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Taylor Swift Confirms Australian Stadium Tour
By admin on Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 | Comments Off
Taylor Swift will take her Red tour to Australia late this year for four stadium concerts. CMT News
Read More...Australian inflation rises less than expected
By admin on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 | Comments Off
Australian consumer prices rise by a weaker-than-expected 0.4% in the first quarter and are up 2.5% from a year earlier, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. MarketWatch – Top Stories
Read More...Australian rock singer Chrissy Amphlett dies at 53
By admin on Monday, April 22nd, 2013 | Comments Off
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Rock singer Chrissy Amphlett, who fronted the Australian group the Divinyls best known for the worldwide hit "I Touch Myself", has died in New York at the age of 53 after battling breast cancer and multiple sclerosis. Her husband and former Divinyls drummer Charley Drayton said Amphlett died in her sleep, surrounded [...]
Read More...Twitter acquires startup Australian music streaming app
By admin on Friday, April 12th, 2013 | Comments Off
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc has acquired We Are Hunted, a small, three-person music streaming startup based in Australia, the two companies said on Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the purchase appears to reaffirm Twitter's intent to become a hub for multimedia content distribution. In the past year, the social [...]
Read More...Rate decision lends support to Australian stocks
By admin on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 | Comments Off
Asia stocks are mostly lower Tuesday with Japan markets weakened by a stronger yen. Australia, however, was up following the decision by its central bank to leave a key interest rate at 3%. MarketWatch – Top Stories
Read More...Movie Review: ‘The Sapphires’ Chronicles 4 Australian Singers in the 1960s
By admin on Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 | Comments Off
“The Sapphires” chronicles a female quartet of Aboriginal singers on the way to stardom in the 1960s and the obstacles they face. NYT > Movies
Read More...Australian Prime Minister Apologizes For Forced Adoption Policy
By admin on Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 | Comments Off
Tens of thousands of children are believed to have been taken from their parents, mostly unwed teenagers, from the late-1950s to the 1970s. An Australian Senate committee report issued last year urged the government to take action. News
Read More...Powerful cyclone heads for Australian mining town
By admin on Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 | Comments Off
Cyclone Rusty, a slow-moving and fierce storm with winds gusting up to 230 kilometers per hour at its center, was trudging toward the Western Australia coast and was expected to hit the mining town of Port Hedland in the evening. Science News
Read More...For Australian Observatory, Asteroid 2012 DA14 Was Their Time In The Spotlight
By admin on Friday, February 15th, 2013 | Comments Off
NASA TV transmitted a live feed of their telescope and they were tracking the asteroid — moving at 17,450 miles per hour — without the aid of a computer, which is not an easy task. News
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