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'No legal bar' to Oakeshott's bid A constitutional expert says there is no legal impediment to independent MP Rob Oakeshott becoming the speaker but it would make Parliament more complicated. Scandals cloud Pope's UK visit On the eve of Pope Benedict's visit to Britain, victims of child abuse at the hands of Catholic priests have demanded that the pontiff hand over all information on paedophile clergy to authorities. Hundreds expected to farewell shot policeman A funeral service will be held in Sydney today for a police officer who was shot and killed during a drug raid last week. Conservative's win signals Tea Party's force In one of the biggest upsets in US politics yet, a Tea Party-backed candidate has defeated a veteran Republican politician to win the party's nomination to contest a Senate seat. Keelty to testify in Rush's last-ditch appeal Having tipped off the Indonesian authorities to the Bali Nine, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) will now help one of them try to escape the death penalty.
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Broadband bender unlikely to sway independents So Tony Abbott now says he can persuade the independents to switch sides "at some point early in the Government's term". And what does he believe will turn them around? His ongoing opposition to high-speed broadband and his decision to give Malcolm Turnbull carriage of the case against? If so, then the minority Government is more stable than most people thought. Transplanting our mindset on organ donation Changes have been made in recent times to improve Australia's organ donation rate, but there's still a long way to go. Monkeypox: a disturbing outlook The emergence of monkeypox shows that the eradication of one disease may in fact make us vulnerable to others. The media is in denial about its own failings Political journalism will never improve because too many involved in the industry don't think there is anything wrong with it. This depressing thought was brought home to me as I read yet another self-serving defence of coverage of the 2010 election. It was doubly depressing because for a moment there it looked like some journalists were genuinely interested in rethinking the "paradigm". The ABC is great: we should privatise it As a commercially viable entity, there is little public policy justification for retaining the ABC in public hands.
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Abetz leaves citizenship row to High Court Tasmanian Liberal Senator Eric Abetz says he will leave it up to the High Court to decide his right to remain in Parliament. BP well may be dead by weekend BP is on the cusp of finishing a drilling operation to permanently seal its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Wall Street rises despite soft data US stocks have risen, but the actual of number of shares traded remains lower than average as investors appear to struggle to find direction.
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Sunshine Coast's shallow reefs healthy: survey A scientific survey funded by the Sunshine Coast Regional Council has found shallow reefs between Noosa and Mooloolaba are healthy and teeming with marine life. Study shines light on Indigenous star-gazing Ancient Aboriginal people may have been the world's first astronomers, a CSIRO study says. Egyptian relics found in antique shop Pieces of an ancient Egyptian necropolis that was pillaged in 1999 have been found in Spain by an expert in Middle Eastern antiquities who spotted them in a shop, Spanish police said.
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Sunshine Coast's shallow reefs healthy: survey A scientific survey funded by the Sunshine Coast Regional Council has found shallow reefs between Noosa and Mooloolaba are healthy and teeming with marine life. Reports of locust hatchings near Mildura There is growing concern that locusts have started hatching in far north-west Victoria. BP well may be dead by weekend BP is on the cusp of finishing a drilling operation to permanently seal its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.
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