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Independents present wishlist to leaders As they present their demands to Labor and the Coalition, the three incumbent independent MPs are seeking assurances that the party they support to form government will not call an early poll. BHP posts $14.4 billion profit The world's largest miner BHP Billiton has posted a $14.4 billion profit for the financial year, more than doubling last year's result. Leaders back Afghan mission after digger's death Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott have backed Australia's mission in Afghanistan despite the Australian Army's latest casualty in the troubled country. Keli Lane danced at wedding after leaving ward A Sydney court has heard a woman accused of murdering her newborn baby was dancing at a wedding just hours after leaving hospital with the child. Afghan deadline 'gives enemy sustenance' A senior US general has delivered a blunt warning about the risks US president Barack Obama is taking by imposing a deadline on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.
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Building the NBN non-business case The 2010 campaign was characterised by something amazing for us geeks: Access to the internet was lodged front and centre as an election issue. But the sales job behind the NBN was so bad the editorial pages of some of the country's newspapers were using it as part of their reason for throwing support behind Abbott. The NBN isn't a bright, shiny, geeky project. It's an infrastructure project, just like a road. What to do with Kevin Assuming Gillard makes a deal with the independents, her next challenge will be to tell us what she intends to do with Kevin. Panic buying pushes prices This world is growing smaller, and the price of Australian grain isn't isolated from foreign price movements. Blocking the expats: it's not my ABC Why doesn't the ABC turn on and off copyright blocking for overseas viewers when it needs to rather than all of the time? Saint Paul's Letter to the Electorates: Chapter 8 And when the darkness had fallen, and after they had uncorked their evening meal and begun to engage in wassail, there came the sound of a great counting. And as the counting advanced there emerged a pattern, and it was like unto that established by Noah. For the votes came in two by two, one of each kind with one each of the other kind, until the Ark was full.
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Soldiers' bodies on way home The bodies of two Brisbane-based soldiers killed in Afghanistan last week are being repatriated to Australia. Commonwealth defends immigration detention The Commonwealth has been forced to defend the legality of immigration detention in a High Court hearing. Miners in dark over lengthy rescue Officials in Chile are working to launch a gruelling four-month rescue operation to save 33 trapped miners, but have kept the men in the dark about how long they will have to wait for deliverance.
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Volunteers sought for Mon Repos turtle rookery The Queensland Government is calling for volunteers to work at the Mon Repos Conservation Park ahead of the next turtle season. Police probe Facebook hit list murders Police in Colombia say they are investigating disturbing hit lists circulating on Facebook that have been linked to the murders of two teenagers. Social media to help whale watchers Eurobodalla Tourism on the New South Wales Far South Coast has embarked on its first social media campaign to help the region's whale watchers.
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Council frustrated by GAB water applications The Coonamble Shire Council says it is frustrated by conflicting information on an application for an annual allocation of water from the Great Artesian Basin (GAB). Volunteers sought for Mon Repos turtle rookery The Queensland Government is calling for volunteers to work at the Mon Repos Conservation Park ahead of the next turtle season. Forests NSW closes parks for water release Forests New South Wales has closed three Murray River parks near Barham until further notice.
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