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Border protection to dominate Liberal launch Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott will officially launch the Coalition's election campaign in Brisbane today with a focus on tougher laws to stop people smugglers. Police following new lead in Kiesha case Police say a neighbour of missing six-year-old Sydney girl Kiesha Abrahams has reported seeing her in the week before she went missing. Ghosts of leaders past haunt Gillard Prime Minister Julia Gillard's election campaign has again been sidetracked by former Labor leaders Kevin Rudd and Mark Latham. Gunman arrested after factory siege A man has been arrested after a siege in Melbourne's west this morning. 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.
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 >
Castro urges Obama to avert nuclear war Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has addressed the island's parliament for the first time in four years and appealed to world leaders, including US president Barack Obama, to avoid a nuclear war. Finalist dies in World Sauna Championships The two finalists in Finland's annual World Sauna Championships were rushed to hospital before the competition ended and the Russian contestant died. Man caught with cocaine in his clothes A British man has been charged over attempting to import cocaine into Australia by hiding it in his clothes.
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.
Environment	More Environment Stories >
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. 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.
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