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NRL Grand Final: Manly executes a Melbourne massacre
STEVE Menzies could not have scripted it better. This was the stuff of fairytales. Menzies, who will leave for Britain next season, brought down the curtain on his career at Manly with a premiership as his Sea Eagles exacted revenge for last year with a record 40-0 grand final thrashing of Melbourne at ANZ Stadium in Sydney last night. Manly's win was the biggest in 55 years of grand finals, eclipsing Eastern Suburbs' 38-0 thumping of St George in 1975. As well as avenging last year's 34-8 grand final capitulation to the Storm, the victory gave Menzies, a Manly legend, a fitting send-off. Menzies is Manly. He was born on Sydney's northern beaches and spent his formative years watching games with his grandfather on the hill at Brookvale Oval, the club's home ground. Yesterday marked his 349th and last game for the club -- equalling the long-standing premiership record of Bulldogs legend Terry Lamb. Menzies started on the bench, but was injected into the game after 20 minutes.
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Bingle: Lara laughs off No Idea bungle
SHE may be clad in black from head to toe, but Lara Bingle yesterday laughed off magazine claims she's mourning the end of her engagement to Australian cricket star Michael Clarke. Far from flinging her $100,000 diamond bling and dramatically calling off her wedding plans - as today's New Idea inaccurately splashed across its cover - Bingle was enjoying some girl time with friends at restaurant North Bondi Italian Food with her 4.7-carat sparkler still firmly in place on her ring finger. While the couple's fairytale romance clearly continues, their relationship with the magazine has obviously fractured since embattled editor Mirella Cestaro paid more than $130,000 for the rights to their engagement story. Just like this week's cover story, that deal was bungled too, with "exclusive" details of Clarke's New York proposal and the pair's star-studded Luna Park engagement party in April confirmed in a series of Confidential reports.
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Anger at Henson's school patrols
REVELATIONS that photographer Bill Henson selected children to pose nude for him by scouring primary school playgrounds at lunchtime have sparked anger and alarm among parents' groups and principals. Four months after NSW police seized Henson's work from a Sydney gallery, the photographer has sparked renewed debate after making his first public defence of his work.
In a book by journalist David Marr, Henson says he finds models in several different ways. Most often, he is introduced to them by a friend or relative, but sometimes he sees a child in public and gives a business card to their parents. He said he was once invited to a Melbourne primary school by a principal and ``had a look around at lunchtime'' before the principal offered to contact the parents of two children he had seen. It was not the first time he had been invited into schools to search for models, the book says.
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Layne gets cash lifeline
WORLD champion surfer Layne Beachley has been thrown a financial lifeline by the Commonwealth Bank in an eleventh-hour deal to save her Beachley Classic pro-surfing event. The five-day competition, which kicks off this week, had been hanging in the balance as Beachley and organisers scrambled to find a major sponsor to plug an $80,000 funding gap that threatened to derail the contest. Beachley had made a last-ditch plea for big businesses to help stump up the money, but conceded it was ``highly unlikely'' her prayers would be answered. In a miraculous twist, however, the bank stepped forward late on Friday afternoon. The Beachley Classic, one of the biggest drawcards on the Association of Surfing Professionals Women's World Tour, attracts big crowds to Manly, where it has been held since 2006. With a $129,000 prize pool, it is the richest of the eight women's tour events. ``I'm overwhelmed with relief,'' Beachley told The Sunday Telegraph.
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Stoner wins home MotoGP
DUCATI'S Casey Stoner has won his second straight Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix with a comfortable victory over world champion Valentino Rossi.
Stoner finished the 27-lap race 6.5 seconds ahead of the new world champion with American Nicky Hayden third on a Honda. Rossi produced a brilliant surge from 12th place on the grid to elbow his way through to second, passing Hayden with just a lap remaining. The race was Stoner's fifth victory of the season for a comfortable hold on second place in the series ahead of Spaniard Dani Pedrosa. Hayden stuck with Stoner for much of the first half of the race before the Australian gradually widened the gap to the Honda. With 10 laps remaining Stoner had pulled out a comfortable 4.5 second edge over the American, who will join him next season at Ducati. But the highlight was Rossi's masterful ride from a lowly 12th at the start. By the end of the opening lap he was in eighth place, improving to fifth three laps later.
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At just 11, Emma's a whiz at jewellery biz
GONE are the days of the lemonade stand -- there's now a new generation of young entrepreneurs earning a buck without the mess. Meet Emma Fessey -- an 11-year-old with her own jewellery line, email magazine and business card. What sets her apart is that she lives in the state's far northwest, hundreds of kilometres from a shopping centre, and is still making money.
The remarkable youngster -- a School Of The Air student from Brewarrina -- created her business Fashion Fever three years ago and now employs two other staff including her sister Eliza, 9. She makes a 1000km round trip to Dubbo to buy supplies and sells her goods at markets or by request. ``I love craft and it's something I would like to extend when I get a bit older,'' Emma said. At about the same time she kicked off the business she started an email magazine featuring articles about her school and district.
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Visiting TV show host eats cane toad
CANE toads might be the menace of northern Australia, but visiting Americans have turned them into a culinary delight. An American travel and cuisine television program went on a toad bust with cane toad elimination group FrogWatch last week in the Northern Territory. And after helping catch 69 of the pests at Lee Point, host Andrew Zimmern ate them, the Northern Territory News reported. Zimmern's chef prepared the toad legs in a garlic and white wine sauce, and deep-fried them with sweet chilli sauce. Chefs skinned the legs, avoidin the toads' skin toxins. FrogWatch assistant co-ordinator Erin Britton took Zimmern's lead in trying the legs, and said they tasted like chicken. "It was obviously quite a novelty," she said. "I'll try anything once." Ms Britton said only the bigger toads had legs with enough meat on them to eat, and they were tough and sinewy in the joints. "I've eaten frogs' legs in Asia, and they were meatier and tastier," she said.
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New evidence in 36-year-old mystery
IN Tasmania, where conspiracy theories grow as wild as the temperate rainforest, no event has cultivated more speculation than the disappearance of conservationist Brenda Hean 36 years ago. A new documentary has rekindled the controversy, with filmmaker Scott Millwood uncovering evidence strengthening the case that Hean was murdered, but suggesting she may not have been the prime target. The widow of an establishment dentist, Hean emerged from the Hobart suburb of Sandy Bay to campaign against plans to dam Lake Pedder and drown its stunning 3km-long alpine beach. At 10.16am on September 8, 1972, Hean set off from Hobart's Cambridge airport in a World War II Tiger Moth bound for Canberra. There the upright lady in her early 60s planned to lobby federal MPs and sky-write ``Save Lake Pedder'' above the nation's capital. Hean and pilot Max Price never arrived, their plane disappearing over Tasmania's east coast, their bodies never recovered.
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Costello book has low vote
SALES of Peter Costello's much-hyped memoir have slowed to a trickle, suggesting the ex-Treasurer's publishing career could slide into deficit.
Despite a publicity blitz, the Costello memoir had sold just 12,206 copies by September 27. Just 4000 copies were sold in the past week, according to confidential publishing figures obtained by The Daily Telegraph. Bookstore owners yesterday confirmed that sales of the $54.99 biography had ``died away''. However the head of Melbourne University Publishing, Louise Adler, said her star author was still on the best sellers' list -- claiming 15,000 had been sold. ``It's been extremely successful,'' Ms Adler said. MUP did an initial print run of 50,000 copies of Mr Costello's 400-page memoir, in which he slams aspects of John Howard's political legacy. Book retailers and rival publishers predicted that the Costello book would struggle to sell more than 20,000 copies. By contrast the diaries of former Labor leader Mark Latham sold 55,000 copies.
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Tozzi's our new queen of cossies
HAVING grown up by the beach, Cheyenne Tozzi had no qualms about wearing a bikini for her first major international modelling gig, which will see her body plastered on billboards across the world. The 19-year-old will spearhead the Mambo Goddess campaign as the iconic Australian brand attempts to reconnect with a hip, younger target market. Surfer Dayyan Neve has been chosen as the face of the label's men's range. Images of Tozzi will be rolled out on billboards and in magazines from November. ``I am a beach girl -- every Aussie girl is, really,'' said Tozzi, who lives in New York but flew back for the campaign. ``We love a bit of sun, surf, the beach and all that jazz. It is a really cool brand, though -- just back to basics. It's typical Australian, so it's a great little gig to get.'' Tozzi, once the face of local swimwear label Seafolly, shot the provocative campaign on Queensland's Brampton Island.
``You always think: eww, let's hold that in, but I am so comfortable in bikinis,''
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Historical Australia
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