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A key Kevin Rudd ally, federal minister Kim Carr, has accused Julia Gillard's camp of dirty tricks as lobbying for caucus votes heats up ahead of Monday's Labor leadership ballot.
Topics: alp, political-parties, gillard-julia, rudd-kevin, federal-government, australia, qld
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A fire at an inner-Sydney sex shop has forced the evacuation of 50 people.
Topics: fires, darlinghurst-2010
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Transport investigators in New Zealand have questioned the airworthiness of a hot-air balloon which crashed last month killing 11 people.
Topics: air-and-space, new-zealand
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A 33-year-old man has been arrested for high-range drink driving, after leading police on a low-speed pursuit in Darwin before jumping into the harbour in an effort to avoid being caught.
Topics: alcohol, traffic-offences, police, darwin-0800
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Australian and American researchers have trained crocodiles to run on a treadmill to better understand how they breathe.
Topics: reptiles, research, offbeat, animals, james-cook-university-townsville-4811
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A 52-year-old man has been jailed for two years for exposing a woman to the risk of HIV.
Topics: courts-and-trials, aids-and-hiv, prisons-and-punishment, melbourne-3000
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A novice Sydney driver has been charged with high-range drink driving, less than a day after getting her L-plates.
Topics: traffic-offences, police, strathfield-2135
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Virgin Australia has announced plans to restructure its business to attract more foreign investment.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, air-transport, australia
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Kevin Rudd's wife Therese Rein joined the Labor leadership war today, urging "ordinary people" to back her husband in the campaign against Julia Gillard.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, rudd-kevin, alp, political-parties, australia
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The Australian share market has dipped after weak economic data from China, Europe and the United States dampened trade on markets in Europe and the US overnight.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, markets, currency, stockmarket, australia
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A US law enforcement official says officials are probing letters sent to television personalities Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, which threaten biological attacks on US senators.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, united-states
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A controversial finding that brought doubt on Einstein's belief that nothing can travel faster than light could have been caused by a loose cable, the lab behind the result said.
Topics: physics, italy, switzerland
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Amnesty International says the Northern Immigration Detention Centre in Darwin is totally inappropriate for the long-term detention of asylum seekers.
Topics: immigration, refugees, federal-government, activism-and-lobbying, darwin-0800, perth-6000, christmas-island, broome-6725, karratha-6714
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Fairfax Media has reported a 41 per cent fall in first-half net profit to $96.7 million as it moves to restructure its operations.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, media, australia
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The UN Security Council has boosted by nearly one half an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia in a bid to intensify a military offensive against Islamist rebels.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, somalia
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The wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair has begun legal action over alleged phone hacking, making her the latest public figure to be drawn into a scandal that has shaken the country's media.
Topics: world-politics, print-media, united-kingdom
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The General Insurance Ombudsman has expressed concern that workers in the industry do not always understand the policies they sell.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, insurance, australia
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Authorities have seized more Lennons trucks, with evidence at least one driver was instructed to abandon his vehicle by the side of the road.
Topics: police, states-and-territories, glenfield-2167, enfield-2136
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Wall Street and European markets have retreated after weak economic data sparked concerns the eurozone could be heading towards a recession.
Topics: markets, stockmarket, business-economics-and-finance, currency, united-states, european-union
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Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd attacked each other's leadership credentials as the Prime Minister announced a Monday morning spill to settle the ALP's bitter civil war "for all time".
Topics: federal-parliament, federal-government, alp, rudd-kevin, australia, united-states
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A stroke of good luck has given a team of Tasmanian scientists an encounter with a pod of extremely rare whales.
Topics: mammals---whales, research-organisations, tas, vic, portland-3305, ballarat-3350
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A man has been charged after he allegedly pointed a gun out of a car window in Sydney's inner west earlier this week.
Topics: crime, police, leichhardt-2040, hassall-grove-2761
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Simon Crean and Wayne Swan led the attacks on Kevin Rudd this morning as Labor's warlords upped the ante ahead of a leadership spill next week.
Topics: alp, government-and-politics, federal-government, gillard-julia, rudd-kevin, australia
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Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has welcomed the federal Labor leadership ballot as the issue overshadows her re-election campaign.
Topics: elections, alp, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000
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Italian search teams have found another eight bodies in the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, bringing the number of bodies found to 25.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, maritime, italy
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