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12:34 PM AEST | Two Frenchmen are accused of indecently assaulting five teenage girls who were on a school excursion.
12:22 PM AEST | Fathers Day came a little early for Bill Langenhorst this year.
12:09 PM AEST | Queensland independent Bob Katter has had his arm twisted "pretty firmly" by former prime minister Kevin Rudd to support Labor.
12:08 PM AEST | A Sydney man was bitten on the head by a shark off the Solomon Islands yesterday.
11:50 AM AEST | Des Campbell is sentenced to 24 years jail for killing his wife, whom he pushed over a cliff.
9:26 AM AEST | The father whose question at a community forum led to outrage at a Queensland Labor MP two days before the federal election has admitted he lied.
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9:13 AM AEST | The Coalition has started to put the heat on the three hold-out rural independents - saying it was "inconceivable" any of them would back a Labor government that had joined the Greens to push a left-leaning agenda.
8:33 AM AEST | Independent MP Andrew Wilkie knocked back a $1 billion incentive to side with the Coalition yesterday, choosing instead to bolster Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s chances of retaining power.
8:02 AM AEST | A PLANNING process ''full of vague and ill-defined statements'' and a ''lack of commitment'' to development by government agencies are the main reasons behind a 10-year slump in Sydney home building rates, a new report says.
6:57 AM AEST | REGULAR poker machine players will need to nominate how much they are prepared to lose every time they play, under a landmark agreement between Julia Gillard and the independent MP Andrew Wilkie.
6:32 AM AEST | TONY ABBOTT has been poked in the eye by his own budget costings and his eagerness to spend - the same costings that, when the Coalition added them up, helped him successfully flay Labor for profligacy and waste during the election campaign.
6:05 AM AEST | JULIA GILLARD is two seats away from forming a minority government after the Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie rejected a $1 billion offer from Tony Abbott and threw his support behind Labor.
6:04 AM AEST | THE COALITION made four kinds of mistakes in its costings according to the Treasury; the understandable, the inexcusable, the inexplicable, and those resulting from a failure to comprehend the nature of the process.
4:00 AM AEST | PUNTERS have swung behind Labor with some sizeable bets after Treasury found holes in the Coalition’s policy costings, bookie Sportingbet Australia said.
3:00 AM AEST | Tim Fischer, former leader of the Nationals and former deputy prime minister, has clearly spent too much time at the Vatican.
3:00 AM AEST | The work of a brilliant but ill-disciplined German explorer is about to find a new audience, writes Steve Meacham.
3:00 AM AEST | A LABELLING scheme similar to that for free-range eggs could be applied to seafood after a study into the welfare of wild-caught fish found consumers lacked adequate information to make humane purchasing decisions.
3:00 AM AEST | PAUL HOGAN and the Australian Tax Office are negotiating to find a way through the impasse that has seen the actor barred from leaving the country.
3:00 AM AEST | GUILT-FREE seafood has taken another hit. The world's premier sustainable fishing scheme is under attack from eminent scientists for failing to protect the environment.
3:00 AM AEST | THE industrial strike has become little more than a memory in most Australian workplaces, with declining union membership and legal changes producing a fundamental shift in our work culture.
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