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...HEALTH 200 Weight, in kilograms, that new stretchers installed in Australian ambulances are capable of carrying, to accommodate the growing number of obese passengers 67% Proportion of Australian men who are overweight...
...blowing the lid on the game's continuing cancer. Pakistan has certainly been linked to match-fixing scandals in the past. Outspoken Pakistani batsman Qasim Omar has long maintained that he was bribed to deliberately get himself out during the 1983-84 Pakistan-Australia series. A decade later, three Australian players publicly alleged that Salim Malik of Pakistan had offered them money to lose a match. Malik denied the allegation. Then, in 2000, police in the Indian capital New Delhi intercepted a telephone conversation between an illegal bookmaker and South African captain Hansie Cronje in which the two discussed...
...Projects and reigning commissioner for Australia's representation at the Venice Biennale, Kaldor is part impresario, part philanthropist. "John's role is more precisely defined as someone who is the visionary," explains Juliana Engberg, a curatorial advisor for Venice. He also happens to be just about the best-connected Australian in the art scene. Scroll through the membership of New York MoMA's International Council, and there are Kaldor and his partner, the Melbourne fashion-chain head Naomi Milgrom. At London's Tate Modern, the pair are listed just below Sir Elton John and David Furnish. "I didn't realize...
...artist Nam June Paik, but amassed a seriously cool collection in the process. His newest KAP recruit is installation artist Urs Fischer, this year's Swiss representative at the Venice Biennale along with Ugo Rondinone, another KAP alumni. "He's got a passionate eye," says Engberg, director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. "He's very intuitive about what he likes, but his intuition often pays off in that sense...
...intuition, as much as his passion, is being called upon in Kaldor's most public capacity yet as "visionary" for Venice. As one of four judges, including Engberg, who selected the three official Australian artists, and continuing in his "ambassadorial" role of commissioner from the 2005 Biennale, Kaldor has more than anyone else shaped Australia's presence at the world's oldest festival of visual arts. "Every city worth its salt wants to have a biennale," says Kaldor, who has attended his fair share since the early '70s. "But they can't outdo Venice. People come to Venice...