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Melbourne Victory footfall manager Gary Cole says suspended striker Nik Mrdja will definitely miss Sunday's second leg of the A-League major semi-final against Sydney FC, despite an upcoming appeal.

Melbourne Victory heaped the pressure on their nearest championship rivals, beating North Queensland Fury 2-0 at Docklands on Friday night.

Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse has hit back at St Kilda captain Nick Riewoldt over Luke Ball's off-season move to the Magpies.

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I"ve been thinking about whether to post this for some time. I believe in free speech, but whether I should be seen to promote (and thus be accused of implicitly approving of) speech I strongly disagree with is another matter. In general, I think that sharing information about the local community allows the community to better understand itself.

So, despite my misgivings about drawing attention to a group whose politics I find deeply suspect, residents of the City of Yarra should know that a national-anarchist group has established itself in the area, at least according to its own media....Read Full Article»

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So the toll keeps climbing and the bad sad news keeps rolling in. I have received news from a friend who has lost some of her closest friends in the Kinglake fires. Some musician friends of mine are banding together to put on a benefit show. While I don’t have a lot of information just yet, I do have the contact details of the person who is organising it and am hoping that if you know any bands that would be willing to play or people who can promote it, you could contact them....Read Full Article»

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Update 27 July 2008: I"d been working on this post for about a month, and the very day I published it the Australian newspaper ran a major story covering many of the same topics and ideas, although it fails to acknowledge the role of intelligence in the social problems it discusses.

What is western society to do with the surplus humans that form the underclass? This conservative US article predicts living standards in first world countries will fall in the future based on the premise that western nations waste too much money supporting surplus humans in or from the third world....Read Full Article»

Hello Melbournemaniacs, Just a quick question - does anybody here make podcasts, as part of your blog or as a separate matter? Which podcast provider do you use? I am at the very beginning of my podcast quest, so I thought maybe someone knows more than I do. Google gives plenty of options (podcast.com, podcastalley.com), but I want some word-of-mouth please. Cheers....

In the space of five days, Melbourne has become notoriously famous for two things: a) Corey 'my sunnies are too cool for Hollywood' Delaney and b) the violent confrontation that marred a good match in the Australian Open....Read Full Article»