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Coalition MP backs away from speaker deal The Queensland Coalition MP that Labor believed had agreed to become deputy speaker in the new Parliament says he is no longer interested in the position. Saints fight back at MCG St Kilda has climbed off the canvas in the AFL grand final to trail Collingwood by just eight points heading into the last quarter at the MCG. Australian dust storm could be weeks away An earth scientist says another major dust storm over south-eastern Australia is likely within weeks. Pair escape highway plane crash Two people have escaped with minor injuries after a plane crash at Geelong, west of Melbourne. Tide turning in Delhi ahead of Games The mood in the Indian capital of New Delhi has brightened a week ahead of the Commonwealth Games.
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For honour and glory: It's Malthouse's moment A premiership at the goliath that is Collingwood with a custom-built team playing a revolutionary style of football would elevate Mick Malthouse beyond reproach. The timing is immaculate. A plan is perfectly coming together. Malthouse will become untouchable if he can complete the job tomorrow. Simultaneously he'll be the man many a rival club will want the piece of. Never a better time for pipsqueaks Now that every vote counts, and Governments can be made or destroyed on a single voice, there has never been a better time for pipsqueaks. Overlooked? Traduced? Ignored? Smarting from a years of hard work repaid by anonymity? This parliament offers a blessed chance at redemption – or revenge. The matter of whether Ms Gillard will govern by one vote or two rests with Alex Somlyay, the former chief Opposition whip. Inspirational Bloodlines Message Stick is exploring the bloodlines of six Indigenous families and their exceptional contribution to Australia. Weekly wrap: some things never change we started this week out nervous about what to expect, but finished up relieved that some things never change. Passion for the Pies: a life of thorns and Roses I first met Bob Rose as a lost six-year-old boy in Wangaratta. From that day onwards there was no question, I was Collingwood for life. Life rarely dealt Rose a fair hand. Yet he was by all accounts a remarkably composed, pleasant and generous man who never seemed burdened by adversity. So keep this in mind Collingwood fans. History was far more unkind to Rose than to any one of us.
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2 soldiers killed in Afghan bomb attack Two foreign soldiers have been killed in a Taliban-style bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan, NATO has said. Matthew kills 7 in Venezuela flooding Seven people have died in a Caracas slum due to heavy rains from Tropical Storm Matthew, which brought fresh misery to a region were hundreds have been killed in flooding and landslides this year. Superman, Elvis, Princess Di flop at NY auction Superman didn't fly, Elvis wasn't king and Princess Diana's star power faded at an auction in New York where dozens of curios from the world of celebrity and entertainment failed to sell.
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Australian dust storm could be weeks away An earth scientist says another major dust storm over south-eastern Australia is likely within weeks. Three whales die en route to safety A pod of stranded pilot whales have been relocated for release off New Zealand's North Island but three did not survive the epic mission. Beached whales trucked to new beach The surviving members of a group of pilot whales that beached in New Zealand are being trucked to calmer waters.
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Aerial surveillance finds new locust infestation The threat to the country's grain crops has become even more apparent with New South Wales Government aerial surveillance finding a huge infestation of locusts in the state's north-west. Scientists use giant laser to measure cloud temperature The Australian Antarctic Division will use a giant laser to measure climate change in the atmosphere. Mine given green light to dump waste into ocean A mine can now proceed to dump millions of tonnes of waste into the sea in Papua New Guinea after a legal battle to stop it was abandoned.
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