Swifts kick: packed house left screaming for more

NSW Swifts 52 Melbourne Vixens 63 AN EXPERIMENT was conducted to discover if all sport is good. For every mention of the NRL, AFL and any other acronym you can think of, there's an ANZ Championship trying to grab your attention. The NSW Swifts and the Melbourne Vixens were playing at the Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre last night and what's this then, eh? A queue at the car park? A sell-out waiting inside, ticking like a bomb. What's this on your arm? A goosebump.

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A BLIMP flying over the Vatican; a mannequin of the Governor-General being hurled over the Melbourne Club walls; an incendiary message broadcast at a Cronulla Sharks game. Gags about the Prime Minister's hairdryer, the Opposition Leader's wealth, private-school fund-raising and the Ku Klux Klan. Yes, those naughty boys from The Chaser are back, and while their return might make Aunty's legal team nervous, their ratings would be making many at the ABC happy.

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FRIENDS Southern Cross Ten, 7pm ALTHOUGH the once-adored hairstyles have dated and the same sorts of sitcom jokes have grown tired, it is a nostalgic journey to revisit these beloved old episodes. And this one is particularly funny.

Young Ace Flush After The King Loses His Queen

THE 1960s were indeed a time of change. Decimal currency was introduced, war erupted in Asia and Beatle hairstyles were all the rage.

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Trump card won't show BAD NEWS for lovers of naked ambition and ugly hairstyles: Donald Trump's speaking tour of Australia appears unlikely to go ahead.

Life Support - Livinia Nixon, Channel Nine Weather Presenter

"Hair has to be dead straight for presenting the weather. Because you're standing against a blue screen, if any hairs stand out, it's really obvious. On Temptation days, we'd do six hairstyles: five for Temptation, one for the weather. That's a lot of straightening and curling. I put in Kiehl's Olive Fruit Oil Deeply Repairative Hair Pak, which is unreal.

Beast Of Eden

Australia last won at Eden Park in the days of the mullet. Hairstyles are sharper as the Wallabies tonight aim to cut through the All Blacks and trim coach Graham Henry's tenure. If they achieve "the secret seven", Greg Growden, who with a fuller head of hair covered Australia's previous Auckland win, believes the 22-year drought will end.

Looking Cool For A Cold Change

There's a real sense of '60s retro glamour in the new winter hairstyles, discovers ILSA CUNNINGHAM. As the colder weather starts to arrive, it's time to think well-kept winter hair.

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Unlikely recruit for Delta force THEIR music, like their hairstyles, could not be further apart, but the singer/songwriter John Butler and the pop diva Delta Goodrem were momentarily linked yesterday when both were awarded an ARIA No.1 Chart Award, Butler for his independent release with the John Butler Trio, Grand National, and Goodrem for her self-titled, third No. 1 album. Both artists will travel to the United States this year. Butler, who recently cut his famous dreadlocks, will perform on ...

Ghd Pink Iron Launch Paddington

hit The makers of that cunning ceramic styling iron launched their limited-edition Pink Iron campaign in aid of the National Breast Cancer Foundation with a girlie celebration of hair at the aptly named spunky spruced-up nightspot, The Fringe. Mink Sadowsky, Natarsha Belling, Marc Freeman and Marnie Skillings joined the audience for a fashion show featuring hot new summer hairstyles.

Derby Daze: Bitter Rivals Clash For Adelaide Supremacy

Kangaroos 11.11 (77) Port Adelaide 26.8 (164) Adelaide is often ridiculed as a sleepy backwater renowned mostly for its magnificent churches and less-spectacular mullet hairstyles.

Insight 300 Seconds Film Festival Launch City

hit About 800 of the city's coolest and edgiest partygoers packed out a smoochily lit space while the short film festival's entries flashed up on screens. Insight 300 Seconds, which is two years old, launches in other cities and the UK and US over the next few weeks. At this first night at Space in Liverpool Street, guests munched on pizza and knocked back beers while some truly extravagant hairstyles prowled the room.

When The Pom Poodle Turns Rottweiler, Even The Chattering Classes Can Raise Their Voices

For we squeamish, judgmental types who had observed the occasionally crass, occasionally brutal and spectacularly successful Australian cricket team from the safety of the members' pavilion, looking up from the cryptic crossword only to cast a disparaging frown at their uncouth antics and distinctly non-Grammarian hairstyles, this Ashes series has brought both relief and enlightenment.

Arty Smarty

Seamus Byrne gets creative, with hairstyles, origami, music and bar codes.Useful

In The Zone, On The Outer

SPACE STATION 3D Rating: G. Narrated by: Tom Cruise. Critic's warning: Zero gravity-afflicted hairstyles. Critic's rating: 7 out of 10.

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oscar, Oscar, Oscar!

There won't be anybody chanting Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi Oi Oi! but there will be a distinctly Australian flavour at the 71st Academy Awards. Among the designer labels, sparkling jewels and thousand-dollar hairstyles will be seven Australians hoping to take home the film industry's most coveted

Proving Melbourne's Not A One-horse Town

For the punters and once-a-year pinstickers, it's all about finding a winner. For the owners and trainers, jockeys and bookies, it's all about making money. For the fashionable it's all about hemlines and hairstyles, designer suits and the right look. Champagne flutes take precedence over form

Why Must Royals Take A Bough In My Backyard?

WORKING for the media is not all it's cracked up to be. True, we are feted and adored, and yes, people do name their children after us and mimic our hairstyles. The downside is we are never truly alone. We cannot venture out in public without parrying impertinent demands for autographs and locks of

Kull The Conqueror

Starring Kevin Sorbo, Karina Lombard, Tia Carrere Rating: M Critic's Warning: Plenty of sword-in-the-chest violence. 1970s hairstyles. Sequinned harem costumes. Need we say more? Critic's Rating: 5 out of 10 MY blood is as red as any man's!" declares hunky barbarian master-fighter K

Fresh Face Of Pop's Next Big Thing

In a world of post-grunge pop, Brisbane's Savage Garden stick out like new romantics at a heavy metal convention. They play synthesisers not guitars, sport what can only be described as hairstyles and write toe-tapping pop songs reminiscent of '80s acts such as Duran Duran, Howard Jones and Tear