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29 Jul 10 | WANT to find out how lively your local member is on Twitter? Or who would win the election if only teenagers could vote? These new websites seek to improve transparency and engage voters in a campaign derided as boring.
29 Jul 10 | AUSTRALIA should radically rethink plans to buy expensive Defence items, a former Australian Army chief said yesterday.
29 Jul 10 | THREE weeks after Julia Gillard announced a plan to send asylum seekers to East Timor, the government in Dili says it is still waiting for details.
29 Jul 10 | TWO female air traffic controllers have accused their government-owned employer of allowing ''extreme'' sexual discrimination and bullying, with claims a manager told one of the women to have an abortion with a coathanger.
29 Jul 10 | AN IRAQI woman who was granted permanent protection after coming to Australia as a refugee has pleaded guilty to people- smuggling.
29 Jul 10 | A CONTROVERSIAL development proposal at Catherine Hill Bay will proceed but residents have been given a sweetener in the form of heritage protection for parts of the town.
29 Jul 10 | PRISONS aren't the obvious thing that comes to mind when the term ''world heritage'' is mentioned.
29 Jul 10 | TAXI drivers and owners who have tested alternative payment terminals in their cabs claim they have been bullied by the industry's most powerful player, Cabcharge Australia, in a bid to protect its $450 million stranglehold over the market.
29 Jul 10 | THE NSW Crime Commission has denied interviewing an accused drug dealer found dead in his prison cell last week, who had claimed that the crime body had intimidated him.
29 Jul 10 | THE adage that friends can save your life turns out be true. Strong relationships with friends, family and colleagues can lower your risk of death by up to 50 per cent, a study has found.
29 Jul 10 | THEY come from far and wide to sit together, half naked, in a pool of warm water under the open sky.
29 Jul 10 | THE wealthiest private schools in Australia should disclose income generated from trusts and donations as well as what assets and capital they have on an updated My School website, a leading union has demanded.
29 Jul 10 | SEVEN years ago Nathan Brodbeck made a heralded return to the country town of Young having served six months with the navy in Iraq.
29 Jul 10 | DISABLED people in Sydney's western and southern suburbs routinely have to wait at least six months for mobility and living aids essential to their independence or ability to continue living at home, government documents show.
29 Jul 10 | ON A clear day Harry Hardy can see from the Blue Mountains to Botany Bay from his 28th-floor apartment in the public housing estate in Waterloo.
29 Jul 10 | AN 86-year-old war hero and one of Australia's leading plaintiff lawyers have negotiated a $50 million windfall payment for 45 Australian and New Zealand victims of the drug thalidomide, which caused birth defects in thousands of children around the world in the early 1960s.
29 Jul 10 | THE Education Minister, Verity Firth, has been hung out to dry over an embarrassing backdown by the Premier, Kristina Keneally, one day after the minister committed the government to replacing 55,000 unflued gas heaters in schools.
29 Jul 10 | From baby boomers to Gen Y, different ages have disparate tastes in music, fashion … and politics.
29 Jul 10 | Leaks ain't leaks, to rephrase the old Caltex ads. And the latest leak against Julia Gillard is a leak of the most smearing and unpluggable kind.
29 Jul 10 | THE Coalition plans to pare back its proposed tax slug on big business to fund its paid parental leave scheme as the cost of living war between the two main parties continues to escalate.
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