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Abbott raising spectre of new poll, says Brown Greens leader Bob Brown says he believes Opposition Leader Tony Abbott may be trying to force Australia back to the polls. Pakistan aid workers defy Taliban threat Aid agencies in Pakistan say they will continue to deliver emergency assistance to flood victims despite warnings of possible attacks by the Taliban. Facebook urged to tell police of child porn groups Police have urged social networking sites to be more vigilant after cracking an international child pornography ring operating on Facebook. Slain soldiers' bodies to arrive home The bodies of two Brisbane-based soldiers killed in Afghanistan last week will arrive back in Australia today. Seat of Brisbane still in the balance Counting is continuing in the seat of Brisbane, which is now the only electorate still in the balance in the Federal election.
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Adversarial and aggressive Abbott stumbles It was bound to happen. One side of politics or the other was always going to stumble as both Gillard and Abbott struggled to come to grips with the new political paradigm. The first to trip up has been Abbott. His strident demands that the independents be barred from having access to the Treasury "Red Book" and his refusal to allow the Treasury to cost the Opposition's election promises is wrong on so many counts it's hard to know where to begin. Well-readhead: Sitting down for reading action With the whole nation absorbed in post-election intrigue, I'm declaring today's reading list a politics-free zone. The boring truth about those Julian Assange smears Assange didn't come up against a CIA conspiracy, but the rather broad Swedish conception of what constitutes a sexual crime. Batty Katter not mad about flying foxes Bob Katter isn't mad, you just need to know what he's going on about. Flying foxes do kill people. Bias allegation rumblings still a constant at your ABC It's probably reasonably safe to say that one of the last things on the mind of the various potential governments at the moment is the future of the ABC. Gillard and Abbott, various media editors tell me, approached the last campaign like pros. There were no shouting matches over the telephone about unfair coverage, they rolled with the punches. And yet the rumbling of bias allegations against the ABC continues.
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UN demands action after Congo mass rape The United Nations Security Council has demanded that all steps be taken to prevent a repeat of a recent mass rape in Congo, as council members voiced open dissatisfaction at the late response of UN forces. Hogan 'owes tax office $150m' The Australian Tax Office has reportedly hit actor Paul Hogan with a tax bill of up to $150 million. Chappell calls for aid after 'soul-destroying' floods Former Australian cricket captain Ian Chappell has urged Australians to donate money to help the victims of Pakistan's floods.
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Huge planets found orbiting distant star Astrophysicists using the Kepler space telescope have detected two planets the size of Saturn and a possible third the size of Earth orbiting a distant star. Flash drive caused Pentagon cyber attack The most serious cyber attack on the United States military's networks came from a tainted flash drive in 2008, the Pentagon has revealed. Tasmania's future rests on NBN: Bartlett Tasmania's Premier David Bartlett says the future of the state's economy relies on Labor's National Broadband Network.
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Wilderness Society concedes pulp mill needed The Wilderness Society says a pulp mill will have to be built in Tasmania if the state's forest industry is to be sustainable. Wilkie fights for forest industry lifeline Independent Denison candidate Andrew Wilkie will push for the immediate release of $20 million in relief funding which was promised to Tasmania's forestry industry during the federal election. Poll result doesn't worry Eden chipmill South East Fibre Exports at Eden on the New South Wales far south coast says the Federal election result in Eden-Monaro will not affect the woodchip industry.
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