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River subsiding but floodwaters to remain The number of homes inundated by floodwaters in Rockhampton in central Queensland is far less than first thought. Gillard to visit flood-ravaged Gascoyne Prime Minister Julia Gillard has confirmed she will visit flood-affected areas of Western Australia's Gascoyne region today. China hiding military build-up: WikiLeaks Australia's intelligence agencies believe China is hiding the extent of a massive military build-up that goes beyond national defence and threatens regional stability, the latest WikiLeaks cables show. Charges laid over insulation death A Gold Coast company has been charged over the death of an insulation installer in far north Queensland. US to deploy extra 1,400 marines to Afghanistan The United States is sending an additional 1,400 marines to Afghanistan.
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A whale of a story It has never been a secret, as reported this week, that Australia has been seeking to 'cut a deal' with Japan so that it would drastically reduce or phase out its whaling operations. The reality is that the wheels of international justice turn very slowly. This creates opportunities for Australia to negotiate a diplomatic solution to this dispute which could be a turning point in the future of whale conservation. Shane Stone and the NTÂ's mandatory sentencing regime It is going too far to say that the cruel political opportunism of mandatory sentencing in the NT didn't go far enough. US Congress: get used to dramatics This week the 112th Congress will sit for the first time and already the expectations are that politics in America will become even more fractious. In the weeks before it sat the rhetoric was confrontational - 'gridlock' , 'repeal', investigate'. Don't listen to the talk of a desire for bipartisan cooperation, American politicians are set to spend the next two years fighting for the centre by defining the extremes. The roar of the business dinosaur The 'Fair Go For Retailers' alliance is about middle-aged retailers clinging to a 1980s model of doing business while failing to understand how their markets are changing. An ALP insider's open letter to Julia Gillard Samizdat was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader. This grassroots practice to evade officially-imposed censorship was fraught with danger as harsh punishments were meted out to people caught possessing or copying censored materials. Here is a self-penned Samizdat from a one of the best Labor thinkers going around who thought to send it to me out of sense of literally unspeakable frustration.
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Tight security for Coptic Christmas celebrations Coptic Christians are celebrating Christmas today amid tightened security after last week's church bombing in Egypt. Pakistan, Afghanistan plan peace talks Afghanistan and Pakistan have announced plans to hold peace talks in an attempt to broker a deal with the Taliban. Pakistan PM reverses petrol price hike Pakistan's prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, has scrapped controversial fuel price rises in an attempt to avoid a no-confidence vote.
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Endangered wallaby shows signs of recovery Wildlife officers say the critically endangered Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby population is showing signs of recovery in East Gippsland. Vampire flying frog found in Vietnam An Australian scientist has discovered an unusual species of frog in southern Vietnam. Mackay residents warned of mosquito threat Mackay residents are being urged to get into their yards and check for pools of stagnant water following weeks of consistent rain.
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Call to fix rail networks to handle the grain harvest A major bulk grain handler is calling for government spending on rail as New South Wales faces a record harvest. EPA halts power plant assessment The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has halted its assessment of a new power station project in the Latrobe Valley, until it is given more information about the plant. Claims of inequity in Murrrumbidgee water buybacks The federal government is being accused of inequity in its water buybacks in the Murrumbidgee system.
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