Posts Tagged ‘ melbour ’

Logie sun still shines for Ritchie

Apr 7th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Culture

She left Summer Bay in a flood of tears last week but Home
And Away stalwart-turned breakfast radio host Kate
Ritchie claims she doesn’t want the sympathy vote to win her
the TV Week Gold Logie for the second year running. “Just because
it happened before it doesn’t make it any less exciting,” Ritchie
told SiT yesterday of her nomination [...]



Hamilton and Kovalainen lose five places

Apr 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Information

Stewards had summoned the pair on Saturday after complaints from Renaults Fernando Alonso and BMW Saubers Nick Heidfeld.
A McLaren spokesman confirmed the penalty, which came after the stewards had deliberated for several hours at the Sepang circuit, and said McLaren would not appeal.
Heidfeld, who moves up from seventh to fifth, and Alonso, now eighth, both [...]



Guilty Gallen gets threeweek NRL ban

Apr 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Information

The Sharks had risked losing the NSW forward for four games by challenging the charge at the judiciary.
But after viewing video footage of the incident and consulting their legal team on Tuesday morning, the club has announced its decision to take the early plea.
Gallen re-opened a nasty wound on the heavily bandaged head of Laffranchi [...]



Macs Brewery wins Aussie lager award

Apr 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Foods

However, Western Australias Matilda Bay Brewing Company won the supreme honour and took out the Grand Champion Brewery Award in a competition which attracted more than 1000 entries from 42 countries, a record for the event.
Australian breweries claimed nine of the 13 trophies on offer in the competition organised by the Royal Agricultural Society of [...]



Fast tough and physical netballs new chance to shine

Apr 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Entertainment

In just days the games facelift will be revealed and it should expose a bright future.
The ANZ Championship will be fast, it will be tough and it will be physical %26mdash; all the trademarks of a traditional Australia v New Zealand test match %26mdash; and it will make for some damn good viewing in the [...]



Dairy boom lures service back to Bluff

Apr 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Entertainment

The Mediterranean Shipping Company, the second largest container mover in the world, has announced it will call at South Port on a weekly cycle from late May.
The announcement marks a return for the shipping company, which withdrew from from the Bluff port four years ago. The withdrawal of the service and high international charter rates [...]



Sex Cure for the blues

Mar 26th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

A survey of Melbourne women presented at an international mental health conference has concluded that females who suffer from mild to moderate depression have a third more sexual activity than those who are not.
They also had more sexually liberated attitudes, a bigger variety of sexual experiences and, if single, were more likely to partake in [...]



Green light for dark dining

Mar 26th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Foods

As people across the globe switch off for Earth Hour at 8pm on March 29, some will turn the occasion into an atmospheric dinner date. At their organic farm and B%26amp;B at the Oaks, near Camden, Margarita and Shaun Carrick will hold a three-course candlelit dinner to celebrate the event.
Its just so lovely to eat [...]



Australian wine industry feels heat from climate change

Mar 26th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Foods

The three largest grape-growing regions in Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth, all depend on irrigation to survive. The high cost of water has made life tough for growers.
Some say they probably wont survive this years harvest, because of the cost of keeping vines alive. Water prices surged above [...]



Decoding Malaria’s ‘Post Code’ System Provides A Potential Drug Target

Mar 26th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

%26rdquo;We have now cracked the %26lsquo;post code%26rsquo; needed to do this%26rdquo; says Professor Geoff McFadden from the Department of Botany at the University of Melbourne.
These results could allow the design of a drug which would confuse this communication process and kill the parasite, as well as providing insight into the parasite’s evolution.
The malaria parasite (Plasmodium [...]