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Big projects at risk: BHP boss
May 20th, 2010
BHP Billiton chief executive Marius Kloppers says the company will use the massive Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine expansion in South Australia as an example of the projects that will be hit hardest by the Rudd government's proposed resource super-profits tax when BHP fronts Wayne Swan's tax consultancy committee today.
Freeman to be honoured at Homebush
May 18th, 2010
CATHY Freeman's feats at her home Olympics will be immortalised at Sydney Olympic Park to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Games in September.
Aussies win some, lose some
May 16th, 2010
A MIXED night for Australia in sport with our cricketers losing to England in the world T20 final and Mark Webber winning back-to-back Formula One races.
Challenge on to spend $195m among sports
May 16th, 2010
AUSTRALIA'S Olympic sports have won only half the battle for extra funding despite the record $195 million injection to sport announced by the federal government last week, two of the nation's most influential sports administrators have warned.
Three new stadiums driving our Cup bid
May 14th, 2010
FRANK Lowy last night sold Australia to football's governing body FIFA and now the agonising wait begins to find out whether the World Cup is ours and the $2.8 billion government infrastructure spending on stadiums will go ahead.
Olympic family embraces Ellis plan
May 12th, 2010
FROM most perspectives, sport was a big winner in the Budget.
Budget delivers in Olympic arms race
May 11th, 2010
THE federal government last night announced a $195 million windfall for elite and community sport over the next four years, rejecting the controversial recommendations of the Crawford review of the national sports system.
Budget winners and losers
May 11th, 2010
SPORT, taxpaying families, ageing workers, health sector and defence are the big winners in Wayne Swan's 2010 Budget, while at the other end of the scalesmokers, big miners and people smugglers will do the worst.
What you might have missed
May 10th, 2010
IN overnight sport, Australia's Samantha Stosur advanced to the second round of the Madrid Open and South Africa was knocked out of the World Twenty20 cricket.
