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Gillard, Abbott welcome MPs to Canberra Labor and Liberal MPs have converged on Canberra for their first partyroom meetings since the election. Pair charged over fatal police shooting Two men have been charged over the fatal shooting of a policeman during a drug raid in Sydney's south-west last night. Schoolboy in a coma after alleged attack Two school students have been charged over an alleged assault on the New South Wales south coast that has left a fellow pupil in a coma. Unemployment slashed by jobs boom A surge in full-time jobs has cut the unemployment rate from 5.3 to 5.1 per cent. Woman's body found in reserve A man has been arrested after the discovery of a woman's body on the New South Wales south coast.
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Never mind the conflict, let's report the Parliament Journalists have talked for days about how a minority government situation is going to change the way the Government governs and the Opposition opposes. As I write this, the Government and Coalition MPs are locked away in their party meetings working out how best they can approach the new landscape. So I thought this might be a good time to have a glance at what we in the media have been kind of ignoring: How is all this going to change the way we work? Why there is no public-private dichotomy The idea that competitive 'free markets' populated by 'rational' men do a much better job of allocating resources, and managing things, than non-market-orientated bureaucrats, is inherently flawed. Obama's struggle with history The extraordinary marathon that is the modern US presidential election process is getting underway once again. As Barack Obama seeks a second term in the White House, a field of Republican candidates try to be the one that stops him. At stake, the most powerful political office on Earth, and like last time, the world will be watching. American led show a Middle East no go Israel's insistence on continuing to build illegal colonies is just one reason why the current peace talks will fail. Gillard leading Labor off a cliff This was an election principally driven not by politicians, minders or party tacticians but working journalists. No move by any campaign strategist or mining giant was as decisive as these journalists' interventions which were in their way as history-changing as Woodward and Bernstein. But smiling still, in denial still, in spin-mode still, laughing prettily still and telling us not to worry, Julia Gillard is walking breezily at the head of a lemming-throng over a crumbling cliff.
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Bomb kills 10 in Pakistan A roadside bomb has killed 10 people and wounded four in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region on the Afghan border, a government official said. Earth to experience asteroid double bypass Two asteroids are passing close to Earth today but are not likely to pose a threat, US space agency NASA says. LFO singer Rich Cronin dies Rich Cronin, former lead singer of the boy band LFO and writer of its 1999 hit Summer Girls, died on Wednesday after a battle with leukaemia, celebrity website TMZ.com reports.
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Earth to experience asteroid double bypass Two asteroids are passing close to Earth today but are not likely to pose a threat, US space agency NASA says. 'Dumb' pair wrestle python at fast food restaurant Stunned customers watched on as two men wrestled with a python in a McDonald's restaurant car park in Melbourne's north last night. Strange dinosaur remains discovered in Spain Palaeontologists in Spain have discovered the remains of a strange dinosaur with a hump that they believe is the forerunner of flesh-eating leviathans which once ruled the planet.
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Daryl Hannah makes a splash in Qld Actress Daryl Hannah lives in a house powered by solar panels, drives a vehicle that runs off used cooking fat and grows most of her own food. Fox baiting to help ground birds breed Landholders will receive free fox baits from the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin Natural Resources management board over the next two-months. Government to pay for Bidyadanga rubbish removal The Federal Government will pick up the $25,000 bill to do a weekly pick-up of rubbish from Western Australia's largest Aboriginal community to Broome.
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