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40 fans ejected after unruly behaviour at Etihad Stadium darts match
40 fans were ejected from Melbourne's Etihad Stadium, while three people received treatment for minor injuries, after a crowd disturbances during a darts tournament on Saturday...
Jan 12, 2015
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Rival national Futsal championship kicks off
With Football Federation Australia’s National Futsal Championships having been successfully hosted by Football NSW in Western Sydney last week, this week sees a rival event, the...
Jan 11, 2015
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Australia’s newest trail running event set to inspire
The new Run Larapinta Stage Race, a four-day, four-stage trail running race along the most spectacular sections of the Larapinta Trail in the Northern Territory will be held...
Jan 11, 2015
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Asian Cup Politics: more than just a game
Kuwait may have scored the first goal against Australia in the opening match of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup but when the match ended 4-1 in favour of the...
Jan 10, 2015
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Gold Coast reaps benefits from world’s largest biennial masters games
Close to $20 million was injected into Queensland’s economy thanks to the record-breaking 2014 Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games. A recent Tourism Analysis Report estimated...
Jan 10, 2015
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Australia delivers 'clean' stadiums for AFC Asian Cup
With the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup underway, host venues have had their familiar naming rights and regular sponsors removed to make way the event’s partners....
Jan 10, 2015
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AFC Asian Cup to boost business goals
Kicking off today, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup will be the largest football event ever hosted on Australian shores. Staging a marquee event for the top...
Jan 8, 2015
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Red CentreNATS rev into Alice Springs from September
The popularity of Canberra’s annual Summernats car festival is set to expand to the Northern Territory with a new national motorsports event called Red CentreNATS. To be held in...
Jan 8, 2015
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Trouble at Gisborne Music Festival leads to 63 arrests
63 people were arrested and dozens more injured during disturbances at the BW Festival in Gisborne on New Year’s Eve. Billed as New Zealand’s 'premier beachside camping...
Jan 7, 2015
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Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic organisers reject sharing events with North Korea
Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic officials have announced that the South Korean host city will not share Winter Olympic events with North Korea when it hosts the Games in three years...
Jan 7, 2015
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Australian Open is now a 'weatherproof' event
The Australian Open is now "weatherproof", and could be played entirely indoors after the installation of a third retractable roof at Melbourne Park. The retractable roof on the...
Jan 5, 2015
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Palestine's presence in the AFC Asian Cup a step towards statehood?
The participation of Palestine in the 2015 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup from next week sets a new benchmark for smaller nations who see football as a key part of...
Jan 4, 2015
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SummerNats attracts crowds of more than 100,000
The annual Summernats car festival has wrapped up at Exhibition Park in Canberra, after sending the rumble of hotted-up car engines floating over the city's north for four days....
Jan 4, 2015
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Dubai welcomes 2015 with world’s most-watched New Years Eve spectacle
Dubai has welcomed in 2015 with a huge firework, light and sound extravaganza at the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower. The 828 metre high tower was lit up with fireworks,...
Jan 2, 2015
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New Years Eve crowd stampede kills 36 in Shanghai
New Year’s Eve celebrations in the Chinese city of Shanghai ended in tragedy when a crowd stampede left at least 36 people dead and nearly 50 others injured. The tragedy...
Dec 31, 2014
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Sport New Zealand Chair Paul Collins awarded Knighthood
Sport New Zealand Chair Paul Collins has been appointed Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit on the New Year Honours List 2015. Collins, now Sir Paul Collins, is...
Dec 31, 2014
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More than a billion people watch Sydney New Years Eve fireworks
Sydney's New Year's Eve fireworks were watched by over one billion people worldwide while more than a million people lined Sydney Harbour to welcome 2015. With City of Sydney...
Dec 31, 2014
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Fed Square to mark arrival of 2015 with mass dance countdown
Crowds attending New Year’s Eve celebrations at Melbourne’s Fed Square will be encouraged to film the event on their mobile phones, especially the mass dance countdown routine...
Dec 30, 2014
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Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore attracts more than 53,000 participants
More than 53,000 runners took part in the recent 2014 Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore (SCMS) with two-time Olympic gold medallist, Haile Gebrselassie, flagging off the...
Dec 29, 2014
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Dubai's Global Village aims to welcome five million people in 157 days
Having received over one million visitors in its first four weeks of operation, Dubai's annual Global Village is on track to welcome five million guests during its current...
Dec 27, 2014
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Sydney Olympic Park business community calls for financial backing for precinct
Backed by more than 200 businesses, the Sydney Olympic Park Business Association (SOPBA) wants the NSW Government to financially commit to the redevelopment of ANZ Stadium and...
Dec 27, 2014
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Six day Woodford Folk Festival to attract more than 100,000
More than 100,000 people are expected to attend the annual Woodford Folk Festival in the run up to New Year's Day. The six day event, which runs from today (27th December) on...
Dec 27, 2014
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Promoter Paul Dainty buys into BangTango
Formalising an ongoing business partnership, The Dainty Group, one of Australia’s largest music promoters, have bought into controversial premium ticket provider BangTango....
Dec 23, 2014
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Lack of competitors leads to demise of Tasmania's Three Peaks endurance race
Tasmania's gruelling Three Peaks Race has been cancelled indefinitely because of low entry numbers. The long-distance running and sailing race was cancelled this year, but...
Dec 22, 2014
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