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Big tobacco bankrolls anti-Labor ad campaign The big tobacco companies are fighting back against the Government's plans to introduce plain cigarette packaging by funding small retailers in a massive advertising campaign timed to coincide with the final weeks of the election campaign. Deadly clash on Israel-Lebanon border Three Lebanese soldiers, a Lebanese journalist and one Israeli officer are reported to have been killed in fighting on the Israel-Lebanon border. Abbott to mobilise older workers The Federal Coalition will today announce measures to encourage businesses to hire more older workers who have been having trouble getting a job. NZ soldier killed in Afghanistan ambush A New Zealand soldier has been killed in an ambush in Afghanistan, the country's first combat death there, the government said. Police doorknock homes for missing Kiesha Police and volunteers in western Sydney doorknocked homes for the third night in a row in the search for missing six-year-old girl Kiesha Abrahams.
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Footing the bills for the campaign trail Despite weeks of campagining, neither major party has 'officially' launched its campaign for the upcoming election. What they won't tell you though is that they only become responsible for their campaign expenses after their official campaign launch. The longer they leave it, the more taxpayers are footing the bills for much of the activity we are presently observing. Labor's new education policy not that new Labor's new education policy simply gives schools a taste of what Victorian schools have had for about 20 years. Tracing the political 'arc of disappointment' Within a month Gillard seems to be tracing an arc from hope to disappointment that took Howard 12 years to complete. Broken promises Australia is a laggard on the issue of climate change and risks being left behind - on both the policy and economic front. A couple of real weathervanes When Gillard talks about getting tough on asylum seekers, or Abbott praises the status quo on industrial relations, it simply doesn't ring true. We know them better than that. And it makes us doubt their credibility. Every time the voters change their opinion, these two change their policy direction, but we want more than these weathervane leaders.
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Pakistan warns of new flood threat The Pakistani government has issued new flood warnings, as the number of people affected by what have been labelled the nation's worst floods in 80 years passes more than 3 million. Bristol Palin's engagement off again Sarah Palin's daughter has called off her engagement to boyfriend Levi Johnston for the second time, three weeks after a surprise announcement that the couple were once again planning to wed. Veiled police smash 80,000 beer bottles Islamic police have smashed 80,000 bottles of beer in the Nigerian city of Kano, enforcing a sharia law ban on consumption of alcohol that exists in much of the country's north.
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Historic Burke and Wills items on display Navigational equipment used by explorers Burke and Wills will go on public display today for the first time. Australian waters ranked most biologically diverse Australia's waters have been ranked as being the most biologically diverse in the world, yet up to 80 per cent of the species in it have yet to be discovered, a new study has shown. Experts probe latest dugong death Authorities are trying to find out what killed another adult dugong that was found washed up along the coast of Cardwell in north Queensland over the past few days.
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SA targets 75pc household waste recycling A draft waste management plan will aim for recycling of 75 per cent of South Australians' household waste. Local group 'shattered' by boat ramp development A group opposed to the construction of a new boat ramp near Mallacoota says it is shattered by a council decision to support the development. BP starts 'static kill' BP has started the "static kill" operation on its blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well, the first step of a two-punch strategy to permanently plug the world's worst accidental marine oil spill.
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