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Afternoon Edition. Sat 07 Aug 2010
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Gillard, Rudd won't campaign together Prime Minister Julia Gillard has described her first meeting with Kevin Rudd since deposing the former Labor leader as "positive and constructive". Coalition holds asylum talks with Nauru The Federal Opposition says Nauru is ready, willing and able to reopen its processing centre on the island. Soldier's body returns home to NZ The body of the first New Zealand soldier to be killed in Afghanistan has been returned home. Labor set to raise earnings cap for pensioners The Federal Government has made a pitch to older voters by announcing a plan to allow pensioners to earn more without taking a hit to their benefits. Coalition hints at new plan for youth on dole The Federal Coalition has flagged a new scheme to get more young people off unemployment benefits and into a job.
The Drum	More from The Drum >
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 >
Toxic smog blankets Moscow as fires rage Wearing sanitary masks or clutching wet rags to their faces, residents of Moscow struggled round the city as the worst smog in living memory from wildfires enveloped the Russian capital. Soldier's body returns home to NZ The body of the first New Zealand soldier to be killed in Afghanistan has been returned home. 14 killed in Mexico prison clash At least 14 inmates have died in a clash between rival groups in a prison in Matamoros in north-east Mexico.
Science & Technology	More Science & Technology Stories >
Moon landing antenna listed as national landmark A ceremony has been held at Canberra's Deep Space Communication Complex this morning to recognise a relic of Australia's involvement in the 1969 moon landing. Polar bears face melting chemical cocktail Polar bears, the icon of the Arctic, are under threat from the twin challenges of climate change and chemicals that are not breaking down in the region's cold waters. 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.
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Toxic smog blankets Moscow as fires rage Wearing sanitary masks or clutching wet rags to their faces, residents of Moscow struggled round the city as the worst smog in living memory from wildfires enveloped the Russian capital. Climate talks losing ground, say negotiators UN climate talks tasked with curbing the threat of global warming are backsliding, delegates said at the close of a week-long session in Bonn. Government defends pulp mill pipeline decision The Tasmanian Government has defended allowing a pulp mill pipeline to be built in the state's north, on land acquired for a road bypass.
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