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"Possessing opinions is like possessing fish, assuming one has a fish pond. One has to go fishing and needs some luck - then one has one's own fish, one's own opinions. I am speaking of live opinions, of live fish. Others are satisfied if they own a cabinet of fossils - and in their heads, "convictions".
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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29 Nov 2008 2:30 AM

An academic who expects zero interest rates within two years and a 40 per cent drop in house prices has promised to walk from Canberra to the top of Australia's highest mountain if he's wrong.

University of Western Sydney associate professor of economics and finance STEVE KEEN made the bet with Macquarie Group interest rate strategist RORY ROBERTSON.

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14 Dec 2008 4:28 PM

Police have arrested a man for driving at 237 kilometres-an-hour on Sydney's Hume Highway.

And .. they say they are extremely disappointed with instances of irresponsible driving by young and inexperienced motorists overnight.

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06 Dec 2008 8:18 AM

SYDNEY, Dec 6 AAP - A P-plate driver has returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.265 after allegedly flagging down a police car in northern NSW.

Police said a 26-year-old woman had her licence confiscated after she returned a high-range PCA reading near Tamworth about 8pm (AEDT) on Friday.

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House Harris Heralding the arrival of a new publication from The Weird House, the first edition of House Harris, a news publication that should provide a window into current affairs in Australia with articles from the Australian Associated Press who should be credited and duly paid their royalties.
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This is the thing, I actually don't have any dosh and I'm trying to figure out a way to make House Harris work. At the moment the only thing I can do to make revenue is the Google Adsense Ads seen on the newsarticle pages. If you could see your way clear to visit the advertisers from time to time it would help support House Harris.

Feature Story Experts urge police to improve relations with public

MELBOURNE, Dec 19 AAP - After a week of anger and accusations, a sad funeral song perhaps summed up the death of 15-year-old Tyler Cassidy best.

The pop song "Forever Young" celebrates the innocence of youth and brought tears to a packed St John the Baptist Catholic church in Melbourne on Thursday.
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Feature Story Govt backflips on means test for solar rebate

CANBERRA, Dec 17 AAP - All households will be able to get half-price solar panels after the federal government abandoned its unpopular decision to means-test its solar rebate.

The government will scrap the means test, meaning all Australian homes will qualify for a rebate worth up to $7,500.
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Feature Story Police arrest Chopper Read

MELBOURNE, Dec 15 AAP - Notorious criminal turned author Mark "Chopper" Read was arrested and then released on Monday after being allegedly attacked by a man with a tomahawk in a Melbourne street.

The 54-year-old confessed murderer became involved in a fight in inner-suburban Collingwood when he was approached by another 54-year-old man.
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Feature Story Solar power energises outback Qld town

BRISBANE, Dec 14 AAP - Solar energy is powering a small outback town in south-west Queensland.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Queensland Premier Anna Bligh on Sunday witnessed the emissions-free energy production at Australia's newest solar farm at Windorah - a Queensland first.
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Feature Story Big fines and dumped alcohol for NYE drunks: police

SYDNEY, Dec 13 AAP - Police admit new laws including fines of up to $2,200 to curb alcohol-fuelled violence on New Year's Eve, might antagonise drunken louts.

Revellers ringing in the New Year in Sydney risk having their alcohol poured out and copping massive fines if they resist.
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Feature Story Man pointed gun at police in dramatic arrest

SYDNEY, Dec 11 AAP - A man pointed a gun at police before surrendering in a dramatic arrest in the carpark of a club which had just been held up, police say.

Police have charged four men after staff at a licensed club were confronted by two men wearing balaclavas and armed with a shotgun in Hexham in the NSW Hunter region about 11.30pm (AEDT) on Wednesday.
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Feature Story Consumers happier as interest rates tumble

CANBERRA, Dec 10 AAP - Big interest rate cuts, a huge cash injection from the government and tumbling petrol prices have bolstered the spirits of consumers.

And it is not just retailers that may benefit - demand for home loans has also increased, including from first-time buyers.
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Feature Story Aussie escapes jet crash inferno

MELBOURNE, Dec 9 AAP - Australian Bill Dusting's life depended on a split second decision whether to turn left or right in San Diego on Monday.

He was running in blind panic from a pilot-less jet fighter aircraft that seemed to have him firmly in its in sights as it plunged to earth.
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Feature Story Hotel brawl proof of need for new pub laws: Rees

SYDNEY, Dec 8 AAP - A brawl involving up to 600 people outside a western Sydney bar is proof tougher regulations are needed to curb alcohol-related violence, says NSW Premier Nathan Rees.

Police had to call in the riot squad, Pol Air helicopter and the dog squad to disperse the crowd outside Parramatta's Roxy Hotel about 11.45pm (AEDT) on Sunday.
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Feature Story Govt inactive as author remains in Thai jail, family says

MELBOURNE, Dec 7 AAP - The family of an Australian author who is in a Thai jail accused of insulting the nation's royal family says the federal government has not done enough to secure his freedom.

Former Melbourne man Harry Nicolaides was arrested on August 31 at Bangkok Airport on his way back to Australia.
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By Ron Bousso 22 Dec 2008 12:45 AM

JERUSALEM, Dec 21 AFP - Israel threatened on Sunday to launch a major offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip as violence simmered around the impoverished territory days after the end of a truce with the Islamists.

Senior officials said after the weekly cabinet meeting that Israel is preparing a "response" to continuing rocket strikes from the besieged Palestinian coastal strip.

"We are preparing our response to the Hamas threat, with the decision yet to be taken on the timing and the scale," Amos Gilad, a senior adviser to Defence Secretary Ehud Barak, told public radio after ministers debated whether to launch a major ground incursion.

"We have to prepare for it carefully, like for a surgical operation," he said.

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The body of a 30-year-old man has been discovered in a Central Coast apartment.
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A 37-year-old Sydney man has been arrested and questioned .. after gunshots were allegedly fired during an argument with a 14-year-old girl in Sydney's south.
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A teenage man has survived a balcony fall in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
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A man's been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing another man to death in North Queensland on Christmas Day.
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COVINA, California, Dec 25 AP - Stinging from an acrimonious divorce, a man plotting revenge against his ex-wife dressed up like Santa, went to his former in-laws' Christmas Eve party and slaughtered at least six people before killing himself hours later.
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SYDNEY, Dec 26 AAP - Rural firefighters are working to contain the first bushfire of the season near Naradhan in western NSW.
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MELBOURNE, Dec 26 AAP - A charity worker and his wife were attacked by a gang of youths as they investigated a disturbance outside their Melbourne home on Christmas Eve.
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SYDNEY, Dec 26 AAP - The national holiday road toll remains at 27, with no new fatalities reported over the past 24 hours.
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COVINA, California, Dec 25 AP - Police say the man suspected of opening fire at a Christmas party in suburban Los Angeles while dressed as Santa Claus has killed himself.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec 25 AFP - Three bodies have been found in the basement of a Californian house that caught fire after a gun-toting man burst into a holiday party dressed as Santa Claus and opened fire, police say.
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Six people have been taken to hospital after a Christmas tree caught fire in Sydney.
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MELBOURNE, Dec 25 AAP - Two women were seriously injured when their car rolled during an apparent drag race in Melbourne's north.
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PEEKSKILL, New York, Dec 24 AP - A man has been accused of operating an illegal dentist's office in the kitchen of his suburban New York home and giving patients wine from a jug to help them cope with the pain.
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SYDNEY, Dec 25 AAP - The pilot of a fatal plane crash is lucky to be alive but his family is grieving the death of his brother-in-law.
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SYDNEY, Dec 25 AAP - Christmas has kicked off with a massive brawl outside a hotel in Sydney's west.
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A Sydney man's still waiting for surgery to try and re-attach his arm after it was severed when he tried to board a moving train.
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MELBOURNE, Dec 24 AAP - Senior Victorian MP Theo Theophanous has lashed out at police who charged him with rape on Monday, accusing them of ignoring vital evidence that proves his innocence.
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HONG KONG, Dec 24 AP - A Chinese rock musician will team up with two directors to shoot a film set in Chengdu, the central Chinese city that was devastated in May by a massive earthquake that killed 70,000 people.
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SYDNEY, Dec 24 AAP - NSW is on track to record the lowest annual road toll since 1943, despite a bad start to the festive season with seven road deaths in four days.
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Two weeks past his expected arrival in New Zealand .. a yachtsman's been found near Norfolk Island after washing onto rocks.
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SYDNEY, Dec 24 AAP - Australia intends to maintain a non-combat military presence in Iraq following authorisation from the Gulf nation for foreign troops to stay for the first half of 2009.
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MELBOURNE, Dec 24 AAP - The Australian share market closed stronger in thin pre-Christmas following a rebound in major resources stocks.
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VATICAN CITY, Dec 23 AFP - A suggestion by Pope Benedict XVI that homosexuality is as much of a threat to the survival of the human race as climate change has sparked outrage among gay rights campaigners.
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A list of different countries' contributions to the US-led multinational force in Iraq.
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SYDNEY, Dec 24 AAP - NSW police minister Tony Kelly is urging residents to be on their guard as this is the time of the year that thieves and con artists strike.
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A woman's been killed and two people have been trapped .. after their car ran off the Pacific Highway and crashed into a signpost and trees on the NSW mid-north coast.
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ADELAIDE, Dec 24 AAP - A 26-year-old Perth man, struck by two cars while crossing a road in Adelaide, has died in hospital.
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SYDNEY, Dec 23 AAP - Time goes very quickly when you're staring down the barrel of a gun.
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CANBERRA, Dec 16 AAP - The 44 anti-terrorism laws introduced since September 11 got a solid workout in 2008.
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SYDNEY, Dec 24 AAP - Police are appealing for information after more than a dozen people were injured in a large brawl in central Sydney on Tuesday night.
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