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Don't be fooled by rail promise: Abbott
8:42AM Joe Kelly TONY Abbott has urged voters not to be fooled by Labor's pledge to build a new $2.6 billion rail link to ease congestion in Sydney's west.
US Republican senator Ted Stevens has died in an Alaskan plane crash - 22 years after surviving one that killed his wife.
We revisit NSW small business owner Guy Paragalli whose rabid anti-Labor views have mellowed remarkably since 2007. VIDEO: Guy in 2010 | Guy in 2007
Liberal candidate for Corangamite Sarah Henderson at Geelong’s Skilled Stadium, which the Coalition has promised to redevelop.
This 10-bedroom Hamptons-style house on Clear Mountain with views to Brisbane is for sale for about $8.4m. GALLERY
Some financial planners and investment specialists believe investors will soon begin to favour margin loans again. Webcast, 2pm AEST
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Abbott unveils plan for Murray-Darling
9:02AM UPDATE: Nicola Berkovic TONY Abbott has unveiled his plan to save the Murray-Darling river system, with a $750 million investment in infrastructure and basin communities.
Labor struggling in key states
Dennis Shanahan, Political Editor LABOR faces the loss of up to 16 seats in NSW and Queensland alone.
CBA net profit jumps 20pc to $5.7bn
8:56AM Ross Kelly COMMONWEALTH Bank of Australia posted a 20 per cent rise in full-year net profit, helped by lower charges for problem loans.
Schools slugged double for BER projects
Anthony Klan, Milanda Rout NSW government schools are likely to pay as much as double what Catholic schools were charged under the $16.2 billion schools stimulus program.
Police sought to protect Overland
Hedley Thomas POLICE media managers went into damage-control to protect Victorian Chief Commissioner Simon Overland after his bullets in baggage blunder
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CBA net profit jumps 20pc to $5.7bn
8:56AM Ross Kelly COMMONWEALTH Bank of Australia posted a 20 per cent rise in full-year net profit, helped by lower charges for problem loans.
Fed keeps stimulus tap running
6:06AM Luca Di Leo and Ian Talley THE Federal Reserve has moved to prevent its huge balance sheet from shrinking, in an attempt to spur the US recovery and avoid deflation.
Wall St dragged lower by Intel, China
6:59AM Donna Kardos Yesalavich US stocks fell today as weakness in the PC supply-chain weighed on Intel and Microsoft and signs of tapering demand in China hurt Alcoa.
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Don't be fooled by rail promise: Abbott
8:42AM Joe Kelly TONY Abbott has urged voters not to be fooled by Labor's pledge to build a new $2.6 billion rail link to ease congestion in Sydney's west.
Abbott battles to defend broadband plan
Matthew Franklin, Lauren Wilson AN Abbott government would enlist the private sector to upgrade internet services, rejecting Labor's $43 billion national broadband network.
The fairytale of Howard’s battlers
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Veteran US politician dies in air crash
8:21AM James Bone TED Stevens, the former Alaska senator who survived a plane crash in 1978 that killed his wife, died when an aircraft went down in the wilderness.
White skips Vics for T20 Champions League
8:43AM VICTORIA captain Cameron White has jumped ship for this year's Twenty20 Champions League.
Latest polling keeps Gillard in a sweat
Dennis Shanahan, Political Editor THIS election will be decided not on the sweeping national stage of 150 electorates but in hand-to-hand local combat in fewer than 30 seats.
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Mocktails win out in mild west
Amanda O'Brien THE long, boozy lunches that fuelled high-flyers in the last resources boom are off the menu in the once wild west.
North and south
Anthony Dennis WORLD Heritage sites, historic villages and natural splendour all within one country. Vietnam is perfect for a 21st-century grand tour.
Coalition plan keeps 'us in backwater'
Mitchell Bingemann and Andrew Colley THE Coalition's broadband policy would rob Australia of the chance to lift itself out of the broadband backwater, industry experts say.
Labor launches negative Time Warp ad
Simon Canning A NEW Labor Party ad depicts the Liberals as the cast from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Details murky, but fees may rise
Guy Healy HECS fees could jump 10 per cent in the first year of price deregulation under a Coalition government.
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Latest polling keeps Gillard in a sweat
THIS election will be decided not on the sweeping national stage of 150 electorates but in hand-to-hand local combat in fewer than 30 seats.
Abbott embraces mentor's philosophies
LEADERSHIP is a voyage of self-discovery and Tony Abbott proves the maxim.
Elites just don't get Howard
WHEN will our media understand John Howard's place in Australian political history? Not during this election, it seems.
ALP could claw back victory
NOT even the truest of the true believers could look at the first three weeks of this election campaign and give Labor a tick.
Nuclear threat cannot be ignored
PEOPLE sometimes forget that the boy who cried wolf ended up being eaten.
Beijing silences voices for freedom
THE sentencing on July 23 of Uighur journalist Gheyret Niyaz to 15 years jail for endangering state security came as a shock around the world.
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