Whether he was worried about his beloved Aston Villa’s chances in this weekend’s League Cup final clash with Manchester Utd, or maybe it was a case of first night flutters, but Nigel Kennedy’s latest collaboration with the Sydney Symphony took a little while to warm up. As always keen to bend genres and break down [...]
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Saturday, 20 February 2010: Kevin Moses-trained Deltona has led all of the way to win the Listed Parramatta Cup (2000m) at Rosehill today adding to the exceptional week of jockey and new father Tim Clark. Deltona went into the race off a narrow defeat at the hands of Wayne Wilkes-trained Tagus at Rosehill on February [...]
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What happens to a child when you remove her from home to be raised elsewhere? It’s a question answered too often by tragedy in our national history and with which we’re still grappling, two years after Prime Minister stood in Parliament and said ‘sorry’ to the stolen generations. In 2008, the year of Rudd’s apology, [...]
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Five Sydney men will be sentenced today over a plot to commit attacks in Australia. A New South Wales Supreme Court jury last October found the five guilty of the conspiracy which involved stockpiling explosive chemicals and firearms. Prosecutors said the men are devout Muslims driven by extremist beliefs to plot violence in retaliation for [...]
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Police are investigating whether a dispute between rival bikie gangs may have been behind a fire at a tattoo parlour owned by a former member of the rock group Rose Tattoo. The blaze at House of Pain, in Annandale, was spotted shortly before 12.30am yesterday and neighbours in adjoining units had to be evacuated. The [...]
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