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Short-but-difficult Heath promises to test Woods' game

Japan Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Tiger Woods finished his first full practice round Wednesday in front another massive crowd at Kingston Heath on the eve of the Australian Masters. The sun-baked fans let out a cheer when Woods pulled his driver from the bag, a rarity here on the shortest golf course he has played all year.

Australia abuzz over Tiger Woods

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

Sydney - Australians are so entranced by Tiger Woods that the arrival of his mother on a commercial flight Wednesday was deemed newsworthy by a 250-strong press pack. The world's best golfer is in Melbourne to pick up a reported 3-million-US-dollar a...

Dr Roy in Oz and the ADQ in Quebec

Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | yesterday

I have arrived in Sydney Australia. I am attending the wedding of a close friend in Melbourne. The flight was very easy. I went business and I was actually able to sleep in the sleeper seats!The weather is glorious. It is now 22 degrees Celsius. I was happy to hear of the two Tory byelection wins and I not that Gilles Taillon has resigned. Even more good news. Taillon will not run. However the damage...

Coulomb Technologies gets Australian distribution deal; Better Place looking Down under, too

AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | yesterday

Filed under: EV/Plug-in Building out networks of publicly accessible charging points for electric vehicles is one of the biggest business opportunities that could be produced by a large scale transition to electric vehicles. With shorter range urban vehicles being the most likely BEVs to be useful to people, they will need somewhere to re-energize. Coulomb Technologies is one of a number of companies...

Country, not IPL: Ponting

The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

Melbourne: Australia captain Ricky Ponting has advised the national team youngsters to get their priorities right and choose country over the cash offered by the Indian Premier League and the Champions League T20.

• Choose country over IPL money: Ponting - Sify
• Injury crisis in team is an opportunity for youngsters: Ponting - CricFever

Sony Online Entertainment contest winners!

Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

Thanks to the cool folks at Sony Online Entertainment, our winners will get their hands on a free 6-month subscription to Station Access! Station Access is the all-access pass to Sony Online Entertainment’s game portfolio. This giveaway grants game software including expansion packs and 6 months of subscription time to the critically acclaimed EverQuest®, Pirates of the Burning Sea™,...

What'd really hurt Australia? A swift US recovery.

Peter Martin (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

So says David Hale Enjoy Ask economic guru David Hale the worst risk facing Australia and you'll get a surprising answer. "It's a really strong United States recovery," he says. "The V-shape that some people are talking about. It would force the Fed to push up rates quite quickly in the second half of next year, not from zero to 1 per cent, but from zero to 2 or 3; it would reverse...

Aussie college shock for Indians

The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

Melbourne, Nov. 7 (PTI): Four international colleges in Australia have suddenly wound up, threatening the future of 2,700 foreign students including Indians, some of whom were about to graduate in two weeks.

Emotional Ponting lecture inspired Australia

Sify (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

Melbourne: Skipper Ricky Ponting asked his team to be brave and face the might of Sachin Tendulkar and India in the nail-biting fifth ODI at Hyderabad, which Australia won by three runs.An

Hundreds of Indian students stranded in Australia

rediff News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

Hundreds of Indian students studying in Australia have been left in the lurch, with the sudden collapse of the Global Campus Management Group closing down four colleges in Sydney and Melbourne on Thursday.The collapse has particularly come as a major blow for the Australian government, which has been working hard to rebuild the image of the country's education scenario.

Records tumble in Moscow

France24 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Marieke Guehrer and Evelyn Verraszto were the stars on a record-breaking opening day of the Moscow leg of FINA's World Cup series here on Friday. Australia's Guehrer, the overall winner of the series in 2008, claimed two gold medals as she set a new world record of 26.17sec in the women's 50-metre backstroke in the short course competition. The 23-year-old from Melbourne broke the previous mark of...

Overseas students hit by Australia college closures

Rich Mindset Blogger (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

MELBOURNE, Nov 6 — Australia’s image as a top destination for foreign students suffered another setback today after four bankrupt colleges closed, leaving more than 2,000 students stranded. Australia’s A$13 billion (RM40.49 billion) international student sector, the country’s third-largest export earner behind oil and coal, has come under fire after reports some colleges had...

Tenth school for overseas students collapses

Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

THE reputation of Australia's $16 billion overseas education industry has been dealt another blow by the sudden collapse of the Global Campus Management Group, which ran four colleges in Sydney and Melbourne with about 3000 students.

• College collapses hit VCE - The Age

Foreign students shocked at college closures in Australia

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Sydney - Thousands of foreign students studying in Australia were left shocked and angry on Friday after the collapse of four private colleges in Melbourne and Sydney. Students, many of them just weeks from graduating, turned up for class, only to fi...

• Int'l students nowhere to study as private colleges collapse in Australia - People Daily
• College collapses hit VCE - The Age

Good Samaritan hands in $100,000

Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

POLICE have praised an Australia Post worker who handed in a parcel containing $100,000 she found behind a post office in Melbourne's southeast.

• Good Samaritan Aussie hands in $126,000 - New Zealand Herald
• Postal worker hands in $100k parcel - The Age
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Nextgen Networks Pty Limited

bharatbook123 | 10/13/2009

Nextgen Networks Pty Limited Nextgen Networks is a telecommunications carrier that specialises in data services for Carriers, Service Providers, Government and Corporations. Nextgen owns and operates Australia’s 3rd largest national fibre network of over 8,500km, fibre rings and Co-Lo assets in all capital cites and an extensive National Virtual Private LAN Service Switched Data Network. The fibre

Australia vs South Africa 3rd ODI Live Streaming Watch Online Free

muthubeta | 01/23/2009

The 3rd ODI between Australia and South Africa will begin from 23rd Jan Friday at Sydney , Start time 2.15pm (03.15 GMT) The 1st ODI was won by South Africa by 3 wickets in Melbourne, and the 2nd match was won by Australia by 5 runs. The series is now tied 1-1 in the 5 match series, Live Streaming Links Live Streaming Links Live Streaming Links Mitchell Johnson returns to the squad having rested for...

The Australian Open 2009, Australian open, Australian open 2009 results, australian open schedule, Australian open 2009 schedule

sachin000 | 01/19/2009

The Australian Open, the first of the world's four Grand Slam tennis tournaments during the year, takes place at Melbourne Park from January 19 to February ...