2015-05-20 Australia More Top Stories

The Age   

Abbott and Guy continue to play politics on infrastructure   
The Age
As far as political chess moves go, Matthew Guy's attempt to strike a deal with Tony Abbott to retain for Victoria the $1.5 billion the Commonwealth is demanding it hand back is a reasonably shrewd one. The state Opposition Leader is no Bobby Fischer.
Vic's East West Link money still up in air   Sky News Australia

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The Australian   

Cardinal George Pell told abuse victim not to be 'ridiculous'   
The Australian
A victim says he told Cardinal George Pell about boys being abused at a Victorian Catholic school but that he told him not to be “ridiculous and walked off''. Giving evidence at the abuse royal commission sitting in Ballarat, Timothy Green, 53, said that he told ...

2015-05-20 Australia Health

ABC Online   

New food pyramid brings hope for boost in lentil sales   
ABC Online
Pulses Australia hopes a new food pyramid which features grain pulses twice will aid its efforts to boost consumption. Nutrition Australia unveiled the new food pyramid on Tuesday. It is based off nutrition guidelines released in 2013. The product of the ...

2015-05-20 Australia Science

Times LIVE   

Cats and dogs? It's raining spiders, mate   
Times LIVE
It is caused by spiders climbing to the highest heights that they possibly can before they use their web silk as tiny parachutes and leap off. File photo. Image by: UWE ZUCCHI/AFP. Residents in Goulburn, South Australia, had a horrifying shock when ...

2015-05-20 Australia Sports

Sydney Morning Herald   

Former fast bowler Nathan Bracken settles case against Cricket Australia   
Sydney Morning Herald
Former Australian fast bowler Nathan Bracken has settled his long-running case against Cricket Australia, which he was suing over a knee injury. The 37-year-old alleged that Cricket Australia failed to give him competent medical advice about the knee injury, ...

2015-05-20 Australia Entertainment

Sydney Morning Herald   

Hugh Jackman defends Vegemite to Jimmy Fallon on Tonight Show   
Sydney Morning Herald
Jimmy Fallon taste tests Vegemite, fails the dish. Hugh Jackman has won Tony Awards, hosted the Oscars and is the star of the multibillion-dollar Wolverine and X-Men movie franchises. We can add another title to his resume: Vegemite ambassador.
Hugh Jackman teaches Jimmy Fallon the correct way to eat Vegemite   NEWS.com.au
Hugh Jackman sells Vegemite on US TV   Sky News Australia
Watch Hugh Jackman teach Jimmy Fallon how to eat Vegemite   Business Insider Australia
Crave Online   
MTV.com   
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Sydney Morning Herald   

Funding move challenges 'iron wall' of Australia Council   
Sydney Morning Herald
George Brandis turns arts funding into 'political football'. Diverting almost $105 million in funding from the Australia Council to the federal Arts Ministry would challenge "widespread perception" that the arts funding body is a "closed shop" that favoured artists ...

2015-05-20 Australia Technology

The Australian Financial Review   

Driverless cars may cut US auto sales by 40pc, Barclays says   
The Australian Financial Review
US auto sales may drop about 40 per cent in the next 25 years because of shared driverless cars, forcing mass-market producers such as General Motors and Ford to slash output. Vehicle ownership rates may fall by almost half as families move to having just ...

2015-05-20 Australia Business

Sky News Australia   

Fortescue puts pressure on BHP, Rio   
Herald Sun
FORTESCUE Mining hopes its calls for an inquiry into the iron ore market will generate enough public pressure to force rivals BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto to rein in their expansion plans. CHIEF executive Nev Power said despite the call for a parliamentary ...

2015-05-20 Australia Australia

The Guardian   

Australian man who fled Syria says he never joined 'vicious and cruel' Isis   
The Guardian
A wounded man is treated at a makeshift hospital in Aleppo in May 2014. Adam Brookman says he was working in the city at the time 'on ambulances, transporting civilians who were injured due to bombing and fire from jets'. Photograph: Zein ...

2015-05-20 Australia World

NDTV   

Egypt Using Sex Attacks to Crush Opposition: Rights Group   
NDTV
Paris: Egyptian security forces have stepped up sexual attacks against detainees since the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi, using them as a "cynical political strategy" to crush opposition, a rights group charged Tuesday. Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected ...