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Hogan free to leave Australia Paul Hogan has reached an agreement with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) that will allow the actor to return to the United States. Campbell gets 24 years for wife's cliff death Former police detective Desmond Campbell has been jailed for at least 24 years for pushing his new bride over a cliff in the Royal National Park south of Sydney. Backing Coalition the easy option: Windsor Independent MP Tony Windsor has conceded it would be easier for him to back a Coalition government, but he is adamant he will not be pressured by anyone to go either way. 'Potent' Katter's arm twisted by Rudd Key independent MP Bob Katter says former prime minister Kevin Rudd twisted his arm in behind-the-scenes negotiations in a bid to get him to throw his weight behind Labor in the House of Representatives. Serial rapist jailed for 25 years A Sydney man has pleaded guilty to raping two women and assaulting several others and will spend at least the next 18 years in jail.
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Balance-bias battle of climate science coverage In reporting the views of climate change deniers and doubters, the ABC has done the whole of science a disservice. When a minority doubts what to a majority is demonstrable fact, then the outcome is not balance but a distortion of reality. The ABC needs to look again at the editorial codes that have distorted the national discussion of climate change. Political purgatory exposes the ugly election This period of political purgatory has exposed some very unattractive elements of our system. Both parties were driven by the dirty little secret of the Charter of Budget Honesty: If you can avoid it for long enough, it doesn't matter in the end. It's only really in political purgatory - where in the absence of result the costings become a genuine grounds for judgment - that this bipartisan system of neglect breaks down. Saint Paul's Letter to the Electorates: Chapter 9 And in the tents of the leaders there were talks with those who were brought forth by the people but lacketh affiliation. Turning the key on Father's Day Father's Day approaches, but what does that really mean? Sadly these days it's all about targeted marketing and media hype. Why the independents must support Tony Abbott Abbott wisely got through the election campaign not only avoiding submitting his costings to Treasury but refusing to debate the PM on the matter of the economy.
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Hogan free to leave Australia Paul Hogan has reached an agreement with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) that will allow the actor to return to the United States. Eruptions at Indonesian volcano intensify An Indonesian volcano has spewed ash thousands of metres into the air in its most violent eruption since rumbling back to life earlier this week for the first time in 400 years. Drug shootout with Mexican army kills 25 As many as 25 people were killed when Mexican soldiers clashed with suspected drug gang members in rural north-eastern Mexico, local media reported.
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Screen technology 'rewiring' human brains A neuroscientist says people's brains are being 'rewired' because of their exposure to screen technology. Eagle returns for wild time A wedge tailed eagle has successfully been rehabilitated and released at a site in Tasmania's Southern Midlands. Remains of sick whale tested Samples from a whale that was put down in Albany yesterday are being sent to a laboratory for tests.
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Dam levels not primary indicator of supply The head of the Water Corporation says dam levels no longer reflect how much water is really available to Perth users. Eagle returns for wild time A wedge tailed eagle has successfully been rehabilitated and released at a site in Tasmania's Southern Midlands. Organic farmers to get locust chemical bailout The Victorian Government has promised to release some of its organic certified chemical stocks to treat locusts if there is a market shortage.
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