Islamabad, Feb. 16: Australia has asked Pakistan to effectively clamp down on terror camps operating inside its territory in order to win India's confidence.

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith while emphasizing US President Barack Obama's message, said Islamabad should ensure that its soil is not being used as a safe haven by terrorist forces.

Commenting on Pakistan's acceptance over the use of its soil in plotting the Mumbai terror attacks, Smith said it was evident that the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was behind the ghastly act.

He said the perpetrators have to be brought to justice to build confidence back between India and Pakistan and to start constructive dialogue between both the countries.

Sydney, Feb. 15 : Australian one-day fast bowler Nathan Bracken has said that the experience of watching common Australians battling the bush fires in the southern part of the country will stay with him forever.

"As a professional cricketer your career is defined by what you do on the field: the hundreds you score, the wickets you claim or the great catches you take. But it is often the things we experience away from the game that bring emotion and meaning to our lives," Bracken writes in article for the Sydney Morning Herald.

Melbourne, Feb 15 : Taking advantage of Sydney''s rental crisis, some men are placing online advertisements offering women free rooms in exchange for sex.

Targeting desperate women looking for somewhere to live, the zero-rent ads are becoming increasingly common on popular `share house' rental websites.

There have been numerous complaints about the ads, which some website users have dubbed `offensive', but they do not breach policy guidelines for sites such as flatmates. com. au

Melbourne, Feb 14 : Former Australian cricketer Michael Slater feels that exuberance will help opener Phil Hughes to succeed in South Africa, expecting that he will ride the crest of a wave into the start of his Test career, just as a young Slater did in England 16 years ago.

It was Slater's exuberance that stood out above all else as he scored a half-century in his first Test and a big hundred in his second at Lord's on the 1993 Ashes tour.

Melbourne, Feb 14 : Australian allrounder Andrew Symonds will visit Cricket Australia doctor Trefor James early next week to learn the full extent of his latest knee injury that flared up again on the field on the first day of the Sheffield Shield match against South Australia at Adelaide Oval.

Symonds pulled up after bowling just two overs for Queensland, looking uneasy and did not re-emerge from the dressing room after the interval.