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ABC slams pay-TV only access to forum
4:21PM Amanda Meade ABC news director Kate Torney has slammed Sky News for denying the public access to a leaders' forum tomorrow which will be shown live on pay-TV only.
We compare the outlook of Brisbane retiree Jennette Harrison with her views in 2007. VIDEO: Jennette in 2010 | Jennette in 2007
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Detail from Cockatoo Is. Ferry by Dean Sewell, which has won the $80,000 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize. GALLERY 
Julia Gillard received a warm welcome when she returned to her former school in Adelaide, Unley High. Picture: Gary Ramage
Englishman Ed Stafford, who has become the first man known to have walked the entire length of the Amazon river. Picture: AP
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Labor struggling in key states
Dennis Shanahan, Political Editor LABOR faces the loss of up to 16 seats in NSW and Queensland alone.
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.
Welfare linked to child checks
Patricia Karvelas, Political correspondent JULIA Gillard will today unveil new rules requiring parents of four-year-olds to take the children for health checks before getting benefits.
Warning on Digger deaths
Jeremy Kelly AUSTRALIAN forces in Oruzgan can expect more casualties as Taliban insurgents move there from more violent areas of Afghanistan.
Olympics site 'may be where baby died'
2:43PM UPDATE A WATER polo champion may have killed and disposed of her newborn baby in 1996 at Sydney's Homebush Olympic site, a jury has been told.
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China's imports slow sharply
2:33PM Aaron Back and Liu Li CHINA's trade surplus soared in July due to much slower than expected growth in imports.
NAB on rate-watch amid $1bn profit
11:49AM UPDATE: Scott Murdoch NATIONAL Australia Bank today recorded a $1.1 billion quarterly profit result and said its standard variable rate was not cast in stone.
Shares fall ahead of US Fed meeting
4:50PM THE sharemarket closed firmly in the red today after a cautious outlook by NAB and as investors awaited news of the US Fed meeting.
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ABC slams pay-TV only access to forum
4:21PM Amanda Meade ABC news director Kate Torney has slammed Sky News for denying the public access to a leaders' forum tomorrow which will be shown live on pay-TV only.
Abbott relies on private sector for broadband
2:59PM Mitchell Bingemann, James Massola THE Coalition will rely on the private sector to offer high-speed broadband to 97 per cent of the population by 2016, two years ahead of Labor's plan.
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China mudslide toll to hit 1000
AUTHORITIES in China fear the death toll from a mud and rock avalanche triggered by heavy rain in the country's northwest will top 1000.
Inglis released to Brisbane
3:20PM UPDATED: Margie McDonald MELBOURNE rugby league superstar Greg Inglis will be a Brisbane Bronco for the next two years.
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.
Snowfall 55cm dump transforms season
By Arthur Stanley THE biggest storm of the winter has laid a base across the Aussie skifields that riders are still enjoying.
Abbott relies on private sector for broadband
Mitchell Bingemann, James Massola THE Coalition will rely on the private sector to offer high-speed broadband to 97 per cent of the population by 2016, two years ahead of Labor's plan.
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.
Student nurses face expulsion
Andrew Trounson HUNDREDS of international student nurses face deportation when their visas expire after new English language requirements were introduced.
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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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