"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
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.
Police chase stolen car 250km from Wagga to Canberra
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.
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.
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).
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.
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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Obama wraps up landmark Middle East, Europe trip
By Stephen Collinson
07 Jun 2009 9:03 PM
PARIS, June 7 AFP - President Barack Obama on Sunday wrapped up a Middle East and Europe tour steeped in history and intense diplomacy, confident he has cleared the "debris" thwarting US relations with the Muslim world.
Obama, who visited Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany and France also believes he has made clear what he expects from all leaders in the strife-torn Middle East as he cranks up a regional peace drive, aides said.
Confidants also said the president was deeply moved by his visit to the former Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany and his meetings with World War II veterans at D-Day 65th anniversary celebrations.
"This was an extraordinary journey, one in which the president had an opportunity to look back in history, at the people who sacrificed and suffered to create the modern world and to look forward at the responsibilities that we all have in our times to forge a better future," senior political advisor David Axelrod said.
Obama on Sunday visited the Pompidou Centre modern arts museum in Paris with his family, before his planned flight back to Washington and the cauldron of domestic US politics.
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Fed: Fielding wants Labor to consider alternate climate change theory
CANBERRA, June 8 AAP - Family First senator Steve Fielding wants to debate the cause of global warming with government scientists before he votes on Labor's climate change legislation. More...
US: Palin accused of lifting from Gingrich article
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 7 AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been accused of paraphrasing at length from an article co-written by Newt Gingrich when she gave a speech, but her lawyer says proper credit was given to the former House of Representatives speaker. More...
EUR: Conservatives hand centre-left painful defeat in EU vote
BRUSSELS, June 8 AFP - Conservatives decisively beat Socialists in EU Parliament elections marred by a record low turnout, results showed on Monday, after the centre-left failed to capitalise on concern over the recession. More...
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ASIA: NKorea jails US journalists for 12 years
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MID: Observers say Lebanon vote appears fair
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FED: Schools close as swine flu tally increases
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FED: Schools close as swine flu tally increases
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MID: Obama wraps up landmark Middle East, Europe trip
PARIS, June 7 AFP - President Barack Obama on Sunday wrapped up a Middle East and Europe tour steeped in history and intense diplomacy, confident he has cleared the "debris" thwarting US relations with the Muslim world. More...
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NSW: Reprisal fears after Sydney shootings
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FED: Swine flu "not behaving like a deadly pandemic"
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Qld: Rebel priest says he's been freed from corrupt institution
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Qld: Oppn says power prices to rise 15.5 per cent
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Qld: Church bans rebel priest
BRISBANE, June 5 AAP - A rebel Catholic clergyman has been banned from acting as a priest anywhere in the world. More...
NBN will only make money if Telstra is split, says Optus
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Fed: Packer threatened to kill me over Fairfax, Turnbull says
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NSW: Wife of man shot dead says police should be "ashamed"
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US: Americans spending more time on social networks: study
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US: NY store owner gives would-be thief $40 and dose of faith
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MID: To open a Muslim dialogue, Obama visits Saudi king
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Fed: Economy dodges recession bullet for now
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Australia avoids recession after posting Q1 GDP growth (Wrap)
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NSW: Men flee from fatal crash that kills one
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EUR: Terry Gilliam ready to take on 'Don Quixote' once again
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Fed: Holden 'safe' in Aust, NZ in GM financial woes
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