Sydney Water denies contamination cover up

The NSW Greens have called for urgent environmental law reforms after a Sydney water scare. Source: AAP SYDNEY Water has denied covering up the cause of contaminated drinking water in Sydney's south, saying it has provided test results to the...

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Bushfire threatening Victorian town

FIRE crews are battling a blaze heading toward a small community in Victoria's southwest as hot, dry conditions make things tough for firefighters across the state. An emergency warning remains current for residents in the town of Mirranatwa,...

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Telecom NZ cancels email users' passwords

TELECOM has started cancelling the passwords of about 60,000 Yahoo! Xtra email accounts it believes have been compromised following a cyber attack. The users will need to enter new password information when they log in to their email account....

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Anti-North Korea leaflets launched

NORTH Korean defectors in the South have launched 200,000 anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the tense inter-Korean border. The defectors used gas-filled balloons to float the leaflets along with $US1 notes across the western border town of Imjingak...

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Lower rates boosting housing/equities, RBA

LOWER interest rates are helping to boost the Australian housing market and have a positive effect on the equity market, the central bank says. Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Assistant Governor Christopher Kent says the most recent readings show...

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Many injured in New Zealand head-on crash

MORE than 10 people have been injured in a head-on crash between two vans in New Zealand. There were 21 people in the vans, which crashed near Taumarunui in the central North Island on Friday. One van was a rental with tourists on board and...

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More doctor's evidence in Patel trial

JAYANT Patel's operation to remove part of a man's colon was unnecessary and highly risky, a doctor has told a court. Mervyn John Morris, 75, died of complications including heart and lung failure and septicaemia after surgery at the Bundaberg...

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Three Victorian fires join near Buangor

THREE fires burning in plantation forest and grassland are joining into one and racing towards a small town in central Victoria. The CFA has issued an emergency warning for the Buangor area, located between Ararat and Ballarat, west of Melbourne....

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Man charged over Tasmanian fires

A MAN has been charged with deliberately lighting vegetation fires in Tasmania just weeks after the state's worst blazes in half a century. The 34-year-old from Ulverstone in the state's northwest has been charged with lighting several fires...

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Finks bikie bashed in SA clubrooms

A FINKS bikie has been bashed in the gang's Adelaide clubrooms. Police said ambulance crews and crime gangs task force officers went to the Salisbury premises on Wednesday afternoon after reports a man had been assaulted. The victim was taken...

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Body on WA beach not a suspicious death

A BODY has been found on a beach in Western Australia's Great Southern region. The body was found just after 1pm (WST) on Tuesday at Two Peoples Bay, east of Albany. Police are at the scene, but say it is too early to tell if the death is suspicious....

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90-year-old woman sexually assaulted

POLICE are hunting a man who sexually assaulted a 90-year-old woman in her bed at Wangaratta, in Victoria's northeast. The elderly woman woke about 4am (AEDT) last Tuesday to find a man standing beside her bed who then attacked her.Detectives from...

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NT govt backs plan to save Gove refinery

THE Northern Territory Cabinet has voted to back a gas plan it hopes will be enough to keep an alumina refinery open and save the outback town of Nhulunbuy. After returning to Darwin on Saturday following a trip to Canberra and Europe, NT Chief...

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Fresh blast in Mali city after battles

Malian soldiers and Islamic extremists have engaged in combat in a surprise attack in Gao. Source: AAP AN explosion shook the largest city in northern Mali, hours after Islamist gunmen battled French and Malian troops following two straight...

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