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DYLAN WELCH Sydney man charged with forging national airport security cards - a key component of Australia's national security regime - after representing himself as a legitimate card supplier.
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DAN NANCARROW For 30 years, health worker Phil Browne has watched chronic smokers fade away. Now he's had enough and is taking the matter to the Queensland Government.
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JULIA MEDEW A shortage of intensive care beds is causing chaos in Victorian hospitals, forcing doctors to consider risky transfers of patients across the state.
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AJA STYLES The cousin of an Aboriginal man stabbed in an alleyway in Northbridge last year denied he was after revenge by claiming he had seen 'a cold-blooded murder'.
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BEN BUTLER More than 1000 people are to lose their jobs as outdoors clothing chain Colorado, battered by debt and grim trading conditions, becomes the latest retailer to shut its doors.
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JASON KOUTSOUKIS, CAIRO In the 27 governorates across Egypt, not one governor is Coptic, yet Coptic Christians make up more than 10 per cent of the population.
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NICOLE PEDERSEN-MCKINNON Borrowers are realising that ditching their current lender could be the smartest move they make in the long-term.
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ERIC JOHNSTON Commonwealth Bank and Westpac are the most exposed of the big lenders to the rising number of missed mortgage repayments.
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