If the deal fails to win regulatory approval, GM (nyse: GM - news - people ) may have to run Hughes itself or go back to Sydney, Australia-based News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ) and its Chairman Rupert Murdoch , who apparently was miffed at the way he was treated by GM's board, which ignored several of his reported ultimatums.
"QBE denies that its practices were illegal, " said Andrew Sandler, attorney for the Sydney, Australia-based company.
Sydney, Australia-based QBE did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
SYDNEY, Australia -- Peter Norman, who shared the victory podium while American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos made their famous"'black power salute" at the 1968 Mexico Olympics, has died aged 64.
At stumps on day four in Sydney, Australia were 213-7, 151 runs behind and staring at a third defeat by an innings in the current series.
Sydney-born Muggleton spent 10 years with Australia as assistant coach from 1997 until 2007 during which time he also had spells with the Waratahs and Queensland Reds as defence coach.
SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- The rush for "green power" is gathering pace in Australia, where power producers and distributors are committing more funds to wind-generated electricity that they hope will cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Leo Seaton, the Sydney-based manager of media relations at Tourism Australia, has travelled to more than 50 countries over the years.
And he quickly became an integral part of a dominant England side coached by Sir Clive Woodward, scoring a try in the 2003 World Cup final in the extra-time 20-17 victory over Australia in Sydney.
Temora, a five-hour drive west of Sydney, with a rich aviation history as the site of Australia's biggest pilot-training school during World War II, was already a center for sport aviation activities such as gliding, parachuting and aerobatics.
Wing Ashton was the only player in the side who also started Saturday's 21-20 victory over Australia in Sydney, but the attacking impetus from that memorable triumph was certainly evident early on as the second-stringers made a whirlwind start.
Slack tackling was again evident as Issac Luke went over and captain Benji Marhsall landed his seventh goal to put the Kiws in front 46-0 at the break - surpassing Australia's 42-0 full-time score against PNG in Sydney last Sunday.
His aim during a 100-day voyage that will take him from San Francisco, California, to Sydney, Australia, is to find the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between California and Japan -- a massive sea of plastic trash that environmentalists say could soon be larger than the continental United States.
MacGill is a proven performer with an outstanding record at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Australia's most spin-friendly wicket.
BBC: SPORT | Cricket | Other International | Australia add MacGill and Watson
Consider his evolution: At 15, Phelps competed in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, placing fifth in the 200-meter butterfly.
England lost the first Test of the tour 27-17 before fighting back to level the series with a 21-20 win in Sydney, their first victory in Australia since 2003.
Craig and her late husband, Sydney, began a nutritional weight-loss program in 1983 in Australia and moved it to the U.S. in 1985.
The second-row Australia international joined the Storm from the Sydney Roosters in 2006 and has not been on the losing side in 29 appearances for the club.
Because of his refusal to recognise the status of the so-called Super Series Test match in Sydney in 2004 between Australia and a Rest of the World XI.
But John Kightley, managing director of money manager Maple-Brown Abbott in Sydney, points out two other reasons for Australia's long run of growth.
After waiting out the bad weather, the Plastiki took off from its unexpected first port-of-call in Australia early Friday morning with hopes to reach Sydney in the next two days.
CNN: Plastic bottle boat reaches Australia after stormy seas
And one last farewell - Ian Woods, the Sky News Australia correspondent, is leaving Sydney and heading home.
On top of the leadership changes, Australia are likely to hand debuts to two young players in Sydney - batsman Usman Khawaja and spinner Michael Beer.
There were plenty of tickets still available for the Twenty20 game featuring England and Australia at Sydney on 9 January and matches in the triangular one-day series, which also involves New Zealand.
Robert Dane, then working as a country doctor in Australia, was watching a race of solar-powered vessels in Sydney Harbor in 1997 when one of them ran into difficulty due to strong winds.
Victory at Twickenham on Saturday would be New Zealand's 13th in 15 Tests since the start of June, a sequence that yielded a fourth straight Tri-Nations title despite a last-minute home defeat by South Africa and a humbling by Australia in Sydney.
Having only rejoined his team-mates at the start of the week after returning from Sydney following the break-up of his high-profile relationship with Bingle, the Australia vice-captain batted with assurance and maturity to guide Australia from 115-3 to their commanding position at the end of day one.
Prof Jie Jin Wang, an expert in vision research at Sydney University in Australia, said this was something doctors might want to discuss with high-risk patients.
It means that a decade after his dramatic World Cup-winning drop goal in Sydney, Wilkinson won't have the opportunity to terrorize Australia on its own patch again.
In the Hunter Valley 150 km (93 miles) north of Sydney, mid-January is harvest time in what has long been recognized as one of Australia's premium wine growing areas.
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