ASIO hunts for new recruits on Facebook
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Australia's premier spy organisation is infiltrating social media and revamping its own website in a bid to attract more young people to join its ranks.
Demetriou lashes out at Bingle's legal team
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AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou says Lara Bingle's legal team is refusing to cooperate with an investigation into Brendan Fevola.
BA worker fronts court over bomb plot
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A British Airways computer expert has appeared in a British court accused of planning suicide bombings and his own martyrdom.
Hurley offers 'sympathy' to Doomadgee family
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The policeman acquitted of a 2004 death-in-custody on Palm Island in north Queensland has, for the first time, offered his sympathy to the victim's family.
Income management harms health: Doctors
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The Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association has called for a halt to compulsory welfare quarantining for Indigenous people in the NT.
Ex-cop's case against Nine goes belly up
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Former Sydney police officer loses legal battle to preview the latest series of Underbelly.
Japan arrests anti-whaling activist
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Japanese police have arrested New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune on his arrival in Tokyo.
Council brothel inspector jailed over bribes
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A western Sydney council brothel inspector has been jailed for at least 15 months for corruption.
Floods have stretched Qld 's resources: Bligh
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Premier Anna Bligh says record flooding in parts of regional Queensland has stretched the state's resources.
Driving hoon pretended to be cop, court told
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A court is told a driver who crashed into parked cars told a witness he was a police officer, then fled.
Top US senator's wife, daughter hurt in car crash
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The wife of Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid has suffered a broken back and broken neck, and his daughter a neck injury and facial cuts in a car accident in Washington.
No Idol, but musical Mitchell's a winner
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Former Australian Idol contestant Lisa Mitchell has won the Australian Music Prize for 2009.
East Timor bones affair 'embarrassing' for Australia
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East Timor says it is embarrassing for Australia that NT police took five years to test remains believed to be those of the country's first prime minister.
Students severely burnt in science lab explosion
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Two teenagers have been taken to hospital with third-degree burns after an explosion in a Sydney school science lab.
Dragun inquest hears drug side effects under reported
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An inquest into the death of a newsreader on anti-depressants has heard there is an 'under-reporting' of the side effects of prescription drugs in Australia.
Murder accused wife weeps in court
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An Adelaide woman weeps in court, denying she murdered her husband by setting his genitals alight.
Scientology insider's nightmare childhood
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A former Scientologist who says she was a "child slave" and alleges she saw a six-year-old boy chained up in a ship's hold is disappointed the Senate has blocked a full inquiry into the religious organisation.
Antarctica once had tropical climate, scientists say
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An international team of scientists who have arrived back in Hobart from Antarctica say they have evidence the icy continent once had a tropical climate.
Appeal for man missing from mental health unit
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Police are hoping the public can help them find a man who has absconded from a mental health facility at Randwick in Sydney's east.
Business bears brunt of interest margin increase
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A Reserve Bank report estimates the major banks have enjoyed a 20 to 25 basis point increase in interest margins during the financial crisis.
Day-to-day random searches 'not planned'
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The Police Minister, Rob Johnson, has dismissed criticism by a senior federal Liberal MP of the state's proposed stop and search powers.
Rudd woos Keneally on hospitals, tax
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NSW Premier Kristina Keneally says her meeting with Kevin Rudd over his planned hospitals takeover has allayed her concerns.
Pet death prompts axe-wielding outburst
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Worse than a bull in a china shop, a man whose bird died goes back to a pet shop with an axe.
Case against Cats star adjourned
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Mathew Stokes will be back in court next month after his lawyers were unsuccessful having the cae dealt with today.
Woman runs over husband twice
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A New Zealand man is recovering from injuries after being run over by his wife - twice.
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