Malcolm Fraser backs Greens senator

ADELAIDE, July 6 AAP - Australia's major political parties are engaged in a "race to the bottom" using fear to fuel the debate over asylum seekers, former prime minister Malcolm Fraser says. Appearing at a public forum in Adelaide on Saturday,...

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Pussy Riot members plan appeal

Lawyers for the jailed members of Russian band Pussy Riot will appeal their clients' convictions. Source: AAP LAWYERS representing the two jailed Pussy Riot bandmates have confirmed reports they will be appealing the women's hooliganism convictions....

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Home and Away big loss for NZ TV3

THE loss of Australian soap drama, Home and Away, could have big implications on New Zealand's TV3's ratings in the evenings, a television commentator says. MediaWorks NZ, which owns TV3 and is in receivership, announced on Friday it had lost...

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Kiwi edges higher over the week

THE New Zealand dollar trade-weighted index is heading for a 0.9 per cent weekly gain as central banks in Australia and Europe kept their bias towards economic stimulation. The trade-weighted index rose to 74.59 at 5pm in Wellington from 74.07...

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One dead in Mumbai building collapse

A TWO-STOREY building housing apartments and garment makers has collapsed near Mumba killing one person and critically injuring two others, police say. It is the fifth deadly collapse around the Indian financial capital in the past few months....

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Qld cop fires as teen drives car at him

A TEENAGER has been charged with the attempted murder of a Queensland police officer. Police were investigating an attempted armed robbery of an Ipswich convenience store about 3am on Thursday when a 17-year-old boy allegedly drove a car at...

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Aust shares post heavy falls

THE Australian share market has fallen heavily due to weaker than expected economic data from China and Australia's retail sector. At the close on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 89.9 points, or 1.86 per cent, at 4,744.1,...

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SA police investigate koala theft

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD koala has been stolen from the backyard cage of an Adelaide wildlife carer. The female, named Kao, is in need of medical attention, police say. She was one of three koalas in the cage but was the only one taken from the Trott...

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Carr says there is now consenus on boats

FOREIGN Minister Bob Carr says there is now consensus with the coalition in some areas of asylum-seeker policy but the major divide remains Tony's Abbott's "reckless promise" to tow boats back to Indonesia. Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting...

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University reopens after explosives scare

THE bomb squad has given the all-clear after investigating a potentially explosive liquid found at a Perth university campus. It's understood a technician found two bottles of an unidentified liquid in a laboratory in the biomedical research...

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China law forces children to visit parents

A CHINESE law requiring family members to visit their elderly relatives has come into effect to howls of online ridicule, as the country's huge population ages rapidly. The regulation "forces" children to visit their parents, the state-run Global...

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Rudd continues to mull election date

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is still weighing up the date of the federal election. Source: AAP PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is still weighing up the date of the federal election. With a September 14 poll now apparently off the table, Labor has...

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Gunpowder blast kills man in Qld

A MAN is dead and two others have been seriously injured after gunpowder exploded in far north Queensland. Police say the men were believed to have been trying to dispose of expired gunpowder in a burn-off on a rural property west of Mareeba...

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RM Williams farms put under receivership

A PRIVATE carbon farming company run by former News Limited chief Ken Cowley has been placed into receivership. RM Williams Agricultural Holdings, which owns carbon and cattle stations in Queensland and the Northern Territory, appointed insolvency...

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