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Iraq crisis: Obama deploys up to 275 troops - live updates

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 01:47 AM PDT

  • US troops to protect embassy but 'equipped for combat'
  • Britain plans to reopen embassy in Tehran
  • US and Iran discuss the advance of Isis
  • UN condemns summary executions of hundreds of Iraq
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Coalition grilled on budget measures politics live

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 01:42 AM PDT

Parliament continues to debate budget measures as the latest Newspoll confirms the Coalition's continuing poll doldrums. All the events, live, from Canberra

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Russia plans football super-league for post-Soviet region

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 01:37 AM PDT

As national team prepares for first World Cup game in Brazil on Tuesday, authorities push on with plans for regional contest despite absence of Ukraine. Eurasianet reports

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Andrew Wilkie fails to force parliamentary debate on Iraq

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 01:36 AM PDT

Independent MPs motion, supported by the Greens, also called for commitment against troop deployment for current crisis

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DPP under scrutiny over dropping abuse charges against swimming coach

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 01:31 AM PDT

Swimming Australia also in spotlight over how it dealt with claims that Scott Volkers abused three girls he coached in the 1980s

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Julie Bishop avoids referring to East Jerusalem as 'disputed' or 'occupied'

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 01:27 AM PDT

Australia's foreign affairs minister attempts to defuse language row with Arab nations which threatens trading ties

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Deadly twin tornadoes tear through town of Pilger in Nebraska - video

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 12:52 AM PDT

Deadly twin tornadoes tear through a town in the US state of Nebraska, killing a 5-year-old child and injuring at least 16 people on Monday. Dramatic footage shows the dual twisters which touched down within a mile of each other, directly hitting the town of Pilger Continue reading...






Former Marist brother confesses he did not link child sex abuse with crime

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 12:49 AM PDT

Brother Anthony Hunt tells royal commission that in the 1980s he had not heard the word paedophile

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Barack Obama sends troops back to Iraq as Isis insurgency worsens

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 12:42 AM PDT

  • Obama authorises 275 personnel 'equipped for combat'
  • White House considers special forces to advise Iraqis
  • US and Iran rule out military cooperation

The terrifying rise of Isis: experts give their verdicts

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Islamists launch second night of deadly attacks on Kenyan coast

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 12:40 AM PDT

Red Cross says gunmen attacked Poromoko near Somali border a day after 50 people were killed in Mpeketoni Continue reading...

From Brisbane radio shock jock to Norfolk Island administrator

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 12:29 AM PDT

Former Liberal minister Gary Hardgrave, who hosted the 4BC Drive show for two years, will take up the posting in July

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NSW budget: Labor says education, health big losers in 'document of spin'

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 12:12 AM PDT

John Robertson says premier 'rolled out Tony Abbott's cuts' leaving health spending $500m short

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Scott Morrison defends cancelling bikie gang leader's Australian visa

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 11:55 PM PDT

Minister confirms Rebels club president Alex Vella, who is visiting his native Malta, will not be allowed back into the country

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NSW budget to return to surplus one year earlier than expected

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 10:52 PM PDT

Under budget changes, threshold for $15,000 first home owners grant (new homes) to be lifted to $750,000

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Warnie's spin not so popular but he still beats George Pell in trust survey

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 10:28 PM PDT

Reader's Digest annual survey of 1,206 people once again puts brain surgeon Charlie Teo at top of list

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Paid parental leave prolongs 'age of entitlement', says Ian Macdonald

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 10:25 PM PDT

Coalition senator tells finance minister Mathias Cormann his arguments backing the policy did not 'make sense'

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Gerard Baden-Clay's mistress tells court he had at least two other affairs

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 09:45 PM PDT

Toni McHugh says accused murderer admitted affairs, one while they were still in a relationship

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Christmas Island boat disaster: victims' families sue Australian government

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 09:40 PM PDT

Policy at the time of the 2010 sinking in which 50 people died was putting lives at risk, says lawyer

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Unicef Australia wants independent body to protect children in detention

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 09:32 PM PDT

Call marking refugee week follows Guardian revelations about the conditions experienced by children held on Nauru

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Russia tables new UN resolution for ceasefire and talks in Ukraine

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 09:17 PM PDT

Ambassador warns of humanitarian crisis in country's east, but faces struggle to win support from sceptical opponents

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Labor caucus rejects calls to abandon support for offshore processing

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 08:28 PM PDT

MPs and senators instead endorse processing asylum seekers in 'a timely manner' to ease 'uncertainty and fear'

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Fuel tax: Joe Hockey agrees to have its impact on rural Australia modelled

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 08:28 PM PDT

Coalition MPs voice concerns about fuel excise indexation announced in the May budget and due to resume in August

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MH370: searchers not looking in the best place, satellite experts say

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 08:10 PM PDT

Scientists from British company Inmarsat tell BBC that Australian vessel was distracted by bogus signals

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Indigenous groups win battle to allow development in Cape York

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 07:45 PM PDT

Federal court undoes 2005 legislation paving way for eco-tourism projects around three rivers

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Labor MPs move to scrap support for processing asylum seekers offshore

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 06:14 PM PDT

Caucus will debate motion on Tuesday which also calls for Manus and Nauru detention centres to be closed

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