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Chinese flee Vietnam as Hanoi counts cost of riots

Posted: 19 May 2014 02:23 AM PDT

China sends rescue flotilla as torching of foreign-owned businesses strains relations between communist neighbours

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Chris Hartcher Icac hearing descends into chaos amid 'squabbling' barristers

Posted: 19 May 2014 02:19 AM PDT

Corruption commissioner threatens to adjourn hearing amid angry denials from former energy minister about donations

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Public dental waiting lists could surge due to $390m budget deferral

Posted: 19 May 2014 02:11 AM PDT

President of the Australian Dentists Association says unless a new agreement can be struck soon, patients will begin to suffer

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Turkey mine disaster: 24 people held on suspicion of negligence

Posted: 19 May 2014 01:59 AM PDT

Mine operator executives reportedly among those detained after the country's worst industrial disaster Continue reading...






Manus Island: Australian medical staff to be replaced with local workers

Posted: 19 May 2014 01:35 AM PDT

Standards in detention centre questioned as asylum seekers say heart conditions and severe deformities not being treated

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Clive Palmer says he will oppose deregulation of university fees

Posted: 19 May 2014 01:23 AM PDT

Palmer United party leader will 'definitely' be voting against higher education changes and says university should be free

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Tripoli tense after attack on Libyan parliament

Posted: 19 May 2014 01:10 AM PDT

Authorities keen to convey 'business as usual' message after forces loyal to renegade general stormed parliament Continue reading...






Voters back anti-bailout parties in Greece's local elections

Posted: 19 May 2014 12:53 AM PDT

Anti-bailout candidates backed strongly in local and regional elections in major setback for Greece's governing coalition Continue reading...






Leading scientists cautious about $20bn medical research future fund

Posted: 19 May 2014 12:45 AM PDT

Acclaimed medical researchers, cited by the government as potential beneficiaries, say research fund needs to be rethought

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India's Congress party licks its wounds after electoral humiliation

Posted: 19 May 2014 12:12 AM PDT

Questions over future of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi as Congress party slumps to worst-ever defeat in last week's Indian election Continue reading...






MH370: Chinese navy ship to map seabed

Posted: 19 May 2014 12:02 AM PDT

Chinese ship Zhu Kezhen will survey Indian Ocean floor in search for wreckage from missing Malaysian plane Continue reading...






Foil insulation was 'recipe for disaster', electricians group says

Posted: 18 May 2014 11:22 PM PDT

The chief executive of Master Electricians Australia tells royal commission the material should never have been allowed

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Melbourne's population forecast to hit 7.7 million by 2051

Posted: 18 May 2014 11:20 PM PDT

Denis Napthine unveils blueprint for growth, saying 1.7m jobs and 1.6m new homes will be needed

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Church leaders arrested for asylum prayer vigil at Tony Abbott's office

Posted: 18 May 2014 11:16 PM PDT

Sit-down protests held at offices of the prime minister and the opposition leader over detention of child asylum seekers

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Perth teacher convicted of sex offences the subject of decade of complaints

Posted: 18 May 2014 11:10 PM PDT

Inquiry hears despite numerous complaints from teachers and a parent, headmaster had concluded there was no basis to dismiss

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Chris Hartcher goes head to head with Icac counsel over illegal donation claims

Posted: 18 May 2014 10:40 PM PDT

Angry exchanges with former energy minister forces corruption commissioner to intervene at hearing

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31 children die in Colombia bus fire

Posted: 18 May 2014 10:32 PM PDT

Youngsters and one adult killed after fuel exploded on a broken-down bus returning from a church event

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Sophie Mirabella penned in by student protesters video

Posted: 18 May 2014 09:54 PM PDT

Former Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella has been forced to leave the University of Melbourne campus under police escort after she was accosted by protesters demonstrating against cuts to higher education announced in the budget. Mirabella struggled to retreat from a mob of about 20 students who had descended on a lecture theatre where she was to speak on politics and media Continue reading...






Budget gets no brownie points for bravery from voters taken for mugs

Posted: 18 May 2014 09:22 PM PDT

Abbott could have pulled off austerity if there was a coherent conviction about it but the electorate isnt buying the dissembling

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Sophie Mirabella penned in by protesters at University of Melbourne

Posted: 18 May 2014 09:06 PM PDT

Video footage shows former MP struggling to escape mob of about 20 students in lecture theatre where she was to speak

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March in May: budgets blown on array of protest placards in pictures

Posted: 18 May 2014 09:02 PM PDT

Julian Chung spent the day at the Sydney March in May protest, taking portraits of the diverse crowd and their messages

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Working-age poor will suffer most pain from Australian budget

Posted: 18 May 2014 08:28 PM PDT

The greatest percentage cut to disposable income looms for single, unemployed youth, followed by single parents

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WA premier criticised for skipping budget crisis meeting to 'watch football'

Posted: 18 May 2014 08:27 PM PDT

Labor takes aim at Colin Barnett for reportedly attending football game when state and territory leaders were discussing federal cuts to health and education budgets

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David Walsh caught up in Istanbul riot sparked by mine disaster protest

Posted: 18 May 2014 07:48 PM PDT

Mona art gallery owner and his wife escape water cannons and tear gas used by Turkish police on a protesting crowd

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Tony Abbott now admits $1.8bn in hospital cuts will begin from July

Posted: 18 May 2014 06:45 PM PDT

Prime minister backs down on claim that cuts to public hospital funding agreements would not take effect for three years

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