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Garnaut pushes low-key target
KEVIN Rudd's climate change adviser, Ross Garnaut, has opened the way for the Government to adopt a modest greenhouse gas reduction.
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Rogue Gater family fished out
ON July 24, a group of armed cops in khaki overalls stormed aboard a fishing vessel anchored near the Roper River, in the Northern Territory's Gulf country. They were paying a visit to some not particularly well-loved characters of the far north who had recently moved across from Queensland to try their luck netting barra in the remote river.
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Nats tipped to lose Vaile's seat
THE Nationals face one of their toughest challenges today, with voters in former leader Mark Vaile's seat of Lyne widely expected to elect an independent for the first time.
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It's 50-50 for Carpenter: Newspoll
THE West Australian Government is in danger of becoming the first Labor administration to fall in more than a decade, with the latest Newspoll revealing a collapse in its primary vote and a significant anti-Labor swing in key marginal seats.
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NSW bruvvers are at it again
FOR the second time in three years, there has been a change of government in NSW.
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Navy told to stop whining, get tough
ONE of the navy's most senior commanders has ordered sailors to toughen up, stop whingeing about money and be happier.
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Jailed Aussie pleads to say sorry
HARRY Nicolaides, the Melbourne writer arrested on a charge of insulting Thailand's royal family, wants to apologise.
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Downsize Murray plan
WATER guru Mike Young has devised a drastic response to the crisis gripping the Murray-Darling: downsize the river system to cut loose irrigated areas and wetlands.
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Toyota supplier on brink
A CAR component manufacturer with a contract to supply parts for the new hybrid Toyota Camry is on the brink of collapse with more than 100 jobs at risk.
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Stem cell board resigns
AUSTRALIA'S bid to become a world leader in stem cell science has been plunged into turmoil by the mass resignation yesterday of the seven-strong board of the country's premier research organisation in the field.
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After the fall
LABOR has lost its premier and treasurer in NSW. Now the biggest state's Government has to regroup.
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Party heavyweights wield their power
THE same men who made Morris Iemma the premier of NSW three years ago and helped sustain him for all that time as loyal enforcers were responsible, at the end, for tearing him down.
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