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Worst floods in 15 years grip Victoria Rising floodwaters across Victoria's north are threatening hundreds of homes after the state's worst floods in 15 years. Windsor puts off D-day call Independent MP Tony Windsor says a decision on which party will form government is unlikely to be made today. Emergency extended in quake-hit Christchurch Christchurch's state of emergency has been extended until Wednesday as the city cleans up after Saturday morning's magnitude-7.1 earthquake. Food drops planned for flood-bound Birdsville Two chartered aircraft will drop food and supplies into Birdsville in far south-west Queensland as up to 5,000 people are stranded due to floodwaters. Tax tourists to pay off Japanese whalers: academic A Queensland academic says Australia could help prevent whale hunting by imposing a levy on the tourism industry.
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US still struggling on the jobs front The failure of the United States' economy to start producing enough jobs to reduce unemployment will make life very difficult indeed. On its own, Friday's payrolls report for August looked reasonably good: 67,000 new jobs in the private sector, with unemployment rising from 9.5 to 9.6 per cent. But the US needs to create 100,000 additional jobs every month to reduce unemployment, and when you add the "involuntary underemployed", the real jobless rate is 16.7 per cent, and rising. Asylum seekers offer a moral moment for Australia If the asylum seekers who busted out of the Darwin detention centre had an adviser, he or she did their job. Political purgatory exposes the ugly election This period of political purgatory has exposed some very unattractive elements of our system. Both parties were driven by the dirty little secret of the Charter of Budget Honesty: If you can avoid it for long enough, it doesn't matter in the end. It's only really in political purgatory - where in the absence of result the costings become a genuine grounds for judgment - that this bipartisan system of neglect breaks down. Balance-bias battle of climate science coverage In reporting the views of climate change deniers and doubters, the ABC has done the whole of science a disservice. When a minority doubts what to a majority is demonstrable fact, then the outcome is not balance but a distortion of reality. The ABC needs to look again at the editorial codes that have distorted the national discussion of climate change. Saint Paul's Letter to the Electorates: Chapter 9 And in the tents of the leaders there were talks with those who were brought forth by the people but lacketh affiliation.
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ELO star killed by bale of hay A founding member of rock group Electric Light Orchestra has been killed after a giant bale of hay tumbled down a hill and crashed onto his van. Dozens missing after Guatemala landslide At least 40 people are missing in Guatemala after a massive landslide buried up to 100 trying to dig out a bus caught in deep mud as torrential rains battered the country. Emergency extended in quake-hit Christchurch Christchurch's state of emergency has been extended until Wednesday as the city cleans up after Saturday morning's magnitude-7.1 earthquake.
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Toxic algae could kill humans, livestock: study Research into a new toxic blue green algae found in central Queensland waterways shows it could harm humans and kill livestock. Tax tourists to pay off Japanese whalers: academic A Queensland academic says Australia could help prevent whale hunting by imposing a levy on the tourism industry. Crews free humpback caught in shark net Marine rescue crews have freed a whale that was entangled in a shark net off the Gold Coast.
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Garrett suspends Cairns resort development again The Federal Environment Department has suspended the approval for a resort development at False Cape near Cairns in far north Queensland for another year. Toxic algae could kill humans, livestock: study Research into a new toxic blue green algae found in central Queensland waterways shows it could harm humans and kill livestock. Tax tourists to pay off Japanese whalers: academic A Queensland academic says Australia could help prevent whale hunting by imposing a levy on the tourism industry.
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