Dubbo harness racing pacer Karloo Mick will take his place in this Saturday night’s M.H Treuer Memorial as trainer Barry Lew chases an elusive group 1 victory with the nine year old. The son of Panorama is the only horse backing up from last week’s Miracle Mile at Tabcorp Park but Lew is still expecting tough competition.
“They don’t just hand out victories in group 1 races and there is still plenty of depth this Saturday despite no other horses from the Miracle Mile going around” Lew said.
“Can’t Bluff Me has …

Jedes Jahr fahren ungefaehr 150.000 deutsch sprechende Reisende nach Australien. Diese Zahl hat sich trotz Global Financial Crisis kaum verändert. Australien – das ist nach wie vor das Traumland der Deutschen und nach sechs Jahren Down Under kann ich das nur bestätigen.

Bavarian Beer Cafe

Impressive Glass Collection

Steins behind glass

Damit nun der Gast aus Passau, Augsburg oder München nicht gar zu sehr seine heimatlichen Trinkgewohnheiten vermisst, haben in Sydney ein paar clevere Menschen eine Serie an bayuwarisch anmutenden Kneipen (hier Cafes genannt) aufgebaut. Die bekannntesten sind wohl das Löwenbräu in ‘The Rocks’ …

JUST as they were getting used to their new looks, Paul Garrard and Trevor Oldfield had to shave off the moustaches which they had grown for a good cause.
It was either that or the Lord Mayor and Parramatta Chamber of Commerce president would have been heading for domestic disharmony as neither of their wives liked their hairy visages.
So, on Monday, December 1, both men’s whiskers were whisked off before lunch-time.
Lord Mayor Garrard and Mr Oldfield had risked their wives’ wrath to fundraise for prostate cancer research, joining other men in …

POUND for pound, as they say in the boxing game, Vic Darchinyan is one of the strongest and most punishing fighters in the world.
“But when you come up against someone else who also has a strong punch then you need something extra to win,” said Darchinyan, who came from Armenia for the Sydney Olympics and transformed himself into Australia’s own Raging Bull.
“I weigh 57kg at the moment. I have bench-pressed 120kg,” Darchinyan said, by way of explanation of the lethal left-hand knock-out blow which has earned him …

ARMORY Wharf Precinct in Sydney Olympic Park has won a swag of architectural awards.
The precinct won the highest architectural accolade for urban design after being named the winner of the Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design at the recent Australian Institute of Architects 2009 National Awards.
Judges said the precinct’s reed-filled water feature running parallel with the river foreshore - as a habitat link for the green-and-gold bell frog - had been “particularly well handled”.
Formerly a working industrial area, the riverside wharf and existing seawall-retained riverbank were redeveloped into a …