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Maytê Piragibe defende Record – Divulgação
February 9, 2014 – 8:29AM
So close: Britt Cox of Australia Photo: Cameron Spencer
A sketchy landing on her final jump may have cost Australia its first medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics but a buoyant Britt Cox couldn’t have been much happier with her fifth place in the moguls event.
Canada claimed a one-two with sisters Justine (22.44 points) and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe (21.66) while 2010 Games champion, American Hannah Kearney, looked to be overscored in claiming third place (21.49).
Cox (19.43), who has two World Cup medals to her credit, wasn’t expected to be amongst the serious medal contenders on the first night of competition at the Games but skied superbly after a slow start to competition.
Quickly overcoming her failure to qualify in the first 10 skiers in the final, the 19-year-old lifted her game to reach the 12-woman decider, before claiming a spot in the final six and medal round.
The two-time Winter Olympian laid down a neat last run, completing a 360 rotation off the first jump and a backflip off the second.
She conceded the off-kilter landing may have left her off the podium but she was anything but displeased.
“I’d have to see the video to break it down but that is probably the difference,” she said.
“I needed to push it. I really needed to just fight for it and set it (the jump) hard. I did that (but it was) a little bit overcooked on the bottom air which probably cost me a few points there.
“But I am happy because I pushed the limits and personally that’s a big step and a big hurdle for me.”
Cox’s score in qualifying fourth for the last final (71.96) would have been enough to snatch third in the decider.
But even with a few mistakes on her last trip down the course she thought a medal might still be in the offering.
“In moguls skiing anything can happen especially when you are down to those final six and the girls are really pushing it,” she said.
“I could’ve been in there on the podium but I am just happy with my skiing tonight and really excited for what I can do in the future.
Twenty-third at the Vancouver Winter Olympics as 15-year-old Cox now becomes the most successful Australian women’s moguls skier at a Games, her result only second to Dale Begg-Smith’s gold and silver medals won in 2006 at 2010.
Of the other Australians Nicole Parks was 15th and Taylah O’Neill 16th.
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Source : The Brisbane Times
February 8, 2014 – 10:46PM
Kevin Rudd congratulates Terri Butler after she claimed victory in the 2014 Griffith by election. Photo: Harrison Saragossi
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has heaped praise on his likely successor in Griffith, as it was revealed internal Labor Party polling had the Liberal National Party headed for victory two weeks out of Saturday’s poll.
With Labor’s Terri Butler leading the LNP’s Bill Glasson 52.33 to 47.67 per cent on the two-party preferred count with just one booth yet to report back, Griffith looks likely to remain a Labor seat.
However, with counting on Saturday night showing a small swing away from the Labor Party, Dr Glasson and the LNP refused to concede defeat.
Bill Glasson addresses supporters at the Morningside AFL club. Photo: Nick Wiggins, 4BC
Mr Rudd, who had kept a low profile during the byelection campaign, received a rock star’s welcome at a jubilant post-election party at South Brisbane.
“She is a highly intelligent human being and a very strong woman who’s going to stand up and be a strong advocate for local people,” the two-time prime minister said.
“I don’t say those things lightly because I’ve spent a lot of time with her and I’m delighted that she is representing our area – delighted.”
Ms Butler, an industrial relations lawyer, told Fairfax Media she was grateful for the support she had received during the campaign.
“It’s been a very, very close election and people have had a very important decision to make,” she said.
“My opponent is a well-respected, well-liked person who I myself find to be a very nice man and someone for whom I have a lot of respect.
“It was always a tough fight and I’m really confident, based on the booth results I’ve seen so far, that Labor will retain Griffith.”
Dr Glasson, an ophthalmologist who once served as president of the Australian Medical Association, was not ready to congratulate Ms Butler on Saturday night.
‘‘We’re not conceding tonight but obviously it’s going to be difficult to get across the line,’’ Dr Glasson told his supporters, flanked by Queensland Premier Campbell Newman and federal Attorney-General George Brandis.
‘‘Can I suggest that the figures you currently see on the screen I believe will narrow, but we won’t know I believe for a number of days where that will sit.’’
Mr Brandis said, regardless of the end result, the swing from the Labor Party was a loss for Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.
“It is almost unheard of for there to be a swing against an opposition at a byelection and, as far as we can tell, it has only ever happened three times in Australian history,” he said.
But it could have been worse for the Labor Party.
According to internal Labor polling, conducted two weeks prior to Saturday’s poll, Dr Glasson had a nine-point primary vote lead over Ms Butler, 47 to 38 per cent.
That narrowed to a 51 to 49 per cent victory to the LNP on a two party preferred status.
Blair MP Shayne Neumann said a strong ground campaign and multiple visits by Mr Shorten had helped turn those numbers around.
With just 71.8 per cent of the electorate’s votes counted after all booths had reported back, voter turnout appeared to be low.
Australian Electoral Commission spokesman Phil Diak said the turnout would not be known until all the counting had been completed, including pre-polls and postal ballots.
“That includes declaration votes that will be dealt with next week and postal votes coming in up to the Friday after next,” he said.
“But the historical trend is for byelection turnout to be lower.”
– with Nick Wiggins
Source : The Brisbane Times
February 9, 2014 – 10:12AM
Brandis: Royal Commission will tackle “systemic”, “ingrained” corruption
Attorney-General Senator George Brandis. Photo: Andrew Meares Photo: Andrew Meares
Attorney-General George Brandis says a Royal Commission into trade unions will tackle the “systemic”, “ingrained” corruption in the labour movement.
And he has accused federal opposition leader Bill Shorten, a former trade union leader, of opposing a Royal Commission because he was the “nominee off the trade union movement”.
Senator Brandis confirmed on Sunday the announcement of a wide-ranging judicial inquiry was imminent, declaring it would be “irresponsible for the government not to respond in an appropriate way” to public concerns.
Attorney-General Senator George Brandis. Photo: Andrew Meares Photo: Andrew Meares
The inquiry would examine allegations of impropriety at the health services, construction and Australian workers unions.
“The revelations we have seen in recent months suggest it is much more widespread and systemic and an ingrained problem with the trade union movement than mere slush funds,” he told Sky News.
“You’d expected Bill Shorten to protect trade union bosses, because Bill Shorten was a trade union boss and is only the leader of the Labor Party today because he is the nominee of the trade union movement.
Senator Brandis dismissed Mr Shorten’s call for a joint police taskforce, rather than a judicial inquiry, as “lame”.
Mr Shorten wants a multi-jurisdictional taskforce, led by the Australian Federal Police and include state police forces, to investigate the corruption allegations.
Labor’s workplace spokesman Brendan O’Connor said on Sunday the opposition would not support a royal commission because it did not have the power to arrest criminals and would not be able to act quickly enough to tackle corruption.
“Our view is let the crime-fighting agencies fight crime-fighting agencies fight crime,’ he told the ABC.
“The [government] agenda – it sounds like a political agenda. It sounds like a political timeline rather than a crime timeline.”
The Abbott government has been poised to call a Royal Commission for weeks. News Limited reports today that former high Court judge John Dyson Heydon will lead the inquiry.
Source : The Sydney Morning Herald
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