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Carlton v GWS, Sydney Swans v Geelong, West Coast v Gold Coast Suns: AFL ...

Saturday sees Adelaide take on St Kilda, Hawthorn face the Demons and Carlton play GWS. The Swans then play Geelong before the battle of the coasts sees the Eagles play the Suns. You can tune in to Grandstand's live commentary streams and check out ... >> view original

Joel Selwood says Geelong is ready to face its next challenge, the Sydney ...

SOME Sydney Swans fans would have preferred the scans on Joel Selwood's hand this week to show something nasty but football purists will be the winners now the Geelong skipper has been given the green light to play on Saturday night at ANZ Stadium. >> view original

Watchdog 'buckled on factory trawler' Geelong Star

Other Liberals want to go even further, with Sarah Henderson, the MP for Corangamite, which includes parts of Geelong, organising a petition to have the vessel banned from Australian waters. There is concern in the Liberal ranks that support for the ... >> view original

Lomborg's think tank looking for a home

Bjorn Lomborg says he is confident the Australia Consensus Centre will go ahead. Ben Rushton. by Tim Dodd. Who would have thought there would $4 million up for grabs for an Australian university? Education Minister Christopher Pyne has put that amount ... >> view original

Are climate scientists cowed by sceptics?

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change members present the new climate report in Berlin in Germany in April 2014. Photograph: Joerg Carstensen/Corbis. Ed King for RTCC, part of the Guardian's Environment Network. Friday 15 May 2015 12.41 EDT. >> view original

Distant light might hold the key to why the universe is filled with matter

EVERYTHING we see, touch and experience is made up of matter but for the longest time scientists had no idea why it existed. Now they may have found an answer. NASA's Fermi space telescope has detected high-energy light linked to a magnetic field that ... >> view original

Lightning Ridge opal miner says having dinosaur named after him will 'make him ...

Opal miner Bob Foster is none too pleased at the prospect of having a new species of dinosaur bear his name 30 years after he discovered its fossilised remains. Back in 1985, Bob Foster had no interest in dinosaurs — his only concern was striking it lucky in ... >> view original

Global warming established with detection of atmosphere hotspot

Strong warming detected in the upper troposphere has sealed the debate on global warming. The hotspot detected was expected and appears in many climate models. Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science have produced ... >> view original

Top five 'firsts' in human space exploration

AS much as human exploration of space is said to bring us together as a species, our competitive spirit has driven our best efforts. So who, or what, got there first? 1. The first human-made object in space. While the Paris Gun and unfortunate sewer covers ... >> view original

Monster squid with 16-foot-long tentacles washes up on New Zealand shore

Cue the “Jaws” soundtrack. No, actually, that would be the theme song from “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” Kaikoura Marine Centre and Aquarium biologists on New Zealand's South Island stumbled upon a monster squid on Wednesday in Kaikoura, more ... >> view original