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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 Anti-Ahmadinejad protesters flock to banned demo

TEHRAN, June 15 AFP - "Give back our votes!" hundreds of thousands of Iranians both young and old chanted on Monday at a banned opposition rally in Tehran protesting at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed election win.

Defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi also attended the rally in his first public appearance since Friday's poll which he has branded a "charade."

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Feature Story Iran protests mount as Ahmadinejad wins landslide

TEHRAN, June 13 AFP - Hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a landslide victory in Iran's hotly-disputed presidential vote, according to official results on Saturday that triggered mass opposition protests and furious complaints of cheating from his defeated rivals.

Riot police clashed with protesters in unrest not seen for a decade as thousands of supporters of main challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi took to the streets shouting "Down with the Dictator" after final results showed Ahmadinejad winning almost 63 per cent of the vote.

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Feature Story Don't worry, it's just a pandemic

PARIS, June 11 AFP - Now it's official: we have a flu pandemic. But what does it mean?

For many, the term may be tinged with fear. It evokes folk memories of three influenza pandemics that erupted last century and claimed tens of millions of lives.

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Feature Story WHO declares flu pandemic

GENEVA, June 11 AFP - The swine flu crisis has escalated into the world's first influenza pandemic in 40 years, the World Health Organisation has declared, after infecting tens of thousands of people in 74 countries.

WHO director-general Margaret Chan says the declaration of a "moderate" pandemic should not be a cause for panic and does not mean the death toll from A(H1N1), which stands at less than 150, will sharply increase.

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Feature Story Economy offers 'rational basis for confidence': Rudd

MELBOURNE, June 9 AAP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Australia's strong economic fundamentals offer a glimmer of hope the nation will escape the worst effects of the global recession.

Speaking at the National Small Business Summit in Melbourne on Tuesday night, Mr Rudd said there was no room for "simple, misty-eyed optimism" and acknowledged business owners faced "tough decisions" amid the downturn.

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Feature Story Obama 'deeply concerned' by sentencing of journalists

WASHINGTON, June 8 AFP - US President Barack Obama is "deeply concerned" over the sentencing of two US journalists by North Korea and is using "all possible channels" to obtain their release, The White House said on Monday.

"The president is deeply concerned by the reported sentencing of the two American citizen journalists by North Korean authorities, and we are engaged through all possible channels to secure their release," White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters.

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Feature Story 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.

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.

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Feature Story Economy dodges recession bullet for now

CANBERRA, June 3 AAP - The economy has avoided a much feared recession on paper, but Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned the nation could still experience further periods of negative economic growth in the future.

Exports and household spending helped the economy grow by 0.4 per cent in the first three months of the year, preventing a second consecutive quarter of negative growth that defines a recession.

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Feature Story Swine flu cases hits 500 after another surge in Vic

CANBERRA, June 2 AAP - The number of swine flu cases in Victoria has surged again, adding 89 in one day to push the national tally beyond 500.

And there are fears the number could soar again following Wednesday's State of Origin series opener at Melbourne's Etihad Stadium, where a near sell-out crowd of 50,000 is expected.

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Feature Story Economy - things might not turn out as badly as expected

With the global economy in recession and Australia waiting for news on Wednesday that gross domestic product fell for the second consecutive quarter, it is hard to imagine the slump might not be as steep or as prolonged as it is widely predicted to be.

And perhaps a gloomy outlook for Australia is justified.

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Feature Story Aust economy continues to falter - WBC/MI survey

SYDNEY, May 27 AAP - The Australian economy continues to falter due to the global economic downturn, a survey shows.

The Westpac/Melbourne Institute leading index of economic activity rose by a mere 0.3 per cent in March and was down 5.1 per cent over the year.

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Feature Story Australia best placed to beat recession: survey

A global business survey's found Australia is an economic oasis in the financial storm .. despite pessimistic government and media responses.

One in five international businesspeople have cited Australia as the country best surviving the recession .. in a survey of seven thousand 500 people in more than 24 nations.

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Feature Story Turnbull speech empty rhetoric with no solutions, Tanner

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.

In his budget-in-reply address on Thursday night, the opposition leader attacked the spiralling levels of debt forecast in the budget and run up by Labor with its "profligate" spending on two economic stimulus packages.

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Feature Story Record first home byer share backs stimulus, Rudd

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.

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By Chris Lefkow 18 Jun 2009 5:43 PM

NEW YORK, June 18 AFP - Some members of the audience in the darkened New York theatre had paid nearly $US1,200 ($A1,515) for their seats.

But they weren't settling in to watch a hit Broadway musical.

The show they were attending was a conference about Twitter.

And almost as if on cue, the micro-blogging service was making headlines around the world because of its use as a primary communications tool by protesters in Iran angered by the results of their presidential election.

That came as little surprise to the gathering of devoted Twitter followers at the 140 Characters Conference -- a reference to the number of keystrokes allowed in the real-time Twitter messages known as "tweets."

"If ever there was a time that Twitter mattered it was this past weekend in Iran," said web entrepreneur Jeff Pulver, organiser of the two days of Twitter panel discussions and networking that ended on Wednesday.

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TEHRAN, June 19 AFP - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for an end to street protests over last week's disputed presidential election, siding with declared winner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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ADELAIDE, June 19 AAP - A West Australian man has become the first person with swine flu to die in Australia.
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WASHINGTON, June 18 AFP - The US House Armed Services Committee has passed an amendment extending production of the F-22 Raptor, a stealth fighter jet the Pentagon has sought to scrub.
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SYDNEY, June 19 AAP - The impact of climate change will be a major talking point for international firefighting experts in Sydney discussing better ways to battle bushfires.
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VIENNA, June 18 AFP - Plans by the UN atomic watchdog for a global nuclear fuel bank received a setback here on Thursday, after they were effectively blocked by developing nations, diplomats who attended the meeting said.
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GENEVA, June 18 AFP - Swine flu has infected nearly 40,000 people around the world in 89 countries and territories, causing 167 deaths since late March, latest World Health Organisation data shows.
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Homeowners wanting to go green may see red after Climate Change Minister PENNY WONG confirmed yesterday there'll be no rebate for solar panels for some months.
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An international food safety expert says some of our food producers are selling our quality products overseas .. while feeding us foods containing dangerous levels of hormones and pesticides.
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The partner of a man who died after being tasered by police in north Queensland says she begged police to stop repeatedly using the weapon.
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WASHINGTON, June 18 AFP - The US Senate approved a fiercely worded resolution on Thursday formally apologizing for the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery" of African-Americans.
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WASHINGTON, June 18 AFP - The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a defendant does not have the constitutional right to demand DNA tests to prove his innocence after his case has already been tried.
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NEWARK, New Jersey, June 18 AP - The pilot of a Continental Airlines flight from Belgium to the US died over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, but the jet landed safely with two co-pilots at the controls.
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NEW YORK, June 18 AFP - Some members of the audience in the darkened New York theatre had paid nearly $US1,200 ($A1,515) for their seats.
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MELBOURNE, June 18 AAP - A Melbourne father has admitted setting the family home alight and holding his two children inside while it burned.
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PERTH, June 18 AAP - Police have laid charges over a road rage incident which allegedly led to man being run over by a four-wheel-drive.
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BRISBANE, June 18 AAP - Queensland will continue to close schools as part of its response to swine flu.
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SYDNEY, June 18 AAP - Serial pest Peter Hore is at it again, this time jumping into NSW Parliament's bear pit, disrupting the start of question time.
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CANBERRA, June 17 AAP - Almost one-quarter of Australian children are overweight or obese, while tooth decay in six-year-olds is on the rise.
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TEHRAN, June 16 AFP - Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi staged a mass rally in Tehran on Tuesday, the state-run English-language Press TV said.
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TEHRAN, June 15 AFP - One protester was shot dead and several were wounded during a Tehran rally on Monday attended by hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a local Iranian photographer told AFP.
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NSW Premier NATHAN REES says his first budget will include a few surprises when it is handed down today .. but has confirmed it'll drag the state's economy into the red.
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LOS ANGELES, June 15 AFP - Eighteen people were arrested and eight police officers were injured in violence that erupted as rowdy fans celebrated the Los Angeles Lakers NBA championship triumph, police said on Monday.
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GENEVA, June 15 AFP - The presidents of France and Brazil have sharply criticised the international handling of the financial crisis, calling for sweeping reform and greater global regulation of the world economy.
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LONDON, June 15 AFP - European stock markets plunged on Monday after G8 finance ministers warned of a risky and uncertain global economic outlook, with London losing 2.61 per cent to close at 4,326.01 points.
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The International Monetary Fund says the US economy is set to grow more strongly than previously thought .. with a solid recovery from recession in mid-2010.
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TEHRAN, June 15 AFP - "Give back our votes!" hundreds of thousands of Iranians both young and old chanted on Monday at a banned opposition rally in Tehran protesting at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed election win.
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CANBERRA, June 15 AAP - Treasurer Wayne Swan has brushed off the latest Newspoll, which shows the coalition closing the gap on Labor.
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CANBERRA, June 15 AAP - Treasurer Wayne Swan has cautioned against believing Australia is out of the woods when it comes to trouble on the economic front.
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CANBERRA, June 15 AAP - Two long-awaited Senate committee reports into emissions trading have been handed down - and they contain no surprises.
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CANBERRA, June 15 AAP - Australia's top scientists have met Family First senator Steve Fielding to try and convince him that climate change is real.
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CANBERRA, June 15 AAP - The Greens say they'll carefully consider any proposal that might inject greater accountability into the national broadband network (NBN) process.
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SYDNEY, June 15 AAP - Asthma and the swine flu are a potentially deadly mix, an Australian expert has warned.
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Australia's moves towards becoming a republic have been put on hold .. after a parliamentary inquiry dismissed calls to put the question forward at the next federal election.
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CANBERRA, June 15 AAP - The federal government has dismissed suggestions its plans to raise debt are pushing up interest rates, saying they represent only a fraction of global bond issuance.
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DEERFIELD, Illinois, June 13 AP - Specialty drug maker Baxter International Inc says it's in "full scale" production of a swine flu vaccine that will be commercially available in July.
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A woman's in police custody after a violent brawl in Melbourne .. during which the 34-year-old appeared to deliberately drive a car into a group of fighting teenagers.
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DUBAI, June 13 AFP - An American member of al-Qaeda has urged Islamist militants to attack Zionist and Western interests worldwide.
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LECCE, Italy, June 13 AFP - US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says top global economies should not look to cut their economic stimulus plans to fight the crisis as there is no recovery yet.
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TEHRAN, June 13 AFP - Police fired tear gas at rioters in Tehran as supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi swept through the Iranian capital on Saturday, some pelting stones at baton-wielding policemen in protest at the disputed election results.
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TEHRAN, June 13 AFP - Hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a landslide victory in Iran's hotly-disputed presidential vote, according to official results on Saturday that triggered mass opposition protests and furious complaints of cheating from his defeated rivals.
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Delegates at the ALP state conference in Melbourne have agreed to tackle abuses in signing up new party members .. but have stopped short of voting to expel people recruited during branch stacking drives.
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SYDNEY, June 13 AAP - Doctors have criticised Australia's response to the swine flu crisis, with some patients waiting eight days for test results or receiving anti-viral drugs too late to limit the infection.
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