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- 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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Feature Story Big budget deficit fault of government's of "both stripes"

CANBERRA, May 11 AAP - Massive government spending in the boom times means the federal budget will be deep in deficit well after the global financial crisis has disappeared, an independent forecaster says.

Access Economics is forecasting a $58.9 billion deficit for Tuesday's 2009/10 budget, allowing for an extra $9 billion of infrastructure spending and $3.9 billion for pension reform.

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Feature Story Declining jobs trend to produce some surprisingly big falls

SYDNEY, May 4 AAP - The trend in employment will turn downward with "rogue" figures showing very steep monthly falls will grow more frequent.

At last measure in March the trend measure of the number of people with jobs estimated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) was falling at 5,000 per month.

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Feature Story US economy leads the way downhill with Aust close behind

SYDNEY, April 30 AAP - Now is a good time to remind yourself that the past two years, when economic growth in Australia outpaced growth in the United States, were out of the ordinary.

In the past decade Australia has shown tantalising signs of shrugging off its historical tendency to mimic the ups and downs in the US economy.

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Feature Story Long-term jobless lessons of '90s recession

CANBERRA, April 24 AAP - Even as Australia sinks into recession for the first time in 18 years, one statistic is still overlooked by the daily news cycle - long-term unemployment.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics defines long-term unemployment as someone of working age who has been out of a job for 12 months or more.

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Feature Story Global recession engulfs once booming economy

CANBERRA, April 21 AAP - The global recession - the consequence of many Americans being unable to pay their highly-complex home loans two years ago - has claimed another victim ... us.

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens confirmed most economists' suspicions on Tuesday that the Australian economy is already in recession, for the first time since the early 1990s.

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Feature Story Long-term joblessness to persist long after economic recovers

SYDNEY, April 16 AAP - Long after the recession has ended, consumers have resumed spending and businesses are investing once again, one group will be left behind - the long-term unemployed.

It has long been known that demand for labour waxes and wanes in response to changes levels of production of goods and services.

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Feature Story US captain's rescue raises stakes in piracy ops

KUALA LUMPUR, April 13 AP - The killing of three Somali pirates in the dramatic US Navy rescue of a cargo ship captain has sparked concern for other hostages and fears the stakes have been raised for future hijackings in the lucrative Indian Ocean shipping lane.

Sunday's rescue followed a raid at sea on Friday by French navy commandos, who stormed a pirate-held sailboat, the Tanit, killing two pirates and freeing four French hostages. The French owner of the vessel was killed in the assault.

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Feature Story Jobless rate hits 5-year high and worse to come - economists

SYDNEY, April 9 AAP - Australia has posted the largest monthly jump in unemployment in 18 years, as the global downturn hits the local economy.

The nation's jobless rate rose 0.5 percentage points in March to 5.7 per cent, a five-and-a-half year high, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data on Thursday showed.

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Feature Story Obama leads world condemnation of North Korea

PRAGUE, April 5 AFP - US President Barack Obama led global condemnation of North Korea's rocket launch on Sunday, calling it "a provocative act" for which Pyongyang must be punished.

South Korea said it was "reckless" and put its armed forces on heightened alert, as did Japan. China and Russia pleaded for restraint as the UN Security Council was summoned to an emergency session in New York later on Sunday.

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Feature Story World stocks skyrocket after G20 summit boost

LONDON, April 2 AFP - Global stocks shot up on Thursday amid greater optimism following a G20 summit in London that boosted efforts to save the world economy and after an uptick in US manufacturing orders.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 3.45 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq index was up 3.83 per cent at 1600 GMT.

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Feature Story Rain too much, too soon, says Coffs mayor

SYDNEY, April 1 AAP - Too much, too quick and too soon after February's devastating floods - that's how Coffs Harbour mayor Keith Rhoades describes the latest deluge.

The regional hub on the NSW mid-north coast is mopping up after torrential rain completely isolated the town.

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Feature Story NSW activity property market to increase, says industry

SYDNEY, March 25 AAP - Activity in the NSW property market is expected increase over the first half of 2009 as buyers return tempted by lower interest rates and government grants, an industry body says.

The Real Estate Institute of NSW (REINSW) says the return of first home buyers has "re-energised" the state's property market.

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Feature Story Rudd's personal popularity at near record levels

SYDNEY, March 24 AAP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's personal popularity has returned to near record levels, while opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull has lost support, according to the latest Newspoll.

Mr Rudd's rating grew by four percentage points to 65 per cent in the past two weeks on the question of who would make the better prime minister, just one point short of his highest rating last December.

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Feature Story Back to soul searching for LNP after election loss

BRISBANE, March 21 AAP - Queensland's Liberal National Party will look to a new leader as it laments an election result that by past standards was good, but not quite good enough.

Despite polls predicting a photo finish, and talk of a hung parliament or a minority LNP government, the newly merged conservative party managed only a 3.5 per cent swing.

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12 May 2009 4:08 PM

CANBERRA, May 12 AAP - First-time home buyers now account for a record share of new housing loans, proving that stimulus package measures are working, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says.

First home buyers made up a record 27.3 per cent of all home loans granted in March according to data released on Tuesday, topping the previous peak of 26.5 per cent set in January and February.

This was the highest proportion since the Australian Bureau of Statistics data series began in mid-1991.

"These are elements which go to underpin one core proposition: a government committed to reducing the impact of the global recession on Australia puts in place a concerted series of measures," Mr Rudd told parliament.

"It will have an effect."

The government's first $10.4 billion stimulus package, unveiled in October, doubled the first home buyer grant for established homes to $14,000, and tripled it to $21,000 for newly constructed dwellings.

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SYDNEY, May 14 AAP - Malcolm Turnbull's budget in reply speech was marked by empty rhetoric and offered no solutions to reduce government debt, Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner said.
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CANBERRA, May 14 AAP - Labor faces defeat over its plans to cut the private health insurance rebate after the opposition announced it will block the budget measure.
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CANBERRA, May 14 AAP - The Rudd government's assault on middle-class welfare suffered a devastating blow on Thursday, with Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull vowing the coalition will vote against cuts to the private health insurance rebate.
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CANBERRA, May 14 AAP - The Rudd government may consider Malcolm Turnbull's idea to increase the cost of cigarettes - but only after its Henry review on taxation reports back.
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CANBERRA, May 14 AAP - It was sombre and in keeping with the economic times.
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SYDNEY, May 14 AAP - Taxpayers will foot the bill for a costly search and rescue operation in central NSW that turned out to be a false alarm, an Ambulance Service spokeswoman says.
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WASHINGTON, May 13 AFP - President Barack Obama has reversed a decision to release photos depicting abuse of detainees in Afghanistan or Iraq out of concern the images could cause a backlash against US troops abroad, US officials say.
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PERTH, May 14 AAP - A man who allegedly posted anti-semitic videos on the website YouTube has been charged with attempting to incite racial animosity and racial harassment.
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MADRID, May 13 AFP - Spanish scientists have detected the presence of cocaine in the air of Madrid and Barcelona by using a new technique for the first time, a research institute says.
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HOUSTON, Texas, May 13 AFP - Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis have successfully captured the Hubble Space Telescope, following a rendezvous with the high flying scientific icon.
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A New Zealander's potato starch research has led to his involvement in the construction of a new type of racing car.
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A Connecticut prosecutor says test results show a chimpanzee that mauled a woman had the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in its system.
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FORT WORTH, Texas, May 13 AP - Researchers in Texas are trying an unusual approach to combat fire ants - deploying parasitic flies that turn the pesky and economically costly insects into zombies whose heads fall off.
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ANKARA, Turkey, AP - The man who shot Pope John Paul II says he would like to convert to Christianity at a baptism ceremony at the Vatican soon after his release from prison in January, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
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SYDNEY, May 13 AAP - New laws which can imprison anyone caught recruiting members to a bikie gang have been passed by the NSW Parliament, in the government's latest moves against the outlaw groups.
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TEHRAN, May 13 AFP - A lawyer for US-born reporter Roxana Saberi, freed this week from a Tehran jail, said on Wednesday the spy charges she had faced arose after she obtained a classified report on the US war on Iraq.
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CANBERRA, May 13 AAP - Australia's leading economists don't believe Treasury's growth forecasts are too optimistic, despite the fact they're more positive than an International Monetary Fund (IMF) outlook, the prime minister says.
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GOLD COAST, May 13 AAP - A Gold Coast schoolgirl faces court over a brawl, allegedly caught on camera.
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CANBERRA, May 13 AAP - The federal opposition will have to support the government's budget savings if it supports pension reform, Treasurer Wayne Swan said.
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Holocaust revisionist FREDRICK TOBEN has been sentenced to three months jail for ignoring a court order preventing him publishing racist material on the internet.
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GENEVA, May 12 AFP - The global number of swine flu cases on Tuesday passed 5,000, according to the World Health Organisation, as the virus spread to three more countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
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BAGHDAD, May 12 AFP - A US soldier has been charged with shooting dead five of his colleagues at an American base in Baghdad, a US army spokesman said on Tuesday.
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HOUSTON, Texas, May 12 AFP - Shuttle Atlantis astronauts on Tuesday scanned fragile heat shields aboard their spacecraft for signs of damage from launch debris as they raced toward a rendezvous with the Hubble Space Telescope.
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JERUSALEM, May 12 AFP - German-born Pope Benedict XVI was never a member of the Hitler Youth, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi says, despite what the pontiff has himself previously said.
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CANBERRA, May 12 AAP - Australia's universities might not have got everything they wanted in the budget, but they're pleased enough with the package for the Group of Eight to label it "visionary".
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SYDNEY, May 12 AAP - The construction sector and real estate industry have welcomed measures to extend the federal government's extra first home buyer grants.
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Postgraduate students say the reputation of the higher education sector will be boosted by funding increases.
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CANBERRA, May 12 AAP - The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) says the federal budget will help build Australia as an international financial centre.
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BRISBANE, May 12 AAP - The federal budget has delivered on infrastructure investment that will be central to economic recovery, Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser says.
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CANBERRA, May 12 AAP - Retailers have given the budget a tick of approval, saying it will help maintain confidence and consumer spending.
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CANBERRA, May 12 AAP - Some would say it's Karma.
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SYDNEY, May 12 AAP - The federal government's budget for the next financial year doesn't threaten Australia's triple A rating as the country's finances remain sound, ratings agency Standard & Poor's says.
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Treasurer WAYNE SWAN has announced a record deficit of nearly 58 billion dollars .. in a budget he says has been forged in the fire of the most challenging global conditions since the Great Depression.
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CANBERRA, May 12 AAP - Those buying their first home have another six months to locate their dream dwelling and still benefit from last year's boost to the first home owners grant scheme.
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FEDERAL BUDGET INCOME AND SPENDING
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Projected improvement in the real disposable incomes and the net tax thresholds of different household types.
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CANBERRA May 12 AAP - Close to 150,000 new mums and dads will be eligible for taxpayer funded paid maternity leave each year when the scheme kicks in in 2011.
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CANBERRA, May 12 AAP - Australians have gone crazy for solar panels - and the government's picking up the tab.
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CANBERRA, May 12 AAP - Petrol may be one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions but motorists won't pay to pollute for five years.
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CANBERRA, May 12 AAP - Baby boomers are among the budget's biggest losers, and Victorians in general can count themselves the big winners.
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It looks like Labor had the wealthy firmly in its sights when formulating this year's budget.
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CANBERRA, May 12 AAP - Australia's universities were hoping to receive $6.5 billion over four years in this year's budget, as recommended by the Bradley review into higher education.
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