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Afternoon Edition. Sat 04 Sep 2010
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Residents evacuated from quake-hit Christchurch Authorities are evacuating residents from earthquake-hit Christchurch as New Zealand prime minister John Key visits the city to assess the damage. Australian killed in NZ plane crash Nine people, including one Australian, have been killed when a skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames at a popular New Zealand tourist spot. Polls show support for Labor minority government Two new opinion polls show the majority of voters want three key independent MPs to back Labor to form a minority government. Victoria braces for more flooding Heavy rainfall across Victoria has caused landslides, flash flooding and the evacuation of homes. Wild weather continues to batter SA Wild weather has continued to batter South Australia and left thousands of people without power.
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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. 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. 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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Residents evacuated from quake-hit Christchurch Authorities are evacuating residents from earthquake-hit Christchurch as New Zealand prime minister John Key visits the city to assess the damage. Australian killed in NZ plane crash Nine people, including one Australian, have been killed when a skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames at a popular New Zealand tourist spot. Man driven 'crazy' after death of pet cat A Japanese man drove the wrong way down an expressway for 90 kilometres and broke through five police barricades because his cat had died, he told police.
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Crews free humpback caught in shark net Marine rescue crews have freed a whale that was entangled in a shark net off the Gold Coast. Uncontrolled fires destroy 'paradise of diversity' Scientists say many native animal species in Northern Australia are "plunging towards extinction". Screen technology 'rewiring' human brains A neuroscientist says people's brains are being 'rewired' because of their exposure to screen technology.
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Poisoned water raises long term health fears Tasmanian health officials want more to do more testing on residents of a small north-east town, where the water supply has been tainted with high levels of arsenic, cadmium and lead. Plan for travellers' body heat to warm homes The warmth generated by human bodies in the Parisian metro will help heat a public housing project in the city centre, according to the French capital's largest owner of social housing. BP oil spill bill tops $8 billion Oil giant BP says the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has cost the British company $US8 billion ($8.79 billion) so far.
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