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NZ boss casts doubt on Delhi Games The head of New Zealand's Commonwealth Games mission says it is possible the New Delhi Games will not go ahead. Reserve ready to pull trigger on rates The Reserve Bank has delivered its bluntest warning yet that interest rates are likely to rise sooner rather than later. Defence dismisses bungled firefight claims The Defence Force has strenuously rejected claims that troops were left short of support and firepower as they fought for their lives during a battle against Taliban insurgents. Suicide detainee's pleas were 'ignored' There are claims the man who died at the Villawood Detention Centre yesterday was to be a witness in legal action against the Fijian government. Abbott accused of reform 'crabwalk' The Federal Government has accused Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of trying to "crabwalk" away from the parliamentary reform deal brokered with the independents just two weeks ago.
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Bankrolling Oprah: the new tourist strategy Helping announce the visit of Oprah to Australia, former Tourism Minister John Brown admitted the government spent hundreds of millions of dollars over 30 years without much effect. Is spending millions more hoping the 'Oprah effect' works for Australia in the same way it does for books a worthy expenditure? Government policies designed to promote tourism almost always end in disappointment. UN should step aside on development The United Nations no longer holds the key to success for the world's poorest. If the world is truly committed to achieving something for the poor it must look to emerging global forums like the G20. Arts funding reality check The agenda gap: politicians stifling debate Complex situations are too often reduced to harsh contrasting tones by our politicians. There is more to the big pressing matters of life, death, survival and freedom than the preferred dichotomies of Liberal, Labor, yes and no. From euthanasia to asylum seekers, we are being delivered a malnourished public debate. Turnbull doesn't understand boundaries The fact is Tony Abbott cannot tolerate Malcolm Turnbull's repeat offences on climate change. To let the issue linger, to give Turnbull a long leash, will simply eat away at Abbott's leadership.
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Missing relics found in PM's office The Iraqi National Museum has found more than 600 missing artefacts stashed away in a storeroom of the prime minister's office, two years after the US government returned them to Iraq. Pensioner finds two-metre anaconda in toilet A 73-year-old Polish pensioner was shocked to find a two-metre anaconda peering up out of her toilet bowl Monday in her flat in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, local police said. Plaintiffs 'pull out' of PNG mine challenge The three landowners behind a legal battle to stop a mine dumping its waste into the sea in Papua New Guinea appear to have pulled out of the case.
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Pensioner finds two-metre anaconda in toilet A 73-year-old Polish pensioner was shocked to find a two-metre anaconda peering up out of her toilet bowl Monday in her flat in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, local police said. Stitch study seeks volunteers University of Tasmania researchers are looking for volunteers to help them work out what causes the stitch while exercising. Researcher digs into fish fossils past A student palaeontologist says he is trying to determine how to conserve fish species by researching fossils in western and north-west Queensland.
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Mosquito numbers boosted by Top End rain People in the Top End are being warned about high mosquito numbers. Abbott's first priority is to overturn Wild Rivers Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says his first job in Parliament will be to overturn the Queensland Government's Wild Rivers Act. Minister expresses more lower Murray optimism The Clayton water regulator at Lake Alexandrina at the Murray mouth might go soon.
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