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Funny
Aussie crashes closing ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games
August 5, 2014 0 Comments

Australian crashes Commonwealth Games closing ceremony

‌• Australian athlete Genevieve LaCaze celebrated her 25th birthday by crashing Kylie Minogue’s performance at the closing ceremony of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

‌• Genevieve boogied with Kylie’s backup dancers until she was escorted out by security.

Sport
Queen Elizabeth photobombed a selfie taken by members of the Hockeyroos
July 26, 2014 0 Comments

Queen Elizabeth’s Photobomb

‌• Queen Elizabeth photobombed a selfie taken by Australian hockey player Jayde Taylor before the Hockeyroos’ opening match against Malaysia at the Commonwealth games.

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Sport
Dante Exum picked 5th in the NBA draft and heading to Utah Jazz!
June 28, 2014 0 Comments

Dante Exum picked by Utah Jazz

‌• ‌18-year old Victorian, Dante Exum, was snapped up by Utah Jazz with the 5th pick in the NBA draft.

‌• As a rookie, Dante will start on approx $4.5m per season.

Sport
Australian Nick Kyrgios beat Richard Gasquet in a 5-set thriller.
June 27, 2014 0 Comments

Kyrgios wins 5-set thriler

• Australian Nick Kyrgios came back from 2 sets down and saved 9 match points to beat world #14 Richard Gasquet to progress to the 3rd round at Wimbledon.

• This is Nick’s first Wimbledon main draw debut after having earned a wildcard entry earlier this month.

Entertainment
It is expected that there will be no Big Day Out in Australia in 2015 after AJ Maddah sold his share.
June 26, 2014 0 Comments

No Big Day Out for Australia??

• AJ Maddah has sold his share in the Big Day Out to US company ‘C3 Presents’.

• The Big Day Out’s parent company, ‘B.D.O Presents’ is now understood to be entirely US-owned.

• Australia is not expected to have a 2015 Big Day Out as no bookings have been made for the Big Day Out’s usual locations.

Politics
More than 15,000 turned up to protest against the budget cuts proposed by the Australian Government.
June 13, 2014 0 Comments

15,000 Protest the Budget in Melbourne

• More than 15,000 took to the streets of Melbourne yesterday to protest budget cuts proposed by the Australian Government. 

• Construction workers and unionists were among those at the protest, calling the budget cuts unfair and demanding they be reviewed and changed.