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Optus to cut 350 jobs in next four weeks to 'remain sustainable and competitive'
Catalonia police banned from using rubber bullets
$11,000 for breakfast with Tony Abbott, access to senior ministers' chiefs of staff
Stolen eyes: victims of rubber bullets on ban in Catalonia - video
Uniting church says racism a sin as it joins fight against RDA changes
Iraqi voting centre targeted as polls open in general election
Ukraine crisis: Kiev powerless as east slips out of its control
North Korea publishes white paper criticising human rights in South
Western Australia considered plan to lure sharks with dead whales
Botched Oklahoma execution leaves inmate writhing on gurney
Show me the honey: thieves make off with a dozen hives worth almost $2,000
Botched execution leaves Oklahoma inmate 'tortured to death' - video
Temporary tax increase: Tony Abbott angers and bewilders colleagues
'Million-woman march' over Nigerian kidnappings
Jenny McAllister is frontrunner to take John Faulkners Senate seat
John Faulkner says he will not recontest Senate seat
Car industry exit: Tony Abbott top-up takes compensation fund to $155m
Death cap mushroom poisoning: fourth Canberra resident falls ill
Hotelier paid $7,000 for 'assistance' from Chris Hartcher, Icac told
Former priest, 81, gets jail time for abuse of schoolboys in the 1960s
Flight MH370 search countries reject Bay of Bengal wreckage claim
John Kerry rips into 'Putin's Russia' over Ukraine crisis
Paid parental leave: PM to drop income threshold to $100,000
Fuel tax credit 'firmly in sights' of Coalition's budget razor gang
Nick Greiner: I had mastectomy after breast cancer diagnosis

Optus to cut 350 jobs in next four weeks to 'remain sustainable and competitive'

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 01:21 AM PDT

The telco has already reduced staff numbers and this cut brings the number of redundancies since 2012 to 1,850

Catalonia police banned from using rubber bullets

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 01:20 AM PDT

Move follows campaign led by seven people who were hit by rubber bullets and each lost an eye in Barcelona Continue reading...

$11,000 for breakfast with Tony Abbott, access to senior ministers' chiefs of staff

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 01:16 AM PDT

Liberal fundraiser invitation goes out as Icac revelations ignite criticism of the party about influence peddling in NSW

Stolen eyes: victims of rubber bullets on ban in Catalonia - video

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 01:05 AM PDT

From Wednesday 30 April the Catalan police force, Mossos d'Esquadra, has been banned from using rubber bullets as an anti-riot weapon. The Guardian spoke to five victims of the weapon, each of whom lost an eye on the streets of Barcelona, about their fight for justice and why the battle doesn't end here Continue reading...

Uniting church says racism a sin as it joins fight against RDA changes

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 01:00 AM PDT

Lawyers and a range of ethnic and religious groups strongly oppose proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act

Iraqi voting centre targeted as polls open in general election

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 12:50 AM PDT

No one hurt in mortar attack on polling centre west of Baghdad as Iraq's 22 million voters elect 328-seat parliament
Continue reading...

Ukraine crisis: Kiev powerless as east slips out of its control

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 12:50 AM PDT

Pro-Russian crowd seizes control of state buildings in Horlivka, while Donetsk looks likely to declare autonomy after May vote Continue reading...

North Korea publishes white paper criticising human rights in South

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 12:41 AM PDT

After UN report criticising Pyongyang, North accuses Seoul of infringing democratic rights and freedoms. DailyNK reports

Western Australia considered plan to lure sharks with dead whales

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 12:36 AM PDT

Fisheries Department proposed using dead whale to attract great white sharks, allowing roving hit squad to move in and kill shark

Botched Oklahoma execution leaves inmate writhing on gurney

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 12:30 AM PDT

State calls off second execution after failure of first
Untested cocktail of drugs fails to kill Clayton Lockett
Execution halted after 16 minutes, inmate dies later Continue reading...

Show me the honey: thieves make off with a dozen hives worth almost $2,000

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 12:22 AM PDT

Theft devastates Ipswich and West Moreton Beekeepers' Association which uses its honey for charitable pursuits

Botched execution leaves Oklahoma inmate 'tortured to death' - video

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 12:11 AM PDT

The state of Oklahoma halted Clayton Lockett's execution because the lethal injection failed to work. Media witnesses describe how Lockett grimaced in pain for 16 minutes before the execution was halted. He later died of a massive heart attack. Another inmate due to be executed by the same untested cocktail two hours later has been granted a 14-day stay of execution Continue reading...