WA Senator takes his own advice

Labor senate leader Chris Evans says he will exit politics for personal reasons. Source: AAP LABOR senate leader Chris Evans says he is taking his own oft-given advice about picking the right time to retire. "I am making the move now...

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Heartbreaking devastation greets residents

NORM Cox wants to demolish his home. Only four months ago, he and wife Dorothy spent their life savings renovating it. But looking at the mud-coated, putrid shell of what is left after a raging torrent ripped through his suburb of North Bundaberg,...

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Incoming AG thrilled about the job

Australia's incoming attorney-general Mark Dreyfus says Australia's laws should reflect our values. Source: AAP AUSTRALIA'S incoming attorney-general believes the nation's laws should protect and care for all Australians. Mark Dreyfus,...

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Train crash not due to mechanical fault

Cranes have removed the wreckage of a derailed passenger train from a station in Brisbane's east. Source: AAP QUEENSLAND Transport Minister Scott Emerson says preliminary investigations suggest Brisbane's passenger train crash was not the result...

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Aust bond prices drop on weak US lead

AUSTRALIAN bond futures prices are lower, following the lead from a weakening US treasury market. At 1630 AEDT on Friday, the March 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 96.500 (implying a yield of 3.500 per cent), down from Thursday's...

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Life sentence for gay love-triangle killer

A QATARI man who was convicted of murdering his gay love rival will stay behind bars for at least 15 years, a Perth judge has ruled. Justice Lindy Jenkins on Friday handed Mohammed Ahmed Almansouri a life sentence with a non-parole period of...

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Pharmaxis takes a beating after US review

PHARMAXIS had $175 million wiped off its market value after suffering a setback in getting its cystic fibrosis drug approved for use in the United States. Advisers to the powerful US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave a negative review...

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ACCC says yes to Virgin's Skywest takeover

The ACCC has cleared Virgin Australia's $98 million plan to buy regional airline Skywest. Source: AAP VIRGIN Australia has moved a step closer to seizing control of regional airline Skywest after receiving the go-ahead from the competition...

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US gunman menaced his neighbours

THE gunman holed up in a bunker with a five-year-old hostage in the US state of Alabama was known around the neighbourhood as a menacing figure. Neighbours said Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old retired truck driver, once beat a dog to death with...

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Qld floods have now claimed six lives

Fears are growing that Queensland's flood death toll could rise as authorities search for two men. Source: AAP THE death toll in the Queensland floods has risen to six with the discovery of a second body in the Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane...

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Elderly brought out of digital dark ages

MORE than 1.3 million seniors, including those in regional NSW, will get help to become familiar with computer and internet technology. NSW Ageing Minister Andrew Constance says the Tech Savvy Seniors program - a partnership with Telstra - provides...

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Senator wants disaster insurance scheme

SA Independent Nick Xenophon will push for the introduction of a natural disaster insurance scheme. Source: AAP INDEPENDENT senator Nick Xenophon has called for the introduction of a federal natural disaster insurance scheme in the wake of...

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Elder protests for ill brother's release

AN Aboriginal elder who has chained himself to a government building in Perth over his terminally-ill brother's imprisonment is entitled to a peaceful protest, police say. Herbert Bropho - a key figure in last year's Heirisson Island "tent embassy"...

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Sea Kings sold to Aerospace Logistics

ONE of the Navy's Sea King helicopters will have its proud history celebrated in a museum but the other five "workhorses" will be sold to Aerospace Logistics (ASL). Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare says ASL plans to use the Sea Kings...

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Grafton narrowly escapes flood devastation

GRAFTON dodged a bullet when floods "never seen by white man" peaked just two centimetres below the northern NSW town's levee wall. After 2000 people evacuated their homes and prepared for the worst, the raging Clarence River peaked at 8.08 metres,...

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WA bushfire threatens homes, plantations

HOMES and plantations are under threat from a bushfire burning about 900 kilometres north of Perth. A watch and act alert has been issued for people in Miaboolya Road, Bibbawarra Road, North River Road and surrounding areas in the north-eastern...

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Police fear for missing Vic teen

A 14-YEAR-OLD Victorian girl is missing and there are fears for her welfare. Bonnie McSweeney went missing from a Castlemaine property, north-west of Melbourne, between 1am and 9am on Friday, police said. Investigators have been told the local...

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Qld premier launches flood appeal

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman (L) has launched the Queensland Flood Appeal. Source: AAP QUEENSLAND Premier Campbell Newman has launched the Queensland Flood Appeal. He kick-started the appeal with a $1 million state donation and...

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US woman loses fourth child to gun murder

AT least five people were gunned down in a single day in Chicago, including a 34-year-old man whose mother had already lost her three other children to shootings. Ronnie Chambers, who was his mother Shirley's youngest child, was shot in the head...

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Elderly man's body found in Qld flood zone

The body of an elderly man has been pulled from the water, northeast of Bundaberg, Qld police say. Source: AAP QUEENSLAND has recorded its first flood death - an elderly man whose body was pulled from the water at Burnett Heads, northeast...

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Schwarzenegger to speak in Australia

Former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger is to visit Australia for a speaking tour. Source: AAP WHEN he says he'll be back, he means it. It's been 23 years but Arnold Schwarzenegger is coming back to Australia as a guest for...

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