2015-05-25 Australia More Top Stories

The Australian   

Margaret McMurdo defends behaviour towards Tim Carmody   
The Australian
Queensland's second-most senior judge is standing by her behaviour towards embattled Chief Justice Tim Carmody, who is poised to quit. As Justice Carmody revealed he has offered to resign, Court of Appeal president Margaret McMurdo defended ...

2015-05-25 Australia Health

ABC Online   

Albino sparrow snapped in Melbourne's west   
NEWS.com.au
A RARE albino sparrow photographed in Melbourne's west has got twitchers all aflutter. THE pure white bird was snapped by Sanctuary Lakes resident Tom Parkinson, who said it was the seventh confirmed sighting on an albino sparrow globally since 2000.
Rare albino sparrow photographed in Vic   9news.com.au
Is this the world's loneliest bird? The sad life of the rare albino sparrow which ...   Daily Mail
Rare pure white sparrow found in Sanctuary Lakes   Herald Sun

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UQ News   

Ice Bucket Challenge helps fund research   
9news.com.au
Thousands of Australians who took part in the Ice Bucket Challenge have helped kick-start the country's largest research project into motor neurone disease. A group of 16 researchers from across Australia have been granted $1.05 million to build a genetic ...

2015-05-25 Australia Science

Sydney Morning Herald   

Seeing green boosts your concentration, research shows   
Sydney Morning Herald
Struggling with Mondayitis? Take a look out the window. That is the latest advice from Melbourne scientists. <p></p>. Simple, yes. But there's a catch. Advertisement. A momentary glance out the window will only help if you see green. Glancing at a green roof ...

2015-05-25 Australia Sports

Stuff.co.nz   

Hayne: NSW halfback Mitchell Pearce will deliver against Queensland in game ...   
Stuff.co.nz
Game one, 2014: The 73rd minute and I'm on all fours in the in-goal area. I'm spent. Running on empty as the deafening roar erupts around Suncorp Stadium. At that moment, my body begging me to quit, I finally felt what it was like being an Origin player.
Hayne tips Pearce to triumph in Origin return   ninemsn

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sportal.co.nz   

Aussies select full-strength squad for Cup qualifying opener   
New Zealand Herald
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) " Asian Cup champion Australia has selected a full-strength squad including Tim Cahill and Mile Jedinak for its opening World Cup qualifier in Kyrgyzstan. Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou on Monday recalled Cahill, Matthew ...

2015-05-25 Australia Entertainment

The Australian   

story produces fertile drama   
The Australian
It was a shrewd move for Kylie Trounson to include a version of herself in The Waiting Room, a play about the early days of in-vitro fertilisation. Her father, Alan Trounson, pioneered the technique in the years after Kylie's birth in the late 1970s. Four-year-old ...

2015-05-25 Australia Technology

ARNnet   

Telstra signs 10-year deal with Racing Victoria   
The Australian
Telstra has signed a 10-year deal with Racing Victoria, in a deal that will involve broadcast, data and media capabilities as well as its integrity services. Racing Victoria has picked up Telstra's new Digital Video network 2 which it said would allow multiple ...

2015-05-25 Australia Business

The Australian   

Independence in bid to take over Sirius for $1.8bn   
The Australian
Mark Creasy's Sirius Resources will be swallowed by Independence Group in a deal that will create a new mid-tier Australian mining house worth around $2.7 billion. Sirius (SIR), which is developing the world-class Nova nickel mine in Western Australia's ...

2015-05-25 Australia Australia

The Australian   

Margaret McMurdo defends behaviour towards Tim Carmody   
The Australian
Queensland's second-most senior judge is standing by her behaviour towards embattled Chief Justice Tim Carmody, who is poised to quit. As Justice Carmody revealed he has offered to resign, Court of Appeal president Margaret McMurdo defended ...

2015-05-25 Australia World

New York Times   

John F. Nash Jr., Math Genius Defined by a 'Beautiful Mind,' Dies at 86   
New York Times
John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and whose long descent into severe mental illness and eventual recovery were the subject of a book and a ...