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| 2010-09-02 10:28 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Four ways to get the sums wrong Peter Martin ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT THE COALITION made four kinds of mistakes in its costings according to the Treasury; the understandable, the inexcusable, the inexplicable, and those resulting from a failure to comprehend the nature of the process.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:28 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Wilkie takes gamble on faster pokie limits Jacob Saulwick NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT REGULAR poker machine players will need to nominate how much they are prepared to lose every time they play, under a landmark agreement between Julia Gillard and the independent MP Andrew Wilkie.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:28 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Katter vows there will be no hung parliament Paul Sheehan AUSTRALIA is not going to have a hung parliament. Not if Bob Katter has his way. As one of the three men who now hold the balance of power in federal politics, Mr Katter told the Herald last night he expects to act in concert with his two fellow regional independents, Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:28 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | 'No pork' in hospital funding agreement Phillip Coorey and Mark Metherell ANDREW WILKIE came to Canberra demanding a new Royal Hobart Hospital. When Tony Abbott offered him $1 billion for just that, he knocked it back and accepted Julia Gillard's offer of $340 million for a refurbishment.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:28 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Strikes reduced to a workplace rarity Paul Bibby WORKPLACE THE industrial strike has become little more than a memory in most Australian workplaces, with declining union membership and legal changes producing a fundamental shift in our work culture.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:28 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Scientists take a stick to blue tick that flags sustainable fisheries Andrew Darby HOBART GUILT-FREE seafood has taken another hit. The world's premier sustainable fishing scheme is under attack from eminent scientists for failing to protect the environment.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:28 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Hogan and ATO seek resolution Jennie Curtin PAUL HOGAN and the Australian Tax Office are negotiating to find a way through the impasse that has seen the actor barred from leaving the country.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:28 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | 'Humane' seafood label call Melissa Singer CONSUMER AFFAIRS A LABELLING scheme similar to that for free-range eggs could be applied to seafood after a study into the welfare of wild-caught fish found consumers lacked adequate information to make humane purchasing decisions.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:28 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | An Australian chronicle revisited The work of a brilliant but ill-disciplined German explorer is about to find a new audience, writes Steve Meacham.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:28 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Emperor Fischer washes his hands Matt Buchanan and Leesha McKenny Tim Fischer, former leader of the Nationals and former deputy prime minister, has clearly spent too much time at the Vatican.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:13 | ABC News Online | British PM backs foreign minister over gay rumours British prime minister David Cameron backed foreign secretary William Hague after the top diplomat's aide resigned over "malicious" rumours that they had an inappropriate relationship.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:13 | The Age (World) | Russian spy found dead on Turkish beach There are doubts over findings that a top agent died while swimming. Luke Harding reports from Moscow.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:13 | The Age (World) | Attacks aimed at 'derailing' Washington talks Jason Koutsoukis, Jerusalem A second terror attack against Israel in as many days by the militant Palestinian movement Hamas has raised fears of a sustained offensive across the West Bank.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:13 | The Age (World) | Reason for war invalid: Gates Richard Spencer, Baghdad America's Defence Secretary has conceded that the original premise for the war in Iraq was 'not valid' as he marked the formal end of the US campaign.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:13 | The Age (World) | BBC fails to get injunction as The Stig is revealed London Britain's High Court has refused to ban a book that reveals that Top Gear's The Stig is racing driver Ben Collins.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:13 | The Age (World) | No smoking, wine for miners Santiago Requests for wine and cigarettes by the trapped Chilean miners have been refused. They have been given nicotine patches instead.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:13 | The Age (World) | God not needed: Hawking London The universe was not created by God, scientist Stephen Hawking has said in his new book.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:13 | The Age (World) | Caught in a honeytrap Chicago Eleven people and six corporations have been charged over a conspiracy to smuggle Chinese honey into the United States.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:13 | The Age (World) | Strike enters third week Johannesburg A strike by South African teachers, nurses and other public sector workers has entered its 16th day after the Congress of South African Trade Unions rejected an increased wage offer.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:13 | The Age (World) | UK Labour battles Blair's attack Andrew Porter, London The ferocity of Tony Blair's attack on Gordon Brown has threatened to plunge Labour into a fresh civil war as party members start voting for a new leader.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:13 | The Age (World) | In science v ethics, it's the chimps in the sandwich A chimp colony's future has drawn fiery protest, reports Dan Frosch from Alamogordo, New Mexico.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:13 | The Age (World) | In the blogosphere, accountability is so last century Paola Totaro The photograph is hardly tabloid fodder: two men dressed in T-shirts and jeans, smiling broadly behind hip sunglasses as they walk in a park on a rare sunny day in London.... |
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| 2010-09-02 10:13 | The Age (World) | Italian town punts on lucky numbers to fix its budget Alessandra Migliaccio, Rome A southern Italian town is betting part of its budget on weekly lottery tickets, arguing that the strategy is no more a gamble than investing on Wall Street.... |
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| 2010-09-02 08:58 | ABC News Online | NATO accused of killing 10 Afghan civilians An Afghan official said that 10 election campaigners had been killed in an airstrike by international forces in the relatively peaceful north of the country.... |
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| 2010-09-02 08:58 | ABC News Online | Burger King dumps Indonesian palm oil company US fast food giant Burger King said it would no longer buy palm oil from Sinar Mas or its subsidiaries after Greenpeace campaigned against the Indonesian group's land-clearing practices.... |
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| 2010-09-02 08:13 | Radio Australia | Obama cautious on Middle East talks | ||
| 2010-09-02 07:58 | ABC News Online | God didn't create the universe: Hawking God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments in physics, British scientist Stephen Hawking said in extracts published from a new book.... |
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| 2010-09-02 07:58 | ABC News Online | Rio Tinto banking on Gillard sticking to tax promise The head of Rio Tinto's Iron Ore division says he trusts Prime Minister Julia Gillard will stick to her promise of a 30 per cent mining tax despite Labor's deal with the Greens.... |
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| 2010-09-02 07:28 | ABC News Online | Chain-smoking toddler kicks habit A two-year-old Indonesian boy who smoked about 40 cigarettes a day has kicked the habit after receiving intensive specialist care, a child welfare official said.... |
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| 2010-09-02 06:43 | ABC News Online | Horse bite severs man's artery A man is in a serious condition after being bitten by a horse at Seymour in central Victoria this afternoon.... |
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| 2010-09-02 06:43 | ABC News Online | Feral cats wiping out endangered bush species A new report from the Nature Conservancy has found that mammal species in northern Australia are in rapid decline and many are at risk of becoming extinct within the next decade.... |
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| 2010-09-02 06:43 | ABC News Online | Zsa Zsa Gabor to be preserved by plastination The German husband of ailing 93-year-old Hollywood actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor said he wanted to preserve her body by plastination after she dies, the Bild newspaper reported.... |
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| 2010-09-02 06:43 | Radio Australia | Pakistan cricket trio dropped after accusations | ||
| 2010-09-02 06:13 | ABC News Online | Fortescue boss backs taxation summit Fortescue Metals Group chief executive Andrew Forrest has met with key independent MP Rob Oakeshott this afternoon and says they have agreed on a plan to hold a "taxation summit".... |
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| 2010-09-02 05:58 | ABC News Online | PM slams Abbott's attempts to win over Wilkie Julia Gillard attacks the Coalition's economic credentials as Labor edges closer to forming the next Federal Government with the support of independent Andrew Wilkie.... |
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| 2010-09-02 05:58 | ABC News Online | Pakistan drops stars amid fix probe The three Pakistan cricketers at the centre of a betting scandal have been released from the squad for the remainder of the tour of England, team manager Yawar Saeed has confirmed.... |
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| 2010-09-02 05:58 | ABC News Online | Ailing tunnel project takes toll on investors Investors in the Clem7 toll road project have turned their attention to legal action over grossly over-estimated traffic forecasts.... |
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| 2010-09-02 05:28 | ABC News Online | High house prices drive ex-miner underground A retired Chinese coal miner has found an underground solution to the country's sky-high housing costs, by carving out a new home beneath the shack he lives in, state media reported.... |
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| 2010-09-02 04:43 | ABC News Online | Ants use landmarks to navigate, study finds Ants travelling along a familiar route use their photographic memory to calculate how to stay on track, British researchers say.... |
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| 2010-09-02 04:43 | ABC News Online | Surgeon banned over patient deaths A Gold Coast surgeon has been ordered to retire permanently from medical practice.... |
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| 2010-09-02 04:43 | Radio Australia | Australian Labor wins over key independen | ||
| 2010-09-02 04:28 | ABC News Online | Japan begins annual dolphin hunt A controversial annual dolphin hunt that was depicted in an Oscar-winning documentary has begun in Japan.... |
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| 2010-09-02 03:58 | ABC News Online | Explosive end for sick whale Explosives have been used to euthanase an ill humpback whale that washed up onto a sandbar off Western Australia's south-west coast.... |
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| 2010-09-02 03:58 | ABC News Online | Remains recovered from PNG crash debris The remains of the four people killed in Tuesday's plane crash in Papua New Guinea have been recovered from the crash site.... |
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| 2010-09-02 03:28 | ABC News Online | Mitchell quits Force for Lions John Mitchell will take the reins of South Africa-based Super 15 franchise Golden Lions after being granted an early release from the Western Force.... |
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| 2010-09-02 03:28 | ABC News Online | Local shares climb on Wall St surge Local shares have backed up a 2 per cent jump yesterday with a 0.8 per cent rise, after Wall St surged last night.... |
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| 2010-09-02 03:13 | Radio Australia | Middle East leaders offer peace hopes | ||
| 2010-09-02 02:43 | ABC News Online | Brain exercise helps stave off dementia Remaining active and mentally stimulated later in life helps stave off dementia, a United States study has found.... |
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| 2010-09-02 02:13 | ABC News Online | Tuck setback gives Hawks perspective Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson says the revelations about Travis Tuck's health problems have helped to remind his players that football is not a matter of life and death.... |
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| 2010-09-02 02:13 | Radio Australia | Australian Labor wins over key independen |
