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Thread for the 2013 Ashes series. 98 from Agar. What a performance!

So where did it all go wrong for the Gillard government? She never really was able to connect with the electorate. Before taking the leadership Gillard was universally viewed as having so much potential, so why did it end like this? Communications? Bad advice? Gender? Manner of coming to...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331941/Chinese-baby-rescued-ALIVE-toilet-pipe-flushed-away-parents.html

http://www.smh.com.au/national/year-7-rethink-for-sydney-boys-20130523-2k42j.html One of Sydney's top selective high schools could relax entry requirements to make it easier for high-achieving local students to enrol, in a significant break from existing policy.

Ford will no longer manufacture cars in Australia. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/ford-set-to-end-car-making-in-australia/story-e6frg6nf-1226648917020 Over the past decade taxpayers have subsidised Ford and Holden to the tune of $12 billion. This was meant to 'protect jobs'...

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/labor-to-lock-in-levy-rise-20130430-2ir9d.html Labor's $14 billion national disability insurance scheme will be funded in part by a special Medicare-style levy set at 0.5 per cent of income, after Julia Gillard reversed her opposition to the funding...

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/australia-is-most-comfortably-racist-says-daily-show-presenter-20130416-2hxg5.html The Daily Show's John Oliver thinks so. Thoughts?

http://www.smh.com.au/national/university-sector-to-be-hit-in-gonski-reforms-20130413-2hry2.html http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/gillard-government-to-announce-tough-budget-cuts-to-fund-multi-billion-dollar-bill-for-schools/story-e6freuy9-1226619685401

Doesn't sound like you have much of a relationship left. Time to move on, it appears he has.

They get 50 days sick leave. (compared to 10 for everybody else) They get 17% employer super contribution (compared to 9% for everybody else) They are also the highest paid academics in the country. 105k for a lecturer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21679053

"Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor has urged the Coalition to rethink its opposition to the Malaysian solution, after the reported deaths of 98 asylum seekers who were trying to make their way to Indonesia or Australia" That was just last week. It most certainly remains ALP policy.

No there's not. You'd usually just refer to your faculty handbook for the year that you started the degree. This contains the degree resolutions and the requirements of each major etc. Contact your faculty if you have any specific queries such as regarding previous studies...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281411/Cardinal-Peter-Turkson-blames-gay-priests-abuse-scandals-facing-Catholic-church.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

No there's not. You linked to the main round cut-offs, not the late round. Hence the confusion.

I don't see any asterisks. Do you mean the V? It stands for vacancy. A letter ‘V’ shown in brackets after the cut-off indicates that some places may be available in the Late Round.

It should of course be remembered that AWAs were introduced in 1996 and existed without too much controversy for a decade.

You misunderstand the main point of the 1996 Australian gun reforms (and the current proposals in America). You can never stop murders of one or two people. They will always happen and a determined killer will use whatever means they can find. The laws make mass murder far more difficult (ban...