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'Annoying' protesters hold spoof fashion show

Seeded on Wed Jul 9, 2008 4:35 AM EDT (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Catholic World Youth Day protest group NoToPope Coalition has held what is calls an 'annoying fashion show' outside New South Wales Parliament to challenge the regulations surrounding next week's event.

australia, religion, protest, catholics, clothing, sydney, new-south-wales, the-pope, world-youth-day

Ten revives GNW

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:32 PM EST (Australian News Network)

EVERYTHING old is new again in TV land with Channel Ten dusting off Good News Week for another innings starting in February. Former host Paul McDermott is back at the helm directing the weekly news traffic, just as he did during the heyday of the '90s satire hit.

entertainment, television, australian-television, ten-network, good-news-week

Paris to miss most of Hilton inheritance

Seeded on Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:17 PM EST (National Nine News)

US hotel heiress Paris Hilton's potential inheritance dramatically diminished after her grandfather Barron Hilton announced plans to donate 97 per cent of his $US2.3 billion ($A2.66 billion) fortune to charity.

entertainment, charity, paris-hilton, hilton-hotels, barron-hilton, inhertitance

Dad sells son's $90 video game for more than $9000

Seeded on Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:36 AM EST (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

After catching his 15-year-old smoking pot, a father sold the hard-to-get Guitar Hero III video game he bought his son for $US90 for Christmas at an online auction, fetching $US9,000.

drugs, odd-news, pot, punishment, dope, guitar-hero-iii

Griffiths double finishes off Victory

Seeded on Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:45 AM EST (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A stunning second-half brace from Joel Griffiths inspired the Jets to a 3-1 victory over the Victory at Docklands Stadium in Melbourne on Sunday, all but ending the champions' A-League title defence.

football, sports, soccer, australia, newcastle, melbourne, a-league, melbourne-victory, newcastle-jets, joel-griffiths

US not ready for digital TV switch - study

Seeded on Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:57 PM EST (New Zealand Herald)

US regulators have "no comprehensive plan" for preparing TV viewers for the approaching switch-over to digital television, a congressional study released has revealed.

technology, united-states, digital-television, conversion, switch-over

'w00t' crowned US word of the year

Seeded on Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:26 AM EST (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading US dictionary.

odd-news, words, dictionary, idiot, stupidity, drivel, english-language, idiocy, gibberish, merriam-webster

Always wear clean undies: Scullion

Seeded on Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:25 PM EST (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The new deputy leader of the Nationals says he has learnt two lessons from a big night out ten years ago - don't let anyone handcuff you to a post and make sure you always wear clean underwear.

russia, australia, politics, strip-club, politician, big-night-out, nigel-scullion

Telstra Stadium to become ANZ

Seeded on Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:18 PM EST (Australian News Network)

Telstra Stadium will today announce it is changing its name to ANZ Stadium as part of a record $31m naming rights deal.

sports, stadium, telstra, sydney, olympic-stadium, anz

Jessica Simpson strips off in the name of art

Seeded on Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:16 PM EST (National Nine News)

Jessica Simpson wants to be taken seriously as an actress. She reckons she needs to get her boobs out to do so. Now...figure out what's wrong with that statement!

entertainment, movie, actress, jessica-simpson, cinema, stupidity, boobs, nudity

Swedes battle to expose breasts

Seeded on Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:44 AM EST (livenews.com.au)

A group of women in Sweden are battling for equal rights to go topless on beaches and local swimming pools. There was outrage from Swedish feminists after two women were asked by a lifeguard at a public pool near Stockholm to keep their breasts covered up.

human-rights, sweden, women, stockholm, odd-news, breasts, swimming-pool

'Family Guy' moves ahead while creator strikes

Seeded on Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:46 PM EST (New Zealand Herald)

Fox is producing fresh episodes of its animated comedy Family Guy without the participation of its striking creator Seth MacFarlane, who does many of the main voices, sources said.

entertainment, television, fox, family-guy, seth-macfarlane, 20th-century-fox, writers-strike

Nine and WIN agree on program supply fees

Seeded on Fri Sep 7, 2007 4:36 AM EDT (Media Spy - The Spy Report)

The Nine Network and WIN Television have come to an agreement regarding the amount paid for network programming for WIN's regional television stations and STW-9 in Perth.

entertainment, nine-network, australian-television, win-television, media-spy, pbl-media, affilation, win-tv

Chaser 'sniper targets'

Seeded on Fri Sep 7, 2007 3:05 AM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The cast from ABC TV's The Chaser could have been the targets of snipers when they breached Asia-Pacific Economic Co-Operation security by driving a fake motorcade into a restricted zone yesterday, NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said today.

australia, politics, police, apec, abc-tv, the-chaser, chasers-war-on-everything

Facebook ban incurs 'lactivist' wrath

Seeded on Fri Sep 7, 2007 2:54 AM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Thousands of Facebook members are on the warpath after the social networking site removed images of breastfeeding mums and banned others for posting "obscene content". They call themselves "lactivists" and say Facebook's practices are discriminatory.

technology, internet, breast-feeding, social-networking, facebook, obscene, lactivists

WIN dumps Nine from some regionals

Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 11:14 PM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)

WIN Corp owner Bruce Gordon has raised the stakes in the program supply dispute with PBL Media's Nine Network, signing an agreement with the Seven Network to dump Nine's schedule from its stations in regional South Australia.

entertainment, bruce-gordon, south-australia, nine-network, seven-network, australian-television, win-television, cvc-asia-pacific, pbl-media, win-corporation

NBA star's Aussie adventure

Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 11:01 PM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Ordinarily, a bearded German backpacker cruising around Australia's east coast in a campervan isn't a cause for curiosity.

nba, germany, sports, holiday, basketball, dallas-mavericks, dirk-nowitzki, national-basketball-association, australian-holiday, southern-hemisphere

I'm not a bitter fellow, says Michael Caton

Seeded on Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:30 PM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The actor Michael Caton has denied he is bitter about similarities between the Australian film Strange Bedfellows and the Hollywood hit I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

entertainment, film, universal-pictures, rip-offs, rob-schneider, adam-sandler, i-now-pronounce-you-chuck-and-larry, strange-bedfellows, michael-caton

A darker side of the moon

Seeded on Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:20 PM EDT (Australian News Network)

It was big, it was red, it was beautiful and everyone across Australia had a view of last night's total eclipse of the moon.

space, australia, science, moon, astronomy, earth, sun, solar-eclipse, red-moon

Players to boycott Channel Seven

Seeded on Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:14 PM EDT (AFL.com.au)

AFL Players Association vice-president Brett Burton has announced a nationwide boycott of Channel Seven following the network's decision to air information obtained from confidential medical documents.

sports, channel-seven, sports-broadcasting, australian-football-league, players-boycott, afl-players-association, confidential-medical-documents

PM slams Labor's 'destructive' IR policy

Seeded on Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:07 PM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The return of unfair dismissal laws would kill jobs in small business, Prime Minister John Howard says.

australia, politics, liberal-party, labor-party, john-howard, australian-politics, kevin-rudd, work-choices, australian-workplace-agreements, federal-coalition

Group threatens Knights coup

Seeded on Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:53 PM EDT (Australian News Network)

A group of rich Newcastle Knights benefactors, including golfing great Jack Newton, is threatening a boardroom coup at the crisis club.

sports, newcastle, rugby-league, john-singleton, newcastle-knights, national-rugby-league, jack-newton, white-knights, steve-burraston, peter-corcoran

Horse Flu: The symptons and treatments

Seeded on Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:14 PM EDT (Milton-Ulladulla Times)

Horse owners are being urged not to move their horses off their properties, and to practise strict hygiene procedures to prevent the spread of equine influenza.

health, outbreak, melbourne-cup, equine-industry, equine-influenza, nsw-department-of-primary-industries, horse-flu

Californication shocks TV viewers

Seeded on Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:02 PM EDT (Australian News Network)

Television executives are accused of using smut and gore to shock their way to the top of the ratings.

entertainment, violence, sex, television, conservatism, seven-network, ten-network, californication, australian-christian-lobby, city-homicide

Nanny's girl turns naughty

Seeded on Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:07 AM EDT (Australian News Network)

Seems even the promos for David Duchovny's new TV sexcapade Californication are too hot to handle for some people. Channel 10 staff were bombarded with complaints about the sexy new show yesterday – even before the first episode went to air.

entertainment, sex, nudity, showtime, outrage, david-duchovny, ten-network, californication, madeline-zima, courier-mail

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