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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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20 Jan 2009 12:21 PM

CANBERRA, Jan 20 AAP - Police have arrested a 26-year-old man in Canberra following a 250km high-speed car chase that started in south-western NSW.

NSW police started pursuing the stolen car in Wagga Wagga on Tuesday morning and ACT Policing took up the chase when the driver crossed the border into the territory.

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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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31 Dec 2008 2:16 PM

BRISBANE, Dec 31 AAP - Queensland police have caught a man with an alleged blood alcohol reading more than six times the legal limit.

A 28-year-old man from Peak Crossing was stopped overnight for a random breath test in the nearby town of Boonah, south-west of Brisbane, and allegedly blew .303 per cent.

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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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By Michelle Draper 06 Jan 2009 5:31 PM

MELBOURNE, Jan 6 AAP - A 78-year-old hoon caught speeding at 170km/h on a narrow country road on New Year's Day told police he was a skilled race driver.

Victorian Premier John Brumby, however, was not impressed with John Belfield's claims, labelling Australia's oldest hoon driver an "idiot", while police said he was toying with death.i

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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 Another big rate cut on the way as inflation pressures ease

CANBERRA, Jan 28 AAP - Rapidly moderating inflation pressures have opened the gate for another substantial interest rate cut when the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its first board meeting of the year next Tuesday.

Financial markets are pricing in the risk of a further 100 basis point cut in the central bank's official cash rate as consumer prices posted their biggest quarterly drop in more than a decade.
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Feature Story Fires contained but extreme weather looms

MELBOURNE, Jan 23 AAP - A cool change has helped firefighters contain fires that had been burning out of control in central and eastern Victoria.

But the entire state faces the most severe fire threat of the summer over the next few days due to a combination of scorching temperatures and high winds.
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Feature Story Get ready for sharpest economic deceleration ever seen

CANBERRA, Jan 19 AAP - A leading economic forecaster has warned its clients to batten down the hatches for the sharpest deceleration Australia's economy has ever experienced.

But Australia is in a better position than almost any other rich nation heading into recession, Access Economics says.
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Feature Story Aussie author jailed for three years for Thai royal insult

MELBOURNE, Jan 19 AAP/AP/AFP - An Australian writer who says he's endured "unspeakable suffering" in a Thai prison has been jailed for three years after pleading guilty to criminal charges of insulting the country's royal family.

But the family of Harry Nicolaides and his Australian lawyer hope a direct appeal for a pardon from the royal family may get the Melbourne-born author home.
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Feature Story Israeli halts Gaza offensive

GAZA CITY, Jan 18 AFP - Israel held its fire in Gaza on Sunday after declaring a unilateral ceasefire in its 22-day onslaught which has killed more than 1,200 Palestinians and levelled vast swathes of the Hamas-run enclave.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had said after a meeting of his security cabinet he was calling an immediate end to offensive operations but added that troops would stay in Gaza for the time being with orders to return fire if attacked.
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Feature Story Howard beams as Bush anoints "man of steel"

CANBERRA, Jan 14 AAP - Former prime minister John Howard beamed as outgoing US president George Bush hung the US Medal of Freedom around his neck at a White House ceremony on Wednesday (AEDT).

Mr Bush invoked his famous moniker for Mr Howard - "the Man of Steel" - as he described their friendship and his admiration for the Australian leader's courage in supporting the war on terrorism.
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Feature Story Govt says all options on the table for further stimulus

CANBERRA, Jan 13 AAP - The impact of the slowing world economy will be felt in Australia's jobs market, with the latest figures due out on Thursday, Treasurer Wayne Swan says.

Mr Swan refused to rule in or out the need for a further economic stimulus package or to bring forward $4.5 billion in tax cuts due in July 2010.
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Feature Story Aust labour market outshines US but maybe not for long

SYDNEY, Jan 12 AAP - If Australians want to gloat over how much healthier their labour market is compared with that of the US, they should get their gloating in before it's too late.

The contrast between the labour markets of the US and Australia is stark but may become less so in coming months.
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Feature Story UN suspends aid deliveries to Gaza, citing attacks

GAZA CITY, Jan 8 Agencies - The United Nations halted aid deliveries to the besieged Gaza Strip on Thursday, citing Israeli attacks on its staff and installations hours after it said gunfire from an Israeli tank killed one of its drivers as he was picking up a shipment.

The United Nations has already demanded an investigation into Israel's shelling of a UN school in Gaza that killed 43 people earlier this week. Israel and residents said militants were operating in the area at the time.
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Feature Story Wanking drug runner sentenced to prison

DARWIN, Jan 7 AAP - A drug-runner who filmed himself masturbating while driving at 150 km/h has been sentenced to two months jail.

Brendon Alan Erhardt, 39, was pulled over by police on July 16 last year, 25km south of Daly Waters.
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Feature Story Fierce Israel-Hamas firefights in Gaza capital

GAZA CITY, Jan 6 AFP - Israeli troops and Hamas militants fought their first major battles in Gaza City on Monday after tanks and helicopters launched a night-time offensive, with three Israelis killed by "friendly" fire.

Explosions and heavy machine-gun fire rocked the Shejaiya district of the city in the heaviest fighting yet of Israel's campaign to halt militant rocket attacks.
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Feature Story Israeli army moves on Gaza City as war toll passes 510

GAZA CITY, Jan 5 AFP - Tens of thousands of Israeli troops have been battling Hamas fighters in Gaza amid tank, artillery and air strikes, as the death toll from the offensive to end rocket attacks passed 510.

Israeli forces moved into the fringes of Gaza City early on Monday as families fled or hid on the second night of combat.
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By Xavier La Canna 30 Jan 2009 3:06 PM

MELBOURNE, Jan 30 AAP - As far as heatwaves go, the sweltering conditions in south-eastern Australia this week are remarkable.

Tens of thousands of people were left without power, train tracks buckled and the Australian Open tennis tournament came under attack for putting players at risk.

"Heat wave hell" and "Melbourne melts" were among newspaper headlines.

But get used to it, was the message from weather experts.

Global warming models predict hot dry spells in the region will be increasingly common.

"Things are warming up and changing. We expect records to fall," said Bill Scherek from the Bureau of Meteorology.

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SYDNEY, Jan 31 AAP - Two police officers are being investigated over alleged drug dealing, armed robbery and extortion offences following a raid on Liverpool police station by the corruption watchdog.
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Repair crews are racing to restoring power to a million homes and businesses in the eastern US .. after an ice storm crippled states from Missouri to West Virginia.
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The nation's road toll last year was at its lowest level since 1949.
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Opposition Leader MALCOLM TURNBULL says Australians who remember the Labor government of the 1970s .. will shudder at KEVIN RUDD'S call for a new era of social capitalism.
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BRISBANE, Jan 31 AAP - A 19-year-old Sunshine Coast man has been charged after allegedly stealing alcohol from a Beerwah hotel and punching and spitting at a police officer trying to arrest him.
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MELBOURNE, Jan 31 AAP - A man has died after being struck by a truck after getting out of his car south of Melbourne early on Saturday morning.
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Thousands of Victorian homes are suffering power blackouts as the state's heatwave continues.
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SYDNEY, Jan 31 AAP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has denounced the unfettered capitalism of the past three decades and called for a new era of "social capitalism".
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BRUSSELS, Jan 30 AFP - China and the European Union set aside past differences on Friday and vowed to work together to confront the global economic crisis and climate change.
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MELBOURNE, Jan 31 AAP - The government's funding boost for first home buyers did little to arrest an eight per cent fall in residential property values during 2008, research has found.
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MELBOURNE, Jan 30 AAP - Power outages caused by an explosion at an electrical substation wreaked havoc across heatwave-stricken Victoria on Friday night.
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CANBERRA, Jan 30 AAP - Australians are turning their backs on credit, gripped by the fear of losing their job as the economic outlook turns increasingly grim.
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SYDNEY, Jan 30 AAP - A learner driver trying to avoid a random breath test led officers on a chase through Sydney that ended when his car caught fire and he crashed into a wall, police say.
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Homes have been destroyed by a bushfire in Victoria amid a heatwave that continues to take its toll on southeastern Australia.
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CANBERRA, Jan 30 AAP - The Rudd government has signalled it will not be pushed into following a United States decision to lift a ban on foreign aid money being used on abortion-related services.
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SYDNEY, Jan 30 AAP - A reprimand about noise on a suburban Sydney street led to a brawl in which a teenager knifed a man to death, as the boy's brothers lay injured on the ground.
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BRISBANE, Jan 30 AAP - Bank ATM users in Brisbane have been warned to look out for card-skimming devices which could cost them dearly.
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MELBOURNE, Jan 30 AAP - As far as heatwaves go, the sweltering conditions in south-eastern Australia this week are remarkable.
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DARWIN, Jan 30 AAP - Two fishermen found floating in an oversized esky in the Torres Strait have told authorities they do not want to be sent home.
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PORT MORESBY, Jan 30 AAP - A Papua New Guinea man accused of practising sorcery was hacked to death with bush knives by an angry mob while a doctor tried in vain to stop the brutal murder.
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CANBERRA, Jan 30 AAP - Have you been doing your bit for the Australian economy during the summer break?
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BAGHDAD, Jan 29 AFP - Two candidates who planned to stand in Saturday's provincial elections in Iraq were shot dead on Thursday, police and army officials said.
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ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan 29 AP - Swiss police said on Thursday they stumbled across a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the search engine company's satellite mapping software.
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A teenager who's pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of all four of his passengers .. faces up to 40 years in jail when he's sentenced in a New South Wales court today.
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ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan 29 AP - The world's glaciers thinned by an average of almost 74 centimetres in 2007, indicating that they are melting twice as fast this decade as during the 1980s and 1990s, Swiss scientists said on Thursday.
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SYDNEY, Jan 29 AAP - A man and a woman have been arrested in a dramatic peak hour police operation on the F3 motorway north of Sydney.
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JERUSALEM, Jan 29 AFP - Israel's chief rabbinate has cancelled its planned participation in a meeting with Catholic officials in Rome in March in protest at Pope Benedict XVI's decision to reinstate a Holocaust-denying bishop.
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BAGHDAD, Jan 29 AFP - Iraq will not renew the operating licence of US security firm Blackwater Worldwide because of a 2007 incident involving its guards in which civilians were killed in Baghdad, an official said on Thursday.
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PERTH, Jan 29 AAP - Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM) Pty Ltd's expansion of the Super Pit gold mine in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, has been approved by the state's acting environment minister but must meet a new set of stringent environmental conditions.
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SYDNEY, Jan 29 AAP - A 21-year-old policeman will appear in court after allegedly running naked through a hotel carpark in the NSW central west.
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BRISBANE, Jan 29 AAP - Central Queensland health authorities have begun eradicating mosquitoes to stop the spread of dengue fever as fears grow of it heading further south.
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CANBERRA, Jan 29 AAP - Parents, brace yourselves - young adults just don't want to move out of home any more.
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DARWIN, Jan 29 AAP - A man has been charged with molesting a five-year-old girl in the desert town of Alice Springs.
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SYDNEY, Jan 29 AAP - An automatic teller machine in the NSW Hunter region has been blown up, but police say it's not clear if the thieves got away with any cash.
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SYDNEY, Jan 29 AAP - Six teenagers, some dressed in school uniform, subjected a 13-year-old girl to a series of sex acts at two isolated toilet blocks and on a building rooftop in Sydney, a judge has been told.
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GOLD COAST, Qld, Jan 29 AAP - Police investigating the road rage shooting of a Gold Coast man have received a flood of calls after an emotional appeal by his grieving partner.
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