Fifties News
Selectors must heed the lessons of Ashes defeat
Friday November 20, 2009
AUSTRALIA has lost three of its past five Test series. Amid all the backslapping it is a point worth pondering. Ricky Ponting's side has slipped to fourth in the rankings. Along the way captain and selectors have blundered, with the wrong teams chosen, pitches misread and puzzling tactics pursued at critical moments. Admittedly it has not all been bad. Australia performed admirably throughout a long stint overseas. The ODI side surpassed itself. But Test cricket is the real deal and in that arena Australian has fallen back. All the more reason to keep a close eye on the side appearing next week at the Gabba.Selectors can't afford any more slip-ups
Friday November 20, 2009
Australia have lost three of their past five Test series. Amid all the backslapping, it is a point worth pondering. Ricky Ponting's side has slipped to fourth place in the rankings. Along the way, captain and selectors have blundered, with the wrong teams chosen, pitches misread and puzzling tactics pursued at critical moments.
Admittedly, it has not all been bad. Australia performed admirably throughout a long stint overseas. The one-day side surpassed itself. But Test cricket is the real deal, and in that arena Australia have fallen back. All the more reason to keep a close eye on the side appearing next week at the Gabba.The Quiz
Saturday January 3, 2009
1. Which cricketer has played a Test match alongside all 14 of his country's wicketkeepers?2. Before today's Test match, who was the last player from NSW to make his Test debut at the SCG?3. Who is the only man to captain two Test teams at the SCG?4. Who are the only two men to score more than 15 Test centuries while captaining their countries?5. Who is the only South African to take 10 wickets in a Test at the SCG?6. Who scored 11 Test fifties at the SCG, but never a century?7. Which two men ...Why Wait To Have Work Done?
Wednesday December 10, 2008
Today, women are opting for some "cosmetic enhancement" at a younger age, reports LISA WACHSMUTH. And the economic downturn hasn't stopped them either.
It used to be you'd wait till your fifties or older to have "work" done; now women in their twenties are having a spot of cosmetic enhancement.Haus Style
Tuesday August 12, 2008
MELBOURNE has always been a town in love with retro. In bars it has been about channelling the fairly recent past. Fifties lampshades, '60s curves, '70s furniture, '80s tunes and '90s excess are all familiar motifs. For barflies it seems that the past is another country, one in which occasionally drinking yourself silly is part of la vida loca, rather than a problem that needs government intervention and condemnation.
Place: Von Haus, 1A Crossley Street, city, 96622756It's A Crime: How Footy Heroes Go Bad
Saturday March 8, 2008
IT WAS not the sort of footy final Garry Sullivan was used to. He had played rugby league for Australia but in 1999 Sullivan led the Over Fifties into battle with the Young Bloods for the Borallon Jail Cup in Queensland.Fifties Cricketers Caught A Glimpse Of Reality
Tuesday February 5, 2008
"I THINK one thing that a lot of people overlook is that we are not playing cricket in the 1950s, and a lot of people, I think, are still living in the 1950s," Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting said recently, and it's an interesting assessment.Beach For Beach
Tuesday September 25, 2007
DEDICATED or crazy? That's the question for this man in his fifties.Pressure To Care For Aged
Monday March 27, 2006
BY 2041 as many women in their fifties as men are expected to be in the workforce but this official Treasury projection may come unstuck without more workplace flexibility.Rules For Retirees
Wednesday May 26, 2004
PAYE taxpayers are moving into retirement at the rate of knots as they voluntarily leave their jobs or involuntarily face redundancy in their mid-fifties.Ready To Face Life In The Fast Lane
Sunday June 29, 2003
HIS name is Mohammad Al-Sahariar but his mates call him Rokon. He has played in 14 of Bangladesh's 19 Test matches, notching up four Test fifties. Now he's going to find out what it's like to face Brett Lee , Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie.Stars Of The Fab Fifties
Saturday May 4, 2002
Far form turning up their noses, people are seeking out this desirable decade. Melissa Rimac reports.Horne On Pm: An Apparition From The Dreamtime Fifties
Tuesday September 4, 2001
Donald Horne was lying in a hospital bed suffering from heart failure. He had pneumonia. His pulse was racing at 200. At 77, death was not far. Yet he still managed to reach for his notepad and write, in a frail and spidery hand, a single sentence: ``Is John Howard Australia's worst Prime Minister?"Original Spin
Saturday August 25, 2001
Make all the right moves at Wahroonga's Fifties Fair or Sydney University's big board game.Rockin' Role
Friday August 24, 2001
Fifties Fair Where Rose Seidler House, 71 Clissold Street, Wahroonga When Sunday, 10am-5pm How much $7 (children under 12 free) More information 9989 8020 JACQUI TAFFEL slips on her bobbysocks and enters the era of Chuck Berry, quiffs and big skirts.Play Fits Fad With Fifties
Tuesday May 8, 2001
CLOTHESWISE, the timing of the season of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll at the Civic Theatre could hardly have been better.Expatriate Sees Canberra Headed In Wrong Direction
Thursday June 15, 2000
Don Austen, a wiry knockabout Australian in his fifties who has been living in the Solomon Islands for 21 years, has a bit of advice for Canberra and the diplomats who represent it. He says they should reconsider plans to contribute millions of dollars to a compensation scheme intended to defuseThe Disease That Threatens Darkness
Monday September 6, 1999
A SILENT eye disease was gradually robbing Betty Bowditch of her sight. When she was in her early fifties the Belmont woman learned she had glaucoma, a disease that slowly damages the optic nerve. A regular eye test alerted Mrs Bowditch to the problem, which tends to have no obvious symptomsProfit-making: It's In The Blood
Monday August 16, 1999
Tests are big money and one of the few profitable areas in medicine open to lay investors. Margot Saville examines the pathology industry. Australia's first group of baby boomers are now in their fifties. New medical technology has made possible widespread DNA testing. And more doctors are beingRockefeller And The Good Oil From Asia
Saturday July 3, 1999
Wary of the limelight but cashed up and ready to go, John D. Rockefeller 3rd had an all-consuming interest in Asian art. He founded the pioneering Asia Society in New York in the fifties, and his legacy has now come to Sydney TREASURES OF ASIAN ART: SELECTIONS FROM THE MR. & MRS. JOHN D. ROCK