Friday, November 20, 2015

Last Top Stories: Female musicians take to Hobart stage in push for equity in music industry - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  • Female musicians take to Hobart stage in push for equity in music industry - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Female musicians take to Hobart stage in push for equity in music industry - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
    Female musicians take to Hobart stage in push for equity in music industryPostedNovember 21, 2015 08:06:47 A national movement aimed at making Australia's live music scene more equitable for female performers has come to Tasmania with 17 local and national female acts taking to the stage this weekend.The Saturday night show will include performances from Melbourne band Love of Diagrams as well as local acts All the Weathers, Betsy Blue and Native Cats.It is being hosted by Listen, a Melbourn..
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  • Record crowds line Hobart's streets for annual Christmas pageant - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Record crowds line Hobart's streets for annual Christmas pageant - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
    Record crowds line Hobart's streets for annual Christmas pageantPostedNovember 21, 2015 15:26:09 A record crowd has lined the streets of Hobart for the city's annual Christmas pageant.The day is normally just about celebrating Christmas spirit, but this year it was also about showing solidarity after therecent horrors in Paris.A record 40,000 were treated to near-perfect weather, and in the crowd, the blue, white and red of the French flag stood out.A group of children had dressed as the Fre..
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  • Private Sydney: Chris, Liam and Luke Hemsworth raise funds for the...

    Private Sydney: Chris, Liam and Luke Hemsworth raise funds for the...
    Video will begin in5seconds.Private Sydney: Hemsworth sibling rivalry?Andrew Hornery joins Chris Hemsworth at a charity screening and Andrew Bell tells us why his supermaxi, Perpetual Loyal, is going up for sale.PT2M52S620349They are among the current crop of reigning Hollywood hunks, but for the Hemsworth brothers, sibling rivalry is more about "trivial" things like football clubs rather than how many "sexiest man alive" lists they appear on.Well, that's what Chris Hemsworth reckons, telling PS..
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  • Hughes to be honoured during Adelaide Test

    Australia's cricketers will commemorate Phillip Hughes on the first anniversary of the former Test opener's death next week.Hughes' memory will be celebrated next Friday at the Adelaide Oval during Australia's third Test with New Zealand as well as the three Sheffield Shield games around the country.Players in all four matches will wear black armbands in a mark of respect for Hughes, who died on November 27 last year, two days after being struck by a bouncer while batting for South Australi..
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  • Voges excited by day-night Test

    Adam Voges stands by his critique of the pink balls from a match in Canberra last month but rejects that he is a day-night Test doubter, saying excitement is his overriding emotion as Australia prepare to make history against New Zealand.Voges played a day-night match for the Prime Minister's XI against the Black Caps last month at Manuka Oval,saying after the game that the pink ball had been "chewed up"in the conditions."The lacquer had come off and it was turning green basically ... it wa..
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  • Get stuffed! Sailor's Payne inspiration

    Get stuffed! Sailor's Payne inspiration
    Sailor Katie Spithill has found inspiration in Melbourne Cup winner Michelle Payne. Picture: Andrea FrancoliniWHEN Katie Spithill needs some extra incentive to go harder in the Extreme 40s series finale on Sydney Harbour, she won’t have to look far.Somewhere on the 33 South Racing multihull Spithill will steer in the final event of the world sailing series will be written two words: Get Stuffed.They are a homage to Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne and her now famous rally call to brea..
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  • PS Anthony Bell unlikely to get his money back in supermaxi sale

    PS Anthony Bell unlikely to get his money back in supermaxi sale
    Kelly and Anthony Bell plan to sell their supermaxi yacht, Perpetual Loyal.Photo: Belinda RollandAnthony Bell, Sydney's first and probably only "celebrity accountant", clearly has a head for business, though when it comes to making profits on used supermaxi yachts, even "Belly" himself admits that could be a little tricky.To build a high-tech vessel such as Bell's Sydney to Hobart competitor Perpetual Loyal would cost you about $30 million from scratch. Bell told PS he is hopeful that when he s..
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  • Super Saturday late mail

    Super Saturday late mail
    VideoRailway StakesThe spotlight is on Ascot today, with more than $3 million in prize money up for grabs on a nine-race card.Our team at thewest.com.au will do our best to help you pick a winner today with expert tips, analysis of each race, plus all the latest live from the track from our reporters Jay Rooney and Robert Edwards. You can follow Jay on twitter @Jay_Rooney.The first race is at 11.49am, with the $500,000 Group 2 Sky Racing WA Guineas (1600m) at 3.05pm; the $1 million Group 1 Crown..
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  • Breakthrough prostate cancer treatment

    Breakthrough prostate cancer treatment
    Call for funding into rare cancer research1:36. Scientists are calling for better understanding and research funding for rare cancers at a forum in Hobart.
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  • Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act sets a low bar for free speech

    Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act sets a low bar for free speech
    Last week, the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commission accepted a complaint against Catholic archbishops — including the Archbishop of Hobart, Julian ...
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