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Iraq crisis: Isis attacks Baiji oil refinery live updates

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 12:49 AM PDT

  • Iraq's main oil refinery attacked with mortars
  • Commanders involved in Isis defeat sacked for desertion
  • US shows signs of hesitancy about military intervention
  • Isis insurgents held off close to Baghdad
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Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten trade insults on budget politics live

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 12:44 AM PDT

Foreign minister Julie Bishop to announce an overhaul of Australia's $5bn aid program as political contention over the budget continues. All the developments from Canberra, live

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Cheaper text messages likely as consumer watchdog targets telcos

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 12:44 AM PDT

ACCC to start regulating the fees companies charge each other for sending SMS messages across networks

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Nigerian World Cup fans targeted by deadly bomb

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 12:40 AM PDT

At least 21 people killed and many injured in latest attack on football viewing venues blamed on Boko Haram militants Continue reading...

Peter ONeill arrest warrant hearings adjourned for a week

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 12:35 AM PDT

Stay application on warrant for arrest of PNG prime minister on hold amid fears government will scrap anti-corruption watchdog

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Thai junta drive to 'return happiness' - in pictures

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 12:28 AM PDT

With free meals, music concerts and dancing soldiers, Thailand's junta is waging a propaganda offensive to encourage 'national happiness' following a military coup that has severely restricted civil liberties. Since seizing power on May 22 from an elected government, the army has banned public protests, censored the media and summoned hundreds of politicians, activists and academics for questioning

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James Ashby pulls pin on legal action, but he had already sunk the Slipper

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 12:27 AM PDT

Cancelling the lawsuit came clothed in the rhetoric of deep reflection and emotional strain, but the key issue was money

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Barry OFarrell calls for sacking of senior Catholic priest

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 11:57 PM PDT

Former NSW premier wants Brian Lucas removed as secretary of Catholic Bishops Conference over his response to abuse report

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Julie Bishop backs US as key ally and superpower despite China's rise

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 11:15 PM PDT

Foreign minister tells Canberra conference 'the United States will remain the single most powerful state in the world'

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Coles faces $3m in fines after losing court battle over bread freshness

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 11:01 PM PDT

Bread advertised fresh, baked today and sold today included one product from Ireland first baked months earlier

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From the archive, 18 June 1941: Canadian soldier on leave searches for English roots

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 11:00 PM PDT

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Julie Bishop overhauls foreign aid program with 'aid-for-trade' plan

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 10:52 PM PDT

Foreign affairs minister will impose stricter rules to ensure recipient countries and projects deliver value for money

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Sweeping social security changes introduced to parliament

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 10:15 PM PDT

Welfare measures announced in budget will affect both old and young, as well as people on disability support and single parents

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China armoury blast kills 17 soldiers

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 09:58 PM PDT

Troops were stacking ammunition when it blew up at base in Hengyang city, Hunan province, state media reports

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Baden-Clay trial: scratches looked like fingernail marks, doctor says

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 09:58 PM PDT

The court heard earlier that Baden-Clay had told a police officer his facial injuries were caused by an old razor blade

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PNG offshore detention challenge fails in the Australian high court

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 09:51 PM PDT

Manus Island asylum seeker brought case saying the arrangement in PNG was unconstitutional

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Georgia carries out first US execution since botched Oklahoma lethal injection

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 09:42 PM PDT

Marcus Wellons, 59, put to death with pentobarbital after last-minute appeals were denied

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Kathy Jackson says stress of tackling corrupt boss put her in mental hospital

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 08:58 PM PDT

Union official breaks down as she gives evidence to the royal commission into union corruption

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Bus assault: two young women to be sentenced in September

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 08:34 PM PDT

Lawyers say the pair will plead guilty of assaulting an elderly, vision-impaired man on a Gold Coast bus in February

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Double dissolution trigger provided by Senate rejection of bill to abolish CEFC

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 08:27 PM PDT

Clean Energy Finance Corporation could also survive new Senate, which begins on 1 July

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Blue Mountains bushfire: mayor welcomes action on Defence failures

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 08:01 PM PDT

Report outlines how Defence personnel were nearly killed as they fought fire on military range with unexploded ordnance

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Gerard Baden-Clays call to the police - audio

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 07:37 PM PDT

Audio recordings of Gerard Baden-Clay's triple-zero call to report that his wife was missing and a subsequent interview with police were played on the fifth day of Baden-Clay's murder trial in Brisbane. He told police he and his wife were in serious financial trouble the day Allison Baden-Clay vanished, the court heard Continue reading...

Boat sinks off Malaysia with dozens feared drowned

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 07:27 PM PDT

Vessel coming from Indonesia had 97 on board when it sank in Strait of Malacca, say Malaysian authorities

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James Ashby says he will drop case against former Speaker Peter Slipper

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 07:23 PM PDT

This has been an intense and emotionally draining time for me and my family, says the former Slipper staffer

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Labor plans 'country caucus' to tap regional voters alienated by budget

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 07:19 PM PDT

Federal move would ensure rural impact of every major policy is taken into account, believes Joel Fitzgibbon

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