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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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20 Dec 2008 4:24 PM

SYDNEY, Dec 20 AAP - The drivers of a Porsche and two motorcycles have had their vehicles confiscated after reaching speeds of more than 220km/h in an alleged road race.

Police say the three men were racing along a 100km/h zone of the Pacific Highway on the far north NSW coast on Saturday about 10.40am (AEST).

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15 Dec 2008 5:38 PM

MELBOURNE, Dec 15 AAP - Two young men accused of drag racing before a crash that killed a 15-year-old boy will stand trial.

Mitchell Cairnduff, of Wheelers Hill, died when a turbo-charged Mitsubishi Lancer driven by Jarrod Rooke hit a taxi at 120km/h, the Melbourne Magistrates Court heard.

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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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Feature Story More than 200 dead as Israel hammers Hamas-run Gaza

GAZA CITY, Dec 27 AFP - Israel hammered Hamas targets in Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 205 people in retaliation for ongoing rocket fire in one of the bloodiest days of the decades-long Middle East conflict.

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said "Operation Cast Lead", which has also left about 300 wounded, would continue "as long as necessary".
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Feature Story Massive Israeli air raids on Gaza kill 120: Palestinians

GAZA CITY, Dec 27 AFP - Israeli aircraft launched a massive wave of air strikes on Hamas compounds inside the Gaza Strip, killing at least 120 Palestinians, medics said.

Most of the dead are believed to have been inside police headquarters, Hamas said.
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Feature Story Israel threatens major offensive against Gaza

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.
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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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By Sakher Abu El Oun 28 Dec 2008 5:59 PM

GAZA CITY, Dec 28 AFP - Israel has warned it could send ground troops into Gaza as its warplanes continued to pound Hamas targets in the overcrowded enclave where nearly 230 Palestinians have been killed.

"We are ready for anything. If it's necessary to deploy ground forces to defend our citizens, we will do so," a spokesman for Defence Minister Ehud Barak quoted him as saying.

Israeli television said on Sunday that the army had begun concentrating ground forces near the tiny Palestinian territory, where Israeli air strikes have killed nearly 230 people and wounded another 700 since Saturday.

Jets continued to pound the overcrowded territory of 1.5 million, with many people reported wounded in a fresh air strike on a Hamas police station in northern Gaza.

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BEIJING, Dec 28 DPA - A cyclist died after he was hit by an apparently suicidal man who jumped from the 35th floor of a nearby building in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, state media has reported.
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CAIRO, Dec 28 AFP - Egypt's foreign minister says Hamas is preventing hundreds of Palestinians wounded in the Israeli air strikes from leaving Gaza for treatment in Egypt.
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JERUSALEM, Dec 28 AFP - Militants inside the battered Gaza Strip have launched rockets deeper into Israel as Israeli warplanes continued to pound Hamas targets in the overcrowded Palestinian territory, officials said.
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MELBOURNE, Dec 28 AAP - A prominent Melbourne youth worker fears the streets could become war zones on New Year's Eve following a spate of stabbings across the country.
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GAZA CITY, Dec 28 AFP - Israel has warned it could send ground troops into Gaza as its warplanes continued to pound Hamas targets in the overcrowded enclave where nearly 230 Palestinians have been killed.
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Police are hoping to question the 16 year old driver of a speedboat at his hospital bed after he was involved in a fatal accident early this morning.
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MELBOURNE, Dec 28 AAP - One of two cyclists struck by a car on Christmas Eve has died in a Melbourne hospital.
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MELBOURNE, Dec 28 AAP - An 18-year-old Melbourne woman died when a speedboat crashed into a tree on Lake Eildon early on Sunday.
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BRISBANE, Dec 28 AAP - Four people have died in an horrific 12 hours on Western Australian roads, taking the state's holiday road toll to eight.
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SYDNEY, Dec 28 AAP - An elderly woman has been carried unconscious to hospital after her western Sydney was set ablaze apparently by a cigarette, NSW Fire Brigades say.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 27 DPA - A Philadelphia resident, enraged because a family was talking loudly during a film, threw popcorn at a boy and then shot the youngster's father.
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The death of two motorcyclists in Western Australia during a horror 12 hours on the state's roads which saw four people killed .. has taken the national holiday road toll to 36.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec 27 AFP - Sixteen children were left orphaned in the Christmas Eve massacre carried out by a gunman dressed as Santa Claus who slaughtered his ex-wife and her family, it was reported on Saturday.
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GAZA CITY, Dec 27 AFP - Israel hammered Hamas targets in Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 205 people in retaliation for ongoing rocket fire in one of the bloodiest days of the decades-long Middle East conflict.
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GOLD COAST, Dec 28 AAP - Gold Coast police are cracking down on dangerous drivers.
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CAIRO, Dec 27 AFP - Egypt condemned Israel's Saturday air raids on Gaza that killed at least 195 Palestinians as "murder" and opened its Rafah border crossing with the territory to allow the wounded through for treatment.
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JERUSALEM, Dec 27 AFP - Israel vowed on Saturday to keep up deadly air strikes on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip for "as long as necessary", saying it has "no other option" than a military operation on the Palestinian enclave to stop rocket fire.
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Victoria's holiday road toll has risen to 10 .. after a single vehicle crash took the life of a 17-year-old girl last night.
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GAZA CITY, Dec 27 AFP - Israel blitzed Hamas targets in Gaza on Saturday with a wave of air strikes that killed at least 160 people in the besieged enclave in retaliation for ongoing rocket fire, officials said.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 27 AFP - Major world powers called for an immediate end to violence after massive and deadly Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Saturday and rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
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WACO, Texas, Dec 27 AFP - The United States urged Israel on Saturday to avoid civilian casualties as it pounded Hamas targets in Gaza, but warned that the Islamist movement must halt its rocket attacks "if the violence is to stop".
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CAIRO, Dec 27 AFP - Egypt on Saturday condemned a wave of Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip that killed at least 155 Palestinians, and said it would open its Rafah border crossing with the besieged territory.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec 27 AFP - Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday he was in "urgent contact" with numerous countries over the deadly Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip.
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GAZA CITY, Dec 27 AFP - Israel blitzed Hamas targets in Gaza on Saturday with a wave of air strikes that killed at least 155 people in the besieged enclave in retaliation for ongoing rocket fire, officials said.
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GAZA CITY, Dec 27 AFP - Hamas said it had fired rockets into Israel in retaliation for a wave of massive air strikes that killed up to 155 people in its Gaza Strip stronghold.
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JERUSALEM, Dec 27 AFP - An Israeli woman has been killed in the southern town of Netivot by a rocket launched by militants in Gaza, where massive Israeli air strikes have killed up to 155 Palestinians, medics said.
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GAZA CITY, Dec 27 AFP - Israel has launched a massive wave of air strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza, killing at least 140 Palestinians after warning of a fiery riposte to ongoing rocket fire.
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GAZA CITY, Dec 27 AP - Israeli aircraft have struck Hamas security compounds across Gaza in unprecedented waves of simultaneous strikes. Hamas and medics reported that dozens of people were killed and that others were still buried under the rubble.
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GAZA CITY, Dec 27 AFP - Israeli aircraft launched a massive wave of air strikes on Hamas compounds inside the Gaza Strip, killing at least 120 Palestinians, medics said.
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GAZA CITY, Dec 27 AFP - Israeli aircraft have launched a massive air raid on Hamas installations inside the Gaza Strip.
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