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Katter hands in 20-point wishlist Key independent MP Bob Katter has published a 20-point wishlist, including a call for more government control of interest rates, as Australia's political limbo drags on. Pakistan 'fixers' banned by ICC The three Pakistan cricketers embroiled in a betting scandal have been provisionally suspended by the International Cricket Council and charged with various offences under its anti-corruption code. Immigration 'trying to deceive Australia' over Curtin move An advocate for asylum seekers says the Immigration Department is talking "rubbish", after it claimed Afghans who broke out of the Darwin detention centre were moved to remote Western Australia for their own good. Netanyahu, Abbas hold private peace talks Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas have spent several hours meeting alone, without translators, in the first day of direct talks on Middle East peace in Washington DC. Authorities say no sign of oil after Gulf rig explodes The United States Coast Guard is scrambling into action after another oil platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Quality journalism and a 21st century ABC In a speech at the Melbourne Writers' Festival, ABC Managing Director Mark Scott commented on how the 2010 election changed our perception of 'politics as usual'. "It has triggered significant debate about the practice of political reporting." "So let me make some muddied observations about the campaign and how it was handled by the fourth estate." Women and the 2010 election In one of the best-kept secrets of the election campaign, the ALP did actually release a women's policy on the day before the election. A refreshingly new political paradigm I know it's not popular to say so in some company - but I am a fan of the new political paradigm! As Labor takes a slight, but still inconclusive lead in this long laborious process of gathering the numbers in the Parliament to form government, there are some encouraging signs in terms of the quality of the MPs on the crossbenches and in the crosshairs. Truth and decency were casualties of the Iraq war No issue in my lifetime has done more to undermine trust in government and the media than the "selling" of the Iraq war. I would go so far as to argue that the hyperpartisan, hectoring tone that dominates the way we do politics today was normalised during the national debate over Iraq. If truth was the first causality of war, the second was decency. And by and large the media went along for the ride. Greens and rural independents could be new 'odd couple' Much has been made of the potential clash of rural and regional independents and the Greens in Australia's emerging political order. But the urban-centered Green vote and the renewed voices of country Australia may in fact be the new 'odd couple' of Australian politics. They represent two parts of Australia that want the same thing but couldn't find it from the traditional big parties - a safe and sustainable country.
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Indonesian cops 'sold guns to Bashir terror cell' Corrupt Indonesian police provided weapons used by a new terrorist cell allegedly funded by radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, prosecutors claim. Australian attacked by shark in Solomons A 34-year-old man from New South Wales is in a stable condition after being attacked by a shark in the Solomon Islands. Palestinians fund Church of Nativity renovation The Palestinian Authority and Christian leaders have signed an accord to repair the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, on the traditional site of Jesus's birth.
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God didn't create the universe: Hawking God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments in physics, British scientist Stephen Hawking said in extracts published from a new book. Ants use landmarks to navigate, study finds Ants travelling along a familiar route use their photographic memory to calculate how to stay on track, British researchers say. Explosive end for sick whale Explosives have been used to euthanase an ill humpback whale that washed up onto a sandbar off Western Australia's south-west coast.
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Collingwood Park families demand compensation for subsidence Residents of Ipswich west of Brisbane whose homes are on top of an old mine say subsidence problems have caused them two-and-a-half years of hell. Fuel tanker runs aground in Arctic A fuel tanker has run aground in Canada's far north, carrying 9 million litres of diesel fuel that risks spilling into the Arctic waters, the Canadian Coast Guard said this morning. Authorities say no sign of oil after Gulf rig explodes The United States Coast Guard is scrambling into action after another oil platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
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