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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 Israeli jets bomb Gaza, Hamas fires back with deadly rockets

GAZA CITY, Dec 29 AFP - Israeli jets have bombed Hamas targets in Gaza for a third day, killing several children, while the Islamists fired deadly rockets to retaliate for the blitz that has left more than 300 dead.

As Israeli tanks massed on the Gaza border, the army declared the area a closed military zone - a move that in the past has often been followed by ground operations in the Palestinian enclave.
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Feature Story Israel warns of ground offensive as jets pound Hamas in Gaza

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.
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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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By Sakher Abu El Oun 02 Jan 2009 7:29 PM

GAZA CITY, Jan 2 AFP - Israeli warplanes pounded militant targets including a mosque in Gaza on Friday as Hamas ordered a "day of wrath" against Israel over the killing of a senior commander.

Thousands of Israeli security personnel were on alert after Hamas called for "massive marches" following the main weekly Muslim prayers, starting off from the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem and from all mosques in the West Bank.

"We have mobilised thousands of people for the sector of east Jerusalem and neighbouring villages in order to maintain calm on Friday," said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

The army also locked down the West Bank for 48 hours, with movement in and out of the territory prohibited except for emergencies and special cases.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 AFP - The first days of 2009 have seen at least five pirate attacks off Somalia, but the bandits are becoming desperate as the international community cracks down, a maritime watchdog says.
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SYDNEY, Jan 3 AAP - Australia has refused a request from the United States to take Guantanamo Bay inmates.
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Hopes that Australia's holiday road toll would continue to decline have been dashed after 57 people lost their lives over the Christmas-New Year period.
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SYDNEY, Jan 3 AAP - Police have appealed to the public to help locate a missing teenage girl from South Australia, who may have been travelling to Newcastle in NSW.
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SEATTLE, Jan 2 AP - A college student who was fatally shot by Seattle police while wearing a vintage German military uniform on New Year's Day was a harmless, eccentric history buff, his family and friends say.
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The federal government says Australia will NOT take any former inmates from the US Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
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MELBOURNE, Jan 3 AAP - A 21-year-old man has had his car impounded for the third time after he was caught speeding in Melbourne's east.
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A man is dead after his car collided with a semi-trailer in western New South Wales.
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BRISBANE, Jan 3 AAP - A man, a woman and a child have escaped a blaze that destroyed a house at Hervey Bay in south-east Queensland.
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A man is dead after his car collided with a semi-trailer in western New South Wales.
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An outlaw motorcycle gang member has been charged over a stabbing in Sydney's west last year.
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SYDNEY, Jan 3 AAP - A P-plater has had his licence suspended after being caught drink driving at 160km/h in Sydney's south, police say.
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Israeli warplanes are continuing to pound Gaza as the assault on Hamas enters its second week .. with the Islamist group warns Israel of heavy losses if ground troops are sent in.
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Police have revealed a bus driver ran a red light at a level-crossing in far north Queensland .. putting the lives of 12 passengers in danger .. only a day after a train crashed into a garbage truck.
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COLOMBO, Jan 2 AFP - Sri Lanka said on Friday its troops have finally captured the unofficial capital of the Tamil Tigers, and urged the rebels to lay down their arms and end their decades-old struggle for a separate homeland.
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GAZA CITY, Jan 2 AFP - Israeli warplanes hit Gaza targets including a mosque and a house where three young brothers were killed as Hamas supporters staged angry protests on Friday against Israel's week-old offensive.
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JERUSALEM, Jan 2 AP - The fate of an Israeli army sergeant captured by Hamas and being held in Gaza has become murkier with the massive Israeli assault on the Palestinian territory.
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GAZA CITY, Jan 2 AFP - Israeli warplanes pounded militant targets including a mosque in Gaza on Friday as Hamas ordered a "day of wrath" against Israel over the killing of a senior commander.
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SYDNEY, Jan 2 AAP - The national holiday road toll has reached 56.
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Gun owners have been urged to take more care securing their weapons after an increase in firearm theft.
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A hail of gunfire on a Sydney home has injured one man and narrowly missed his six family members including his baby grandchild.
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MELBOURNE, Jan 2 AAP - Police are trying to identify a young man whose body washed up on a Victorian beach dressed only in a pair of socks.
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The death of a woman whose body was found following a house fire is now being treated as murder after a post mortem revealed she was dead before the blaze.
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BRISBANE, Jan 2 AAP - One person was killed when a truck and car collided on the Bruce Highway in central Queensland.
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DARWIN, Jan 2 AAP - Riot police were called to a remote Northern Territory island on New Year's Eve after a group of 60 people pelted the local airport with rocks and slashed the tyres of police cars.
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SYDNEY, Jan 2 AAP - Police are working to retrieve the body of a rock climber who died after plunging 100 metres to his death in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.
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SYDNEY, Jan 2 AAP - Police are working to retrieve the body of a rock climber who died after plunging 100 metres to his death in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.
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MELBOURNE, Jan 2 AAP - A man who may have witnessed a murderer race off from a house before it went up in flames has been urged to contact police.
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SYDNEY, Jan 2 AAP - A section of a major highway west of Sydney has been closed in both directions as police search for a man who may be armed following a road rage incident.
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HAVANA, Jan 1 AFP - Communist Cuba marked a major political milestone on Thursday: the 50th anniversary of its revolution, its iconic leader Fidel Castro withdrawn from power, the economy in dire straits and President Raul Castro insisting the revolution has not failed.
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