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Opera great Joan Sutherland dies One of the great opera singers of the 20th century, Dame Joan Sutherland, has died aged 83. Brisbane Mayor fears 1974 flood repeat The Brisbane City Council says a combination of heavy rainfall, flooding and full dams have all the hallmarks of the period leading up to the 1974 floods in south-east Queensland. US doctors usher in 'dawn of stem cell age' A patient in the United States has become the first person in the world to be treated with human embryonic stem cells. London bomb inquests told of 'wave of horror' The first day of inquests into deaths of 52 people killed in the 2005 London bombings has heard the victims were killed in acts of merciless savagery during an "unimaginably, dreadful wave of horror". Bali survivors fight nightclub plan Survivors of the first Bali bombing have unveiled a new study showing the benefits of building a peace park on the site of the Sari Club, which bore the brunt of the blasts.
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Holding the centre ground can be war Since at least the Whitlam era, Labor orthodoxy has been that the occupation of the centre ground was a precondition for electoral success. But the arrival of the Australian Greens as a Lower House party will challenge this thinking, providing a political alternative for Labor's progressive base. With a functioning party to its left, managing the politics of power becomes a lot more complex for the ALP. Public scepticism shrouds Qld asset sell-off Whether the centrepiece of the Queensland Government's asset sell-off can turn around its fortunes remains to be seen. Poverty pornography Poverty is real but poverty pornography is not. Despite this, it seems the practice has become a standard for NGO marketing. Australia and the Afghan quagmire It's time the Federal Government delved a bit deeper in discerning the complexity of the Afghan situation. DonÂ't mention the war Perhaps the least predictable outcome of the August federal election was the new prominence it has afforded the war in Afghanistan. If the forthcoming debate on Afghanistan delivers no more than a recognition that the Australian public have been ill-served by media coverage of the war to date that will be a bonus. But if it generates the political will for a new relationship between the military and the media, then the hung parliament will have more than proved its worth.
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Aussie wine for Rome's MacKillop celebrations Dozens of cases of wine from the Coonawarra region of South Australia have arrived in Rome in preparation for the canonisation of Mary MacKillop. German journalists arrested in Iran Iran has arrested two German journalists who were interviewing the son of a woman sentenced to death by stoning. London bomb inquests told of 'wave of horror' The first day of inquests into deaths of 52 people killed in the 2005 London bombings has heard the victims were killed in acts of merciless savagery during an "unimaginably, dreadful wave of horror".
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US doctors usher in 'dawn of stem cell age' A patient in the United States has become the first person in the world to be treated with human embryonic stem cells. Another gas pipeline criticised A Bundella farmer says landholders fighting to have the Narrabri-to-Wellington gas pipeline moved off their land should not give up. Telescope site to be protected from radio interference The communications regulator is preparing to introduce legislation banning the use of certain radio frequencies in an area of Western Australia earmarked for a major astronomy project.
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Some Wivenhoe overflow sent to Toowoomba Extra water is being sent from the overflowing Wivenhoe Dam to a parched Toowoomba storage on southern Queensland's Darling Downs. Higher Murray flows reviving 12 SA wetlands Twelve wetlands are being reconnected to the Murray in South Australia for the first time in almost four years. Native vegetation poisoned to get better ocean views south-east of Grafton Residents of a coastal village south east of Grafton say there must be a way to deal will people who poison native bushland to get better ocean views.
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