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AUSTRALIA’S friendship with New Zealand will be an asset in negotiations for a post-Kyoto emissions target, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says.
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A FORMER Victorian upper house MP for the North East has claimed a seat in Federal Parliament but his Liberal opponent wants a recount.
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FOUR people were incinerated in a fiery crash beside Melbourne’s West Gate Freeway last night, police say.
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A TEENAGER has been charged with killing a police dog stabbed on the NSW South Coast early yesterday.
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AUSTRALIANS remain ambivalent about the US with many distrusting its politics and values but ranking American arts, literature and sports highly, a new survey reveals.
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Lack of a stroll turns Aussies sedentary
NEARLY half of all Australians are not active enough to maintain good health, according to a survey showing one in five don’t even manage one 10-minute walk a week.
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AUSTRALIAN students want alcoholic drinks to carry labels listing their ingredients and fat and sugar content, a major survey has found.
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SEVEN people were injured — three seriously — when a balcony collapsed at a house in the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne.
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Government denies commitment to 2010
THE Federal Government has denied already committing Australian troops to spend another three years in Afghanistan to fight a resurgent Taliban movement.
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A GOLD Coast man was bound with adhesive tape and had both his ears severed in a gruesome abduction and torture ordeal believed to be linked to an outlaw motorcycle gang.
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FOUR young men and a 15-year-old boy have appeared in court charged over the assault of two off-duty police officers in Brisbane’s south.
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NEW YORK: Rupert Murdoch has tapped his youngest son James as heir apparent to his media empire News Corporation in a management reshuffle following his acquisition of the Wall Street Journal.
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HEAVY rains during November have bolstered summer crops in northern NSW and reduced drought-stricken areas to less than 70 per cent of the state.
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POLICE will access the site of a NSW fireworks factory explosion today after bomb experts declared the area safe to enter late yesterday.
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Victoria ‘a model’ for NSW privatisation
THE NSW Government will meet today to discuss the privatisation of the electricity industry, a proposal which has drawn mixed reaction.
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EXTRA police have been sent to the Aboriginal community of Hermannsburg in the Northern Territory to control potential unrest following a car accident that left six dead.
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