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Afternoon Edition. Sun 08 Aug 2010
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Abbott calls for end to Labor's 'gutless spin' Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has officially launched the Coalition's election campaign by calling on supporters to "bury an era of gutless spin" and remove Labor from office. Police say Kiesha's parents are suspects Police investigating the disappearance of six-year-old western Sydney girl Kiesha Abrahams say her immediate family are all being treated as suspects. Labor to ban truants from playing sport Labor has pledged to tackle truancy by banning children from playing weekend sport if they do not regularly attend school. 80 dead, 2,000 missing in China landslides More than 80 people have now been reported dead and over 2,000 are missing following landslides in north-western China. Religious agencies seek gay adoption bill exemption The New South Wales Cabinet will consider exempting two adoption agencies from a plan to allow gay couples to adopt.
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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!
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Robbie Williams, girlfriend tie knot: reports Robbie Williams has reportedly married his girlfriend Ayda Field in his Beverly Hills mansion. 80 dead, 2,000 missing in China landslides More than 80 people have now been reported dead and over 2,000 are missing following landslides in north-western China. Chavez seeks to restore ties with Colombia President Hugo Chavez has offered to meet with Colombia's new president Juan Manuel Santos to restore diplomatic relations broken over allegations that Venezuela was harbouring guerrillas.
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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Oyster farmers' sea stars fears Southern Tasmanian oyster farmers fear their livelihoods could be destroyed by a marine pest. Giant ice island breaks away from Greenland An ice island measuring 260 square kilometres broke off from one of Greenland's two main glaciers, scientists say, the biggest such event in the Arctic in nearly 50 years. 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.
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