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Two Staffordshire terriers that attacked and fatally wounded a pug in Sydney’s northwest will be put down. The pug died of its injuries after being taken to a vet for treatment.
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AMELIA BENTLEY 2:10pm A Palm Island man has won an appeal of his jail sentence for spitting in the face of a police officer after his lawyer argued his client was disadvantaged due to his life on the island.
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NINO BUCCI 3:01pm A taxi driver had to be subdued with capsicum spray after he crashed his car into six vehicles in Melbourne's west this afternoon.
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Fewer young Victorians are smoking and most have never smoked.
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AJA STYLES EXCLUSIVE: The parents of a science student feared they would never see their son alive again after he fell into the hands of three thugs, who were convicted of his kidnapping and torture.
Kevin Spratt hospitalised after 'attacking' prison guards
Weapons stash uncovered in car
West Aussies 'spending not shopping'
Teen gets 18 months detention for fatal car fire
Big prices peeled off bananas
For the first time in nine months, bananas are getting back to normal.
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People smugglers are offering asylum seekers in Indonesia passage to Australia by boat for as little as $468 upfront, with the rest being paid after they are granted residency and find work.
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Libya's new rebel rulers have been hailed by world leaders in Paris and won a promise of a UN state-building mission.
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CHRIS VEDELAGO 3:45pm A new documentary challenges conventional thinking about the property and tax systems. And there’s plenty good – and some bad – about it.
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MICHAEL PASCOE 2:09pm Comment Hoping for an interest rate cut means hoping for lost jobs and higher unemployment, lower profits and reduced dividends, not to mention a rise in mortgage defaults.
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Chinese growth machine waning: World Bank
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Holden Australia's manufacturing almost collapsed after US parent cut it adrift, say cables.
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KATHARINE MURPHY It's been a strange old 48 hours, even by the standards of recent history. Julia Gillard and her government are in quicksand.
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NATHAN OLIVAREZ-GILES Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note, a new 5.3-inch touchscreen device, on Thursday at the IFA mobile trade show in Berlin.
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Ten years after first visiting as a backpacker, Craig Platt discovers London's a different town when you've got money.
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TONY DAVIS Mazda fans, the RX-8 is dead. And it seems the rotary engine is on its way out, too.
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