The NRL is offering two return flights (Sydney - Auckland), two tickets to the New Zealand Kiwis v Australian Kangaroos Gillette Tri Nations match at Mt Smart Stadium, 4 nights accommodation, attendance at a Kangaroos training session and a signed test jumper!
Entering the competition is easy and with all profits from the reverse auction going [...]

Tickets for next year’s cricket World Cup on internet auction sites or from third-party outlets will not be honoured, organisers warned today (AEST).
Only tickets sold through authorised travel agents and the International Cricket Council’s public ticketing program will be valid for entry at the tournament, which is being held for the first time in the [...]

Businessman Jim Byrnes has offered 148 people who sold goods through his failed Cromwell’s Sydney auction house just 44c in the dollar for debts totalling $268,394.
Cromwell’s administrator Gavin Moss, who said in his report to creditors that the funds had been “misappropriated” from the company trust account, described the offer as “wishy-washy” and said more [...]

Alinta, the Australian energy group, has joined the £7bn bid battle for Thames Water, the UK’s largest water group, in what is set to be one of the biggest infrastructure deals in Europe this year.
If the Australian group’s bid is successful, it will launch a A$4bn (£1.6bn) share issue, underwritten by JPMorgan, the US bank, [...]

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Hundreds of eBay users are trying to profit from the death of Crocodile
Hunter Steve Irwin.
The Internet auction site has been flooded with unofficial merchandise since the wildlife expert died on September 4 when a stingray barb pierced his chest while he was filming a documentary off the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
One user told BANG [...]

Cattle prices in Australia, the world’s second largest beef exporter, fell to a three-month low amid concern El Nino conditions may extend a drought and reduce supplies of grain and grass needed for livestock feed.
The cattle indicator, which measures auction prices of young cattle sold at sale yards in eastern Australia, has fallen four [...]

The three works will be auctioned on Monday and are conservatively expected to sell for between $5000 and $20,000 each.
They were given to a woman as gifts by the artist, who lived at Clarendon in South Australia during the 1970s and ’80s.
Two of the watercolours, Coorong Fisherman & Spoonbills (1974) and Abstract Figure [...]