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| 2010-03-09 14:28 | ABC News Online | Rudd, SBY to hold talks on people smuggling Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will today become the first leader from his country to address Federal Parliament.... |
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| 2010-03-09 14:13 | ABC News Online | Gang arrested over plot to kill cartoonist Irish police have arrested seven people suspected of plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prohet Mohammed with the body of a dog.... |
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| 2010-03-09 09:28 | ABC News Online | Pink Floyd battles EMI over online royalties British rock band Pink Floyd have launched legal action against record label EMI in a case that centres around royalty payments and how music is sold in the digital age.... |
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| 2010-03-09 09:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Retired judge to preside again JOEL GIBSON AND ANDREW CLENNELL THE NSW Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, says he refused a request for a judge who criticised Labor's dealings with donor developers to be an acting judge in the Supreme Court because the government now prefers full-time appointments.... |
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| 2010-03-09 09:13 | ABC News Online | NZ soldier saves colleagues from grenade A New Zealander serving with British forces in Afghanistan has played down his bravery after saving two comrades' lives by throwing back a live Taliban hand grenade about to explode next to them.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:58 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Boom and the fear factor delivered payload of cash DR MARK THOMSON AFTER minimalist spending in the 1980s and 1990s, the last decade saw a bonanza for Australia's defence establishment. Economic optimism and strategic pessimism delivered budget increases not seen since the lead-up to Vietnam.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:28 | ABC News Online | College collapse expected to lower Indian student intake The Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, says he expects the collapse of some private colleges will contribute to a drop in the number of Indian students coming to Australia.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | War on waste: 'Defence extravagance must end' LINTON BESSER AND DAN OAKES THE Defence Minister, John Faulkner, has demanded action on millions of dollars Defence has spent on luxury items, saying ''financial control is critical''.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Coalition colleagues livid with Abbott over lack of consultation PHILLIP COOREY CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THE federal government will be pressed by the Senate to enhance its paid parental leave scheme after the Greens and independents said they would use Tony Abbott's rival plan to force a better deal for mothers.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Breast jobs, tummy tucks in the deal LINTON BESSER TAXPAYERS are funding hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cosmetic surgery and fertility treatments for Defence Force personnel.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Abbott betrays a core Liberal philosophy PETER HARTCHER THE Liberal Party has spent 66 years developing its brand as the party of enterprise and low taxes. It took Tony Abbott just 98 days to inflict serious damage to the brand.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | A nappy change designed to wedge Labor and woo women LENORE TAYLOR TONY ABBOTT'S parental leave policy is bad even when judged against the kind of bad policy we get in election years.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Rabbit out of the hat leaves everybody staring at goats FOR those privileged to see it, Julie Bishop's overly long loathing look at an audience interruption on ABC TV's Q&A on Monday night was a woman-who-stares-at-goats moment illustrating the opposition's talent for diverting attention to itself for the wrong reasons.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Call to emulate Chinese high-speed rail NICKY PHILLIPS AND ANDREW WEST THE journey from London to Beijing by rail could take just two days under a Chinese plan to build an international network for trains that can travel almost as fast as aircraft.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Phones to offer X-ray vision NICKY PHILLIPS LOST in a big city? It is a familiar experience. So imagine if you could use X-ray vision to see what was on the other side of the building in front of you.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Go figure: maths no longer in its prime JENNIE CURTIN MATHS education is in crisis, with the number of students enrolled in a mathematics major at Australian universities declining by 15 per cent since 2001 and the number of students taking advanced maths at high school dropping 27 per cent between 1995 and 2007.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Flood of insulation installers seek pay relief or retraining AT LEAST 1500 people have lost their jobs and are applying for government retraining programs because of the sudden suspension of the $2.45 billion insulation rebate.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Demotion for Events NSW as Macdonald is handed the reins BRIAN ROBINS IAN MACDONALD, the minister dubbed ''Sir Lunchalot'', is to take control of Events NSW from the Premier, Kristina Keneally, indicating the organisation's importance within the Government has been reduced.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Art or child porn? Now censors must decide ANDREW CLENNELL STATE POLITICAL EDITOR ARTISTS who create images of nude children would have to pay $500 an image to get Commonwealth classification to make absolutely sure they would not be prosecuted under new child pornography laws.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Midwives want to meet Roxon to avoid home-birth ban KATE BENSON ABI WHITEHAIR is only nine days old but she's already saved taxpayers thousands of dollars.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Big ideas to boost the state BRIAN ROBINS SWEEPING local government mergers to create 10 super councils, and a trial of staggered starting times for schools as a means of easing peak-hour traffic congestion feature in a package of 10 big ideas to get NSW moving again. They will be launched by the NSW Business Chamber today.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Questions the Department of Defence declined to answer Why was $10,000 spent for a "strategic planning conference" at Lake Crackenback Resort in early 2008? Also, who attended and what was discussed?... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | The navy lurk: blonde model gets sailors fighting fit LINTON BESSER ''IF YOU ladies leave my island,'' screams Gunnery Sergeant Hartman to his fresh recruits in Full Metal Jacket, ''if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon … But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human … beings. You are nothing but unorganised grabastic pieces of amphibian shit.''... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | General moves in the CEO Circle LINTON BESSER BILLED as the most exclusive of support groups, the CEO Circle is a safe place for executives to talk about their ''issues and failures''. And, at more than $1600 a meeting, the boardroom-style workshops are designed for only the most senior executives.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Retired judge to preside again JOEL GIBSON AND ANDREW CLENNELL THE NSW Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, says he refused a request for a judge who criticised Labor's dealings with donor developers to be an acting judge in the Supreme Court because the government now prefers full-time appointments.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Rudd reform will not end the blame game, say health experts MARK METHERELL HEALTH CORRESPONDENT THE health reform blueprint will not end blame-shifting between state and federal governments and may leave many hospitals in dire straits, two authorities on health warn.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Debate over Yudhoyono honour KIRSTY NEEDHAM THE bestowing of one of Australia's highest honours on the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, was a ''pragmatic'' move, human rights groups said.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Calls for tough rules to close 'residency' colleges DAN HARRISON EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT THE man charged with reviewing Australia's international education industry estimates one in five vocational colleges are ''permanent residency factories'' and has conceded some of them may be forced out of business as the $17 billion sector is cleaned up.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Pier pressure: architects divided on Barangaroo When the Barangaroo Delivery Authority called for a broad debate on its preferred development proposal, The Sydney Morning Herald approached the NSW branch of the Royal Institute of Architects for help.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Tycoon under the hammer SEAN NICHOLLS AND JESSICA MAHAR The breakup of the debt-laden property empire of developer Gary Baker is now under way. And heavy losses appear likely for the ambitious developer best known for wearing trademark white zinc on his smiling lips. Receivers have listed two luxury units in the ocean front Pacific Terraces complex at Bondi Beach, right, for a March 31 McGrath auction, reports the Herald's property editor, Jonathan Chancellor.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | The Age (World) | Spotlight shines on nation's sorrow over JFK KATIE ZEZIMA , BOSTON A book of letters reveals the grief over JFK's assassination.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | The Age (World) | Baghdadis drink to brighter future amid bitter memories When a massive car bomb destroyed Baghdad's celebrated Shabandar cafe on March 5 three years ago, Haj Mohammed al-Khashali lost his four sons and one grandson.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | The Age (World) | High-speed rail plan to link China China is in negotiations with 17 countries to build a high-speed rail network to India and Europe.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | The Age (World) | Leader jailed for attack KABUL An Afghan leader chosen to bring law and order to the part of Helmand province cleared by the US-led Operation Moshtarak has previously been jailed for attempted murder.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | The Age (World) | Stolen body recovered NICOSIA Cypriot authorities have found the body of former president Tassos Papadopoulos three months after it was snatched from his grave.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | The Age (World) | Building threat to talks JERUSALEM The Israeli Defence Ministry has authorised further construction in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | The Age (World) | Al-Qaeda arrest mistake ISLAMABAD An American man arrested in Karachi is not an al-Qaeda spokesman, according to Pakistani officials.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | The Age (World) | UK vows probe of killer's parole PAOLA TOTARO, LONDON The British government will open an inquiry after it was revealed that Jon Venables, one of the 10-year-old boys who killed toddler James Bulger, is to be returned to prison.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | The Age (World) | Rescued mountain gorillas ready to branch out DAVID SMITH, GOMA Two orphans are at the centre of a bid to re-establish a troop in the wild.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | The Age (World) | Pope's brother denies role in German abuse scandal ANNE PADIEU, BERLIN Germany's justice minister hits out at the Vatican over a child sex abuse scandal engulfing the country's Catholic Church, including at a choir formerly run by the Pope's brother.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | The Age (World) | Nigeria cracks down after 500 die in ethnic violence JOS, NIGERIA Nigerian troops were patrolling villages near the northern city of Jos yesterday after the massacre of more than 500 Christians there sparked international shock and outrage.... |
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| 2010-03-09 08:13 | The Age (World) | Dutch move for assisted suicide AMSTERDAM Organisers of a campaign to give elderly people in the Netherlands the right to assisted suicide says it has gathered more than 100,000 signatures.... |
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| 2010-03-09 07:28 | ABC News Online | Solomon Islands faces tragic past A Truth and Reconciliation Commission has begun in the Solomon Islands, with old wounds opening as the country delves back into its violent past to tell stories of murder and loss.... |
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| 2010-03-09 06:58 | ABC News Online | German fishing boat flies giant kite to save fuel Germany's largest fishing vessel will leave the Netherlands this week, towed by a giant kite harnessing trade winds for South America that will help cut its fuel consumption by up to a third.... |
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| 2010-03-09 06:43 | ABC News Online | Clarke set to return for Tests Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke is expected to be named in the Test squad to face New Zealand, despite the continuing dramas surrounding fiancee Lara Bingle.... |
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| 2010-03-09 06:28 | ABC News Online | Highway patrolman rescues runaway Prius's driver In the US, a highway patrol officer had to rescue a man when the accelerator pedal in his Toyota Prius became stuck at speeds of more than 145 kilometres an hour.... |
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| 2010-03-09 05:58 | ABC News Online | Hawks force grand final decider The Wollongong Hawks have defeated the Perth Wildcats by 12 points in game two of the NBL grand final series in Wollongong.... |
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| 2010-03-09 05:58 | Radio Australia | Bali link to man killed in Jakarta raid | ||
| 2010-03-09 05:43 | ABC News Online | Coalition opposing Telstra break-up The Federal Government looks unlikely to win enough votes to pass legislation aimed at breaking up Telstra.... |
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| 2010-03-09 05:28 | ABC News Online | Chickenpox threatens Merak asylum seekers Australia and Indonesia to hold talks amid claims a potentially deadly chickenpox outbreak threatens asylum seekers.... |
