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Boat captain watches as sharks kill diver The skipper of an abalone fishing boat watched in horror as one of his divers was taken by two great white sharks off South Australia's Eyre Peninsula late yesterday. Australian killed in Vietnam sinking Authorities in Vietnam have confirmed that an Australian man was killed when a tourist boat sank in Halong Bay yesterday. Solar flare to jam Earth's communications A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days, NASA said. ADF probes prisoner mistreatment claim Defence Minister Stephen Smith says the Australian Defence Force is investigating the treatment of detainees at its prisoner screening facility in Afghanistan. Welcome to the town of SpeedKills A tiny town in Victoria's north-west will be renamed SpeedKills, as part of a campaign to cut the road toll.
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More ways Labor can win in New South Wales The Nielsen poll showing Labor down to 13 seats in New South Wales - 13 out of 97 that is - and a two-party preferred vote of only 33, daunted my belief in Labor's inevitable victory for a minute. That was until I looked at it more closely. It's not as easy as it was a month ago, but Labor can still win the New South Wales state election. Losing our way How did Australia become a country that incarcerates nine-year-old orphaned boys? From Tiananmen Square to Tahrir Square With Egypt for recent inspiration, what is stopping the Chinese people from launching a new wave of protests, almost 22 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre? Another look at the RANÂ's amphibious capabilities Many hands have been wrung in recent days over the disrepair of the navy's amphibious ships. A message to Tony Abbott A message to Tony Abbot: one part of your party is playing with fire. If senior Australian politicians are revealed as playing with explicit anti-Islamic rhetoric, we will feed this extremism and force young Muslims into the hands of recruiters for Islamist causes. Moderate Australian Muslims must cringe when they read that conservative politicians are planning to stigmatise them and their community.
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Monster solar flare bounces off north pole A wave of charged plasma particles from a huge solar eruption has glanced off the Earth's northern pole, lighting up auroras and disrupting some radio communications, a NASA scientist said. Inflation and unemployment weigh on Wall St Stocks on Wall Street closed higher, as investors shrugged off data that showed rising inflation and higher unemployment in the US. US demands killer diplomat's release The US is demanding Pakistan immediately release an American diplomat involved in a deadly shooting in the city of Lahore last month.
Science & Technology	More Science & Technology Stories >
Monster solar flare bounces off north pole A wave of charged plasma particles from a huge solar eruption has glanced off the Earth's northern pole, lighting up auroras and disrupting some radio communications, a NASA scientist said. Aussie dung beetles to help NZ out of the poo Farmers in New Zealand are eagerly awaiting an Australian onslaught of dung beetles that will help deal with its big smelly problem of livestock dung. Solar flare to jam Earth's communications A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days, NASA said.
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Benjeroop levee breaches worse than expected Water Minister Peter Walsh says the condition of breached levees between Kerang and Swan Hill is much worse than previously thought. Tears shed for Tweed coast koalas A leading campaigner for koala conservation says she cried when she read the latest report to the Tweed Shire Council. Lone fruit fly found in Hobart Quarantine Tasmania has set up an intensive fruit fly trapping program in Hobart's northern suburbs after the discovery of a single fruit fly.
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