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Virgin glitch fixed but delays continue Major delays are continuing for passengers travelling with Virgin Blue, after a computer glitch yesterday brought down the airline's check-in system at airports across the country. The hidden epidemic of prescription drugs Experts fear Australia faces a new drug epidemic, and the source is not the warlords of Afghanistan or bikie gangs, but your local doctor or chemist. Peace talks on the edge as construction freeze ends The Middle East peace talks could be heading for an early collapse, with Israeli and Palestinian leaders unable to reach a compromise on Jewish settlement expansion. Australian athletes arriving in Delhi today Australia's Commonwealth Games athletes will start arriving in New Delhi today, but team bosses are not ruling out the possibility that more Australians may decide to pull out. Babysitter sexually assaulted by intruders Police are searching for two men who attacked a baby before sexually assaulting a woman in Sydney's inner west.
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Australia's great democratic deficit Out of 15 million people of potential voting age, one in six Australians had no say in the last election! This is a disgrace. It must be corrected. It will be set right. PM Julia Gillard has appointed Gary Gray as Special Minister of State responsible for this area and I have every confidence that he will act to address our democracy deficit. AFL Grand Final: A draw forever frozen in time There was a result for Saturday's AFL Grand Final. It might be an inconvenient result but everyone who lived through it knows it to be true. It was a result that reached beyond winning and losing. The draw will never detract from the magnificence that pervaded from the stage. A draw forever frozen in time. A testament to all that is cherished in our game. It's all about the content Carriers like Telstra are being cut out as Google and Apple fight it out for the lion's share of the smartphone market. A taxing debate for climate change What Australia could learn from Canada's introduction of a carbon tax in 2008. Never a better time for pipsqueaks Now that every vote counts, and Governments can be made or destroyed on a single voice, there has never been a better time for pipsqueaks. Overlooked? Traduced? Ignored? Smarting from a years of hard work repaid by anonymity? This parliament offers a blessed chance at redemption – or revenge. The matter of whether Ms Gillard will govern by one vote or two rests with Alex Somlyay, the former chief Opposition whip.
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Aussie union boycott threatens Hobbit films Filmmaker Peter Jackson has threatened to move production of The Hobbit out of New Zealand after a dispute with an Australian actors' union. Briton abducted in Afghanistan The British foreign ministry has confirmed one of its nationals has been abducted in Afghanistan, amid reports she was an aid worker seized while driving through the north-east of the country. Museum insider blamed for Van Gogh theft Egypt's interior minister said that an employee working in a Cairo museum was probably behind the theft of a Van Gogh painting that left Egyptian authorities red-faced.
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Patrols to prevent whale harassment Wildlife officers will patrol beaches in Albany today after a teenage boy was spotted climbing onto a whale's back last week. Australia urged to enter space race Space scientists are calling on the Federal Government to invest more than $100 million to help safeguard from the effects of severe space weather and political obstruction. Whale 'harassed' by teenager The Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation says it has a photograph of a teenager climbing on a whale's back in Albany, south-east of Perth.
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Mining Giant Calls For Talks on Carbon Tax. Pressure is mounting on the federal government to begin debate on a carbon tax with Hunter Valley mining giant, Xstrata saying its ready to talk. Landcare gets students aiming high An environment group is trying to get kids off the couch and into gardening. Wellington hopes for pipeline stoush compromise A Sunshine Coast state MP says he is pleased a mediator has been called in to try to resolve a dispute between a local farmer and the company building the Queensland Government's water pipeline.
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