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| 2010-03-10 08:58 | The Age (World) | Art immortal in final catwalk call for McQueen JESS CARTNER-MORLEY, PARIS Designer Alexander McQueen's last collection is unveiled.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:58 | The Age (World) | India puts threatened tribe in quarantine DEAN NELSON, DELHI Tourists are to be banned from large areas of resorts on some Indian islands because of fears they will bring disease that could wipe out the 350 remaining members of a local tribe.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:58 | The Age (World) | '3000 bombers' set for Pakistan DEAN NELSON DELHI The Taliban claims it is ready to unleash 3000 suicide bombers in Pakistan in protest at military operations and US drone attacks in its tribal areas.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:58 | The Age (World) | Last Bali fugitive in police sights as new group forms TOM ALLARD ,JAKARTA Indonesian authorities are in hot pursuit of Umar Patek, the last alumnus of the Bali bombing terrorist cell, following the death this week of his accomplice Dulmatin.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:58 | The Age (World) | Eyes on Baghdad results as key to tight Iraq poll BAGHDAD Iraq's electoral commission is expected to release partial results of the country's parliamentary elections early today.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:58 | The Age (World) | Shock Israel move confounds Biden JERUSALEM During a high-profile visit by US Vice-President Joe Biden, Israel has unveiled plans for new housing in occupied East Jerusalem.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:58 | The Age (World) | Britain urges President Karzai to talk to Taliban JULIAN BORGER, LONDON Britain urges the Afghan government to put more effort into pursuing of peace talks amid fears the war could be prolonged as a result of incompetence and lack of political will in Kabul.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:58 | The Age (World) | US department 'oversight' hindering Afghan agenda KEN DILANIAN, WASHINGTON The US State Department is failing to properly oversee nearly $US2 billion in contracts to battle the drug trade, build infrastructure and train police in Afghanistan.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:58 | The Age (World) | Somali aid theft rife, UN says NEW YORK As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local UN staff.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:58 | The Age (World) | Destructive Pollock's last lover She was the lone survivor of the 1956 car crash that changed the course of American art by killing its angriest abstract expressionist, Jackson Pollock, her lover at the time. Although badly injured, Ruth Kligman an artist in her own right, survived to become romantically involved with a string of significant art figures. She has died in New York, aged 80.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:58 | The Age (World) | A crusading editor who stood up to the fascists The death of Antonio Fontan, named by the International Press Institute as one of the 'heroes of press freedom', ends a critical chapter in the battle for freedom of the press around the world.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:28 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Doctor in the house, but Abbott still has both eyes on the jugular DAMIEN MURPHY TONY ABBOTT kissed a baby yesterday, but it was a temporary display of softness. He was hard again within hours.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:28 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Alive and kicking: the 100kg miracle they'll never forget DEBORAH SMITH SCIENCE EDITOR HE is set to rewrite the textbooks.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:28 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Desert gets best rain in 30 years NICKY PHILLIPS FOR most of the year Ethabuka Reserve, which abuts the Simpson desert in the far corner of western Queensland, is a dry, hostile place.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:28 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | A big day for Mad Men SEAN NICHOLLS AND JESSICA MAHAR Don and Betty Draper, would no doubt approve; characters from the hit series Mad Men are to be immortalised in plastic. Mattel has announced it will create a limited-edition release of Barbie and Ken dolls to celebrate the Emmy Award-winning show about a fictional Madison Avenue advertising firm, Sterling Cooper, in the 1960s.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:28 | ABC News Online | Government tight lipped over insulation removal costs The Federal Government is refusing to say how much it will cost to remove dodgy insulation from tens of thousands of homes.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:28 | ABC News Online | Rudd proposes incentive payments for top hospitals Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the Government will offer incentive payments to outstanding hospitals under its new health plan.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Private bus companies slammed for poor service ANDREW WEST PRIVATE bus companies with exclusive contracts to run services in Sydney's suburbs may face penalties for poor performance after the NSW Auditor-General slammed the inadequate and irregular services for passengers.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Time for new spirit of trust PHILLIP COOREY AND HAMISH MCDONALD INDONESIANS and Australians need to drop their negative stereotypes of each other if the relationship between the two nations is to advance and become resilient, the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, says.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Abbott's parent tax as costly as carbon for big polluters LENORE TAYLOR AND JACOB SAULWICK LARGE corporations could pay as much under Tony Abbott's parental leave plan as they would in the early years of the government's emissions trading scheme, which the Coalition voted down saying it was a ''great big new tax'' that would cascade through the economy.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Millions blown on dud arms DAN OAKES DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT MORE than $1.2 billion worth of munitions are in an ''other than serviceable'' state, and the Defence Department is wasting tens of millions of dollars on payments to a French arms company, the national auditor says.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Yudhoyono calls for change PETER HARTCHER INDONESIA'S President has broken out of the polite ceremonials of a state visit to Australia to tell us bluntly the central problem with the relationship.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Doctor in the house, but Abbott still has both eyes on the jugular TONY ABBOTT kissed a baby yesterday, but it was a temporary display of softness. He was hard again within hours.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | New plans for alcohol violence ANDREW CLENNELL STATE POLITICAL EDITOR PUBS, clubs and other late-night premises including kebab shops will be forced to join liquor accords, and extra night buses will be rolled out in alcohol trouble spots across the state, as part of the government's response to alcohol-related violence to be released next week.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Adolescent angst far more than just puberty blues JULIE ROBOTHAM WRITTEN off as a mess of hormones, adrift between paediatric and adult health services, compromised by their ambiguous legal status … Professor Kate Steinbeck says it is hardly surprising that adolescents do not always receive ideal healthcare.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Tempers flare as Coalition split on referendum LENORE TAYLOR AND PHILLIP COOREY A COALITION split has emerged over Tony Abbott's threat to hold a referendum for a federal takeover of the Murray-Darling Basin, with the Nationals leader, Warren Truss, telling irrigators the move is not National Party policy and Nationals backbenchers publicly rejecting it.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Alive and kicking: the 100kg miracle they'll never forget DEBORAH SMITH SCIENCE EDITOR HE is set to rewrite the textbooks.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | ABC head wants fair go for sceptics JULIAN LEE MARKETING EDITOR THE chairman of the ABC, Maurice Newman, has again waded into the global warming debate, telling a collection of senior staff they had succumbed to ''groupthink'' in their reporting of climate change.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Teen held over attack on man in wheelchair GEORGINA ROBINSON A LOVE of country music almost proved fatal for a wheelchair-bound Canadian man.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Desert gets best rain in 30 years NICKY PHILLIPS FOR most of the year Ethabuka Reserve, which abuts the Simpson desert in the far corner of western Queensland, is a dry, hostile place.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Father wants answers over his son's death SAFFRON HOWDEN DAYS before the schoolyard fight that ended in Jai Morcom's death, the boys involved had brought spanners, chains and padlocks to the playground to win control of a disputed lunch table.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Welfare crackdown misses targets ADELE HORIN THE welfare-to-work reform implemented under the Howard government failed to achieve its objectives, leaving three of the four target groups - disability pensioners, the very long-term unemployed and mature-age unemployed - little or no better off, an official report shows.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Now taxpayers face $100m bill to fix insulation mess TOM ARUP ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT TAXPAYERS will pay up to $100 million to remove foil insulation or install electrical safety switches in 50,000 homes in a bid to fix the government's suspended insulation scheme.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | 'I had to go back to work. I really didn't know where to begin.' BELINDA VASTA, 40, was still getting over the shock of her marriage breakdown when the pressure from Centrelink to find a job became intense. She had been a stay-at-home mother who had not worked in nine years. To support her two boys she depended on the single parenting payment.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Coalition under fire for blocking bills PHILLIP COOREY CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has told the Senate to leave his proposed paid maternity leave scheme alone as the government mounts a concerted attack on increasing obstructionism in the nation's upper house... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Another election promise broken MARK METHERELL HEALTH CORRESPONDENT THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, now seems unlikely to meet another big election pledge - to introduce a national dental scheme.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Reduce waiting times, get bonus cash: Rudd MARK METHERELL AND PHILLIP COOREY PUBLIC hospitals which beat national standards on reducing patient waiting times will get bonus payments from the federal government, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has revealed.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Youth allowance deal closer TOM ARUP THE government and opposition have edged closer to a deal on changes to the youth allowance with the Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, agreeing to economic modelling on opposition amendments.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Think, revive and thrive: a state vision THE Opposition Leader, Barry O'Farrell, has pledged to put economic growth at the centre of a Coalition government plan to get NSW moving again.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Call to stagger school starting times STAGGERED school starting times have helped parents like Joy Poulos co-ordinate drop-off and pick-up times for children attending different schools.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Fair Trading under fire over DIY fire risk test LOUISE HALL THE NSW government has been accused of putting people at risk from shoddy insulation work by advising occupants to conduct a do-it-yourself fire and electrocution risk assessment.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Gladesville's forgotten - in life and death JACQUELINE MALEY IN THE north-eastern corner of the Gladesville Hospital grounds, a former mental asylum once notorious for its crowded conditions and neglected inmates, is a nondescript plot where the corpses of more than 1000 former psychiatric patients lie.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Man sues school over alleged beatings BELLINDA KONTOMINAS A FORMER student is suing the exclusive The King's School after he was allegedly subjected to sexual assaults and daily beatings by fellow students.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Tough call for men in minis SEAN NICHOLLS AND JESSICA MAHAR A new sartorial transgression has been added to the dress code at Star City casino: micro mini-skirts. Rather importantly, though, it only applies to men.... |
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| 2010-03-10 08:13 | Sydney Morning Herald (National) | Can't save them? Move 'em How can we save some of our most charismatic animals from extinction due to climate change? American biologist Camille Parmesan has a radical suggestion - move them. She talks to Suzanne Goldenberg.... |
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| 2010-03-10 07:13 | ABC News Online | Detonators, weapons seized in Indonesia anti-terror raids Indonesian police say they seized three detonators for remote-controlled bombs at the Internet cafe on Jakarta's outskirts where fugitive militant leader Dulmatin was killed this week.... |
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| 2010-03-10 06:28 | ABC News Online | Biden holds Palestinian talks after condemning Israel The US vice-president Joe Biden is holding talks with Palestinian leaders, a day after condemning Israel's announcement of 1,600 new homes for Jewish settlers in east Jerusalem.... |
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| 2010-03-10 05:28 | ABC News Online | Bullied girl hopes court win helps other victims A teenager says she hopes a landmark court decision allowing her to seek compensation for being bullied will help other victims in the future.... |
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| 2010-03-10 04:58 | ABC News Online | ABC chair criticises climate change coverage ABC chairman Maurice Newman has attacked the media for being too willing to accept the conventional wisdom on climate change.... |
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| 2010-03-10 03:28 | Radio Australia | Militants attack charity office in Pakistan's north wes |
