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'Charge drivers' to reduce congestion A new report on Australian cities has recommended free off-peak travel on public transport and charging drivers for how much they use their cars. Government approves new coal seam gas projects The Federal Government has given the go-ahead for two multi-billion dollar coal seam gas projects in Queensland. Troubled Hobbit gets its Bilbo Actor Martin Freeman, best known from British comedy series The Office, will play the heroic Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. Opposition wants detention centre inquiry The Federal Opposition will push for a parliamentary inquiry to examine the setting up of two new immigration detention centres. Shoes found in search for missing schoolboy The shoes of a missing teenager have been found at a New South Wales central coast beach.
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Joe's levers and the Ghosts of Malcolms Past It appears that nothing is static in politics any more, and no blooper is so egregious that its history can't be rewritten, or at least comfortingly blurred. And so it proved this week for both Joe Hockey and Malcolm Turnbull. While Mr Hockey's comments on government regulation of the banking sector have been slowly massaged, The Ghosts of Malcolms Past have begun to stalk the corridors. Planting seeds of hope to grow them strong Community empowerment is critical if there's to be any impact on reducing Aboriginal child neglect and abuse. The riches of the saints In the land of Â'Waltzing MatildaÂ' and Â'Such is LifeÂ' weÂ're still sinners enough to need our saints. Weekly wrap: the joy of war Joe demanded Wayne stop the banksÂ' excessive rate rises, thus displaying the grand Liberal tradition of tight financial regulation. How do we push hard policy beyond hard feelings? Two moments in the past fortnight give us an inkling of the troubled waters churning in the national soul. First the community discussions round the Murray Darling Authority's guide to its full plan. Then there was last night's meeting in the Adelaide Hills to protest proposed housing for asylum seekers. That's the trouble with these tricky issues of awkward policy. Somewhere, sometime, the rubber has to hit the road.
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Residents evacuated as typhoon heads for China At least 160,000 people have been evacuated and flights have been disrupted as Typhoon Megi, one of the strongest storms to hit the region in years, heads for southern China. Nuclear codes 'went missing' during Clinton presidency Special codes that allow the US president to order a nuclear attack went missing "for months" during Bill Clinton's time at the White House, his former top military officer says in a memoir. Obama tells bullied teens 'It Gets Better' An internet campaign to stop teens taking their own lives after suffering homophobic bullying is so successful its latest recruit is US president Barack Obama.
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South-east climate changing: CSIRO Scientists at the CSIRO in Canberra are warning recent rainfall in the nation's south-east is not indicative of likely rainfall in the future. Scientists confirm water from lunar probe A head-on collision by a NASA spacecraft last year has confirmed the presence of ice and other frozen compounds on the surface of the moon, according to scientists. Scientists to probe 'forgotten' outback zone New plant and animal species are expected to be discovered as scientists conduct a wide survey of outback South Australia next week.
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Anti-coal seam gas groups want moratorium The Caroona Coal Action Group (CCAG) has announced it is joining with every anti-Coal Seam Gas (CSG) group in New South Wales to form a new body called the New South Wales Gas Alliance. Government approves new coal seam gas projects The Federal Government has given the go-ahead for two multi-billion dollar coal seam gas projects in Queensland. Black arm bands at Goondiwindi water meeting Hundreds of people wearing black arm bands are meeting in the southern Queensland border town of Goondiwindi to hear about plans to cut Murray-Darling water entitlements.
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