Новости за 30.11.2015

North Queensland have begun preparations for their NRL premiership defence, returning to pre-season training in Townsville.

As the Walking Dead retires to the dressing room for the half-time break, the future looks even bleaker than usual for just about everyone.

Ange Postecoglou has been named Asian football's coach of the year, while the Socceroos were judged national team of the year after their historic Asian Cup win at the AFC Annual Awards in India last night.

Biggest crowds for MCG and SCG this summer likely to be for Big Bash League city derbies, Cricket Australia admits.

Jason Holder wants his team to stand their ground, like Steve Waugh against Curtly Ambrose, when they begin their three-Test tour in Hobart.

Australia will not sign up to a statement of support for reform of fossil fuel subsidies after Prime Minsiter Malcolm Turnbull made a last minute call to break the news to New Zealand counterparts on Sunday night in Paris.

Readers call for strong action on climate change at the Paris talks.

Plans for hepatitis C patients to get lifesaving drugs at knockdown prices go a step further for World Aids Day on Tuesday.

Former Black Caps cricket captain Chris Cairns has been found not guilty of perjury by a London jury.

The Botanic Garden and Domain complex is a precious central Sydney resource ("Keating v the Sydney Modern: the public must decide", November 30).

A sole Australian climber who got lost for hours on Mt Taranaki has been found, rescuers said late on Monday night.

The case against trainers Mark Kavanagh and Danny O'Brien took another twist on Monday when one of the main players in the scandal changed his plea.

Prosecutors said the three confessed to abducting, bludgeoning, strangling and burning 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair in revenge for the killing of three Israeli youths.

Captain Brian Conklin has been cut by the Townsville Crocs because of "sub-par" performances.

"In 1876 George Custer was about to set off with the 7th Cavalry to what was to be known as The Battle of The Little Big Horn/Custer's Last Stand," we're told by Peter Roy, of Coffs Harbour.

The Prime Minister sees greater focus on emissions-reduction technology as the most politically viable short-term way to revive Australia's climate change policy.

Australia needs to take urgent action to reinvigorate the nation's competition landscape if we are to improve productivity and maintain our standard of living.

New laws are needed to keep a check on governments using digital technologies that promised freedom of speech to instead take power from citizens.

The Queensland Government wants to have a national body investigate cars that are "lemons", sets up a national "lemon register" and stops them from being on-sold to unsuspecting consumers.

A change of leader plus the upcoming summer break make it a good time to dump unsuitable policies - like the proposal to increase the rate of the GST.

It's the summer of 2021. Day-night cricket is now a regular on the program in India and South Africa. England has built a roofed stadium, the Giles Clarke Bowl. And Test cricket, unexpectedly, is still alive.

Many an Australian playwright can do better than this – it's a shame one of them wasn't staged instead.

China is already a great power, and is on the way to becoming an even greater one. So how will it behave towards its neighbours?

A 10-year-old boy with autism would likely not have been held in a cage, albeit briefly, had his teachers felt the ACT Education and Training Directorate had been there to help them.

NASA said the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex dishes would will play a central part in missions.