Neil Robertson Joins Elite 147 World Championship Snooker Club

25 Apr

Until this year’s Betfred World Championship, only seven players had made a maximum break of 147 at the iconic Crucible snooker venue. Now there are eight, with Australia’s Neil Robertson joining that ulta-elite group. […]

Theatre Dream Becomes a Reality for Antonio Banderas

1 Nov

Article reprinted courtesy of Home & Lifestyle Magazine

It has been a long time coming. Four decades after he moved from his Málaga birthplace to Madrid to (eventually) become Spain’s most celebrated international actor, Antonio Banderas is back with his own local theatre and inaugural performance.

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Michael Campbell Plans Return to Tour Action

1 Oct

Article reprinted courtesy of Andalucía/España Golf

Like many golf stars of his generation, Michael Campbell followed an arduous path to eventual global success. Born in Hawera (Taranaki) on New Zealand’s North Island in February 1969, he left school early, worked a full-time job while fine-tuning his game among the elite of New Zealand amateur golf, made his first inroads into the professional ranks on the Australasian Tour (during an era when Greg Norman was at his peak), then headed to Europe where, competing against a golden era of international champions, he worked his way up to become one of the Tour’s leading players. 

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Poignant Seve Anniversary

10 Apr

(Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Sergio García’s victory at Augusta was particularly emotional for both the new champion and his colleagues and golf fans, as it came on the same day that Seve Ballesteros would have celebrated his 60th birthday if he had still been alive.

Scintillating Opener for Tigers

5 Mar

After a difficult 2015-2016 season, Wests Tigers trounced South Sydney in a fiercely contested National Rugby League opener for 2017.

Princely Guitar Magic

22 Apr

Australia from Space

6 Apr

Gosse BluffOver the past 17 years, NASA has been capturing images of the Earth’s surface using Japan’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) aboard its Terra spacecraft. Now having explored 99 per cent of the planet’s surface, NASA has released three million photos of Earth – including this image of Gosse Bluff, located just over 200 kilometres west of Alice Springs. The photo was taken in October 2003. (Supplied: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team)

Mesmerising Geological Heritage

15 Oct

A Vision of Beauty

23 Aug

Indubitably… The Best City in the World

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Simply Sublime

22 Aug

New deep reef habitats discovered in waters south of Melbourne, teeming with life and home to rich and abundant marine ecosystems…