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$30m for casuals as DHS cuts 2400 jobs
The federal government's biggest department is spending $30 million hiring casual and short-term labour while shedding more than 2400 of its permanent staff. The Department of Human Services is facing...
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Two more asylum seekers die trying to reach Australia
Two more would-be asylum seekers have died on the ocean trying to get to Australia while their 46 shipmates survived a boat journey that contained equal parts tragedy and luck.
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Fears Afghans abusing prisoners
Australia has again suspended the transfer of suspected insurgents to some Afghan prison facilities in Tarin Kowt following allegations of abuse. The move raises fresh questions about Canberra's ability...
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Abbott expected to address tax cuts in budget reply
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is expected to use tonight's budget reply to explain how he would pay for tax cuts in a first-term Coalition government.
The would-be prime minister has warned he will not spell out his full list of spending and cuts,but will instead...
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Portrait of the artist as a very young man
Archibald Prize winners are usually full of praise for their subjects,but Max Fontaine would hardly be telling the truth if he had only kind things to say about his three-year-old sister,Lila.
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Afghan detainees 'humiliated in jail'
Afghan detainees captured by Australian soldiers and held at a US military prison near Bagram complained to Australian government officials that they were forced to accept humiliatingly public ''groin...
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NSW link to Rolf Harris investigation
TWO Scotland Yard detectives have interviewed a woman from NSW as part of their investigation into entertainer Rolf Harris.
TWO detectives from Scotland Yard have interviewed a woman from Wisemans Ferry,in NSW's Hawkesbury Region,as part of their investigation...
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Ashby fights to re-launch Slipper case
JAMES Ashby's lawyers say his sexual harassment action against former Speaker Peter Slipper was denied procedural fairness--and are fighting to have the case allowed its day in court. The pair have...
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Levy could be approved within weeks
THE federal government's tax hike to help pay for a new national disability care scheme could pass parliament in two weeks.
"We want this scheme to come into being as soon as possible because we want millions of vulnerable Australians to have the security and assurance...
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Boy bashes teacher with baseball bat
TEACHER bashed in the back of the head with a baseball bat by a student at a bush school is latest in series of escalating attacks.
A SCHOOL has been closed after a teacher was hit on the back of the neck by a primary school student with a baseball bat. The attack,which...
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Missing fisherman sparks croc fears
SIGHTINGS of an aggressive crocodile and the disappearance of a fisherman have sparked fears of an attack in Queensland's far north-west.
"There are no signs of a body or an attack,"said Mr Pressley. "We are not aware if anyone has even been reported missing yet...
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Clive Palmer in TV ad blitz
BILLIONAIRE aspiring prime minister Clive Palmer will launch a television advertising blitz next week,insisting he wants to keep his campaign positive and steer clear from negative personal attack ads...
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Asylum seeker boat arrival biggest
AUSTRALIAN authorities have intercepted a vessel carrying 184 asylum seekers and two crew -the largest boatload to arrive this year.
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Ball bounces back for Pies
Luke Ball is back from a major knee injury and will play his first game since round three last year when the Pies take on Geelong.
Second-placed Essendon's club spokesman was unavailable for comment on Thursday night following a report on FoxSports TV that Courtenay...
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A test of honesty for foreign workers
A ''GENUINENESS''test for foreign workers on 457 visas is being considered by the government as it contemplates expanding a crackdown.
Casino critics cliched: Packer
JAMES Packer has lashed out at critics of his new Sydney harbour casino proposal who have described its design as "derivative"
MP sorry for 'like' of exposed teen pic
WA Education Minister Peter Collier has been forced to issue an apology over a Facebook photograph on which he clicked "like"
Kids see parents die on reef
THE cross-country family adventure that Kathreen Ricketson was documenting for publisher Random House has ended in baffling tragedy on Western Australia's pristine Ningaloo Reef. State Coroner Alastair...
ASIC arrests former high-flyer
IN his heyday Andrew Sigalla could draw a handful of bookmakers to his corporate battle with Celebrity Apprentice star Mark Bouris.
Vogue keen to make issue of 'real' women
THIS month marks the first anniversary of international Vogue editors signing an initiative to promote positive body image.
McCann said she had just recast two models in an international shoot because the digital photographs sent through showed they were too thin...