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The Coalition has done away with the niceties in a last-ditch effort to take office, embarking on a fear campaign to win the support of the kingmaker independents.
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The weather bureau is warning that approaching storms could be the most significant weather event in Victoria for the past 15 years.
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Angry outbursts by flood victims reliant on scarce aid are hampering relief work in Pakistan, as the nation struggles to cope with its worst natural disaster
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Lindsay Tanner has officially resigned as the federal finance minister.
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Oil giant BP says the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has cost the British company $8.79 billion so far.
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Police are yet to explain why accused Indonesian people smugglers have been held without charge for up to nine months
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Airlines are facing multi-million-dollar payouts over years of underpayments to travel agents after losing a last-ditch legal bid
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It was a cautious day's trade ahead of employment figures out in the US tonight, but the chance of increased poker machine regulation and various shareholder legal actions drove some stocks lower.
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Five executives of the company that operates Brisbane's Clem7 tunnel have received bonuses totalling more than $1 million.
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At least five corrective services officers have had to restrain a man on remand after he threw a water jug at a judge in an ACT court room.
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NSW Premier Kristina Keneally looks to the Treasurer and Primary Industries Minister to fill portfolios vacated by Paul McLeay.
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Paul Hogan has reached an agreement with the Australian Tax Office that will allow the actor to return to the US.
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An Indonesian volcano has spewed ash thousands of metres into the air in its most violent eruption in 400 years.
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The regional Victorian city of Bendigo will host a world premiere exhibition of wedding dresses from London's Victoria and Albert Museum in 2011.
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As many as 25 people were killed when Mexican soldiers clashed with suspected drug gang members in rural north-eastern Mexico, local media reported.
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A stuntman, known as the French Spiderman, has denied putting lives at risk by scaling a Sydney building.
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A Sydney court has heard a man who attacked two parking rangers in six months has a history of steriod use and major depression.
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Murdoch University has sacked an academic accused of trying to pressure female students into sex for higher marks while working at Curtin University.
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A Victorian Government Upper House MP has been assigned to watch over the Lower House electorate of Ivanhoe, which no longer has a member.
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A Darwin man found guilty of seriously harming his girlfriend by pouring boiling stew over her has been sentenced to seven years' jail.
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New South Wales Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell has refused to name the Nationals MP among those implicated by a parliamentary internet audit.
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A mentally ill Perth woman who drowned her twin babies has been given a three-year jail term.
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The WA Health Department is warning travellers returning from Bali to look out for symptoms of Legionnaires' disease.
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Tony Windsor concedes it would be easier for him to side with the Coalition, but he is adamant he will not be pressured by anyone.
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There have been floods and blackouts as wild weather batters South Australia.
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