buckley went into a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Grey Currawong breeding

  
  Trevor's Birding — Authority: 118
  View Original " rel="lightbox"> Grey Currawong I was sitting outside on the back veranda having breakfast this morning and I heard an unusual bird call, one that was vaguely familiar but I wasn’t sure. I looked up to see that three Grey Currawongs had flown into a tree near my wife’s Australian native ...
  3 weeks ago

• Buckley hopes Pies can make contact in 2010

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 501
  Collingwood must next year improve on a string of recent exits from the finals or consider 2010 a move in the wrong direction, according to new Magpies assistant coach Nathan Buckley. Buckley admitted to experiencing butterflies before the Magpies began their pre-season campaign on Monday and it was a mixture of his ...
  3 weeks ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  3 weeks ago

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