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Treasury blows $11b hole in Coalition costings A key independent MP says Opposition Leader Tony Abbott needs to explain why Treasury analysis has identified a hole of up to $11 billion in the Coalition's election promise costings. Asylum seekers 'pushed through electric fence' The union which represents staff at Darwin's Immigration Detention Centre says asylum seekers were able to break out even though the electrified perimeter fence was turned on. Discovery Channel hostage-taker shot dead US police say they have shot dead a gunman who held three hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters near Washington DC. Blair takes shot at 'strange guy' Gordon Brown Britain's former prime minister Tony Blair has used his memoirs to criticise his successor Gordon Brown and give an insight into the "strain" the job put on his family. PNG crash survivor recovering in Townsville The sole survivor of a plane crash in Papua New Guinea is recovering in a north Queensland hospital this morning.
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Labor's desperate Greens alliance The centrepiece of the historic Green-Labor Alliance announced by Julia Gillard and Bob Brown may be illegal, and therefore inoperable. Politics is often Orwellian; Brown, Gillard and Milne all described the committee as "inclusive". In fact it's precisely the opposite, it is exclusive. Unless you are a member of Parliament who believes in climate change and a carbon price as the answer to that challenge you are not welcome to sit on this group. The reality of consensus building politics You can't blame Gillard and Abbott for trying to build a government based on the bare minimum. You can't blame either of them if they want to daydream about drawing their political opponents into some sort of government of national goodwill. But the past two weeks have been unreal and atypical. Everybody is on their best behaviour until the deals are done. Opinion poll blues No amount of opinion polling is going to change the reality that the vote in the general election was pretty well 50-50. Why NSW must allow same-sex adoption MPs in NSW have been allowed a conscience vote on the issue of same-sex adoption. I hope they pass the law. Wikileaks: that sinking feeling Any organisation that follows Wikileaks will learn from the mistakes made by Assange and Co.
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UN steps up rape patrols in Congo United Nations (UN) peacekeepers have stepped up patrols in a region of the Democratic Republic of Congo where the number of mass rape victims has increased to more than 240. Second Mexican massacre survivor revealed A second person survived the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico last week, Ecuador's president said. Miners' morale leaps as rescue drill inches closer The morale of 33 miners trapped in Chile soared after music and hot meals were supplied, while NASA advisers praised their courage as a rescue drill inched closer.
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Free disposal days for e-waste Adelaide residents will be able to dispose of old computers, TVs or mobile phones for free this month under a local government program. 6yo fights for share of estate A woman ordered to have a DNA test to determine the paternity of a young boy wants to know the type of test before she submits to it, the South Australian Supreme Court has heard. Water release revives Lowbidgee wetlands After more than a decade of drought, one of the Murray-Darling Basin's most important waterbird breeding sites is now in full flood.
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Mary Basin water allocation proposal released The Queensland Government has released draft plans for water allocation in the Mary Basin in south-east Queensland, which will change how water is distributed across the region. Free disposal days for e-waste Adelaide residents will be able to dispose of old computers, TVs or mobile phones for free this month under a local government program. Irrigators to buy, sell Mary Basin water Irrigators in the Mary Basin will soon be able to buy and sell water as part of new State Government water allocation plans.
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