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Sydney, May 22 (ANI): Cricket Australia (CA) has announced that the country's top female cricketers will now earn up to 80,000 dollars within a year.The women team has won Women's World Cup and the T20 trophy, prompting CA to consider female cricket ...

Melbourne, May 21: Cricket Australia has announced a new contracting system which will make national women’s team players among the best-paid female athletes in Australia.Under the new squad ranking procedure, which replaces a three-tier payment system, ...

Members of the Australia women's cricket team will be among the country's highest-paid female athletes as part of a restructure of the Cricket Australia contract system. The leading players could earn up to $80,000 over the next year as part of the new ...

Depressed middle-aged women have almost double the risk of suffering a stroke, according to research. A 12-year Australian study of 10,547 women 47-52 years old found that depressed women had a 2.4 times increased risk of stroke compared to those ...

SYDNEY Basketball Australia has hired Brendan Joyce as head coach of the Australian Opals women's basketball team in a deal that runs through the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. Joyce, who worked as an assistant for the national men's team — the Boomers ...

Corbis Sydney: Researchers from Australia have found that women spend almost twice as much time on housework and childcare than men, even when they increase their time in paid employment. According to the Australian Institute of Family Studies, ...

Sydney: In a break from tradition, the women`s version of the Ashes is set to be conducted across all three international formats in England and Australia.

Several womens NGOs, including Women for Diversity, Guild of Services, Diverse Women for Diversity and Gene Ethics Australia, have launched a combined campaign against genetically-engineered (GMO) bananas. Dr Vandana Shiva has questioned why India should ...

Former Australia captain Steve Waugh wants to see women playing in the country's premier Twenty20 event, the Big Bash League. Though Waugh feels the idea is a bit out there, one female player should be added to each team in the Big Bash league. I think its ...