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Labor clings to power Independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott have broken Australia's political deadlock by agreeing to back Julia Gillard in a Labor minority government. Reserve holds rates, 'no urgency to hike' The Reserve Bank has surprised no one with its decision to keep interest rates on hold for the fourth straight month. Body found in search for 15yo skier Police believe they have found the body of a 15-year-old Sydney teenager who went missing in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains yesterday. Newman's monkey slur may cost Nine $200k The communications watchdog has found a Sam Newman segment on Channel Nine's The AFL Footy Show breached the commercial television code and provoked severe ridicule. Shepparton on alert for evening flood peak Up to 500 properties around Shepparton in northern Victoria could be isolated by floodwaters tonight.
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Independents tear us all a new paradigm Julia Gillard has been returned as Prime Minister, to preside over a parliament in which every MP is now a potential swinging voter. Her party has won a reprieve from the frenzy of self-recrimination that would undoubtedly have engulfed it had the result gone the other way. But as this Labor-Green-Wilkie-Oakeshott-Windsor alliance is lowered gingerly into place, the path ahead makes what has gone before look like child's play. A cynical look at parliamentary reform But why does our cynicism seem to fall away when we talk about parliamentary and electoral reform? The choice that could haunt the independents One question will dog Oakeshott and Windsor if they choose to support a Gillard government: what if they went looking for the wrong reasons in deciding to back Labor? Overwhelmingly the rationale that has dominated their choice recurs; who is best to provide stability in government for the next three years? But amid all this concentration on stability whatever happened to the question of competence? Telling whites what they want to hear For a student of history, Noel Pearson seems to devote an awful lot of time to forgetting the past. Kiss Me Like You Mean It: Negotiating in the New Paradigm We are now two weeks into the New Paradigm. One of the most noticeable things about the New Paradigm is how much it looks like the Old Paradigm, apart from there being more people in jumpers involved. The main difference is the tortuous new element that has been introduced to the bargaining process. And that is the requirement that everybody pretend that there is no bargaining process underway.
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Petraeus slams church's plan to burn Koran The top US commander in Afghanistan has criticised a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Frying pan chemicals linked to raised cholesterol US scientists say exposure to chemicals used in non-stick frying pans may raise cholesterol levels in children. Mental illness alone doesn't raise risk of crime: study A British study has found severe mental illness alone does not make a person commit more violent crimes.
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Frying pan chemicals linked to raised cholesterol US scientists say exposure to chemicals used in non-stick frying pans may raise cholesterol levels in children. Calls to protect devils, kangaroos Animal rights activists are using National Threatened Species Day today to call for an end to permits to cull Tasmanian forester kangaroos. Asthma researchers focus on genetics Researchers are calling on Queensland residents to take part in a study to help identify why people develop asthma.
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Croc caught but bigger one remains at large Rangers have caught a 3.3 metre saltwater crocodile at a river crossing on the Central Arnhem Highway. Calls to protect devils, kangaroos Animal rights activists are using National Threatened Species Day today to call for an end to permits to cull Tasmanian forester kangaroos. Unimin claims 'implied approval' for sand mining A Brisbane Magistrate has adjourned the prosecution of a mining company accused of illegally taking sand from North Stradbroke Island off Brisbane.
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