Saturday, November 7, 2015

Last Top Stories: Dandino delivers for Darren Weir, who 'will win 10 Melbourne Cups'

  • Dandino delivers for Darren Weir, who 'will win 10 Melbourne Cups'

    Dandino delivers for Darren Weir, who 'will win 10 Melbourne Cups'
    Party time: Ben Melham gives the thumbs up.Photo: Getty ImagesDarren Dance likes to tell his own story about Darren Weir. And he knew the Melbourne Cup-winning trainer long before many others had heard of the bloke fast developing horse whispering qualities."I met him when he had four horses in work at Stawell," said Dance, the Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock principal. "I gave him a filly and didn't hear from him for two months. I rang him up and said, 'what's going on?' He said, 'I couldn't remember who owned it'."It turned out to be Skewiff and she won group races. He's a freak, a genius and he'll win 10 Melbourne Cups."One will do for now, though. But if the reception afforded to him,..
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  • Matthew Guy shunned warnings of 'suboptimal' Fishermans Bend

    Matthew Guy shunned warnings of 'suboptimal' Fishermans Bend
    Video will begin in5seconds.Fly through a reimagined Fishermans BendPlanning experts at RMIT have released an alternative vision for the Fishermans Bend urban renewal area that could be rolled out across Melbourne - and there's not a skyscraper in sight.PT2M9S620349Former planning minister Matthew Guy shunned the early warnings of his own top planning officials when he launched Australia's largest urban renewal project without a clear plan or finance for community infrastructure including transport, open space and affordable housing.Confidential departmental briefs from early 2011 to 2013 obtained byThe Sunday Age, reveal how senior bureaucrats urged Mr Guy to buy key strategic sites before ..
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  • Boy, 14, struck by car on Western Freeway near Melton

    Boy, 14, struck by car on Western Freeway near MeltonA 14-year-old boy is in a critical condition after being hit by a car while trying to cross a freeway west of Melbourne.The boy had been walking with friends when he made the dash across the Western Freeway at Brookfield, near Melton, about 11pm on Saturday, police said.He was hit by a car, suffering life-threatening injuries.The driver, a 47-year-old Ballarat woman, and her son stopped to help the boy following the crash, police said.AdvertisementThe boy was flown to The Alfred hospital in Melbourne.Police are still trying to find three youths who were with the boy prior to the crash.The collision closed the outbound lands between Coburns..
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  • Melbourne Cup winning jockey Michelle Payne could be set to...

    Melbourne Cup winning jockey Michelle Payne could be set to...
    Historic Melbourne Cup win for Michelle Payne2:00Racing: Michelle Payne has become the first ever female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup, piloting home rank outsider Prince of Penzance in a major boilover.MELBOURNE CUP-winning jockey Michelle Payne’s fame has gone global after announcing she could be appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.Payne, who is the first female jockey to win the race that stops a nation, is expected to appear on the US talk show in the coming weeks.“I’m just hoping it will happen because I love Ellen,” she said at a marquee event at Flemington on Saturday after winning race four on horse Palentino.“It would be awesome.”She’s on her way ... jockey Michelle Payne says s..
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  • Charles Waterstreet: Michelle Payne turns her critics and rivals into...

    Charles Waterstreet: Michelle Payne turns her critics and rivals into...
    Michelle Payne celebrates her winning Melbourne Cup ride on Prince Of Penzance with brother and strapper Stephen Payne.Photo: Michael DodgeNo one has spent more time, effort and money in advancing the interests of women than me. I have spent all my time, in the past, and intend to spend all the rest of my time, in the future. When  Michelle Payne brought Prince of Penzance home in a perfect ride, it was a small step for the horse but a huge leap for womankind.Horse racing is by its very nature, chauvinist. It favours people of small stature, shrugging the tall, and traditionally little men, but now little women are shouting, "hear me roar".  Payne broke the grass ceiling with her helmet on.P..
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  • Bachelor reject Sandra Rato finds love with Serbian singer Miko...

    EXCLUSIVE: 'She's a breath of fresh air!' The Bachelor reject Sandra Rato finds love with Serbian singer Miko Kovacevic who gushes madly about herByMegan PustettoandBianca Soldani for Daily Mail AustraliaPublished:18:39 EST, 7 November 2015|Updated:00:32 EST, 8 November 2015She was left heartbroken by Sam Wood after he dumped her on national television during her tenure onThe Bachelor.But as the saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining, and Sandra Rato has found herself a new 'bachelor.'Her handsome new beau, Serbian crooner Miko Kovacevic revealed exclusively to Daily Mail Australia on Sunday that he and the 28-year-old primary school teacher have been dating for a number of months.Scr..
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  • How falling house prices could end up making us rich

    How falling house prices could end up making us rich
    This 3 bedroom house at 17 Walkom Ave, Forestville, NSW recently sold at auction for $1.67 million. That’s nearly double the $825,000 it sold for in 2012. Which could be why housing, rather than business, has been such a popular investment over the past decade.MY MATE is a brilliant engineer. He’s got a good job but he wants to get rich. The other night as we stood round at a barbecue, he was telling me about his plan to buy another house — or maybe a flat — in the suburb he lives in.I smiled and said ‘awesome!’ But later I kept wondering about his choice. It makes me worry about this country.In another kind of Australia, an engineer wouldn’t aim to get rich by owning property. He’d be inves..
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  • The Fat Jew's publisher threatened to sue us for linking to his stolen book

    The Fat Jew's publisher threatened to sue us for linking to his stolen book
    On Thursday, the Twitter account@updog7scannedevery single page of Josh “The Fat Jew” Ostrovsky’s new book,Money Pizza Respect,and tweeted the whole thing. It also published a copy of the book in PDF format on Google Drive. Since Ostrovskybuilt his entire career on plagiarism, it was a moment of beautiful internet karma.On Friday, the plot thickened.Death and Taxesreceived an email from a lawyer representing Ostrovsky’s publisher, threatening to take legal action unless we removed the links to the copy of his crappy book.Gawkeralso got an email. Apparently, Ostrovsky doesn’t like it when people stealhisstuff.Considering the number of sites that covered the story (The Onion’sAV Club,NY Mag,Fu..
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  • Carbon tax more affordable than GST hike to raise same revenue, say Greens

    Carbon tax more affordable than GST hike to raise same revenue, say Greens
    Related:Raising GST to 15% 'will cost poorest families 7% of disposable income'TheAustralian Greenssay a carbon tax would raise as much revenue as increasing the GST rate or broadening its base, while also reducing pollution.Greens MP Adam Bandt has said a Parliamentary Library analysis found that raising the GST rate to 12.5% would raise a similar amount to a $28/tonne carbon tax, but would cost households three times as much.Extending the GST to fresh food, education and healthcare would also raise a similar amount to the original carbon tax, yet households would pay four times as much, Bandt said.Speaking on ABC 24 on Sunday, the leader of the Greens, Richard Di Natale said his party had ..
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  • China, Japan face off in new Asian infrastructure race

    China, Japan face off in new Asian infrastructure race
    In Photo: Workers lay concrete on a road as traffic stands congested in Manila. President Aquino is set to decide this month on whether to approve seven projects worth P170 billion, including an upgrade to Manila's airport, a road connecting two ...
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