Penny Sharpe wins ALP preselection

NSW MP Penny Sharpe has won the Labor party's first community preselection process, under which local residents and branch members can both vote for their preferred candidate. The trial of what Labor insiders call "US-style primaries" was run...

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Syringe threat in Vic carjacking

A woman has been threatened with a syringe during a carjacking in the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong. Source: AAP A WOMAN has been threatened with a syringe during a carjacking in Melbourne, police say. The woman was parked in a shopping...

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Bloom wants to be in son's life

A-LIST Hollywood star Orlando Bloom may have split from Miranda Kerr but he's taking his job as a dad seriously - and he's looking to settle down in his home country. The 37-year-old British star recently parted ways with his Australian supermodel...

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Gay couples marry in England

British Prime Minister David Cameron has hailed the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales. Source: AAP GAY couples across England and Wales have said "I do" as a law authorising same-sex marriage came into effect, the final stage in...

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Pell promises compo for Vic abuse victims

CARDINAL George Pell has promised to review compensation payments for Melbourne church abuse victims and has conceded it may cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Cardinal Pell met with Anthony and Chrissie Foster, whose two daughters were abused...

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Vic underworld man The Texan Longley dies

Billy "The Texan" Longley, who survived the Painters and Dockers wars, has died in Melbourne. Source: AAP ONE of the Melbourne underworld's great survivors, former Painters and Dockers union hardman Billy "The Texan" Longley, has died. ...

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Customs nabs smuggled tobacco in Vic

Customs have seized tonnes of smuggled cigarettes from a shipping container in Melbourne. Source: AAP CUSTOMS officers have smoked out more than 300,000 smuggled cigarettes and almost two tonnes of illicit molasses tobacco in Melbourne. ...

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PNG set to deport Aussie lawyer

AN Australian barrister representing 75 asylum seekers has been forced to leave Manus Island ahead of his expected deportation by Papua New Guinean authorities. Contrary to a court order granted by Justice David Cannings allowing Sydney lawyer...

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Tough budget decisions coming: Abbott

PM Tony Abbott has warned that "tough decisions" are coming to restore the federal budget. Source: AAP PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has warned that "tough decisions" are coming to restore the federal budget. In the last parliamentary sitting...

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Canning of safaris a croc: NT govt

THE federal government's decision not to allow crocodile hunting safaris in the Northern Territory has been derided as "a croc" by the NT government. Two NT ministers have accused federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt of being shortsighted and...

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Art Gallery of NSW to give back sculpture

AUSTRALIA is returning a stolen statue worth more than $300,000 to India. The 1000-year-old Ardhanariswara idol, depicting Hindu god Shiva and his consort Parvati, was on display at Sydney's Art Gallery of NSW after being purchased during the...

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Labor no confidence bid on Speaker fails

Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus has been banned from parliament for 24 hours. Source: AAP SPEAKER Bronwyn Bishop has fended off a no-confidence motion after attracting Labor's ire for banning a frontbencher for 24 hours. Shadow attorney-general...

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Sinodinos warned over 'company he kept'

Liberal Arthur Sinodinos was warned the men running Australian Water Holdings might be "dishonest". Source: AAP FORMER NSW Premier Nathan Rees thought they were a "bunch of crooks" and Liberal powerbroker Arthur Sinodinos was warned the men...

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Eight killed, 18 missing in US landslide

Rescuers in the US state of Washington are searching for 18 people after a mudslide buried houses. Source: AAP AT least eight people are dead and 18 are missing after a massive landslide slammed "like a freight train" into a mountainside community...

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Dump financial advice changes: Labor

LABOR has demanded Prime Minister Tony Abbott take a controversial rollback of financial advice laws out of the deep freeze and put it on the scrap heap. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann says the government has put the changes on ice temporarily...

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Adelaide archbishop says response too slow

Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson says the Catholic Church has learnt lessons about handling cases. Source: AAP THE Archbishop of Adelaide has agreed the Catholic church's response to sexual abuse claims at a special school should have begun...

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NSW urged to get flu-ready

Pregnant women and the elderly are being urged to prepare for winter and get a flu shot. Source: AAP PREGNANT women and the elderly are being urged to prepare for winter and get a flu shot following an "unusually high" level of influenza...

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Mining tax debate focus in parliament

THE federal government will try to pressure Labor over the repeal of the mining tax this week as the re-run of the West Australian Senate election looms. The repeal bills have been listed as the first item of business in the upper house when parliament...

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One-punch killers to face life in Qld

One-punch killers will face life imprisonment under proposed changes to Queensland laws. Source: AAP ONE-PUNCH killers would face life imprisonment under proposed changes to Queensland laws. The Newman government's draft plan to tackle...

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Philippines' rebel leader, wife arrested

Police in the Philippines have arrested communist rebel leader Benito Tiamzon and his wife Wilma. Source: AAP THE Philippines' top communist rebel leader and his wife have been arrested in a joint operation by the military and police. Benito...

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