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Old faces to fill new roles in Gillard Cabinet Prime Minister Julia Gillard is finalising her new ministry and the line-up could be announced as early as today. Tobacco companies bankroll retailers campaign Leaked documents suggest a group supported by tobacco companies will intensify its campaign against plain cigarette packaging this weekend. Koran burning saga continues as Obama weighs in US president Barack Obama has again weighed into a controversy over a threat to burn copies of the Koran at a Florida church, saying it would deeply harm America. 'No congregation' escaped Belgian sex abuse A Belgian Catholic Church-backed commission has released harrowing testimony from around 500 cases of alleged sex abuse involving more than 100 victims, 13 of whom were driven to suicide. Iran cancels plans to free US hiker Iran has reportedly cancelled plans to release an American woman who has been imprisoned in Tehran for more than a year.
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The meaning of 9/11 only became clear on 9/12 Nothing has changed the modern world so decisively, or wounded the Western psyche so deeply, as the events of September 11, 2001. Nine years on, the fires of that day - which forged nigh-on unbreakable alliances and ignited bitter blood feuds - still burn with a kind of sacred intensity. But what was it about September 11, 2001 that so affected the soul of that nation? Brown and Abbott: let their powers combine On Wednesday, Senator Bob Brown offered to cut the Opposition in on some legislative action. They could team up, he suggested, against the Government - to pass the Coalition's generous paid parental leave policy, for example. But Senator Brown's offer raises a truly fascinating question: Would it in fact be possible for an opposition, in the new legislative environment, to act like a government? Why write? At its best, writing contributes a great deal to life - not just for readers, but for authors themselves. Weekly wrap: the way the cookie crumbles Australia has finally gained an answer to the question, "Who is, sort of, you know, the government then?" Clive Hamilton and ABC balance Clive Hamilton thinks that "climate deniers" should not be privy to the ABC's charter of balance. But this is completely wrong.
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New Delhi faces flood threat The rising river level in New Delhi is posing a new threat to the the Indian capital as it struggles to prepare for the Commonwealth Games. Nokia appoints Microsoft executive as CEO The world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia has named a new software-savvy chief executive from Microsoft to help it battle slumping profits and an eroding market share in the smartphone segment. DiCaprio 'wife' told to keep away Leonardo DiCaprio has won a court order that barred a woman who believes she is his wife and is pregnant with his child from coming near him for three years.
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Skills shortage may jeopardise NBN: union Australia's peak communications union has thrown a question mark over the Government's commitment to prioritise the regional rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN). Zoo trumpets elephant's birth Melbourne Zoo is celebrating the birth of its first male Asian elephant. Two more arrests over python theft Two more men have been arrested over the theft of a python and a lizard from a pet shop in Rosanna, north-east of Melbourne.
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Loggers sentenced for attacking Florentine protesters Three Tasmanian forest contractors have been given community service orders for assaulting forest protesters in the state's south, two years ago. Residents encouraged to collect rubbish this weekend Karratha residents are being urged to spend a few hours picking up rubbish this weekend. Additional rebate offered for installing solar power Gascoyne residents are being encouraged to take up an offer of an additional rebate when they install solar power technology.
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