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$600m profit forecast on Myer sale (News Interactive)

COLES Myer says it will make a $600 million profit on the sale of

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COLES Myer says it will make a $600 million profit on the sale of Myer to its new American owners.

$600m profit forecast on Myer sale (Northern Territory News)

COLES Myer says it will make a $600 million profit on the sale of

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COLES Myer says it will make a $600 million profit on the sale of Myer to its new American owners. The iconic department store chain officially changed hands yesterday, after a bidding and sale process of more than nine months.

Games opening duck retires (News Interactive)

PING, the duck who famously and to some bafflingly took centre stage at the

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PING, the duck who famously and to some bafflingly took centre stage at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony, has been retired.

Games duck put out to pasture (News Interactive)

PING the duck, who became famous as a star turn at the Melbourne Commonwealth

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PING the duck, who became famous as a star turn at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games, has been retired to a farm on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.

News Desk Archive (AAP Racing and Sports)

The sister and brother team of trainer Therese Patton and top rider Patrick Payne

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The sister and brother team of trainer Therese Patton and top rider Patrick Payne is set to land its biggest win over jumps with Sweet Shani in Saturday’s LV Lachal Hurdle (3400m) at Flemington.

Further success proves ethereal for oaks winners (The Age)

THE group 1 status and the $325,000 first prizemoney are certainly enough of a

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THE group 1 status and the $325,000 first prizemoney are certainly enough of a lure for connections of three-year-old fillies to chase tomorrow’s Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm. But there seems to be something of a curse on the winners in recent years.

Preview: 50 Years of the London Film School, National Film Theatre, London (Independent)

“We hired the Working Men’s College at Mornington Crescent - Fritz Lang screened a

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“We hired the Working Men’s College at Mornington Crescent - Fritz Lang screened a film and talked to us until 2am.” Mike Leigh has fond memories of his time studying at the London Film School. The list of luminaries who dropped in to share their wisdom trips off his tongue: “Hitchcock, Truffaut, John Huston, Godard…” One of Britain’s most successful film directors (most recently with Vera

Records tumble in autumn cold (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)

Records rose and the mercury plummeted in one of Queensland’s coldest autumns.

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Records rose and the mercury plummeted in one of Queensland’s coldest autumns.

Councils net Games fish (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)

The eel will stay in Melbourne, East Gippsland will get the common carp and

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The eel will stay in Melbourne, East Gippsland will get the common carp and the killer whale is off to the Mornington Peninsula.

Records tumble in autumn cold (The Daily Telegraph)

RECORDS rose and the mercury plummeted in one of Queensland’s coldest autumns.

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RECORDS rose and the mercury plummeted in one of Queensland’s coldest autumns.