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Afternoon Edition. Sat 16 Oct 2010
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Snow, wind and rain whip eastern Australia Snow, floods and gale-force winds have swept across eastern Australia overnight, transforming parts of New South Wales and Victoria into springtime winter wonderlands. Descarado wins Caulfield Cup for Gai Gai Waterhouse has won her first Caulfield Cup, with Descarado ploughing through the heavy conditions to score a gritty win in the $2.5 million feature in Melbourne. Asylum seekers to be released from detention In a major policy shift, the Federal Government is preparing to announce plans to release hundreds of asylum seekers from detention and allow them to live in the community while their applications for asylum are being assessed. DJs, Fraser-Kirk agree to settle out of court David Jones publicist Kristy Fraser-Kirk has reached an out-of-court agreement with David Jones and its former CEO on a sexual harassment case. Games team lands in Sydney The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, welcomed Australia's Commonwealth Games team home to Sydney.
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The Murray Darling's political sinkhole Will the Gillard Government become the most reactive and reflexive administration of the modern era? The early signs – most notably this weekÂ's debacle over the Murray Darling Basin - say Â'yesÂ'. To all intents and purposes, Gillard, her Regional Development Minister Simon Crean and Water Minister Tony Burke walked into the political sinkhole of the Murray Darling as if blindfolded. How else can we explain their behaviour? Twice round the barracks with Colonel Jones On Tuesday this week Mr Abbott found himself on his toughest assignment yet: embedded with Alan Jones. Secular liberalism misunderstood Secular liberalism gives anyone the right to question religion, but it also prevents them from mandating that religion be abolished. Bonsoir to The Bill It's time, after 27 years, to farewell The Bill. Perhaps its producers will make all 2,400 episodes available on DVD. Hell or High Water It was foggy this morning as I drove into Griffith to attend an information session about the Murray Darling Basin Plan. Fog is unusual at this time of the year, but quite appropriate for the meeting to follow, three and half hours and I was none the wiser. You didnÂ't have to see the sign "This is War" to know that the town of Griffith is taking this threat to their future very seriously.
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Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz welcome baby boy Grammy-winning R&B singer Alicia Keys and her rapper boyfriend Swizz Beatz have welcomed their first child into the world, a representative for the couple says. First Australians celebrate first Australian saint Mary MacKillop touched the lives of many in Australia, but 101 years after her death she is developing an entire new group of followers in Rome. Villagers return to toxic sludge town The Hungarian plant which caused a toxic sludge leak has reopened as villagers forced to abandon their houses begin to return home.
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Police tweet beat reveals crime load British police have hailed its decision to put details on Twitter of all 3,205 incidents it handled over a 24-hour period as a success, saying it highlighted the difficulty of their job. China zoo gardener mauled to death by tigers A gardener at a zoo in southern China was mauled to death by five tigers after falling into their pen, Chinese media reported Friday. UN Space expert denies being alien ambassador A Malaysian astrophysicist, Mazlan Othman, has denied British media reports that she is the United Nations (UN) ambassador for space aliens.
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Environmentalist wins top prize for Murray-Darling work A man working to restore the health of a key part of the Murray-Darling river system has been given a top environment award by Federal Water Minister Tony Burke. 'Enormous wave' of mosquitoes to hit Top End The Northern Territory Health Department says the Top End needs to prepare for an "enormous wave" of mosquitoes. Victims' families welcome insulation report An auditor-general's report into the Federal Government's axed home insulation scheme has been welcomed by the families of four workmen whose deaths have been linked to the roll-out.
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