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Published: Sep 11, 08Brendan Nelson was smiling yesterday at the news that Peter Costello had finally announced he was not in the hunt for the Liberal leadership. Michelle Grattan is one of the very few people in this country who's read Peter Costello's book -- her newspaper will start rolling out excerpts from the memoirs tomorrow.
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Published: Sep 11, 08The latest finance news here and abroad with Sue Lannin.
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Published: Sep 11, 08As many as 1,500 people a year may be dying unnecessarily as a result of over-crowding in hospital emergency departments, that's the equivalent of the national road toll. More than 40% of people being treated in emergency departments shouldn't be there; they're actually 'in-patients' waiting for a hospital bed. These disturbing findings are contained in a new report and a recent 'snapshot' of hospital emergency departments. Both will be released today at a national summit on emergency departmen
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Published: Sep 11, 08Despite all the glum news about the state of the economy, unemployment actually fell last month according to figures released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.The surge in the number of jobs created in August might now persuade the Reserve Bank to postpone further interest rate cuts. But can the numbers be trusted? The ABS has been forced to slash the sample size of some key economic surveys, including the monthly labour force surveys, to meet $22 million in Budget cuts forced up
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Published: Sep 11, 08The singer/songwriter of the country/folk era is alive and well. Conor Oberst has played in several US bands over his 15 year music career, but he started out as a solo act and is back in solo mode for this most recent release.
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Published: Sep 11, 08With Peter Costello very much front page news, we're going to take a look behind the scenes at the selling of political memoirs. On Monday next week, 50,000 hardback copies of the former treasurer's much-talked-about memoir will finally greet the eager and unwary in bookstores around Australia.Political pundits and party insiders have been talking about the book, and Costello's future, ever since the Liberal Party lost power at the last election. In a carefully orchestrated and paid-for series
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Published: Sep 11, 08One of Australia's biggest unions with a key stake in the mining and energy sectors has rejected calls by the resources and energy sectors for further special treatment in the climate change debate. The CFMEU Mining and Energy Division, in its response to the government's emissions trading green paper, also says there should be no compensation for the coal-based electricity sector unless it's tied to investment in renewables and low carbon technologies.
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Published: Sep 11, 08The latest sport news with Warwick Hadfield.
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Published: Sep 11, 08Last month a report was tabled in the Queensland parliament warning of a potential 'silent' epidemic, the transfer of HIV AIDS from Papua New Guinea to Australia via the Indigenous communities of the Torres Strait.The two communities have had trade and familial relations for centuries, so today an education campaign is being launched with prevention as its emphasis.
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Published: Sep 11, 08Zimbabwean Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe have finally reached a historic power sharing agreement after months of political wrangling. The details of the deal will be made public next week although it is believed Morgan Tsvangirai will chair a council of ministers and share powers with Robert Mugabe on defence and security issues.
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Published: Sep 11, 08Today the annual festival known as Floriade opens. This year it is celebrating 21 years with a suitable touch of glitz and glamour, this year's theme being Films that shaped a Nation. Floriade is in Commonwealth Park, Canberra and runs from 13 September to 12 October.
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Published: Sep 11, 08The victims of the September 11 attacks on the United States were remembered today at solemn ceremonies in Washington and New York.
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Published: Sep 11, 08What's on the front page around Australia.
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Published: Sep 11, 08The latest news from the world of science with Chris Smith. This week, a team at Stanford University in the States have been studying the action of a particular enzyme which has the promise of dramatically reducing the damage done to heart tissue in a heart attack.
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Published: Sep 10, 08What price the Great Barrier Reef? That's the tough question for both the Australian and Queensland governments as they consider climate change adviser Professor Ross Garnaut's latest report. Last week, Garnaut proposed greenhouse gas reductions for Australia of 10% by the year 2020. It's a target that he describes as 'practical', but not 'desirable', because it will be a death sentence for most of the reef. Like the federal government, Queensland is yet to set its 2020 greenhouse targets.* What
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