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National

Monkey Mia dolphin pod disappears

Scores of tourists at Monkey Mia were disappointed when its world-famous dolphins failed to appear this week.
December 31, 2011, 7:55 am
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Python tried to kill my son: mother

A mother tried in vain to prise a four-metre python from her toddler's body in a terrifying Boxing Day attack in far north Queensland.
January 1, 2012, 9:41 am
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Forestry row threatens political honeymoon

Bob Brown is having a lovers' tiff with Julia Gillard but insists it will not end in divorce.
January 1, 2012, 3:15 am
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Labor's numbers men say PM safe

Labor powerbrokers are insisting there will be no challenge to Julia Gillard's leadership and have dismissed claims she has lost the support of the powerful NSW Right faction of the party.
January 1, 2012, 3:01 am
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Flashback to 1982 and 1983

The man with the beret, Dave Bickler, walks the mean streets to the big drum beat. Welcome to music in 1982 as Bickler’s band, Survivor, delivered the year’s biggest hit, Eye of the Tiger, which still features in boxing gyms and at the starting gates of sporting events everywhere. Buoyed by the movie in which it featured, Rocky III, Eye of the Tiger spent six weeks at number one.
January 1, 2012, 2:00 am
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Perth woman found alive after attack in wilderness

The relieved family of a Perth woman found dehydrated and beaten after a three-night ordeal in Argentina's mountain wilderness were last night rushing to her hospital bedside.
December 31, 2011, 2:50 am

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Friends prayed for Emma's rescue

A Perth church leader yesterday described how he and hundreds of supporters across the world prayed for the safe return of Emma Kelly after she was reported missing in remote mountains in Argentina.
December 31, 2011, 2:48 am

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'Mellow little village' known as hippie mecca

The small village where Perth woman Emma Kelly was staying before she was abducted and abandoned in the Argentinean wilderness for three nights has been described as a mecca for hippies that sits between picturesque mountain ranges.
December 31, 2011, 2:47 am

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Families get more tax breaks

Families with teenagers will get more cash from the Federal Government and prospective homeowners will receive a fact sheet on the cost of mortgages under changes which start tomorrow.
December 31, 2011, 2:40 am

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Anti-whaling crew abandoned

A stricken Sea Shepherd vessel floundering in the Southern Ocean was abandoned by an anti-whaling ship from the same fleet because of fears a sustained rescue would have revealed the location of the second ship to Japanese whalers.
December 30, 2011, 4:00 am
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Super funds end year in the red

Australians hoping to retire next year have seen their nest eggs finish 2011 in the red.
December 30, 2011, 2:10 am

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More refugees set for Indonesia

Australia could face a new wave of asylum seekers, with Indonesia reportedly planning to make it easier for people to enter the nation from unstable countries such as Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.
December 29, 2011, 2:10 am
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Golinski 'will want to be with his girls'

Matt Golinski "won't want to be here" when he learns of his family's deaths, his children's carer says.
December 28, 2011, 7:02 am

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Residents grieve over celeb chef fire

Sunshine Coast residents stunned by the house-fire tragedy of celebrity chef Matt Golinski will gather on Tuesday afternoon to pray for him and remember his family.
December 27, 2011, 9:55 am

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Two killed in Aussie mine protest

Video footage has emerged of Indonesian police firing on protesters - killing two people - over a planned gold mine co-owned by an Australian company.
December 27, 2011, 5:37 am

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Proposal for Nixon at Maccas

Banned AFL player manager Ricky Nixon has caused another media stir after tweeting he had proposed to his much younger socialite girlfriend Tegan Gould in a McDonald's.
December 27, 2011, 5:27 am

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Chef lay in driveway screaming while fire raged

TV chef Matt Golinski lay screaming in his Sunshine Coast driveway for more than half an hour before an ambulance arrived.
December 27, 2011, 5:14 am

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Japanese security boats shadow anti-whaling ship

Two Japanese security vessels with uniformed guards were tailing anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's flagship, Steve Irwin, last night as it headed towards the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary.
December 27, 2011, 3:50 am

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Drones track Japanese whalers

Activist group Sea Shepherd has started using aerial drones in its fight against Japanese whalers.
December 26, 2011, 3:57 am
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Aussies granted rare Kerobokan jail treat

Martin Stephens is dressed completely in black. His pants are several centimetres too short. The shoes - borrowed - are a size too small.
December 26, 2011, 2:55 am

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