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The first criminal charges have been laid over allegations that Australian company Leighton Holdings won a $US733 million contract in Iraq by bribing the country's oil ministers and other high-ranking officials. ow.ly/Bz7S30k8trU
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Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern Jewish-American experience, has died aged 85. ow.ly/lu6830k8u4c
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Younger borrowers use mortgage brokers much more than older borrowers and this may contribute to them taking on more debt than they can comfortably afford. | ANALYSIS ow.ly/lUlC30k8tp6
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The Turnbull government has lodged a second series of complaints to the ABC about the network's chief economics correspondent Emma Alberici, this time over her reporting on innovation tax credits. ow.ly/VdFw30k8tnd
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Optus has been ordered to pay $1.5 million in penalties after giving thousands of customers early deadlines for disconnection if they did not switch to the NBN. ow.ly/eHaI30k8rV1
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People are rejecting conventional medicine for a range of conditions, sometimes choosing to spend hundreds of dollars on alternative therapies and supplements, instead of visiting their GP. ow.ly/TArk30k8rRE
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Medical crews are scrambling to manage the spread of Nipah, a rare, brain-damaging virus that's taking lives in southern India. ow.ly/jMXd30k8qRC
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The threat of mobile phone dependency goes beyond the inconvenience of being disconnected from Facebook for a few hours while Telstra figures out how to get us back online; what about the risks of hacking and state-based electronic warfare? | OPINION ow.ly/IlZJ30k8qDd
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A former Melbourne Uni student has been found guilty of the axe murders of three members of his family ow.ly/VcL030k7a2y
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The bitter feud over the estate of the best-selling Australian author Colleen McCullough has taken a fresh turn, with a potentially crucial document coming to light ow.ly/Ia2C30k79SD
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Geelong will be able to pick the eyes out of the best young female talent in the country after being handed the first two draft picks @DanielCherny theage.com.au/sport/afl/cats… via @theage
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Political donor Chau Chak Wing behind UN bribe scandal: Lib MP ow.ly/i8ES30k7n2N
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Wild, Wild Country: A Melbourne man tells of his time in the Rajneesh "sex cult" ow.ly/bcd030k79Uu
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French researchers have the final word on Hitler. Turns out he's dead ow.ly/g5hJ30k7adn
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OPINION: Malcolm Turnbull has just been given the perfect excuse to shelve his company tax cuts ow.ly/T74h30k7abG
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Two private hospitals in Geelong and Kew are to be shut down within a month, putting more than 400 jobs at risk ow.ly/Kmzl30k79Op
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'Do you wish to take up the life buoy?': Westpac exec struggles to defend loan process ow.ly/Tamv30k794h
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Staff in nursing homes run by Japara Healthcare have been ordered not to look in on residents overnight because making sure they are still breathing, or have not fallen out of bed, is "not a valid reason to check". ow.ly/OERO30k72lM
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OPINION: The Chinese government has been busy in recent days ow.ly/ZKiU30k7397
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A former Reserve Bank company executive has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in one of Australia’s most protracted corruption prosecutions ow.ly/veYl30k71GP
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