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Afternoon Edition. Fri 06 Aug 2010
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High Court upholds GetUp! case Up to 100,000 more Australians could be allowed to vote in the August 21 election after the High Court today ruled that parts of the Electoral Act are unconstitutional. Gillard welcomes BER program report Prime Minister Julia Gillard says a future Labor government will implement all 14 changes recommended in a new report into the troubled $16.2 billion schools building stimulus program. Banks push loans to unemployed: report You might expect the global financial crisis to have made banks more cautious when it comes to issuing debt, but a new report says Australia's banks are aggressively pushing debt onto low income earners and even the unemployed. No charges over liposuction death A coroner has found doctors at a Melbourne cosmetic surgery failed to provide adequate post-operative care for a 26-year-old woman who died after having liposuction. Palmer settles legal action with Bligh Queensland's Premier and Treasurer have settled a defamation action with mining magnate Clive Palmer.
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We had a dream: campaign speeches we'd like to see This election campaign has been full of talk but wouldn't it be great if the party leaders made the speeches we'd love to hear? Tim Dunlop has prepared a speech for Julia Gillard which would satisfy the electorate. And Chris Berg has prepared a speech that would work perfectly for Tony Abbott. Dare to dream. Ghosts of PMs past should shut up The greatest lesson we've learned from this last campaigning week is this: all you old men should shut up. When dinosaurs walked the Earth The campaign where our first female PM had hoped to define herself has turned into politics' biggest-ever reunion tour. Failing to communicate the campaign The main parties have tripped themselves up when projecting an image during the current election campaign. WWE election spectacular: leaders enter the ring This has stopped being an election campaign. The past few days have turned it into something much more like a World Wrestling Entertainment spectacular. Pumped-up former leaders flex anxiously outside the ring, waiting to tag themselves in to the scrum. Cheap and garish plot twists abound. RoboJulia and People Skills are in the ring!
World	More World Stories >
Dozens dead, stranded as rains lash Kashmir At least 60 people have been killed and hundreds injured after heavy rain triggered flash floods in Leh, the main town in India Kashmir's high-altitude Ladakh region. US attends Hiroshima ceremony for first time It is 65 years since the Japanese city of Hiroshima was ground zero for an atomic inferno. After miscarriage, best to try again soon: study A new study has found women who conceive within six months of a miscarriage have a better chance of a healthy pregnancy, without complications, compared to women who wait longer.
Science & Technology	More Science & Technology Stories >
Geeks slice pi to 5 trillion decimal places A pair of Japanese and United States computer whizzes claim to have calculated pi to five trillion decimal places - a number, which if verified, eclipses the previous record set by a French software engineer. JCU pushes for tropical disease research centre James Cook University (JCU) is lobbying the Federal Government for funding for a tropical disease research facility. Newspapers look to e-reader future A media analyst in Australia is predicting that the days of reading printed newspapers are numbered.
Environment	More Environment Stories >
Stormwater plan for inner Melbourne A project that aims to save 174 Olympic-sized swimming pools of drinking water each year is being rolled out in inner Melbourne. Minister defends Lake Torrens exploration An Aboriginal group is outraged the state Aboriginal Affairs Minister has allowed a mining company to explore part of Lake Torrens in the South Australian outback. Tests to determine if Little Mindil a swim risk The Northern Territory Health Department says another high contamination reading could prompt the closure of Little Mindil Beach tomorrow.
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